Chapter 148 Sequelae
"Sit down, what can I do for you?"
Tian Sheng's arrival did not cause any further reaction from the man. He did not even show any courtesy. He just left a shallow crease on the document in his hand, then raised his head and asked Tian Sheng calmly.
This behavior is quite different from the "leadership" that Katsushita had in mind.
In the welfare home, even someone like Director Liu Wenqin, who is relatively indifferent to red tape, always has to show basic friendliness and concern in front of his employees.
The middle-aged man in front of him seemed quite indifferent, even... dissatisfied? This dissatisfaction was not directed at Tian Sheng, but seemed to be dissatisfied with his own position.
"Hello, Chief. I am Tian Sheng from the third squad of the Special Operations Department. This is our squad's combat record for this month..."
Tian Sheng scratched his head subconsciously and handed over the document in his hand. He tried his best to make sure there were no mistakes in his words, so as not to be criticized by the new director who seemed to be in a bad mood.
The middle-aged man took the report and flipped through it. He looked through the contents of the report expressionlessly, and after about a minute, he closed the report and asked, "Did you only capture ordinary magi during this week's crackdown? No beastmen?"
Beastmen is the official name given by the Bureau of Strategy to people who use the organs of animals to transform themselves. Tian Sheng naturally knows that there are such people.
So he immediately replied: "Yes, we have cleared out several small gathering places, but we have not encountered any beastmen so far."
"This is not normal." The middle-aged man tapped the table.
"Yes."
The other party did not show any emotion, but there was an inexplicable pressure in his words, which made Tian Sheng swallow his saliva subconsciously: "You are right, our captain thinks so too."
Under pressure, he decisively betrayed Li Yingwei.
"It's not just your team. The report I saw today is that none of your teams have encountered a beastman so far."
The middle-aged man behind the desk repeated, "This is definitely not an ordinary coincidence."
Maybe it was because the mastermind was killed, and the rest of the people were leaderless. Tian Sheng thought so in his heart. But he didn't dare to say it out loud. He didn't want to be criticized for expressing an immature opinion at this time.
"Tian Sheng."
However, his silence did not mean that the new director would remain silent: "You have just joined the Strategy Bureau recently, are you a newcomer?"
“Ah… yes.”
Tian Sheng stammered, "To be exact, I only started working last week, because when I first came to the bureau, I happened to be attacked by a group of beasts..."
"There are ten people recruited at the same time as you. Your magic power level is the lowest in the test."
The new director asked expressionlessly, "But your performance in the combat record is the most outstanding, and even comparable to other team members who have reached the master level. Is there any reason for this?"
"Ah, this..." Tian Sheng didn't expect that he would be asked such a sharp question so soon.
He wanted to find an excuse, such as hiding his strength, to fool around, but his intuition told him that the answer here was very important. If he fooled around, there would probably be a result he didn't want to see.
So he hesitated for a while and told the truth about his situation.
From joining the Strange Strategies Bureau to encountering the beast attack, from the strange moths in the dream to the abnormal physical condition afterwards, he told the other party clearly without missing a single thing.
Of course, this also includes the magical girl who was controlling the blue threads that he saw in a quick glance.
After saying all this, he saw that the new director had a slightly strange expression on his face, but this strange expression only flashed by for a moment. It was as if it was all his illusion, and only the expressionless face remained.
"You mean, you dreamed that you turned into a moth?"
Pulling out a stack of personnel files from the drawer, the new director unabashedly picked out the page belonging to Tian Sheng and began to browse through it in front of him: "After that dream, you woke up and found that your magic power had improved by leaps and bounds."
"Yes." Tian Sheng nodded.
"It sounds like a made-up story." The new director said as he read his file. "But if I were you, I would definitely not make up such a lame excuse in front of my superiors, so it actually has some credibility."
Tian Sheng could only remain silent in awkward silence.
"Your previous work experience... Fangting City First Social Welfare Institute?"
After roughly scanning Tian Sheng's personnel file, the new director behind the desk raised his eyebrows slightly and asked: "Where have you worked as a caregiver?"
"Yes, that's right."
"So according to the time, you should have experienced the terrorist attack of Black Dawn four months ago?"
"Four months ago...ah, yes."
"Did you encounter anything during the attack?" The new director put down the documents in his hand, pointed his finger at the table and looked at him.
"The terrorist attack on the welfare home..."
Tian Sheng frowned and thought for a while, but could only shake his head helplessly: "Sorry, Director, I don't know why, I can't remember what happened at that time."
"Can't remember?" The new director raised his eyebrows. "Are you sure?"
"I'm sure, because I have been troubled by this matter for a long time. I always feel like I have forgotten some unusual experience." Tian Sheng nodded.
His answer obviously puzzled the new director, but surprisingly, he did not question him too much. Instead, he asked some indirect questions about his file.
The two people asked and answered each other in this way. The new director kept asking new questions and seemed to be thinking about something; Tian Sheng honestly searched the only information in his brain and gave the answers one by one.
As the questions continued, Tian Sheng was somewhat surprised to find that the course of events seemed to become clearer as he gave each answer, and even some of his remaining memories became clearer.
If this continued, perhaps the new director in front of him could really replay the incident. However, this question-and-answer session did not last until the end.
While Tian Sheng was still thinking and digging out more memories, the new director, who had been listing the questions slowly and rigorously before, suddenly stopped.
As if there was some unexpected incident, and it was accompanied by great difficulties, the other party frowned, and even showed a hint of difficulty. After a short silence, the new director spoke again, but it was no longer the same interrogation as before:
"Excuse me, I need to take a call."
"Ah... yes." Although he didn't hear the phone ringing, Tian Sheng nodded without doubt. In his opinion, whether he set the phone to vibrate weakly or used a wireless built-in headset, it would prevent other people from hearing the ringing.
He didn't have any sense of shyness. After all, in his impression, it was very common for a leader to suddenly answer his phone when he was talking to him, so he just had to wait for him to finish communicating. So he just stood there, intending to wait until the call was over.
However, the new director did not take out his cell phone or make any calls.
He seemed to be waiting for Tian Sheng to leave, but seeing Tian Sheng still standing there, he couldn't help but look at him twice and waved to him: "You go back first, we'll talk about your matter next time."
Is this the end? Tian Sheng just felt it was a little sudden.
Because of the progress and attitude just now, he thought that this question and answer session would continue for at least ten minutes. But now, the conversation between the two people was obviously not over yet, and the question had no result, but the other party decisively ordered them to leave.
Is there any phone call that is so confidential?
This question arose in his mind, but before Tian Sheng could think about it carefully, he suddenly felt something pulling his body.
Before he could take a step to leave, at that moment, he felt as if he had turned into a puppet, suddenly flying backwards driven by some force.
The swing door behind him also opened automatically without any wind, and opened on time the moment Tian Sheng flew to the door. Everything was carried out like a precision instrument, and then Tian Sheng was thrown out of the house.
After being taken out of the door by an unknown force, Tian Sheng staggered for several steps before he could barely stand still. He subconsciously looked towards the door in front of him, but he could only see the swing door gradually closing and the azure flash that seemed like an illusion in the gap between the doors.
Bang! The door of the director's office closed in front of him.
Tian Sheng was left standing at the door in a daze, and in the end he still couldn't figure out what had happened.
After waiting for half a minute, he realized that he should leave. However, he did not hear any phone calls from the director's office until he left. He could only walk into the elevator deep in the corridor with full of doubts.
And in the director's office that he had never seen, at this moment, a petite blue-haired girl in a navy blue dress was sitting behind the desk, frowning and holding her forehead.
"This is terrible..."
Delphinium couldn't help but mutter this.
There is no doubt that the new director of Fangting City's Special Policy Bureau is Lin Yun, and it was he who was interrogating Tian Sheng just now.
The reason why she suddenly kicked Tian Sheng out of the office in the middle of the conversation and inexplicably turned into a magical girl in the office was not Lin Yun's original intention.
It's not that he wants to transform, but because this transformation is beyond his control.
This was one of the sequelae of Delphinium overusing the power of the magic suit in the battle two weeks ago, paying the price and causing the magic suit to be damaged and the scissor form to be completely shattered.
This sequelae can be serious or minor, and the impact on her is actually far less serious than the decline in strength. If she is still in the state of resignation before, and most of the time she is active as Delphinium, this is not even a sequelae.
But now, as the director of the Strategy Bureau, this sequelae has become a huge problem for her - her heart gem occasionally goes out of control, causing her to uncontrollably transform from Lin Yun to Delphinium.
In the first few days after the war, this sequelae was particularly obvious: almost every few hours, this change would occur uncontrollably. In that state, Lin Yun naturally could not immediately take up his post at the Strategy Bureau, and could only recuperate while waiting.
The only thing to be thankful for is that this uncontrolled change is one-way, and there has been no sudden change from Delphinium to Lin Yun. Otherwise, she would not dare to go to the secret base more often, for fear of causing a big change in front of her daughter.
After two weeks of buffering and recuperation, Tang Han's frequency of transformation gradually stabilized a lot - about once a day. This absurd sequelae seemed to be stable in this state. Even if there might be subsequent changes, Lin Yun didn't have time to wait any longer.
He still had too many things to do and couldn't let this hold him back. So, after his injuries had healed a little and the sequelae had eased a little, he stopped recuperating and took up his post as the director of the Strategy Bureau.
Now is his first day in office.
In order to prevent someone from breaking in unexpectedly, Lin Yun also left a magic thread of delphinium at the door to monitor the situation at the door. However, he did not expect that the accident would come so quickly, and such a misunderstanding would happen before he even met with a few employees.
If he hadn't reacted quickly enough and found an excuse and sent the other person out in time, his identity would have been exposed on the first day of his appointment. That's why, after she finally managed to get over the matter, she blurted out the conclusion "It's terrible".
However, no matter how much of a misunderstanding it was, the work still had to go on. As the newly appointed director, Lin Yun still had a lot of things to do.
He blocked the office door with a spell and waited for a while. After the fluctuation of magic power subsided, he canceled the transformation, let out a long sigh, and picked up the documents on the table again.
The pile of documents on the table were all ones he had read.
After spending a morning studying various archival reports from the past two weeks, Lin Yun had a preliminary understanding of the current state of the Strategy Bureau.
——In a nutshell: a headless fly.
Although Moss is an undercover agent and a traitor, as well as an out-and-out thug and villain, she is ultimately the director of Fangting City's Special Strategy Bureau. In order to keep the appearance of normal operation of the Special Strategy Bureau, she has put in a lot of superficial work on a daily basis.
With her defeat, the Fangting City Strategy Bureau, without its director, was equivalent to losing its helmsman. Even the superficial efforts no longer existed, and it immediately fell into a state of chaos with no leader.
In addition, the previous attack caused a certain amount of casualties; the surviving employees were also a mixed bag; even the office building was rebuilt not long ago. Today, the Fangting City Strategy Bureau is in a mess.
It was under such circumstances that Lin Yun came. He accepted the proposal of Golden Green Cat's Eye and took over the position of director of the Strategy Bureau.
The reason is simple. After what happened with Moss, it is really hard for him to trust other parachuted personnel to be the director of the Special Policy Bureau in a short period of time.
This position was originally more suitable for Hong Siyu, but Hong Siyu did suffer a lot of sequelae from the previous incident and is now receiving treatment and recuperation.
In desperation, Lin Yun chose to take this job on himself.
And now, it was time for him to make his debut in front of the employees of the Strategy Bureau and give a speech at the meeting.
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(End of this chapter)
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