"And everyone's busy. Observing and tracking the major Calamities and Man-Made Calamities, and dealing with the Calamities invading the Present World, has left us with hardly anyone to spare."
Hearing Si Weijian's words, He Min completely deflated. She slumped in her chair as though she had lost her soul and began working at her screen.
Every so often, a strange chuckle escaped her lips.
She perfectly demonstrated how someone buried under work could harbor more resentment than a ghost.
Si Weijian sighed. "Finish the screening as soon as possible. It's not as though we have no one to help afterward. If what the Thin Mist Priest said is true, we'll have to seek outside help to track down the people hiding in the Present World."
"Outside help." He Min scoffed. "Where's that supposed to come from? Divine troops descending from heaven? Then hurry up and descend already! I'll trade twenty years of being single for it!"
The corner of Si Weijian's mouth twitched. She had finally gone mad.
"Students. Break the enormous workload that follows into missions and hand them over to the schools."
He Min took a deep breath and burst into manic laughter, looking for all the world like an evil dragon that had set its sights on a helpless princess.
"Ohoho! I'd forgotten my dear juniors. Don't be afraid. Your beloved senior will be sending you mountains of missions any moment now!"
Si Weijian sighed again and deftly picked up the headphones on his desk, slipping them over his ears.
Good. The world was quiet.
Time flew by. Ye Buyu trained so obsessively that she neglected food and sleep, and she had lost track of how many days it had been since she last saw the sun.
Her daily task was to hole up in the teaching