Ling Cage: I am a spiritual master, devouring source matter to become a god.

Jingyuan's place has never been this lively before.

Almost all of the younger generation of hunters have come.

Charles felt uneasy upon learning that Jingyuan was celebrating their success with Mark.

Although he was angry, he quickly calmed down because he had a backup plan.

The next day, Charles summoned the priests and brought Jingyuan to the law firm.

Looking at Jingyuan, who was still a little sleepy, Charles laughed and said, "Looks like you guys had a lot of fun last night! Vice Captain Jingyuan!"

Jingyuan smiled and said, "Yes. We originally wanted to invite the head of the association to come along yesterday. But we couldn't find him."

Charles smiled slightly, "How could the head of the Light and Shadow Society associate with you?"

"I don't understand what happened yesterday. Could you explain it to me?"

"what's up?"

"You've already completed your mission, you could have just come back, why did you go and rescue the others?"

Jing Yuan frowned and asked, "What you're saying, Chief, means that others shouldn't be saved?"

Charles smiled and said, "I just don't understand, are you just bold because you're skilled, or do you have other ideas?"

"Chief," Jing Yuan said with a smile, "those people who went down to the surface to do the mission yesterday, no matter whose side they are on, they are all citizens of the Lighthouse. If you kill these people, even if you become the city lord in the future, who will you use? Sengge from the city defense army? Or your priests?"

Charles looked at Jingyuan with a dark expression: "What do you mean by that?"

"Let me put it more bluntly. Chief, our enemy is the Devouring Beast, the Mana Ecosystem, not our own people."

Snapped!

Charles slammed his fist on the table and said angrily, "I don't need you to teach me how to do things!"

Jingyuan squinted at Charles, wondering if he was really that arrogant.

Charles stared at Jing Yuan and said, "I can get you to this position, and I can bring you down. Don't forget our respective roles."

Jing Yuan laughed and said, "I don't care about this identity; all I care about is survival. Chief, perhaps one day you will understand that, in order for everyone to survive, the things you care about now are nothing!"

Charles remained silent.

He wanted a dog, and in Charles's eyes now, Jingyuan was still an extremely difficult dog to tame.

But he still had a way.

However, as for Jingyuan, he had already tried to persuade him.

Charles, for the time being, has consistently failed to offer him any hope.

Jing Yuan turned and left without saying a word.

Charles did not stop them.

Fanlu appeared beside Charles and said softly, "Your Excellency..."

Charles raised his hand, indicating that he didn't need to say anything more.

“Don’t worry, as a pawn, all we need to do is exploit his weaknesses.” Charles smiled slyly: “If he doesn’t have any weaknesses, we’ll create them for him.”

"Yes!"

Chapter 48 Informing Jingnan

After leaving the law institute, Jing Yuan went directly to the navigation control room.

"I need to speak to Commander Jingnan. Please inform him."

There were two guards standing at the entrance to the navigation control room.

Jingyuan explained his purpose, and one of the guards went into the air control room to find Jingnan.

Soon after, Jingnan came out and was somewhat surprised to see Jingyuan looking for her.

"What do you want from me?"

Jingyuan smiled and said, "Lord Jingnan, may I have a word with you in private?"

Jingnan nodded and led Jingyuan to a secluded place.

"In private, you can just call me Jingnan."

"No! I was ignorant of the rules before, please forgive me."

Jingnan didn't know what Jingyuan intended, but she didn't want to speculate too much. "No one can hear us here, just say it!"

“Okay.” Jing Yuan took out a tablet computer and pulled up images from the last mission Mark led to assess new recruits. “These are reconnaissance information from the last mission. While looking through these images, I discovered that many images containing crucial information had been deleted.”

Jingnan's face showed shock.

"This crucial information concerns the movements of the Devouring Beasts. I haven't seen the original images, but I've experienced the situation on the ground. With so many Devouring Beasts, it's impossible that they weren't observed. The inaccurate information provided by the command center caused problems with the strategy formulated by the Hunters based on that information. Ultimately, this resulted in heavy casualties. Commander Jingnan, do you think it's appropriate to put Captain Mark on the blame?"

Where did you get this information?

"Of course, it came from your archives."

"Who brought you in?"

Jingyuan shook his head and smiled, "I definitely can't tell you that."

Jingnan understood this, of course, but there was no need for him to know.

Jingyuan originally wanted to tell Mark the news directly, but after seeing Mark's conversation with Jingnan yesterday, he knew that even if he told Mark, he would just ask Jingnan to investigate, so he might as well just tell Jingnan directly.

"Lord Jingnan, even the reconnaissance information for this mission is flawed. We were only selecting a deputy captain, and the chosen locations shouldn't have so many Devouring Beasts. But in reality, all these locations have Devouring Beasts. This kind of information error is terrifying and despicable. How many people will the Hunters lose if we're not careful? Lord Jingnan, have you considered this?"

Jing Nan looked at Jing Yuan. He had come specifically to find him, so it couldn't be as simple as just telling him this information.

Who do you think did this?

Jingyuan shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter who did it! Lord Jingnan, the hunters went down to the ground to collect supplies for the lighthouse. The reconnaissance information they provided should be accurate! If this continues, and the hunters are killed, who will go down to collect supplies?"

Jingnan fell into thought.

Jingyuan certainly knew who did it, but what was the point of saying all this? Would Morgan really kill his own son?

All he wanted was accurate information so that they wouldn't mess things up next time.

And Jingnan is capable of doing just that.

"I understand." Jing Nan nodded, without saying anything more.

"Then I'll take my leave first."

After saying that, Jingyuan left.

After leaving the flight control room, Jing Yuan thought he still had some free time, so he decided to go to the workshop to check on the progress of 4277's work.

As Jingyuan approached the workshop, he overheard the sound of an argument.

Jingyuan was puzzled; few people came to this place, so who could be arguing?

"I told you, you shouldn't interfere in my affairs, so why did you still come along?"

“I haven’t seen you all day recently, and I’m worried about you.”

"I told you, I'm working! You know what working is, right?"

"So what kind of work do you do?"

"I can't say, work requires confidentiality. I'm a person of my word."

"You're working for the upper class, aren't you!"

"What's wrong?"

"So what do you do for a living? Why don't you tell me?"

Jingyuan could tell from the voices that it was a man and a woman. The woman was clearly 4277, but who was the man?

Jingyuan was a little worried, so he went over and saw the short-haired young man 4068 and 4277 arguing.

When the two saw Jing Yuan, their expressions changed somewhat.

4277's eyes showed joy, while 4068's eyes showed some worry.

But when 4068 saw the way 4277 looked at Jing Yuan, he instantly became resentful.

"What are you two doing here?" Jing Yuan didn't reveal his relationship with 4277, but questioned him in the manner of an upper-class citizen.

4068 didn't know how to answer. He had already guessed that it was this Shangmin who was hiring 4277, but he just didn't know what kind of work it was.

4277 realized what was happening and said, "Um... Vice Captain Jingyuan, we were just passing by."

Jing Yuan smiled wryly to himself. This little girl not only revealed his name but also his newly promoted position, as if she was afraid others wouldn't know they were very familiar with each other.

Jing Yuan said with a serious expression, "This is the Shangmin District. Don't wander around here if you don't have anything to do!"

“Okay! Let’s leave now!” 4277 was the first to react, pulling 4068 to prepare to leave.

Jingyuan walked inside; he didn't want to interfere too much in 4277's affairs.

4277 pulled 4068 outside the passage and said angrily, "See! Are you only satisfied when you see us being taken away by the people from the law firm?"

"We didn't do anything, so why did the law firm arrest me?" 4068 always had a stubborn attitude.