No strange things are allowed to evolve!

What makes this kid so special?

He genuinely wanted Jiang Shu to be doing well, but not too well. How could she be doing better than him, the team leader?

At that moment, Shen Mo suddenly had an epiphany.

Could it be that... that feeling of unease that makes him stronger whenever Jiang Shu is mentioned doesn't mean he's encountered any setbacks, but rather foreshadows that he's about to face setbacks?

Just as he was brainstorming, the call was connected.

"Hey? What's up? Missed me?"

Hearing Jiang Shu's lazy, confident voice, which clearly exuded an air of nonchalance and absolute self-assurance, and showed no sign of being discouraged, Shen Mo's anxious heart finally died.

"Well..." Shen Mo asked in a voice that was almost choked with emotion, but he tried his best to put on a nonchalant tone, "I heard you've been making a fortune at the Holy Temple lately?"

Chapter 298 The Next Generation

"Well?"

Shen Mo's opening remarks left Jiang Shu somewhat confused.

He thought it had been a long time since they last contacted each other, although it hadn't actually been that long. But when someone suddenly contacted him, it was either because they missed him or because something important had suddenly come up.

But why does this tone sound like someone is hosting a banquet and has contacted someone they haven't spoken to in a long time just to give a gift?

Perhaps realizing his tone was off, Shen Mo added, "Only you know the sweetness inside, right?"

What does it mean?

"Um...are you alright?"

"I'm fine."

Then came a long silence.

"What's wrong with you? It seems like something's happened to you." Jiang Shu asked suspiciously.

At this moment, Shen Mo had calmed down a bit. The feeling of imbalance that came from knowing he was worried about Shen Mo but not expecting Shen Mo to be enjoying himself behind his brother's back, and to be enjoying the same good things that his brother had worked so hard to achieve, had lessened.

"I just didn't expect that," he said weakly. "You don't need my help at all now."

"?"

Jiang Shu is a very sensitive person.

This makes me feel like a lonely old person who is gradually realizing that they are getting old and can no longer help their children.

"Trying to take advantage of me, huh?"

Having grown accustomed to Jiang Shu's eccentricities, Shen Mo ignored him and directly stated his purpose.

"I'm asking you, did Heaven appoint you as an advisor?"

Jiang Shu didn't react immediately, but after thinking for a while, she remembered that there seemed to be such a thing.

"How did you know?" he asked.

"If nothing unexpected happens, then I should be your senior again." Shen Mo sighed, unsure whether it was luck or misfortune: "I really didn't expect that in a different place, we would still be superior and subordinate. I guess this is what you call a karmic entanglement?"

"Wait a minute, wait a minute." Jiang Shu was momentarily unable to process this: "What do you mean? What do you mean by 'superior and subordinate again'?"

"Don't you understand? I'm also an advisor to Heaven."

Jiang Shu pondered for a moment.

"Aren't you going to be laid off?"

"...?"

Seeing that Shen Mo didn't seem to understand, Jiang Shu gave him a hint.

"A member can only have one faith. Although I don't know how Heaven found you, I suggest you withdraw. I will keep it a secret for you."

His words were very sincere, making people feel that he was a good person who would never betray them.

After pondering for a long time, Shen Mo finally understood.

"Who told you it was that kind of heaven?! I'm talking about the Heaven of the Holy Temple!"

"The Sanctuary..."

Jiang Shu was taken aback, then remembered that Brother Bing had indeed mentioned before that the Holy Temple also had a Heaven.

"Oh my!" he exclaimed in sudden realization.

Shen Mo couldn't hold back any longer: "So you weren't actually hesitating because of our Bureau of Different Principles, right? You just thought it was a spam message!"

"I...I didn't! Actually, I was just worried about what you said!" Jiang Shu retorted emotionally.

"But you just realized that these two are not the same thing!"

What gives you the right to define me?

"So what?" Shen Mo continued to ignore it. "What are your plans? Even if you have concerns about that, now that you know I'm also an advisor to Heaven, and our department doesn't have any taboos about that, what are you going to do?"

"Well... there's no other way, I have to join."

Jiang Shu only realized this belatedly; it was probably a way out offered to him by the chairman, or rather, a way out he was given.

Shen Mo suddenly appeared out of nowhere, probably because the president was getting anxious that he hadn't replied for a long time.

I'm so sorry...

I'm treating you like a wheel...

In short, it seems that this is the only way to continue using the Sanctuary Strategy Zone, so there's really no question of whether or not there's a plan.

"Is it necessary..." Shen Mo felt that Jiang Shu's choice of words was a bit strange: "There is no such thing as a necessity. It mainly depends on yourself. Although this is a disguised affirmation of your abilities, it is okay to refuse if you don't want to. It won't have much of an impact."

"No, the impact is still quite significant," Jiang Shu explained helplessly. "This is the only way I can continue to use the Temple's resources."

"Huh? What's the connection between the two?"

Shen Mo asked, as if sensing something:

"What did you do?"

"Uh... I'm a little embarrassed to say this, but actually I was arrested for doing power leveling in the Sanctuary's strategy section, and then I was explicitly forbidden from entering the strategy section again. So if I don't become an advisor, I won't be able to level up during this time, and I won't have the ability to achieve good results in the competition."

"Power leveling...?"

"It can also be called escorting."

"No, no, no, I know what you mean, I just..." Shen Mo paused, "I knew you'd be restless, but I didn't expect you to be this restless. Hey, you didn't take money from me, did you?"

"If you don't charge money, can it still be called game boosting? Isn't that doing charity?"

"That's true... So, it's already quite lenient of us not to kick you out of the sanctuary outright. And to actually make you an advisor? The director really has a lot of influence."

The version updates were too fast, so Shen Mo, who was unaware of what had happened in the Sanctuary chapter, simply assumed that the president was only taking care of Jiang Shu because of their bureau chief.

No, perhaps it can no longer be called taking care of him; it's practically treating him like royalty.

Jiang Shu did not offer much explanation for this.

"Anyway, I guess I have no choice but to join."

Sensing the helplessness in Jiang Shu's tone, Shen Mo suddenly felt a complex sense of frustration.

This guy... this is an opportunity that many people would love to have, why is he talking about it like some kind of chore?

"Actually," Shen Mo cleared his throat and said, "perhaps to comfort Jiang Shu, or perhaps to save face, you've actually turned misfortune into blessing. Although being an advisor isn't a formal position, you still get all the benefits you're entitled to, plus a lot of special allowances and many conveniences from the Holy Temple. It's pretty good."

"That's the only way I can comfort myself..."

Tsk.

Shen Mo was furious.

He changed the subject.

"How's the situation with the incubation field? You haven't encountered any difficulties, have you? Like getting stuck in the advanced or expert stages?"

No, not at all.

Jiang Shu replied:

"I'm already in the final arena, and my score is almost enough to get me into the top ten. It's just that the people in the top ten are unwilling to compete with me because they think my level is too low and I'm not qualified to fight them."

Although this is actually quite virtuous, such disrespect is still inexplicably annoying, which is why I am using the strategy section of the Holy Temple.

So the current situation isn't very good. Going up, we can't reach their threshold, so there's no point in talking about points. Going down, frankly, doesn't make much sense either. We're stuck in the middle.

"..." Shen Mo took a deep breath: "I'm telling you, you've only been gone for less than half a month, right?"

"It seems so, what's wrong?"

"Nothing much." Shen Mo suddenly didn't feel like talking anymore.

It took him a month to get to the final venue back then.

It took another month to accumulate enough points to enter the competition.

Thinking about all this, he wasn't even very curious about how Jiang Shu had achieved the current progress in just half a month. He felt that if this topic continued, it would only make his already not-so-pleasant mood even worse.

Fortunately, Jiang Shu gave him a treat after slapping him.

"Oh, right."

What did Jiang Shu think of?

"You would never guess that someone here actually remembers you and told me about your exploits. I never imagined that you were once a champion of the competition."

"Oh?" Shen Mo perked up slightly. "You've heard my story?"

"Yeah, what grade were you in back then?"

“I remember it was back then…” Shen Mo was about to begin recounting the details when he suddenly realized something.

If I hadn't been reminded, I think I would have forgotten about that.

It took me, a level 9 user, two months to qualify for the competition, while Jiang Shu, a level 6 user, was already very close in just half a month.

Its value is actually increasing!

"I forgot," Shen Mo replied guiltily. "It should be about the same as yours."

Perhaps such words were too unethical, so he added, "However, I remember that I did improve during this process, and when I came back, I was almost a completely different person from when I first went there."

"I see. As expected of you. But this also proves that the path I'm on now is the right one."

Shen Mo felt that the current conversation could no longer continue.

So, after offering Jiang Shu a few words of encouragement, he quickly hung up the phone under some pretext.

He put down his phone and sat there silently for a long time.

He lit a cigarette and took a deep drag.

"call..."

Then he exhaled a long puff of white mist, his brows furrowed.

"I'm still really annoyed."

But after saying that, he seemed to remember something, and the furrows between his brows slowly spread out again.

"But it's good that you're alright..."

See you at the tournament.

On the other side, Jiang Shu pulled out the text messages he had ignored.

After thinking it over, he replied carefully, informing the other party that he was interested in joining.

The president and the head of the Heaven Hall were overjoyed to finally receive a reply.

It wasn't that they were truly pleased with the satisfactory resolution of the matter, or that they felt they had gotten a great deal; it was simply because, in their eyes, Jiang Shu's personality was just too appealing.

What's the difference between successfully adding another mark to someone loyal to their organization and successfully getting a respectable woman to go into business?

"As expected of the president, he's so skilled. He even came up with such a despicable method as having an acquaintance lure someone into abduction."

"That goes without saying, I... wait, what nonsense are you talking about?"

After finding out the location, Jiang Shu jumped out of bed and headed straight for heaven.

Things went very smoothly.