The Executive Office colleagues arrived in a lively bustle and left amid laughter and chatter.
That was one way to put it, anyway.
In any case, Ronan, wearing the title of "Queen Ant," felt that everyone who looked his way was smiling.
The well-traveled "Queen Ant"—well, Ronan—kept smiling too, though from time to time, he glanced toward his immediate superior.
Three or five looks would have been nothing, but after enough of them, Field Officer Yun Bo began to feel rather uneasy.
In the end, six people remained in the laboratory.
Besides Yun Bo, Ronan, and the two transferred personnel, Meng Xin and Cha Ku, the remaining two were members of the Executive Office's logistics team.
One was the refined and quiet Shi Fan; the other was Uncle Ye Guo, whose hair and beard were both a complete mess.
One was a maintenance technician, the other a professional medical officer—coincidentally, the two military professions Ronan had encountered most often in the Han Guang Star System.
Going by stereotypes alone, Ronan would naturally have assumed that the man was the technician and the woman the medical officer.
But in fact, Shi Fan was the master technician responsible for maintaining, repairing, and even manufacturing equipment for the Executive Office.
Meanwhile, the Executive Office's "nanny," professional medical officer, and Fire Seed caretaker was Uncle Ye Guo, with his unruly hair and beard.
At the same time, the two of them were probably the busiest people in the Executive Office.
From what Ronan had learned over the past few days, the Front Committee First Bureau Executive Office was not a standing institution. Rather, after Chun Great Lord arrived at the Asteroid Battlefield, it had been assembled as a temporary unit based on actual circumstances, drawing elite personnel from all branches, including certain special individuals.