Having a Second Child

"Don't worry, President Zhao. You've always taken such good care of me. I'll definitely follow your instructions."

The voice coming from the recording was unmistakably Wenren Sheng's clear, resolute voice. Anyone who heard it would be reassured.

The group immediately turned to look at Wenren Sheng.

Zhao Han let out a sigh of relief. Good, good. The focus had shifted quickly enough that no one had time to dwell on Otome Strategy.

Wu Shanshan wore a teasing expression. She blinked several times, her long lashes fluttering and giving her a seductive air.

She asked, "I'm very curious. When Zhao Xu first tried to activate an Otherworldly Seed, what kind of evaluation did you, our great expert, give him that caused him not only to fail the first time, but to fail every time afterward as well?"

Zhao Han's eyes widened too. She wanted to ask the same question.

"Why are you all looking at me?" Wenren Sheng spread his hands, looking innocent. "I've always told people that I'm an honest man, so I simply did what the recording said."

"So what exactly did you do?" Wu Shanshan pressed.

"I merely told the Expert Panel that the moment I saw Zhao Xu, I thought of Long Xiaoyun from Little Li Flying Dagger." Wenren Sheng seemed to sink into memory.

Of the three women, two were thoroughly confused. Only Xu Yunshuang patiently explained, "That's a famous Martial Arts novel from the last century. Long Xiaoyun was a child raised in excessive indulgence. Because of a twisted, misguided family, he became cruel by nature and regarded human lives as worthless."

"So every time after that, he was ruthlessly excluded during Otherworldly Seed activation, because no expert wanted to bear the consequences of raising a venomous snake," Zhao Han muttered.

Once again, she realized just how great Wenren Sheng's hidden influence was. One sentence from him had made the Expert Panel completely give up on Zhao Xu.

And his assessment had been entirely correct. It had already been proven by these twenty-odd cases.

Zhao Xu was completely twisted in personality. Unlike Liu Bo, who at least harmed others for his own benefit, Zhao Xu toyed with Ordinary People's fates purely for his own amusement, using their warped grudges, love, and hatred to conceal his own failures.

He was only an Ordinary Person now, yet he could already cause such tremendous harm. If he became an Otherworldly User, wouldn't he turn the world upside down? Even if Zhao Xu had successfully activated an Otherworldly Seed the first time, it would not have made him better. On the contrary, the extraordinary power would only have enabled him to commit greater evil.

Never expect to change someone's character. Anyone who harbored such expectations would regret it in the end.

"That's why it's better to be a kinder person," Wenren Sheng said earnestly. "After all, there are still many righteous Otherworldly Users like me protecting this world."

There was nothing worth seeing afterward, merely the hysterics of a defeated dog.

Clearly, after hearing the recording, clever Zhao Xu had realized that honest Wenren Sheng had truly followed his father's instructions and given him a faithful evaluation.

And Zhao Xu himself knew best what kind of person he was. He also understood that he could never hide it from Wenren Sheng, who lived nearby.

"What will happen to him?" Zhao Han could not help asking.

"After he trains until adulthood, he'll be assigned to the Punishment Camp. The real battles in the Mysterious Realm are quite brutal," Wenren Sheng said casually. Then he turned off the Video Recording and picked up his phone.

Zhao Han shivered faintly. Only then did she understand that her mysterious journey had only just begun.

She could not help worrying. "Uncle won't do anything to you because of this, will he, Teacher?"

"Don't worry. President Zhao is a reasonable man. I acted according to his instructions, so he definitely won't make things difficult for me," Wenren Sheng said confidently. "Of course, you must keep today's events confidential."

Zhao Han was dumbstruck. Though she was a little slow, she still felt that Wenren Sheng had an awfully big heart...

Still, she answered together with the other two women, "Yes, Teacher."

"Mm. That concludes the matter. Your bonuses for participating in the investigation will be paid in a week. The Patrol Division gained quite a lot this time." Wenren Sheng waved them out. "The Qualification Exam is coming soon, so work harder. I've told you before, I'm an honest man. If I become a judge, I won't show favoritism even if you're my students."

The three women looked at one another, nodded, and left one after another. The last one gently closed the door behind her.

Wenren Sheng leaned back on the sofa, closed his eyes, and began taking stock of his gains.

In his previous life, studying and overtime work had worn down his originally excellent 5.2 vision until he became severely nearsighted, with a prescription of six hundred degrees. Thus, in this life, he paid particular attention to protecting his eyesight. Combined with his Extraordinary Physique, his vision was exceptionally good.

Together with his Extraordinary Memory, it greatly enhanced his powers of observation, allowing him to easily notice many details. This was one of the main pillars of his ability to solve mysterious incidents.

The Angry Judge: Complete. No one can judge another. When you judge others, you too will be judged by others.

Mystery Points: 15.

Mysterious Components: Dual Otherworldly Seed owner, Twisted Home, father's love is like a mountain, incredible network technology.

You have completed a low-Mystery Points incident. Mystery Points limit increased by 1. Current limit: 106.

The gains were not bad. He had gained a total of six points to his limit during the entire incident. However, this incident had actually taken more than a month to develop.

By that standard, he could raise his Mystery Points limit by more than seventy in a year, but that obviously could not become the norm.

After all, new Otherworldly Seeds were uncommon. It often took several years for one to appear.

Just as he had said, the real gains lay with the Patrol Division. The network technology Liu Bo had used might be upgraded into a mysterious skill, since the Seed of Mystery had explicitly classified it as a "Mysterious Component."

As for where Liu Bo had obtained that technology, that was not something Wenren Sheng needed to worry about now. The Patrol Division would certainly investigate it to the end.

However, he had no time to covet that skill for the moment. Coding was exhausting, and Liu Bo's bald head was the best proof of that.

He put aside the gains from this episode and continued reviewing his fighting techniques in his mind.

South of Dongshui City, in a Cemetery Cluster on a small mountain, the setting sun slanted down as the summer breeze blew through dense pines and cypresses. The place was quiet and gloomy.

Before a relatively tidy gravestone stood a bouquet of pure white lilies. In front of the flowers stood a potbellied Middle-aged Man.

A photograph was affixed to the gravestone. It showed a beautiful woman with a bright smile, seemingly only in her twenties.

"Some people are dead, yet they still live; some people are alive, yet they are already dead."

After reciting the words softly, the Middle-aged Man sat down before the gravestone without caring about the dust he stirred up or how it dirtied his designer clothes.

"Xiao Ru, your son really is clever. He actually figured out that he wasn't my biological son. Though that isn't too surprising. Even with the disguise, I couldn't possibly keep watch every day."

"Fifteen years ago, you ran off with that Liga Foreigner. You said he respected women, that he was witty and humorous, that he was tall and handsome. You said he was the kind of lover you wanted... I accepted all of that. But after he abandoned you, why did you still dare send the son you had together back for me to raise?"

"Mm, my honest subordinate really did make sense. As long as someone isn't from Divine Land, adding 'foreigner' as a suffix to condemn them all would surely wrong some people. Condemn every other one, and some would surely be missed."

"Honest people deserve to be deceived. Honest people deserve to clean up your messes. What else could I do? I could only forgive you... After all, the child was innocent."

"So as long as he is no longer innocent, I no longer need to forgive him."

"Someone once said that the way to destroy a child was to give him whatever he wanted. Then, once he grew up and could no longer get what he wanted, he would be destroyed."

"My honest subordinate truly carried out my instructions perfectly. I had originally worried that, like other fools, he would misunderstand what I really meant."

"Don't worry. You'll definitely see your child in the future. When that time comes, you'll surely be very happy. He has finally grown into the person you were back then."

After speaking, the potbellied Middle-aged Man dusted off his backside and waddled away.

"Alright, now I can go have a second child."

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