A so-called psychologist could judge a person's basic character and whether they were lying through their words and actions.
As a title-level individual, Chu Die could effortlessly influence others through every gesture, even achieving the effects of Perfect Control.
Yet when facing the president—
Chu Die could not determine whether he was lying or merely putting up a front.
That was precisely why Chu Die and Zhou Tongyuan had agreed to Zhou Zhi's request.
No matter what, Ji Tianren was doomed to die. The Five Decays of the Celestial Man brought about by the [Celestial Man] title were unavoidable—except through the Medical Department's technology.
At the same time—
As the rain fell—
The Medical Department entered Xuanyuan with lightning speed.
There was no resistance whatsoever.
Xuanyuan's Central Council directly declared its surrender.
The Medical Department swiftly implemented its policies, thoroughly medicalizing Xuanyuan and consolidating power.
And... it bloodily suppressed the rebellious old aristocracy.
The first to bear the brunt of it was Xuanyuan's foremost family, the [Wan Family].
The Medical Department's Withdrawal Corps headed to the Wan Family estate. After a bloody plague battle and countless deaths, the Wan Family's ancestral residence was occupied by the Medical Department.
Wan Su, the head of the Wan Family, and a large number of high-ranking members died, while a great many of the Wan Family's Plague Exterminators surrendered.
Wan Chaohu, however, did not seem to be among them.
But... the Medical Department did not care.
For Xuanyuan's foremost aristocratic family to refuse to leave their ancestral home was, to them, nothing out of the ordinary.
"Among all things in this world, what remains unchanged?"
Zhou Tongyuan raised his wineglass, watching the amber liquid sway against its walls as he looked outside through the window of Xuanyuan's Central Council. "Zhou He, Zhou An, tell