"Sir is really amazing. Hao Yi Gege, you didn't see that scene—wow... it really was like the 'angels' I saw in Echoes of the Past Ruins. For a moment, I wondered whether he really was an angel."
The girl's slender, fair fingers tapped rapidly across her phone screen. "Or does martial arts become like this once you reach the later stages? Will I be able to do this someday too?"
After looking at the message she had sent, Lin Chichi placed her phone face-down on her lap and watched the streets speed past outside the car window.
At that moment, she was on her way to World Tree Ika Headquarters.
Her original assignment had been to investigate the three-party co-governance situation in Rodan.
However, after the Blood Sun incident, she had been seriously injured. Wu Lan made the decision to give her a month off, so the assignment was temporarily put on hold.
Then came the matter of He Ao participating in World Tree's reforms as a special consultant. Something so important could not go entirely without publicity, but the Research Institute's publicity department happened to be short on staff already stationed in Ika.
She saw the notice in the work group and volunteered for the assignment. Wu Lan could not resist her enthusiasm and agreed.
However, Wu Lan had not placed every burden on her shoulders. She merely told her to move about freely, focus on recovering, and appropriately gather information about the lingering aftermath of the Blood Sun incident. The Research Institute's publicity department would send more people later.
So in truth, she was still half on vacation.
But because of this external publicity assignment, she had obtained authority to freely enter and leave World Tree Ika Headquarters and contact Research Institute personnel in Ika.
She was now