Koi City Investigation Bureau Headquarters.
After the branch staff received Ke Meng's request, they immediately forwarded his application to Headquarters for the highest-ranking S-Class personnel to assess.
Going abroad was not a big deal in itself. Routine diplomatic visits, overseas vacations, and the like had long since become commonplace.
But going abroad to arrest someone required consideration of the local laws and regulations.
"This is the photo of the Frog Society's leader. He's a law professor on Crocodile Continent, skilled in sculpture, and a hundred years old. Quite elderly. His abilities are unknown, but he has a group of frogs around him that can sing mentally contaminating noise..."
The man wrapped head to toe in bandages held a long pointer and indicated the posted portrait on the whiteboard. It was a screenshot taken from the internet.
"And just like that, we found their ringleader?" The seated S-Class personnel exchanged looks, each seeing disbelief in the others' eyes.
"That's what the facts tell us. The information came from Ke Meng, our strongest Gnosis user and a national treasure of the Investigation Bureau. In any case, my spiritual intuition tells me he's trustworthy." The Bandaged Man tapped the whiteboard with his pointer.
"National treasure" was what the S-Class personnel called Ke Meng in private.
If Ke Meng did not qualify as a national treasure, who could possibly match the value he produced?
Ke Meng still had decades, perhaps a hundred years, left to live, and he received strange things every day. Over a hundred years, he could theoretically produce at least 36,525 items, accounting for leap years.
The investigators were no fools. They were sharp. If they did not treasure him, were they supposed to drive such a talented person away instead?
Returning to the subject at hand, they laid out Professor