While the thing that put food on the table was sent back to the factory for a major overhaul, most of the team members were on leave or undergoing emergency training, and Lu PingAn, the "commander," also entered a rare period of leisure.
But because of his changed status, now that he had become a "figure," he had no choice but to take part in one political event after another.
After all, you could choose not to make connections, but it was best not to casually offend people. Someone in a key position only needed to make a few "safe operational adjustments" to keep project funding that should have reached you from arriving, have fire inspectors visit your shop three times a day, or make reinforcements arrive late at your most critical moment.
When you were not a "figure" but merely an "invisible nobody," you could slack off and lack ambition.
But by now, Lu PingAn had become an important figure no one could ignore. If he "refused to meet" people or failed to fit in, others would inevitably start overthinking things.
Of course, that was also because Lu PingAn had risen far too quickly. He had not established stable connections among the upper echelons—or rather, many people were now eager to establish connections with him.
And he himself seemed not to care much. That delighted the others.
Yes, delighted—not dissatisfied or disgusted.
Rule-level and Quasi Rule-level powerhouses were famously difficult to deal with. They had already vaguely slipped beyond the jurisdiction of worldly society and could only maintain the most basic respect toward ordinary people.
What frustrated people most was that they were usually busy with their own affairs and had no interest in "trivial matters." It was highly possible that they had already lost their "anchor of humanity"