Chapter 21 Chapter 21
After Xuanyin returned to the ward, someone brought her a lot of things.
Cheng Shuhui was puzzled: "Who sent this?"
I picked up a supplement and took a look at it. It looks familiar.
"Could this be another gift from the Cheng family? They sent it before, but Mom and I confiscated it. But now they're sending it back again, unopened and intact?"
Xuanyin said, "I have already agreed to reconcile. These are the apology gifts from the Cheng family."
Cheng Shuhui's breath was suddenly choked. Although he knew Xuanyin wanted to reconcile, he didn't expect it to happen so soon.
"Did the Cheng family come to negotiate with you during the inspection?"
Xuanyin picked up a brand new credit card and said, "The Cheng family didn't show up, so they asked Secretary Tang Yekun of the Security Bureau to act as a middleman."
Cheng Shuhui was shocked. "Can a secretary from the Security Bureau act as a middleman? Shouldn't the Security Bureau be absolutely neutral, even supporting the victim? Using the director's secretary as a middleman is clearly an attempt to use power to pressure someone."
"Do you think what I said that day, that the witnesses would collectively lose their memories the next day, was in vain? The Cheng family's power and network of relationships are beyond the reach of you and me."
"Perhaps that night, Secretary Tang was clearly on our side..."
"When he intervened back then, it was business as usual. Today, he's mediating, and it's business as usual as well." Xuanyin looked up at her adopted brother. "Don't be superstitious about anyone unless you have enough value and interests to guarantee that they'll always be on your side."
Cheng Shuhui was stunned, but quickly calmed down. He wasn't a reckless or dull person to begin with, and after hearing Xuanyin's words, he understood. "I understand."
Xuanyin handed him the card. "Here's 500,000 yuan for my nutrition. Go rent a house and get some furniture. The Cheng family originally wanted to give me another house and 10 million yuan, but I declined. I changed it to this: if the Cheng family can find a way to obtain He Xiangu's elixir in the future, give one to us."
Cheng Shuhui was delighted: "Did they agree?"
Xuanyin nodded: "But they don't know when they can get the elixir. I'm afraid this condition cannot be fulfilled for a while."
Cheng Shuhui said awkwardly, "It's good enough that you can think of Mom. Since this is your nutrition fee, I'd better keep it to buy you some nourishing food."
"No, as for supplements, these are more than enough. Let's rent a room first. I'll be discharged from the hospital in a few days, and then we'll have a place to stay."
Cheng Shuhui took the card: "Okay, I understand."
After he left, Xuanyin picked up a brand new Dream World Helmet.
The system light ball flew back: "It has been sent out. I found the largest courier company and mixed the lotus seeds in the courier box to send it out. The Spirit Master Association is in the First Special Zone. If everything goes well, it will be delivered tomorrow. However, the winner of the lottery is on another planet, and I don't know if the lotus seeds will be intercepted along the way."
Xuanyin said, "Just send it out. Go online and post a message explaining how to use the lotus seeds. Then privately send the courier number to the winner. Don't worry about anything else."
"Okay." The system looked at the helmet in her hand and asked: "Where did you get the helmet?"
"It was sent by the Cheng family, but it's more accurate to say it was sent by the Security Bureau rather than the Cheng family."
System: “Does this make any difference?”
"My original body has never logged into the Dream World. I guess this helmet has a backdoor. Once I use this helmet, it will reveal that this is not my first time logging into the Dream World."
The system was furious: "Why are you still here? Aren't installing surveillance cameras and conducting various tests enough?"
"You have to know that some people are just so arrogant. Of course, if I were strong enough, I would be arrogant too."
Those in a higher position will inevitably look down on those in a lower position from a superior position and take it for granted.
"This is the last test for me. The sooner it's over, the sooner it's over. Are you ready?"
The system said: "Well, it's ready."
"Then let's get started."
She studied the instruction manual of the helmet, looked curious, lay down on the bed, put on the helmet and logged into the dream world.
"She's entered the dream world!"
"Direct the picture here!"
Xuanyin opened her eyes again and appeared in the small glass house. She looked around curiously, and seemed a little uncomfortable. She pressed her chest and opened her mouth, as if she had some tinnitus.
Then a beautiful woman with green hair and green skirt appeared in front of me to guide the AI.
"Welcome to the dream world. I'm Xiaomei, your guide AI. It's your first time in the dream world, so you might feel a little uncomfortable for a while. This is normal, so don't worry."
Xuanyin looked up at the AI, and someone in front of a screen was also looking at the scene.
"The intelligent guidance AI will only be available when you log in to the dream world for the first time. After that, you have to pay to purchase it. Major General Yan, this is undoubtedly her first time logging into the dream world." Tang Yekun said.
Yan Wei looked at the screen. Xuanyin had already started communicating with the AI. Everything was strange and natural, and it was definitely not acting.
He stood up and said, "I'm overthinking it. Let's withdraw all surveillance measures."
Tang Yekun accompanied him out. "This Cheng Xuanyin is indeed unexpected, so it's understandable that Young General Yan would be suspicious. I've already confirmed that she has strong explosive power, and both her mental and physical strength recover faster than ordinary people. You are an expert in this field, and you should be well aware of the potential and explosive power of people with this physique. They can often achieve things that ordinary people cannot."
Yan Wei said, "It's a pity that such a person was not absorbed into the military department."
"If her mental and physical strength can recover, there might still be a chance."
The two walked further and further away, and in the monitor, the remaining people began to pack up their things. The moment the screen turned off, in the dream world, the "AI Xiaomei" in front of Xuanyin paused, and then her eyes rolled around.
"Host, I feel like I'm no longer feeling like I'm being watched."
Xuanyin looked around and asked, "You know all this?"
"Hehehe, the truth is, the backdoor program in the helmet has been shut down. The person behind it has finally called it quits. Just wait, I'll completely block the backdoor."
The beautiful AI in front of him glazed over for a moment, then quickly regained her focus and said happily, "It's fixed. The helmet is working fine now."
Xuanyin nodded and looked it up and down: "Is entering the dream world stressful for you?"
"It's okay, it's okay. I crawled in through your mental power. It's essentially the same as those nightmare beasts." The system lifted the hem of its skirt and spun around, boasting a little. "It's actually not that difficult. If I had known, I would have followed you in last time."
Xuanyin smiled and said, "Then you can just pretend to be a paid AI assistant from now on."
"Yeah, then I'm going to choose a skin I like."
Xuanyin opened her personal panel, created a new image for herself, and changed her nickname.
What is it called?
She thought about it and changed it to: Autumn Outing with Yan Ji.
"Ah, what's your name?"
"Nice name." Xuanyin looked at it. The system now turned into a little yellow cat, only the size of a fist, and looked very cute.
"Host, host, do I look good like this?" The little yellow cat climbed onto Xuanyin's shoulder.
Xuanyin nodded: "Not bad, very cute, let's go."
After walking out of the glass house, she appeared in the God Tower Square, which was reasonable. After all, she logged off here last time.
If the person watching had watched a little longer, he would have been exposed.
There were not many people in the square at this time, or rather, there were not many people in the dream world. After it was closed and reopened, many people were worried that there would be danger in the dream world again. It was estimated that most people were still waiting and watching.
Xuanyin looked at the divine tower, walked up slowly, entered the divine tower, and sat down as usual: "Divine tower, thank you, thank you for helping me clean up the mess."
I thought that the God Tower would ignore me this time, but I didn't expect that the familiar beam of light would appear again the next moment. The God Tower said, "I'm not helping you for nothing."
Xuanyin sat up straight on the futon: "Please tell me, what do you need me to do?"
The Divine Tower: "The Federation and the Empire are about to enter a period of cooperation, but cooperation also brings competition. I want you to surpass the Empire's Divine Master."
Xuanyin tilted her head: "Hmm?"
She looked up and said, "Isn't it like what they say online, that the Federation's and the Empire's divine towers don't see eye to eye with each other? Aren't you both descendants of the same deity?"
"You just need to do it. As a citizen of the Federation, it's your duty to bring glory to your country."
Xuanyin chuckled. "I'm not from the Federation. I'm just me. I'm neither from the Federation nor from the Empire. I don't understand the Empire and don't have any ill feelings towards it, but I also don't have any good feelings towards the Federation."
Anyone who comes through here will be oppressed by power. First, they are bullied in school, then they are threatened by their families, and finally, the national institutions that should appear to be just are crooked and they are monitored by excessive means. No one will have a good impression of this country.
Not to mention, there is no sense of belonging.
In other words, she is emotionally stable, otherwise she would just want to use her ultimate attack to kill everyone.
Although she can't open the big now.
The God Tower was silent for a moment: "In short, it is better than the Empire's God-Attached Master."
Xuanyin nodded: "Okay, as long as you are willing to lend me your divine power, it will be easy."
"Lending divine power must comply with basic rules. Go improve yourself."
Xuanyin felt as if she was being pushed out by a force. She immediately said, "Wait, I have something else to say."
The tower stopped and said, "Speak."
Xuanyin said, "I've done you such a big favor, what can you give me? Don't even mention that you've helped me clean up the mess. The two things aren't equal."
The Divine Tower was silent for a moment before saying, "If one day you need to authenticate the Resurrection Garment, I can make it easier for you."
Xuanyin was startled: "Resurrection Divine Cloth?"
No divine clothing has ever been able to resurrect a person. This is absolutely against the laws of nature, but the divine tower actually made this promise!
The next moment, Xuanyin was pushed out, staggered, and found herself outside the divine tower.
Someone not far away sneered, "Another one who failed the Divine Clothes certification."
Xuanyin straightened her clothes and turned to leave. Suddenly she realized something and opened the virtual divine clothing library. In her personal column, there were already two sets of divine clothes, one for Niangniang Shiji and the other for He Xiangu.
This divine tower also helped her to virtually authenticate He Xiangu, so that she could possess He Xiangu in the dream world from now on.
She left the square and walked around aimlessly, thinking about the resurrection robe. Since it was a divine robe, it could only be used in this plane. But here, who did she want to resurrect?
Suddenly, outside a venue, she saw a banner that read "Federal Divine Clothing Designer Competition Preliminary Venue."
There were a lot of people outside the venue, including human-shaped standees, and fans were taking photos holding banners.
She looked at the human-shaped standees, which were all the ones with greater fame and higher rankings in the auditions.
Obviously, these are fans coming to support their idols.
Speaking of which, in this world, spirit possessors are almost equivalent to a group of celebrities. A powerful spirit possessor has many fans. If this spirit possessor is more good-looking, it would be even more amazing.
Just as she was about to leave, she heard a collective cheer: "Empress Shiji, you are so domineering and powerful, with one sword that shakes the heavens, all the evildoers will perish!"
Xuanyin: “…”
Xuanyin: “…………”
What? What the hell?!
The system kitten stood up on her shoulder: "What? What? I think I heard the name of Lady Shiji?"
They looked towards the source of the sound and saw dozens of men and women lined up in two rows, shouting slogans at the camera and recording a video.
In the center of them was a standee as tall as a person, which was exactly the image of Xuanyin stabbing with a sword in the competition video. Everyone was holding banners, photos, balloons, dolls, etc., all of which were pictures of Shiji Niangniang.
They shouted slogans several times, each one louder than the last, while the main character Xuanyin stood there, so embarrassed that she dug her toes into the ground, held her forehead with her hand, turned around and quietly slipped away.
The people around also looked over and whispered.
"That's Lady Shiji."
“There are quite a lot of fans.”
"Hey, do you know who the designer behind this is?" someone shouted to the fans over there.
After filming the video, the fans there confidently said, "We are fans of Lady Shiji. It doesn't matter who the designer or the spirit master behind this divine clothing is."
"Heh, you don't think that the person in the dream world that day was really this Lady Shiji, do you? So many days have passed, and she hasn't come out to claim it, so it definitely can't be her!"
"Really? What does it have to do with you?"
"If not, why did you print this?"
A tall and strong guy walked up and snatched a doll from a fan. Although it was a Q-version doll, one could tell at a glance that the doll's makeup and hairstyle were the same as Xuanyin's appearance after she was possessed by a god in the dream world that day, not the image in the video.
"Give me back the baby!"
"You guys just want to use the people from that day to build momentum for this Shiji Niangniang, right? What a jerk! You got 11th place with just a few short videos and a bunch of trending searches, and you still want to keep using these gimmicky tactics?"
"What do you mean by ostentatious? Lady Shiji is truly capable. Which entry has such a strong fluctuation of divine power?"
"It's all cheating, who doesn't know that? Just find a spirit master to help you when you're filming the video and you can do it."
The two sides immediately started to quarrel, and it quickly escalated into a physical conflict. You started to tear my stand and I started to throw your support items.
Xuanyin couldn't leave now and watched the scene with a frown.
Shiji Niangniang's fan base was relatively small, and she quickly fell into a weak position. She walked over and stopped a man from punching a fan in time: "If you want to argue, just argue. Why did you resort to violence?"
The other person glared at her: "Who are you to meddle in other people's business?" and tried to break free, but Xuanyin used a clever move to remove the strength from her hand, and she threw it away, staggering back several steps.
"you--"
Xuanyin grabbed a few more people and threw them away with the same skill. After throwing a few away, the others saw that she had some skills and gradually stopped making trouble.
Xuanyin helped the fans to pick up the human-shaped stand on the ground and took a look. The shot was really well taken and the stand was also well made. Even the dynamic and sharp eyes were restored one to one.
The edge of the sign was a little torn.
Then she saw a fan click on the stand, a floating box popped up, and chose to repair. The stand was soon restored to its original state.
...Well, this is a dream world, and everything is virtual. Small things like standees can be fixed by yourself, but you have to pay a small fee.
The person who fixed the stand was a very cute girl. She looked at her gratefully and said, "Thank you. Are you also a fan of Shiji Niangniang?"
"I...uh, my brother is."
"That's great, would you like to join our fan club?"
Xuanyin opened her mouth: "This..."
"Hey, who are you? You hurt our brother and you don't want to apologize?"
Xuanyin turned around and saw the man who had started the trouble in the first place coming towards her with a tall and mighty figure, his eyes wide as big as copper bells, and his aura was very intimidating.
Xuanyin said, "You started it first, and you think you're right?"
The tall and strong man was about to curse, but when he saw Xuanyin's calm, even indifferent expression, he flinched for some reason. He then sneered, "They're promoting a fake product that was marketed, and they don't allow us to say anything? They stole our Purple Feihong and used it to promote some so-called Shiji Niangniang. This is an insult to Purple Feihong."
Xuanyin's expression suddenly became extremely strange: "Purple-robed Flying Phoenix?"
The tall and strong man immediately gave an expression that said, "You don't even know this, you're clearly uneducated and uncultured." "You haven't been to college? Our Chinese class taught us that 'hong' means big bird, and the purple-clothed flying hong is the beautiful woman in purple riding a big bird in the dream world that day."
Xuanyin: “…Oh…”
The others behind the tall and strong man also shouted, "Yes, the Purple Flying Phoenix belongs to everyone, but you stole it and gave it to some queen. Have you asked us about these great treasures?"
Hong, Hongbao?
Xuanyin looked over and saw that the man had an expression of admiration on his face as he spoke. He also took out another doll from his body, which was also the image of Shiji Niangniang that day, but with different postures and movements. He looked like he was cherishing it very much.
Very good, I can tell the attribute at a glance. This is a fan of "Zi Yi Fei Hong", and the fan nickname should be "Hong Bao".
Xuanyin: “…………” This is really hard to comment on. How about I disappear right away and you guys continue arguing?
It feels like, you are in the middle of a fight, and when the other party takes off his vest, haha, they are also friendly forces, just a different group of friendly forces.
Xuanyin shook her head, trying to get rid of all the mess in her mind.
She doesn't want any friendship at all, she just wants to leave immediately.
When the fans of Niangniang Shiji saw that the other party also liked the same person as they did, they were stunned for a moment.
In essence, both sides are the same group, but they have no concrete evidence to prove that the Purple-Robed Flying Phoenix is Niangniang Shiji.
It’s not right to continue arguing, and it’s not right not to argue either.
The scene was extremely awkward.
Tap, tap, the sound of footsteps was heard.
Everyone looked back and saw a group of people in military uniforms walking towards them. The aura around them was so extraordinary that it made people inexplicably silent and dared not speak.
Xuanyin narrowed her eyes. These people had straight figures and a strong sense of ruthlessness. They had all seen blood and were soldiers?
But what's so special about the style of this uniform? It seems a bit too flashy. And, for some reason, this style gives me a sense of déjà vu, as if I've seen it before somewhere.
Suddenly someone shouted, "Are you imperial soldiers?!"
The others were shocked and retreated, looking alert.
"Why are the Imperials here?"
"Is it because of the opening of the Imperial Special Zone?"
"Shouldn't they be in the Imperial District then?"
The leader of the other party clasped his head to his chest, bowed slightly, and made a very polite gesture: "We are here to participate in the designer competition and came to check out the venue in advance."
He also spoke the interstellar common language, but with a slight accent, and you could tell he wasn't from the Federation.
Everyone was shocked. "Imperial soldiers are participating in the designer competition? Are you kidding? This competition is for newcomers!"
"Isn't this our own federation's event?"
"The divine robes in the competition are not official divine robes, how can we compare them?"
The other party smiled and said, "Oh, I may not have expressed myself clearly. Those of us participating in this competition are not formal divine clothes, and those who participate are all informal divine masters and one-star divine masters from the folk."
After he finished speaking, he looked around and his eyes fell on the figure of Lady Shiji. He paused for a second and then nodded slightly: "Let's go check out the venue first."
As they spoke, a group of soldiers walked around the crowd and left.
Although they did not march in an exaggerated manner, and their postures were even rather loose, their formation was not at all chaotic, and judging from their body movements, they seemed ready to fight at any time.
Although they did not take action, Xuanyin had a hunch that these people were all spirit possessors, and they were all very powerful.
The system kitten leaned close to his ear and said, "Looks quite impressive."
Xuanyin nodded slightly. "I now believe that the Empire's divine masters are stronger than the Federation's. However, when they come to the Dream World and seek divine power here, are they borrowing the power of this divine tower or the Empire's divine tower? Beyond a certain distance, they won't be able to borrow divine power, right?"
System Kitten nodded seriously. "How complicated! But I think they're coming for you. According to the Divine Tower's requirements for you, can't you withdraw from the competition?"
Xuanyin sighed, "That's right. From the perspective of both countries, there's a need for cooperation. From the perspective of both Divine Towers, there's also a need for cooperation. But while cooperating, we also want to defeat each other. That's why the Divine Tower sent me, and the Imperials happened to be interested in Lady Shiji. This is why our first confrontation will be in this match."
Never mind, I had no intention of withdrawing from the competition.”
She shook his hand and said, "It's just that my body needs to be brought back to normal as soon as possible."
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