Exploring Technology in a Wizard World-Chapter 1380 - 1378: I Am

For most of the day.

Lynn and Bi Bi returned to their residence.

The servants had already prepared the meal and put it on the table. Bi Bi happily devoured the food, but Lynn didn’t have much of an appetite. He ate a little, then returned to his bedroom, holding his head with his brows furrowed.

This wasn’t because his scalp was cold, but purely because he discovered the difficulties he faced were even greater.

The people in this area had set their minds on resisting him, and they did so cleverly, without any apparent flaws on the surface.

Whatever orders he gave would be strictly carried out, but the problem was that it was too strict, so much so that it was almost blind.

Yes, blind.

Blindly and outwardly obeying orders without question seemed reasonable, but in the process, things went awry.

For instance, a few days ago when he wanted to form a branch of the Efficiency Department here, he asked for some young, energetic people to be grassroots members. Soon, people were found, and they were all young miners who had just come of age.

Truly young—how could they not be young just coming of age?!

Truly energetic—how could they persevere as miners without energy?!

All his requirements were perfectly met, yet they were completely not what he wanted.

He suppressed his anger and requested that these people be sent back and replaced with a batch of experienced, not excessively young, and mature individuals.

As a result, after making a round today, he found that they had found all old, nearly retired people. Truly experienced, truly mature, yet absolutely unable to work!

He was truly irritated, considering listing dozens or hundreds of criteria for them to find suitable candidates. But then he thought, this wouldn’t solve the fundamental problem.

No matter how detailed his criteria were, people here would find loopholes. To change all this, he still needed the people here to submit.

But how to make them submit?

Lynn lowered the hands on his head and lightly tapped the table, contemplating deeply.

Richard had set deadlines for each of his tasks, and regarding the complete formation of the Efficiency Department, the final deadline was soon. He must quickly change the current situation. However, he couldn’t break the situation by force, as the results would be unpredictable; he needed a gentle, clever way to approach it from the side. But...

Lynn thought for a long time until noon but still had no idea. At this moment, a servant rushed in and reported, "Master Lynn, someone wants to see you." 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

"Someone wants to see me?" Lynn raised an eyebrow and asked, "Who?"

The servant shook his head: "I don’t know. They refuse to say. But they seem to be of unusual status."

Lynn couldn’t guess what status the visitors held and pondered for a while before telling the servant: "Go tell them I’m busy and let them wait a while. If they haven’t left after half an hour, then bring them to see me."

In Lynn’s view, if the other party really could wait for half an hour, it must be something relatively important. It also confirmed that their status was lower than his since they came in a relatively low posture. He could thus gain some initiative in the conversation—since the other party disclosed no information, he had to find a way to gather information himself.

The servant nodded and turned to leave.

At this moment, footsteps echoed from outside, and a woman spoke loudly: "Mr. Lynn, do you really want us to wait for half an hour? What will you do during this half-hour, solve your problems? But given your ability, I’m afraid half an hour isn’t enough. If we do it, though, it may not be the case."

Upon hearing this, Lynn’s expression changed dramatically. The scar on his face twisted, and he looked outside with a frown.

Although he hadn’t seen them, he could hear from the footsteps that there were six or seven people, and their posture was definitely high—this wasn’t good news.

However, he remained calm, not tearing the facade to question why they barged in directly. Instead, he took a deep breath, opened the door, and walked toward them.

He saw seven people in total, two women and four men. The woman wearing a crimson outfit stood in front. He didn’t know why, but she seemed vaguely familiar to him. Beside the woman in red was another woman, with a slight limp but possessing a strong presence. It was her voice that spoke earlier.

"May I ask, who are you?" Lynn squinted his eyes and asked.

"We are from Black Water City, here to help you." The limping woman explained succinctly, "Someone knows that although you are capable and willing to work hard, you can’t possibly exceed the limits of ordinary people. In other places, perhaps a series of problems could be solved, but here, it’s hard to say. So, we are here to solve the problem for you, so you don’t drag on too long."

Upon hearing this, Lynn internally relaxed a little, confirming by asking, "So, you share the same status as Miss Bi Bi?"

"In a sense, yes," the limping woman replied.

"Then how do you plan to solve the problem here?"

"Actually, we’ve already solved it." At this point, the woman in crimson slightly parted her lips and suddenly spoke.

"Hm?" Lynn was startled, somewhat unresponsive.

The woman in crimson slightly turned her head, shouting outward, "Hulk!"

"Princess!" Someone immediately responded. A brawny man carried a panic-stricken person inside from outside, throwing him to the ground.

The person thrown to the ground struggled to get up and tried to escape, but the woman in crimson snorted lightly. It was as if an invisible sharp blade slashed through the air.

With a "puff" sound, blood spattered from both of the escapee’s ankles, and he fell to the ground, crying out in pain.

Lynn’s eyes narrowed. He had some insight, and this was clearly a spell effect, probably a Wind Blade—one of the spells most favored by wizards for killing invisibly.

The woman in crimson glanced at the fallen escapee, then turned to Lynn and said, "In this area, all your instructions have been covertly resisted. With your intellect, you should have guessed that there was collusion among conspirators, united to give you a hard time. You’ve always wanted to root them out, but the other side was too well-hidden, leaving you with no evidence.

Now, I’ve helped you uncover it. This is one of the conspirators. Carefully interrogate them, and you’ll learn many things. Then you can easily find much evidence. Finally, you can openly arrest and deal with people, and no one will have any objections. If there really are objections... heh, I’ll make sure they don’t have any."

What grand arrogance... Lynn frowned after listening, somewhat dissatisfied with the attitude of the woman in crimson and her group. Compared to Bi Bi, the difference was significant.

Bi Bi, though quirky, was genuinely helpful without making unnecessary comments. However, now the other side, while helping, seemed more dominant, making him an assistant, which made him uncomfortable.

Most importantly, who exactly were these people?

As he wondered, Lynn suddenly recalled the burly man calling the woman in crimson "Princess" and then remembered a blurry wanted poster he’d seen—back in the days of the Sika Kingdom.

Lynn’s head jerked up, eyes wide, as he looked at the woman in crimson with surprise, exclaiming, "I remember now, you’re..."

"Yes." Unexpectedly, the woman in crimson calmly admitted, saying, "I am Moli, the Blood Princess of the Sika Kingdom. So, is there a problem?"

Lynn: "..."

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