Here, the Lord said this is a good thing

"That's weird... I should have put everything away..."

Gracia was contemplating a small statue in front of her.

The puzzle in the large bush area where she is located is a puzzle that has its own clues and is also linked to the stone sculpture area where Ye He is located.

Many small stone sculptures are distributed among these shrubs of varying heights. Gracia needs to correctly replace the position of each sculpture according to the verses on the wooden signs at each intersection.

"You missed one. It's in the bushes at the entrance."

Ye He's voice rang in her ears, making her look towards the entrance, and she suddenly remembered a line of poetry that she had missed.

In fact, even if Ye He didn't remind Gracia, Gracia would realize within half a minute that there was a clue poem that she had not used, and thus discover the sculpture that she had missed.

"Have you been paying attention to my side? What about your side? Which move is Garcia showing you?"

While walking towards the entrance, Graceia asked Ye He, although every three sentences she spoke were about the same business.

"hehe."

Ye He laughed softly, and then Gracia saw this scene:
Garcia was working hard to push a huge sculpture and solve a large puzzle, while Yehe himself... he was lying on a piece of soft grass basking in the sun.

"You're actually asking her to help you solve a puzzle?! Isn't that a waste?"

waste……

Ye He was almost fed up with this girl who was full of dirty talk. He used Caesar to send a message to Gracia:
"Aren't you helping me solve the puzzle? Am I wasting you too?"

"I'm different. I get overtime pay! This is work!"

Gracia raised her head with confidence, then found the sculpture hidden in the bushes and ran excitedly to the last location where the sculpture was placed.

It’s true...Ye He rarely felt speechless. This "overtime pay" was what he promised to Gracia!

This girl is really amazing... Will Fei'er become like this in the future?
Never mind, that's when Bruce should be worrying.

……

"Ah sneeze!!!"

Bruce, who was far away in Cedarville, sneezed loudly.

"Uh...uh..."

He wiped his nose and looked up, only to find that he had spit all over Fei'er's face.

Facing Fei'er's cold gaze...

Danger! Calf is in danger!!!
……

"It worked! It's just as it is!"

Looking at the fountain in the center of all the large stone sculptures gushing out clear water again, Garcia wiped the sweat from his forehead, a look of satisfaction on his face that his hard work had finally paid off.

She enjoyed this feeling for several seconds before she belatedly remembered who she was working for.

When she turned around, she saw Ye He had stood up and was walking towards her with a smile.

"Well done."

Ye He patted Garcia's shoulder, his eyes full of encouragement, which made Garcia shrink his neck a little flattered, and his cheeks flushed slightly.

It was not until Ye He passed by her and walked towards the fountain that Garcia suddenly came to her senses.

and many more!

What was your original purpose?

How did it suddenly become... that I'm doing hard labor for Yehe and using my brain?
But when he thought of Ye He's smile just now, and the feeling of him patting his shoulder... Garcia inexplicably felt that there seemed to be nothing wrong with what he was doing.

Although the process didn't seem quite right, he also put in the effort and energy, and still gained Ye He's favor.

The result turned out to be correct? So that's OK...right?

Garcia was badly exploited by Ye He. The rapid consumption of her mental and physical strength made her unable to perceive Ye He's true intentions.

She followed Ye He to the fountain, which was a large, dried-up fountain that was now filled with clean water again.

The edge of the fountain is lined with a circle of circular stone benches that can accommodate dozens of people sitting around it, which is very "modern".

But the point is, there is a final puzzle here, which is some edge bricks that are specially raised and can be pressed down.

Only after pressing the stone bricks one by one in the correct way can Ye He receive the final reward.

The answer to this "button" puzzle is right below the large sculptures that Garcia had just pushed.

Considering that Garcia had already spent a lot of effort, Ye He was very helpful and did not let her continue to use her brain. Instead, he looked at the overall map that Caesar had given him and pressed the correct bricks one by one.

"Click!"

After Yehe pressed down the last correct brick, both Yehe and Garcia immediately felt the ground shaking.

But nothing rose from the ground, and no cracks or passages opened up in the ground.

Other than that, it seemed like the earthquake was just that, an earthquake.

"Where's the reward?"

Without waiting for Ye He to express his doubts, Garcia asked to himself first.

She put a lot of effort and thought into it. Even if the reward will be taken away by Ye He, at least the reward should appear, right?

"Oh, is that so?"

Ye He seemed to have discovered where the reward was. Garcia looked at him, and he smiled and pointed to the fountain in front of them.

【Diluted Water of Life Hot Spring】

[Maze Reward: It will become invalid after leaving the main body. After bathing, you can get the effect of taking a standard dose of water of life. 】

Garcia does not have a personal panel, so he cannot see the changes in the fountain water by visual inspection alone.

But Ye He's guidance made her discover the hot water floating on the water. She reached out and dipped her fingers into the water, and she felt the magical effect of the fountain water at a comfortable temperature.

"Lord Yehe."

Garcia blinked but never forgot his purpose.

"It looks like the water from this fountain is the reward. Are you interested in taking a dip with me?"

She may not be as smart as Gracia, but her perseverance in setting a goal and moving towards it is still the basis for her to gain the status and strength she has today.

"Row."

No one knows the benefits of the Water of Life better than Ye He, and he still has a lot of the Water of Life.

But Ye He was soaking in the fountain water that had turned into a hot spring just to allow Garcia to recover his strength so that he could better solve the puzzle for himself and to delay Garcia at the same time.

Of course, after they took off their clothes and entered the water together, Ye He would not care whether Garcia wanted to "consume energy" while recovering his strength.

after an hour……

"Ye He? Why is there no movement?"

Having solved the third large puzzle, Gracia was collecting a golden seed as a reward. "I think I've seen those 'secret techniques' you mentioned before."

Garcia gave Ye He face. The hot spring water they were soaking in could continuously restore their physical strength, so she showed Ye He the "secret technique" that Gracia mentioned.

But Ye He discovered that these "secret techniques" with intimidating names were actually the advanced techniques that Rose had taught him.

Oh, Rose was originally a retired "senior spy" who came from the Federation to settle in the Empire, so that's fine.

"I won't bother you anymore, will I?"

Gracia is not the kind of "big talker". She immediately understood that Ye He had experienced Garcia's "secret technique", so he made such an evaluation.

She was not shy and showed the golden seeds in her hand to the air and asked Ye He:

“Is this the ‘emotional seed’ you want?”

"Yes, try not to come into direct contact with it. If you let it integrate into your body, you will also be affected by the corresponding emotions."

Gracia's progress was quite impressive. She helped Yehe collect the emotional seeds so quickly.

"understood."

After placing the seed in a special container, Gracia continued to take action.

The Iveranza Garden in front of her not only had not ended yet, on the contrary, this garden, which covered an almost endless area, was showing its vastness to all visitors with a forest that resembled a tropical rain forest.

Ye He also felt that he could not delay any longer, so he interrupted Garcia who was a little absorbed in her thoughts, and led this woman with a look of contentment in her eyes forward.

Not long after, Ye He and Garcia arrived at the entrance of a forest that looked like a tropical rain forest.

Based on Caesar's wide-area surveillance, Yehe discovered that this forest was connected to Gracia's side.

It seems that this forest serves as some kind of "partition", separating different "back garden" areas.

The forest has more puzzles than the previous area, but they were all given to the ladies by the lazy Ye He.

Ye He wanted to see the area on the other side of the forest, and the puzzles in the forest were not large in difficulty or scale, so it should be difficult to produce emotional seeds, so he asked the ladies to speed up the pace of solving the puzzles.

Gracia was fine, her knowledge and wisdom were enough to allow her to move forward smoothly in the forest.

Garcia was not in good shape, and her brain was almost burned out in the past hour. The first puzzle she encountered stopped her.

Ye He had to help Gracia more and use Caesar to "share" the puzzle here in her field of vision, and use her wisdom to quickly solve the puzzle.

Motivated by the "overtime pay" and her interest in solving puzzles, Graceia showed a burst of thinking ability that even Ye He was amazed at, allowing Ye He to pass quickly.

But Garcia didn't know about the cooperation between Yehe and Gracia.

She could only be surprised to find that Ye He solved the puzzle in an instant, quickly found the answer, and took her forward at a very fast speed.

Gracia's wisdom was used by Ye He, which made Garcia mistakenly believe that Ye He also had the same level of wisdom as Gracia.

This made Garcia feel surprised, but also a little scared.

It turns out Ye He is so smart!

Was he just not fond of using his brain before?
Fortunately, I have never done anything with the primary purpose of framing or harming this man.

otherwise……

Ye He did not notice this misunderstanding. He did not realize that his image in Garcia's mind was rapidly becoming "mysterious".

Coming back to his senses, Garcia's gaze towards Ye He gradually became somewhat conflicted.

She found out...is this man a little too perfect?
Can I really use Ye He?

Or in other words...is there any meaning in using Ye He for this purpose?

Maybe... I should reconsider my relationship with Ye He.

At Garcia’s age... and status... there is nothing that cannot be let go, unless there are psychological barriers that cannot be overcome.

In fact, there is no need for a life-and-death fight between her and her sister, Griffin, the director of the Federal Research Institute.

Get close to Yehe, understand Yehe, and use Yehe... Garcia's ultimate purpose in doing all this is actually the same as Graves's, which is to confirm some means of "self-protection" before a certain storm comes.

This is also the reason why when she first met Charlie, she only asked Charlie about Ye He’s personal preferences.

"Your expression is funny."

Ye He's sudden words startled Garcia.

She subconsciously wanted to smile at Ye He, but because of something in Ye He's eyes, the smile stopped at the emergence stage.

"The expression you just showed was the first time you showed your true expression in front of me, right?"

Ye He lifted the last veil. Although the timing was a little early, Ye He felt that now was a good time.

"……Yes."

Garcia nodded to Ye He very reluctantly.

In fact, she could no longer understand what Ye He meant by "real expression".

Having been washed away in the vortex of power for too long, Garcia had long forgotten what "sincerity" meant.

But since Ye He had already realized it, Garcia seized the opportunity, organized his words and asked Ye He:

"You know... you've become the center of a storm?"

"Of course! People like me are the instigators and the core of the storm no matter where we are."

When Ye He answered this question, he did not show arrogance to Garcia. Instead, he looked as if it was a matter of course and had a very clear self-awareness, which made Garcia almost unable to respond.

It turns out that he really knows everything! He understands everything!

"What do you want to gain from me in this storm? Go one step further and become the president of the Federation? Or do you just want to protect yourself like Graves?"

Fortunately, Ye He asked Garcia's ultimate goal without hesitation, and she explained it to Ye He almost without hesitation:
"Just like Graves!"

"Oh."

But when Ye He heard Garcia's true thoughts, he immediately showed a very bored expression and even moved his face back to the front.

Garcia's heart trembled, she understood why Ye He suddenly felt bored!

This man... this man... this man!!!
He...did he think...

"The President of the Federation is a 'spokesperson' elected by more than half of the 'public opinion' and the will of the upper echelons. This position cannot be achieved by hard work alone."

Garcia found his voice shaking as he explained.

She was scared and excited.

What are you afraid of? What are you excited about?
"Ah……"

Ye He turned around and gave her a nonchalant smile, and asked her:

"What you said is meaningless in front of me!"

(End of this chapter)