From a distance, Feng Yao spotted Qin Kun. Wen Yan waved his hand.
Qin Kun strode over with the poise of a dragon and the strength of a tiger. When he saw Wen Yan, he let out three loud laughs and slapped Wen Yan hard on the shoulder.
Three heavy slaps rang out. Where Wen Yan was standing, two footprints more than an inch deep were instantly left behind.
"Not bad, your body’s gotten a lot stronger. Looks like you haven’t been slacking off."
"Senior Brother Qin, has Minister Cai arrived yet?"
"He got here a few minutes before you guys. Things are about to start soon. I was thinking you might not co."
"I’m just here to check out the excitent—and to see what the hell Cai Heizi is up to."
Qin Kun’s eyes flickered, giving Wen Yan a questioning look.
"Senior Brother Qin, it’s best not to go charging ahead when things go down."
Wen Yan glanced at the people far away, noticing that Qin Kun had a decent crowd with him, so Wen Yan didn’t spell things out.
God knows if any of these people can read lips or hear what we’re saying.
Qin Kun nodded. The mont he recalled Cai Heizi’s shady history, his face darkened.
Cai Heizi is seriously the type who’ll use anyone.
Feng Yao greeted them, then went off to see Cai Qidong.
She entered the room, headed to one of the offices, knocked, and saw Cai Qidong sitting steadily inside.
"Minister, sothing happened."
"What’s up?"
"The road out has been affected sohow. If you try to leave the usual way, it disappears. My car is already gone."
After Feng Yao finished, she saw that Cai Qidong’s expression was totally calm, without a single change.
Her heart plumted for a beat.
Shit, Wen Yan really does get our Minister. Wen Yan totally called it!
"Minister..."
Cai Qidong picked up his thermos and took a sip of cold tea.
"Whoever’s making a move is quick. I just got here, and they couldn’t hold back. With patience like that, they’ll never cut it.
I only leaked a tiny bit of info, hinted we’d caught a weak spot—not like we actually did.
Soone still couldn’t help themselves. Guess this isn’t a small matter."
Right now, Feng Yao really thinks Cai Heizi’s as shady as they say.
"Minister, so what do we do now?"
"Don’t worry about it. This is all part of the trial. Draw a boundary, throw everyone in to fight—what’s the point?
Everyone’s holding back the whole ti, nobody wants to show their real skills.
Afraid others will see their trump cards and counter them next ti.
From now on, everything is real combat.
Finding leads, noticing threats, spotting anomalies—these are the skills this crowd of elites should really have.
Besides, who knows if soone in here has other motives."
Cai Heizi spoke with a cold face, as if he didn’t care if people might die.
After speaking, then he finally asked,
"Besides you, did anyone else notice the exits changed?"
"It wasn’t —it was Wen Yan who noticed."
Cai Heizi looked up, pondered it, then suddenly smiled.
"Did he curse out again?"
Feng Yao didn’t answer.
Cai Heizi didn’t mind, just laughed even harder.
"If he wants to badmouth , let him. If they want to badmouth , well, they’ll have to wait until this is all over."
Feng Yao felt helpless.
"Minister, we’ve basically lost contact with the outside world now."
Cai Qidong didn’t look bothered at all. He put down his thermos and opened his laptop.
"Consider this a test of Nanwu County Scorching Sun Departnt in my absence.
I can’t always be the one making every decision.
What we need is a system to handle these kinds of situations—which might be happening more often going forward.
That’s way more important than as minister.
We’ve already done most of the necessary team-building.
Better to test things now than to have to improvise if sothing huge goes wrong later."
Feng Yao was silent. She now understood the difference between her thinking and Cai Qidong’s.
Cai Qidong, as a minister, always thinks about the big picture and the overall direction.
Whereas most of the ti, Feng Yao just focuses on whether the task at hand gets done well.
"From now on, you just stay here and oversee things."
Cai Qidong had Feng Yao sit down. He looked at his watch, then left on his own.
Outside, Wen Yan and Qin Kun went to a spot away from the crowd, turned their backs, and started chatting about how it’s now a one-way street—entry allowed, exit blocked. Sothing was ssing with the route.
As they were talking, Maoshan Huang Zhiji ca over on his own accord.
"Greetings, Senior Brother Qin. Greetings, Brother Wen."
Huang Zhiji held a small compass in his hand, watching its needle spin back and forth as he glanced toward the exit.
"Brother Wen, you noticed the problem over there too?"
"What do you an?"
"In places like this, you always need to know how to get in and out. Five minutes ago, I sensed the entrance and exit here were getting unstable. I’m guessing sothing happened here."
Wen Yan glanced at the people in the distance, suddenly realizing sothing.
"No wonder. Whoever made it in here has skills, so looks like a lot of people have noticed."
"Probably a few others sensed it, just no one’s talking.
That Secretary Feng from before went to report to Minister Cai, right?
Everyone’s waiting for soone from the Scorching Sun Departnt to give us so answers."
As he finished, Cai Qidong appeared, scanning the area before speaking slowly,
"I always felt that fighting in an arena just to compete isn’t much use except for safety.
At least in today’s world, that kind of contest is outdated."
So I think we should change things up. In this domain, there are three objects."
What exactly they are—you’ll have to find out for yourselves."
Whoever gets any one of them and is the first to enter the Yu State Scorching Sun Departnt’s front door, will be this trial’s champion."
First place gets into the warehouse and can pick any three items. Anything at all."
Second place, two items. Third, one."
What you do next is up to you—think for yourselves, make your own choices."
With that, Cai Qidong sat down, crossed his legs, picked up his thermos, and watched quietly.
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