After Ye Zun's done eating the Regent and a variety of Haixing politicians, he would no doubt be happy to gobble up half of Westminster! (...hmm, that would be quite a fic.)

But also, maybe Ye Zun could have engaged his common sense when he still had some.
I'm inclined to cut him a small amount of slack due to the cruel, unusual, and no doubt sanity-eroding punishment that was empillarment, but yeah, he probably should've told Shen Wei about it. Even if only to deliver a Reason You Suck Speech.

I assumed he waited until Zhao Yunlan had 'wicked' himself, which didn't take a year to happen.
Huh! Given the place in the episode, I assumed it wasn't immediately after the wicking, but rather some time after. Though time canonically doesn't work the same in the Hallows dimension.

the problem could also be Dixingren stuck in Haixing with no way of getting back now.
But how many of them are there, and would they really cause that much trouble? The SID could've done with that amount of staff during Zhu Jiu/Ye Zun stirring up shit, but if stuff's calmed down with no big influxes of Dixingians, I wouldn't have expected so many people present at the HQ.

Thank you for all these posts, I really enjoyed them!
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