Chapter 173 Before Transmigration (First Update) Still on Earth, the story begins in the next chapter…
Chapter 1
"After careful examination, there is nothing unusual about the other party's identity."
Li Mingguo flipped through the documents in his hand, listened to his subordinate's report, and frowned slightly: "Are you sure?"
Before his subordinate could reply, Li Mingguo spoke again: "Is it possible that she was contaminated abroad? After all, didn't we say before that the new type of sedative abroad looks a lot like a pollutant?"
Standing before him was his new secretary, Lin Rui, a pretty woman in her thirties.
She wore black-rimmed glasses, and her eyes and brows held a gentle expression; she was an ordinary person who seemed unremarkable.
After hearing Li Mingguo's words, Lin Rui pushed up his glasses: "We checked, she went to F country, where there are no new sedatives yet, and we stole her blood sample for testing but found nothing."
"Did we only use our methods to detect it?" Li Mingguo asked again.
Lin Rui understood what he meant and quickly said, "We sent them to all the other worlds we could contact, including the Upside-Down World and the Orc World, and they all said they were not contaminated."
Li Mingguo nodded, thought for a moment, and then continued, "Keep a close eye on things, don't let your guard down."
"Yes," Lin Rui replied.
“We sent a document to the Ministry of National Defense informing them of the pollution problem, and all people who recently returned to the country will undergo new tests.”
Li Mingguo paused, then looked at Lin Rui: "Are we able to detect the pollutants in the body now?"
"Yes, the biology team and the medical team went to find Tao Tao, as well as the contaminated Upside Down World and the Beastman World. After three parties conducted research, the testing reagent was successfully developed a week ago and is ready for production."
Li Mingguo smiled for the first time that day: "Okay, well done. Report it up and request that production be started as soon as possible. Deploy a batch to the border outposts first, and then distribute them to major hospitals."
"Yes." Lin Rui nodded in agreement, holding the documents, and turned to leave.
Li Mingguo sighed, glanced at his schedule, thought for a moment, and then headed towards the observation room where Sang Zhitao was.
Meanwhile, on Sang Zhitao's side, Team Leader Sheng An and several researchers from the original book research group were carrying seven or eight large boxes and searching for something.
As soon as Li Mingguo stepped into the room, he saw several people buried in piles of documents and instinctively took two steps back.
After looking up to confirm that the location was correct, he asked with a suspicious look, "What's wrong?"
Sang Zhitao pulled herself out of the pile of books and looked at Li Mingguo: "Uncle Li is here~"
"Hmm, how have you been resting these past few days, Tao Tao?" Li Mingguo greeted her with a smile, carefully took a few stacks of documents, and walked up to Sang Zhi Tao.
Sang Zhitao was about to nod happily when she realized what Li Mingguo meant and her expression froze: "Um... should we wait a bit longer for the training?"
"Hahaha, okay, just wait a couple of days." Li Mingguo couldn't help but burst out laughing. "Don't worry, your coach hasn't arrived yet."
"Huh? Isn't that the coach from the front?" Sang Zhitao looked at him in surprise.
Li Mingguo patted her head and picked up the pine nuts on the table to peel them: "Your body has changed a lot. The previous training methods are no longer suitable for you. The country has arranged a more suitable coach."
“Okay.” Sang Zhitao nodded obediently, took the pine nuts that Li Mingguo handed her, and ate them in one bite.
"Slow down, don't choke." Li Mingguo kindly instructed before looking at Team Leader Sheng An, who was sweating profusely, and asked, "I haven't told you yet, Team Leader Sheng, what's going on?"
Just then, Team Leader Sheng An found a document, wiped his sweat, stood up, and handed it to Sang Zhitao: "Taotao, is this the one?"
Sang Zhitao took the documents, glanced at them, and shook her head: "Although it looks similar, it's not."
Team Leader Sheng An was somewhat exasperated and couldn't help but sigh, "Just how much do you like dragons and cultivation elements...?"
"So... what exactly happened? Why did you suddenly seek out dragons and immortal cultivation?" Li Mingguo was completely bewildered.
"Because Tao Tao's next world isn't the fortune-telling world we predicted, but a world of cultivation." Team Leader Sheng An put the documents in his hand into a box further away and said with a sigh.
"What?! What happened?!" Li Mingguo's expression changed drastically.
If this guess is wrong, does that mean all their previous predictions were wrong?
This was the route they could most likely find to trace Sang Zhitao's journey.
Seeing how excited he was, Sang Zhitao quickly tugged at his sleeve and explained, "It's something I suddenly felt; the world has changed."
Hearing her words, Li Mingguo's emotions calmed down a little, but he was still worried and looked at Sang Zhitao with concern.
Seeing this, Sang Zhitao spoke up again: "Based on my previous feeling, I can confirm that Team Leader Sheng An and the others' speculation about the world of fortune-telling is correct."
Seeing that Li Mingguo's expression had improved somewhat, she continued, "However..."
Hearing her use of the word "but," Li Mingguo's heart, which had just relaxed, tightened again.
Sang Zhitao had no choice but to quickly explain the reason: "After meeting my friend, I felt that the world I was going to was related to cultivation, not metaphysics."
Li Mingguo frowned, his eyes filled with worry: "The world of cultivation... then we can't help at all."
Sang Zhitao sighed silently: "I can only ask Team Leader Sheng An to help me retrieve the data, but because the cultivation world is one of the elements I used to write about most often, there is too much content."
"We only did a simple analysis of the worlds we didn't think were possible for time travel, and then we archived them. So we had to bring all the original data over and check them with Tao Tao one by one," Team Leader Sheng An added from the side.
Li Mingguo frowned, looking puzzled: "Why not use electronic archiving?"
Team Leader Sheng An sighed: "Didn't we have some trouble before? For safety reasons, we now keep a paper copy of the file. The electronic file from before... was lost in the last incident."
Thinking of the spy incident that had occurred before, Li Mingguo subconsciously raised his hand and pinched the space between his eyebrows.
Sang Zhitao looked bewildered. She glanced at Team Leader Sheng An, then at Li Mingguo, and realized that even the researchers under Team Leader Sheng An looked terrified.
Li Mingguo looked up and saw her like this. He smiled and patted her head: "It's okay. It's because when you were in the other world, you found rats in the base. Although it caused some damage, they didn't catch the core, so it didn't have a big impact."
Sang Zhitao felt a wave of fear wash over her. After a moment's thought, she asked, "Are they from our country, or...?"
Sang Zhitao caught the fleeting sorrow in Li Mingguo's eyes: "He was from our country, and he should have been a promising talent, what a pity..."
"Don't worry." Seeing the concern in her eyes, Team Leader Sheng An said with a smile, "We have strengthened internal vetting and external monitoring again, and now no new people are allowed to join."
Li Mingguo nodded with a smile: "Everyone is now equipped with a monitoring system, thanks to the funding from the robot world. They are all beyond our technological understanding, so there's no need to worry about anyone being able to crack it."
As he spoke, Li Mingguo pointed to a thin black rope next to the smart device on his wrist.
Sang Zhitao thought it was a popular decoration at the base, with men wearing black ropes and women wearing red ropes. She never expected it to be a monitoring system.
“With complete robotic technology plus a bit of the upgrades from the intelligent races of the Elf World, let alone espionage, it would take us hundreds of years to crack it.” Li Mingguo smiled smugly. “So don’t worry.”
After hearing this, Sang Zhitao said nothing more and obediently nodded.
At this moment, one of Sheng An's team leaders handed him a document.
"Take a look at this." Team Leader Sheng An flipped through it a few times, then handed it to Sang Zhitao with a hesitant expression.
Sang Zhitao took the document with suspicion, glanced at it, and then her face lit up with joy: "This is it!"
"This is...?" Li Mingguo looked at the name on the document with curiosity.
The Beloved One in the Cultivation World.
The name made Li Mingguo's eye twitch, and he couldn't help but say, "There are even 'favorites' in the cultivation world?"
As he spoke, he took the documents, intending to take a good look: "I remember the cultivation novels my kids read are all about killing and robbery or romance. Yours isn't like that either, is it..."
"You're too young to be in a relationship." He suddenly tensed up and looked down at Sang Zhitao, giving her a careful warning.
Sang Zhitao looked down at her slender legs and couldn't help but twitch her lips: "Okay, no problem."
Team leader Sheng An couldn't help but roll his eyes at Li Mingguo: "Alright, Tao Tao is over twenty years old, it's normal for her to have a first love."
Before Li Mingguo could say anything, she took the document from his hand and handed it to Sang Zhitao: "There is a problem with this book."
"What?" Sang Zhitao looked at Team Leader Sheng An with a puzzled expression.
Team Leader Sheng An flipped directly to the last page and handed it to Sang Zhitao, pointing to a few lines and saying, "This was supposed to be a discontinued story. You only wrote less than 100,000 words. Although you wrote a brief outline, you didn't write the specific story. We can't be sure what will happen."
“This is too dangerous,” Li Mingguo interjected, frowning.
Team Leader Sheng An sighed heavily: "So... unfortunately we didn't figure out the mechanism of time travel, and... there's no way to stop it."
“It’s alright.” Sang Zhitao waved her hand dismissively. “These worlds are the worlds that my former teacher once ruled. Their rules will instinctively protect me. I will be fine.”
“That’s true, but isn’t there still the truth?” Li Mingguo looked at her disapprovingly.
Sang Zhitao thought for a moment before shaking her head: "Last time, she tried her best but still couldn't kill me, and I even seriously injured her. I don't think she can kill me in the short term. Since my life is not in danger, the rest doesn't matter."
"You can't get hurt!" Li Mingguo looked at her reproachfully. "You have to protect yourself."
Sang Zhitao quickly put her hands together, opened her cute almond-shaped eyes, and obediently replied, "Definitely, definitely."
"Maybe I'll replace the main character. Isn't that how it always happens?"
“Yes, that would be great.” Li Mingguo thought for a moment and nodded, then added, “Even if you don’t become the main character, remember to protect yourself.”
Sang Zhitao nodded in agreement again, and Li Mingguo was finally satisfied.
"When will I sense the time travel?" Li Mingguo wondered, thinking about the coach he had arranged who wouldn't be here for a few more days.
Team Leader Sheng An frowned as he looked at the documents in his hand.
I wonder when Sang Zhitao will time travel, and whether they will be able to organize the information and various details.
Sang Zhitao pursed her lips and sighed softly, "Today."
"What?!" Team Leader Sheng An and Li Mingguo exclaimed in unison.
Even the other researchers looked at each other, stopped what they were doing, and looked at Sang Zhitao with concern.
Sang Zhitao nodded helplessly: "There's nothing I can do. I can feel the urging from that world now."
As she spoke, a burst of green light emanated from her chest, and a jade pendant that had not appeared on Earth for a long time appeared before everyone.
Li Mingguo was also somewhat helpless at this point, and could only look at Team Leader Sheng An: "Team Leader Sheng, please work hard and organize the basic information for Tao Tao before dark."
Team Leader Sheng An nodded solemnly and, without further delay, called his subordinates back to his office area. As they walked, he also urged others to put down their work and come to assist him.
Li Mingguo sighed, thought for a moment, and then said to Sang Zhitao, "I won't say anything more. You should rest well and eat whatever you want."
After saying that, he got up and prepared to go out. Before leaving, he looked at Sang Zhitao and said, "Le Ping and Le Zhi are not here. Go find Zhang Su to play with. Be careful over there."
This is Sang Zhitao's first world that is almost completely unknown. Not to mention Li Mingguo, everyone who knows about it is inevitably worried.
People who were close to her, like Zhang Su and Lin Jing, came over and played with her for a while, trying to help her ease her tension, although in the end it was Sang Zhitao who helped them.
The chefs also brought her all sorts of delicious food, and Team Leader Sheng An even led the entire team to help her research world data.
Even Sang Leping and his sister didn't forget to call their sister.
In the midst of their busy work, as dusk was falling, the original plot research team had already compiled the materials and delivered them to Sang Zhitao.
"Where's Tao Tao?" Looking at the empty room, Team Leader Sheng An was somewhat bewildered.
Zhang Su sighed and tidied up the room: "She just left. The jade pendant was still glowing. She fell asleep before it got dark and was just taken away."
"Oh no!" Team Leader Sheng An slapped his thigh, his face full of frustration.
"What's wrong?!" Zhang Su's expression changed, she paused, and looked at him nervously.
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Author's Note: A new story begins, two chapters in a row.
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