Always Look on the Bright Side

"Dust and Haze..."

Ji Jue sighed softly. The veterinarian sitting across from him, cradling a Chinese sausage, nodded along as if letting out a long sigh himself. "Dust and Haze..." Yet his eyes turned toward the Bureau Chief beside them.

As a result, the Bureau Chief—or rather, Hu Jian's—expression grew even uglier.

For the Excommunication Squad, enemies and rivals had to be killed, and so did friends and family. Only then could things be considered complete. In Hu Jian's case, that meant friends and family...

Dust and Haze was the workshop Hu Jian had come from!

Back when he had been an apprentice drifting between numerous workshops, he had shed plenty of blood and sweat. Yet at Dust and Haze, he had also received much guidance and training.

When it came to exploiting him, they worked him half to death, but they really had taught him things... It could be said that without his time at Dust and Haze, there would be no Hu Jian of today.

Even after joining the Transformation Faction, it had remained an affiliate led by the Vacuum Faction. Only after Dust and Haze gradually stepped down from its position as leader did it slowly grow distant from the Vacuum Faction. By now, the two sides were faintly poised as equals.

Yet even after relinquishing its leading position, Dust and Haze remained one of the Association's foremost major workshops!

It had handled countless projects and research subjects!

Considering Hu Jian's once-close relationship with Dust and Haze...

All that could be said was that Director Jiang's move was far too ruthless!

Fellow disciples killing fellow disciples.

No wonder he had stepped in back then, forcibly interrupting Ji Jue's plan. If things had truly gone according to Ji Jue's worst expectation—At worst, we'll just have a real fight—then