Chapter 202, Chapter 201: Main Control Tower (Comic Story)...
The next few pages of the comic are all large horizontal pages.
There are many characters in the scene, but apart from Director Yan and large areas of fire, everything else in the entire picture is gray.
Yanju's eyebrows and eyes were a deep color, which, against the bright firelight, made her appear breathtakingly beautiful.
And murderous intent.
Her hair fluttered with her movements, a few strands falling down, no longer meticulously combed back up.
Unlike Yan Lan's half-up hairstyle and lazy demeanor, Yan Ju's loose strands of hair only accentuated his sharp and fierce nature.
Finally, the scene quieted down again.
On the blood-soaked wasteland, only the limbs of victims, the tea sets and snacks of nobles, and the trembling nobles were scattered haphazardly.
Yanju stood there, a rare look of bewilderment in his eyes.
She paused for a moment, then followed the tracks left by the trampled weeds and walked forward.
[Waaaaaah, Director Yan!]
[That old thief is really good at drawing characters! These few pages depict Yan Ju absolutely beautifully, he's incredibly handsome!]
【Wait, is my wife some kind of rescue team leader?! She has to do everything herself. This Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs seems like a useless bunch of good-for-nothings :)】
To put it bluntly, he's a useless piece of trash.
[Given the scale of this hunting ground and the magnitude of the breach in the world barrier, is it really true that no one in the world besides Director Yan cares about this? That's outrageous.]
[And what about Lin Cai? She's the designated protagonist of this manga, so what is Lin Cai's role?]
Several figures that had been running ahead had stopped and were looking back warily.
The most recent one is a very well-behaved girl.
The comic's camera focuses on Lin Cai's perspective. The girl isn't described in much detail; the focus remains on Yan Ju.
Director Yan reached out and touched the girl's hair.
[The argument pauses, let me lick Director Yan's hand first. Ahhhhhh, Director Yan, my destined wife. Damn, to be so gently caressed by my wife (jealous and envious, poking a voodoo doll)]
No one can help but love Director Yan, no one.
[May the Yan family live on forever!!]
Lin Cai's gaze remained fixed on Director Yan until he walked towards her.
Lin Cai was startled, but finally came to her senses and quickly lowered her body, hiding in the shadows once again.
Then, she slowly realized that there was a small building behind her. Director Yan was heading towards the small building behind her.
It's probably the main control tower of the hunting grounds.
The enforcement team that came with Director Yan began to clean up the scene in an orderly manner, take inventory of the participants, and settle the victims.
Lin Cai gave the wilderness one last cold glance, dodging the passing people, and hurriedly followed Director Yan into the main control tower.
Regarding the Bureau of Dissent, I have the following three points to make: ...
[So many people, and they're following Director Yan's execution team, they must be elites. How come not a single one noticed Lin Cai was following them?]
[I even went through the teleportation array and entered the main control tower. My native language is speechless.]
[Wait, why do I have a feeling they knew? Even if the execution team didn't notice, Director Yan, who was also on the teleportation array, would have noticed, and Director Yan just glanced over.]
【！！！】
[So Director Yan knew about this and instructed his subordinates to let Lin Cai just stand by and watch?]
[This makes more sense. To be honest, Director Yan is quite indulgent towards Lin Cai, although not as indulgent as he is towards Yan Lan.]
There's a difference between a younger sister and her best friend.
There weren't many people in the control tower. On the third floor, Director Yan led the girl into a lounge.
Lin Cai lingered at the door for a while, and just as she reached the door of the lounge, she overheard Director Yan asking the girl:
"If you decide to stay in the Otherworld, the Bureau of Otherworldly Affairs will process your transfer and you can continue your studies at Zhanzhou."
The words he said to Lin Cai at the beginning were almost exactly the same.
Lin Cai heard light footsteps behind her. Without hesitation, she pushed open a corner of the lounge door and slipped inside.
[Okay, it's confirmed. Director Yan did indeed know Lin Cai was there.]
[Lin Cai was already openly listening next to Director Yan, wasn't she?]
[I refuse to accept this!! Why is my wife treating Lin Cai so specially?! Just because she's the main character?! Waaaaaah!]
[Honey, honey, look at me! I'm your best little dog! I'll come home when it rains, I'll roll around when I fall, and I'll eat on time and fetch the ball (puppy's pitiful eyes) (Beagle squeezing out tears)]
The lounge was quiet. The girl didn't answer for a moment, then whispered, "What if... I don't want to go into the Otherworld?"
Yan Ju said calmly, "The Security Department will process and modify your memories from the past two days, and then send you home."
Lin Cai sat down in a corner behind the door, bent her knees, and hugged herself.
The little one curled up in a ball.
The girl went out.
The door wasn't closed properly, and Lin Cai could hear the whispers of the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics employees coming and going outside. Director Yan sat quietly on the sofa, looking out the window, remaining motionless for a long time.
The next page shows the scene from the cover art.
The image focuses on meticulously depicting only Yan Ju. The rest of the world is blurred.
[...Is Director Yan also homesick?]
The girl Yanju saved could have chosen to go home, but Yanju himself seemed to have no choice.
[Does my wife miss that home? That home that only favors Yanlan?!]
[Okay, old thief, I already know the underworld is terrible and absurd. But sometimes I feel that Director Yan's life is even more absurd.]
Yes, my wife has a neglected childhood, a betrayed childhood best friend, and a rebellious younger sister.
[Damn it, Director Yan is always so silent. Those who are silent are always overlooked. Director Yan, stop keeping everything bottled up inside!!!]
Finally, after a long while, Director Yan seemed to snap out of his reverie and began to look down at the documents.
Lin Cai moved her limbs slightly, stood up from the ground, and quietly left the lounge.
She seemed to have a destination in mind. After checking her location after walking up the stairs, she went down the stairs.
The further down you go, the simpler the surrounding decorations become. Until the bottom, rows of iron cages appear.
There were members of the enforcement team guarding the entrance, and staff from the information department verifying identities.
Lin Cai hid in the shadows, nimbly passing them and heading deeper into the prison.
Lin Cai's actions always baffle me.
[Old thief, why don't you just release the entire storyline of Lin Cai's first playthrough? I know you drew it, but half-covering it up is no fun.]
[What is it that our esteemed readers can't know! Ugh, I always feel like I'm being kept in the dark, it's so frustrating!]
[You promised it would be a classic shonen manga, but the main plot is so complicated I can't understand it at all]
[What?! This manga actually has a main storyline? The person above, were you dreaming?]
The information on the prisoners deep inside the cell seemed to have been compiled, so it was very quiet. The prisoners were all huddled in a corner, lost in thought.
Lin Cai finally stopped at the end.
Inside the cage was a woman who appeared very gentle. Her gray hair was neatly tied up, and she was dressed simply.
Lin Cai gently knocked on the railing at the door: "Yin Shuang".
She pronounced the woman's name very clearly.
Yinshuang raised her head, her eyes filled with doubt: "Who are you?"
Lin Cai looked very young and wasn't wearing the uniform of the Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs.
Yinshuang recalled that she had never seen this face anywhere or on any document.
Lin Cai: "I know, it was Ms. Eldridge who provided you with the start-up capital. She was also the one who helped you connect with clients."
Yinshuang was startled.
Wait, wait, what's going on here? Who is Ms. Eldridge anyway? (Confused)
[That name sounds familiar... I think I've seen it before, let me search for it.]
[She's the principal. Her full name is Christy Eldridge, but we usually just call her the principal?]
[The main problem is that the names in this comic are a hodgepodge of East and West; Western surnames are so long that you'll forget them as soon as you see them.]
[So the hunting grounds belong to the principal??? As expected of a shonen manga, the academy principal is always the villainous big boss.]
I thought the main villain was either Sheng Chunqiu or Lin Cai's mother.
But how does Lin Cai know so much?
Yinshuang quickly concealed her shock and regained her composure: "What are you talking about, little girl?" She smiled: "The hunting grounds are mine, and I'm doing these things because I find them interesting."
"Life is so long, how intoxicating it is to control the fate of others. Her life or death is just a thought away from you."
Lin Cai looked at her expressionlessly: "Oh. So your life or death," she raised the corner of her eye and smiled, "now it seems that it's all up to Director Yan's decision."
Yinshuang: ...
[This is hilarious, Lin Cai, you're really good at using someone else's power to intimidate others!]
[Yin Shuang: Bewitching.jpg]
Lin Cai: Showing Yan Ju.jpg
It's reasonable that criminals are afraid of the police.
Lin Cai stopped smiling and took a sealed bag out of her pocket.
The sealed bag was transparent, and inside was a spike of foxtail grass. Several small red flowers hung on the spike, and there was still dew on the flowers.
“The hunting grounds have been shut down by the Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs, and your commission has failed,” Lin Cai said. “I am acting on Ms. Eldridge’s orders to retrieve the advance payment she gave you.”
“I am her student.” Lin Cai showed Yin Shuang the foxtail grass in the sealed bag in detail, and after making sure she could see it clearly, she put it back in her pocket. “You know what happens when you deceive her.”
Yinshuang silently gazed at Lin Cai. After a moment, she took out an envelope that she kept close to her body from her pocket.
"Never mind," she said softly. "In the end, I'm just not capable enough."
"They're not lucky either."
Lin Cai took the envelope through the railing, and without checking it, put it directly into her pocket.
After that, she didn't look at Yinshuang again and left the place along the way she came.
【？？？】
[What kind of plot is this? Now even the main character has become a riddle solver?]
I recognize that foxtail grass; it's planted all over the garden in front of the small building where the director of Zhanzhou lives. But what does it mean that Lin Cai took out just one of these?
I know how the foxtail grass ended up on Lin Cai; she picked one when she went to the director's small building earlier in the story. But I don't understand anything else.
Lin Cai left very quickly, almost without stopping.
After leaving the main control tower and finding the teleportation array again, she slowly stopped and took a breath.
Lin Cai lowered her head and opened her hands. Her palms were covered in sweat.
She rubbed it against her trouser leg twice.
He then nestled into a shady spot, sat down, and took out the envelope that Yinshuang had just given him from his pocket.
The envelope was made of simple, dark leather paper, and inside was an invitation. The invitation itself was made of thick paper with subtle silver patterns printed along the edges.
The handwriting on the invitation was standard printed text, even slightly crooked.
To the inviter,
You have been granted permission to visit the Floating City.
This letter grants entry into the outer city of this city.
Floating City - Capital Lord's Mansion
"It's actually true." Lin Cai murmured to herself, "The foxtail grass planted at the entrance of the director's building becomes the principal's token after it blooms."
"And the rumors that Bai Du mentioned were actually true."
She put the invitation back into the envelope, then put the envelope away and took out her phone.
My phone was on silent, but I could see 99+ new messages from a contact named "Little Orange" in the notification bar.
[Bai Du: The principal's business is truly extensive. The clan chief said she was involved in this dispute at Novano Port.]
[Bai Du: Because the principal has a hunting ground near Novano Port. She hired a mercenary to run the hunting ground for her, using admission tickets to the Floating City as payment.]
[Bai Du: If you want an admission ticket to the Floating City, you might want to give it a try.]
[Bai Du: But I only overheard it when I passed by the clan's council hall that day]
[Bai Du: No, Lin Cai, you didn't actually go there right after receiving the news, did you?]
[Bai Du: Lin Cai? Lin Cai?]
...
[Bai Du: Lin Cai, are you still alive?]
[Lin Cai: 1]
Upon seeing Lin Cai's reply, Bai Du immediately sent a long message, and a string of green lines quickly flashed across the screen.
Lin Cai didn't reply again, but turned off the psychic message and started aimlessly browsing the news.
[Okay, the old scoundrel finally had a change of heart and realized he shouldn't be a riddle teller anymore.]
So Lin Cai didn't put a tracking device on Director Yan. Otherwise, I was wondering why Lin Cai was always there whenever my wife was around. :)
Is this the incredible speed and agility of a comic book protagonist? It's terrifying!
Therefore, for the current main storyline dungeon, Lin Cai still wants to go to the Floating City. This finally aligns with the previous plot.
[This news on Lin Cai's phone, the one you might like, is quite interesting. It's all about Director Yan, it's hilarious!]
The comic book camera still follows Lin Cai's main perspective.
Since Lin Cai had achieved her goal, she was just sitting there scrolling through her phone, so the comic's camera focused on her phone screen.
Scrolling down the news feed, the headlines are all "Latest Developments at the Bureau of Foreign Affairs".
Looking at the accompanying picture, Yanju is seen having a meeting with a cold expression.
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