“No. I’ll go and see the situation first, then think about it.”

Half a day ago, after setting aside fifteen thousand points for the harvester and still having five thousand left, Su Mo had felt rich enough to spend freely and last half a year.

Half a day later, he realized those five thousand points were barely a tenth of the favor fee.

How could Su Mo afford that? He could only refuse for now, lest he expose his true net worth.

Fortunately, since Manager Yan had sent him, this Zhou Yue was indeed sensible.

Once he saw Su Mo’s expression shift slightly, he stopped pushing the sale at once and concentrated on driving the energy car toward the Academy of Sciences.

Before long, as the factory district fell farther and farther behind, the energy cars on the road began to thin out.

In the end, trailing behind the car marked Baoyu Heavy Industry, only four energy cars of different colors remained.

And those four, taken together, happened to be the territory’s four major powers.

“Captain Yu, these people are sticking really close. Aren’t they afraid Su Youzong will notice?”

The four cars ran side by side without interfering with one another.

After driving a while longer, in the gray-blue energy car farthest to the left, a burly man with a crew cut could not help asking.

“Notice? And so what if he notices? Everyone is just carrying out orders. As long as we don’t get too close, what’s the problem?”

Yu Zhou, who was in charge of the tracking assignment, smiled as he answered his subordinate.

“All right, enough nonsense. Don’t think Su Youzong is the kindly sort the files make him out to be. In reality he’s quite black-bellied.”

“Right now all four sides of the territory are watching him, and only the Academy of Sciences hasn’t joined in. And look, he’s come to their door himself. He’s probably aiming to drag the Academy down as well,” Yu Zhou warned.

“Drag it down? With what? Those people at the Academy don’t care about your identity or qualifications. If you haven’t got real skill, you probably can’t even get through that gate, can you?”

“With what? How would I know with what?” Thinking of something, Yu Zhou’s face darkened. “If I knew, would Director Pei have trained me into this sorry state and sent me out here to do the lowest-grade tracking work?”

“If you want to know, go ask those three next door once we stop, and see whether they know what’s so special about Su Youzong that a territory of hundreds of thousands of people has poured all its attention onto him.”

“And those old fellows at the Academy are aloof every day, clinging to their internal rules. Even if our Inspectorate wants to get in, we have to bring a transfer order and beg them like grandparents before they’ll let us through.”

“I want a good look at how hard this Su Youzong falls once he goes over there.”

As he spoke, Yu Zhou’s temper rose on its own. The others in the car glanced at one another and quickly shut their mouths.

In truth, that question had been asked more than once or twice these past days.

After following Su Youzong for several days, they had, just as Yu Zhou said, failed to discover what was so miraculous about him that even Director Pei would lower himself to make contact in person.

The task from above was simple: keep a tight watch on Su Youzong, record his daily itinerary on paper and submit it.

At the same time,

if Su Youzong ran into any matter involving personal safety inside the territory, they were to act at once and save him at any cost.

If there was no safety problem, they were to be human-shaped surveillance cameras, eating when it was time to eat, drinking when it was time to drink, and not bothering about anything else.

“Boss Su, ahead is the Academy of Sciences’s zone. But our Baoyu Heavy Industry cars don’t have clearance to drive in. You’ll still have to walk about a kilometer to reach the real gate.”

“Manager Yan instructed me that today I’m your dedicated driver. When you’ve finished your business, just come find me in the parking lot.”

The energy car rolled up to a magnificent gate, and Zhou Yue brought it to a smooth stop.

“Oh? We’re here?”

Slightly drowsy, Su Mo jerked awake and hurriedly looked outside.

The distance between the factories and the Academy of Sciences was by no means short. The energy car had run for a full hour and more, which meant the distance already exceeded sixty or seventy kilometers.

Then he looked up.

A white arched gate more than seventy meters long, like a giant dragon crouched on the ground, cut the previously monotonous main road clean across the middle.

Behind it a footpath paved with crushed cobblestones came into view, and with tall green firs lining both sides, it had a thick garden atmosphere.

Getting out of the car, Su Mo gazed into the depths of the footpath.

Sure enough, through the stream of people, he could faintly see that at the end of the road there was an even more magnificent gate, cutting the path off once more.

Clearly, that was the Academy of Sciences in the true sense!

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