257: Guest Elder

"How is the situation?!" Director Yu's voice came through.

"We took them down!" Gu Fengyang shouted.

"Oh? Very good! Have you found out which Branch of the Blood Wolf Hall these people are from?" Director Yu asked.

"This... we haven't interrogated them yet, we are currently cleaning up the battlefield!" Gu Fengyang said.

"I see. Did any of the mecha pilots mentioned in the intelligence appear?"

"Yes!"

"Are you serious?! Then what exactly is its combat power?" Director Yu asked with curiosity.

Gu Fengyang's expression dimmed, and he sighed: "It can reach about the Middle Stage of Martial Commander. We almost lost our lives. Fortunately, a youth named Long Yuan appeared and saved us, otherwise, we might have been completely wiped out this time!"

"It's actually that strong?!" Director Yu stood up in shock, hardly able to believe his own ears...

Gu Fengyang recounted the sequence of events, and finally said: "Long Yuan took that set of mecha away! This was his spoils of war, so we didn't stop him. Besides, even if we wanted to stop him, we couldn't!"

Director Yu felt his emotions rising and falling, and said: "Since he took it, it's his! Don't worry about that mecha anymore. Quickly clean up, bring the people over, and no matter what, find out their origins and eradicate their Branch!"

"Yes!!!" Gu Fengyang quickly replied.

Director Yu put down the phone, thought for a moment, and dialed Long Yuan's number...

"Hello! May I ask who you are..." Long Yuan looked at the phone number and said with a secret smile.

"Long Yuan, I am Director Yu of the Southern Division of the Jianxuan Envoy Department. You can verify this number or ask Xiao Qi. It's the real deal!" Director Yu laughed.

Long Yuan deliberately paused for a moment before replying: "Yes! Hello, Director Yu! I wonder what advice you have for me?"

"Advice? I wouldn't dare. I'm looking for you because I want you to advise me! Do you know which Branch those Blood Wolf Hall Evil Cultists who appeared outside Nanming belong to? Do you have information on their specific location?" Director Yu asked eagerly.

"Southern Yue City, Feng Residence! Its Branch Master is named Feng Guang! The person Captain Gu and his team just captured is the steward of the Feng Residence, Feng Lifeng!" Long Yuan said straightforwardly.

Director Yu was dumbfounded. He hadn't expected such precious information to be obtained just by asking. Was there even a need to interrogate those Evil Cultists anymore? In the past, who knew what kind of price would have to be paid to obtain information of this level, but now it was obtained so easily, which gave him a rather absurd feeling...

"Director Yu, is there anything else? If not, I have to get back to work!" Long Yuan said.

"Wait!!! Long Yuan, there is one more thing. Can you tell me how you dealt with and countered that set of mecha? According to what Gu Fengyang said, none of them could beat a single mecha pilot. If we go to besiege the Feng Residence, the other side might very well have more mecha pilots, perhaps even more than one. Our losses would certainly be huge then!" Director Yu said.

"I see! Director Yu, there is no need to rush to besiege the Feng Residence, because they have to fight with the Shadow Moon Hall recently to seize a mineral deposit in Shan Feng Forest! Wouldn't it be better to let them fight each other to the death between the cults first?" Long Yuan laughed.

"But if Feng Guang finds out that Feng Lifeng has fallen into our hands, he might very well hide first. Finding him then would be troublesome!" Director Yu analyzed.

Long Yuan nodded inwardly. This Yu Xun was able to be the head of the Southern Division not just because of his family background; he was quite intelligent and hadn't blindly let himself be led by the nose. He said: "Director Yu, just as you said, if the Feng Residence has four or five sets of mecha, do you think he would be in a hurry to hide? Maybe he is just waiting for you to besiege him!"

"This..." Director Yu's expression froze, and he couldn't help but be terrified!

Fortunately, Long Yuan reminded him; otherwise, if they had rashly gone to besiege the Feng Residence, they might have been completely wiped out and suffered heavy losses!

Then, not to mention himself, even the entire Southern Division might have been crippled!

The consequences would have been unimaginable!

Long Yuan continued: "This matter is not urgent! You should not harass the Feng Residence now; just pretend you don't know. After all, cultists can never be killed off completely. With the current operating mode of the Xuan Practitioner world, cultists will only continue to be produced endlessly..."

"Ah, this..." Director Yu was speechless, not knowing what to say...

By the time he came back to his senses, Long Yuan had already hung up the phone.

Director Yu sighed softly. He agreed with Long Yuan's statement immensely. People nowadays were indeed too full of hostility; the slightest dissatisfaction could stir up evil thoughts in their hearts. If some Evil Cultist came along to tempt them, they might just go ahead and join the cult. The Southern Division was currently putting out fires everywhere, yet it seemed they could never extinguish them all...

But the world of Xuan Practitioners was just like this; no one could change it. All he and his people could do was try their best to capture and kill more Evil Cultists!

Thinking this way, he wasn't so anxious anymore. Indeed, as Long Yuan said, he would just wait for Feng Guang and the people from the Shadow Moon Hall to fight like dogs; the Southern Division could just sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight. When the time came, they might even be able to seize some credit along the way.

"Huh, it feels like everything Long Yuan says makes a lot of sense, and doing as he says is almost always correct..." Director Yu suddenly realized this, and he was a bit bewildered. Could it be that he, an old fox who had experienced countless storms, was actually inferior to a youth who had just reached adulthood?

He stared blankly for a while, then suddenly hammered his head, remembering the suggestion Qi Huaiyi had mentioned earlier about recruiting Long Yuan into the Southern Division. He was truly regretful now. If he had recruited Long Yuan into the Southern Division back then, many things might have been easily solved!

This included the matter of Long Yuan taking that set of mecha. If he were a member of the Southern Division, then the mecha in his hands would actually mean it was within the Southern Division. Whatever results Long Yuan managed to tinker out, the Southern Division would have a share!

Furthermore, Long Yuan seemed to possess powerful information capabilities. Many pieces of information even the Southern Division's information System was completely unaware of, yet he could rattle them off casually. And there was his powerful combat capability, which could actually suppress a mecha pilot with Middle Stage Martial Commander combat power. With him around, even if they wanted to besiege the Feng Residence, they would have a great chance of success!

Thinking of this, Director Yu could no longer sit still. He paced around a few times, found a jade plaque engraved with "Guest Elder" from somewhere, and then ordered a craftsman to engrave the words "Long Yuan" on it, with the serial number being Southern No. 1. He placed this plaque into a jade box and then told Qi Huaiyi to come see him immediately upon returning...

"With his status and ability, only this No. 1 Guest Elder plaque is worthy of him! I hope the kid takes a liking to this position..." Director Yu muttered to himself...

At the same time, he reported Long Yuan's situation to the Elders of the Yu Family. He hadn't done this last time, but this time he wouldn't wait. In his view, Long Yuan was definitely a person worth the Yu Family's investment. If they didn't invest in him at this moment, given Long Yuan's rapid growth speed, they might not be needed by him in the future...