Ronan's attitude was simply too nonchalant. Even though he had said it twice already, the attendees still needed extra time to process it.
The heart of the matter was undoubtedly "finding Second Phase Infected."
This had already been explained very clearly earlier.
Yet Ronan's attitude made it seem as though he was going to casually step right over it—over both the attendees' common sense and the brutal realities Yabolun, Bat Master, and Blood Demon had described.
Why should he be able to?
Some people had already begun flipping through the intelligence files, only to discover that Ronan did not seem to be bragging.
It had been on New Year's Eve last year, at that delicate juncture, that Xia City had indeed suffered a rather serious Aberration Infection incident. It seemed to have been a series of incidents, and over the month or two surrounding that point, Xia City had uncovered a batch of...
Well, calling it a batch was not quite appropriate. According to the intelligence, there had been tens of thousands of suspected Aberration Infected, the overwhelming majority of them in the Second Phase.
For various reasons, the incident had ultimately been handled quietly and had barely spread beyond a limited circle. That was why many Extraordinary Species accustomed to keeping themselves above mundane affairs had only just noticed it. Of course, some more attentive people tried to speak further with Ronan.
Maren, the vice president of the association, spoke up. "Professor Ronan, your line of thinking is...?"
Maren had phrased it tactfully, but he and Ronan lacked Tacit Understanding, so Ronan's understanding was slightly off. "Although I never finished high school, I know that many unresolved problems are not complicated. There simply aren't enough samples collected. So a universal census is certainly an effective way to solve the