Mission processing counter.
"Legend! Do you know what everyone in the bureau is calling you and Minister Wu now?"
Lucy leaned over the counter and gossiped with Lin Ze in a low voice:
"Gate Ultimate Nullifiers!"
"They say that since the Transmigration Management Bureau was founded, its only two repair records have both come from your department."
"Come on, tell me what actually happened. I couldn't find out anything that day. All I knew was that the gate broke, and a bunch of really formidable-looking people suddenly showed up outside."
"Then the Director came rushing in, and the emergency meeting went on for days."
Lin Ze glanced around, raised his mission documents to shield himself and Lucy from the side, and quietly lowered his voice. "Do you know how Minister Wu broke the gate back then?"
Lucy nodded. "I heard about it. Apparently, he broke protocol by using the Infinity Stones. Don't tell me you did too?"
"You even know that!"
Lin Ze slapped the documents he had been holding up down on the counter and exclaimed.
"You scared me! You wrote it in your own self-criticism report. Have you forgotten already?"
Lucy rolled her eyes at Lin Ze, then cautiously scanned their surroundings twice.
"Making a fuss over nothing."
Lin Ze was puzzled. "Oh, right. Then it's not exactly a secret. Why did Minister Wu react so strongly when I brought it up?"
"He was embarrassed, obviously."
Lucy pursed her lips. "There's actually a story behind that gate. They say that when the Transmigration Management Bureau was first founded, it had absolutely nothing. Director Liao was still a researcher back then. He led his team around after the founder, working on the Space-Time Gate project all day."
"But once the Space-Time Gate was finished, not a single person dared