First-Year Internship—And You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters?!
Chapter 306: Disciplined Lu Ding—No Trade, No Killing (3/4)

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Once the call ended, Director Chu didn’t feel like talking anymore.

Meanwhile,

In the dorm,

Lu Ding called Yan Feifan: “Feifan, wrap up the stuff you're working on and head back to the bureau to collect gear and supplies. We’re going out to earn some contribution points.”

“Huh? Oh oh oh oh... on it, on it.”

Yan Feifan quickly agreed.

You could hear the shift in his tone.

Even though he didn’t know or understand what was happening,

He’d be the first one running.

Thirty minutes later.

Yan Feifan showed up, having reviewed the general mission details Lu Ding had shared with him.

He knocked on the door.

As usual, shoe covers on before stepping in.

Even though Lu Ding told him it wasn’t necessary.

Yan Feifan still insisted.

He understood—no matter how close the relationship,

The worst thing is not knowing your place and overstepping.

Remembering your original intention helps maintain a good relationship.

Whatever people appreciate about you, you better keep doing it.

So even though he was tight with Lu Ding,

He wouldn’t skip those formalities.

The two of them started discussing what they’d need for the mission.

They made a long, detailed list.

At the end—

Yan Feifan suddenly remembered something.

“Brother Lu, remember that Carpenter Yang you asked me to keep an eye on? He just moved to the Huangjiang area.”

“So that’s where he went. Was it that serious...”

Carpenter Yang.

That ink line for fishing the golden toad last time was borrowed from him.

Later, during those days of rest in the northwest,

Lu Ding wanted to return it.

But the guy had already moved.

However, through 749 at that location, he left Lu Ding a message.

Said the area wasn’t safe anymore—too many people knew where he lived.

Now he had a child to look after too.

The events in Changhai had served as a wake-up call.

If one person could find him, there might be more in the future.

So he had to relocate.

The item? Consider it a gift to Lu Ding. It was a family heirloom—he hoped Lu Ding would treat it well.

Totally reasonable. Makes perfect sense.

It’s normal thinking. Once you have a weakness, it makes sense to retire. If you can’t afford to fight, then at least run.

The real fools are the ones who get hunted down once and still don’t move afterward.

Reasonable, yes—but Lu Ding couldn’t let it go like that.

That item might not mean much to him, but it was a family heirloom.

He shouldn’t keep it.

Even if the guy truly wanted to gift it,

Lu Ding could tell—he was also genuinely scared.

So, it needed to be returned.

Lu Ding wasn’t someone who handled things sloppily.

That’s why he had asked Yan Feifan to keep an eye out last time—and now he’d actually found him.

“Got it.”

“Feifan, add a top-grade Essence-Reinforcing Pill to the list.”

Yan Feifan looked up: “Brother Lu, I already added it the moment you said ‘got it.’”

When Lu Ding first asked him to look into Carpenter Yang, he had explained the situation.

So the moment Lu Ding said he’d “got it,” Yan Feifan read the room and promptly added the right item—

A premium Essence-Reinforcing Pill, tailored for someone like Carpenter Yang: bad temper, older age, not super high in cultivation.

Borrowing something doesn’t mean you just return it in the same way.

There’s a human element to it.

Doesn’t matter if the other person wants it or not—you have to give something back. It’s about respect.

Lu Ding was a man of principles.

And if Yan Feifan had followed him for so long, he had to be someone principled too.

Like the old saying goes—birds of a feather flock together.

“Ha ha ha, Feifan, you really know how to get things done.”

Lu Ding laughed.

See?

Feifan was just so damn handy.

Way better than anyone hired from outside.

“Oh come on, wasn’t it you, Lord Lu Taishui, who set the example? I’m just following your lead. Even a sliver of your wisdom is enough to benefit me for life.”

“Ha ha ha ha ha...”

They chatted casually, headed out, grabbed supplies, and paid a visit to the two old men.

Turns out—

One wasn’t there, off at a meeting.

The other was still unconscious, recovering from injuries.

Lu Ding didn’t disturb them.

He turned and went to Cao Family Alley.

Cao Ying Still Awake.

He brewed a strong pot of tea and drank while waiting.

Waited all the way till 5 or 6 a.m.

The detailed mission briefing was finally released.

Without wasting a second, Lu Ding set off under the stars.

On the road, he read the mission details while moving.

The regions were broken down with great precision.

Which household did what, where problems were happening—

It was all crystal clear.

Knowing Lu Ding’s personality—direct, no-nonsense, and fast-paced—

Yan Feifan focused in on the area where Carpenter Yang now lived.

“Brother Lu, I checked—Yang’s new place is in a zone where there’s a not-so-populated but extremely powerful Qi Refiner family: the Di family!”

“They’ve got an ancestral craft of making wax corpses—pretty freaky stuff.”

“I found some intel—their wax corpses are even fiercer than zombies, and without the typical zombie weaknesses.”

“The bureau’s supplementary data also says those wax corpses aren’t even afraid of sunlight, except for powerful fire-type spells.”

At that, he glanced at Lu Ding.

Until now, Lu Ding had never shown any fire-based spells in front of him.

“Go on,” Lu Ding said.

Yan Feifan continued, “Though the Di family is famous for controlling wax corpses, they’ve never been caught doing anything illegal. If anything, just minor stuff. That’s why their legacy’s survived.”

“The wax corpses need to absorb earth energy. From captured Tianli Sect members, the bureau extracted intel—”

“That the Di family used the earth energy as an excuse to secretly help Tianli Sect cultivate Taishui Mines.”

“Tianli Sect, in return, provided them with corpses—and other things.”

Now, corpses were incredibly hard to get in Great Han.

And wax corpses worked best when the deceased had a high cultivation level, a strong body, and a mostly intact corpse.

But finding such corpses these days in Great Han? Nearly impossible.

Without corpses, the effectiveness of their family craft would plummet.

Give it enough time, and that ancestral art would weaken and might even die out.

Extinction would be inevitable.

Still, no matter how you spin it, that’s not an excuse to partner with a cult.

It’s not like Tianli Sect could conjure corpses out of thin air—they could only get them by killing.

At that thought, a slogan flashed through Lu Ding’s mind:

“No trade, no killing.”

“Well then, perfect. I can settle both matters in one go—saves me from running around.”

Wax corpses afraid of fire?

Perfect.

Lu Ding had just gotten that Torment Flame of Sin and hadn’t had a chance to use it yet.

Talk about tailor-made—the fit was flawless.

“Got it, Brother Lu. I’ll join the operations group and let the other investigators know you’ve taken this mission.”

Yan Feifan joined the operations group.

He sent a small red packet.

[Apologies, everyone. Brother Lu hasn’t arrived at the location yet and can’t clock in live. He’s taking the Di family’s sector—please extend him some courtesy. Apologies if this causes any trouble.]

The moment Yan Feifan’s name popped up in the operations group—

All eyes were on him.

After all, the Tianli Sect case had been busted open by Yunhai 749.

So everyone in the group was also a Yunhai 749 investigator.