Chapter 180 The First Day Back on Earth "Tao Tao! You can..."
"Tao Tao! You're finally back!" Team Leader Sheng An rushed into the observation room immediately, clearly having been waiting outside the room before.
Sang Zhitao looked at him blankly, her face full of excitement: "What's wrong? Team Leader Sheng An?"
Team Leader Sheng An didn't even have time to reply to her, and directly shoved a tablet into her arms: "Take a look at this first."
Sang Zhitao took the tablet helplessly, only to find a document already open on it.
She looked down and examined it closely, only to discover that it was actually the original text from the cultivation world. She glanced at it in surprise for a few moments before looking at Team Leader Sheng An with a puzzled expression: "What's wrong? Team Leader Sheng An?"
Team Leader Sheng An took a deep breath: "Look at the analysis below."
Sang Zhitao quickly tapped a few times on the tablet, and the subsequent analysis report appeared in front of her.
Analysis report on "The Beloved of Immortal Cultivation World".
Plot summary: A cub of a mythical beast clan accidentally falls into the mortal realm of the Qingyuan World and is rescued by a barefoot doctor in a border village.
Due to her physical condition, the doctor took her and her father to a remote mountain. Later, due to her father's death and the chaos of war, she suddenly realized the truth and entered the cultivation world of the Cloud Sea with the Azure Dragon.
As a child, Qinglong was coveted by the demon realm because he possessed the bloodline of a divine beast. He was rescued by an elder of the spirit race and entered the spirit race to cultivate with a doctor.
The cultivation world felt sorry for her plight and cherished her talent. Various cultivators protected her until she became a leading figure in the cultivation world.
However, a thousand years have passed, and the elders who once protected her have either attained enlightenment and ascended to heaven or transcended tribulations and reincarnated, but she, despite having reached the required level of cultivation early on, has shown no signs of ascension.
Feeling sorry for her being left alone in the cultivation world, her elders entrusted their disciples to accompany her.
Day after day, year after year, she never ascended to heaven, and eventually became a wanderer who used the heavens and earth as her mat, ate wine as her food, and spent her days roaming the sea of clouds, indulging in a thousand drunken dreams.
Story evaluation: A peaceful world, without any anomalies, which can be categorized into three types.
Evaluation and revision: Analyze the subsequent outline.
Subsequent analysis report: No anomalies found; request to proceed with data model speculation.
Data model building and analysis application: Approved.
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What followed was a data model analysis report of over 100,000 words. Sang Zhitao was dizzy from reading it, but after looking up several times and seeing the fatigue in Team Leader Sheng An's eyes, she persevered and continued reading.
"So...the final model analysis suggests that the danger in this world stems from the incompleteness of the Heavenly Dao's rules?"
Sang Zhitao rubbed her temples and thought for a moment before saying, "The final realm in the cultivation world is the Dao Integration realm. Cultivators who choose this realm will infuse their cultivation into the Heavenly Dao rules in order to maintain the operation of those rules."
"This approach has continued to this day, so how could incompleteness and a global crisis have occurred?"
Team Leader Sheng An was taken aback for a moment after hearing this, and quickly said, "Tell me about what happened over there."
Sang Zhitao did not hesitate and told him about her experiences in that world.
Only then did Team Leader Sheng An realize that Sang Zhitao was no longer the child she had been before the trip, but had reverted to her original appearance.
"So... you not only traveled to three thousand years after the story takes place, but you also successfully embarked on the path of cultivation?"
"Yes, that's right." As she spoke, Sang Zhitao demonstrated the magic of making flowers bloom in her palm.
Team Leader Sheng An, his hands trembling, carefully touched the flower, then suddenly rushed to a button by the door and slammed it down.
An alarm blared throughout the base.
Whether they were resting in their dormitories or busy in the lab, they all looked up and silently counted the alarm rhythm in their hearts.
"It's an alarm in the observation room!" Zhang Su, who was packing her medical kit and heading to the observation room, changed her expression drastically and ran outside with her kit.
While Sang Lezhi was looking at the latest soybean variety in the experimental field, she also heard the alarm. She paused, immediately realized what was happening, and ran to the observation room without even bothering to put down her notebook.
She stumbled and fell all the way, even losing one of her shoes in the process.
He Lei from the physics group was asking Lin Jing from the space group for help with some experimental matters. When the two heard the alarm, they looked at each other in surprise, then suddenly realized what was happening and ran to the observation room with drastically changed expressions.
If young people are like this, let alone the big shots who regard Sang Zhitao as their precious daughter, they also rushed to the observation room regardless of the students' obstruction and physical condition.
Even Li Mingguo, who had just entered the base and hadn't even gotten out of the car yet, looked grim and said to the driver, "Don't stop here, go straight to the observation room."
Sang Zhitao never expected the alarm to cause such a situation. She was first stunned when her sister-in-law Zhang Su hugged her tightly.
He Lei and Lin Jing, who followed behind, pulled them aside and observed them for quite a while.
Only then did the big shots from other groups arrive.
Finally, my sister and Li Mingguo arrived in a hurry, covered in mud.
"Sister?! What happened to you?!" She first saw her sister covered in mud, her hair disheveled, and barefoot, and quickly turned to Zhang Su, "Sister-in-law! Please help my sister!"
Sang Lezhi didn't pay attention to her movements, but held her arm tightly, staring at her without blinking: "How are you? What happened?"
"Me? I'm fine." Sang Zhitao took Sang Lezhi's slightly cold hand in return. "But what about you? How are you?"
Zhang Su had already stepped forward to give Sang Lezhi a quick check-up, and after a short while she visibly breathed a sigh of relief: "It's alright, it's alright, she was probably just frightened."
Sang Zhitao felt relieved and then looked at Li Mingguo and the others with embarrassment: "I'm sorry."
Li Mingguo waved his hand repeatedly: "Lezhi is your sister, it's right for you to care about her like this."
"But what's wrong with you? Why did the alarm suddenly go off?" He looked Sang Zhitao up and down with concern.
Team leader Sheng An, who had already been squeezed into a corner by the crowd, pushed up his slightly crooked glasses, raised his hand, and said with difficulty, "It was... me! I pressed the alarm!"
Everyone had been waiting for Sang Zhitao's answer and had been keeping quiet, which allowed Sheng An's soft voice to reach everyone's ears.
Everyone turned to look at him, and one of his close friends couldn't help but say, "Why did you press the alarm for no reason?"
“That’s right, Sheng’an, my health isn’t very good.” The oldest man, Mr. Qian, couldn’t help but glance at him sideways.
Team Leader Sheng An looked around at the observation room, which was packed full of people, and couldn't help but touch the tip of his nose: "I didn't expect you all to come so many times."
Professor Blue Lake couldn't help but roll his eyes at him: "This is an emergency alarm, how could we not appear immediately?!"
Team leader Sheng An paused for a moment, glanced through the crowd at the location of the button on the wall, and then slapped his forehead: "Damn it, I pressed the wrong button in my haste."
Professor Qian Fang, who was standing next to him, couldn't help but slap him: "Are you crazy?!"
"You scared me to death!" Even the usually composed Professor Su Guoxi couldn't help but roll his eyes at him.
Immediately, the heads of each group turned their reproachful gazes toward him.
The other young people didn't dare to openly dislike their teachers, but they secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Alright, Sheng'an, tell me what happened?" Li Mingguo couldn't help but stop their increasingly rambling conversation as he watched these old kids start trying to extort money from Sheng'an to treat them to a meal.
The professors then realized that this was not the small meeting room where they often gathered, but Sang Zhitao's observation room, with their own students beside them. They couldn't help but blush with embarrassment and coughed awkwardly.
Li Mingguo glanced at them helplessly before looking at Team Leader Sheng An.
Team Leader Sheng An awkwardly pushed up his glasses: "It's Tao Tao. Her hands blossomed with flowers, and she said she'd cultivated immortality. I just got a little excited..."
Before he could finish speaking, everyone turned their attention to Sang Zhitao.
"Cultivating...cultivating immortality?!" Professor Lan Hu was so shocked he almost cried out.
“Cultivating immortality…isn’t that just a legend?” Old Qian looked at Sang Zhitao in disbelief.
"Huh? Tao Tao has grown up?" Since the matter of cultivating immortality had nothing to do with the agricultural group, Professor Zeng didn't pay much attention to it. Instead, he noticed the changes in Sang Zhi Tao.
Perhaps because Sang Zhitao, who had only appeared as a child for a short time, did not find it unusual for her to return to normal, and subconsciously assumed that she had always looked the same.
Hearing Professor Zeng's words, I realized that Sang Zhitao already looked like an adult.
"Is it because of cultivating immortality?" Old Qian asked curiously, taking two steps forward.
Sang Zhitao nodded obediently: "Yes, I grew up after I started cultivating."
"Don't novels always say that cultivating immortality requires spiritual energy? Can we cultivate immortality on Earth even without spiritual energy?" Old Qian continued to ask.
Sang Zhitao was somewhat surprised: "Grandpa Qian also knows about novels?"
Old Qian smiled proudly and said, "Although I am old, I read Master Mingzhu's Shu Xian Zhuan when I was young. I also followed several of the cultivation novels that you young people read."
"Wow!" Sang Zhitao couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, "You're amazing! You're so busy, yet you still find time to read novels?"
Old Qian's smile faltered, and he subconsciously looked around. When he saw his colleague's face, he realized he wasn't at home and secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "Just taking some time out of my busy schedule."
Seeing that Sang Zhitao opened her mouth as if she was about to say something, Old Qian was afraid that she would ask him how he slacked off during work hours. If that got back to his wife at home and she found out he was staying up late reading novels, then he would be in trouble. So he quickly changed the subject: "Taotao, can we see the palm flower?"
After hearing this, Sang Zhitao nodded obediently, and a small daisy grew from her palm as she circulated her spiritual energy.
After examining it carefully for a long time, Mr. Qian turned around and called out to those behind him, "Ling Ping and Lang Yue, you are experts in the field of biology, come and take a look."
Professors Ling Ping and Lang Yue could no longer contain themselves and hurriedly stepped forward to examine the flowers in Sang Zhitao's hand closely.
They didn't reach out to touch it, for fear of accidentally knocking over the delicate little daisy and hurting the mulberry peach.
Sang Zhitao, however, reached out and pulled it without a care.
"Watch out!" The group couldn't help but exclaim, and Professor Ling Ping even reached out to stop her.
Sang Zhitao was too quick; in the blink of an eye, the tiny daisy was pulled out.
"It's alright, look." She opened her arms to show everyone.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that her palms were fair and without a single wound.
Professor Lang Yue hurriedly called to his students, "Quickly, bring the glass bottle."
Sang Zhitao ignored her nervousness and directly stuffed the daisy into her hand, startling her so much that she held the daisy and dared not move.
"It's alright, I can grow many more." With that, Sang Zhitao grew ten more daisies from her palm, plucked them all, and threw them to Professor Lang Yue.
However, after all ten daisies were pulled up, beads of sweat began to appear on her forehead.
Professor Ling Ping, who was closest to her, was the first to notice, his voice cracking with fear: "Zhang Su! Look at Tao Tao!"
Zhang Su quickly walked over and pulled Sang Zhitao to check her heart rate and blood pressure.
Sang Zhitao waved her hands repeatedly: "It's nothing, it's nothing, it's just that my internal energy is severely depleted."
Li Mingguo, who had finally returned after finishing his phone call, couldn't help but scold, "Nonsense! How many times have I told you to take care of your health!"
Sang Zhitao quickly put her hands together and begged for mercy: "I'll go back tonight. I'm afraid I don't know when I'll be back."
Li Mingguo looked at her, took a few deep breaths, and then warned everyone, "I know you're all eager to do your research, but you can't let her run wild, understand?"
Before anyone could answer, he thought for a moment and continued, "Except for Sheng An, Zhang Su, and Le Zhi who stay to accompany her through the plot, discuss the follow-up, and check her physical condition, no one else is allowed to approach the observation room before she leaves!"
After hearing this, Old Qian coughed twice and said, "Alright, everyone who has nothing to say can leave now."
With that, he led the way and left.
Seeing him leave, the others didn't linger any longer and followed suit.
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