Chapter 1128: Chapter 172: A Technical Talent Delayed by Immortal Cultivation
Yan Xiaoxi quickly found his mentor, the Fiery Cloud Evil God.
The message Daoist Baijie brought back was too important, even capable of affecting the future dynamics between the country and the demons… This was something beyond what Yan Xiaoxi could decide by himself.
At this moment.
In the other courtyard, after listening, the Fiery Cloud Evil God was silent for a long time, finally asking, “Have you sent out this message yet?”
Yan Xiaoxi shook his head, then tentatively asked, “Should I send it out immediately?”
The Fiery Cloud Evil God instead asked, “What would be the consequences if you send it out now?”
Yan Xiaoxi smiled bitterly, “The Management Bureau is not impermeable. Once we reach this stage, the demons will surely know at the first moment… Then we’ll be in a difficult position. The casualties this time are too enormous… aside from ‘war,’ I can’t imagine anything else.”
“That’s right, but what you can think of, they naturally can think of, too.”
The Fiery Cloud Evil God sighed, “Who is pushing whom to retaliate… it’s hard to say. If we indeed reach the stage of full-scale war, this land will surely be engulfed in flames. If the powerful demons disperse into the crowd, the cities, can we truly use nuclear weapons to cleanse the land? Even if we retreat and use other large destructive weapons, the loss in people’s lives and property is immeasurable…”
Yan Xiaoxi smiled bitterly, “The Tianxin Seventy-First Generation is simply a madman!”
“The demons can only devour, divide, weaken, boiling frogs in warm water, that’s the best strategy to extinguish them.” The Fiery Cloud Evil God shook his head, “He isn’t mad, he’s doing this because he knows, therefore he takes this step.”
Speaking, the Fiery Cloud Evil God rubbed his forehead, “That’s why I never liked dealing with people from the Clothed Daoist faction, this group calculates everything to death and has the capability to stir up trouble. Ambitious, capable, and persistent enemies are the most terrifying.”
“Should we suppress this for now, and report it after things settle?” Yan Xiaoxi frowned, “This way, we can first stabilize them, so we’re not fighting a battle on two fronts.”
“No, you need to send out the information immediately, report it up. Otherwise, you, as the section chief of the Management Bureau, would be derelict in your duties.” The Fiery Cloud Evil God said, “But at the same time, tell the people on both sides of the demons that you’ll suppress this matter, even give them a chance for leniency if they can see the situation clearly after the criminals are punished… give them hope.”
“This…” Yan Xiaoxi was suddenly startled.
The Fiery Cloud Evil God said, “If transcendent power cannot be used for a nation’s benefit, if these powers beyond the worldly are not used to protect the people but to dominate over all living beings, naturally it is not worth keeping. Otherwise, why did we establish a nation? What is the nation’s foundation?”
“I understand.” Yan Xiaoxi took a deep breath and nodded.
The Fiery Cloud Evil God waved his hand, “Go, I will bear all the burdens with you.”
“If I didn’t have this awareness, I wouldn’t have chosen this job in the first place.” Yan Xiaoxi smiled faintly and walked away.
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In another part of Wolong Mountain Villa, unlike the seriousness among the demons, it was full of enthusiasm here.
Because there was an inner border set up outside Wolong Mountain Villa to isolate the thick fog, once electricity was supplied, all the equipment here could function normally.
This was a temporary workplace set up by Dr. Zhao, the head of the Management Bureau’s technology research and development department.
At this time, all the members of the research and development department were watching Dr. Zhao arguing with someone – in a dust-free room inside the workspace.
The one arguing with Dr. Zhao in the dust-free room was a very young-looking man – but in fact, he was over forty. The reason he looked young was naturally because he was a genuine Taoist cultivator: Jiang Zuo.
He emerged later from a space rift and inexplicably ended up eyeing Dr. Zhao – originally, the Management Bureau generally refused to let members of the Taoist or demons directly enter the research department, but Jiang Zuo received special approval from Dr. Zhao.
The reason was that Jiang Zuo was simply a tech-savvy talent delayed by his cultivation.
“You’ll never know how much this guy named Jiang Zuo contributed to our later research in artificial intelligence with his theoretical research on sparse kernel learning in machine learning he published during his postgraduate studies! And this was his achievement two decades ago! Why couldn’t he think it through and went to cultivation! If he had continued on this path of development, he would’ve achieved even more frightening acplishments! Science and technology are the primary productive forces!”
It was rants like this that finally got Dr. Zhao to receive this special approval from Section Chief Yan Xiaoxi – of course, more importantly, Jiang Zuo also had some technology that was like a civilization break brought back from the Penglai Treasury.
“Impossible, how can such a matter-defying physical law substance exist in the world!” Dr. Zhao shook his head, “Negative transformation as the inverse process of positive transformation cannot occur spontaneously, let alone a spontaneous material reorganization with the same substance! Making a drop of water freeze is possible, but you can’t expect a drop of water to bee mercury directly!”
Jiang Zuo seemed to know Dr. Zhao’s reaction long ago, unhurriedly taking out a test tube… The test tube contained a liquid-like substance emanating colorful hues.
“What’s this?” Dr. Zhao was immediately attracted by this strange substance.
“This is called Wansu.” Jiang Zuo said with a solemn tone, “This thing has the capability of the kind of material reorganization I mentioned just now… In fact, I’ve been researching its use these past two days. I found out at last that this thing can change its form according to a person’s mental will.”
Without wasting words, Jiang Zuo poured about twenty milliliters of the colorful liquid from the test tube – these were secreted from a crystal he picked up at the bottom of the Myriad Elements Pool.
Jiang Zuo still hadn’t figured out the secretion principle of the crystal… But without a doubt, the secreted liquid was the Wansu he had witnessed. And that crystal Jiang Zuo had defined as the Myriad Element Ore Mother!
Now Jiang Zuo stared at the twenty milliliters of Wansu in the petri dish, his gaze incredibly focused.
Something unbelievable happened, the Wansu in the petri dish was gradually changing… finally, under Dr. Zhao’s widening eyes of terror, it turned into a white sugar cube.
“What… what is this?” Dr. Zhao instinctively asked.
“Sugar cube.” Jiang Zuo smiled, “Absolutely harmless, and sweet enough. If you don’t believe, you can try it.”
Dr. Zhao was staring at the sugar cube in the petri dish with furrowed brows, silent. Jiang Zuo thought Dr. Zhao didn’t believe him, quickly said, “I assure you I didn’t use any Illusion Technique on you, you can check the trial video records just now… If you really don’t believe, you can try it yourself, I’ll give you the method, though with your mental strength, I’m unsure if it can affect Wansu. I think a minimum threshold is needed to be received by Wansu… Dr. Zhao? Dr. Zhao?”
“Idiot!!!” Dr. Zhao howled, gripping Jiang Zuo’s neck tightly, “You idiot!! Fool!!! Wastrel!! Of all things to rebine, you rebine a sugar cube!! Do you even know!! 1 gram worth two hundred million, damn it!!!”
Even though Jiang Zuo was a Taoist, Dr. Zhao’s hands squeezed him to the point of suffocation—especially Dr. Zhao’s left hand, which inexplicably possessed immense strength… his left hand?
Jiang Zuo suddenly froze, because Dr. Zhao’s left hand didn’t look like a normal human hand at all.
Thick, covered with a peculiar layer of keratin, like metal…
“Dr… Doctor, your, your hand…” Jiang Zuo forcefully patted Dr. Zhao’s arm.
Dr. Zhao took deep breaths repeatedly, his emotions gradually calming down… his left hand also gradually resumed a normal appearance.
Finally, he released Jiang Zuo and sighed, “I’m sorry, I was too excited.”
Jiang Zuo swallowed, looking at Dr. Zhao’s arm, hesitatingly said, “Dr. Zhao, just now your hand was…”
Dr. Zhao shook his head, calmly said, “It’s nothing, just an experimental accident. It allows my left hand to mutate, with strength far exceeding normal people, but there are side effects, which make it prone to bee irritable. I need to inject medication at regular intervals.”
“A genetic experiment?” Jiang Zuo frowned… does the Management Bureau’s scientific research department really dare to try anything?
“Let’s not talk about it.” Dr. Zhao shook his head, “This Wansu is far more important… Jiang Zuo, tell me, how much of this Wansu do you have?”
“Not much.” Jiang Zuo shook his head subtly, “You know, we barely made it out in time, I just managed to bring back a little, about seven hundred milliliters in total.”
“You said the place is called the Penglai Treasury?” Dr. Zhao suddenly asked.
Jiang Zuo smiled bitterly, “Doctor, I advise you not to have any designs on that place. Not to mention whether we can still find the way in, but even if we could, I think with what we currently mand, in the Penglai Treasury, we wouldn’t be much stronger than an ordinary person…”
Dr. Zhao also shook his head, “Without accurate data, it’s hard for me to imagine.”
Jiang Zuo stated directly, “There’s no need for data, nor could there be data to monitor, because this might be… a gap between civilizations. The materials I brought back may take several generations of research to interpret… and whether they can be absorbed after interpretation is another matter entirely.”
Dr. Zhao gave a bitter smile; he knew it too… The two of them worked day and night researching, ultimately they were just like primitive people looking at Riemann hypothesis proofs… it’s no longer just an intelligence issue, but a total knowledge gap.
“Maybe we can find a breakthrough from these weapons.” Jiang Zuo at this moment shifted his gaze to some peculiar objects.
These were items Captain Ling Feng and his team brought back before leaving… some peculiar weapons that only appeared in sci-fi movies.
Dr. Zhao evidently agreed with Jiang Zuo’s point of view, instead of approaching those civilization gaps, it might be better to explore the technology that at least seemed reachable.
“Perfect, from this light saber I discovered a very special material, which current technology cannot synthesize at all… we don’t even know its structure.” Dr. Zhao suddenly said seriously, “If we can observe the molecular rebination process of Wansu, we might understand this material’s specific structure, thus finding a way for artificial synthesis…”
Dr. Zhao picked up the only light saber he had, pressed the button on it, a beam of light shot out, solid and unwavering, buzzing as it went, “Perhaps we still have no way to produce it ourselves, but copying it exactly might not be impossible.”
“Cold energy beam technology, this technology itself is a huge challenge.” Jiang Zuo sighed.
Even if he himself hadn’t researched this area, it didn’t prevent his speculation.
As Dr. Zhao said, even if it’s just copying it exactly, if it could be mass-produced, and everyone had such a light saber, the military power of this country might reach a new peak, right?
After all, cracking this technology and mastering it could be applied not only to one kind of weapon light saber… it could be used in many places, right?
Thinking this way, not to mention the Wansu Mineral Mother he had, even the ‘seven hundred milliliters’ of Wansu he falsely claimed seemed enough to change the world’s structure…
Jiang Zuo was suddenly startled, cold sweat pouring down, he didn’t know whether bringing Wansu out from the Penglai Treasury was the right thing to do, or something that shouldn’t have happened.
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What Nero found curious was that after meeting Su Zijun, Luo Qiu neither returned to the club immediately nor went elsewhere to collect Rich Lady Su’s transaction money.
Instead, he came to a relatively empty place.
It seemed to be a cliff of a certain mountain… but thick fog enveloped the surroundings, making it impossible to see the real environment clearly.
Luo Qiu stood on the edge of the cliff like this, gazing into the distance, and it had been quite a while.
This was somewhat unfortable for Nero, who was used to being active—who knew how many pairs of small shoes were waiting for her to wear after being alone with the boss outside for so long.
Nero felt like she was gambling with her life…
“Boss… um, Master?” Nero wondered if she needed to remind him—only calling him Master made her feel awkward—of course, it was something the maid required.
e to think of it, within less than half a day of being transformed into a Black Soul Envoy, the maid handed Nero a maid’s code parable to a Chinese-English dictionary.
“Just do what you like, don’t force yourself.” Luo Qiu turned his head, smiled softly at Nero, “Tai Yinzi is constantly flattering, smooth-talking, that’s just his character. But because his nature is like that, those flattering words don’t make people feel resentful. But you’re different.”
“Oh… alright.” Nero shrugged, tearing off the maid outfit covering her, revealing her arms and legs, and plained, “I just don’t understand, how did this maid lady manage to put up with these cumbersome and unbearably hot clothes on her body?”
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