Chapter 26 New Commission
Gu Nian's armor, dagger, venom and spirit crystals had been packed in an iron box. Yu Ziqiu handed the box to Gu Nian.
Gu Nian was about to pick up the iron box and leave when Yu Ziqiu stopped her.
"I have a commission here and I hope you can help me. If you are not in a hurry, why not listen to it first?" Yu Ziqiu said sincerely.
Gu Nian raised her eyebrows. Commission? Yu Ziqiu often posted a lot of commissions on the Lihuo Gantian forum under the official ID of the second group of the Noah Research Institute. The wild boar extermination that Gu Nian had taken on was one of them. I guess Yu Ziqiu has some tasks that need to be completed by someone else? Gu Nian and Yu Ziqiu had dealt with each other several times, and the cooperation was quite pleasant. He had to give him some face and let him finish his words.
As for whether to accept this task, it depends on whether the reward offered by Yu Ziqiu is attractive.
Gu Nian stood there quietly, waiting for Yu Ziqiu to continue.
Yu Ziqiu was somewhat helpless. She was actually waiting for Gu Nian to ask her about the details of the commission, which at least showed that Gu Nian was still interested. But now that Gu Nian was waiting for her to speak, she had to be prepared and come up with more things to impress Gu Nian. "Three researchers from the Jiangcheng branch of the Noah Research Institute are planning to go deep into the wilderness, about 300 kilometers away from the wilderness, to thoroughly survey the wilderness terrain and study mutant plants and animals. However, these researchers are civilian staff, so we must find a group of field staff to be responsible for security. I hope to invite you to join the escort team."
Yu Ziqiu explained the whole story in one breath, showing a sincere attitude. "As for the reward, you can ask for it. Whether you need credit points or rare materials from the outside world, I think Noah Research Institute can be said to be your best partner."
The mission didn't sound too difficult, Gu Nian thought. Although entering the wilderness was dangerous for ordinary hunters, according to Gu Nian's current field experience, as long as he avoided some large mutant beasts and didn't do anything provocative, he could go back and forth freely. Most importantly, Yu Ziqiu offered to use rare materials as a reward, which moved Gu Nian.
Since she discovered the benefits of the body-hardening soup, Gu Nian has been posting in the forum to collect wood spirit crystals. Unfortunately, the number of mutant spirit plants is relatively small, and the unique wood spirit crystals produced are also treasured by everyone, so Gu Nian's item trading posts have fallen into the sea and no one responded. During this period, she went deep into the wilderness every two or three days to look for mutant spirit plants, but unfortunately she only got three wood spirit crystals, and they were all ordinary spirit crystals, and the spiritual energy content was far less than the second-level wood spirit crystals dug out from the mutant pine wood.
If ordinary beast spirit crystals are still expensive exchangeable commodities, then wood spirit crystals are already rare items that are not circulated in the market.
Gu Nian thought for a moment and asked tentatively, "This time, I want twenty Wood Spirit Crystals. I'll give you half as a deposit first, and the other half after the mission is completed."
Yu Ziqiu looked embarrassed, but still gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, no problem." Recently, the Noah Research Institute was in urgent need of manpower. Almost all the manpower of the second action team was used to deal with the endless mutant beasts in Jiangcheng City. They were unable to spare time, so they had to hire some trustworthy people. After the battle with the mutant python, Yu Ziqiu's evaluation of Gu Nian rose rapidly. Her skills were not inferior to his own, and after several dealings, she was a good partner. Therefore, Gu Nian was the number one candidate that Yu Ziqiu thought of.
Although twenty wood spirit crystals were a large sum of money for Yu Ziqiu, she still decided to apply for a special grant from the research institute.
Yu Ziqiu called Lan Shuangshuang over and whispered a few words to her. Lan Shuangshuang exclaimed and looked at Gu Nian in disbelief. Who on earth is this woman? Sister Yu would actually pay such a high price to recruit her? Although Lan Shuangshuang had doubts in her heart, she did not dare to refute Yu Ziqiu's decision, so she had to get up and go to a separate room behind the factory.
The room looked like just an ordinary office, with an ordinary plank desk, a desktop computer, sticky notes and a desk calendar on it. It looked no different from the office of a social worker. But when Lan Shuangshuang unlocked the computer and entered the command, the whole room suddenly made a loud noise and sank rapidly. It turned out that the room was an elevator going downwards.
The office-like elevator stopped. Lan Shuangshuang opened the office door. Outside the door appeared a deep, gray-white corridor. A row of white lights overhead cast a cold light.
Lan Shuangshuang walked lightly through the corridor. On both sides of the corridor, there were many wide rooms separated by transparent glass. Inside the rooms, scientific researchers in white coats were either working hard or gathering for discussions. There was actually a huge underground research institute here, and this was the Jiangcheng branch of the Noah Research Institute.
Lan Shuangshuang walked to an elevator again, and after verifying her fingerprint, eye mask, and password, the elevator went down again. She went to the warehouse.
"Ten wood spirit crystals, go through the special approval channel of Operations Group 2." She said to the warehouse manager.
The manager asked in surprise: "You want Wood Spirit Crystals? And so many?"
Lan Shuangshuang did not reply. Sometimes, when faced with doubts, not explaining is a way to maintain one's identity. In front of Yu Ziqiu, Lan Shuangshuang is a girl who has not yet grown out of her childishness, but in front of outsiders, she is cold and silent.
The manager didn't get an answer, and he realized that he shouldn't ask any more questions. Everyone knew that Lan Shuangshuang was Team Leader Yu's right-hand man. He quickly entered the warehouse, opened the safe where the wood spirit crystals were stored, took out ten and handed them to Lan Shuangshuang.
Lan Shuangshuang returned the same way.
Ten wood spirit crystals were handed to Gu Nian. Looking at these ten wood spirit crystals, Gu Nian could not help but feel satisfied. Since entering the Xiantian realm, Gu Nian could clearly sense the existence of spiritual energy, and she also found that the spiritual energy content in the urban area of Jiangcheng was very low. If the spiritual energy content in the urban area was like a trickle, then the spiritual energy content in the body quenching soup was like a river. After experiencing the rapid progress of her cultivation in the body quenching soup, how could Gu Nian be willing to return to the previous cultivation environment? Moreover, after entering the Xiantian realm, her demand for spiritual energy also increased. She had to breathe in more spiritual energy into her dantian and keep it in her cave to make progress in her cultivation.
Yu Ziqiu smiled and held out his hand to Gu Nian: "In a week, the mission will start. So, happy cooperation."
Gu Nian stretched out his hand and shook hers.
After Gu Nian left, Lan Shuangshuang couldn't help but ask, "Sister Yu, are you really determined to let outsiders join this mission?"
"Of course. We don't have enough manpower, but I can't let just you, Zhao Cheng and Ruan Lu go. We must add two more foreign aids. Going deep into the wilderness is no joke." Yu Ziqiu said.
"Okay." Lan Shuangshuang shrugged. "I'm fine with this arrangement, but the one who has the most objections is Zhao Cheng, right? After all, he always hates cooperating with outsiders. Ruan Lu is easier to deal with."
Yu Ziqiu was speechless. "I'll think of a way to deal with Zhao Cheng." She tried to fool Lan Shuangshuang first.
However, before Yu Ziqiu could come up with a solution, Zhao Cheng sat down opposite her, making it clear that he wanted to talk to her.
"Sister Yu, this time, only three of us, Shuangshuang, Ruan Lu, will be on the mission." Zhao Cheng is tall and strong, with short hair that stands upside down like a hedgehog, strong muscles, and a resolute face. He spoke to Yu Ziqiu straight to the point.
Yu Ziqiu had a headache. Zhao Cheng was a man of integrity, strong sense of responsibility, and good ability, but his only problem was that he was inflexible. Previously, the second action team had failed in a mission because of asking for outside help. Since then, Zhao Cheng had been brooding over it and was always unwilling to cooperate with outsiders.
Yu Ziqiu answered bluntly: "The opinion is rejected. According to the Institute's field work regulations, when three or more researchers go out on field work, they must be equipped with at least five guards. Now I can only allocate you for three days in total, and the other two guards can only be hired from outside."
But... Sister Yu, you usually do not violate the rules enough. Who is the person who always claims that "circumventing the rules is often the shortcut"? Zhao Cheng silently complained in his heart, but after all, Yu Ziqiu's prestige was very strong, so he could only struggle hard: "If these outsiders are not strong enough, they will only hinder us, right?"
Yu Ziqiu asked back: "Remember the mutant python that Jiang Yang and I brought back some time ago?"
The huge beast left a deep impression on all members of Operation Team 2. Zhao Cheng replied inexplicably: "Of course I remember."
"If you face that mutant python, as the main attacker, and you have another teammate, are you sure you can defeat it?" Yu Ziqiu said.
"I'm about 70% sure." After weighing his own strength, Zhao Cheng answered honestly.
"This mutant python was captured by Gu Nian. I was the only one who cooperated with her that day. As you know, my strength declined after I was injured, and I could only play a supporting role for her." Yu Ziqiu said. She was still calm when she mentioned her own injury, as if she was talking about other people in a nonchalant tone. "If that's the case, do you also doubt Gu Nian's strength?"
Zhao Cheng was speechless. If Gu Nian could take down the mutant python, then her skills would be enough to meet the recruitment threshold of the second action team. He said unwillingly: "Okay, then Gu Nian can join the team, what about the other one? Even you, the team leader, haven't had much contact with the other person, right?"
Another person. Hearing Zhao Cheng say this, Yu Ziqiu couldn't help but tremble in her heart. A tall figure emerged in her mind. That was a person that Yu Ziqiu felt she couldn't see through.
Ever since she received the mission to escort the researcher out, Yu Ziqiu has been planning to find external assistance. She first found Gu Nian and reported him as a candidate for the operation. However, just as she was looking for another external aid candidate, her superior called her over.
"There's no need to look for the last external employee. I've invited someone from the Evolutionist Forum." Yu Ziqiu's superior said, not allowing Yu Ziqiu to refuse. He extended his hand and solemnly introduced a man to Yu Ziqiu: "This is Mr. Yue Jian, an expert from the Evolutionist Forum in Jiangcheng. Mr. Yue, I'll ask you to take care of this mission."
Yu Ziqiu had never seen her superior speak in such a respectful tone. Therefore, she could only hold back her questions and nodded in agreement: "Yes. I'll arrange it right away."
"Thank you for your help." said the man named Yuejian.
Yuejian is a man whose age cannot be determined. He is very handsome and looks no more than twenty years old, but his eyes are calm, just like a monk who has practiced for many years.
He had long hair, which was as silver-white as moonlight.
This was the only time Yu Ziqiu saw Yue Jian.
"Team leader, you haven't told me about this person named Yuejian yet?" Zhao Cheng asked persistently, bringing Yu Ziqiu back to his senses.
Yu Ziqiu could only say: "He is a master invited from the Evolution Forum."
The Evolver Forum, Lihuo Gantian, even with Yu Ziqiu's level, did not understand the forces behind the establishment of the forum. But what she was sure of was that this forum had extremely terrifying strength. On the surface, the Evolver Forum was just a loose organization that was independent of the official and purely established by private individuals, but in fact, the Evolver Forum had branch centers in Dragon Country, no, even in major cities around the world. The forum claimed that it was only to serve and provide convenience for the forum members, but what was the actual plan?
No one can say for sure.
But what is certain is that even the Noah Institute, which has gathered a large amount of official resources, relies heavily on the Evolutionary Forum.
Zhao Cheng stopped refutation after hearing this. Being a master recognized by the Evolutionary Forum was a guarantee in itself.
After sending Zhao Cheng away, Yu Ziqiu was still thinking. Did Yuejian, who came from the Evolutionary Forum, suddenly join the escort team just to help each other and support the research project of the Noah Institute?
But there is nothing special about this mission. Even if Yuejian came for other things, why would he come?
Maybe I'm just overly sensitive and suspicious, Yu Ziqiu thought to himself.
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