The group relocated again, taking a dedicated elevator to the top floor of the Branch Bureau's main building.
The elevator was spacious, but with Wolf Team, Su Li, Qi Wu, the three women of the Salvation Squad, and four A-Rank captains packed inside, it still felt a little crowded.
The metal doors slowly closed. A faint sensation of weightlessness came over them as the elevator began its smooth ascent.
In the brief silence, only the faint hum of the elevator could be heard.
The tension from the conference room seemed to have eased somewhat now that they had left that enclosed space, but a new topic surfaced.
Wolf Team, Bai Xiao, stood with his arms folded, his silver-white brows still slightly furrowed. As though something had suddenly occurred to him, he turned toward Su Li, who was leaning against the elevator wall beside him and beginning to look bored again, and asked:
"Su Li, how has Xiao Tiance... been doing over at your headquarters lately?"
At that question, almost everyone else in the elevator pricked up their ears.
Xiao Tiance!
In the Empire's supernatural world, particularly within the official system, that name represented an almost unshakable pillar of stability.
The headquarters director, the acknowledged strongest of them all, the pinnacle countless Psychics looked up to.
His every move could affect the entire situation.
Qi Wu also tilted his head slightly, his gaze settling on Su Li's face through his sunglasses.
He, too, was somewhat curious about this legendary Director Xiao.
After all, he had not belonged to the 749 System in his previous life either.
At the question, Su Li lifted her eyelids and glanced at Wolf Team, seemingly unsurprised that he would ask about this.
She made no attempt to conceal anything, answering frankly in her usual languid tone: