After Shen Bing fell asleep in her mother's arms.
Her mother called two maids to take her to bed.
With that, two women clearly prepared for this kind of situation appeared.
Shen Bing was someone who sometimes slept in places she shouldn't inside the house.
So her parents assigned maids just for this matter.
It was their duty to send their young miss to her bedroom.
After the door closed and the maids took Shen Bing away.
The office fell into brief silence.
After a moment Shen Xuan looked toward a certain direction and spoke.
His voice carried suppressed anger.
Shen Xuan: "Find them within five days at most, use everything within our reach to find them."
"Especially Ye Chen, if you find him and confirm it's really him, the person who finds him will get one month off."
"Yes", "confirmed", "received", "understood"(???)
Several voices sounded, then a group of figures dressed in black left the place to carry out the orders.
Xiao Yu: "Well dear, I think you forgot to order them to break his limbs when they find him…"
Shen Xuan: "Well…"
"I forgot, but not completely, we can do that ourselves."
"Don't you see?"
Xiao Yu: "See what?"
Shen Xuan: "Our daughter seems to be carrying suppressed anger inside her."
"We can use them to let her vent, even if only a little, her anger."
Xiao Yu: "That I noticed, but what really worries me is our dear daughter's mental state."
"She seems to suffer from aftereffects of intense depression."
Shen Xuan: "That's normal."
"From her description she lost everything, whether family, friends, and even her 'sister'."
"Our daughter is someone sentimental toward things or people close to her."
"If after so many deaths her state didn't show even the slightest sadness, I would doubt she was our daughter."
Xiao Yu: "Indeed, under those circumstances depression is normal."
Shen Xuan: "But we need to try giving her psychological counseling later."
"In case she can't find something for us to adapt well…"
"We need to be prepared, we have little time, not even a year."
"Our loyal employees also couldn't adapt and turned into 'zombies'."
"Even if she didn't say it, I know she must have ended the lives of everyone who transformed."
Xiao Yu: "Indeed, but I think we don't need to worry too much about our death."
Shen Xuan: "You mean just because of the 'system'?"
"There might really be something that lets us save ourselves and save everyone, but the question is, do we have points?"
Xiao Yu: "That's not exactly it, I don't deny what you said either, and my lack of worry was just intuition."
"I might be wrong about everything I'm going to say because of lack of information."
"But I really hope I'm right."
"He is a man, he has the same hobbies as our daughter, they get along well."
"He gave something as valuable as a system that can buy anything."
"He made her return to the past and didn't blame her, he even 'compensated' for the artifact spirit's mistake."
Shen Xuan already knew what his wife's conclusion would be, but even so he let her continue.
He also wanted to know how far her reasoning went.
"Usually when there's a mistake we compensate, that's normal."
"But that's in normal society, we're talking about someone who can send people to the past."
"Even if it costs nothing, who wouldn't be stupid enough to ask?"
"But even so he gave it and even compensated more."
"So my conclusion is that maybe he's interested in our daughter."
Shen Xuan: "That alone proves nothing."
Xiao Yu: "I know it doesn't prove anything, and there are still many points that don't match."
"That's why I say it's just a theory, in the end I might be wrong."
"But if I want to say what caught my attention the most, it was the call function."
"Shen Bing is a tester, we know that."
"That may indicate she's the first but not the last."
"However counting her only five people will receive this 'compensation'."
"Among possibly thousands of people from different universes, only five receive it."
"That looks very much like a multiversal blind date."
Shen Xuan agreed this time.
Shen Xuan: "You're right, but there are points where we might be mistaken."
"First, he might not be human."
"Second, he might not have the concept of love."
"Third and last, we don't know if all five people will be women."
Xiao Yu: "About being human, we don't know, but he has a human form so we won't care about that."
"About him not feeling love, we can't deny it, but regardless, he and our daughter have a good relationship."
"However, if the five are women, then we already know what 'mistake' the artifact spirit made."
"It was probably trying to find a wife for its master."
"That strengthens my theory, thus negating your first and second points."
"Because an artifact spirit responsible for something as heavy as distributing systems…"
"Wouldn't do something so foolish just on impulse."
"It must be trustworthy enough to know its master's preferences and whether he wants something like love."
"If he didn't deny giving the system to our daughter and even compensated her, that means he possibly liked what he saw."
"Of course, remembering that all of this is only theory."
"Due to the lack of information, maybe it's just interest, and that's only if these assumptions are correct."
Shen Xuan: "Indeed, if they're correct, it would be good news."
"That way we wouldn't need to worry about our death or the deaths of our daughter's relatives."
"Because even if we ended up dying, he could bring his 'in-laws' back to life."
"Of course, we could also wait for our daughter to reach the same realm as him, but I still don't understand how this negates the firs—"
He paused because he received a message.
"Forget it, in the end it's all just our hope and theory. Now, back to reality."
"We have a lot to do, right?"
Xiao Yu: "Yes, indeed we do."
"But since they were already ordered to go after the only SSS-level talents, we only have one more thing to do, right?"
Shen Xuan: "Yes, I just received the message."
"They found the orphanage where Xuer is registered."
"It's a rare vacant orphanage not controlled by any force, big or small."
"So things become much easier."
(Narrator without a character)
Because he says "rare", well, this has something to do with the great families and forces.
Almost all of them have orphanages under their names.
That's why it's rare to find such a dirty orphanage.
The moment people in power truly care about a certain institution, things like.
misappropriation of money, lack of hygiene,
and some heavier matters that usually occur disappear.
Especially when children are the foundation of a force.
This is the reason so many families, especially the Shen family, have so many loyal subordinates, since they are raised from childhood.
Not that all of them will belong to the Shen family, but at least most of them will.
It may not be a completely pure orphanage, but they really do take care of the children.
So they repay it with loyalty. That's how it is with most families.
Of course, it's not like there haven't been families or other forces that messed up and tried brainwashing or forcing ideas onto the children.
However, that goes against imperial law, so they disappeared without leaving any traces.
Forces like that usually aren't strong or ancient.
(Back to the point of view)
Xiao Yu: "Has Xuer already been identified?"
Shen Xuan: "Yes, almost with total certainty."
"According to the appearance reported by Bing'er, it should be this one."
With that, he showed a photo to Xiao Yu.
In the photo there was a girl with braids, dirty, but with a radiant smile on her face.
She wore old clothes, had black hair and black eyes as well.
"She looks a lot like Xuer, but the hair and eyes have different colors."
"That's the minimum. It seems that talents above S-level have characteristics that change physical appearance."
"And the name is the same. Even if by chance she had a twin sister, they shouldn't have the same name."
Xiao Yu lightly slapped her husband.
Xiao Yu: "If she was identified, why is she still there?"
Shen Xuan shrugged and said, "I just wanted Bing'er's confirmation."
"However, I already replied and asked them to clean up all the trash in that place."
"Those responsible for mistreating the children will be arrested, so we might even gain a new orphanage."
"Even if it possibly becomes useless in two months."
Xiao Yu: "Indeed, but I think it would be better if we made it a surprise, don't you think?"
Shen Xuan: "What surprise?"
Xiao Yu: "Wouldn't she be happy or surprised if she saw her dear sister in front of her when she wakes up?"
Shen Xuan: "I don't know about happiness, but she would definitely be shocked."
"After all, maybe she wouldn't think we would be this fast, right?"
With that, he winked at his wife and she winked back.
The two started laughing inside the empty office.
Shen Bing, who was sleeping, didn't know what "pleasant" surprise her parents had prepared.
She was now in bed sleeping deeply. This was the first time in years that she slept so well.
(End of the chapter)