Ti rewound to about an hour ago.
Xia’s Farm.
The glass room in the core area.
Xia Yu stood under the Rainbow Tree, hands on hips, looking up at the tree that had grown more than three ters tall, listening to Jintan Shun recounting a past event.
The story was lodramatic, nothing more than forr hunter teammates who later turned into enemies.
As for knowing Lei Zhe, Jintan Shun understood him better than even the leaders of the Gourt Association.
"He’s a very complex person, quiet and serious, the most prestigious research expert within the Gourt Association. With a series of research achievents, he secured the position of head of the research departnt, naturally developing this faction into one of the towering forces within the Gourt Association, externally known as the Research Faction."
"When angry, he becos a demon driven by emotions, ruthless and cruel, fond of eating various animals’ eyeballs raw. Of course, I’ve heard that his tastes have changed in recent years; he only eats the eyeballs of fantasy species now... Hey, this food preference, it’s related to his gourt cells; he hasn’t fully controlled the Gourt Demon inside him, hence he carries various primitive and savage habits."
Not only was Lei Zhe analyzed in detail, through Jintan Shun’s words, Xia Yu also saw another facet of the ’Gourt Association’.
The Gourt Association, a vast and complex gourt organization.
Apart from the ’Research Faction’ headed by Lei Zhe, the other seven factions were also independently powerful, with finances and personnel under the control of headquarters which firmly held the lifeline of the Gourt Association’s chefs—
Ingredients, gourt cells!
To this day, no outsider has managed to glimpse how all-encompassing the Gourt Association Headquarters’ ingredient repository is, except for that high and mighty Heavenly King.
"The Research Faction, the Academic Faction, we shouldn’t discuss them; too complicated to say, personally, I prefer to divide the power of the Gourt Association into three camps: Lawful, Neutral, and Evil."
"You’re familiar with several figures of the Lawful camp, Mars, Lin Giant Desani and his daughter."
"For the Neutral camp, the ’Breeding Witch’ Catherine, you rember her, right? You are one of her major patrons, having sourced a batch of ’Sea Glowworms’ from her. In fact, there are not many wealthy individuals qualified to breed such fantasy insects, and you are the most suitable one since you own an erging fantasy garden—"
At this, Jintan Shun winked.
"I am grateful to have witnessed such a fantasy garden’s ergence up close!"
Xia Yu interrupted with a smile, "What about ’Dragon Tar’ Sta and ’Burning Purple Rose’ Andrea?"
"These two belong to the Neutral camp."
At this, Jintan Shun paused, "You know what ’Neutral’ truly ans, right?"
"I hope it’s Absolute Neutral, not Chaotic Neutral."
"Eh?" Jintan Shun was taken aback by Xia Yu’s response, and it took him a while to sowhat grasp the anings of the prefixes ’Absolute’ and ’Chaotic’.
"Absolute Neutral is the Balanced Doctrine."
"Chaotic Neutral is about freethinkers, individualists."
Hearing the explanation, Jintan Shun pondered, "Then their Chaotic Neutral side is sowhat larger."
"As for the Evil camp, Lei Zhe and his Research Faction are part of it, plus, the big fish you accidentally caught a couple of days ago, oh, I should say the ’Tiger Head Association’ he belongs to. Essentially, this alliance also erged within the Gourt Association, its mbers are also part of the Gourt Association, but if we’re to differentiate further, the Tiger Head Association and the Research Faction are quite different."
Xia Yu nodded.
In his view, Lei Zhe and his Research Faction had a slightly larget angle of ’Chaotic Evil’, while Chen Yang and the Tiger Head Association were ’Lawful Evil’.
This represents the study of factions.
In a nutshell—Since ancient tis, chaos breeds fools; Chaotic Evil is the fool among fools.
Thus, regarding Lei Zhe and his Research Faction, any predicted behaviors or scheming, it’s useless to predict and judge because even they don’t understand themselves.
Labelling Lei Zhe as a fool, Xia Yu found, didn’t lower this person’s threat; it significantly increased it.
It’s the shaless hooligans one should be wary of!
Moreover, this hooligan also possesses formidable culinary and combat abilities!
"Uncle Jintian, I want to expel him directly!"
After a brief deliberation, Xia Yu declared resolutely.
"A wise decision!"
Jintan Shun gave a thumbs up, "Keeping such a guy in Far Moon is like setting yourself on fire!"
"But..."
Xia Yu expressed his concerns.
Without an equally ranked Qilin-level Gourt Hunter to keep things in check, he truly feared Lei Zhe might go berserk.
"Do you want to secretly assist?" Jintan Shun shook his head, pointing at the Rainbow Tree in front of him and the shelves around the glass room filled with thriving rare plants, "You don’ti plan to take care of the farm anymore?"
"I must remind you, yesterday, on the first day of the school festival, there were already many sneaky figures around the farm. Today, they will likely be bolder."
Upon hearing this, Xia Yu’s heart shivered.
"Here’s what we’ll do!"
Jintan Shun took out his phone, waved it around, "I’ll contact another Qilin-level Gourt Hunter for you. You know her; she’s currently in Tokyo. As for the commission..."
"That’s easy to handle!"
Xia Yu finally showed a smile.
Before long, Xia Yu pushed open the glass door.
"Be careful!"
Jintan Shun looked at his retreating figure, hesitated to speak, and finally just gave this warning.
...
He returned to the central district.
"I’m going to expel you!"
A calm statent, which, when heard by everyone around, bood like a thunderclap.
Eriina, Kobayakawa Ryodan, and Koga Shoji were stunned.
Xingping Chuangzhen also froze in mid-gesture.
Even Chen Yang on the fringes and Tang Yuqiong, who had just arrived to join the excitent and was holding a cara pole, were baffled.
Expelling a Lin Chef!
Oh my God!
It took a long while for the echoed words in their minds to be acknowledged.
The throng of onlooking reporters went wild, their faces flushed as if a single sentence induced a physiological climax. Each one lifted their devices, capturing the scene of the youth confronting Lei Zhe, and in their minds, several sensational headlines ford—
Sothing about a youth and a giant bear, sothing about a kingdom’s war, sothing about the first case ever.
Ultimately, the reporters found that no matter how eye-catching the words were, they could hardly encapsulate the scene they had just captured.
"Expulsion?!"
From initial shock to silence, Lei Zhe after a few seconds simply burst into laughter.
"Do you understand what the character ’Lin’ signifies?"
A cold smile ford at the corner of his mouth: "Culinary skill, status, and... a set of rules for Food Duels that are distinct from both special grades and those below!"
"So, you’re talking about a Dark Food Duel? Sorry, I don’t plan to accept any form of Food Duel. You might as well give up."
Xia Yu crossed his arms, quite composed.
Indeed!
In his mind, he again raised Lei Zhe’s danger level.
Don’t bother guessing the thoughts of a fool.
Did he still hope to drag him into a Food Duel at this ti? A Qilin-level actually conceiving the idea of challenging a special grade, it was utterly insane and unreasonable.
He shrugged at the thought.
...
Tiqie Mansion.
"Head to the central district!" Tiqie Xianzuowen strode briskly, diving into the car by the entrance, clutching his phone tightly. The old butler sitting in the driver’s seat glanced at the rearview mirror, his expression grave, "We’ll get there as quickly as possible!"
After that, the car shot out like an arrow released.
Around one or two hundred ters away from the mansion complex, in the mountain woods.
A few withered yellow leaves drifted down.
Swoosh!
Soone slid down from the tree; it was three female ninjas.
The female leader nad Ei glanced at the swiftly disappearing car and did not hesitate, "Go!"
From afar, they took out hidden equipnt. The dense surveillance network around the mansion imdiately suffered an invisible infrared laser attack. Sizzling sounds emitted, and in the underground control room, multiple screens on the display panel turned white.
"Hmm?"
Standing before the control panel, a tall, muscular man who hadn’t moved for a while now smiled, "This trip really wasn’t in vain."
He took off his suit jacket and pushed through the door.
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