The office door was pushed open, and a woman with a short ponytail, a fitted blazer, a hip-hugging skirt, and matte pantyhose entered He Ao's field of vision.
She was one of He Ao's main assistants at the Research Institute, Yan Yue, and specialized in administration and logistics.
After He Ao accepted World Tree's special appointment, he had also transferred her over.
"Director He,"
Holding a stack of documents, Yan Yue walked up to He Ao, handed them to him, and quickly said,
"The Special Envoys dispatched to various regions have already begun their work, but all of them have encountered varying degrees of obstruction from World Tree's local factions. These factions have been deeply entrenched for a long time, openly complying while secretly resisting. Progress has not been very smooth, and things are somewhat difficult."
As He Ao looked at the documents in Yan Yue's hand, certain memories surfaced in his mind.
After becoming World Tree's Special Advisor, he had sent out a number of his subordinates to carry out reforms in different regions.
The main purpose of these reforms was to weaken World Tree's fragmented local power structure, where orders from headquarters could not reach the local level.
Simply put, it was to curb the regional powers and centralize authority in World Tree headquarters.
These Special Envoys had gone down there to strip local factions of their power, so it was perfectly normal for those factions to resist.
"Have we started collecting information on the local factions oppressing ordinary people and committing crimes for profit?"
He Ao took the documents and asked casually.
"Based on the feedback from various regions, we already have preliminary results,"
Yan Yue said slowly. "These local factions are all local tyrants. World Tree can barely restrain them, and cases like this are practically