The next few months were exceptionally quiet and boring.
Chen Ming selectively attended courses that were meaningful to him. He spent his usual spare time tempering his body or cultivating Soul Power in the academy's mimicry training grounds.
Whenever he had nothing to do, he would use the approval Jing Hongchen had granted him to take a stroll around Mingde Hall. Though he could only see technologies with relatively low confidentiality levels, Chen Ming still enjoyed it immensely, treating it as a way to relieve his fatigue...
Even though, from a normal person's perspective, continuing to research Soul Tools after cultivating Soul Power and training his body was basically like "doing some language arts to relax after getting tired from math." Still, Chen Ming himself subjectively found it relaxing.
Occasionally, after building enough goodwill with some Soul Engineers, Chen Ming could even accept errands from them as though he were taking quests from NPCs—buying things, delivering love letters, and the like.
Once the tasks were completed, Chen Ming could receive Gold Soul Coins, rare metals, or Soul Tools from those Soul Engineers.
However, Chen Ming was not really a child, lacking in caution or vigilance.
Whenever he ran errands, he secretly had Jing Hongchen inspect everything first. He did not overlook any suspicious item or suspicious matter, lest he be used as a pawn and accidentally leak some important secret.
Over the course of several months, they unexpectedly managed to uncover a Level 6 Soul Engineer and a Level 7 Soul Engineer within Mingde Hall who had been secretly selling Mingde Hall's intelligence to the Three Douluo Kingdoms.
Because of his contribution in catching the traitors, Chen Ming was rewarded by Jing Hongchen with a set of Level 4 Soul Cannon Shells and a set of Level 5 Soul Cannon