Li Changzhou felt neither good nor bad about everything he was currently experiencing.
This was his first task since breaking through a boundary, and his goal was the same as on that sweltering September morning when he incomprehensibly entered the Sea Island instance with two young girls—to learn more about the game's rules while staying alive.
Whether the task was completed was never part of his plan to begin with (just as he had never planned to kill a certain number of people in the Sea Island instance).
For the reasons mentioned above, Li Changzhou was more interested in extracting intelligence from the Chun Emperor than in any task.
As long as one has a subway ticket, a task can wait, but intelligence on Visualization... he had to consider whether this might be his only chance for a long time.
Having said that...
"The financial industry in Song City is also a patchwork of fiefdoms," Yang Qinglan said, holding the documents in her hand.
"Indeed," Li Changzhou nodded.