Chapter 48 Born Equal
Lingkong City is a very ancient city, not far from the Giant Jade Plain, and has always maintained close ties with the major ruling groups of the Fantasy Race.
The Beastmen are one of the larger races among the Fantasy species. When Meng Shi first supplied Lingkong City to Yan, he may not have been without resentment because they were all of the same race, yet the Beastmen ignored the children within their own race who had been destroyed by war and conflict, and even used them as bargaining chips to threaten the Free Alliance.
However, this is understandable, since the orcs are a rather warlike race. They protect the cubs of their own race, but they have no pity for the cubs of other orc races.
As the sun dipped below the horizon, the entire city of Lingkong was bathed in a golden light. It was a scene straight out of the apocalypse, with the sky above the Bureau of Extraterrestrial Affairs torn apart by the intense heat.
The well-trained members of the execution team behind Gu Feng were also shocked. They all looked up at the sky and sighed softly.
She looked at the bureau chief, who was standing in front of the branch office and also looking up at the blazing sun.
Yanju's expression was very calm, so calm that it was hard to believe that she had so casually caused such a spectacular sunfall.
Gu Feng and Director Yan did not have much contact. Their team was one of the few execution teams in the General Bureau's Execution Division that had no personal biases and only followed the orders of the division chief.
The power struggles hidden within the General Administration were irrelevant to them, and her understanding of Director Yan was limited to the large-scale elimination of the entire Household Registration Department of the General Administration.
Because it was so outrageous, the entire General Administration was buzzing with discussion behind the scenes, but Gu Feng was actually quite satisfied with it.
After the Household Registration Department of the General Administration was eliminated, the overall work efficiency of the General Administration improved, especially the Information Department.
They never encountered staff absences or being unable to find anyone for a whole week again when submitting field task reports to the information office.
That's all.
However, Sheng Chu then went missing due to official business, and the direct command authority over their team was directly transferred to the bureau chief.
She already knew that Director Sheng had gone missing due to power struggles and was still not back. So when she received Director Yan's notification, her heart tightened.
Gu Feng hadn't expected that Director Yan had brought them here to cause trouble...?
Moreover, he was decisive and efficient; from the moment Gu Feng received the notification to the moment Director Yan raised his hand to suppress the scorching sun, it took no more than an hour.
There is only one world within the sun. What Yanju suppressed and what the ancient Golden Crow ancestors carried were the same: the projection of the sun.
However, the ancient Golden Crow ancestor was a divine subordinate of the Sun God, while Yan Ju was merely a human.
A human being whose strength is comparable to, or even greater than, that of a god?
Gu Feng was somewhat incredulous.
The setting of the blazing sun may seem like a slow process, but in reality it happens in an instant.
The officers on duty at the branch office had already noticed the strange thing overhead. After all, the scorching sunlight pierced through the building, and the shadows were mercilessly stretched and twisted into eerie shapes under the intense sunlight.
It then melted and collapsed rapidly, like a candle about to burn out.
The scorching sun beat down on the branch office, engulfing everything.
The towering and majestic hall of the branch office, with its pillars shaped like dragons about to take flight, all seemed to melt into view before me.
It turned into flat land.
Gu Feng heard Director Yan let out a very soft sigh.
From the now razed branch office, a few figures began to crawl up in a disheveled state.
As scions of a prominent family, many of them spontaneously generated numerous protective alchemical artifacts and spiritual weapons when the sun set. Combined with the spiritual energy and spells they had been carefully cultivated by their families, a number of them actually survived.
In the end, it was probably the alchemical products produced by the Free Alliance that protected them.
Now they no longer possess the haughty ease and privilege that came with being protected and cared for since birth; they are all disheveled and grime-covered. At this moment, countless figures are rushing towards the branch office from afar in Lingkong City.
Director Yan stood in front of the now-flattened branch office, slowly took out his phone from his pocket, took a picture of the flat ground, and then operated it a couple of times.
“Gu Feng,” Director Yan suddenly called out.
Gu Feng snapped to attention: "Here!"
"Go check out the homepage of our General Administration's intranet and see how my photos turned out."
Gu Feng was now incredibly grateful for her somewhat neurotic face, which allowed her to maintain a serious expression; otherwise, she wouldn't know what kind of twisted expression she should have.
With trembling hands, she opened the system, and a high-definition, 3D image immediately came into view.
The photo clearly shows that the territory that originally belonged to the Lingkong City Bureau of Foreign Affairs is now a slightly sunken flat area, with the old city and ancient capital of Lingkong City behind it, making it very easy to recognize.
In the center of the open space, some figures, dressed in tattered clothes and with disheveled faces, were either lying or sitting. The photos were so high-resolution that you could even see their faces.
Director Yan used the director's account to post the photo and pin it to the top of the intranet homepage, at which point the number of views had already skyrocketed.
Just as Gu Feng was looking at the photos, the figures flying towards Lingkong City arrived, and countless healers surrounded the ruins. Several figures landed in front of them, their faces ashen.
"Director Yan," one of them said, "what do you mean by this?"
Director Yan: "Hmm? It's rare for me to be in such a good mood today. Let's find a place to look around."
Ming Song sneered: "You're in a good mood, so you came from the surface world and casually smashed up our Lingkong City Bureau of Extraterrestrial Affairs branch?"
The moment the sun set, Ming Song realized something was wrong. She rushed to Lingkong City, but it was too late.
This was an extraordinary phenomenon; the blazing sun was directly cleaved off the sun and fell, and from a distance, the entire area above Lingkong City appeared to be torn and twisted.
However, the scope was controlled very precisely, covering only the branch office's area, while the adjacent Lingkong City and ancient capital were not affected at all.
This bureau chief, whom no one knows where the Heavenly Mandate Platform dug up from, possesses unfathomable and terrifying strength.
It's hard to estimate.
Therefore, when Mingsong arrived, he hesitated to fight her and instead tried to find out why this Director Yan had come.
"In a good mood"—what kind of perfunctory excuse is that? She almost burst out cursing.
Because she was in a good mood, she decided to smash up the Lingkong City branch of the Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs, causing the fate of many of their family members to be unknown.
What kind of nonsensical behavior is this?
Yan Ju showed surprise: "Isn't this a way of expressing your feelings that you prefer? I tried it today and found it to be quite good."
Ming Song: "We like it? How could anyone like this way of expressing themselves? Director Yan, you must be joking."
"How could you not like it?" Yan Ju's expression darkened. "I think your family members like it the most, casually smashing up the temporary shelters on the Giant Jaw Plain. And throwing money that should have been used to build an orphanage at each other."
"I think there's also the idea of tearing bread into pieces and throwing it into the mud for the cubs to scramble for and lick?" Yan Shi said, referring to the video recording Meng Shi had just sent her. "Since you like it, I'll come and try it with your children another day."
Ming Song was somewhat incredulous: "Director Yan, you've come for the beast cubs? They are beasts, not humans. We are humans."
“We are humans! The beastmen themselves don’t care about their cubs, yet you, as a human, are going to turn against us for the sake of the beastmen’s cubs?” Not only was Ming Song incredulous, but Fang Qingyun behind Ming Song also cried out to Yan Shi in disbelief.
Yanju: "Because the elders of the same race who care about these cubs no longer have the opportunity to protect their children like you do."
The scene immediately fell silent.
Only the howling wind could be heard.
"Since you are human, and you have close ties with some beastmen, what's this? Are some beastmen your kin?" Yan Ju's voice grew increasingly cold.
Ming Song had calmed down and looked at Director Yan: "Director Yan, this is how the world is. You should know that the strong decide everything."
“Following this logic, the strong decide everything.” Yan Ju no longer looked at Ming Song, but instead looked at the figures behind them who had received timely medical treatment and were slowly getting up. “Then I have decided to protect them as the strong.”
You can't protect everyone.
Director Yan suddenly laughed: "I can't do it alone. But that's the meaning of the Bureau of Extraordinary Management's existence."
"All living beings are born equal. We should not define everything by talent."
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