"Councilor? Heh... young people ought to be more realistic. Just because Zion has had a few researchers become councilors, don't imagine you can do it too. In Zion's hundred-year history, there have been over three hundred councilors alone, and only four or five of them were people like that. Songs of heroes certainly deserve to be remembered, but more often than not, they're merely the yearnings of the ignorant."
Aqi said a great deal, but it all amounted to rejecting Xu Le. She looked like a very agreeable lady, but perhaps the reality was nothing like her appearance.
After hearing Aqi's assessment, Xu Le nodded, then looked at Gude, the tattooed guy.
Gude smiled without speaking, but he pursed his lips toward Moen, indicating that they should hear Moen's opinion first.
Moen, however, was still absorbed in the Radiance Soap and had no attention to spare for the others' conversation.
He carefully opened the paper wrapping, and intense blue Ancient Yin Duo Energy immediately began drifting out.
The most obvious effect was that even Moen's aged face was illuminated by the blue light. The office, previously rather dim with the lights off, took on a different color when the soap was unwrapped.
The dazzling blue light seemed to plunge the office into the ocean.
Beside him, Aqi frowned slightly. Even though she knew nothing about energy studies, the light and force emanating from the soap were enough to tell anyone that it was no ordinary object.
"This thing..."
Gude, the tattooed guy, came over too.
"Something beautiful. A luminous object?"
"An energy source," Moen said gravely, adding inwardly, A powerful energy source.
"An energy source? Does Zion lack anything of the sort these days? Don't we have the most abundant energy reserves of the Four Great City-States?"
Aqi folded her