Feng Qi had expected to meet Lin Ran again after entering Hupo Research Institute.

But he didn't expect that this time would come so soon. He

had just entered Hupo Research Institute and met Lin Ran.

At this time, Lin Ran stood up from his chair, walked to him, and pounded his chest:

"Brother Qi, I haven't been able to contact you for so many years. Where have you been?"

"I went to the front line for training for a few years."

Looking at Lin Ran, who had some white hair on his head and a much more mature face, he smiled and pounded Lin Ran's chest.

A familiar feeling flowed in his heart.

"Why didn't you tell me that you were going to the front line? I almost thought you disappeared." As he said, Lin Ran raised his fist and pounded his chest again, and then asked with expectation:

"Are you going to come back and continue to study the skills now?"

"Almost, I plan to make a living at Hupo Research Institute." Feng Qi smiled and nodded.

Hearing this, Lin Ran finally smiled.

There are not many geniuses that he can truly admire.

Feng Qi is definitely the best one in his eyes.

During his time at Xingcheng Academy, he witnessed Feng Qi's terrifying talent. Sometimes, he could develop a cultivation method in just a few days after inspiration came to him.

During his time at Hupo Research Institute, he had a deeper understanding of the research of cultivation methods, and realized how terrifying Feng Qi's talent was.

Under normal circumstances, a cultivation method needs to go through many steps from concept to official birth.

The process of creating a cultivation method can also be called the process of perfecting the concept of cultivation.

But there is a big deviation between concept and reality.

The energy required to create a cultivation method is unimaginable.

After the birth of the cultivation method, it needs to go through several versions of updates and tests to ensure that there are no hidden dangers in the cultivation method path and it can be released to the public with confidence.

After he joined Hupo Research Institute, he always wanted to join the cultivation method group.

However, the senior management of Hupo Research Institute never approved his application. Even so, he still studied the knowledge of cultivation method research whenever he had time, and often checked the cultivation method research materials of Hupo Research Institute over the years.

This includes the cultivation method materials developed by Feng Qi.

He was surprised to find that all the cultivation methods developed by Feng Qi passed the test phase at once, and there was no need for subsequent improvement and update and modification.

This talent made Lin Ran understand more deeply how terrifying Feng Qi's talent was back then.

After so many years, Feng Qi's dazzling halo faded, and he never developed a new cultivation method.

But he always believed that Feng Qi would definitely return as a king one day in the future.

At that time, he would be the most dazzling new star of this era, and write his own legendary chapter in the long river of history.

He firmly believed in this.

But over the years, he was deeply puzzled by Feng Qi's disappearance. For this

reason, he even sent an email to the Scarlet Research Institute to ask where Feng Qi had gone.

As a result, the Scarlet Research Institute did not give him any response at all.

In addition, at the exchange meeting between the institutes, he also asked the researchers of the Scarlet Research Institute about Feng Qi's news.

The answer given by the other party was also unclear.

He wanted to use the highest authority of the Tiger Soul Research Institute to find out where Feng Qi had gone through consumption, residence registration, etc.

But he did not have the authority to view other people's information at will.

Feng Qi's disappearance became a mystery in his heart.

But he did not give up on finding Feng Qi. He

planned to use his authority to check relevant information when he was promoted to the management of the Tiger Soul Research Institute in the future.

At Lin Ran's warm invitation, Feng Qi came to the sofa and sat down.

Then he sat down beside him, with a hint of expectation in Lin Ran's eyes:

"Brother Qi, I believe that with your ability, the Hupo Research Institute will definitely set up a special training group for you. When the time comes, remember to recruit me to work in your training research and development group."

"As the leader of the magic group, your next step should be to become the boss of your magic research department, instead of thinking about continuing to develop the skills."

Hearing this, Feng Qi couldn't help rolling his eyes.

"Researching the skills is my dream. If I can't participate in the research of skills in this life, I... I will die

with my eyes open." Hearing this, he was ashamed.

After so many years, Lin Ran's desire to study the skills has not diminished at all.

"By the way, tell me, what did you do on the front line these years?"

Faced with the inquiry, Feng Qi began to tell the set of rhetoric he had prepared long ago.

Looking at Lin Ran who nodded from time to time, he suddenly felt uncomfortable.

This sacrifice line, Wang Jinsheng had already entered the Scarlet Research Institute.

With Lin Ran's current influence, once the Lord of the Mist infiltrates the Tiger Soul Research Institute, he will become the best target for possession.

Lin Ran is now the most famous genius in the field of cultivation.

Every time a new technique is released, it will attract a large number of freshmen and frontline soldiers to compete to learn.

This influence is full of temptation to the Lord of the Mist.

What the Lord of the Mist lacks most now is an influential media to promote his improved "Blood and Flesh Sacrifice" technique. At this time, Lin Ran will obviously be the best choice.

As the Lord of the Mist said at the beginning.

As long as the "Blood and Flesh Sacrifice" is initially promoted, it will spread like a virus.

Not only human practitioners, but even domain forces will become "sacrifices" after trying to practice, and then pass it on to future generations.

The influence of the Blood and Flesh Sacrifice is invisible.

This technique seems to have brought hope to humans and the weak races in the domain, but in fact, they have become nutrients for the Lord of the Mist's growth from the beginning.

But he can't remind Lin Ran now.

After the Lord of Mist completed the possession, he had the ability to read some memories.

In the words of the Lord of Mist, the memories he read were full of randomness, and it was impossible to accurately obtain the memory content of a certain time period.

But he couldn't gamble.

If the Lord of Mist read the content of his confession of the truth to Lin Ran, this sacrifice line would be completely ruined.

This is irresponsible to himself, and even more irresponsible to his companions on this timeline.

Their efforts will vanish with their own willfulness.

During the chat, he held back his emotions and smiled and talked to Lin Ran about the front-line experience that had been compiled long ago.

Finally, they talked about their experiences at the Xingcheng Academy.

When they talked about Lin Ran drinking too much meritorious wine and jumping into the lake to swim to cool down, they couldn't help laughing.

The youth brought them back to their youth.

But that was a memory after all.

The iron triangle that used to eat in the north corner of the academy restaurant had long since dispersed.

Other friends, Lin Ran, Yang Xiaoxin, and the monk... also took different forks in the road.

During the chat, dinner time came.

Following Lin Ran to the restaurant of the Hupo branch base, they packed three plates of food, brought some drinks, and came to the rooftop of the base.

The rooftop of the Hupo Research Institute seemed to be a place for drinking tea, with many tea tables and tea sets.

Following Lin Ran to a tea table, they put down the plates.

"Brother Qi, there is no atmosphere for eating in the restaurant, so we will eat here, reminisce about the past, and talk about future plans."

Lin Ran stretched out his hand to unscrew the cap of the wine bottle:

"I haven't drunk for many years. Alcohol affects the efficiency of my research on magic, but I will make an exception for you today."

As he said, Lin Ran handed him the bottle of wine and opened another bottle.

The bottles clinked, and a smile appeared on Lin Ran's face:

"Brother Qi, tell me about your next plan after entering the Hupo Research Institute. Do you want me to recommend you to join the Kung Fu Research Group? With your ability, being a Kung Fu tester is really a waste of talent."

"You want me to be a relative of someone just after I came here?"

"What I hate most is relatives of someone, but you are different. You are a person with real talent and knowledge. As the saying goes, we should promote talents regardless of relatives. I don't want to see the pearls and jade covered in dust." Lin Ran said seriously.

"Gold will always shine, there is no rush."

​​"I don't agree with what you said. It's true that gold will always shine, but the time before it shines is wasted. Since you have decided to show your skills in the Hupo Research Institute, you should be more high-profile."

At this point, Lin Ran paused:

"The brother Qi in my memory is high-profile and confident, but now you don't seem to have the momentum you once had."

As he said this, a sad expression appeared on Lin Ran's face.

"Don't try to provoke me. I'm familiar with your tricks... But what you said makes sense. Please recommend me to join the research team."

Hearing Feng Qi's agreement, the sadness on Lin Ran's face instantly turned into joy:

"Brother Qi is awesome. I hope you can set up your research team as soon as possible and recruit me."

"Don't even think about it. Study your magic well."

"Maybe I really have a talent for researching magic? How do I know it won't work if I don't try?"

Hearing this, Feng Qi was also very curious.

It stands to reason that with Lin Ran's talent and achievements in magic research, if he strongly proposed to the top management of Hupo that he wanted to switch to the research of magic, he should be given a chance to try.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but ask curiously:

"Didn't Hupo give you a chance?"

"No, even the direction of magic research must be in accordance with the task requirements assigned by the top management, and I am not allowed to play freely. It's simply killing my talent."

Hearing this, Feng Qi was shocked.

Developing magic according to the task requirements assigned by the top management?

According to his understanding of cultivation, whether it is magic or skills, giving scientific researchers free space to play is a prerequisite for innovation.

Since the development of cultivation, many ideas that seem relatively perfect now have been inspired by the free play.

Stifling the freedom of innovation is undoubtedly stifling the development of cultivation.

It is obviously normal for the top leaders of Hupo to restrict Lin Ran's development in this way.

He couldn't help but guess, could it be that the current Hupo Research Institute has been controlled by forces in other fields?

This guess is not a fantasy of his.

It can correspond to the intelligence content obtained earlier.

Among the existing intelligence related to the Institute of Science and Technology, one of the most important intelligence is the capture of the werewolf "Le Ping'an".

The purpose of Le Ping'an joining the Star City Academy is that the Institute of Science and Technology wants to infiltrate a certain field of power and place its own spies to investigate intelligence.

At that time, Le Ping'an worked very hard to learn the content of cultivation in the academy, especially the knowledge of skill research.

Combined with the subsequent news that the Hupo Research Institute was infiltrated by the field forces.

He was very sure at the time.

The Institute of Science and Technology arranged for Le Ping'an to enter the Star City Academy to study cultivation in order to place Le Ping'an in the Hupo Research Institute as an eyeliner.

But this guess, which he was almost certain of at the beginning, now seems to be full of loopholes.

First of all, when Le Ping'an joined Xingcheng Academy, the Lord of Mist had not even become a transcendent creature in the field, and was still planning to resurrect his people in the field of silence and expand the area of ​​the field.

Therefore, the shadow forces behind the Institute of Science and Technology definitely did not target the Lord of Mist when they placed Le Ping'an in the Hupo Research Institute.

So he was thinking.

Before the Hupo Research Institute was infiltrated by the Lord of Mist, was it still controlled by other forces? Or indirectly controlled?

At this time, he heard Lin Ran say that the Hupo Research Institute restricted his free development.

Especially when Lin Ran said that his research direction must be in accordance with the task requirements assigned by the top management of the Hupo Research Institute.

It is more in line with the characteristics of being infiltrated by the domain forces.

For the domain forces, human cultivation methods are basically useless.

The characteristics of human cultivation methods are to guide the external spiritual energy into the body, and then run it along the meridian route, nourishing the body while compressing and storing the spiritual energy in the dantian.

Different running paths can make the spiritual energy undergo different properties and purity changes during the circulation.

But for domain creatures, their body structure characteristics are quite different from humans, and the meridian routes in the body are completely different.

Using human cultivation methods to practice will undoubtedly lead to a state similar to "going into the fire and being possessed".

Only the pure cultivation methods of the flesh can be accepted by domain creatures.

But in comparison, the magic methods developed by humans can be completely learned and mastered by domain creatures.

The characteristics of magic methods are to guide the spiritual energy to run, outline, and arrange according to a fixed trajectory, and then condense the spiritual energy to form a magic method.

It's like a formula.

Follow the formula trajectory to get the corresponding result.

And most of the magic methods need to outline the magic method trajectory outside the body.

Therefore, the magic methods developed by humans can be completely learned and mastered by domain forces.

Now he has reason to doubt.

The top management of Hupo Research Institute cut off Lin Ran's idea of ​​studying the technique because even the best training technique would be useless to the possible forces behind the scenes.

After all, the body structure is different and the meridians are completely different.

But the technique developed by Lin Ran can be completely mastered by the forces behind the scenes.

In addition, Lin Ran must carry out research and development according to the content of the task assignment, which is very much like the forces behind the scenes manipulating Lin Ran to conduct technique research and seek powerful techniques for their own tribe.

"Brother Qi, are you drunk?"

At this time, Lin Ran's hand shook in front of him, and he immediately came back to his senses.

"It's okay, I suddenly remembered a lot of past events." Feng Qi smiled and sighed.

As he said that, he raised the bottle of wine.

Seeing this, Lin Ran immediately picked up the bottle and clinked it with him:

"Brother Qi, since you have made a decision, I will write you a letter of recommendation tomorrow and strive to get you into the technique research group as soon as possible, so that I can be free as soon as possible."

"I didn't say I would take you with me."

"I'm your brother, can you bear to watch him die without saving him?"

Looking at Lin Ran with a face full of expectation, he couldn't be sure that his guess was correct.

Maybe he just thought too much.

Everything was normal in Hupo Research Institute. As for the fact that Hupo senior management restricted Lin Ran's freedom of research and development, there was a reason.

But no matter what the answer was, he would go to find out.

If Hupo Research Institute had been infiltrated by forces from other fields, then he would find a way to wipe out this force.

In this sacrifice line, Hupo Research Institute must fall into the hands of the Lord of Mist.

Only in this way can the Lord of Mist grow faster.

He can use the Lord of Mist as a starting point to obtain more intelligence information.