The office complex of the City Seven Supernatural Affairs Branch Bureau was quite luxurious. Its enclosing walls were built from blue-gray spirit-grade stone, bearing large, glittering gold lettering. Within the courtyard stood a sprawling three-story building, with rows of battlement-like emblems running from bottom to top. From a distance, it looked grand and imposing, with the subtle aura of a formation concealed within, like a beast lying in wait.
The entire complex had supposedly been commissioned by the previous branch director, who had made it even more luxurious than the headquarters building in Jiangcheng City.
The year it was completed happened to coincide with an anti-corruption inspection dispatched by the Supernatural Affairs Bureau headquarters. Seeing how extravagantly the building had been constructed, the inspectors focused their investigation on the City Seven branch and, sure enough, rooted out a whole string of corrupt personnel.
Only afterward had Guang Zhenren been parachuted in to take charge.
Since the complex was already built, they naturally could not waste more money and labor tearing it down and rebuilding it, so it remained in use.
Guang Zhenren sat behind his broad desk, reading the case files without a word.
Fang Qingcang stood tall before the desk, waiting quietly.
Wang Shoucai stood a little closer to the door, his eyes lowered to his nose, his nose aligned with his mouth, and his attention turned inward.
After a long while, Daoist Guaguang finally looked up. "That Hu Hanyi always plays dumb around me, but he's certainly been busy behind my back."
"As expected, there were no leads connecting the research institute to the Hu Family. Although Hu Lingyi was a direct descendant of the Hu Family, he also held a position in the Pudu Sect. The Pudu Sect claims it knew nothing about what was happening here