What Luo Yuan perceived was a vision of the soul. As his ability could not detect light, all the objects were presented in grayscale. In general, life forms contained energy and thus the color tended to be white whilst inanimate objects were gray in color unless they contained radiation. The stronger the creature was the more white it would look. However, Luo Yuan had yet to see a creature as powerful as this woman that had a light so bright.
"Is she the captain who always has meetings in New Beijing?" Luo Yuan was able to hear them talking even when Fang Peibin whispered in a very low tone. He was slightly surprised because there was nobody who specifically mentioned the gender of the captain before so he naturally assumed that the captain would be a man.
It was not sexism, but by nature, women tended to keep a distance from fighting. Wu Qianru was one of the rare cases in this small team. He never expected that the captain was a woman and seemed like she had a very powerful skill.
She was petite in size, even shorter than Chen Jiayi and probably only at the height of Luo Yuan’s chest. She had a rosy fair skin and he could not estimate the age by looking at her outlook. She was wearing a bigger size of khaki combat uniforms and the uniform was obviously one size bigger so it looked baggy on her body; it was as if the uniform was going to fall from her shoulders. Besides, her trousers were also very large in size. Since the fabric was rough, when she walked it made a rustling sound which made her look a little funny.
As their distance got closer, Luo Yuan felt a slight chill. The surrounding air temperature seemed to suddenly reduce by several Celsius. As she walked closer, Luo Yuan subconscious became intense, but soon he felt relieved as she took up her hand and said, "You are Luo Yuan, right? I have heard your name for so long. Hello, my name is Lin Feiyan. I welcome to you join us on behalf of the sword unit of Hope City. Hope that we can work together happily." Lin Feiyan smiled, giving Luo Yuan a very good first impression.
"This is my honor." Luo Yuan shook her hand. It was extremely soft but felt like it was burning as if he was holding a mass of fired coals. It was not as cold as the surrounding temperature due to her skill but instead, was very high in temperature at almost 50 to 60 degrees Celsius. At this temperature, regular people would have already burned to death but she looked alright and calm.
Fang Peibin who stood next to them looked back and forth from time to time. Both of them had a fine, crystal like sets of teeth and even their skin was equally smooth and delicate with invisible pores, so he kind of sensed that both of them were from the same category of people.
"Let me introduce you, this is Commissioner Yu from the Political Headquarters of the sword unit. He is here today specifically to understand the actual situation of yesterday's mission. When are you available to have a conversation with him? "
"Hi, Commissioner Yu. I have nothing to do today so I am available anytime."
"Hi, Mr. Luo. I am sorry to disturb you, I just need a little bit of your time," said Commissioner Yu in a very humble way.
Lin Feiyan looked at the time, "Both of you please go ahead with the conversation. Is one hour sufficient for you, Commissioner Yu?"
Without getting the answer from Commissioner Yu, she talked to Fang Peibin, "Fang, please go and inform the other members and the crews to come for a meeting after one and a half hour. Please do not be late."
"Noted, captain," answered Fang Peibin seriously.
"Luo Yuan and Commissioner Yu, you guys proceed, I will need to leave first. There are a lot of backlogs to handle. Let’s meet at the conference room later."
There were many vacant offices in the building, Luo Yuan randomly chose one and went inside. Although it was vacant, it was very clean inside. Apparently, it was cleaned every day. After the crew sent in tea, Commissioner Yu took out a file, recording pen from the briefcase and began the formal conversation. He asked in a detailed manner that even Luo Yuan had ignored some of the details. Fortunately, Luo Yuan had a superior memory otherwise he would not be able to answer most of the questions.
After half an hour the conversation had ended and he finally felt a little relieved.
"Thank you very much for your cooperation, Mr. Luo. This is my most relaxing conversation ever." Commissioner Yu stood up and shook Luo Yuan’s hand, in his heart he had a very good impression on Luo Yuan. He had done more than 10 similar conversations and this time was undoubtedly the most relaxing one.
"I admire your dedication to your job too." Luo Yuan replied with courtesy.
"It would be the best if every evolved human was so highly principled like you." Exclaimed Commissioner Yu with his words full of resentment, before he then continued, "The finding of the new alloys was very significant for the redevelopment area as well. Its value was immeasurable. Other than to understand the situation from you, I am coming to recognize your outstanding contributions to the redevelopment area. Hereby, I would like to congratulate you in advance, General Luo."
Luo Yuan smiled.
At 1:30 pm, everyone except for Xie Junhui who went out to execute task was in the conference room. Luo Yuan was officially awarded as a Major General and directly appointed as vice-captain, with the two rewards of first-class credit.
The ceremony was very simple and not solemn at all. Except for two sets of uniforms and an official military certificate that served as proof of his rank, everything was like child's play. In fact, it did not have actual power at all. After all, he was still a member of the sword unit so being a vice captain was actually better than being a general.
As for the two first class credit rewards, he had totally no idea what they were used for. It seemed like it had a special purpose as he could see the envious expression of everyone which included Lin Feiyan.
The appointment process was very smooth and no one had any objections. Stronger personnel were destined to be respected in this special team. Nothing was important except strength and powerful skills that was able to convince and subjugate these bunch of evolved humans.
Next up was the memorial session for Vice-Captain Yuan. It was more crowded and grand as more people joined into the conference rooms in just a short while.
On the podium, there used to be a flower pot but it was now replaced with a black casket. However, the black casket was actually empty as the Vice-Captain Yuan was dead without a complete corpse so it was just symbolic.
All the members looked serious. It was only now that they felt slightly sad about the death. They never expected to see such a powerful vice-captain die in such a cruel way. Only Wu Qianru slightly teared up as she was the partner of Vice-Captain Yuan back then when they executed the task together.
Before the eulogy was read, the family members were already arguing with each other, especially the seven pretty ladies who were the ones that argued most fiercely. They were crying whilst they fought and quarrelled with one another. Behind them, there were also friends and relatives that supported one of both sides while they had a dispute among themselves.
After the explanation of Fang Peibin, Luo Yuan finally knew that these seven ladies were the wives of Vice-Captain Yuan. Usually, after a member of the sword unit passes due to a mission, the government would grant a generous pension which was a large lump sum of money for ordinary people. Apparently, they were arguing for this.
After the ceremony was affected by this farce, the sad atmosphere had completely disappeared. Lin Feiyan had a headache when she saw the situation so she decided to skip the final process of eulogy in order to end the session as soon as possible. When she tried to walk out from the room she was pulled back in by a few ladies. It was all because of her petite size and the childlike of Lin Feiyan that made her looked harmless. Because of that, the ladies requested Captain Lin to help them to bbe the presiding judge since she was the leader here.
Luo Yuan was already bored with the ceremony and mourning so when he saw this scene he quickly winked at the gang and took the opportunity to go outside. When Luo Yuan tried to ask Fang Peibin what was the function of the first class credits that he received, a beautiful young woman with a graceful posture held a pile of papers and walked straight to him. Obviously, she wanted to approach him so he had to wait for another time to ask about it.
"Hello, vice-captain. I am the manager of the Office Management, Chen Xinjie. I'll bring you along so you can pick your office. Do you have any specific requirements?" The young woman asked with a smiling face.
"No, I will just take the office of former vice-captain. I am not picky at all." Said Luo Yuan.
"This would be great, it saved us a lot of effort. That office is really the best here, I was worried that you'd feel that it was taboo to use that office." Chen Xinjie covered her mouth and chuckled. She had a pair of charming, teary eyes and she looked attractive when she laughed making Luo Yuan subconsciously take a look at her.
Both of them walked into the room of the former vice-captain which was at the end of the corridor. When he opened the door, Luo Yuan was surprised to see that the room had been cleaned and tidied up. The windows and desks were wiped until they were as shiny as new ones. The room was about 200 square feet which were equivalent to the size of a living room.
Indeed it was more like a living room. Other than the large desk which looked odd, it was almost no different than a living room. There was a refrigerator, full-color TV, air conditioning and all the fixtures. All of them were considered to be high-end products before the apocalypse.
Vice-Captain Yuan had good taste, at least there was nothing that Luo Yuan felt uncomfortable with. When he opened the door on the left wall, it was a bedroom with a bathroom attached. It seemed like he could live inside permanently. In addition, there was a balcony outside the living room that made the room barely look like an office.
"If you're unsure or unsatisfied with the layout and decoration, we can modify the room according to your requests immediately."
Luo Yuan placed his major general uniform and the certificate on the desk as he went over to sit on the massage chair. He was hardly dissatisfied with the office which would be considered to be very luxurious even before the apocalypse. "No, I'm fine."
"Then do you need anything from your secretary?" Chen Xinjie continued.
"Secretary?!" Luo Yuan was stunned for a moment. It was a small department in the sword unit with only a few members. Was it necessary for him to have a secretary?