Chapter 147 Suspicious Points
Aska: ?
"Leaving aside the fact that the assassin is still in the city," she said blankly, "what do you mean by 'my future colleague'...?"
Yan Shi: "No, it doesn't seem like it can be called the future. Your working relationship is already in the present tense."
Yu Youguan seemed to have some suspicion: "Were the assassins sent by the Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs?"
“No,” Yan Shi shook his head. “It’s just a kid who also wants to overturn all of this.”
If the assassin was sent by the Bureau of Eccentricity, then Aska still has a grudge to hold.
After all, although Governor Garcia was bloodthirsty and cruel as a governor, she was not irresponsible as a mother.
She provided Asuka with warmth and guidance when he was young. Even when she discovered that Asuka was a potential outcast as an adult, she simply ignored it.
But it was because Aska knew what her mother had done that she was in so much pain and unable to face herself.
She resented her own cowardice and her inaction.
Therefore, Aska's first reaction upon learning of his mother's assassination was a blank.
There was neither grief nor joy.
There was only a feeling of emptiness, as if everything had ended.
Now, when she heard Yan Shi say that the assassin was just a kid who also wanted to overturn everything, she felt a little lost.
"A little kid?" Yu Youguan asked with some curiosity.
Yan Shi: "Hmm. Zhan Zhou's current student, how can he not be considered a child?"
"A student at Zhanzhou?!" Aska snapped out of his daze, his mind processing what Yanlan was saying, and he repeated in shock.
Yu Youguan fell silent. Then, she walked suspiciously to the window, looked down again, and surveyed the entire Governor's Mansion.
"Zhan Zhou, a student, successfully assassinated the governor of a city. Afterwards, he left the governor's mansion and has remained undiscovered to this day." Yu Youguan summarized the incident in a convoluted manner, then complained, "Aska, I knew the guards in the governor's mansion weren't very capable, but I didn't expect them to be this incompetent."
"We can't even catch the students currently enrolled in Zhanzhou now."
Aska slowly and rationally analyzed, "Which main city does she come from? Which family? With such strength, she must be a core disciple of the main city."
"Thank you so much for remembering us, Port Novano."
Yan Shi's smile deepened: "You think it was someone from another major city who sent to assassinate Governor Garcia?"
Aska: "I admit the guards of the Governor's Mansion aren't very capable, but they're definitely not something a student of Zhanzhou could do. Her family must have sent people to help her carry out this assassination."
"Then everything makes sense."
“I don’t know much about others, but this child definitely carried out the assassination independently.” Yan Shi shrugged, then slowed down his speech, “because she comes from the outer world.”
Aska: ?!
Yu Youguan clapped his hands and exclaimed, "Wow, that's so cool!"
Aska gave a wry smile: "It seems I really was too cowardly."
“A student from the outside world infiltrates the governor’s mansion…” she murmured to herself.
"That's so cool."
Aska quickly composed himself. "I will summon the senior officials of the Governor's Office this week, announce my mother's decree, and begin arranging the inauguration ceremony for the new Governor, as well as fulfilling my mother's last wishes."
Yanshi nodded.
Yu Youguan was eager to try: "Yanlan, do we have a chance to see this brave man who assassinated Governor Garcia recently?"
Before Yan Shi could answer, Aska suddenly spoke up again and asked, "The future colleague you mentioned earlier, a student from Zhan Zhou, cannot become my colleague. Being from the Outer World, she certainly doesn't have any more influence or connections."
"So she's now confirmed to have joined the Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs?"
“I think that since we’re all working together in Nuoan Nuo Port, we’re already colleagues, right?” Yan Shi didn’t give a direct answer.
Aska lowered his eyes thoughtfully and remained silent.
Yan Shi stretched and said, "Then, Governor Garcia, could you arrange a room for me to rest for a while?"
Yan Shi planned to stay in the Garcia Governor's Mansion for the time being and finalize all the arrangements with the head of the Novano Port Special Administration Bureau before making any further plans.
All signal towers in Novano Port City were destroyed, but a temporary signal tower was built at the port outside the city because merchant ships had spent money to build it, so there was still some signal.
However, to communicate with people inside the city, other means were required.
Yan Shi had previously contacted the head of the Noah Port Special Management Bureau through a special channel.
It's inconvenient to only be able to send a few very short messages.
Aska nodded, walked to the bedside, and pulled the bell. "I'll have the maid take you there."
After Yanlan followed the maid out of the room with light steps, the door closed, and Asuka's expression grew increasingly gloomy.
She sniffled and looked at Yu Youguan, "Youguan, I still feel like crying."
Yu Youguan stepped forward and hugged her, gently patting Aska's back. "I know, that's why I came. Cry, there's no one else here but me."
“But I don’t think I have anything to cry about.” Aska buried her face in Yu Youguan’s clothes and hat, her voice muffled. “I know she deserved to die. I just lost a loved one. Many residents in the city lost their families and everything they had.”
Yu Youguan listened quietly without saying a word.
After a long while, Aska, her eyes still red, looked up from the brim of her hat, having regained her composure. "Youguan, how much do you know about this Yanlan?"
“The younger sister of Director Yan from the Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs, a powerful water-type Grand Spirit Master,” Yu Youguan said slowly, “and also a deceased person.”
Aska: "The deceased? Wasn't she Yanju's sister?"
According to Aska's understanding, the deceased were all desperate fugitives dealing with despair, and very few of them had relatives still alive.
“Yes, but if we consider Yanlan as a deceased person, it makes perfect sense,” Yu Youguan said. “Because before this, there was absolutely no information about Yanlan in the inner world. Most of the deceased are in the Abyss of Death or places of exile, so it makes sense.”
“The problem is that, prior to this, there was absolutely no information about Director Yan in the inner world.” As he spoke, Yu Youguan frowned. “That’s very strange.”
"Such a powerful figure, who can be considered a demigod, should have some information about him."
Aska was also puzzled. "Could we have missed something?"
"Something must have been overlooked for all the families to have no news about Director Yan," Yu Youguan complained.
Aska stood up straight and took a deep breath: "Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore."
“I’ve already decided to take this side, there’s no point in delving into it further.” As she spoke, Aska walked to the bedside, picked up the clothes that Yanlan had placed by the bedside and brought over by the maid, and shook them out. While chatting with Yu Youguan, she said, “Since Yanlan is Director Yan’s sister, she must be rising through the ranks in the Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs.”
What position do you hold now?
Yu Youguan: "Yanlan, Yanlan doesn't work at the Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs, does she...?"
"Huh?" She herself found it strange after saying that, "Why isn't Yanlan working in the Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs?"
"Then she also helps Director Yan interfere in these messy affairs of big families?" Aska turned her head to look at Yu Youguan in surprise.
The two looked at each other in bewilderment.
Yu Youguan: "Perhaps... Yanlan, like you, loves this world very much?"
"Do you even believe that yourself?" Aska's lips twitched. "She's deceased."
“The dead are accompanied only by pain and decay. Once she abandons her resentment, she will no longer be able to cast death spells. This is why the dead are expelled from most territories.”
Yu Youguan sat down on the carpet beside the bed, propping her head up with her hand: "I know, this is a concept given in the book."
“It’s not a concept from a book, it’s knowledge gained through practice,” Aska corrected, then still somewhat doubtful, “Are you sure Yanlan is the deceased? She doesn’t look like it.”
Yanlan seemed perfectly normal.
Yu Youguan: "Yanlan defeated Dongtong using death magic. The old woman told me this after we got back."
“Patriarch Yu certainly wouldn’t be mistaken.” Aska finished putting on his clothes, still puzzled. “Then what is Yanlan doing for the Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs?”
Yu Youguan stood up from the ground. "No, I'm too curious. I have to go ask."
As she spoke, she walked towards the door. "Aska, which room did you put Yanlan in?"
“The main guest room.” Aska walked toward the door as well. “I’ll go ask with you.”
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The interior of the García Governor's Palace is truly luxurious.
Governor Garcia did not die unjustly.
She is very poor.
The General Administration of Foreign Affairs is so poor.
European-style corridors are all decorated in a similar way. But the differences inside can be seen in the details.
For example, in the Governor's Palace of Garcia, even the carpets in the corridors are inlaid with small diamonds.
I've just seen too much of it, and I'm starting to feel aesthetically fatigued.
The maid who led the way was unusually silent, so Yan Shi walked along admiring the paintings on the walls.
The paintings here are quite unique; instead of portraits, they depict landscapes.
It's all the sea.
The sea from different angles, at different times, and under different weather conditions.
The sea connects to the clouds, and the clouds hang over the sea.
If you can tell, the drawing is exquisite, but it's a bit boring because it's all the same old sea scenes.
Yan Shi withdrew his gaze.
The maid in front stopped. "Madam, we've arrived." She bowed and opened the door for Yan Shi.
The room was large and similarly furnished to Aska's bedroom upstairs, but with fewer signs of habitation.
The maid gently closed the door.
Yan Shi breathed a sigh of relief, rolled around on the soft bed, and took out his phone.
Before getting ready to handle official business, I naturally want to scroll through my phone for a bit to relax and take a break.
She casually opened the Qiman app.
The Curse of the Laws has been updated.
Yan Shi had just opened the interface, ready to check out the new updates, when suddenly there was a knock on her door.
Yan Shi: ?
There was a knock on the door, followed by a call: "Yanlan, is Yanlan home?"
This is a metaphor for early childhood observation.
Didn't we just separate upstairs? Why is Yu Youguan here again?
Yan Shi sat up in bed, puzzled, and said, "Come in."
Yu Youguan pushed open the door and peeked in, "Yanlan, I have a question for you."
Yan Shi: "What's the problem?"
Yu Youguan: "Do you like the Bureau of Dissidents?"
What a nonsensical question.
Yan Shi was even more puzzled. She shook her head and said, "So-so."
How could anyone like their workplace?
If possible, Yan Shi would like every day to be a day off.
"Then," Yu Youguan asked cautiously and tentatively, "you're still helping the Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs?"
Because of work requirements.
So even though she's not at work now, can Yu Youguan still see the "corporate slave" vibe about her?
Yan Shi suddenly lost his life's dream.
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