"BOOM—"
Suddenly, deep within Red Maple Forest Park, lightning flashed and thunder roared, and intense waves of Spirit Power Fluctuations swept through.
Wang Lan and Wang Qianfeng’s conversation halted abruptly as they both turned to look in the direction of the surging Spiritual Power.
"It seems there’s sothing going on inside."
"Should we send support?"
"Lige’s abilities are quite good; he should be able to handle it," Wang Qianfeng said lightly.
"Director Wang, what if there is a master from the Demon Clan inside? Since the Demon Clan has been the greatest threat to humanity, constantly suppressing us, their masters must be no weaker than ours. And since they have infiltrated the Human World as spies, they must be the elite of the Demon Clan. We can’t afford to take this lightly."
"It’s true that they are elites of the Demon Clan, but you may not be aware of so common knowledge." Wang Qianfeng suddenly realized that this young man who had accomplished so many extraordinary feats was actually just a rookie Star Martial Warrior who had awakened to his talent only two or three months ago.
"The Demon Clan and the human race are situated in different spacetis. Human high-tech cannot be used in Different Dinsional Spaces, much less in the Demon World. So, do you think the world’s Laws only restrict us humans?"
"You an... the Demons are restricted too?"
"The only way for the Demon Clan to retain its strength when coming to Sky Blue Star is through dinsional incursion. They have an Array that, when activated, can gradually erode and eventually rge two spacetis.
However, this type of dinsional incursion emits very strong energy fluctuations, and dinsional incursions anywhere can be detected by us. Once the incursion is complete, the Demon Clan is no longer affected by the spaceti laws, and our technology is no longer hindered by the Different Dinsional Space.
That’s why, when Dongdao Country was eroded by the Demon Clan and turned into part of the Demon World, the nuclear bombs hidden in Dongdao Country could still be detonated at a critical mont.
Without completing spaceti incursion, the more powerful an individual is, the less able they are to cross the spaceti boundary into the Human World. On this point, humans have a significant advantage.
Once our human Star Martial Warriors awaken their talent, they can freely enter Different Dinsional Spaces."
"So you’re saying... even if the Demon Clan has infiltrated our human civilization, their strength isn’t that strong?" Wang Lan would never have thought of this if no one told him.
This could explain why the Demon Clan mber he killed with a single strike was so weak. In Wang Lan’s mind, a spy infiltrating behind enemy lines should have been the elite of the elite.
"We can’t be blindly optimistic, though, because the spatial restriction is only in place as the Demon Clan enters the Human World. Once they successfully arrive, this limitation dissipates.
So the Demon Clan has thought of a workaround; they send so of their noble offspring to the Human World when they are young and weak, where they then lie in wait, waiting for the right mont to activate.
These Demon Clan spies haven’t just recently infiltrated; in the seventy years since the war ended, they have never stopped their infiltration. But in terms of growth potential, the Demon Clan matures much later than we do."
Having listened to Wang Qianfeng’s explanation, Wang Lan ca to understand. The real situation was far more complex than he had imagined. The conflict between the Demon Clan and humans wasn’t rely a war between nations; it was a race war that transcended ti and space. There was so much more for Wang Lan to learn.
At that mont, the aftershocks of the distant battle suddenly erupted intensely, followed by a strange distortion in the space far away.
"Looks like Lige has finished the task," Wang Qianfeng said as he took out his phone to make a call.
Before long, several figures erged from the dense forest. Gradually, warriors from the Tianjian Bureau Action Departnt walked out of the forest, with seven or eight of them carrying the bodies of fallen comrades on their backs.
Lige approached Wang Lan and handed over a skull. "Is this the one?"
"Yes!"
"Then that’s good."
"Is it confird?" Wang Qianfeng asked Lige lightly as he approached.
"Reporting to Director Wang, it has been confird that Brother Wang Lan’s conjecture is completely accurate."
"Good!" Wang Qianfeng took out his cellphone again. "Xu Shiyun, we can close the net now."
Wang Lan guessed that the net Wang Qianfeng asked Xu Shiyun to close referred to those who had experienced the ti tunnel incident in Red Maple Forest Park. In Wang Lan’s estimation, these people had already been replaced by the Demon Clan.
"For completing the Red Maple Forest Park Ti Tunnel Mystery Mission, you are awarded 3,000 experience points and 300 skill points."
In his mind, Wang Lan heard the system’s voice.
The helicopter once again sliced through the clouds, hovering above everyone’s heads.
"Are you coming back to the bureau with , or do you want to go ho by yourself?"
"Is there anything else you need for?"
"If you return to the bureau, you’ll be part of the case debrief. You’ll need to write a detailed report on the cause and course of the event. If not, then it’s not necessary. After all, you are still a student and haven’t officially joined the workforce."
"Then forget it, I’ll take the subway ho." Wang Lan instinctively sensed that Wang Qianfeng did not want him to accompany him back to the Tianjian Bureau, so he prudently proposed that he leave on his own.
The mission was complete, and the benefit had been reaped. Now all that was left was to figure out how to spend the seven-day vacation.
「Upon returning ho」
Wang Lan first added the 300 experience points to Star Cloud Sword Dance, thereby raising Star Cloud Sword Dance to the high level of silver 8.
Lying on his bed out of boredom and scrolling through his phone, he found that Xu Xiangwen, that showoff, had posted over a dozen updates today. The trio and Jiang Xinchen were playing in Modu City, fully deploying the law of money talks to enjoy VIP pathways, obliviously posting updates about the extrely crowded Wanxiang Amusent Park, where it was so packed one could hardly move.
Please don’t change to a new thrill ride every ten minutes, okay? Give a break!
Seeing Xu Xiangwen and the others having so much fun, Wang Lan suddenly felt a tinge of envy. Maybe... get up and continue to grind missions?
As soon as he thought of it, he opened the Star Martial Hall’s official webpage, submitted the completed task, and got one hundred points. Then he found a short-term task and clicked to accept it.
Actually, many tasks for Star Martial Warriors are quite easy, with no combat involved. For example, providing protection for soone, escorting sothing valuable, such as treasures, money, and transporting important industrial machinery, and so on.
"Xinyu, are you going to post another one? I think if I keep posting, I’ll probably be targeted by those red-eyed people, tracked down, and beaten to death," Xu Xiangwen said. In the artificial sunroom, Jiang Xinyu and the other three were leisurely enjoying a sunbath, while outside the sunroom, a sign stood.
The sign read: "Equipnt Under Maintenance, Temporarily Out of Service."
But... do they think amusent park goers are blind? Equipnt under maintenance? Then what are those four doing lying in there? So, Xu Xiangwen’s worries were completely unnecessary. Why would anyone need to track them? They could be found in a single glance.
"Don’t you usually love making a spectacle of yourself?"
"Do you think Modu City is devoid of wealthy people? Acting like this might make so affluent individuals feel uncomfortable. By the way, do you think Wang Lan, that blockhead, will be provoked by ?"
"What does Wang Lan have to do with it?" Jiang Xinyu asked, turning her face away coldly.
"Hey, you’re being pretty obvious, aren’t you? You personally invited him to co out with us, and he dared to say he loves studying instead? Isn’t that a slap in the face to our Queen Jiang? Didn’t you remind to post an update just to tell him how wrong he was for not coming?"
"That’s so strong survival instinct..." Gong Feiyu remarked, peering out from his magazine. He was impressed that Xu Xiangwen could explain the complex relationship between Jiang Xinyu and Wang Lan so innocently under such circumstances. Explaining a rejected date as a lack of respect for her... makes sense. Impressive.
"No, Lan has posted an update," Jiang Xinchen said, sitting up.
"Oh? He actually posts updates? Has the caveman been resurrected?"
"No, he seems to be on a date with Li Xiaoqin."
"What?" Xu Xiangwen let out a shout of surprise and opened his social dia to find a new post, indeed from Wang Lan.
In the photo, Wang Lan was laden with various shopping bags, looking like the common boy suffering through a shopping trip with his girlfriend. Next to him was the big star Li Xiaoqin, dragging him into a mad dash into a shopping mall.
The caption beneath the photo read: "I’m never accompanying a woman shopping again in my life."
With all the braggy updates Xu Xiangwen had posted, none could counter the bitterness of Wang Lan’s single lant.
Looking at the photo, Xu Xiangwen suddenly felt that all the privileges he enjoyed were tasteless.
That was... the national idol of Nanli Country, an A-list star even in Jade Country!
Wang Lan, you sly dog! Usually so straightforward, but it turns out you’re this kind of person!
"CRACK—"
A crisp sound echoed as the lounge chair beneath Jiang Xinyu transford into an Ice Throne.
"No, when did Wang Lan and Li Xiaoqin get together? They shouldn’t have crossed paths at all," Xu Xiangwen said, sitting up and asking urgently.
"Nonsense! You should know what kind of person Wang Lan is. Li Xiaoqin is Nanli Country’s top actress, a national treasure idol. This ti she’s in Suzhou City to shoot a major TV series, *Great Zhou Dynasty*, in collaboration with Jade Country. Never mind when they got together; they wouldn’t even have had the chance to et. Unless Wang Lan has been to Nanli Country?"
"So you’re saying... the photo is photoshopped?"
"See for yourself!" Gong Feiyu handed his phone to Xu Xiangwen. "The task list of Suzhou City’s Star Martial Hall shows a four-day job as Li Xiaoqin’s personal bodyguard. Li Xiaoqin likes to shop and despises having dozens of bodyguards trailing her conspicuously, so she decided to hire Star Martial Warriors from Jade Country to protect her for ten hours each day. The person who took the job is precisely Wang Lan. That kid knows how to play better than we do. You idiot were still playing bungee jumping while Wang Lan was already taking Star Martial tasks."
「In the dead of night」
Silence enveloped the Suzhou City branch of the Tianjian Bureau. Director Lu Zhao walked briskly through the deserted corridor to the eting room door at the end and pushed it open.
SWISH—
Wang Qianfeng and a group of lieutenant colonels all stood up neatly.
"Everyone, take a seat."
Despite his unimposing appearance, Lu Zhao commanded irrefutable respect from everyone present. This veteran, who had once joined the United Security Organization, had a file in the United Nations archives half a ter thick. His wealth of experience and knowledge was so astounding that those who saw it were taken aback.
Naturally, soone capable of heading the Tianjian Bureau in such an important city was no unknown figure.
"We’ve just received a definitive report from the inspection departnt regarding the DNA match for the skull Lige brought back from the secret realm. Her na is Chang Yu, a twenty-four-year-old from the Gunan district of Suzhou City, a nurse at Renhe Hospital. And she is not on the list of those involved in the multiple incidents related to the ti tunnel mystery."
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