Ugly Slave arrived in the USA with his disciples.
Word had reached the people there before his arrival.
Ugly Slave had an important job to do, a very important one. Namely... to thoroughly investigate every Elder Council member in the USA for possible Sky Net moles.
Po Zhenzi and Lin Jiangxian had never thought much of Ugly Slave.
In their eyes—no, in the eyes of most, practically all the Elder Council's senior elders—Ugly Slave was a strange fellow.
He was hideously ugly, spoke with a peculiar, insinuating tone, acted in unfathomable ways, and made decisions however he pleased... In any group, someone like that was the most detested member, but also one everyone deeply feared.
Moreover, the dean before the Old Dean had particularly appreciated him. He had consulted him on matters great and small, treated him with considerable respect, and even indulged him excessively. Though the Old Dean had not been as close to him as his predecessor, he had still granted him extraordinary freedom and shown him tremendous tolerance.
Whatever unconventional things he did, whatever actions nobody understood, the Old Dean had turned a blind eye. He had never punished him, never even offered a word of criticism. In fact, every time they met, he had been all smiles, almost bowing to him in a show of goodwill.
Song Sheng Chaoying had inherited the Old Dean's approach, extending the same indulgence and protection to Ugly Slave. If anything, he trusted him even more than the Old Dean had. Entrusting him personally with such an important assignment this time showed just how highly the Dean valued and trusted him.
But!
Once this affair came to light, the first person most people suspected of being a major Sky Net mole was Ugly Slave.
He looked far too much like a