"Please, sit!"
"Don't be too nervous. Actually, I'm the one who should be nervous. After all, I'm the ordinary person here."
Inside a very ordinary office, a professionally dressed woman in her thirties, somewhat plump but well-preserved and elegant, smiled and gestured for Zhang Yang to sit.
"Thank you."
Zhang Yang took his seat and looked around the room, which resembled a teacher's office more than anything else.
"I'm curious. Since the country places such importance on this, why isn't there even a dedicated office?"
"There is one, but we took into consideration the resistance you newcomers feel toward the government, so we arranged to meet here instead. If you pass the assessment, you'll see our office."
"Right, let me introduce myself first. I'm Gu Yun, a Tier 3 evaluator. Your name is Zhang Yang, correct? 'Zhangya-wuzhao,' 'clouds dancing and soaring'—what a youthful name."
The woman across from him spoke very gently and was good at easing the atmosphere.
Zhang Yang blinked, then slowly straightened up. Although he hadn't activated his Soul Force Field, his keen talent told him that the woman across from him was very good at seeing through disguises. She was a master psychologist.
Then there's no point in continuing to play dumb.
"I seem to have only a month to stay, so let's get straight to the point. In principle, I agree to cooperate with the country's needs, but before that, may I ask a few small questions?"
"Go ahead."
"First, I obtained the Village Building Order and went to another world in one second, then returned after a dozen or so seconds. But why were government personnel able to pinpoint my location just a few minutes later and knock on my door? That seems a little unbelievable."
Zhang Yang asked his first question. This was