"What the hell. Passing out at the sight of me... this useless crowd of scoundrels!" Shen Cong sat inside the Vajra Fortress with the Third Eye Radar covering the whole area, so of course he saw the man come rushing over in his excitement and then drop.

Baffling behavior.

Once, Shen Cong would have assumed these people were working up some dirty trick to do him in. Now he ignored the games of the weak. It was nothing but scoundrels making mischief.

The flicker of contempt passed through him, and then Shen Cong caught himself and started looking the man over seriously.

He was powerful, but caution was not something to throw away.

"So he's a new evolved person, just injected with the Spilled Water Serum. Four teeth already mutating into jin cores. Talent around 1H." Shen Cong's particle-grade Activity waves could read another person's Talent at a distance now, though not precisely enough to reach three decimal places.

"His Activity has barely started gathering inside him. Very unstable. The thread of pressure I let out probably disturbed it and knocked him out."

He did understand that he was the cause of the man's collapse.

Shen Cong felt not a trace of apology. For one thing, he was thoroughly cold toward the outside world. For another, he had a predator's mind by now — no interest in bullying the weak, and no thought of reining in his aura to protect them either.

So once he had a rough idea of why Wei Yaojun had fainted, Shen Cong stopped paying attention and turned to the man in charge outside. "Get hold of Academician Tao Zhongyang. Tell him to come over."

Tao Zhongyang came over quickly. He had been in a meeting at the government building.

Two of the Provisional Government's standing committee members came with him. A power like Shen Cong had come in person, and a Provisional Government that understood his strength did not dare take it lightly.

And Shen Cong was about to become the new government's Honorary State Chairman, so the reception had to be at the top…