Who Said I Was an Ordinary Person?

"You want to obtain my investment."

"But."

"You're just an ordinary person. What makes you so certain I'll direct resources toward you?"

Zhang Ziliang looked at Wang Ye. His originally icy expression suddenly melted like spring rain, and a smile appeared once more.

The somewhat tense atmosphere in the office instantly vanished, as though nothing had happened.

Wang Ye looked at Zhang Ziliang and smiled.

"Who said."

"I was an ordinary person?"

As he spoke, Wang Ye's hands and arms instantly turned bright red.

Vein-like patterns surfaced across his arms. Then, he aimed his hand at Yang Chen by the door.

"Let's try my second ability."

Wang Ye murmured to himself. His first ability had already been tested today; it could suppress ghosts in an instant.

As for the second—

A massive pulling force struck. Yang Chen felt as though an enormous force had grabbed him in an instant and hurled him toward Wang Ye's hand.

At some point, Wang Ye had stood up. He was gripping Yang Chen by the throat as though holding a chicken, while the green light around Yang Chen's hand had vanished without anyone noticing.

Attraction. Suppression.

When used together, these two abilities seemed to produce an unexpected effect.

Wang Ye nodded in satisfaction.

"Director, are you satisfied with my strength?"

As Wang Ye spoke, he set Yang Chen down and smiled faintly at Zhang Ziliang.

From beginning to end, he had not looked at Yang Chen even once.

It was as though Yang Chen were merely a prop meant to help him display his abilities at a critical moment.

Zhang Ziliang frowned slightly and gave Wang Ye a long, searching look. After a while, he finally smiled. "No problem. I hope you'll always be the finest employee of our Logistics Department."

"Of course."

Wang Ye and Zhang Ziliang shook hands like two old foxes, looking at each other with smiles.

As for Yang Chen beside them, he might as well have been invisible.

The two stood before the huge floor-to-ceiling window, overlooking the entire city.

"Can those people in the Logistics Department really be relied on to earn merit and survive?"

After reaching an agreement, Wang Ye finally voiced the doubt in his heart.

After all, for quite some time to come, he would belong to the Logistics Department.

That meant those people were already tied to his plans.

Zhang Ziliang smiled and shook his head. "They're all people with connections. Anyone who doesn't want to die will resign."

"Besides, who said everyone in our Logistics Department was ordinary?"

Imitating Wang Ye's tone from earlier, Zhang Ziliang turned around, looked at Wang Ye, and smiled faintly.

"..."

What a grudge-holding bastard.

Wang Ye silently mocked him in his heart, but he relaxed.

Sure enough, Zhang Ziliang had some confidence behind his actions.

If Zhang Ziliang truly believed he could claim credit in Supernatural Incidents with that bunch of misfits outside, Wang Ye would have had to consider finding another partner.

The two talked for a long time before Zhang Ziliang warmly saw Wang Ye off.

After returning to his office, Zhang Ziliang's smile gradually faded. He sat on the sofa, his face thoughtful.

"Yang Chen, what do you think of Wang Ye's strength?"

Zhang Ziliang lightly tapped the solid-wood armrest of the sofa with his fingers. After a long while, he looked at Yang Chen and asked.

Recalling what had just happened, Yang Chen swallowed nervously. "Very strong."

"At the very least, I think that if he'd wanted to kill me just now, I wouldn't have had the strength to resist."

Yang Chen said indignantly, "But I just wasn't familiar with his power. If I'd been given time to prepare, I... I... I definitely could have held out for a while!"

"..."

Zhang Ziliang directly ignored the latter half of Yang Chen's statement and fell into thought again.

After a long while—

"Promote Wang Ye to Team 2 Leader. Just make it a nominal position."

"Then."

"Send him a set of the Logistics Department's latest equipment."

Zhang Ziliang said calmly, "This time, we found a treasure."

"But where exactly did this guy come from? The test results clearly showed that there was no energy in his body and that he couldn't awaken."

"Forget it. Don't report this for now. If those lunatics in the lab find out, he might get dissected. That would be a real shame."

After giving all the instructions, Zhang Ziliang seemed somewhat tired. He closed his eyes and rested.

Matching wits with that little fox had been rather draining.

Yang Chen gritted his teeth, seemingly wanting to prove that he was no worse than Wang Ye. But when he thought of the terrifying gap in their strength, he ultimately said nothing and turned to leave.

"Just wait until I awaken a second body part!"

Yang Chen's indignant voice reached Zhang Ziliang's ears.

After a long while, Zhang Ziliang opened his eyes, deep in thought. "Though he's still somewhat inferior to those top-tier monsters, but..."

"He should be enough."

The office fell silent once more.

After returning home, Wang Ye poured himself a glass of water, sat on the sofa, and pondered.

His plan had now taken its first step. It was a good start.

Only—

Wang Ye looked at his hands.

After awakening his superhuman ability, Wang Ye could clearly feel that his hands seemed somewhat out of sync with the rest of his body.

As though—

His hands were conveying something to the rest of his body.

Contempt?

And today, he had briefly used his ability twice. After each use, his body had become weak to a certain extent.

His body's functions and physical condition were probably unable to keep up with the state of his hands.

If this continued, the imbalance, along with his hands excessively drawing energy from his other body parts, would cause those other parts to gradually rot away.

Only after awakening a second body part, allowing the energy in the two locations to complement each other and reach a stable balance, could he extend his survival time.

Until every part of his body had fully awakened.

By then, living for several centuries probably wouldn't be a problem.

But every awakening came with intense pain, and if the two energies conflicted—

His body would explode.

Most superhumans died on the path of awakening, and the more body parts they awakened, the more dangerous it became.

This was also why brain awakeners were widely acknowledged as the strongest.

Because when the brain awakened first, its gentle nature greatly reduced the risks of awakening other body parts, and it also granted powerful mental force.

"My awakening through the Post Office will greatly reduce the risks."

"I'm really looking forward to the Post Office's next mission."

Wang Ye murmured.

Over the next few days, Wang Ye rarely enjoyed such peace.

Other than the Logistics Department delivering some equipment, no one disturbed him again, including Zhou Han.

However, according to news Zhang Ziliang had sent, he had deployed most of the personnel into various Supernatural Incidents, causing the vast majority of employees who had been slacking off to resign.

But—

What also shocked everyone was that the Logistics Department actually had superhumans.

There were twelve of them in total, and several were quite strong.

For a time—

The upper ranks of the Heaven Group were thrown into turmoil. Everyone's attention turned toward the usually quiet Logistics Department director, who had always taken the blame.

Wang Ye did not care much about that. Instead, he pushed open the mysterious Wooden Door that had appeared in his living room.