Chapter 138

Aurora was riding in an independent magnetic levitation car all the way. She didn't say a word all the way. Only the slightly open scales on her arms revealed her nervousness and anxiety at the moment.

Until he was taken to a department investigation room with extremely high security level, where Aurora saw a man in uniform.

Seeing the number of stripes on the opponent's uniform, Aurora's pupils trembled, and the scales on his arms opened a little more, realizing that things were not simple.

The other party's position was extremely high. As Aurora expected, the person standing in front of her was the highest-ranking official in this department.

"Don't be nervous, please take a seat, Ms. Aurora."

Opposite him was a middle-aged man with a reserved temperament. He looked extremely ordinary and was very inconspicuous on the planet of the Fantasy Sea Civilization. However, as the distance got closer, Aurora felt a unique awe-inspiring aura from him.

"Yes." Aurora responded subconsciously as he sat down. At the same time, his mind was in a mess, wondering what the abnormal tsunami was and what Ye Bai's current condition was.

The next moment, the head of the confidential department opposite asked directly, "How much do you know about your friend Ye Bai?"

Although Giant Sea Star is a semi-open planet of Fantasy Sea Civilization, not everyone is eligible to live there long-term. Some basic conditions set by Fantasy Sea Civilization need to be met. Ye Bai transferred directly from Makul Star to Fantasy Sea Galaxy at that time. Everything went smoothly because of the recommendation of Aurora, a native of the star.

Otherwise, if Ye Bai, an ancient human from the Blue Star, wants to settle on the Giant Sea Star, he needs to meet some relevant requirements, such as how much consumption he has achieved on the planet of the Fantasy Sea Civilization, and whether he belongs to a civilized race that has established diplomatic relations with the Fantasy Sea Civilization...

Of course, this is easy for special departments to find out.

Hearing this, Aurora became excited: "Did something happen to Ye Bai in the tsunami?"

To this day, the Huanhai civilization has explained to the public that this tsunami, which was obviously abnormal, was a gravitational shock from outside the planet. For a galaxy-level civilization that can clearly predict every hurricane on a planet, this explanation is not reasonable.

However, the authorities obviously handled the matter coldly and did not respond further. For a highly developed civilization, information control is easy. Now the public opinion storm about the abnormal tsunami has cooled down at an extremely fast speed and disappeared from the public eye.

After all, although the tsunami was sudden, it occurred in an uninhabited sea. Given the basic defense of the Giant Starfish Sky Building, it ultimately only caused some economic losses and no actual casualties.

If Aurora was not involved in the incident and did not know that a friend living in that area had lost contact, he would have just brushed aside the incident as a piece of news.

In response to Aurora's question, the Minister looked into her eyes and said, "Your friend Ye Bai is currently missing. We need you to provide further information to confirm her situation."

Missing...

Aurora frowned. The thing she had been worried about these days finally happened.

"Ms. Aurora?"

"Yes." Aurora recovered from the shock and looked at the surroundings in front of him. The other party had a serious expression and talked about Ye Bai's basic situation: "My friend Ye Bai is an ancient human from the Blue Planet... Yes, the Blue Planet where the wormhole appeared..."

"She was awakened from cryostasis by the Blue Star Council three years ago. I happened to be on Blue Star to conduct my graduation project at that time and met her..."

"I saw the news about the Makur Group on Starnet. I thought Ye Bai was working there, and I was worried about her situation, so I submitted the relevant information to the relevant departments of the Star Alliance on Starnet..."

"Because Ye Bai received subsidies and bonuses from the Star Alliance in the Makul Group, I suggested that she register for the Star Network and make money in the Myriad Worlds, and improve her mental strength level..." Having said this, Aurora quietly concealed the fact that she had provided Ye Bai with some of the Myriad Worlds 'strategies'.

The minister listened silently, occasionally asking for some details. The entire room was equipped with sophisticated detection instruments, which constantly and unnoticeably monitored the status of the aurora and then fed the information back to the minister's terminal in real time.

After listening to Jiguang's basic explanation, the minister thought for a moment and then asked, "After the tsunami, have you contacted Ye Bai through other channels recently...for example, Star Network?"

"No." Aurora shook her head: "I didn't receive any response from her on Starnet, nor on the emergency communication."

Minister: "Has Ye Bai recently expressed his intention to leave Giant Starfish?"

Hearing the latter question, the tentacles on Aurora's head immediately shook slightly, and he said firmly: "Impossible, if Ye Bai wants to leave the giant starfish, he will definitely tell me, he will not leave without saying goodbye."

This is also the reason why Aurora has always been worried about Ye Bai.

Seeing this, the minister nodded thoughtfully, and then asked, "Has Ye Bai told you what he is doing recently?"

"The last time she sent me a message, she was discussing the game situation in Wanjie. She had completed her job transfer mission and was on an escort mission at the time." Aurora said truthfully.

The Minister knew that Aurora was not lying based on the feedback, and then said, "As far as I know, Ye Bai, as an ancient human, has an F-level mental power, right?"

"That was in the past. After completing her job transfer, she reached D-rank."

The Minister suddenly asked, "D-Class...did she tell you in person?"

"Of course, and this is an inevitable phenomenon." Aurora said firmly, thinking that the other party's question was purely repetitive, because there were already countless facts proving the effect and degree of improvement of the Ten Thousand Worlds on mental power. Her research institute had a large number of samples to prove this point.

Aurora had been with Ye Bai in the laboratory for three years, and she was very familiar with the F-level mental power, so there was no possibility of error. After completing the first transformation, Ye Bai's mental power reached D-level, and there was no problem at all.

After asking some more detailed questions, the minister took the initiative to end the interrogation.

"Thank you for your cooperation, Ms. Aurora. We will inform you if there is any new information about Ye Bai."

"Please tell me as soon as possible." Aurora could only leave the interrogation room with full of worries and concerns.

After Aurora left, the three intelligence analysts on the jury exchanged information on the minister's communication channel:

"Aurora was basically honest, but she concealed something when she mentioned the situation of the Ten Thousand Worlds..."

Upon hearing this, the Minister said, "She must have used her position to provide some assistance to Ye Bai. How do you analyze the extent of her cultural influence?"

"Aurora's background is safe. He is a member of the core ethnic group from the Phantom Sea Star. He left his home planet after the age of 20. He has a firm attitude towards core culture. The degree of cultural influence from Ye Bai is less than 30%, which is within the safe range."

Upon hearing this conclusion, the Minister's brow relaxed slightly. "She has awakened through the Ancestral Source before, so she is safe as long as she is within the safety range."

The actual scale of this investigation is even higher than what Aurora saw.

The so-called cultural invasion is a spiritual competition between civilizations. If one's own cultural confidence and cohesion are insufficient, it will be easy to be influenced by other civilizations, and then unknowingly affect one's own cultural trends.

In order to prevent such infection and preserve the uniqueness of their own civilization, many civilizations set up planets that are not open to the outside world. The mother planet of the Huanhai civilization, Huanhai Star, is one of them.

When it comes to individuals, it means that intelligent life is a spiritual creature that will have many complex emotions and then make incomplete, serious, or even contrary choices to the group.

The purpose of this investigation is to determine whether Aurora has betrayed his loyalty to his tribe because of his friendship with Ye Bo. By giving his friend some of his knowledge of the Myriad Worlds strategy, the level of cultural contamination is considered normal and controllable.

"It seems that Ye Bai is clearly hiding something from Aurora..."

The minister's eyes fell on a report.

It was a test report of a damaged fluid sandbag, found at the important scene with the file number 'WQ-4112 Abnormal Accident'.

The official forces of Huanhai Civilization are not there to sit there and do nothing. After more than ten days of analysis and investigation, they have locked on to the most suspicious and important scene in the tsunami accident, which is Ye Bai's former rental house.

All the debris from the dilapidated rental house has now been salvaged, restored, and is now stored in relevant archives.

In addition to the traces of damage to the house caused by the Sky-Splitting Thorn, which were being studied in detail, investigators also discovered this abnormal fluid sandbag. The report recorded the purchase channel and date of the fluid sandbag, which was earlier.

What's strange is that this fluid sandbag was not discarded after it was broken, but was obviously intentionally stored away. The force that damaged it exceeded the D-level mental power that the owner of the rental house should have.

There is no doubt that an A-level strongman once appeared in the giant starfish and triggered an abnormal tsunami, but the purpose of this A-level appearing here, as the investigation deepened, everything pointed to the original owner of the rental house - Ye Bai.

Ancient humans, Blue Star, strength exceeding D-level.

Based on the results of Aurora's inquiry, the minister highlighted these three points, intuitively feeling that there might be a shocking secret hidden behind these key points.

"Apply to the Foreign Affairs Department and contact the Blue Star Council."

Deep in the chaotic star sea, there is a mysterious technology deep in a space rift - the Ether Laboratory.

Ye Bai was immersed in the vast amount of knowledge left by the black hole. If it weren't for the reminder of hunger, she would have almost forgotten the time.

"It's time to log in."

Ye Bai shook her head. The efficiency of acquiring knowledge through mental connection was too high. The knowledge-seeking instinct of intelligent creatures made her indulge in it involuntarily. She suddenly looked back and realized that including the time she had spent on the spaceship to come to this laboratory, she had not logged in for almost a month of gaming.

At that time, Ye Bai was on Luo Jin's spaceship, playing the role of a black hole. Although he had a sense of danger, he was not so careless as to go on board when the real situation was unknown.

However, the benefit of spending all this time is that Ye Bai has basically mastered the information about black holes.

It turns out that Black Hole is the real boss behind the Makul Group. The A-level bosses in the Chaos Star Sea may be operating forces in the Star Alliance to a greater or lesser extent. Just like the seeds that have been spread out, the Makul Group is a biological laboratory branch supported by Black Hole in the Star Alliance environment.

In a world where mental power can move microscopic particles, there is basically no high-level mental power user who is a pure warrior. When one develops his mental power to a higher level, he or she often becomes a great scientist in a certain field.

Black Hole's deepest research area is the difference between organisms and consciousness. Many experimental results are obtained through cruel biological experiments banned by the Star Alliance. His exploration of his own mental power is able to strip away and absorb the mental power and self-consciousness of others. The more special and complex the mental power, the more he can gain.

And Luo Jin... and Ye Baimeijia who met in Makul, as well as three other subordinates who are active in various parts of the universe, are experimental subjects created by the black hole using biotechnology.

The bodies of these experimental subjects were created using genetic technology, but more importantly, their independent consciousness came from the residual consciousness of other people's spiritual bodies that were stripped away by the black hole. These consciousnesses were modulated by the black hole in the laboratory, and while retaining their autonomy, they were infused with absolute loyalty to him.

At the same time, the five experimental subjects were connected to this laboratory by the black hole using telepathy. If these experimental subjects had any gains outside, they could simultaneously feed back to the laboratory for the black hole to know.

These experimental subjects can even complete the relevant research tasks assigned by the black hole, but what they don’t know is that they themselves are the black hole’s most successful [Experimental Subject No. 0].

This is why so many suspicious and cautious people in Black Hole trust them and let them know the location of their lair. Of course, there is also the reason why they look the same and are both bald:

Because what was important was their spiritual body and their appearance was not important, Black Hole chose to copy and paste, allowing the No. 0 experimental subjects to share a "modeling" and not even giving them unnecessary genetic sequences... such as hair.

——Ye Bai could understand this point very well. When it comes to game modeling, the production of character hair is also very troublesome.

Among them, Mega is the experimental subject that Black Hole values ​​the most. He arranged him to the Makul Group, which can handle a large number of cosmic populations, because his mental power is the most special detection type and can discover unusual spiritual bodies.

These unusual spiritual bodies are the most valuable resources for black holes.

After the destruction of the Makul Group, Meijia was about to escape, but she accidentally discovered Ye Bai and her special mental power, which eventually attracted the attention of the black hole far away in the chaotic starry sea.

The black hole spent a lot of points to exchange for Ye Bai's location just to bring her back to the laboratory and absorb her.

Of course, Black Hole probably never thought in his life that one day he would be killed by a "prey" with C-level mental power.

In addition, through the knowledge of a veteran A-level psychic who has been active in the chaotic star sea for an unknown period of time, Ye Bai's understanding of psychic power has gradually deepened and become clearer, and he has gained a deeper and more essential understanding than in the past in the Star Alliance.

Even so, Ye Bai's current progress in absorbing the vast amount of research data in the black hole laboratory is less than 5%.

"Gurgle..."

After drinking a high-energy nutrient solution, Ye Bai's hunger disappeared and he counted the amount of nutrient solution remaining in his backpack.

There are more than thirty bottles left, and at this rate of consumption, they will be enough for her to use for a year or two.

This situation occurs because, on the one hand, after being promoted to Level B, her demand for food materials is lower, and there is no relevant reserve in the black hole laboratory. It seems that after reaching Level A, she may not need to eat under normal circumstances.

On the other hand, Ye Bai did not save a bit of Luo Jin's money and bought the most expensive and advanced nutrient solution at the Jici Transfer Station. Almost everyone in the Chaos Star Sea is a warrior, and the nutrient solution is also specially provided for warriors, which is a step further than the civilian version of the Star Alliance.

After drinking the nutrient solution, Ye Bai connected to the star network in the mysterious and quiet ether laboratory.

As soon as I logged onto the Star Network, I received a series of message alerts from Aurora.

Seeing her friends' concerned inquiries, Ye Bai couldn't help but feel complicated. Her biggest regret about this accident was that she couldn't report her safety to Aurora.

Then, Ye Bai saw the last message sent by the other party a few days ago.

"Ye Bai, someone came to ask me about you today. Whether you can see it or not... I hope you are safe."

The Huanhai civilization had indeed found out about him. Perhaps, Aurora also realized something from this investigation, so he said the following sentence.

Ye Bai looked at the message silently for a while, then sighed and closed the message.

With such a big commotion, it is still unknown how much information Phantom Star can find out from this. Fortunately, Ye Bai himself is no longer in the Star Alliance at this time, but in the chaotic star sea that the Star Alliance cannot reach.

In any case, letting the ancient human 'Yebai' disappear and become a mystery is the best choice for our friend Aurora.

As soon as the thought came to mind, the environment in front of me changed again.

Ye Bai entered the Ten Thousand Worlds and appeared again beside the Blood River in Landu City.

It was afternoon, and the sun shone on the Blood River, making the waves sparkle. The riverbank that had been "plowed" by the Thunder's Fury had also been washed back to its former smoothness, with few traces visible. There were no players around at this time, only a few NPC fishermen in the distance drying their nets to catch fish.

As soon as he came online, Ye Bai heard the familiar greeting from the paper man at his waist:

"You're back."

"Yes, something happened." Ye Bai did not explain too much, because even if he explained, the paper man would not be able to hear it.

Researchers have already tested that Wanjie is the same as all StarNet games. All things related to the real world, even if told to the NPCs in the game, will be ignored by them. Even if they seem to have listened, when asked again, it is as if they have never heard it, just like they are used to players going online and offline.

"Ahhh!"

Accompanied by a donkey's bray, Ottophis appeared from somewhere and came to Ye Bai.

Ye Bai quickly fed it two pieces of bread and watched it standing beside him chewing slowly.

Strangely enough, even though Ottophis had been bound to become Ye Bai's mount, she did not obtain any more information about it. It was still displayed as an ordinary donkey with no health points and no hunger level.

Although it has been offline for so many days, it seems that Ottophis is not hungry. It should be said that eating bread is more like satisfying its cravings. Except when it encountered the Kraken in the deep sea and was affected, Ye Bai had never shown "hunger" from Ottophis.

After not logging into the game for more than a month, no player is paying attention to Blood River anymore. Ye Bai took Ottophis into the inner city of Landu City.

There weren't many players we met on the road. According to time estimates, the fastest wave of StarCraft players should be starting to strive for their second career change.

Ye Bai opened the lord rankings again.

First place, Bai Ye, territory score: 31467

Second place, Zeta, territory score: 30278

Third place, Ximo, territory score, 29878

Fourth place...

Ye Bai took a deep breath. The two cosmic civilizations made amazing progress. Baiye Town, which had been far ahead, was almost caught up by them.

In fact, if it weren't for the added points from the knowledge and information from Melo City, Baiye Town's territory score would have been overtaken by Ruilan Village... The damn black hole affected her stable development!

Ye Bai, who had solved the real crisis, immediately felt a sense of urgency when he saw that the territory score was approaching.

Of course, this sense of urgency is different from the past. There is also an unprecedented release and ambition. As his strength increases, Ye Bai undergoes all-round psychological changes.

While heading to the Chaos School Society in Landu City, Ye Bai opened the lord's remote information page.

Before she left the territory, she set up two project cycles: one was for the refugee camp to continue recruiting refugees, and the other was for the library to continue expanding its catalog.

As long as the territory's productivity is sufficient, these two projects will be automatically carried out.

Now, through the remote page, Ye Bai can see that the refugee camp's project cycle is already in its fourth phase, while the library is stuck at the third phase - this is because the expansion limit of the primary library is three times.

After three active recruitments of refugees and one recruitment of ordinary refugees, the population of Baiye Town has now expanded to 1,018, breaking the thousand mark.

Seeing this, Ye Bai's teeth grimaced. She roughly estimated that this exploding population would consume a lot of the territory's past savings. Food, clothing and tools were not a big deal, as Baiye Town's productivity could afford it. What worried her most was medical care. Such a large population would inevitably bring huge medical pressure and epidemic problems.

"This is the Chaos Society of Landu City. What brings you here?"

The voice of the academy's guard interrupted Ye Bai's thoughts. She came back to her senses and immediately replied, "I'm here to buy academy materials for the library in my territory."

The leading guard gave a look to the guard next to him, who immediately left to report. He then turned around and politely said to Ye Bai, "Please wait a moment. We need to confirm whether the minister can receive you now."

Ye Bai knew that this was a necessary procedure and nodded.

Not long after, the guard returned the message: "I'll take you there."

In Melo City, Ye Bai was able to enter the academy because of the recommendation letter from Teacher Anita, but this time he didn't need that. The reason for this difference was that Ye Bai had already completed his third career change and was a high-level character. He was also a person that could not be underestimated in the eyes of NPCs.

Not to mention the status bonus of "Legendary Figure".

Soon, Ye Bai, under the guidance of the guard, met the deputy minister of the Chaos School of Landu City. There were also a large number of strange biological models displayed in this office.

The deputy minister, who was burly and had obviously undergone body modification, looked directly at Ye Bai without saying a single opening statement.

Ye Bai placed a bunch of different legendary fish materials on the table. "Hello, I'd like to use these elemental materials to sponsor the research of the Chaos Society in Landu City for a long time, in exchange for copies of elementary knowledge and subsequent advanced knowledge documents."

The deputy minister was stunned for a moment before reacting, and hesitantly said: "Although, your conditions..."

Ye Bai: Big Scam... No, [Fraud I]!

Deputy Minister: “It is well worth considering.”