Mid-April. Xu Wuyi knew it was time for him to leave. This feeling hadn't appeared suddenly; it had been slowly building up over the past month or so.
Sitting in the Team Four office area, he looked through his black-and-white mask at the busy team members around him. He had watched this scene for over three months. During this time, he had handled over forty cases, interacted with hundreds of people involved, and witnessed the most authentic operating rules within the Federation. These rules existed both on the surface and in the shadows—the overt ones written into legal codes, and the covert ones hidden within personal favors and connections. He had seen with his own eyes how privilege was abused, how corruption bred, how order was destroyed, and also how order was maintained. These experiences were far more profound and real than reading any amount of case files.
