The Association Doesn't Do That

Yang Gan accepted the black umbrella somewhat blankly, then nodded obediently.

"Okay, Brother Li."

Although the sky was clear and the weather forecast had said nothing about rain, if Brother Li said it was going to rain, then he should bring it.

After all, Brother Li had always been reliable in his work, and everything he did carried deeper meaning. Listening to him could never go wrong.

Li Fan smiled approvingly and patted Yang Gan on the shoulder.

Communicating with Brother Gan was still the easiest. At the very least, he would not keep asking questions or overthinking things.

The group headed excitedly into the auditorium and saw that the awakened investigator agents from the various branch bureaus had already begun filing in.

A group of trainee investigators from the Central Anomaly Bureau's Political Work Department served as ushers, guiding the Southwest Bureau personnel to their designated seating area.

The auditorium was enormous, capable of holding several thousand people. It was more than spacious enough for these awakened investigator agents.

Taking this opportunity, Li Fan gained a rough understanding of the Central Province Anomaly Bureau's publicly known strength.

Things were different from when he had first joined the Anomaly Bureau. As anomalies appeared more frequently across the globe and anomalous psychic fluctuations grew increasingly common, the number of awakened individuals had risen considerably as well.

When he had first joined the Southwest Bureau, the entire bureau had only a dozen or so awakened individuals, which had already been considered quite good.

Now, every branch bureau had dozens of awakened individuals—around thirty at the low end, and fifty or sixty at the high end.

Including all the branch bureaus and the awakened investigator agents at headquarters, there were roughly seven or eight hundred people in total.

That was already an extremely