"There's something I need to tell you," Li Changzhou said to Zheng Qing as they searched for their room in the corridor after exchanging the items.

Zheng Qing hesitated for a moment.

"Don't worry," Li Changzhou smiled slightly, "it's not a private matter, so it doesn't matter if it's overheard."

"Aren't you making things difficult for Xiao Qing in the Special Operations Bureau by saying that?" Yao Chi said with a slightly reproachful smile. With Yang Qinglan not around, she and Li Changzhou were acting as intimately as lovers.

“Hey,” Li Changzhou said, looking up at the ceiling, “Zheng Qing is not my mole, and I have no interest in the secrets of the Special Operations Bureau.”

It was just a joke, but it actually got a response.

A gentle female voice, tinged with a smile, said, "Mr. Changzhou, if you wish to know, the Special Operations Bureau can tell you everything."

Knowing that Li Changzhou had no interest in power, they wanted to recruit him?

Li Changzhou didn't answer, but instead said to his sister and Yaochi, "The Special Operations Bureau must think I'm a lecher. Bi, Aferona, and the Queen of the Four Seasons Star of the Azure Sky think that I'm surrounded by women and have a problem with my lifestyle. But the people who received me were also women."

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“I can attest that my brother is a 100% gentleman.”

Zheng Qing also laughed and said, "I can also testify that the Special Operations Bureau didn't send me to seduce your brother."

"I dare say 100%, do you dare?" Li Qianxia joked.

"Do you dare...?" Zheng Qing didn't answer.

Li Changzhou continued the topic from the beginning:

"Since someone is listening, that makes things easier—in the subway instance, I encountered a group of aliens. They used a tool to lock onto an item, which happened to be on ancient Earth. Their technological civilization was very advanced, and they might come to Earth in modern times."

After a moment of silence, the gentle female voice spoke again: "Could you elaborate?"

"Just letting you know," Li Changzhou waved his hand. "The other party is a human immortal. If they really come, I will stop them. Besides, we have some connections in the dungeon."

“The other person is also a woman,” Yaochi said with a smile.

Li Changzhou glanced at her impatiently—just kidding, he was annoyed that she talked too much.

Zheng Qing pushed open a door, and outside was the riverside road of Mingcheng, the courtyard that Li Changzhou and Li Qianxia used to rent.

Li Qianxia walked in first, feeling nostalgic, never expecting that the government would rebuild the place—it had been bombed before.

"Has the item become stronger? Or has the user become stronger?" Li Changzhou was more interested in the corridor.

Zheng Qing smiled without saying a word. She only guaranteed that the Special Operations Bureau would not harm Li Changzhou, but she was not really on Li Changzhou's side.

"You just said you could tell me everything about the Special Operations Bureau." Li Changzhou indicated that people are treacherous and that such empty words should be taken with a grain of salt.

“I’m the hostess. For higher-level matters, you need someone else to handle things with you,” Zheng Qing said with a smile. “The property rights of this courtyard are registered under Qian Xia’s name. The property certificate is in the living room, and there are also two parking spaces.”

Is this the reason why the Special Operations Bureau kindly sent them back here?

It's convenient for the Special Operations Bureau to contact Li Changzhou occasionally, otherwise he'll either be outside the atmosphere (collecting airglow or on the moon) or in the Honey Pot World, making it impossible to contact him.

As for why it was placed under Li Qianxia's name, it's simple: Li Changzhou dotes on Li Qianxia and has no interest in wealth (his savings are only 230).

"Registered in my name?" Li Qianxia was momentarily confused. "I got a car and a house in just one day?"

"Houses on the moon and motorcycles on the planet Celestial are also houses and cars." Li Changzhou thought she was very unambitious.

"That won't do. Those places are no different from a honeymoon world. I still want my own house and car in Xia Country!"

"So you live here?"

“Hmm—” Li Qianxia looked at the newly transplanted apricot tree in the yard and fell silent.

Whether it's good or not is one thing, the key issue is that it stinks. I can't keep myself in a weak state just to live here, can I?

While the siblings were bickering, Zheng Qing asked Yao Chi, "Should I tell the driver to go back by herself, or should she come to Mingcheng?"

"Let her go back."

"Okay." Zheng Qing disappeared through the gate again.

Li Qianxia curiously opened the door again, only to find an ordinary street scene outside.

A stone-paved road, streetlights on, a child learning to skateboard, two girls each carrying a cup of milk tea passing by the door, people coming and going, a warm night.

"Let's go back," Li Changzhou said.

The three returned to the Honey Pot World, where it was also night, with countless stars twinkling among the leaves of the giant tree.

"How did it become like this?" Li Qianxia asked in surprise.

The high Bird's Nest Plain has become a streamside, and the waters of the large lake 500 meters below have overflowed.

“Diamonds,” Li Changzhou said, “I threw diamonds into the lake.”

Yaochi slowly looked at him: "Did you crush my Dragon Palace?"

Li Changzhou then remembered that Yaochi had placed the Dragon Palace, which he had brought back from the Jiajing era, at the bottom of the lake.

"...It won't break, it's the Dragon Palace after all."

“Not necessarily,” Li Qianxia pondered, deliberately undermining him, “Your diamond is very big.”

"......"

“The diamonds are mine now,” Yaochi said.

"This one is for Qinglan. If you want to make up for it, I can go find another one."

"half."

"Even half is not acceptable."

"Are you trying to renege on your debt?" Yaochi's bright eyes widened slightly, her expression questioning.

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