Chu He was stunned for a moment.

Then, like a cat smelling fish, he eagerly scrambled over from the other end of the sofa using his hands and feet.

His eyes wide open and full of spirit, he looked at Chen Lanxin: "What do you mean by that?"

"What did you figure out?"

Pinching her nose and moving back in disgust, Chen Lanxin slowly said: "As early as when Gandalf was still at the Imperial Capital Academy, I already started doubting him."

"In the Body Tempering experiment, a strength of Level 2.5 is simply not something normal Classer can endure."

"Yet not only did he endure it perfectly, but he also had no discomfort whatsoever."

"Combined with the fact that Zuo Daolin once told me this Gandalf has no soul at all."

"I guessed that there is a high probability he is a Puppet."

Chu He listened and nodded repeatedly, like a curious baby.

Watching his expression, the corners of Chen Lanxin's mouth curved up imperceptibly as she dropped another bombshell.

"Next, I discovered the most interesting thing..."

"What?"

Chu He eagerly asked, his body leaning forward another fraction.

Chen Lanxin didn't keep him in suspense any longer; she turned the laptop in front of her around and pushed it to Chu He.

"According to newly received intelligence, Donghai City served as the core of this Dongning Province beast tide, yet it was successfully defended. Meanwhile, Gandalf, who was supposed to be executing missions abroad, suddenly appeared in Donghai City and became the hero who saved it."

Looking at the report, Chu He listened in a daze.

"So? Is this what you find interesting?"

"Isn't this quite normal? The country is in crisis, and as a Genius of Great Xia Nation, isn't it only right for him to come back and provide support?"

Chen Lanxin shook her head, a hint of helplessness showing in her eyes that seemed to say, "You are a hopeless case."

"What truly makes me feel interesting isn't Gandalf."

"Instead, it's Donghai City."

She extended her slender fingers, gently clicked on the touchpad to open an image, and immediately enlarged it.

"It's a guild called Eternal Night."

In the image, a man dressed as a ronin was leaning against a slender tachi, standing atop a piece of collapsed ruins.

Behind him were broken walls, and overhead was a dim sky. His uninhibited long hair fluttered wildly in the wind, and his gaze was vicissitudinous and sharp, exuding an unspeakable desolation and unruly arrogance.

"Intelligence says this person is the Vice Guild Leader of the Evernight Guild."

Chen Lanxin's voice rang out again.

"Named Yasuo."

"I remember a few months ago, you seemed to have mentioned him to me once."

"You said that in Donghai City, you met a student who performed quite well, and his name was also Yasuo."

"You originally wanted to take him away, but unexpectedly he committed suicide right in front of you."

She paused, her gaze falling on Chu He's gradually changing face.

"Take a look, is it him?"

Chu He's gaze was firmly nailed to the image displayed on the computer screen.

His eyes widened little by little.

"Huh???"

"How could it... be him?"

Although several months had passed, and although he had only met Yasuo once by chance.

However, Yasuo's iconic weathered stubble and those eyes so deep they seemed to pierce through human hearts left an indelible impression on Chu He.

Most importantly, in order not to join Dawn, this Yasuo had unhesitatingly committed suicide in front of him, giving him a huge sense of frustration in his professional field for the very first time.

Therefore, he had always harbored a grudge about this Yasuo.

As a result, now, not only was the guy living well, but he had also become the Vice Guild Leader of some Evernight Guild and a hero who saved a city?

Chu He only felt his brain go "Buzz" with a hum, and in an instant, he came to a realization.

"Turns out... I was actually tricked by him back then??"

He punched the sofa, his face full of grief and indignation.

"Damn it! I kept saying HR is hard to do, it's so easy to run into scammers!"

Feeling a bit of a headache, Chen Lanxin rubbed her forehead, reached out to pull the laptop back, and corrected him: "You seem to be missing the point. The key isn't that this Yasuo tricked you."

"The key is this Evernight Guild!"

"Intelligence states that the reason Donghai City was successfully defended this time is entirely thanks to this Evernight Guild. Inside the guild, several suspected SS-Rank Professionals have appeared."

"Don't you find it strange? How can a tiny Donghai City inexplicably give rise to such a powerful guild out of thin air?"

Hearing this, Chu He finally calmed down, his brows tightly locked.

Yeah, this was too abnormal.

What was the concept of an SS-Rank Professional? That was a country-guarding level existence!

How many were there openly across the entire Great Xia Nation?

How could a tiny Donghai City casually pop out several of them?

Chen Lanxin's voice rang out again, carrying a calmness that saw through everything.

"I now have reason to suspect that whether it is the suddenly appearing Gandalf or this resurrected Yasuo, both may just be someone's Puppet. It is he who has been manipulating these powerful Classer from behind the scenes."

"And this person is likely in Donghai City, or even within the Evernight Guild. Instead of trying to persuade some Gandalf, you might as well go back to Donghai City and take a look."

"This time, I will arrange for Mo Hen to go with you."

Hearing the two words "Mo Hen", Chu He's face instantly collapsed, full of disgust.

"That neither-man-nor-woman fellow? Can you change someone else for me? What does that guy do all day long besides crying?"

Chen Lanxin couldn't be bothered to care about him, spitting out a few words expressionlessly: "You have no choice."

She picked up the coffee on the table and took a gentle sip.

"Otherwise, your HR position will be canceled."

"That won't do!"

Like a fox whose tail had been stepped on, Chu He jumped straight up from the sofa on the spot, crying out loudly.

He clenched his teeth, a hint of determination flashing across his face.

"Mo Hen it is then! I'll set off tomorrow!"

Thus, nothing more happened through the night.

Until early the next morning, a piece of news like a heavy bombshell instantly exploded across the entire Central Military Department.

Just late last night.

At the border location where Great Xia Nation and Sakura Country bordered each other.

Sakura Country's SS-Rank Professional, 【Spirit Painter】 Soma Kosuke, suddenly made a move.

With just a single painting, he massacred nearly a hundred Great Xia soldiers at the border, and a major general guarding the border was even severely injured and left unconscious.

This was no longer a simple border friction.

This was a barefaced provocation, an undisguised signal of going to war with Great Xia Nation!

In the past, border frictions where Classer of this level made a move were all pacified by Principal Lin Zhu of the Imperial Capital Academy.

Now that Principal Lin Zhu had died a martyr, Great Xia Nation's openly apparent SS-Rank combat power was left with only Marshal Zhao Qingcang.

He could not shirk this responsibility.

The moment he received the news, Zhao Qingcang had already taken a special plane and rushed to the border city of Chaohan.

Donghai City, Ye Family Manor.

When Zhou Huai received this news, he was half-sitting on the bed, his gaze peering through the window toward the distant horizon.

His gaze was deep and stirred no ripples.

This was obviously an action taken by Sakura Country to cooperate with the traitors inside Great Xia Nation.

The purpose was to lure Zhao Qingcang out of the Imperial Capital.

Without the protection of this great Buddha Zhao Qingcang, Gandalf, who was imprisoned in the military department dungeon, would truly become fish meat on the chopping board, to be slaughtered at will.

Thinking of this, the corners of Zhou Huai's mouth slowly curled into a cold arc.

However.

Who was the chopping board and who was the fish meat remained yet to be known.