Wasteland Border Inspector - Chapter 807

Chapter 807: Chapter 266: Deputy Station Chief of Yue Ye, Wisdom of the Five Candidates! (Part 3)

Six Fifth-Phase Inspectors tearing each other apart over a single duty station chief—it’s enough to bash their dog brains out.

With a chance like this, where you just have to wait three years to be promoted to full station chief, who would let it slip by?

The intelligence space shattered.

Cheng Ye lifted his eyes. His tone was so natural it sounded like it just slipped out: “Uncle Lin, this hasn’t been officially notified to me yet. I’m only going back to the inspection station this afternoon to report to the station chief. As for the Elder’s side… he only said he’d send me to Yueye Shelter City as station chief, he didn’t mention anything about the deputy station chief.”

“Right, this was just something the station chief casually mentioned last time, I don’t have any concrete information on my side either.” Lin Bao narrowed his eyes and smiled. Seeing Cheng Ye’s unhesitating response, the satisfaction in his eyes deepened.

“Uncle Lin won’t make things hard for you. Whoever you pick in the end is fine.” He suddenly shifted the topic, tossing out an olive branch. “Isn’t Dapo Town about to break ground these days? If you need manpower, just give me a shout.”

“Uncle Lin, you must be joking.” Cheng Ye waved his hand with a smile. “Building up Wenlu County is the real top priority; matters in Dapo Town can take their time.”

Once he finished, he silently cursed in his heart, and inevitably downgraded his opinion of Lin Bao by a notch.

At a time like this, he still really treats him like some greenhorn fresh out of the nest?

He wanted to posture like an elder, and with just a bit of petty profit within his existing authority, he thought he could trade for the Yue Ye deputy station chief post—pure fantasy.

An hour later.

Cheng Ye walked out of the Personnel Coordination Office with a smile. Once he got in the car, the smile on his face gradually faded.

In this conversation, Lin Bao probably never imagined that before the competition for the Yue Ye deputy station chief even officially started, he had already been eliminated ahead of time.

He was even knocked out earlier than Zhou Changhai, that fence-sitter who’s good at petty tricks.

“Teaming up with Lin Bao would just be asking for trouble. In terms of methods, he’s far inferior to Lei Hu; in terms of control over his subordinates, he can’t compare to Davidson; and even toward me, he insists on putting on an elder’s airs, it’s really…” Cheng Ye sighed inwardly.

No wonder Ding Yishan sent Lin Bao to Wenlu County to counterbalance the other two. With this personality—wanting benefits but unwilling to lower himself—there really is no need to worry he’ll collude with Davidson.

Cheng Ye sighed inwardly. No wonder Ding Yishan assigned Lin Bao to Wenlu County to clamp down on the two of them. With this personality that wants benefits yet refuses to lower his standing, there truly is no need to worry about him joining forces with Davidson.

Beside him, Mu Shuang noticed the change in his expression but didn’t dare ask, and drove obediently toward the central district.

When the vehicle reached the edge of Wenlu County, a small building with specifications similar to Lin Bao’s came into view, with a plaque over the doorframe reading “Wenlu County Materials Coordination Office.”

Unlike Lin Bao, who personally came to greet him at the door, Davidson only sent two clerks to wait downstairs.

The group was led into the building. Mu Shuang and the escort squad were taken to the reception room, while the clerks brought Cheng Ye up to the third-floor office.

The door opened. The room was clearly divided into a work area and a living area, with a single bed placed against the wall.

Davidson was standing by the clothes rack in front of the bed, holding a garment steamer, carefully pressing a brown overcoat.

Seeing Cheng Ye enter, he didn’t rush to put down the steamer. He merely turned his head and smiled. “Prosecutor Cheng, please wait a moment.”

The clerk bowed and withdrew from the room. Cheng Ye’s gaze swept across the walls; the files hanging there were organized in impeccable order. Compared to Lin Bao’s roughness, Davidson seemed to have inherited Towns’s meticulousness.

On the desk, a proposal submitted by a subordinate for building the Dapo Town connecting line was prominently laid out.

He didn’t pick it up out of curiosity; he simply waited quietly. Only after Davidson finished pressing the coat did the two of them sit down opposite each other at the coffee table in the office area.

There was none of Lin Bao’s Cloud Mist Tea—just two simple cups of hot water.

Davidson picked up his cup, took a light sip, and sighed. “When I first met Prosecutor Cheng, I told Station Chief Towns that you act ruthlessly but lack a solid foundation, and would ultimately just be stubborn, harming others and yourself. Looking at it now, I was only half right.”

“Oh?” Cheng Ye lifted his cup, his face puzzled. “I don’t recall that we’ve met?”

“It was the day you first went to Station Chief Towns’s office.” Davidson smiled. “I happened to be discussing something with the station chief at the time, sitting right behind the screen.”

“Oh!” Cheng Ye nodded in sudden realization. Back then he was still an ordinary person and hadn’t noticed there was someone sitting behind the screen.

“This era truly is different from ours. Acting ruthlessly is the only way to find your footing, and whether your foundation is solid or not ultimately still depends on your achievements.” Davidson said in a low voice. “You’re more capable than your father, yet your temperament is completely different. That really surprised me.”

“Inspector Davidson, I’ve already been to Inspector Lin Bao’s place. If you have something to say, just say it.” Cheng Ye didn’t pick up his line, and went straight to the point.

“Raul should have mentioned that I wanted to make a deal with you, right?”

“He did. You want me to bring your children to Yue Ye?”

“Yes.” Davidson didn’t conceal anything and nodded sincerely. “I have four sons. They may be far less outstanding than you, but they are all competent, qualified Prosecutors—just lacking some real combat experience.”

“As for my third and fourth sons, I’ll have one remain in the Buffer Zone and one stay in Wenlu County. Of the remaining two, Raul and my second son—could Raul take up one slot in Yue Ye? And I plan to send my second son to the already-planned Xiasha County Town to serve as Inspector there.”

“Four sons, four locations.” Cheng Ye caught the pattern and clicked his tongue. “Inspector Davidson, your ambition is not small.”