The State of Shen City's Management

Shisui is using [Spirit Dream Recall] to view the memories of all government civilian employees in Shen City.

Upon closer inspection, he discovered quite a few interesting things.

Before going into detail about the intelligence obtained from those people's minds, we need to first talk about the composition of the population in Shen City.

As one of the cities directly under the Human Race high command, Shen City's government is directly under the command of the Human Race's Upper House.

However, Shen City is located in the Jade Swallow Continent, far from the capital, which inevitably leads to situations where its influence is limited.

Meanwhile, the Jade Swallow Continent garrison, which also obeyed the Upper House, became their de facto controllers.

The Shen City municipal government naturally also had its grievances.

At least nominally everyone is directly subordinate to the higher-ups and on the same level, but suddenly they are treated as inferiors and have to act as lackeys.

How could people not have complaints?

Despite their displeasure, they still had to outwardly obey.

Might makes right; this is a truth tacitly agreed upon by the entire Ruolan Star.

When it comes to fists, things get interesting.

There are also local forces in Shen City, or rather, in the Jade Swallow Continent.

Their fists are quite large too.

Otherwise, during the war a hundred years ago, when the Human Race had no time to attend to the Jade Swallow Continent, this branch of the Human Race would have been wiped out.

These local strongmen are the sects and factions that have been entrenched here for over a century.

Coincidentally, these sects lack the official certification that grants them immunity from punishment.

The two sides hit it off immediately and got involved together.

Therefore, the seaport, which should have been fully requisitioned, was only closed at night to fully transport military supplies.

Because the chambers of commerce, the government, and various factions have invested in this area.

Shisui flipped through the mayor's memories, engrossed in reading about their money-power transactions.

He was a little curious whether the Human Race Upper House truly didn't know, or whether they were turning a blind eye.

After all, all he sees right now is the unified examination.

More than half of the carefully selected students in Shen City did not register for the unified entrance examination, nor did they go through special recruitment to higher-level directly affiliated universities.

Instead, they joined various sects.

Furthermore, many sects are also members of the All-School Alliance that organizes the unified examination.

In other words, they can recruit another batch of students after the unified exam.

Given this, Shisui felt it wouldn't be surprising if they rebelled at any time.

Shisui truly refused to believe that the Human Race high command would leave no spies behind.

Then, his Psychic Energy surged, and he carefully reviewed the memories of a group of people in higher positions once more.

Hmm, we actually found some clues about him.

"Bound Captive?"

As he looked at the familiar chain with its gold thread pattern among the group of high-ranking informants, a murderous glint flashed in his Shisui eyes.

He remembered that he had been severely injured by a Human Race while he was in the Shengtian Library.

The other person also had a similar chain around their waist.

Then I remembered that the Human Race Heaven Realm I had seen from afar in Qiongfang City was also bound by these Golden Silk Chains.

To be able to control the Heaven Realm, the other party must be someone who, like the Dragon King, resides in the Heaven Realm.

This is not a match he can defeat at this stage; he knows his own limitations.

Thinking about this, he suddenly realized why the Earth Realm Bound Captive had been taken away by the Sea Race hadn't made a sound at all.

If even the slightest news were to surface, he wouldn't be so distracted by other things that he would completely forget about this matter.

Having made up his mind to use a puppet Crown Prince to search for information, Shisui, having obtained enough intelligence, jumped into the government building.

He skillfully used those memories to find the useful confidential documents in the database.

This includes information such as the location of military bases, the type of conventional weapons they possess, the general composition of their personnel, and the distribution of factions and forces.

After doing all this, he left.

This Shisui, for the first time ever, Zi Sui did not kill anyone.

Because he knew that someone was watching the government building.

His fog could silently take control of the City Hall for a short time, but that didn't mean that killing everyone there wouldn't alert the enemy.

He wouldn't do a losing business like disturbing a whole host of prey from the Earth Realm and Heaven Realms just for a few Yellow Realm creatures.

"We need to rethink our plans."

Simply exacerbating the conflict between merchants and the military is no longer enough.

He needs to drag all the forces and people in Shen City into this mess, and then throw them into chaos.

In this way, he can obtain both the Chain Bombs hidden by the Human Race and a large amount of Flesh Crystals.

However, before that, he still needs to control the puppet Crown Prince to find the captured Bound Captive.

He needs to learn something about the person behind the scenes.

The sun rose fully, dispelling the morning mist.

He casually scattered a few Radiant Feathers and Shisui left the vicinity of the City Hall.

No one discovered that the City Hall had ever been controlled by Ghouls.

Zhang Tao sat at his desk, vaguely regaining consciousness.

He held the files, which he had sorted out countless times, somewhat dazed.

When did I fall asleep?

He had a slight headache, so he raised his hand and rubbed his temples.

I realized that I've been too busy lately and my body isn't taking it anymore. I need to get a checkup when I have time.

He glanced at his colleague beside him and saw that the other person was also rubbing his head, so he asked with concern.

"You have a headache too?"

Zhang Tao's words surprised his colleague sitting at the next workstation.

What? You too?

Zhang Tao nodded, his eyes still slightly misty.

"Yeah, I don't know how I fell asleep just now."

The colleague yawned, and his headache worsened.

"Me too, our department has been incredibly busy lately."

"You're starting to feel the strain; if this continues, I think I'll develop health problems."

"Sigh, this month's work is equivalent to a whole quarter's worth of work before. When will this ever end?"

After listening, Zhang Tao belatedly realized what had happened.

Although my colleague is quite capable at work, his cultivation aptitude is very poor, and his cultivation level is even lower than mine.

"I heard the fighting is still going on in the Moonfall Continent, so our Maritime Transport Bureau will probably be quite busy."

"If you really can't handle it, just talk to the person above and they'll reduce your workload for a short time and give you some breathing room."

As for taking leave, that's impossible; otherwise, the files will just keep piling up.

Unless you quit, you won't have to do any less of what you're supposed to do.

That colleague was clearly aware of this as well, and shook his head somewhat helplessly.

"Ugh, never mind, I wasted a lot of time sleeping just now, I'm getting back to work."

"Okay, I'll go get busy then."

After the chat ended, Zhang Tao glanced at the clock on the corner of the table; it was a little past 7:30. He had just slept for about half an hour.

In order to leave work on time today, he stopped slacking off and started reviewing documents.

The pain in his head slowly subsided, but he didn't know that a Radiant Feathers had quietly begun to lie dormant in his mind.