CHAPTER 131: CHAPTER 90: FAVORING WOMEN OVER MEN

Qinyang City is Mo Xixi’s territory. So this mission inevitably requires Mo Xixi’s involvement.

"We are the victims caught in an interdepartmental struggle," Mo Xixi’s mouth always seems to reveal different pieces of information.

Only cases that local police forces cannot resolve are ultimately sent to the local military region, and if the local military region cannot resolve them properly, they are passed to the Rand Military District.

Any incident involving national security and having a detrimental impact is sent to the National Security Department. Any involving arms and resulting in casualties of three or more people is transferred to the Armed Department. This case, occurring in Qinyang City—a strong economic city nationwide—and based on its attribute, both the National Security Department and Armed Department are each somewhat involved. The first to respond was the Armed Department, but, unfortunately, this time the Armed Department totally messed it up.

"What do you mean?" Xia You watched Mo Xixi shaking her head and gesturing in deep frustration.

"Look at those big dumb guys from the Armed Department, handling guns and bullets is ok, but KTV? I bet they’d use the microphone as a hand grenade." Mo Xixi lives in the moment; in the military region, she’s an omnipresent network administrator; outside of it, she’s a hedonist indulging in everything.

The case took place at the busiest commercial center in Qinyang City. The KTV there is a well-known national chain of entertainment venues named "Golden Splendor."

"It is said that simply singing at Golden Splendor can burn through hundreds of thousands in just one night. All the princesses and young masters there are legitimate university graduates under twenty-five years old. They work twelve hours a day, and some earn a five-figure daily salary," Mo Xixi said with a longing expression discussing "Golden Splendor."

She also loves to splurge. On one birthday, she rallied a bunch of friends to "Golden Splendor," and in just one night—through a few fruit plates and bottles of ordinary Jack Daniels—they ended up spending over eighty thousand yuan, almost pushing her to the brink of contemplating hacking into an international bank system due to the financial strain.

"Eighty thousand yuan in one night?" Xia You was also stunned by the price Mo Xixi mentioned. Such venues are entirely out of reach for average wage earners.

"But it was worth every penny, just for the service attitude of those young masters there. Describing them as compliant is an understatement," Mo Xixi said, almost drooling. Korean style, Japanese finesse, French romance, British gentlemen—whatever you can name, describe, and expect, they have it to cater to your tastes.

"What does that have to do with the Armed Department’s operation?" According to military operation standards, the department that acts first has precedence. Since the Armed Department has already initiated action, the National Security Department should not interfere in this case.

"As everybody knows, the Armed Department has no female soldiers. As for the men, you can visit the Armed Department and see for yourself, a row of towering men. If I were a female client going there to sing, I would never agree to let a few muscular ’young masters’ who turn pop songs into the anthem of Hua Country accompany me." Golden Splendor’s young masters and princesses need to be not only articulate but also accompany singing and drinking. After Mo Xixi scoffed, she began planning how to smoothly integrate both of them into Golden Splendor.

It’s pitiful that the Armed Department, with its hundreds of personnel, lost direct involvement in a major case for the first time because it has no female soldiers.

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"One after another, sing a song for us to hear," Lu Xun sat in the Armed Department’s meeting room, arms crossed, with several sweaty lieutenants standing before him, he pointed at one sitting in the front row,

"Give~~~me a glass~~~of Forget Love Water, let me~~~" Tremble, tremble, more tremble, the entire meeting room resembled a desolate scene of wind and rain scattering the loners.

"..."

"..."

"I really want to shoot you. Is this how you sing? It’s no different than slaughtering pigs. Do you even count as coming from the Armed Department?" Just hearing a few lines of their singing, Lu Xun felt a headache brewing and also received the higher-ups’ notice informing him that the operation in Qinyang City had been transferred to the National Security Department, instructing him to hand over all the previously collected data to the National Security Department promptly.

Why? Lu Xun gritted his teeth in frustration. For this case, the Armed Department exerted an immeasurable effort to pinpoint "Golden Splendor" as a venue cloaked in legality but internally sordid and dirty.