Qin Yiyan's doubts were not without reason.
It would have been one thing if someone else had said it, but she had heard that Xu Shi intended to overcome every obstacle and mobilize enormous manpower and resources to do something she considered impossible.
Clear away the "Divine Breath"?
How was that possible?!
She was no ignorant little girl. She naturally knew something about Rust Fog—what a dangerous thing it was!
Before becoming one of the God-Chosen as a child, she and the other children in the convent had been strictly forbidden from getting involved in such matters. Even after becoming captain of the knights, she had seen far too many cases of people dying because of Divine Breath.
Developing Divine Breath was like seeking the skin of a tiger. That was a commonly accepted fact. Even research into it had to be handled with extreme caution, let alone anything else.
This was a slide one could not even touch.
The key was, what was the point of clearing away Rust Fog? It had existed for so long that people had long since adapted to it. Many technologies and countless things in daily life were also closely tied to Rust Fog.
If Rust Fog suddenly vanished from people's lives one day, would the consequences necessarily be good?
Many established conventions would probably be destroyed. Wouldn't that be moving backward?
That was why she felt it was a thankless task, and even more so why she felt it was not something a person like Xu Shi would do—if he truly had that kind of ability, becoming an oligarch seemed far more likely, didn't it?
"What is there to be reluctant about?"
Xu Shi's answer was light and casual, as though he did not take her doubts seriously at all.
"You should know