Mr. Qingming

There weren't many people left behind at the Star City Action Bureau, but Deputy Director Wu was sure to have eyes and ears there.

The news that Luo Teng had left with Jiang Yue would definitely reach Deputy Director Wu's ears. Jiang Yue and Luo Teng were both absolutely certain of that.

And Jiang Yue and Luo Teng had their reasons for leaving word that they would return in an hour.

The other deputy director of the Star City Action Bureau, Deputy Director Wu, was in an absolutely foul mood.

To be precise, his mood had been terrible ever since the helicopter carrying Old Man Kangaroo had left the Action Bureau.

After the orders reached Star City University, he hadn't received a single encouraging report. Instead, one piece of bad news followed another.

And the latest report had nearly pushed Deputy Director Wu over the edge.

"Useless! A pack of useless fools! From top to bottom, you're all useless!"

It was no wonder Deputy Director Wu was furious. He had placed great hopes in the Star City laboratory, and he had long enjoyed the benefits it brought him.

The steady daily output of Life Spirit Liquid had earned him plenty of praise from Lord Tree Ancestor. And with the Life Spirit Liquid replenishing him, Lord Tree Ancestor's previously disrupted path of evolution had more or less resumed progressing at its planned pace.

But he had never imagined that something would happen to the laboratory—something major.

The entire building had burned down, all the equipment had been destroyed, and the team he'd sent there had been completely wiped out. Even worse, the faculty and students from the School of Biology whom they'd detained had scattered and escaped.

It was like cutting off the laboratory at its roots, leaving it with