Day 1 of Week 37, Year 1305 of the New Century.
Yuan Ju felt somewhat unsettled.
In his short life, he had never handled multiple real-world matters at once, much less made decisions independently. So when all sorts of things piled up before him at once, his brain nearly crashed.
In truth, neither the special task force's assignment nor Tai Yu's invitation placed any real pressure on him for the time being. He did not need to shoulder things alone or decide his own fate or anyone else's. He was mostly scaring himself.
Yuan Ju had reflected on himself, and his mind was indeed clear. Yet his body was still letting him down. He had taken a short nap, and when he woke, he felt groggy, as if he had had some nightmare that he could not remember at all.
That terrible state persisted until he met up with his Action Group companions.
The manhunt led by four Specialized Military Force Celestial experts had been completely effortless... mainly because they had not caught the real target.
That secret organization suspected to be the Initial Awakening Society had remained hidden in the Red Silicon Star System for years without leaving a trace. It certainly would not be caught so easily.
The first two Action Groups had acted on the Mist Cloak's search results and had indeed caught some members of illegal organizations. But they were all small fry. Whether they could be linked to the Initial Awakening Society still depended on further investigation.
Now it was the third group's turn.
Yuan Ju had been assigned to the third group. The Specialized Military Force member leading it was Field Officer Lu Yang. He did not know whether that was Tai Yu's "consideration" at work.
The acolyte priest accompanying him was Badar, a