Chapter 15

No wonder his subordinates had urgently sent the data to him!

In more than a century on the job, this was the first time he had seen anything like it!

This young man had incredible potential!

Without a second thought, he called Yan Kexing. "Old Yan, something huge has happened! That junior Abilities user you recommended to me has terrifying talent!"

Yan Kexing said, "And?"

"And?!" Zhu Ji bent over and stared at the data. "You're not surprised at all? Do you know something I don't?!"

"He's my friend. Did you forget?" Yan Kexing paused. "I told you he was outstanding and hardworking."

"That's all you have to say? Give me a more professional assessment! What good is praising him? He can't even hear you right now!"

"I'm biased. I can't be objective."

Zhu Ji: "???"

Zhu Ji said, "You're what?!"

Zhu Ji took the phone from where he had been holding it and checked the contact name.

He suspected he had dialed the wrong number and reached someone else.

Otherwise, how could he have heard the words "I'm biased" come out of Yan Kexing's mouth?

Chapter 15

The sheep at Shi Wen's place had nearly finished their quarantine.

As a trial, he let the newly purchased flock out, combined them with the sheep he already had, and put them out to graze on pasture some distance from the house.

The three-thousand-mu ranch was enormous. Shi Wen felt that walking it on foot alone could wear him to death.

He now rode a motorcycle to tend the sheep, driving them out in the morning and bringing them back after sunset.

The sheep moved fairly slowly, and Shi Wen couldn't hurry them, so he could only take his time.

That task alone took more than an hour.

Shi Wen had no idea that, while he was driving the sheep out to graze, Zhu Ji and his assistant had already been waiting at the gate for a while.

Zhu Ji fanned himself with his hand and muttered as he gazed into the distance, "Didn't the divination say Shi Wen was home and we'd be able to find him?"

His assistant said, "He might be back in a little while. Why don't you wait in the car while I call and ask?"

Zhu Ji glanced up at the blazing sun. "Let's both wait in the car. I'll make the call."

His assistant quickly logged into the internal system and found the phone number Shi Wen had left.

Zhu Ji dialed the number.

Shi Wen had his phone on him. Feeling it vibrate, he pulled it out and saw an unfamiliar number registered in N City. A little surprised, he answered, "Hello?"

The call went through! Zhu Ji perked up, adjusted his tone, and introduced himself. "Hello, I'm Zhu Ji, the office director of the Provincial Anomaly Management Office."

Shi Wen hadn't expected him to be an official. It took him a moment to process that. "Director Zhu? What can I do for you?"

Zhu Ji said, "Ahem, we received your test data yesterday. We wanted to come visit you and obtain more detailed information. Are you home?"

Shi Wen said, "I am. When are you coming over?"

"We're already outside your front gate." Zhu Ji looked ahead from his seat in the car. "If you're busy, we can make an appointment and come back another time."

"I'm free. Please wait a moment; I'll be right there," Shi Wen said before hanging up. "Give me five minutes."

Shi Wen rode his motorcycle to the ranch gate and, sure enough, arrived within five minutes.

Zhu Ji and his assistant were waiting at the gate.

Shi Wen parked his motorcycle by the road and bent his head to slide the bolt open for them. "Sorry, I'm a little late."

"Not at all. We came over without letting you know beforehand. That was a little rude of us."

Zhu Ji stared at Shi Wen without blinking, a string of exclamations drifting through his mind.

Shi Wen wore a simple T-shirt and jeans, and his bone structure was exceptionally fine. When he lowered his head slightly and his long lashes shaded his eyes, which had a hint of gray-blue, even the breeze seemed to grow gentler.

Zhu Ji stared blankly, Yan Kexing's words echoing in his head: "I'm biased."

Damn, with a handsome young man who looks a hundred times better in person than in his photo, who wouldn't be biased?! I'm almost biased myself!

Shi Wen opened the wooden gate and broke into a smile. "There we go. Come on in. Sorry to keep you waiting."

Zhu Ji said, "I'm Yan Kexing's friend, so just treat me as a friend too. There's no need to be so polite."

Shi Wen smiled again. "All right."

Zhu Ji introduced Shi Wen to his assistant, Duan Kuo, then said with a smile, "You're the only Abilities user with the Qilin Bloodline in Hua Country. We've wanted to come see how things are going for you and whether you need any help for a long time, but things kept piling up and it was hard to get away, so we didn't make it until now."

Shi Wen said, "Thank you for the effort."

"It's part of our job, nothing to thank us for." Zhu Ji looked around and asked, "Could you show us around the ranch?"

The Abnormal Affairs Bureau had approved this ranch for him.

Near N City, the annual rent for a ranch of the same size started at 150,000, and the facilities weren't as good as those on his ranch.

The Abnormal Affairs Bureau had given him free use of it for forty years. If nothing went wrong with his bloodline after those forty years, it would certainly still be his.

It was practically permanent ownership.

Even for that reason alone, there was no way Shi Wen would refuse to show Zhu Ji and Duan Kuo around.

Shi Wen led Zhu Ji and Duan Kuo farther into the ranch, taking them to see the livestock shed first.

Coming into the dim shed from the sunlit ranch, all three found their vision going dark.

Before Shi Wen could speak,

the puppies kept in the shed began barking. "Woof, woof, woof!"

Shi Wen looked at Zhu Ji and Duan Kuo, then at the spirited puppy barking loudly, and concluded that Zhu Ji and Duan Kuo probably weren't as formidable as Yan Kexing.

When Yan Kexing was around, the puppy hadn't even dared to bark.

Zhu Ji had no idea Shi Wen was quietly assessing him. He crouched down to look at the puppy and met its gaze with a smile. "Your puppy is certainly lively. What's its name?"

Shi Wen tapped the cage gently, signaling the puppy to stop barking, and answered, "The one barking is called Le Wa, and the one beside it is An Wa."

Zhu Ji reached out to play with the puppy. "What unusual names."