Three days later.
Zhang Ping sat at the desk in his room, idly twirling a pen.
On the day Lin Renmei had tested her strength, he had decided to recruit a team of advisers.
The problem was that when he asked about it afterward, both Zhang Shouzhong and Cheng Xuejie said it would be difficult.
Their Rescue Team had only recently been established, and its benefits were not even as good as those of the Cleanup Team or the Investigation Team. Awakened with high intelligence would be hard to recruit.
Of course, the benefits were secondary.
The real issue was that joining the Rescue Team required swallowing a Contract Gem.
Smart people tended to think things through. How could they simply trust that Zhang Ping would not harm them?
As things stood... if the recruits did not swallow a Contract Gem, Zhang Ping and the others could not trust them. But if they demanded that the recruits swallow one, the recruits could not trust Zhang Ping and his team.
"We'll approach them one by one and see if we can persuade them!"
Zhang Ping thought for ages without coming up with a better plan. At last, he gritted his teeth and decided to meet the brilliant people Zhang Shouzhong and the others had mentioned in person.
He tossed aside his pen, stood up, and went downstairs.
Downstairs, Zhang Shouzhong carefully set a cup of tea in front of Lin Renmei and gave her an awkward smile. "Miss Lin, have some tea. Careful, it's hot!"
"Thank you," Lin Renmei said softly.
Cheng Xuejie, sitting beside Lin Renmei, rolled her eyes at Zhang Shouzhong. "If you're scared, get lost instead of hovering around here."
"Aren't you scared?" Zhang Shouzhong shot back.
Cheng Xuejie put an arm around Lin Renmei's shoulders and smiled.