The Daily Life Of A Cyberpunk Magician

Chapter 572 - 298: Bathroom. Girl. Tentacles. (Day 1 of Nichiman!!!)
”Police Chief Wolf, please wait a moment.”

Such words came from behind.

The two turned their heads; it was Chris with a smile, quickly catching up, a victor’s smile on his face.

”Police Chief Wolf, please wait a moment,” he called out, stopping Wolf, drawing all eyes in the banquet hall to them.

”I have arranged a banquet this evening at the Seks Hotel for the experience of the Thirteen District Police Station. If it’s not too much trouble, I hope Police Chief Wolf can attend,” he said with a smile.

”Fine,” Wolf did not refuse. With so many people present, including some strangers, it would indeed look bad for a Police Chief to reject a Police Chief’s invitation, likely inciting gossip and potentially motivating unscrupulous reporters to twist the story by evening.

”I hope that Police Chief Wolf will definitely share his management experience of the police station with me,” Chris said, seemingly eager to learn.

”Certainly,” Wolf responded, his tone neither warm nor particularly friendly.

Then, Police Chief Chris’s gaze shifted to Jiang Shu; he extended the same invitation, ”This must be the famous magician from the Entertainment Series, Mr. Jiang Shu, right? I wonder if I could invite you to perform a magic show for our officers to unwind?”

The invitation sounded harmless, but in reality, it was laced with a hint of coercion.

”He’s standing here because he is a Crime Consultant for the police station, not because he’s a magician,” Wolf continued, his tone even-keeled but suddenly tinged with a hint of confrontation, ”Moreover, he is the hero who solved the Fifth District toxic gas incident. I think you need to show him more respect.”

Upon this statement, the banquet hall buzzed with quiet conversations.

The real circumstances of the Fifth District toxic gas incident were concealed, and while everyone knew it was Dick Tang’s conspiracy, they were unclear about the details; rumblings about the Fifth District were just rumors without substance.

Now, Wolf was suggesting that Jiang Shu was the one who resolved the incident?

Instantly, the room’s gaze toward Jiang Shu became one of respect.

To directly confront a former god and disrupt his plans, Jiang Shu could not be an ordinary person.

This is what the officers were thinking.

”Is that so? Then I did indeed overstep,” Chris seemed slightly surprised by Jiang Shu’s feats, but he didn’t know the specifics and didn’t dwell on it.

After all, he was just a magician from the Entertainment Series. If he were that powerful, wouldn’t he have become distorted by now?

So, he casually apologized, ”My apologies, Mr. Jiang, I didn’t realize you were also with the police department. Since that’s the case, on a day of celebration, shouldn’t we invite you to perform for your colleagues?”

He laughed, as if joking, yet there was an impression of arrogance about him.

The Seks Group was not a family business, but due to the founder Seks’s strong influence and control over the group, many people bearing the Seks name were part of the company.

Chris was one of them. Unlike most in the Seks family, he didn’t choose to work in the group but was trained and positioned by the group to take charge of the police station.

At just twenty-one, he had become the highest in command of a district police station, and the sequence of titles associated with him had already reached T1 level. He did have the right to be arrogant.

Moreover, according to internal group buzz, a grand gift might await him upon official employment—the control of the underground forces in F District.

With his own abilities and these resources at his disposal, he envisioned uniting the underworld and the establishment of Thirteen District within ten years and soaring to the high-ranking echelons of the group’s power hierarchy.

Chris had indeed received an education on humility, but his humbleness was reserved only for elders and those more powerful. As for the two in front of him...

Whether it’s the guy who’s been a Police Chief for over a decade or the recently famous magician, he didn’t take them seriously, only maintaining basic courtesy for the cameras.

After all, these reporters were also his people, whatever exaggerations they made were under his control.

And then, Chris raised his head, his eyes fierce, ”May I have the honor of your presence, Mr. Jiang?”

”I can’t be bothered to go,” Jiang Shu made a face that said he was completely disinterested, not willing to say much to those he disliked.

Plus, he had to go back for lunch with Sister Ruo, and naturally, he didn’t want to make another trip to Thirteen District in the evening.

Even if it was just coming and going using the Paper Card Technique, he wasn’t strictly part of the police system and certainly couldn’t be bothered to do Chris a favor.

To not publicly embarrass Chris was already doing Wolf a courtesy. To ask him to perform as if he were a performer at a warlord’s banquet?

Who the hell do you think you are?

Jiang Shu made a mental note of this interaction in his own little notebook.

Holding a grudge.

”If there’s nothing else, I’ll be leaving,” Jiang Shu glanced at Chris, cracked a smile, ”I hope Police Chief Chris can keep his seat a little longer.”

After that, without waiting for a reply from Chris or even Wolf, he turned and walked away.

Leaving Chris with an expression of disbelief and Wolf with his own measure of surprise.

”Sorry, Police Chief Chris, I will certainly attend the evening banquet, but duty calls and I must take my leave now.” Wolf also quickly excused himself, and then hurried after Jiang Shu.