Legend

"Lu PingAn, you still remembered to come to the meeting."

In the small conference room, Wang Xi'er's resentful voice drew a round of soft laughter.

Though she had deliberately lowered her voice, nearly everyone present was a mid- or high-level Professional. Lowering her voice like that was little more than self-deception.

But the next moment, when Wang Xi'er's resentful gaze swept across the room, everything immediately fell silent.

Lu PingAn looked up from his book and nearly thought he was seeing Xue En!

". . . Haven't you been sleeping well lately?" Lu PingAn put down his book, wondering if he was looking at a panda zombie.

The heavy dark circles, pale complexion, and lifeless, corpse-like eyes all made it seem as though she might collapse dead at any moment—or perhaps she was already one of the walking dead.

"Of course I haven't been sleeping well! I only got two hours of sleep yesterday. There are too many things to do! Colonel Qian has been busy outside, so at least he has an excuse. But you've been hiding and refusing to see anyone, so everything in the camp has fallen to me—dividing up the camp, communicating with the Red Star People officials, arranging the logistics for hunting down the Aus, developing the local area, settling internal disputes..."

"Tch, that sounds troublesome. Don't go on." Lu PingAn's single sentence nearly turned the room bloody.

The better someone knew Lu PingAn, the more they might trust him—and the more clearly they understood that, much of the time, he genuinely had no intention of acting like a human being.

The sort who would work people to death as long as they did not actually die?

"Ahem, I've actually been pretty busy too. Really busy."

Perhaps because the gaze opposite him was far too