"Recruit Qin Shi?"
Yao Guodong pondered, thinking of a possibility, then looked toward Lord Tai's Sub-body, projected from electronic data streams.
The latter understood and searched the relevant information, reaching a conclusion:
"There's a sixty-seven percent chance that the Young Prodigy from Hengzhou and this recruit are the same person."
Yao Guodong perked up, his eyes lighting up:
"If they really are the same person! Would the Governor's Mansion really send such a genius to White Poplar Fortress City? Could it mean that the western front is about to advance?"
As the highest administrative official in the area, Yao Guodong had always worried about White Poplar Fortress City's future.
He was a staunch hawk who hoped to see the western front advance in full and the Contaminated Zones gradually cleared.
That way, White Poplar Fortress City could become a bridgehead, continually supplying troops and playing a vital strategic role.
But conversely, if the Governor's Mansion planned, on a broad strategic level, to pull back from the western front and lure the Servant Creatures in, surrounding and devouring them all at once, then White Poplar Fortress City was doomed to be sacrificed.
"We can't be certain yet."
Lord Tai's Sub-body took a more cautious stance.
That was a common failing of Active Consciousness Bodies: without absolute certainty, they rarely gave a definitive answer.
"Have Fu Lei bring him here. We'll know as soon as we see him."
Yao Guodong said casually:
"Geniuses don't just spring up out of the ground. If he could fight his way through a Man-faced Spider nest, he's at least at the peak of the Second Energy Level, maybe even past the Third. That's practically King of Soldiers Level. A recruit from the training camp? Hah! If all the recruits in White Poplar Fortress City were like