Chapter 141 Leonard's Doubts
After watching Klein enter the clerical office nearby, Angel also returned to the reception hall.
Luo Shan had just finished boiling water and was making coffee. Seeing Angel sitting on the sofa, she walked over with two cups of coffee and sat down next to her with a smile.
"Angel, you and Klein just went to the captain's office. What happened?"
Luo Shan handed over a cup of coffee as a bribe, her eyes burning with the soul of gossip, and asked in a deliberately low voice.
"If it involves secrets that I cannot touch, then you don't have to tell me."
She hastened to add.
Angel thought about it and decided that the special application was not really a secret. Once the examiners arrived, it would definitely be known to the entire Tingen team. The promotion of the two could not be hidden from these civilian staff, so he did not hide it.
"What? Klein took the potion and became a Beyonder only after joining the Nighthawks, right? How come he's been promoted in less than two months? And even you..."
As Angel expected, Roxanne was so surprised when she heard the news that she almost dropped her coffee.
"He's developed a method to quickly master the power of potions, which he learned from Ms. Daly." After taking the coffee cup from the flustered Roshan and placing it on the coffee table, Angel continued, "I became a Beyonder a little earlier than him, and now it's time for me to advance."
"Even so, it's too fast..."
Roxanne accepted Angel's words, but was still a little shocked.
"You have to know that Old Neil has been a Beyonder, a Sequence 9 'Secret Peer' for so many years, but he hasn't been promoted. And Frye and the others... Only Leonard seems to have some insights of his own, better than the others..."
She muttered to herself, and at the end, she suddenly realized that her words were a bit impolite to the other team members, and swallowed the last few words back into her stomach.
Angel was just about to lay the groundwork for the purpose of "acting" so that he could reveal it to others later. Seeing that Roxanne was so "cooperative", he continued:
"They might be lacking some crucial insights, or what we might call 'epiphanies'. Once we submit our special report, we can talk to others about it. Perhaps it will be helpful to them."
"Of course!" Luo Shan said excitedly, "It hasn't been long since Koenli became a Beyonder. Perhaps he can advance as quickly as you. It's a pity that Old Neil... He's about to retire, and his health has been a little poor recently..."
At the end of her words, she sighed.
When a Beyonder takes a potion to advance, it's not just about digestion; it also requires high physical and mental stability. Once you reach a certain age, even if you know how to act and can fully digest the potion, you shouldn't risk advancing...
Angel also silently felt sorry for old Neil, but she quickly recovered her mood and discussed the news in the newspaper and the rumors on the streets with Roxanne.
"Have you heard? Harry, the former deputy mayor who replaced the resigned mayor Dennis, has stepped down due to a bribery scandal. He was originally in an acting position. Now Tingen City is completely left without a leader..."
Luo Shan talked about the news in the Tingen Daily a few days ago. The report said that due to the impact of this incident, the Tingen mayoral election originally scheduled for next year will be brought forward to October this year, and the acting mayor Harry will no longer be able to run for election due to this scandal, causing many hopeless candidates to begin to move.
Recently, there have been a lot of customized news about candidates for the GG election in newspapers, which have taken up a lot of space for normal news.
For example, the one Roshan was reading:
Councilman Maynard, the New Party's biggest supporter in Tingen, has announced his candidacy for mayor in October. He spearheaded the renovation of the Moon Street park in the North District and will deliver a speech upon its completion.
"They say it's a renovation, but the original park was already nice, and now they've turned it into a place full of mud and gravel. When it rains, sewage flows everywhere, and you get covered in mud just walking by."
Putting down the Tingen City Honest Man's Newspaper, Luo Shan complained with a pout.
"Indeed, the section between Red Moon Street and Zouteland Street has been almost unwalkable in the past two weeks. I haven't been there for a long time, and even my visits to St. Selina Church have decreased."
Angel heard Leonard's somewhat frivolous words from behind. The "Midnight Poet" had just finished his night shift at Chanis Gate, but he had not yet gone home to rest. Instead, he came to the reception hall at some point and interrupted the two ladies' conversation.
"Then you are a true believer."
Angel commented bluntly that the Night Watchmen could have taken the underground passage to go to the church, but he gave up because the street park was being renovated and the road was difficult to walk on?
"The goddess bears witness to my piety, which is not determined by the number of prayers, but by actual actions."
Leonard shamelessly drew a crimson moon on his chest, then walked around the sofa to the other side of the coffee table, sat down and poured himself a cup of coffee.
"Hiss—where's Klein? I just heard you guys in the lounge." The "Midnight Poet" asked after drinking half a cup of coffee and breathing in with his mouth open due to the burn.
"I'm writing a special application. He and I are both preparing to advance to Sequence 8."
Angel replied.
"What... cough, cough cough..."
Leonard choked on his coffee, coughed violently a few times, and took a few deep breaths before calming down.
"It's digested so quickly..."
He blurted out, his emerald eyes then widened and he took back the second half of his words.
"Hmm, I've finished digesting it."
Angel smiled as she looked at the "Midnight Poet" who had let the cat out of the bag. The latter looked back at her with innocent expression.
I heard that this Nighthawk had been promoted to Sequence 8 just two years after becoming an "Unsleeping One," which was exactly the age limit that didn't require a special application. Furthermore, since he had been "frank" with himself and Klein, Angel once suspected that he was also familiar with "acting" and was just pretending to be promoted slowly to avoid suspicion from the church.
The fact that she intentionally or unintentionally said the word "digestion" at this moment made her confirm this.
As the two stared at each other in confusion, Klein walked out from behind the partition with two pages of applications. Seeing Leonard there, he nodded politely and greeted him, then handed over Angel's special application.
"See if it needs any revisions. If it's okay, I'll hand it over to the captain."
Angel took the application and quickly reviewed it. He found that Klein had already attributed his accidental discovery of the role-playing method to Ms. Daly's deeds, as they had previously agreed. The two then exchanged ideas and verified the effectiveness of the method. He had recently mastered the potion and was ready for promotion.
Well, it's well detailed and concise, without revealing anything that shouldn't be revealed, and it even has a bit of literary talent... It's much better than that "midnight poet" who only copied poems. But he might have copied them out of spite just for the sake of acting, so I can't blame him...
Criticizing Leonard inwardly, Angel handed the special application back to Klein.
"That's it. I'll go with you to the captain to submit the application."
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Looking at the backs of the two people, the smile on Leonard's face quickly faded. He stood up and walked to the window, avoiding Luo Shan's gaze, as if he was looking at the street scene in the distance.
"...Why are they all so eager to get promoted? Should I also..."
He murmured something, his ears moving as if he was listening.
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