"Stand-in"

Lin Qing suddenly turned and ran upstairs!

Chen Xuan had no idea what she was doing.

Half a minute later, she returned to the first floor looking slightly disappointed. "The door still won't open."

So she had gone to try the room's back door.

"What... is this a moment when history changes dramatically?"

At the mention of that, the disappointment on Lin Qing's face vanished. "Yes! The original Dimensional Limit Organization never recruited publicly. They did take on more people after the split, but that wasn't recruiting employees. They hired ability users as muscle, basically outsourced mercenaries for a company. Even then, the timing was at least fifty years apart!"

When the Dimensional Limit Organization had been forced into the public eye, they had also mentioned participating in society and taking on certain duties and responsibilities. Now it seemed they intended to follow through.

He hadn't expected Jiangcheng to be the first to take the plunge.

Would history change because of this?

Chen Xuan switched to another channel and found the same content there—who knew how much airtime they had bought? Almost every television station was covering the story, each with a different spin.

"They've already been bought off by the organization," Lin Qing said sarcastically. "Publicity channels are one of the things the organization values most. Otherwise, they couldn't have stayed hidden all this time."

"So the reason online discussion of the television station case hasn't died down is that the organization is fanning the flames behind the scenes?"

"Of course. The more people pay attention to ability-related crime, the happier they are." Lin Qing paced between the shelves. "That gives them a legitimate reason to act... History is definitely going to change from here on out. The major events recorded in my database probably won't line up anymore...