New World
In Area 2, a lively conversation emanated from a private room in the association cafeteria. A passerby asked, "It's rare for this place to be open. Who's here and so chatty?" A companion urged, "Who else could it be? Tim must be showing off to those people again. Let's get going! We're going to miss Professor Graft's lecture."
Tim was indeed present in the box, but this time he failed to successfully brag about his past glorious deeds and just sat in the corner drinking silently. And he ended up in this situation because of the guy surrounded by the crowd, the new branch director, an old man from the Ryan family's side branch.
The old man's hair was gray, but he looked energetic and vigorous, and he didn't look like he was over 80 at all. "What's so great about that? He just got to this position because of the Ryan family's popularity," Tim said disdainfully.
At this time, the group of noisy guys actually stopped, and the old man walked towards Tim with a red wine glass in his hand: "I heard that you have worked with President Ying before. I believe you must be very capable. The young people nowadays are really formidable, hahahaha." Tim was flattered and stunned for a moment, but it was only a moment, and he quickly picked up his usual posture and started chatting with the new leader.
He only appears to be friendly on the surface, but what he really thinks in his heart cannot be expressed in words.
After the dinner, Tim was drunk. A colleague wanted to take him home, but he waved them away impatiently: "Go away, I'm sober! Don't disturb me from enjoying this rare time without any tasks." Then he activated his ability and disappeared in front of everyone.
Teleport.
Tim was leaning on the top of the Heil Tower, the tallest building in the entire District 2, admiring the vast view. He liked to run here when he was in a good mood, because this position could transcend the obstruction of the entire District 2 and District 4 and directly see the shimmering ocean in the dark. The horizon was so mysterious and tempting, he loved it.
Tim squinted, his vision hazy. "Why does the sea seem so bright today? Am I seeing things?" He was about to stand up when a violent jolt threw him back.
On the way down, Tim was choosing the coordinates of the landing point and preparing to activate his ability when he suddenly saw the sea surface suddenly become as bright as day, followed by a thunderous sound coming from the sky.
The noise continued to be heard, and the sea surface continued to be bright, which was very strange.
Just before Tim had to teleport to a safe location, he saw a terrifying wave roaring and surging off the coast of Area 4...
At the same time, the meeting room of the association's decision-making group was almost full. This was the 27th plenary meeting of the decision-making group this month, and Ying Yungui, as the president, was naturally present.
"This topic was already rejected. Is the deputy commander sleepwalking? Why don't you go back to sleep now?" Ying Yungui scolded him bluntly, causing the person sitting to Noah Ryan's left to froze. "Stop talking nonsense! Hurry up, next one." Ying Yungui's temples throbbed with pain. He hadn't slept for over thirty-six hours, and after sitting for most of the night under such high pressure, he was completely dazed.
If there was dust around at this time...
Suddenly, the door of the conference room was pushed open from the outside, and a cool breeze carrying the damp smell of the night rain rushed in.
"Chief!" The man outside the door turned pale and shouted at Noah who was sitting on the seat. However, the next second, the air around him was squeezed out and he couldn't speak. He could only make a grunting sound in his throat.
Ying Yungui looked at him gloomily: "If you can't learn the rules here, don't come here in the future. Solitary confinement room or punishment room, or let me help you choose?" No one ever dared to interrupt him when he was thinking about Shi Youchen.
At this moment, the negative emotions that Ying Yungui had been suppressing reached their peak. The malice and murderous intent surging in his heart almost pierced the people around him alive.
The person who came to deliver the message outside the door had his eyes bulging and was about to die when Noah's gentle voice rang out: "President, calm down, let him finish his words first." Under the influence of the soothing spell, Ying Yungui finally regained his sanity and let the man go.
The room was eerily quiet, everyone was shocked by Ying Yungui's actions, except for Nuoer. Nuoer remained calm, even cold, as he watched everything unfold. If he had spoken up at the wrong time, his young man would have died right then and there.
But to be honest, he didn't care about that. Even if the child really died here, no one in the Ryan family would dare to hold him accountable. What he cared more about was how to make everyone realize that Ying Yungui was gradually losing control, becoming more irritable and losing his composure.
After seeing the expressions of the people around him, he was quite satisfied.
"Speak." Ying Yungui said coldly and looked at the sky outside.
The messenger took a few deep, grunting breaths, then spoke in a voice distorted by the pressure, "Each district has detected violent energy fluctuations in the center of the ocean, covering nearly half of the sea area. The branch presidents have already dispatched advance teams to explore the deep sea. Let me... let me request instructions."
Everyone understood. When the decision-making group held a plenary meeting, no online contact was allowed. Any matters had to be reported after the meeting, so even the most urgent situation had to be reported here.
"Ocean's affairs have always been handled jointly by the 4th, 11th, 12th and 13th district branches. What are they doing? Are they eating shit?" Ying Yungui looked uneasy.
The man was terrified of what had just happened, and tremblingly replied, "No... no, President. The branch presidents have already set off with the advance team, but the system has been disconnected for nearly ten minutes. Following previous instructions, I had no choice but to interrupt the meeting..."
"A bunch of trash." At this point, Ying Yungui immediately announced the end of the meeting, stood up and walked out with a look of anger.
Noah rubbed his chin with his fingertips, as if thinking about something. He didn't move until his deputy reminded him. He said to his younger brother who was still standing by the door, "Go back. Don't show up at the association base without my order. Neither the confinement room nor the punishment room are places you can tolerate."
It was harsh, but true. "But I didn't mean to break the rules!" he said aggrievedly. Noah shook his head. "My decision doesn't count. He's the president."
Ying Yungui released several restraints and, without anyone else, soared through the night sky, heading for the center of the ocean. Along the way, he took in the tragic scenes along the coasts of various districts. From his vantage point, he could clearly see the devastation below, and he wondered what kind of ruins the impact had wrought below.
That means it was very dark, otherwise we would have seen turbid light red waters.
When the sky was getting light, Ying Yungui's figure stopped above the sea. He stood between the sea and the sky and looked down. There should have been a whole expanse of blue, but now it was mixed with a suffocating lead color. It looked a bit like the sky, but it was far less pure than the sky.
In the center of the ocean, a new continent rose.
...
In the northern glacier area of Zone 3, the originally intact ice layer became broken and cracked into hundreds of small ice surfaces.
Lin Zhouze kept moving and changing his footing on the ice, finally settling on one of them and saying to Shi Youchen, "Here."
Yan Zhiyuan walked over, put his hand in the water to feel it, then looked up and confirmed, "It's indeed different. I can feel the presence of fluid energy." Shi Youchen nodded, "Let's get started."
With this glacier as the boundary, the other glaciers around it first drifted away one after another, as if repelled by some force. Then, the usually silent water surface began to ripple, and the waves eventually spread to all directions, leaving a clearly independent space for the place where the few people were standing.
Yan Zhiyuan looked at Shi Youchen and got his reply: "Just keep it like this. Zhou Ze, please help and watch them to make sure they don't close together. I'll be up soon." Then, under the gaze of the three people, a hole as wide as one person appeared on the ice beneath his feet.
Sometimes dust drilled into the bottom of the glacier from the hole.
It was Kulin's first time to come to this place and also his first time to see this scene. He actually didn't know what Shi Youchen was going to do or how to do it. He only knew that according to common sense, a normal person could not survive in the glacier.
Lin Zhouze saw through Kulin's anxiety and asked, "Are you cold?" Kulin was stunned and said, "No."
Lin Zhouze: "Not cold at all, right?" This was not a question at all. When Kulin realized this, he reacted.
"Because this isn't a normal place, you don't need to worry about 'normal' things." It was a reassuring word.
Maybe five minutes, maybe ten, later, Shi Youchen emerged from underneath. His clothes were normal, but his complexion was noticeably different from when he went down. The people present were all psychics, and they could all tell that his paleness didn't look like he was frozen, but rather like his energy had been drained.
Lin Zhouze pulled Shi Youchen, helped him stand firmly, and then took the thing in his hand - a crystal clear little pearl.
The two looked at each other, and with just one glance, Lin Zhouze understood everything. Shi Youchen was already on the verge of energy overdraft, even too weak to speak. So he handed the small pearl to Kulin on his behalf: "Eat it."
Kulin was tactful enough not to ask any more questions. He took the pearl, smelled it, and found no unusual smell, then put it in his mouth and swallowed it.
Shi Youchen quietly observed his reaction and noticed that his pupils were flashing red and blue alternately. Lin Zhouze asked, "How do you feel?" Kulin answered truthfully, "I just tried to activate my tech eye chip, but for some reason, it failed. Will there be any consequences?"
Yan Zhiyuan and Kulin looked at Shi Youchen together, their eyes devoid of any unexpected emotion. Lin Zhouze said, "From now on, your abilities will no longer rely on the Association's technological advancements, nor will you need chips to offset negative influences. You are the path itself."
Kulin recalled what Tamer had said before: "The ability of TechEye depends on the development of the association. How far we can go depends on how long the road under our feet is."
In fact, it is a perverse relationship.
Yan Zhiyuan retracted control, and everything around him returned to silence, though the broken glacier could never be repaired. Shi Youchen extended his hand toward Kulin again. Lin Zhouze explained, "He's thanking you, thanking you for your trust, thanking you for being our companion." Kulin understood and reached out to shake his hand.
"Let's go back to the association first. I'll tell you everything you're interested in. I'll be your contact from now on."
Lin Zhouze took Kulin away.
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