March 7th covered her mouth and stared blankly. "R-Ruan Mei?"
After meeting her yesterday, March 7th only knew Herta and didn't know Ruan Mei's identity.
But seeing how she talked with Herta, her status had to be important, so during a break she went online and searched a bit.
Using the name "Ruan Mei," it was easy to find information about her identity and background.
Genius Society member #81, Ruan Mei, a reclusive genius classified by the IPC because she rarely appeared in public and kept her whereabouts mysterious.
Looking at the very limited records about Ruan Mei and the company's evaluation of her, March 7th was shocked.
She was surprised that she could actually meet this genius in the Luofu, someone who basically had no appearance records online.
Then again, aside from Herta, the people in the Genius Society rarely showed themselves.
Of course, Herta appeared often because of the space station.
There were many Herta puppets around the station. Someone could casually snap a picture and post it online, and that counted as an appearance.
In terms of fame, Herta was clearly among the top in the Genius Society.
As for whether she had rivals, that was hard to say.
At least for now, March 7th hadn't heard of any other genius with fame comparable to Herta's.
Waving toward Ruan Mei, Levi spoke again.
"Ms. Ruan Mei plans to carry out a full search of the Ancient Sea, but she's not good at this sort of thing…"
"Of course, I'm not good at it either, but I'm a diviner from the Divination Commission. I can use divination to help her find what she's looking for."
"Jing Yuan's exact words."
Following Levi to the area of the Alchemy Commission near the Ancient Sea, Stelle looked at the calm water and cast a doubtful glance at him.
Divination.
"You know how?"
It wasn't that she doubted Levi's ability.
As far as she knew, he had only joined that Divination Commission two or three days ago at most.
And he got in through connections.
How could he compare to diviners who entered through proper channels?
Without even lifting his head, Levi said, "I'm learning right now!"
The sound of pages turning continued nonstop. Stelle walked over and looked at the books Levi brought.
[Divination: From Beginner to Burial], [Learn Divination in One Week]… [Fake Divination: Starting From Zero as a Street Swindler].
The earlier titles looked normal enough. They really did seem like books for learning divination.
But was that last title serious?
That sounded exactly like a trashy novel.
Without even opening it, Stelle could already imagine the plot inside.
The page-turning was so fast that it barely seemed readable. Stelle started doubting whether he was seriously studying at all.
Her gaze moved to the title of the book he was currently reading.
"Learn Divination in Three Minutes!"
'Three minutes? That exaggerated?!'
She looked at the author name: [Qingque]
Just seeing the name felt unusual. The moment she saw it, she could picture a green sparrow...
Getting slammed onto a table.
"Celestial Jade!"
'Huh?'
Coming back to her senses, Stelle looked around and muttered, "Why do I feel like I heard someone yell 'Celestial Jade'?"
Thinking she imagined it, Stelle looked back at Levi, who was still flipping pages nonstop.
"Did you learn it yet?"
"Didn't find it!" His hands kept moving as he bared his teeth in frustration. "Damn Qingque. I temporarily made an Celestial Jade tile game for her, and she only recommended me a book about card-playing tricks... Found it!"
Near the last few pages, Levi found a section of text different from the earlier content.
It was hidden very deeply. Without careful reading, it was impossible to notice.
There was also a string of mysterious code attached.
And a message from Qingque.
[The strongest method to learn divination in three minutes. Use part of the publicly available internal permissions of the Divination Commission's Matrix of Prescience.]
[Understand this code, and the Matrix of Prescience will open to you.]
He pulled out his jade abacus and rapidly entered the mysterious code.
[KFCFKXQXVME50…]
"..."
Stelle noticed something was wrong. Soon after, Levi noticed it too. He stared at the code and fell silent.
Rip!
Qingque's masterpiece instantly became shredded paper. Grinding his teeth, Levi squeezed out her name.
"Qingque!"
But it made sense. There was no way she would write something as important as the Matrix of Prescience inside a book.
Qingque might slack off, but she wasn't stupid. On the contrary, she was very smart.
What kind of idiot could control their score with perfect precision every single time?
If Qingque actually used her intelligence seriously, she would at least be the Divination Commission's second-in-command by now.
Unfortunately, her dreams had nothing to do with proper work.
In the end, Levi contacted his beloved Master Diviner and used the tactic of "hungry hungry please" to obtain partial access to the Matrix of Prescience.
Enough to barely match the lowest-level diviners.
"Wuwuwu, Lady Fu Xuan treats me the best, mua!"
Hearing the noise from the other side, even the well-informed Fu Xuan felt a chill.
She hurriedly ended the conversation with Levi.
Raising her head to look toward the distant Supreme Elixir Chamber, she folded her arms and quietly waited for news.
Behind her stood several hundred Cloud Knights.
———
Turning her head, she saw Stelle looking at him like he was a pervert.
And imitating what he just said.
"Mwah~"
The mocking intent was obvious.
"Hmph, what do you know!" Levi snorted. "When you meet Fu Xuan, you'd better not act even worse than me."
Besides, Fu Xuan was his boss. What was wrong with a subordinate showing some respect to their superior?
"Hmph hmph hmph, I'm a proper gentleman, unlike you, you pervert."
"You asking for a beating?!"
"I dodge!"
Twisting her waist, Stelle dodged Levi's straight punch. After pulling some distance away, she made a face at him, then turned around.
She planned to meet up with March 7th and the others searching for clues about Kafka.
Thump!
At the corner, Stelle crashed straight into a well-endowed figure.
At the moment of impact, Stelle felt her face buried in something soft. Then a rebound force bounced her backward.
She staggered back two steps.
After steadying herself, she lifted her head to see who she had bumped into.
But before she fully looked up, a familiar voice sounded beside her ear.
"Long time no see, Stelle."
Stelle froze and instantly looked up.
It really was the person she thought it was.
Her knees went weak.
Plop!
She dropped to her knees.
And hugged Kafka's leg tightly.
That action froze the smile on Kafka's face. Then Stelle's voice rang out.
Making her even more confused.
"Mom!"
The voice was heart-wrenching and echoed through the entire Alchemy Commission realm, even carrying a sobbing tone.
Anyone who didn't know better would think the two had been separated for years and had only reunited today.
Looking at Stelle hugging her leg tightly, Kafka felt completely at a loss.
She wasn't even married yet, so where did this child suddenly come from?
Whoosh!
A wind suddenly blew through the Alchemy Commission. Fu Xuan's hair swayed with it.
Hearing the faint sound, her calm eyes sharpened.
"Move out!"
She didn't really understand why they were using "Mom" as a code word.
But finding them was enough.
"Stellaron Hunter… Is the other one your friend?"
Standing beside Levi, Ruan Mei looked at Stelle hugging Kafka's leg and asked him.
There was no need to say much about the Stellaron Hunters' reputation. Even someone like Ruan Mei, who barely interacted with the outside world, had heard of them.
Her gaze shifted toward the gray-haired girl.
'That girl's name seemed to be… Stelle?'
She remembered seeing her yesterday.
The one in the hospital room with her butt wrapped in bandages.
Although Levi really didn't want to admit it, he still nodded.
"Stelle, unofficial Stellaron Hunter member, currently infiltrated into the Astral Express to assist the Stellaron Hunters with missions, ready to betray the Nameless at any moment."