Xue's Professionalism

With Tuthuga Port becoming Longtail Island's Economic Pillar, Hobart had basically completed the plans he had laid over the past two or three months.

Land reform beyond Tuthuga Port had likewise been largely completed. Only the task of eradicating the Longtail Island natives' backward customs remained a long and arduous undertaking.

However, now that Hobart had taken the Mountain God's place, this task would definitely show significant results within a year.

After handing Tuthuga Port's operations to Fors and Longtail Island's governmental affairs to Conrad, Hobart returned to Backlund and began dealing with the backlog of matters there.

At noon, in the Earl's Light office building.

The wooden door to the finance director's office was suddenly knocked on. Audrey glanced at the wall clock and realized that it was already lunchtime. Thinking Annie had brought her meal, she said, "Come in!"

A separate kitchen provided meals for Earl's Light management. Though they were not as extravagant as the lunches at Military Intelligence Section 9, they tasted fairly good.

Audrey did not want to make herself seem overly special, so she ate lunch at Earl's Light.

When the door opened, it was not Annie who entered, but Hobart, wearing a trench coat. He was handsome and dashing, with a touch of stubble on his face.

Audrey, dressed today in a relatively simple long dress that gave her a somewhat professional air, was pleasantly surprised. "Hobart, you're back!"

"Yes, I just got back from the Southern Continent." Hobart lied flawlessly as he carried lunch inside. "I came over before I even had time to shave. Since it happened to be lunchtime, I brought lunch along."

In truth, at his level, whether his beard or hair grew was entirely up to him.

Audrey happily moved to take the lunch, only to see Hobart