The next morning.

Li Yi followed the Saint Qinglan to the Seventh Division.

With the headquarters rebuilt and a large number of powerful members of the Mist Bureau killed, the positions within the bureau have been reassigned.

Li Yihang was appointed as the director of the Fog Bureau of Base 116 City yesterday, succeeding Wang Anming.

Today, Li Yihang and Saint Qinglan have come to the Seventh Branch, clearly to make appointments.

The group sat down in the activity room, and the atmosphere was very quiet.

Colin and the others had not yet recovered from the deaths of Lin Xiao and Wei Xuan.

Li Yihang glanced at everyone and then said, "You all know why I'm here today, right?"

Colin nodded. "Mm."

Li Yi said, "The Federal Headquarters has sent a message. The appointments for the Seventh Division are: Colin, you will be the captain, and Lu Ning will be the deputy captain. The positions of the others will remain unchanged. As for the personnel that your action team is short of, you will need to recruit them yourselves."

Colin was taken aback and said with some surprise, "My strength is not as good as Lu Ning's now, so why isn't Lu Ning the captain?"

Li Yi shook his head: "I don't know either. Maybe it's because of Lu Ning's seniority? After all, Lu Ning has only been with the Mist Bureau for a little over half a year."

After speaking, Li Yihang looked at Lu Ning, whose expression was calm: "Lu Ning, do you have any thoughts? To be honest, if it weren't for you this time, our base city would probably be gone. Even if Saint Qinglan had arrived, our Mist Bureau and the Free Awakeners would have been wiped out by Lillian. Personally, I think you are fully qualified to be the branch's action team leader. If you feel it's unfair, I'll report it and try to help you get it back."

Lu Ning shook his head: "I don't care."

At this moment, the Qinglan Saint, who had been silent until now, smiled and said, "Actually, there is another option, which is to join the Federation Headquarters. A genius like you would definitely receive excellent training if you joined the headquarters."

Upon hearing this, Li Yixing and his companions' expressions changed.

Li Yihang believed that their base city had just experienced such a huge disaster, resulting in a massive loss of awakened individuals and a severe shortage of strong individuals.

Lu Ning is definitely one of the top experts in the base city!

If Lu Ning leaves, their base city will likely face even greater difficulties.

Colin and Li Mu, on the other hand, had mixed feelings.

After spending so much time together, they and Lu Ning had become sworn brothers, sharing a very close relationship.

They were naturally reluctant to see Lu Ning leave.

However, when he thought of what the Sage Qinglan had said, Lu Ning could have better opportunities at the Federal Headquarters.

They couldn't bring themselves to ask them to stay.

After a moment of silence, Li Mu spoke up: "Lu Ning, didn't you want to become stronger? The Sage is right, you'll definitely get better resources after joining headquarters."

Lu Ning paused for a moment, then looked at the Saint Qinglan and said, "I promised Elder Wang that I would take care of the base city for him before I returned to my era, so I won't go."

Li Yihang immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Qiu Yuelin looked at Lu Ning with some worry: "Brother Lu Ning, are you really not going?"

Lu Ning shook his head: "I'm not going."

Colin gave a rare smile: "If you don't want to go, then stay here."

Seeing Lu Ning's response, the Azure Mist Saint shrugged and gave up.

Saint Qinglan continued, "The fact that the base city can still exist and the Mist Bureau can still retain its strength is all thanks to you. Moreover, you also killed a Divine Grace and thwarted the Joyful Heaven's sacrificial ritual. To be honest, if that Divine Grace had really sacrificed the entire base city, then the descent of the Fallen Angels would have been very close. So your contribution is significant, and the Federal Headquarters mentioned your reward to me yesterday."

Hearing this, everyone was taken aback. Li Yihang asked in surprise, "Was Lu Ning's reward mentioned separately?"

After all, as the new director of the Fog Bureau, he had not received any news about the reward.

Saint Qinglan glanced at Li Yihang and nodded slightly, saying, "Yes, his contribution this time is significant, unlike yours."

None of Li and his party members refuted this.

After all, they were all there at the time and knew what the entire base city would have become without Lu Ning.

Lu Ning asked with some curiosity, "What is the reward?"

Saint Qinglan smiled and said, "The Crimson Sword is yours. In addition, I will also give you a one-time high-risk item and 10,000 Soul Crystals."

"hiss……"

The words of the Sage Qinglan made Colin and the others gasp in shock.

Even Li Yihang showed a look of envy.

Wang Qiwen's eyes lit up with greed as he looked at Lu Ning and said, "The Crimson Sword is that mid-level dangerous artifact from that day, right? A mid-level dangerous artifact, a one-time high-level dangerous item, and ten thousand soul crystals... Holy crap, this is too awesome!"

Colin adjusted his glasses, slapped Wang Qiwen on the head, and said speechlessly, "It's fun, but you have to be alive to get it. Besides Lu Ning, who else can do it?"

Saint Qinglan smiled and said, "Lu Ning's contributions certainly deserve these rewards."

He paused for a moment, then said, "It's a pity that the Fallen Incense Burner was lost; otherwise, the reward would have been even greater."

The moment the topic of the Fallen Incense Burner came up, everyone's expressions turned serious again.

Li Yihang asked, "Lord Qinglan, who got the Fallen Incense Burner? Has it been found?"

Saint Qinglan shook her head slightly: "No."

He then took a bronze-colored metal box out of his pocket.

He opened the metal box, inside which was a broken bronze metal armor plate with strange patterns on it.

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