Reborn in 1993, Dark Sea

As Yang Yuanbing walked out of the nightclub, the night breeze instantly cleared his somewhat muddled mind.

Han Jianyong was Yang Yuanbing's former boss. In recent years, Han Jianyong's official position has risen very quickly, but he has also become very shrewd.

Four or five years ago, on Han Jianyong's 40th birthday, some of his old subordinates had a sudden idea and found two prostitutes to celebrate his birthday.

Yang Yuanbing initially felt this was very inappropriate, but the others were all in high spirits, and Yang Yuanbing didn't want to spoil their fun, so he could only agree with them from the sidelines.

The women were brought over; they were originally there to drink with Han Jianyong. But when the men whispered in Han Jianyong's ear that these two women could spend the night with him, Han Jianyong's face instantly turned bright red.

Yang Yuanbing originally thought he was doomed this time, but to his surprise, after staring at everyone for a long time, Han Jianyong finally managed to utter a sentence:

Two won't do, he can only take one at a time!

It seems that from that time on, Han Jianyong began to slowly change. In addition to being addicted to alcohol, he started to crave women. And now, Han Jianyong is no longer satisfied with one woman at a time; he has to call at least two or three at the same time, and he enjoys it immensely.

Yang Yuanbing naturally chose to cater to Han Jianyong's preferences, which was actually a very good way to get closer to him.

It's not that the purest friendship is about studying together, fighting together, sharing spoils, and visiting prostitutes together. Yang Yuanbing and Han Jianyong have fulfilled all three except for the first one.

Such a friendship can be described as rock solid.

The Paradise Nightclub was run by a released convict. Yang Yuanbing had helped this guy a lot while he was in jail, and although he was paid, the guy was still very grateful to him.

As a result, Paradise on Earth became one of Yang Yuanbing's regular venues for entertaining leaders, and all the leaders who were entertained there expressed their satisfaction.

Yang Yuanbing chose to come out first not because he didn't like this kind of food, but because he was a little flustered.

Just now, Han Jianyong, emboldened by alcohol, whispered to him that he should find a way to spread the word that Liu Jun's matter was done by An Xiaohai.

This is really despicable; they're trying to ruin An Xiaohai! Not only are they trying to ruin him, but they're also going to bring disaster on his whole family.

To be honest, Yang Yuanbing didn't want to do this.

Yang Yuanbing's life ideal can be summed up in four words: get promoted and make a fortune. He'd stop at nothing to achieve this! But at the same time, Yang Yuanbing considers himself a person of principle and with a bottom line.

Yang Yuanbing's philosophy is cooperation and win-win.

Yang Yuanbing believes that changing his cell or accepting money to give prisoners preferential treatment is harmless, but personally going to harm people is going too far.

If he does this, and An Xiaohai finds out, he will definitely become An Xiaohai's mortal enemy, the kind that fights to the death.

Yang Yuanbing did not want to become anyone's mortal enemy.

Even a rabbit will bite when cornered!

An Xiaohai is definitely not a rabbit; he's more like a wolf in sheep's clothing.

In fact, from the very beginning, Yang Yuanbing was convinced that Liu Jun was stabbed by An Xiaohai. This was his intuition, and many facts proved that his intuition was always very accurate. Moreover, An Xiaohai had a considerable force backing him up.

Once Han Jianyong had done what he was told, there was no turning back.

What to do? Yang Yuanbing frowned.

Navigating the officialdom may seem glamorous, but it is actually very dangerous; a single misstep could lead to utter ruin.

When Yang Yuanbing mentioned to Han Jianyong that the municipal party committee had contacted him, he was partly demonstrating his own strength to Han Jianyong, and partly trying to make Han Jianyong more cautious about him.

Han Jianyong must have understood what was meant, but he didn't pay much attention to it. This could only mean two things: either Han Jianyong was fearless, or even Han Jianyong didn't dare to disobey.

This is intriguing.

Yang Yuanbing felt that Han Jianyong belonged to the latter category. He did not want to deal with An Xiaohai on his own, but someone instructed him to do so, and Han Jianyong could not refuse this person at all.

After all, Yang Yuanbing had already checked and found that Han Jianyong and An Xiaohai had no connection whatsoever.

Yang Yuanbing got into the car and, before he knew it, they had arrived at the First Prison. He got out and was about to take a walk around the prison area when he was stopped by a guard.

"What happened?"

"Section Chief Yang, the prison area has been sealed off. A lot of people from the Municipal Narcotics Enforcement Team have arrived, saying they want to investigate some matters and are currently questioning some prisoners."

Except for essential personnel, all our staff have been temporarily evacuated. Why don't you wait a bit? They should be done soon.

"Oh, is that so? I won't wait any longer. I've had a few drinks and I'm too scared to go back to sleep. I'll go to my dorm and take a nap."

Yang Yuanbing waved his hand and walked towards the dormitory building next to him.

The work of the municipal anti-drug squad is very special, and it is normal for the prison to cooperate with them.

Moreover, the city's anti-drug squad has been making waves lately, cracking two major cases in succession: a drug trafficking case and a robbery case, with a combined value of over one million yuan.

Yang Yuanbing didn't want to get involved with these people, so he planned to go to his dormitory to wash his face and sober up first, and wait until the anti-drug team left before making any decisions.

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An Xiaohai spent nearly half an hour memorizing the duty roster. He should have acted for a longer period of time, but he couldn't keep up, so he returned the duty roster to Wang Tiejun.

"Got it?" Wang Tiejun asked An Xiaohai meaningfully.

"It should be about time..." An Xiaohai said, feigning a guilty look.

"How do you do when I test you?"

"Hmm!" An Xiaohai glanced at Wang Tiejun and nodded.

Wang Tiejun opened the duty roster and began to test An Xiaohai, asking him more than a dozen questions in a row. Wang Tiejun's heart was already in turmoil.

An Xiaohai's answers were more than 80% correct, and even if he got them wrong, they were very close to the correct answer.

Wang Tiejun knew very well that it was extremely difficult to achieve this, and even the best special agents he had ever met might not have done much better than An Xiaohai.

The duty roster is not long, only about ten pages. It takes about half an hour to memorize the text on those ten pages. Many people who have received relevant training can remember the gist of it.

But the problem is, this is a duty roster!

The duty roster meant that An Xiaohai had to memorize the names of nearly 300 officers in the First Prison within half an hour, and also remember which day, which area, and what kind of work they were doing.

The duty roster lacks any clear logic compared to the article, making it exponentially more difficult to memorize.

It's so hard.

An Xiaohai's performance far exceeded Wang Tiejun's expectations.

"What a pity..." Wang Tiejun sighed inwardly.

Now it seems that An Xiaohai is becoming more and more like the best candidate for special agent in his mind. However, it is a pity that An Xiaohai already has a criminal record and has lost the opportunity to enter the public security system.

Even if An Xiaohai cooperates with him in the future, he can only continue to wander in the shadows, forever an informant without a title, who may lose his life at any time.

So, it's a pity.

An Xiaohai was also feeling uneasy. Wang Tiejun was testing him with the duty roster, which was quite strange in itself!

What exactly is Captain Wang trying to do?!