Chapter 268: The Age of Universal Cultivation
Yan City, National Sports and Exhibition Center.
Due to the heavy snow and freezing rain that crushed many houses and trees in the city, coupled with problems such as electrical repairs and broken water pipes, 50,000 to 60,000 people were temporarily relocated to the convention center.
Among them were Zhang Lei and his wife Dong An, and the young man in the front car, Lu Hao.
"Hey, Brother Zhang, come and have something to eat." Lu Hao carefully walked towards Zhang Lei holding three buckets of emergency instant noodles distributed by the state. The instant noodles were still hot and made him grimace in pain.
"Oh, thank you, thank you, it's all thanks to you." Zhang Lei hurriedly took the two buckets of instant noodles and handed one of them to his wife next to him.
However, he did not hand it to Dong An immediately. Instead, he took out a thin shirt that he had changed and wrapped it around his bottom. "Come on, honey, be careful of the heat! Hold it in your arms to warm it up first."
Although the snowfall of Ice Princess has stopped, the temperature cannot rise all at once, so the temperature in Yan City, the worst-hit city, is still below zero.
Due to electrical circuit damage, the exhibition center cannot keep the heating on all the time, so the victims can only cover themselves with more blankets.
Fortunately, Dong An was a pregnant woman, and the staff took her situation into consideration and specially arranged a place with the most sunlight.
Here, Dong An carefully took the instant noodles, avoiding her abdomen. When her cold hands touched the warm bucket, she let out a comfortable sigh.
Seeing that his wife looked relaxed, Zhang Lei felt relieved to sit down with Lu Hao and slurp the noodles carefully.
"Hey, when do you think this snowstorm will be over? And there's also that empire." Lu Hao complained dissatisfiedly, but he ate noodles at a fast speed.
Zhang Lei first drank a mouthful of noodle soup to warm himself up, then pointed to the large player hanging above the gymnasium, "Doesn't the country broadcast the situation every day? It's almost time today, let's take a look."
"That's right." Lu Hao nodded in agreement.
After the two of them finished their instant noodles and threw the bucket into the designated recycling bin, the player started playing the news.
It’s just strange that the two usual male and female hosts who appeared on the TV channel today were not the two usual male and female hosts, but two new female hosts.
One was neat and tidy with a gentle smile, while the other had twin ponytails and the baby fat on her face made her look very young, probably no more than a high school student.
"Hey, brother, look, is this the Sailor Moon who helped us clear the road that day? No, it's the Ye Luoli warrior." Lu Hao was very surprised.
Zhang Lei nodded. "Indeed, but since the country has asked them to broadcast, I'm afraid the following content will be very important. It may be related to magic."
With inexplicable excitement, the two of them stared at the TV intently.
On TV, Wen Zheng looked at the manuscript in her hand and put on her usual gentle smile, "Hello everyone, let me introduce myself first. I am the director of the Fairy Investigation Bureau, Wen Zheng."
"And the person sitting next to me, I'm sure many citizens have seen her. Let me introduce her to you all. She is the captain of the Investigation Bureau's action team, Wen Xi."
When Wen Zheng raised her hand and pointed, Wen Xi also stood up at the right time and bowed to everyone in front of the TV.
"So the country has actually known about the existence of fairies for a long time?" Lu Hao, who was watching TV, was a little bit unbelievable.
"It should be. I never expected that such a bizarre incident would happen in a place unknown to us." Zhang Lei smacked his lips. He felt like smoking.
At this time, in areas where there was still internet, various netizens were making a lot of noise.
"Oh my God, I didn't expect the whole country knew about it."
"So the one I saw before must be a fairy. She was just over the mountain where I grew up. I saw her flying in the sky a few times, but then a group of people in suits and leather shoes came and I never saw her again."
"Wow! Brother, you have actually seen it. Tell me more about it. Tell me more about it."
"Oh, it's a long story. Back then I was just an ignorant teenager..."
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No matter how noisy the internet was, Wen Zheng on TV remained as steady as a rock: "I believe everyone has learned about the existence of fairyland and fairies over the past few days, including the empire's declaration to the human world."
"But please rest assured, after discussions at the United Nations and the efforts of diplomats from various countries, we have successfully reached an agreement with the Empire."
"It includes but is not limited to banning polluting enterprises, preventing desertification, saving energy and reducing emissions, etc. At the same time, the Empire also agrees to conduct friendly trade with the human world and export specialty products from the fairyland."
At this point, the crowd in the conference hall became even more agitated. On the one hand, there are too many polluting companies in the world. If they were all banned at the same time, it would definitely cause massive unemployment.
On the other hand, everyone knows that the existence of fairies is magical. If the empire agrees to trade with the human world, does it mean that they also have the opportunity to touch extraordinary powers?
When the two collide, people feel very conflicted.
However, most people still hold opposing views. After all, even if trade is opened up, the trade volume will certainly be small, and only those who hold privileges will be affected, while unemployment will affect the majority of people.
However, Wen Zheng seemed to have considered people's controversy, and pulled out the speech manuscript below, "In order to maximize the advantages brought by the expansion of fairyland trade, the country decided to popularize cultivation."
"Cultivation?"
In an instant, not only the entire conference hall, but also all the people sitting in front of the TV to receive the report were boiling with excitement. They suspected that they had heard it wrongly.
"Brother, this is really cultivation! It's the legendary cultivation!" Lu Hao grabbed Zhang Lei's shoulders and shook him back and forth, his face flushed with excitement.
Although he felt a little dizzy, Zhang Lei was also very excited and shouted quickly: "Quick, stop shaking and listen to what they are going to say next."
Meanwhile, Wen Zheng has already begun to conscientiously tell everyone how the country discovered the existence of Qi and how to use Qi for cultivation.
At the same time, she also emphasized, "Energy can only exist in places with good environment, so we must ban polluting enterprises and develop new energy with all our strength. I hope you will encourage each other!"
After saying that, the two of them stood up at the same time and bowed to all the viewers in front of the TV.
After the live broadcast ended, thanks to the efforts of the four major operators, an announcement from the state appeared on everyone's mobile phone.
The general content is: In fact, fairies will appear in human activities and the evolution of nature, and many fairies have been born in the human world before.
However, since most fairies were born not long ago, it is difficult for them to control their behavior, so the country established the Fairy Investigation Bureau to recruit them.
Due to the small number of people, in order to avoid causing unnecessary panic, countries have not revealed the existence of fairies to the public.
But now due to the empire's requirements and the discovery of the existence of Qi, the country has decided to restore the environment to allow everyone to practice cultivation, and there will be dedicated people to teach later.
Balabala, blah blah.
After reading the announcement, I don’t know what everyone was thinking, but there is no doubt that they were all excited.
The era of universal cultivation has arrived!
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