Chapter 647: Inferiority

Lei Na left, no, it's Chief Lei Na left.

Actually, this world seems to have a kind of corrective force; regarding what Lei Na says, Zhang Jie can hear some of it but not others; past events can be fully accounted for, but external matters cannot be disclosed.

Zhang Jie ultimately never knew whether in the future he had died or abandoned her and left, but Zhang Jie was certain that this world definitely had some power influencing the timeline's development.

And she really just came over to look at Zhang Jie, touched him with her own hands, and then left feeling very satisfied.

She said she had her own Zhang Jie, which both surprised and left Zhang Jie helpless.

But in any case, the true Lei Na has returned; she easily forgave Zhang Jie for all the suffering he caused her, to the point that Zhang Jie even wondered if he had mistaken the person.

After settling the accounts, Zhang Jie found that the original Lei Na was indeed not at fault, and only then did he put his mind at ease.

But for some reason, Zhang Jie always felt that Lei Na's eyes revealed a certain emotion, an emotion he seemed to have seen before in Chief Lei Na's eyes.

"Master, what are you thinking?"

"Nothing much; from now on, you just stay put in the inner area."

"With me here, no one can do that to you again."

"Hmm... hmm."

Lei Na stood with her hands behind her back, swaying her body, as if she had something to say, but our Old Zhang, well, completely failed to notice this.

Because Qi Yu is now ignoring him, no matter how he fidgets, he just curls up into a ball; he must have been provoked by Lei Na.

There was no way; Zhang Jie could only stuff that little guy into his pack, and after settling things with Lei Na, he still had to go home for a family meal.

After being away from home for so long and finally achieving a great victory, how could we not celebrate properly?

"Master, do you have any plans for tonight?"

"I want to treat you to a meal."

Lei Na rifled through her small wallet; thank goodness, the legacy of the Chief Investigator restored everything that ought to be his, not a thing missing.

The wounds on his body also disappeared, the flesh he had raised returned, and his whole person looked refreshed and spirited.

"Hmm.... I'll be with my family tonight."

"Will you come?"

Zhang Jie extended an invitation to Lei Na; her eyes lit up, she was about to nod, but a deafening explosion burst from Zhang Jie's backpack.

"No!!!!"

Qi Yu's voice, panting with exhaustion, startled Lei Na.

"No no! No no no!!!!"

Qi Yu poked her head out of Zhang Jie's backpack, and in one breath said five 'no's, enough to see how furious she was.

"Watermelon rind! What are you doing, don't be so rude."

Zhang Jie shoved her back in, turned his head to look at the fidgeting Lei Na, and apologetically waved his hand.

"Kids don't know better, don't take it to heart."

"Want to come?"

"I....."

I think those two words were swallowed back into her stomach; Lei Na finally still smiled and shook her head.

"No thanks, Master; I'll treat you another time."

"Alright, be careful on your way back."

Zhang Jie patted Lei Na's head; little Lei Na and Chief Lei Na differed greatly in height, but this still made him feel familiar.

The sound of Qi Yu's teeth grinding faded with Zhang Jie's departure; Lei Na just silently watched him go until his figure disappeared from sight.

"Long-lost ease makes you feel extremely comfortable; in such an environment, your will is like a wildly growing plant, madly absorbing the surrounding pollution."

"It grows rapidly; after surpassing the Chief's shackles, all growth becomes extremely easy."

"Under your suppression, Star Bridge District has become utterly one of the safest cities on the mother planet; fear is humanity's greatest soft spot, and when all abnormalities begin to be fully analyzed and start to become as weak as chicks, everything will undergo a drastic change."

"The most direct manifestation is the explosive, well‑spring‑like surge in the number of people awakening their will; many are no longer afraid of abnormalities because of you."

"'As long as there is a weakness, and as long as you understand him well enough, an abnormality is just an ordinary enemy.' This is what you often say in public; you have become radiant and immensely dazzling."

"What you don't know is that normal people do not feel ill all over when faced with your dazzling light."

"Only those rats living in the gutter, or those poor people accustomed to darkness, would feel uncomfortable."

"For example, those high‑level officials who have just gained a tilt in power, those high‑level officials who have abandoned the so‑called human底线, they are precisely the rats in the gutter."

"And those poor people who already live in darkness are precisely Lei Na."

"Gazing at your radiant light, her heart swelled with a deep sense of inferiority; to her, you are like a distant, unattainable blazing sun, impossible to approach...."

"So she buried her feelings deep inside, disguised her true nature, and pretended to live normally in this world."

"25 years old: Qi Yu finally grew up, she returned to a normal physique; this time she not only lost her insect limbs, but also lost those strange non‑human compound eyes, her whole person now looks poised and graceful, as if she had evolved..."

"But you always feel a bit disappointed; that elastic, slippery feel of the insect limbs is gone forever, and you miss it."

"But Qi Yu doesn't see it that way; she's becoming more and more carefree, and of course she still has to guard against Lei Na, guard against having her home stolen."

"And Ceng Tian, that poor fellow, was also released; he continues to work in your Star Bridge District, having gone from an unreachable Chief senior to becoming your colleague, yet he doesn't seem particularly upset."

"He simply feels that his choice was absolutely correct, even proud, because thanks to him humanity now has one more powerful Chief, and that is beyond doubt."

"Ceng Tian is a fool; put plainly, he's someone overly idealistic—although such people do sometimes make big mistakes, this world truly cannot do without them."

"In ordinary life, undercurrents always surge; when you investigate the matter of your own defamation, you always encounter inexplicable obstacles, and that mimic clan that once devastated the Outer Area is again showing signs of activity."

"But this time, you will take action!"

"Cough cough cough, although saying this is a bit too grandiose, anyway, you can change many things; at least, you won't let Star Bridge District also fall to the fate of the Outer Area."

"(Hehehe, all you godfathers, ginseng was exhausted yesterday and took a day off, sorry!)"

"(Actually, I was just sitting around, really empty....)"