I Am Your Natural Enemy

Feng Yao was satisfied.

”Don’t worry, the person will arrive within three days. Before that, I’ll send you some design plans. Take a look and see which ones you like, pick one first.”

As he was leaving, Feng Yao casually asked a question.

”There’s someone named Li Linlin, just got back from Europa. Do you know her?”

”Yeah, I know her. Why?”

”Nothing, there’s a bit of an issue with this person. On the surface, she might have ties to the Church, but it’s not clear exactly which group she’s involved with. If it weren’t for her mother having top-level clearance and some achievements under her belt, she would’ve been detained by now. But since you know her, it’s fine.”

Feng Yao wasn’t too bothered. He figured, with Wen Yan’s personality, there’s no way he’d allow someone flagged as an undercover agent to stir up trouble in Virtue City.

The only reason Li Linlin is still hanging around Virtue City, all safe and sound, is because Wen Yan told her to stick around and behave herself. That’s the only reason Feng Yao quietly put the matter on hold.

Otherwise, she would’ve been hit hard a long time ago.

When Feng Yao was digging up info, he found that Li Linlin’s ability seemed to be space-related, and he couldn’t help but think of the day Minister Cai died in action.

But after secretly looking into it a bit more, he figured it probably wasn’t likely.

All space-related abilities aren’t something you can just use at will. You need an extremely strong capacity for spatial imagination, a high level of understanding, a solid foundation of knowledge, and wicked mental math skills to really max out the potential.

Otherwise, it’s just whatever—not really powerful.

There’s actually a big shot in the Scorching Sun Department with the kind of vanilla space-related ability people talk about, but the reason he’s called a big shot isn’t because of his Professional Ability. It’s because he’s the lead on some major national scientific research projects, and not just in pure theory either.

A lot of stuff in the Scorching Sun Department nowadays are side products from his research topics.

There used to be another Professional with space-related abilities, but the guy was totally paranoid, terrified of getting dissected, and just teleported himself away.

And that was it—the guy just vanished without a trace.

At the spot where he disappeared, that Scorching Sun Department big shot did all kinds of observations with different equipment, then spent days calculating, and finally regretfully announced: the guy had a tiny probability of coming back.

Didn’t say one hundred percent, just because he’s used to being rigorous.

With all that precedent, and an official big shot on hand, Feng Yao really didn’t bother worrying about Li Linlin too much.

According to the records, this Li Linlin tried to work hard at some point, but it was clear that sometimes effort really doesn’t matter.

Blinding zeros made Li Linlin just accept her fate, totally said goodbye to physics and math for good.

You can even find Li Linlin’s breakdown posts on the school forum.

”Why isn’t there a single multiple-choice question!!!”

For someone who’s basically already hit their ceiling, and whose ability will probably even drop as they age, the best she can do is just play support.

That’s exactly why Europa was willing to send Li Linlin back as an undercover.

Otherwise, if there was a Professional over there with the spatial ability and the corresponding research talent, Europa would never let her come back to Divine Land.

Feng Yao didn’t ask Wen Yan any more details; he just needed to make sure Wen Yan knew about this person and this matter.

He used Wen Yan as an excuse to sit on this intel, but there was an even bigger reason.

Based on everything he picked up while hanging around Cai Qidong all this time, and what he knew about him, Feng Yao was starting to suspect that this Li Linlin might’ve been planted by Minister Cai...

He couldn’t let himself dwell on that. No matter the truth, Feng Yao did NOT want rumors or suspicions like that getting out right now.

And now, since he’d asked Wen Yan himself, he’d done everything he was supposed to do. No matter what happens later, no one could come at him for it.

After all, the General Director just shoved Wen Yan’s credentials into my hands. I’m here to keep the peace—so you want me to question Wen Yan about something else, right to his face, at a time like this?

Are you crazy, or am I?

Feng Yao left satisfied. Without missing a beat, he started making arrangements—delivering the General Director’s signed approval straight to Lord Zhu, running it through the official channels.

Then, once he got back, he started preparing tasks for the Professionals in Xin Zao’an.

He got people to work through the night to produce the design plans—after all, if you don’t need to worry about the budget or construction, making blueprints gets a LOT easier.

Wen Yan glanced at his phone, then opened the group chat. Tons of stickers like ”Thanks boss”, ”Welcome boss”, and ”Group status -1”.

Wen Yan suddenly felt way more at home.

No one recognized him, because no one knew his username.

After sending a meme, someone asked who he was. When he didn’t reply, they just left it alone, figured he was just another of the older bunch.

The person chatting at that moment was Zhang Li. Wen Yan vaguely remembered him—a young guy he’d seen during a previous martial arts demonstration, probably about twenty, typical college-aged kid.

Zhang Li: ”Now I finally get why the Scorching Sun Department had to set an event priority.”

Huang Zhiji: ”Wut?”

Chen Shuxian: ”You’re not even from Nanwu County, all you picked up is that one Yu State phrase?”

Zhang Li: ”I snuck into the university and spent two days investigating. Turns out, there never was some long-haired girl ghost in white clothes.”

Huang Zhiji: ”You’ll get used to it. A lot of cases are like that—dig into them and they just turn into science explainers.”