Chapter 34: Unwanted Attention
Randy walked towards the awakening center without hesitating any longer. Because the current him had already awakened so right now, all he was going there for was to verify and confirm the fact of his awakening.
Unlike last time when he came here to awaken his ability, this time he was only here to get an identification after he had already awakened naturally or perhaps not naturally but they do not need to know that.
With that thought in mind, after reaching the door to the building, it automatically opened, and he then entered without any delays in his steps as he marched forward in a calm manner.
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At the same time.
On the other side, inside a certain building in the Sky Rise Police Department.
Hong Mingyue was standing in front of a projected monitor with a respectful gaze as she explained a certain event that occurred a while ago to a mysterious man with a white hair and handsome features, who carried an indifferent bearing almost as if nothing in this world could cause him to be perturbed or elicit a reaction from him.
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At this moment, the white-haired man spoke in unconvinced tone, “You’re telling me a random brat managed to apprehend a criminal with an A-rank combat power? How is that possible? You expect me to believe that?”
Hong Mingyue was silent for a moment before replying in confirmation, “Sir, I understand that this may be unbelievable to hear without seeing it with your own eyes, however that is indeed what happened, and we have proof to justify this claim.”
“Hmph! I refuse to believe that a brat who hadn’t even graduated from high school managed to subdue ‘Thousand Visage’ whom we have tried our best to catch for so long but still eluded us every time with his ability to change his appearance. Do you have any footage of the event? If you do, I want to see it with my own eyes to be certain.” The white-haired man snorted and spoke in a doubtful tone, unable to bring himself to believe that such an occurrence had happened.
“Alright, although we couldn’t get an on-scene footage, we instead managed to extract the satellite footage during his encounter with Thousand Visage. However, there was something strange about what transpired after they met, my men...”
The white-haired man suddenly cut her off in her speech, scoffed and then said in an indifferent tone, “Something strange? Hmph! That is something for me to judge, not your men; Just hurry and transfer the footage to my monitor. I cannot trust your judgement on this matter.”
‘What did you just say, you bastard?! You white-haired freak of nature! I have already been respectful enough to you and yet you look down on me and my men’s work. Do you think I won’t fight you?!’ Hong Mingyue angrily screamed inwardly with an unchanged expression.
“...Understood, right away.” Hong Mingyue said and then she turned to one of her subordinates who was busy operating something on a projected screen from his computer in the distance and then stated, “Xiao Minghao, send the footage of that brat to him.”
“Eh?” Xiao Minghao uttered in surprise as he turned his head away from the computer screen and then muttered in a low voice, “But Sister Hong, didn’t that brat not want to attract any attention to himself? Isn’t that why he said not to inform his parents about this. Why are you...” f(r)eewebnovel
“Just do it, he said it was okay to tell my superior, although this man is not part of our police department, but he had a connection to the Chief of Police, so he’s technically related to my superior; he will eventually find out anyway even if I don’t show him the footage now.” Hong Mingyue whispered in reply.
And then she thought of something and then continued, “Besides, I cannot refuse his request; do you really want me to offend such a personage and risk losing our jobs?”
“That’s... I understand. I will send it right away.” Xiao Minghao had no choice but to give in to the reason for her choice.
Indeed, they cannot offend this person, otherwise no one can tell what will happen to them later on. Losing their jobs is nothing, however getting another job within this district might be a tasking thing and no one wants to end up without a job in the present world, where sleeping outside might lead to your sudden death since there are no safety measures in the streets.
Hong Mingyue returned to the projected monitor shortly after and then informed the white-haired man.
“My subordinate is sending the footage. It should be transferred over in a short moment.” She spoke in a respectful voice.
“Very well” The white-haired man curtly replied.
With that out of the way, Hong Mingyue stood to the side as she suddenly recalled what she and her subordinates witnessed when they saw the footage the day before.
At that moment, they saw a young man approached the burglar who was most likely trying to hijack a car. As the young man approached the burglar, they immediately started a conversation with each other and then it seems like some sort of negotiation had failed as it looks like the burglar was furious and tried to attack the young man in spite, however the next event was shocking and confusing.
The burglar suddenly fell flat on his face on the floor of the parking lot and then the following scene that unfolded was even more confusing as the defenseless young man abruptly transformed as his hair gradually turned white in color before proceeding to threaten the burglar who was lying flat on the ground at that moment.
The burglar appeared frightened as he suddenly gave his storage bracelet with the stolen items to the young man and after receiving the storage bracelet, the young man proceeded to hit the burglar in the back of his head for about 9-10 times only when the burglar fell unconscious before he opened the storage bracelet and took out the items.
And after a couple of minutes later, they arrived at the scene and by then, the young man had already transformed back to his previous state.
‘The situation at the time was really bizarre, because the young man did not appear to have attacked him before the burglar suddenly fell to ground. Then did he really collapse due to blood loss? If so, then how careless of Thousand Visage to not even know how to take care of his own wounds, but if that is not case, then how did the boy attack him and even manage to evade our perception even though we analyzed the video many times up until now?’ Hong Mingyue silently thought with a pondering expression.
Suddenly a voice resounded in her ears snapping her out of her thoughts.
“I have received your file; I have already watched it for a brief moment, but there seems to be something strange with that brat. And why does he have a white hair when he uses his ability; such a thing hasn’t been heard of yet, but not impossible if he was a member of my family but otherwise, that should have been impossible.” The white-haired man said in disbelief.
After pausing for a few moments, the white-haired man then said in a condescending tone, “I will have my men analyze the footage thoroughly to see any hints that your people might’ve missed due to your poor technology.”
At this point, Hong Mingyue’s eyes twitched slightly when she heard this white-haired man’s haughty words.
She and Xiao Minghao then exchanged glances with each other but said nothing, however she gestured for the Xiao Minghao to not say anything.
Despite not reacting outwardly, Hong Mingyue was inwardly furious as she silently screamed in her head as if to tear the white-haired man apart.
‘How dare he look down on our police department. Does he think I am afraid of him or something? If not because of his background, I would’ve ripped that mouth of his that he dared to use to talk to us like that!’
She roared in frustration yet still replied with an unchanged expression and a solemn voice: “Understood, then we will have to bother you to look into this matter.” free webnovel.com
“Hmph!” The white-haired man snorted before cutting the connection to the projected monitor.
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Eastern District.
At some luxurious hotel.
A handsome man, who appeared to be in his twenties was sitting with his leg crossed in a couch while holding a glass of red wine in his right hand. He gently swirled the glass of wine in his hand, knocking the ice cubes against the glass as they made audible noises in the room.
At this point, he suddenly spoke in apprehensive tone, “I thought we of the Silvermoon family were special with our distinct white hair and yet some no-name brat had awakened an ability that can turn his hair into a white color. Such a person cannot be left alone lest others think he belongs to our family or his existence tarnishing our nobility status.”
White hair may symbolize many things, but to him, white hair exemplified the status of wisdom, majestic and or holiness, thus a high nobility status symbol, and also, one which his family the Silvermoon family were renowned for in the high society.
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