"Hm?"
Hearing Perfected One Nagiko say this, Yue Wen immediately raised his eyes, as though a taut string deep in his heart had been plucked.
He had long suspected that the Supernatural Affairs Bureau had concealed something about the Spatial Rift case back then. When Perfected One Nagiko had tried to recruit him earlier, she had also explicitly mentioned that confidential intelligence existed.
She had intended to use it as an incentive to draw Yue Wen into the Supernatural Affairs Bureau.
But Yue Wen had refused. After all, thinking it through, how confidential could information accessible to someone who had just joined the bureau really be? If that sort of information could help locate someone, the bureau would have found them long ago.
If there really were some great secret behind it, they could not possibly tell him.
So Yue Wen had not been intent on obtaining that intelligence.
Now, however, the situation was somewhat different. He had already gathered some information about his parents' past experiences. If Perfected One Nagiko was willing to tell him this intelligence unconditionally, he could cross-check it against what he had learned. Perhaps he really could reach some conclusions.
So he said gladly, "Thank you, Perfected One."
"Actually, we should have told you these things long ago. It's just that we had our suspicions about you over the past few years too." Perfected One Nagiko did not lower her voice, yet everyone else in the room kept chatting among themselves, as though paying them no attention at all.
Yue Wen knew that Perfected One Nagiko must have set up an invisible sound-blocking restriction. No matter how sharp the hearing of anyone outside it was, they could not hear what she said within.
For a Dao Realm powerhouse who had mastered Kunyu Ridge, this was