He sat across from Xi Shenlian.
Watching him suddenly reveal a meaningful smile.
Although Ouin Chiyoka was somewhat puzzled about what he was laughing at,
when she saw that smile on Xi Shenlian's face, she still instinctively thought:
This guy really does have a great face...
Then, she silently lifted the cup of coffee she had been stirring for quite a while and took a small sip.
"The last of the three questions you asked at the beginning."
"What are the greatest forces in the Eastern Ying Nation?"
"As for this question."
"It goes without saying that the greatest force in this country is the official government—in other words, the Eastern Ying Government."
"As the force that has ruled this country for more than ten thousand years, although its actual masters have changed time and again, the foundation and roots of the nation have been passed down from generation to generation."
"So naturally, it possesses many unimaginable methods."
"It is even said to possess some relics of the Super Ancient Civilization that surpass imagination..."
"Moreover, the Eastern Ying Government is, in essence, the tacit agreement shared by the highest-level Awakened of the Eastern Ying Nation."
"There are three High-level Awakened whose strength has reached the Completion Stage."
"Therefore, it can also be divided into three completely different major factions."
"Besides those, there are also numerous medium- and small-sized factions affiliated with the three major factions."
"Normally, although the various factions have conflicts with one another, they have always maintained a reasonable degree of understanding when it comes to major matters..."
Hearing this,
Xi Shenlian understood what she meant.
In essence, the government of the Eastern Ying Nation could be viewed as a large community of shared interests jointly formed by the various Awakened and the forces under them.
Since everyone's main base was on the land of Dongying, although unavoidable conflicts occasionally arose between them, most of the time they would jointly safeguard the nation's overall interests and social peace.
Thus,
Dongying could be called a complete nation rather than several independent countries split into pieces.
From the way the Eastern Ying Nation was structured,
one could infer much from little and extrapolate to the other countries...
Xi Shenlian immediately gained a rough understanding of Earth's overall situation.
Although this world had outwardly entered modernity, and could be said to possess freedom and democracy, with ordinary people even having a chance to become national leaders,
at the end of the day, everything was merely based on the tacit approval of the various High-level Awakened...
They, who held the ultimate violence over the entire planet, were the true masters of the entire Human civilization's hierarchy.
Likewise, considering that Dongying's national strength ranked quite highly across the planet...
Following the basic logic that the size of everyone's share could only be determined by strength,
Xi Shenlian then asked:
"Then the overall strength of the Awakened in the Eastern Ying Nation should be quite impressive worldwide, right?"
Ouin Chiyoka answered with a hint of pride:
"Among the 522 countries in the world, we rank somewhere between twentieth and thirtieth. In Asia, we're roughly fourth. Actually, that's not far from our global ranking in overall national strength."
Her statement clearly confirmed Xi Shenlian's conjecture.
Everyone really did divide up the size of the pie according to strength.
Even in modern society,
everyone still chose to let their fists do the talking...
Next,
Ouin Chiyoka continued:
"Besides the Eastern Ying Government, which can be treated as a community of multiple major forces, there are also a dozen or so forces in the Eastern Ying Nation with considerable prestige—or, rather, strength. Their administrators are usually Self Stage Awakened or relatively powerful Mature Stage Awakened. Although they normally seem quite scattered and are responsible for completely different matters—there are great clans that manage various criminal organizations, and major conglomerates devoted to international business...if something truly happens, they still have to obey the orders of the official government, or the people behind it. They are..."
"Finally, what remains are some medium- and small-sized organizations incapable of achieving anything significant, along with all sorts of inexplicable Evil Cults..."
After she finished explaining,
Xi Shenlian set down his coffee cup and said curiously:
"Judging from how proudly you spoke earlier about your own family—the Ouin Family—your family must be an extremely famous one among all these forces, right?"
Without the slightest hesitation,
Ouin Chiyoka admitted directly:
"Of course!"
"To be honest, I'm curious. Have you really not studied for very long?"
"How could you not even know about the Ouin Family?"
At this point,
Ouin Chiyoka could not help lifting her head and raising her chin, putting on an extremely proud look.
However,
because of the difference in height, even after raising her head as high as she could, she was still looking up at Xi Shenlian.
It had to be said,
this was truly tragic...
Damn it!
I'm going to chop down everyone taller than me in the future...
The thought filled her with deep-seated irritation.
But for the sake of maintaining her grace, she forcibly endured it...
Faced with her skepticism,
Xi Shenlian answered frankly:
"I really haven't studied for very long. I only attended National Middle School, and because there was something wrong with my brain at the time, I didn't do well."
The so-called National Middle School actually referred to middle school in this world.
As an adult, having only a middle school diploma was obviously nothing impressive.
Usually, it only qualified someone for low-level work.
Faced with his honest answer,
"..."
Although she did not reply,
Ouin Chiyoka's face was still filled with disbelief.
She did not believe that someone dressed like Xi Shenlian could be a dropout.
However, she still said:
"The family I belong to, the Ouin Family, is precisely one of the three families behind the Eastern Ying Government."
"It has a history of more than seven thousand years."
"Although in modern times, in order to emphasize the idea that ordinary people could also rise to power, we did not arrange for many family members to serve as prime ministers or hold similar positions, members of the Ouin Family still appeared with extremely high frequency among the various high-ranking officials."
"You could find that out just by looking at a history book..."
In the end,
she looked at Xi Shenlian and finally brought up the main point she wanted to discuss: "So, if you really are a newly emerged Awakened, I might be able to introduce you to the senior members of my family..."
No force would reject an unaffiliated Awakened.
Besides, as a member of one of the major local forces,
Ouin Chiyoka had more than enough confidence to slowly verify Xi Shenlian's origins.
She had no need to worry that he was some spy who had appeared out of nowhere.
Moreover, if she successfully recruited him, she would naturally earn some merit as well...
There was no downside at all!!
That was one of the main reasons she had seemed so cooperative in front of Xi Shenlian earlier.
Just as Xi Shenlian wanted to learn certain things through her,
she also wanted to learn certain things through Xi Shenlian's words and actions.
As a member of a major family,
paying attention to benefits was undoubtedly one of their instincts!
What Ouin Chiyoka did not know was that, in this brief moment, Xi Shenlian was actually focused on only one thing—a trivial matter unrelated to everything else.
Oh?
Little rich girl???
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