Chapter 106 Interim Report "Our company! We do not guarantee sales...
Quick-travel executors, when performing tasks, if it is necessary to use a pseudonym, use your real name.
Another requirement written into the Quick Traveler's Handbook.
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Time and location unknown, recording source: Lu Beiji's mid-term report.
"Reporter: Lu Beiji, first mid-term report."
"According to the manual, after three years of mission execution, a mid-term report needs to be submitted regularly. However, no one will actually read these reports anyway, so I will just record them orally."
"To be honest, there are very few missions that require staying in the mission world for more than three years. But the volume of the mission this time... doesn't seem to be something that can be completed in ten or eight years. I don't even know where to start."
"Then again, it is extremely rare for a mission to be issued by a native god of the world..."
"Back to the topic, since the client of this mission, Mr. Yinglong, is a god, the body I am using now is not borrowed, but built for me by the client."
"That's why I'm even more confused - why did he make a cub body for me?"
"I also went to Yinglong and pointed out that his wish description was too vague and asked him to clearly instruct me on the tasks I should complete. But he was always vague and said he would tell me when I grow up."
"Alas, the gods' concept of time is so elusive."
"However, I have nothing to do every day, which makes me quite happy. I just think of it as a vacation in this world."
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"Mid-term report... How many times has this been done? The second time, or the third time? I can't remember."
"Recently, I was finally able to transform into a human form, so I began to travel among the human world and conduct field investigations."
"... Actually, there is nothing special to report. Yinglong helps people everywhere in the human world. He is always out of sight and I hardly see him."
"Besides the usual clichés about eating well, clothing warmly and taking good care of yourself, he left me only one instruction. To be honest, I am completely confused by that instruction..."
"Well, so why did he ask me to research a method to 'drain the spiritual energy of the world'? What does this have to do with his wish?"
"Ah, I hate taking on assignments that require me to follow orders from the client at all times! Can't he just check the final results?"
"He casually molded a cub body for me, then left me alone and threw me to the care of the bird tribe. My aesthetic taste has been taken away by those bird demons!"
"I picked up a beautiful little white bird a few days ago, and my first reaction when I saw it was 'what a beautiful tail'... I'm really hopeless."
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"After thousands of failures, the spiritual energy decomposition sample number #9646 finally showed a relatively ideal spiritual energy decomposition characteristic. This is cause for celebration."
"This energy is too dangerous. I decided to set it to automatically decompose once it encounters my spiritual power."
"I finally found an opportunity to report my research results to Yinglong. He also finally shared his complete plan with me."
"In fact, when I saw the mission objective, I had a vague hunch in my heart. However, when the hunch actually became a reality, I still inevitably felt a little surprised."
"In a nutshell, he wants to limit the upper limit of mortals' military power, thereby interfering with the development of civilization."
"I thought to myself, come on, this is a precious world of high magic and high martial arts. When I was training new people in the fast-travel bureau, which new people from the low martial arts world would not be extremely excited when they went to the high martial arts world to perform a mission and found that they could fly and hide underground?"
"Well, that's a little off topic. Of course, I didn't say that in front of Yinglong... After all, the customer is God, right?"
“…To be honest, I don’t agree with what he did.”
"I mean, this civilization is so young - how long have humans been developing agriculture? They lived by gathering and hunting for millions of years before agriculture and settled life came."
"After that, the progress of civilization will continue to accelerate. They will develop rapidly, from the land to the sea, from the sea to the sky, and even begin to dream of the sea of stars."
"I admit that they are now leaning against each other, and individuals or groups with strong military power are more likely to resort to violent means to achieve their goals. A lot of valuable technology and experience have been lost because of the war..."
"But before they use psychic powers, magic, or some other supernatural force to destroy themselves, they will first learn how to build a stable social structure."
"Yes, there will be a lot of injustice and inequality in this structure, and the presence of high force will lead to the concentration of power."
"But even if there is no innate difference in strength, won't mortals have internal divisions? Won't they be divided into artificial classes?"
"Compared to other low-level martial arts worlds, this process may be slower here."
"But give them some time, life will find a way."
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"In the blink of an eye, several years have passed and it's time for the mid-term report again. After becoming a long-lived person, your perception of time will indeed become blurred."
"Recently, I am still busy investigating, studying, and collecting materials. Although the identity of the Phoenix is noble, it also brings many restrictions. Many precious materials and knowledge are difficult to access in the East... I am thinking of some new ways."
"Then, well, I decided to give up trying to persuade Yinglong."
"I initially advised him to go to the Quick Pass Bureau to cancel the order. Although the channel for mid-term refunds is not used by many people, it is not completely ignored... But since I am still recording the mid-term report, it is obvious that I have failed."
"Well, how do I talk to him about natural selection?"
"Are you going to drive the apes down from the trees, Yinglong?"
"Force them to walk upright so that their hands can be used to make tools? Force them to use their tongues and mouths to form complex languages to promote the development of division of labor and social structure?"
"Humans developed the decimal system because they have ten fingers, not because they thought it was the right way to count."
"You are draining the spiritual energy of the world and forcibly changing the environment in which humans live in order to select them. Is this kind of intervention really beneficial to the long-term development of civilization? Is the future you foresee really so beautiful that it is worth doing this?"
"Forget it. He is the client. I don't have much to say. I should focus on how to realize his wishes."
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"I am Smoky, who lives on the top of the Tree of Knowledge. I am the crow who stands on Odin's shoulder and gathers information for him. I am Bennu, the Lord of Jubilee and the One Who Makes Himself. I am Phoenix, one of Solomon's seventy-two demons."
"——It sounds pretty cool when I say it that way. It would be even cooler if I didn't have to control a body and rush around to the set."
"Well, the biggest achievement recently is to create a pseudonym. In order to meet the requirements of my dear client, I need more knowledge and contact more gods."
"...The tutorial on using a fake ID that I wrote when I was teaching was really put to good use in this mission."
"But the materials for making an alchemical body are too scarce, and the process is too complicated. I can only make a body."
"Really? Yinglong is obviously my client, why doesn't he help me sculpt a body?"
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"I finally got the design of the machine that extracts spiritual energy. This thing is large enough..."
"Anyway, I took this design drawing and looked for Yinglong again.
"Before I left, he asked me: What do I think he should wish for?"
"I said, 'Well, let me tell you a story about something that happened to me.'"
"For example, a person who was tortured to death prays for revenge on all those who have wronged him/her; or a conceited madman prays for extraordinary talent and opportunities."
"For example, a once-powerful ruler wishes to restore his past glory; or a person who has lost his love wishes to keep that one person's heart... There are countless such wishes. These are basically the stories."
"Yinglong's face, which had transformed into a human form, showed a puzzled expression. He asked me: Is it just for this?"
"Just for these reasons, for a person's most difficult wish to tell others, the Quick Travel Bureau is willing to reverse the timeline and rewrite fate."
"I blurted out the motto of the Fast Run Game: 'Whoever saves one person saves the world.' The smallest wish has the power to change the world. We don't trade at a loss."
"Yinglong stared at me in silence. At that moment, well, I understood what he meant."
"If the wish of one person is worth such a price to pay to fulfill, then what is the value of his wish for the sake of human civilization as a whole?"
"I held it in for a long time and told him that the solution of 'draining the spiritual power of this world' is too inefficient and has a low success rate for his wish."
"He said calmly, Optimizing the plan is my job."
“…This is really my job.”
“So I hate Party A.”
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"I declare that using a pseudonym is not a job for humans."
"The main reason is that I can't just sleep with the Phoenix body and ignore it, so I can only use my sleep time as quickly as possible. At night, while the Phoenix is sleeping, I transfer my consciousness to the Alchemy Body to work."
"Working day and night is really not a job that a human can do."
"I recently discovered a good way to relieve stress. Every time the pressure is about to explode, I go to wake Bai Xian up, then transform into my original form, hold him in my arms and stroke his feathers."
"I feel like a bad owner who can't sleep in the middle of the night and has to bathe the cat, but it feels so good to suck the pretty little bird, hehe."
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"Yinglong is still reliable. He helped me create an artificial consciousness. Finally, my avatars can run on their own."
"Although I feel, uh, this consciousness is a bit stupid, but it works. Finally, someone is running around the world for me!"
"The spiritual energy absorption system has already begun construction. As I said before, it would be too wasteful and inefficient to completely block the path of mortal cultivation."
"So, I wrote a new plan. I'll include the details in the full report, but I'll just dictate it now."
"The worst option is for the spiritual energy absorption system to be discovered and controlled by someone again. A centralized power center controls all spiritual energy dissipation samples - let's call it [Heavenly Eclipse], a name given by Yinglong."
"This power center controls all [Eclipses] and uses them as a tool to monopolize cultivation resources and create a hierarchical order in the high martial arts era until productivity develops to the point where the idea of equality emerges."
"We have given too much power to rulers we don't know if they can trust. This may not be a wise move, but the order brought by a ruler who can control everything seems to be more likely to maintain peace than the endless fighting between multiple equally powerful people."
"Medium strategy, spiritual energy will decline, and mortals will learn to rely on technology, wisdom and strategy to achieve a civilization in the low-military era. Although it is a pity, this picture still meets the client's wishes."
"The best option is to revive Reiki in a sufficiently advanced era. In that era, the concept of equality is deeply rooted in people's minds, and people can study the nature of Reiki with a scientific attitude. By then, spiritual power and practice will no longer be the threshold of class division, but a new energy source."
"I still need to think carefully about how to leave enough hints for future generations of mortals, and how to ensure that the spiritual energy absorption system can appear in the world at the right time."
“…This is the worst plan I have ever written. It pins its hopes for the future on a fragile possibility, but it is beautiful.”
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"The results of the experiment were worse than I expected. The energy required to activate the spiritual energy absorption system is too huge, and even Yinglong cannot provide it."
"And... Yinglong is right about this: these things are too complicated to guarantee that someone will be able to crack them successfully in the future."
"…Tsk, this is getting more and more troublesome. I hate Party A."
"No matter how much I am paid next time, I won't do this kind of work anymore."
"The power of [Eclipse] is too strong. Perhaps I should keep some means of countering it."
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"This report may be a bit heavy, so let me start with a lighter topic."
"I... have visited many gods during this time. One of them was to visit the Lord of the Underworld in the Underworld."
"When I was manipulating my alchemical body to wade through the Styx, I discovered that the Phoenix Fire I had put into this body had undergone a subtle change, probably because the alchemical body could not be considered a living thing, nor a dead thing. It had taken on the aura of reincarnation."
"This is really a pleasant surprise. With this flame that controls the power of life and death, I think I can do something interesting."
"For example, extracting life force, protecting corpses from decay, preserving certain organ fragments... and so on."
"...Well, I am now lobbying the gods to use their corpses as energy. The gods can indeed open this machine with their combined power. But ensuring that it keeps running is not so easy."
"Actually, this was Yinglong's idea. I'm not that brave. The other part was my idea."
"Regarding the control of [Destiny] - this is another name Yinglong gave to the spiritual energy absorption system."
"Regarding the shortcut to controlling [Destiny] and [Eclipse], perhaps I can... leave a sample of the phoenix's spiritual power and achieve it this way."
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"This should be the last mid-term report."
"The devil has sealed my alchemical body in the lake of fire, and all the weird and messy things that could harm humanity have been cleared away."
"I have also sealed my little white bird in Jinwu Garden, and the corpses of the gods are ready. As for the gods that escaped... I have no interest in chasing them, so let's leave it at that."
"The final step of the mission is to take out my heart."
"My alchemical body doesn't have enough power to kill me, so Yinglong must do it, and then let my vest make the heart into two keys for future generations - I will elaborate on this part in the report after the mission is completed."
"After activating [Destiny] and confirming that the spiritual energy has begun to decline and the mission is completed, part of Yinglong's soul and divine power will be taken away as a mission reward, so he probably won't live for too long."
"The mythical era of this world is really coming to an end."
"I can guess what Yinglong wants to do next. He is a Chinese god. He will probably leave some clues, such as using his own corpse to connect to the Dragon Abyss Illusion, and then quietly leave a path leading to the burial place of the gods, or something like that."
"This is his wish. He has the right to decide. I have no say in it."
"Then, I am here to bless the people of this world, to walk on the road paved with the bones of your gods and move towards a better future."
"My mission ends here. Reporting by: Lu Beiji."
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When performing tasks, the executors of the Quick Travel Bureau should use their real names if it is necessary to use a pseudonym.
Another requirement written into the Quick Traveler's Handbook.
On the one hand, this helps the fast traveler to maintain the anchor of humanity among the numerous identities and pseudonyms.
On the other hand, my achievements are written on the earth with my real name. If there is any dispute over the mission, I can use this as direct evidence when I answer questions at the meeting.
As for any possible mission disputes...
Ning Changkong calmed down, took a deep breath, and roared in his mind: "World Will! Get out of here! Don't play dead!"
"According to the regulations! Each world can only issue one mission to the Quick Travel Bureau!"
"Besides! Our company! Doesn't provide after-sales service!"