Huh? Isn't This A Galgame?

In the next mainline task, finding the [Queen] card and doing everything to protect your partner is the best path to victory for a [Loyalist].

However, so far, the unknown cards are too many. From Wen Nan's probing of Wu Qing earlier, it's clear that the Mind Reading Technique is heavily restricted. Directly asking the other party is also not feasible.

In other words, he needs to think of a new way to ensure he finds the [Queen] card.

As he contemplated, footsteps sounded outside the meeting room door, followed by a sturdy figure appearing at the doorway, slipping a note through the crack and quickly leaving.

Wen Nan walked over and picked up the note, which read, in scrawled handwriting: [President, restroom?]

Tearing up the note, Wen Nan left the meeting room moments later, glancing around to find only a few unfamiliar faces of students sitting sporadically on the lab bench outside, without seeing Wu Qing's figure.

After returning the biochemical tutorial materials to Wu Qing's lab bench, Wen Nan directly stepped out of Wang Yajun's lab.

At this point, work hours were over, and the experimental building corridors were only sparsely populated with a few students working overtime on experiments, especially deserted near the public restrooms.

Wen Nan headed over and immediately saw Yu Shujun waiting for him in front of the ladies' restroom.

Seeing Wen Nan approach, Yu Shujun lifted her head, nodded towards the men's restroom door, and signaled with her eyes: Your member is waiting for you in the men's restroom, just go in, I'll stand guard at the door.

Wen Nan nodded and walked straight into the men's restroom, spotting Hu Jiayao squatting by the sink, eating a boxed meal.

Seeing Wen Nan enter, Hu Jiayao gestured with his chopsticks, "The food at Life Sciences Institute's first floor isn't bad, I got two servings, President, want one?"

Wen Nan shook his head, "Thanks, but I don't have the habit of eating in restrooms."

Hu Jiayao was momentarily stunned, then realized they were in a restroom, "They keep this restroom so clean, there's no smell at all." With that, he shoveled two more bites of braised pork with rice into his mouth.

Wen Nan sat by the sink next to him and asked, "Don't you have [nutritional supplements]?"

Hu Jiayao shook his head, "Those things replenish energy but don't fill the stomach, it's uncomfortable with an empty stomach, only meat feels right."

Wen Nan nodded, seeing the relaxed look on his face, and confirmed, "The first task was smoothly settled?"

"Yes."

Hu Jiayao nodded.

Earlier, when looking for refresh points, he adhered to the principle that the more dangerous places are safer, and boldly hid his faction card behind Wang Yajun's office bookcase.

His faction card was indeed safe, but when it came time to settle the task, he was in trouble — completing the task settlement in front of Wang Yajun, whose role was unclear, was too challenging.

Luckily, he had incredible luck, Wang Yajun was out on business and not in the office, and their agreed conversation was conducted via telephone conference over a desk phone.

As he listened to the other end assigning topic tasks like chanting sutras, he easily completed the settlement.

However, compared to the smooth settlement, Hu Jiayao faced quite a few twists in his first mainline task.

Hastening to find Wen Nan was to talk about this.

Hu Jiayao swallowed the food in his mouth and said seriously, "President, I encountered Yang Mingzhong again."

Wen Nan turned to look at him, "Bumped into him during the task?"

"Yes," Hu Jiayao nodded, "I was doing a task in the unfinished building opposite our school when he suddenly appeared.

"Just like last time, he wore black clothes and pants, looking murderous, coming at me from one end of the corridor. I thought he was going to fight me, and was ready to counterattack, but he completely ignored me, ran through the corridor, chasing the person on the other end.

"The person wore a mask, so I couldn't see the face, but had striking blonde hair. Yang Mingzhong, like a mad dog, wouldn't stop chasing this person, so I followed closely to see what was happening.

"But my agility was far inferior to theirs, and I lost track halfway. By the time I found them again, they were on the rooftop.

"Yang Mingzhong was clearly no match for that person, and when I caught up, he was already knocked to the ground.

"The person lifted a scepter-like long wooden staff and was about to kill Yang Mingzhong, so I rushed in to block it.

"From that one move, I could tell I was no match for that person, being able to block that one move was pure luck from a sneak attack.

"I wondered why Yang Mingzhong, who seemed cautious before, headbutted with someone from such a higher level?

"Had I known how formidable that person was, I wouldn't have rushed to see or saved him, instead, with my intervention, it could end in double jeopardy.

"I knew I couldn't escape, prepared to fight side by side with Yang Mingzhong, but Yang Mingzhong pushed me away, charged the person, physically entangled them, asking me to run.

"I didn't run; I, Hu Jiayao, am not someone who leaves others to die or betrays my buddies. I prepared to charge in, at worst, delete my account.

"Guess what happened next, President?"

Wen Nan looked down at him and coolly replied:

"The person suddenly got swept away by a sinister wind and disappeared on the spot?"

Hu Jiayao was shocked, eyes wide, staring at Wen Nan,

"Wow! President! You're amazing! How did you guess that?"

Saying this, Hu Jiayao gave Wen Nan a thumbs up, "You're basically the reincarnation of a Divine Fortune Teller! Without you, Feng Shui Huan's greatest loss!"

Seeing that not particularly clever face, Wen Nan waved his hand, "And then?"

"Afterward, the person was teleported away to who knows where, so our crisis was resolved. Seeing Yang Mingzhong seriously injured, I wanted to help him, but he, like guarding against a thief, wouldn't let me near and dashed away.

Speaking of this, Hu Jiayao frowned, sighed, feeling troubled,

"President, do you think Yang Mingzhong is in our faction? If he is, why does he flee like a thief when he sees me, like he's guilty of something? If he's not, is the masked, blonde person he wants to eliminate in our faction? But that person reeks of evil and uses sinister moves, clearly not one of us."

The masked blonde guy Hu Jiayao saw was, undeniably, the traitorous Wei Zhe.

Wen Nan revealed this fact directly.

Hu Jiayao slapped his thigh in anger, "I knew that guy wasn't a good person."

Pausing, Hu Jiayao's eyebrows furrowed again, "But that person must be a high-level player, why would they come here in our instance? If someone of that level is in the opposing faction, how are we in the Justice League supposed to play?"

Thinking of this, Hu Jiayao instinctively looked at the person beside him, "President, what now?"

After they emerged from that Erin Group instance, the person Hu Jiayao trusted the most had shifted from Gu Jinxing to their President.

Faced with such a desperate situation, Hu Jiayao always felt that their President had a way out.

Wen Nan calmly said: "If you can't beat them, just avoid them."

Hu Jiayao scratched the back of his head, "But if they go after our Queen, we can't win by avoiding them either?"

"We just need to protect the Queen well."

Hu Jiayao's eyes brightened, "President, do you already know who the Queen is?"

Wen Nan shook his head, "I don't know now, but I'll know soon."

As he spoke, he reached into the equipment's spare compartment, found that content determination card, and then smiled confidently.

The next task, that's the plan!