Fang Che was completely flabbergasted on the spot.

Zhao Shanhe actually wants me to be the principal? How did he come up with such a crazy idea?

"Yes. For the principal position, who else but you?"

"No way! Not doing it! Even if I’m beaten to death, I’m not doing it!" Fang Che firmly refused.

"Now, whether you want to or not, you have to do two things... First is to intimidate and deter; second... even if you don’t become the principal, you must at least be a nominal principal. Just come by from time to time to check and accept the work."

Zhao Shanhe said.

"Fang Che, you need to know, once this begins... it will be a permanent, ongoing task, and where will we get so much manpower to do this work? But if this doesn’t start well, then what’s the point of us doing it?"

"Are we raising these kids just to fatten them up for slaughter? If that’s the case, how is it different from raising pigs?"

Zhao Shanhe said: "So this matter is extremely large-scale. Doing it well might not have a noticeable effect, but doing it poorly will surely be condemned for eternity. Without the Life and Death Order to oversee, without iron-fist tactics to suppress, there will be no effect at all! You should know this in your heart."

"Well, let me think about it."

Fang Che frowned.

"No need to think, apart from you, no one else can do it. Those killing fiends fear nothing but you."

Zhao Shanhe sincerely said: "Because you’re... unreasonable."

Fang Che’s face darkened: "What’s that supposed to mean, who’s unreasonable? Not doing it!"

Zhao Shanhe said: "Archer..."

"Don’t call me so affectionately, we’re not that close."

Fang Che sternly refused.

"This is a grand endeavor of boundless merit."

"Then you go earn this boundless merit, I’m just a butcher, Fang Tu, why would I care about merit. I really can’t handle this trouble."

Fang Che was immovable. He really couldn’t handle the trouble; if he became this principal, he’d have to break up every moment into a hundred pieces, and it still wouldn’t be enough!

Zhao Shanhe was at his wit’s end: "You came up with the idea, and now you’re not going through with it? Are you backing out now?"

"I proposed the idea, do I still have to do the actual work? General Zhao, once you’ve caught the frog, do you have to squeeze out some urine?"

Zhao Shanhe snorted and said: "Name your terms!"

"Could’ve just done this earlier..."

Fang Che stretched out his two hands, all ten fingers straight up, and said: "I’ll just be a figurehead, for injuries below Venerable saint Level, full recovery using Heavenly King Pill, ten bottles!"

"Damn it, just kill me!"

Zhao Shanhe furiously said: "I shouldn’t have treated Qiu Yunshang’s injury today, you damn well have your eye on this!"

"We need it for work."

"No way! I only have a few left, and those are my hard-earned rewards over the years, saved for emergencies. And here you are, asking for ten bottles right off the bat! Are you crazy?"

Zhao Shanhe was utterly exasperated.

"I’m not asking them from you. You should file a report above. General Zhao, it’s up to you to decide."

Fang Che said: "Our Life and Death Patrol Group, eight of us are all Emperor Level high-grade. I only have some Heavenly King Pills, which are for below Monarch Level, and mainly focus on boosting cultivation as an aid... Every day it’s life on the line with our tasks. Like this time with Qiu Yunshang... if something happened, we’d be helpless."

"In the future, who knows how many times this will happen. And we can’t reach the high levels... if we don’t ask you, who can we ask? You’re the only one with the channels, right? Even if Deputy Chief An files a report, it won’t have the legitimacy as yours."

Fang Che said: "Chief, this isn’t a condition but rather the benefits we should have. Why should the benefits we are entitled to, along with doing the work for you, constantly risking our lives... and you’re still unwilling?"

Zhao Shanhe stroked his chin, mumbling: "You do make sense... " 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

"Right, so you see, you know in the future you’ll keep piling work and various extra tasks onto me, and I’ll have to keep taking the fall for you."

"And I’ve always been doing my job, not causing you any trouble, and now it’s just about asking you to resolve our benefits issue..."

Fang Che said: "We’re not even asking you directly, just hoping you can pass the message along, make an application... how does that make us crazy?"

"There’s no sense to this in the world. Plus, there are so many disabled children needing my management, so many death row inmates needing my education and deterrence... how can you be unwilling to just put in a word for us?"

Fang Che said aggrievedly: "I really can’t fathom it."

Zhao Shanhe immediately felt uneasy, even a little guilty.

Yeah, Fang Che indeed did a lot of work, helped out plenty, and took on a lot of blame.

Thinking this, he agreed: "Alright, I’ll file a report. But you all need to use them sparingly... these things are hard to come by!"

Fang Che said: "Of course, it’s just for emergencies, after all, it’s not like we sustain heavy injuries every day, what fun would that be?"

"Hmm hmm." Zhao Shanhe pondered over how to word the report, frowning in thought.

"General Zhao, don’t rush into thinking about that now."

Fang Che immediately disrupted his train of thought, steering Zhao Shanhe’s attention elsewhere: "Right now the most crucial thing is the matter of the underworld."

Zhao Shanhe’s attention was indeed immediately diverted.

Because the underworld truly is a massive tumor.

The underground drainage system covering the entire city, even millions of troops couldn’t clear it.

It certainly is of utmost importance.

"What do you propose?" Zhao Shanhe became interested.