"Consultant Xia, here are some materials related to this mission. You can look them over first and see if you have any ideas..."
About fifteen minutes later, the reception room door opened again. After knocking, Zhang Qun walked in carrying a small stack of document envelopes.
"Uncle Luo wants me to lead you in hunting down these Beastmen that can grow fangs and rat faces?"
Xia Xu nodded and briefly leafed through the various files Zhang Qun had brought before looking up at him, standing ramrod straight to one side.
"Yes."
Zhang Qun nodded, hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Consultant Xia, you don't seem surprised at all?"
These files contained a detailed account of the Rat-faced Man incident from beginning to end, along with several murders he had committed.
An incident involving a monster that could already be called supernatural would absolutely be a worldview-shattering discovery for ordinary people. The detailed accounts of those murders, and even the brutal, bloody crime scene photographs, were more than most people could stomach.
Yet this Consultant Xia showed no reaction at all. He was frighteningly normal.
At a time like this, "normal" probably needed quotation marks. After all, this sort of "normality" was the greatest abnormality of all.
He was far too calm, as though he had merely learned of some trivial, everyday occurrence.
It made even Zhang Qun begin to doubt his earlier judgment.
Could Team Leader Luo's invitation to Consultant Xia not have been entirely a case of abusing his position to bring in someone arbitrarily to make up the numbers?
"They're just Beastmen. What's there to be surprised about? If I made a fuss now, wouldn't you start muttering behind my back again?"
Xia Xu chuckled and gave him a somewhat playful look.
"Uh, ahem."
How could Zhang Qun