Chapter 63: Investigation and Settling In
The encouragement and promises from the higher-ups might not always soothe the physical and mental exhaustion that came from working overtime in the Otherworld, but paid leave certainly could.
The two exhausted agents walked out of the office with forced smiles on their faces, leaving Song Cheng behind his desk. He let out a long sigh and continued staring worriedly at his computer screen.
Just then, he noticed an icon flashing in the corner of the display. A moment later, a video window unexpectedly popped up.
A young woman appeared on the screen. She was dressed in a white suit, with ash-gray hair tied back in a ponytail. Her pale gray eyes, almost devoid of color, gazed directly at Song Cheng. “Finished with your work?” she asked.
An even higher-ranking leader had arrived.
“Director,” Song Cheng immediately straightened up, his expression a little tense. “You haven’t left yet?”
“I’m working overtime today,” Bai Li Qing replied calmly. Her voice was as emotionless as her faded eyes. “I saw the information that just came in from the archives and wanted to hear your thoughts.”
“About this ‘Yu Sheng’?” Song Cheng frowned slightly. After a brief pause, he shook his head. “I don’t think we can draw any conclusions yet. We need to have a formal meeting with him to figure out what kind of… individual he is. The difficulty is deciding if we should treat him as a ‘human’ or as an ‘entity’…”
“As a human,” Bai Li Qing said without hesitation.