ccnovels #324 - Contact Person
#324 - Contact Person
Aunt Dragonfly stood in the top-floor office of the ‘Kindling’ Building, gazing at the colorful city before her.
This colorfulness wasn't due to the city's vitality;
It was the glow emitted by the psychic energy shield.
Aunt Dragonfly was now a cadre in the Psychic Energy Capital, in charge of logistics, and knew some data that other psychic energy users didn't.
Some of the shields could only be activated at night due to a lack of crystal core supply;
The bitter cold of the Arctic Circle would sting the skin of those respectable people, and a large number of ordinary people, unable to get warm supplies, were dying from the cold.
There was no way around it.
Since the appearance of spiritual cultivators and their negotiations with Fu Jian, the influence of the Psychic Energy Capital had plummeted, and the resources it could plunder from the Nine Comprehensive War Zones were dwindling.
Although the Psychic Energy Capital itself had a profound foundation, even if it were completely cut off from external supplies and crystal core provisions, it could still operate for ten or eight years;
But the superiors here didn't want to give too many resources to these ordinary people.
Conflicts arose as a result.
In fact, beneath the seemingly peaceful and prosperous surface of this city, countless subtle cracks had already appeared.
The glass of the multi-layered floor-to-ceiling window reflected Aunt Dragonfly's shadow.
Compared to herself two years ago, she was a completely different person.
Smooth and delicate skin, a slightly plump figure, matched with her professional skirt suit, and the exquisite makeup on her beautiful face, made her exude the charm of a mature woman.
All these changes stemmed from talisman water, elixirs, and… a little bit of cosmetic surgery.
— After her figure improved, she slightly enhanced her appearance.
It's just a pity that Auntie has become beautiful, but she doesn't have time anymore; now she doesn't even have time to go fishing for rich guys.
Knock knock.
A knock sounded on the door.
Aunt Dragonfly, who was lost in thought, said, "Enter."
The office door opened, and a female assistant entered the room in high heels, delivering a paper document to the desk.
The female assistant reminded in a delicate voice:
"Vice Minister, you need to attend an online meeting in half an hour, which will be personally presided over by Elder Tai. You need to enter the virtual venue five minutes in advance."
"Got it."
Aunt Dragonfly casually pulled the paper document into her hand.
This was a psychic energy usage technique she had learned from a certain Taoist priest.
The lines of data on the document made her expression increasingly somber.
The female assistant sensed that her superior was in a bad mood, and didn't dare to say anything more, quietly slipping out of the office.
"Alas, a swarm of parasites."
Aunt Dragonfly walked back behind her desk, threw the paper document on the table, sank into the soft sofa, and closed her eyes to rest.
A soft chuckle suddenly came from the corner:
"Vice Minister is worried?"
Aunt Dragonfly's eyes widened suddenly, and she turned her head to look at the corner.
There was no figure, only a faint starlight.
But that male voice!
That tone that always carried a bit of teasing!
And that lazy energy.
Wang Zheng!
Black Storm! The guy who changed the trajectory of her life! She would never mishear him!
Aunt Dragonfly subconsciously glanced at a few corners.
Although the monitoring equipment installed there had already been removed by her.
Aunt Dragonfly restrained the excitement in her heart and wrote a line on the paper.
[Communicate using telepathy.]
Wang Ji Xuan's voice immediately rang in her heart.
"Being monitored?"
Aunt Dragonfly continued to write, crushing each line of paper a few seconds after writing it.
True 'read and burn'.
[Yes.]
[You actually received my request for help! No one in humanity has heard from you! Thank you! I love you to death!]
[Uh, not in a romantic way, don't misunderstand, I'm not a bitch who steals other people's men.]
"I just happened to be restless and had something to come to the Psychic Energy Capital for," Wang Ji Xuan said with a smile, "Don't overthink it, I didn't come for your pretty face."
[Are you teasing this old lady?]
"I have a girlfriend… What's wrong? What exactly was that message you sent to Mudan? Why is there going to be an all-out war?"
Aunt Dragonfly thought for a moment and wrote a line on the paper.
[After I finish this meeting, I'll go underground at noon, to my secret room, and we'll chat in detail then.]
"Okay, then I'll go do my own thing first, see you at noon."
Wang Ji Xuan stopped telepathizing.
Aunt Dragonfly waited for a long time, not hearing Wang Ji Xuan's voice, and then determined that he had left.
Coming and going without a trace…
'This is a dragon's den and tiger's lair with more than a dozen SS-class psychic energy users and three spiritual cultivators, and he just waltzed in so easily.'
'Should I say he's confident, or blindly arrogant?'
Aunt Dragonfly felt a little conflicted in her heart.
When the female assistant pushed the door in again, wanting to remind her superior to pay attention to entering the venue in advance;
The female assistant suddenly discovered that 'Aunt Dragonfly' Mai Qingting seemed to have won the lottery. Her eyes, which were usually filled with irritability, were full of light, and the ashtray on the side had not gained any new cigarette butts for the first time in ages.
Huh?
The female assistant was full of doubts and incomprehension.
But she still listed the sudden change in Aunt Dragonfly's emotions as an anomaly, and wrote it into the daily observation report.
Her superiors were not just this one.
… …
Elder Tai's Tai Sheng Gang's meetings were always smelly and long;
Not only did they lack any practical content, but they also paid special attention to all kinds of stinky rules.
Aunt Dragonfly's current title was Vice Minister, a core backbone sent by the Natural Faction, but in this meeting, she could only sit in the very corner of the last row.
Sweeping away her usual drowsiness, Aunt Dragonfly was in a very good mental state today;
She listened to Elder Tai's nonsense and the flattery of Elder Tai's lackeys, enduring the nausea and calculating the time.
Finally.
"Today's meeting is adjourned here, let me add a few simple words."
Tai Sheng Gang said in a deep voice:
"The situation is becoming increasingly severe. The newly established War Alliance in the Nine Comprehensive War Zones is still extremely resistant to us."
"Psychic energy has had, has, and will have a huge impact on the progress of humanity. The warlord politicians in the major war zones are worried that we will take away their power."
"You are all core backbones of the Psychic Energy Capital Resource Management Committee and should be in the tide of the times…"
About half an hour later.
"Meeting adjourned."
The dozens of participants clapped at the same time, the strength of their clapping being unusually fierce.
Aunt Dragonfly also couldn't help but laugh.
Having a meeting with this kind of old thing was really torture;
She was going to find her young hunk.
Turning off the virtual meeting device, Aunt Dragonfly rushed into the suite next to the office, found a pair of stockings that had been sealed for a long time, changed into a more sexy black leather skirt, looked at herself in the mirror a few times, and slapped her plump buttocks hard.
"Charming, my old despicable self."
Then Aunt Dragonfly wrapped herself in a thick windbreaker, carried an exquisite single-shoulder bag, and walked from the office to the central elevator of the building.
The Psychic Energy Capital was like a super-large flat fortress.
However, it only had four floors above and below ground combined, and the main body of the city was on the surface.
The surface layer had 50% of the population, and was the gathering place for civilians in the Psychic Energy Capital, with the Psychic Energy Capital's landmark buildings distributed around the Sphere of Silence where the Six Elders lived.
The first and second underground floors were residences for civilians and materials, and a large number of shelters and warehouses were built.
The third underground floor was for various research facilities and various institutions related to psychic energy.
The Natural Faction's original main activity area was the second and third underground floors.
Now, although the Natural Faction had walked out of the underground and onto the stage, their main territory was still underground.
The elevator that Aunt Dragonfly was riding could directly reach the first underground floor of the Psychic Energy Capital.
As she walked out of the elevator, she saw a neat street area.
Above, dozens of meters high, the flat rock layer was inlaid with some metal rings, and some blade beast crystal cores that could restore energy by themselves were inlaid in the rings. These rings could provide warmth and light.
Aunt Dragonfly suddenly heard a familiar call in her ear:
"It's not bad here, it's just that many people live worse than livestock."
Auntie remained calm, put her hands in the pockets of her windbreaker, and proceeded normally along her after-work route.
There were many patrolling guards on the road;
Most of these guards were low-level psychic energy users or ordinary human soldiers who had not been selected as materials.
— This was near the Kindling Building, and the order was naturally much better than in other areas.
Aunt Dragonfly found the downward elevator she usually used and went straight to the second floor.
The second floor was more than sixty meters high. Through the glass of the sightseeing elevator, you could see undulating five- or six-story buildings.
This was the main territory of the Natural Faction.
Aunt Dragonfly went to her favorite tavern, deliberately acting a little annoyed, exchanged a few passwords with the bartender, entered a secret passage leading down from the kitchen, turned left and right, and arrived at her secret residence.
A suite prison cell with a separate bathroom and study.
This place was once used to detain political prisoners of the Psychic Energy Capital, that is, high-level officials who lost in power struggles.
Aunt Dragonfly looked around and asked softly, "Boss?"
In the corner of the room, a shadow flowed quietly, slowly condensing into a blurred human form.
This figure shook a few times like jelly, and that familiar figure appeared in Aunt Dragonfly's eyes.
Look at this young cultivator.
Looking to be in his twenties, with sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes, and a handsome face, he had simply tied up his slightly grown-out long hair. He wore a simple shirt and jeans, and a pair of white sneakers made him look like a student who had just arrived for registration.
Wasn't this the Black Storm, Wang Zheng?
"You haven't changed a bit… That's right, it's only been nine months."
Aunt Dragonfly was inexplicably emotional, muttering to herself:
"They all said you were dead, killed by a Blade Beast, but I never believed it.
"You're not the kind of person who acts recklessly without considering the consequences. You definitely had a backup plan, really… it really is like that."
She was a little sentimental.
Wang Ji Xuan's expression was a little strange. He walked straight to the sofa and sat down, smiling: "Sit anywhere, don't be polite."
"This is my house."
Aunt Dragonfly retorted unhappily, quickly finding the feeling she had when she was with this guy.
Annoyed.
She took off her trench coat, deliberately showing off her now well-toned figure, and asked seemingly casually: "Didn't you say you were coming to Spirit Energy City for something? Is there anything I can help you with?"
Wang Ji Xuan smiled and shook his head: "No one else can help with this matter, especially since you're their Deputy Minister now."
"Don't even mention it."
Aunt Dragonfly went to the refrigerator, took out some cured meat and low-alcohol wine, and complained:
"I'm just a small fry pushed out by the teachers.
"Going to work every day is like being in jail, and I still have to face that bunch of bastards from the ruling faction.
"Not a single one of the policies I proposed can be implemented!"
Daoist Priest pinched a piece of cured meat and put it in his mouth, chewing gently.
Having not eaten anything substantial for more than nine months, his taste buds were filled with pleasure, and he hummed comfortably.
"Is it that delicious?"
"I've been living the life of an ascetic monk recently," Daoist Priest said with emotion, "My willpower has deteriorated."
Back then, when he secluded himself in the mountains to cultivate, each time it would last for a year or two, without feeling lonely at all, immersing himself in the joy of comprehending the Great Dao.
But now, after only nine months, he had reached the limit of what his mind could bear, and if he didn't come out for some fresh air, his Dao heart would be thrown into chaos.
He craved delicious food, fine wine, and beautiful women.
He couldn't stand the loneliness anymore.
If the matter here wasn't so urgent… he probably would have secretly gone to find Lieutenant Colonel Ling Tong to relieve his longing.
Wang Ji Xuan glanced at the golden core in his abdomen and gently raised his eyebrows.
At least the results of these nine months were very good, far exceeding previous expectations.
He initially planned to spend a year laying a solid foundation and entering the Golden Core stage, but after only three months of seclusion, nourished by the abundant spiritual energy of the Pillar Blade Beast, he had already touched the peak of the Core Formation Realm.
Condensing a golden core is the first major obstacle encountered in cultivation for normal cultivators.
If the golden core is successfully formed, one will step onto the path of immortality.
If the golden core is difficult to form, Foundation Establishment is just a waste of effort, adding only one or two hundred years to one's lifespan, and it is still difficult to maintain youth and remain a withered bone in the mortal world.
But Daoist Wang is not a normal cultivator, he is a Great Vehicle Reincarnator.
He deliberately spent an extra month to consolidate his Dao foundation, temper this body, think over and over again, and check for omissions and deficiencies. When he could no longer improve, he used the power of his Great Vehicle Remnant Soul.
Using the Remnant Soul to protect the current Dao body, Primordial Soul, and Qi Sea, there was almost no risk, and the golden core was formed at once.
Golden cores also have grades.
Wang Ji Xuan had not deliberately pursued a perfect golden core before, but the golden core condensed this time came with the appearance of a Ninth-Rank Azure Lotus.
The quality was a notch higher than when he first cultivated a golden core.
This is the effect of the Great Vehicle Remnant Soul.
It was also thanks to him not completely losing his head in the previous few times and consuming his Great Vehicle Remnant Soul.
After he condensed the golden core, he took back the Remnant Soul and used the Remnant Soul to guide the transformation of the Primordial Soul.
After the Golden Core stage is the Heaven-Earth Bridge stage.
The Heaven-Earth Bridge is actually a vague concept, symbolizing the transition from the Golden Core to the Nascent Soul, and also a bridge from the Primordial Soul, which symbolizes mortals, to the Nascent Soul, which symbolizes entering the threshold of immortality.
The Heaven-Earth Bridge always has six steps, and it is also the only major realm in all cultivation realms that is divided by 'steps'.
And now, Wang Ji Xuan is standing in front of the first step of the Heaven-Earth Bridge.
He hesitated for a long time, always unable to take this step, so he came to Spirit Energy City to find opportunities.
The specific realm is the Golden Core Realm Great Perfection.
The Sixth Pillar has indeed paid too much for his cultivation.
If someone carefully measured the changes in the spiritual energy within the Sixth Pillar, they would find that its total amount of spiritual energy had fallen by several percentage points.
It was still an irreversible drop in the upper limit.
Wang Ji Xuan didn't want to reveal his whereabouts. He was still thinking about taking a walk outside, and then continuing to cultivate within the Sixth Pillar. He wouldn't let it go until he had completely squeezed this behemoth dry.
The Blade Beast群 not forcibly attacking the Sixth Pillar really helped Wang Ji Xuan a lot.
Even if the Blade Beast群 forcibly attacked, it wouldn't matter.
The Elysium Barrier inside the Sixth Pillar is guarded by millions of human military souls, which can suppress the Pillar Blade Beast from giving birth to a soul again, and also prevent Gari Noh from controlling the Pillar Blade Beast.
These millions of human military souls are also Wang Ji Xuan's confidence to directly use the Pillar Blade Beast for cultivation.
'Hmm, why do I feel like this poor Daoist has become a parasite?'
Daoist Wang smiled casually, raised his head to look at Mai Qingting, and then belatedly remembered something, gently fiddling with the bracelet on his wrist.
A ray of light flashed, and Mudan, still in her maid outfit, made a dazzling appearance.
"Long time no see, Little Sister Mai… uh, why do you seem to have a bit more decadent temperament?"