"If we're lucky, still manageable."
Cheng Ye picked up the thread, looking straight at him. "You've seen what's under the water. If we don't contain it, no one's getting out of here."
"Just you?"
Garcia reflexively retorted, but the words caught in his throat. After two seconds of silence, he corrected himself: "Just us?"
"Strictly speaking, it'll be me and Luokuke going into the water."
Cheng Ye said in a low voice, "The target is a Destruction Level infection source and the Immortal Objects fragments inside it. You don't need to face the risk head‑on. You just need to stay in town with Wang Kang and keep order, make sure the residents don't panic or trigger a pollution tide. That's your mission."
"As long as we complete the mission, you'll get a Destruction Level promotion metric. You know exactly what that means."
One Destruction equals five Disasters.
The primary promotion metric for Third-stage Inspectors—survive and you get it.
