Gong Jieyong pointed a trembling finger at Wei Changming. "Do you not want this job anymore?"
Wei Changming bared his teeth. "Of course I do."
"Good, then." Gong Jieyong came back to life.
Anyway, as long as he wasn't deliberately courting disaster to get himself fired, anything else...
With the world in this state, who cared whether the wording was official or not? Facts carried far more authority than any other announcement. Giving the public the truth promptly-that was respect and genuine reassurance.
And so, the Present World's first-but certainly not last-hardcore press conference appeared openly before the public.
Meanwhile, Ye Buyu was still digesting the red mist.
Wisps of energy poured into her body, breaking through that invisible barrier. Grains of sand gathered into a sea, drops of power converged into rivers, and she finally broke through the bottleneck of the seventh tier.
The sluggish power rapidly spread through every part of her body. The gathered red mist enveloped her like a red cocoon, but soon, the cocoon's energy was absorbed into Ye Buyu's body.
As the power poured in, the round puff in the sky disappeared too. The 3D cat head became a cloud painting, its red eyes vanishing along with it. Then the wind blew, twisting the painting into a ghost.
It looked just like a flat shoe insole with two big holes in it.
The crisis had passed, but many eyes remained fixed on Ye Buyu.
The red mist entered Ye Buyu's body completely. Her white hair hung quietly over her shoulders, the Red Otherworldly Flower Hair Ornament peeking through it. As power poured in, the ornament grew brighter and more vivid, with faint, ornate silver patterns emerging.
The moment she stepped into the seventh tier, Ye Buyu glimpsed a scene through a haze.
The deathly