"Missionaries?" Ye Jiu frowned. "Missionaries and trafficking cultural relics... aren't those completely unrelated?"
"That's where you're wrong." Candle Dragon corrected him. "Back in the day, many Westerners used business, missionary work, and cultural exchange as cover to secretly smuggle antiques and cultural relics from Xiazhou back to their own countries... The Great Britain Museum has quite a few of our national treasures on display. It's just a shame that we'll probably never get those things back."
"So this Jude La is a thief too?" Ye Jiu asked indignantly.
"No idea. The Federal Government has no criminal record on Jude La." Candle Dragon shook his head. "But if he was associating with someone like Shang Dalin, they were probably birds of a feather."
Just as Ye Jiu was about to ask something else, a Field Operations Department agent ran over, saluted him, and shouted, "Report, Team Leader! We found a total of one hundred and ninety-seven object-type Anomalies and fifteen severely physically mutated infected individuals in the branching tunnel. In addition, following Researcher Yang's instructions, we found fifteen bronze human figurine lamps whose physical characteristics corresponded to those infected individuals. How should we handle them?"
"Why are you asking me? I'm not a researcher!" Ye Jiu glared.
"But you're the leader of this operation..."
"That was when we set out. Once we reached the mission site, command authority was transferred in full to Researcher Yang. Enough, stop bothering me!" Ye Jiu waved him off repeatedly.
"Understood!" The agent saluted again and jogged away.
"These youngsters have plenty of spirit." Candle Dragon watched the agent's retreating back. "They're far better than those stubborn idiots from Chunming City, with their rotten tempers and endless messy rules... Honestly, I used to hate dealing with Tianshu Tower's Field Operations Department the most. They only made