Pretending to be a genius starts with the civilization advancement assessment.

Chapter 123 I'll go take care of the problem first.

Wang Weiguo, the commander of the defense forces, is a middle-aged man in his fifties with the marks of long hours of staying up late on his face.

At this moment, he is in front of the map discussing tomorrow's defense rotation plan with his staff.

Wang Weiguo had just lit a cigarette when he received the call.

As he listened to the report through the receiver, his fingers holding the cigarette paused slightly before he took a deep drag and slowly exhaled the smoke.

"Understood. I'll be at No. 3 Square right away. I'll inform Old Li."

Wang Weiguo hung up the phone and briefly explained to his slightly puzzled staff, "We'll discuss the plan later. Comrade Lin Yi from Helu City is coming over; I'll go pick him up."

On the other side, Li Changming, an elderly man with gray hair and glasses, is reviewing a plan for adjusting food rations. He is the chairman of the settlement's comprehensive management committee.

After his secretary quietly entered and announced his arrival, he put down the documents and rubbed his temples.

"Come now? Tonight?"

Li Changming was somewhat surprised, but quickly regained his composure. "Let's go to the third square. Also, have the logistics department prepare a simple reception room and some hot tea."

There were no cheers, no excessive discussion, but a mix of anticipation, tension, and uncertainty quietly permeated the minds of those in the know.

With the announcement from the Supreme Command Center appointing him as the principal of Dongfeng Military Academy and the commander of Yuanwu Strategic Defense Army, the name Lin Yi has taken on a different weight in the minds of the high-ranking officials in various settlements.

An hour later, several temporary high-powered lights illuminated the No. 3 landing pad.

Chief Wang Weiguo and Chairman Li Changming were already waiting there, followed by several staff members.

The night breeze was cool, but no one spoke; everyone's gaze kept drifting towards the northeastern night sky.

Suddenly, a sharp-eyed staff member whispered, "They're here!"

In the deep night sky, a blurry, silvery-white dot of light, almost blending into the darkness, quietly appeared.

It approached silently and at an extremely fast speed.

Soon, it hovered steadily a few meters above the ground, and then gently landed in the center of the flat area.

This is a sleek, technologically advanced, silver-white spherical aircraft that stands out starkly from its surroundings.

The hatch slid open silently.

A figure dressed in ordinary dark combat uniform stepped out, his posture upright and his face calm; it was Lin Yi.

His appearance was not accompanied by any exaggerated momentum, but the moment his feet touched the ground, it seemed as if the air in the entire arena froze for a moment.

Under the bright spotlight, Lin Yi's shadow was stretched very long.

His gaze calmly swept over the welcoming crowd, finally settling on Wang Weiguo and Li Changming.

Seeing the number one cultivator in the country, and even the world, truly appear before him, despite his very young appearance, only the age of a junior in his family, Wang Weiguo still subconsciously straightened his back, while Li Changming adjusted his glasses.

The two quickly stepped forward to meet them.

"Principal Lin, you must be tired from your journey!" Wang Weiguo spoke first, his voice loud and clear.

Li Changming then added, "Welcome to the Jinling City settlement. I am Li Changming from the Management Committee. I didn't expect you to arrive so quickly."

Lin Yi also stepped forward quickly. Seeing that the two were being modest and did not extend their hands, he first extended his right hand and shook hands with them in turn.

"It's an emergency, don't be shy."

Lin Yi's voice was clear and calm, getting straight to the point, "On the way, I checked the energy reaction, and the expansion of that nest is indeed not optimistic. So, I'll go and clean it up first."

Lin Yi's words stunned Wang Weiguo and Li Changming.

Cleaning up? Before they could fully grasp the meaning of those words, Lin Yi had already turned around decisively and boarded the silver-white spherical aircraft again.

The hatch is closed.

The next moment, the little flying ball silently rose from the ground, transformed into a streak of light, and shot straight toward the distant nest shrouded in darkness, disappearing into the night.

A group of staff and executives were left standing there, looking at each other in bewilderment.

"This"

Li Changming stared at the vanishing point of light, speechless for a moment.

Wang Weiguo was the first to react. A flash of understanding crossed his eyes, and he slapped his thigh: "Let's go, quickly to the operations control room!"

Without asking any further questions, the group hurriedly followed Wang Weiguo to the operations monitoring room located deep inside the command building.

Inside the monitoring room, the lights were on, and various screens flashed with complex data and maps.

When the staff on duty saw several leaders at the highest level of the settlement suddenly swarm in, they immediately stood up at attention and saluted.

Wang Weiguo hurriedly returned the greeting, his gaze immediately locking onto the largest energy distribution map on the main screen on the wall.

The area representing the nest's territory was covered with dense red dots, which looked quite unsettling.

On the edge of the Red Sea, a green dot marked with the number "3300" was rapidly moving deeper into the territory of the large nest.

"really."

Wang Weiguo murmured, his eyes glued to the screen.

However, what happened next left everyone puzzled.

They saw the green dot of light quickly stop at a certain point deep inside the nest, and then the energy value displayed next to it began to decrease in a remarkably regular pattern: -30, -30, -30
Strangely, the dense red dots representing the Abyss Beasts in the surrounding ocean did not seem to show any obvious signs of decreasing.

With the strength of this number one person on Earth, how could he continuously consume source energy without killing a large number of enemies?
What is this doing?
Some people had questions in their minds.

Li Changming frowned and observed for a moment. After all, he was the person in charge of managing the entire settlement, and his thinking was more meticulous.

He suddenly thought of something and instructed the technician operating the monitoring equipment next to him: "Adjust the display filter and temporarily block targets with a source energy response below 1000 points."

"Yes!"

The technicians immediately made a few adjustments on the control panel.

Instantly, the image on the main screen became clear.

The dense red dots that were originally terrifying had mostly disappeared, leaving only sparser, but still highly energetic light dots scattered throughout the nest area.

And it was in this "purified" vision that Lin Yi's green dot's movement pattern became crystal clear.

The energy value next to the green dot decreased by 30 with each jump. Almost at the same moment, a red dot with an energy value of around 5000 points would disappear from the screen instantly, like a candle flame being extinguished.

One, two, three.
The green dot remained stationary, its energy level slowly decreasing at a fixed pace, while the surrounding red dots, representing at least Stardust-level Abyss Beasts, were precisely and efficiently eliminated one by one.

The monitoring room was completely silent.

All that could be heard was the faint hum of the instruments and the increasingly heavy breathing of the people.

"As expected, this is about focusing on the big picture and letting go of the small ones."

Looking at the bizarre "hunting" scene on the screen, Li Changming couldn't help but mutter to himself, expressing the sentiments of everyone present.

(End of this chapter)