Chapter 137 Foundation (2) (1st update + 2nd update + 0.5 update) [VIP]
But what?
Bai Jinshu stared at the evil god for a long time, but he didn't hear his next words. He only reached out and took the project report document in his hand very naturally, and walked out.
Bai Jinshu:?
Huai Jiamu, you have also learned the bad habit of speaking halfway.
The conversation room behind him detected that everyone had left and automatically turned off the lights. Guide lines lit up in the corridor, directing the exploration team members to leave the conversation area.
The planning of this area is very complicated. When he came in, not only him, but also the team leaders of the other three organizations followed Wen Xi in. It seems that not many people come to this place usually, otherwise there would be no need for this kind of guiding route lights.
Huai Jiamu seemed to be thinking about something. After saying that half sentence, he said nothing more and walked out naturally with his documents.
Bai Jinshu was confused and followed Huai Jiamu, and found that the other party was indeed not lying.
He really doesn't know the way.
Not only did he not even know the way, he didn't even bother to follow the road signs!
The guide line was clearly pointing to the left, but the evil god walking in front walked towards the right without hesitation.
Bai Jinshu watched him go astray:...
He pondered for a moment, then followed silently.
After all, Huai Jiamu's appearance this time seemed very strange.
He didn't use anyone else's skin, and he appeared here without being detected as a stowaway by the Foundation?
Bai Jinshu was certain that when he used the identity of She Mochu in the space, although the progress bar of the descent was always in danger, it had never risen above the dangerous value. Even at the last moment, when he witnessed the insider of the University of Michigan willing to sacrifice himself to keep the secret, the progress bar was only infinitely close to the critical value of the successful descent.
The reason why he forced to suppress the progress of the descent of gods in the last world was very simple. That was a planet where humans and C-type creatures coexisted in the same space. If an unknown god descended into it at this time, who knows what would happen? Things might even go in a more dangerous direction.
So until the moment before he left this world, he had been suppressing She Mochu's emotions.
Of course, now he knew that the reason he had not suppressed this anger was not because of Shemochu's emotions. In fact, the anger belonged to him.
So... could it be that his emotions were too strong, so he couldn't suppress them after he breathed a sigh of relief after leaving the previous space, and thus summoned the evil god into this world?
So why can Huai Jiamu appear here in person? Could it be that he really used this identity to descend into the special space of the foundation?
Doesn't that mean that Yang Pei's grandson is qualified to be a member of a special team?
Bai Jinshu touched his chin thoughtfully. Just as he was thinking hard about this problem, he suddenly felt his eyes light up.
"Huh?" He looked up belatedly and found that they actually came out.
In front of him was the service hall he had seen more than an hour ago. Many team members from the special space were walking back and forth in the hall, and the big screen was scrolling with the calls of business currently waiting to be processed.
This location was even closer to the building than the place where he followed Wen Xi who knew the way.
Bai Jinshu slowly turned around. Behind him, the guiding lights were still flashing in the conversation area in the foundation's service hall.
This is a shortcut.
Is it a coincidence?
He frowned and looked in the direction of Huai Jiamu.
The evil god walking in front was unaware of his gaze. Feeling that he had stopped, he also stopped and turned sideways, giving him an inquiring look.
Bai Jinshu naturally couldn't rush up to ask, why did you take a shortcut so naturally while saying you didn't know the way, are you kidding me.
If the evil god is really related to the foundation, then why would he be sealed in a copy? Isn't this much more intriguing?
Was he once one of the exploration team members here... or did he have another identity?
Bai Jinshu pursed his lips and smiled very naturally: "What a coincidence, you came out."
"I thought we would be lost in there, until the Foundation staff who brought us in came and looked for us and were rescued."
"No," Huai Jiamu saw him coming and slightly turned sideways to make it easier for him to come over, "It's safe here."
Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows slightly.
The Foundation's special space is of course safe, but how could Huai Jiamu say such a thing?
"Are you familiar with this place?" he asked naturally, "Have you been here before?"
"I... can't remember clearly," unexpectedly, Huai Jiamu thought for a while and replied, "Maybe I've been here, it looks familiar."
Bai Jinshu turned around and looked at him.
Those who can enter the city of the Foundation are either staff members or exploration team members. They must have experienced countless explorations before entering here. How could they "not remember" such experiences?
Or maybe the last time Huai Jiamu came here, he was suddenly summoned in by believers, just like this time, and stayed here for quite a long time after being summoned in.
The problem is…
Bai Jinshu silently thought about the difference between normal believers and him, and reluctantly admitted that there might be very few believers as bold as him.
Uh… barely?
If that's the case, then whose identity did he replace the last time he came in?
Otherwise, it could be that Huai Jiamu had indeed been here as a member of the exploration team, but that was a long time ago. Considering that he might be an evil god who had lived for billions of years, it is reasonable for him to have forgotten this experience.
After all, it has been too long.
So many years have passed, let alone memories, everything about the past can be completely obliterated in the long river of time. It is a miracle that I can leave a little impression on the places I have been to, or even remember how to get there.
But if that is the case...why would an exploration team member who normally entered a special space become an evil god in an unknown space?
Considering the origin of a god is a very meaningless thing, but at this moment, Bai Jinshu suddenly became extremely curious about Huai Jiamu's identity.
A person who once came to the top of the special space on behalf of the Foundation's exploration team appeared in an unknown space for some unknown reason and became the evil god sealed in this space.
This is so intriguing.
His relationship with the Foundation, his own identity, and the most important question -
As an evil god, was he born a god?
Or was it some acquired experience that shaped him?
Bai Jinshu narrowed his eyes, took a few steps forward, and walked side by side with the evil god: "How about taking a walk here?"
"Maybe if you walk around, you'll remember when you've been here before?"
The evil god seems to be making a move.
"This is my first time here," Bai Jinshu curled his lips and continued to add, "I want to see what's here."
Outside the service hall is a busy street with countless investigation team members of all shapes and sizes walking on it. At first glance, this city gives people the illusion that they are still in the original space.
But if you look closely, you'll find that the elements in this city are very complex, almost like a patchwork.
There are high-rise buildings of modern society, neon lights flashing brightly, small shops on both sides of the street, and newlyweds walking back and forth in familiar clothes.
But if you look closely, you can see a veil resembling smoke hovering in the air, with wisps of green smoke rising up, and auspicious crane patterns, with a young man with a light sword and long hair tied up.
Looking among the crowd again, pedestrians passing by have modified flashing prosthetic eyes, cold modified limbs without temperature, and data interfaces faintly visible under the short hair on the back of their necks.
This place doesn't look like an officially demarcated city, but rather like it was built by the exploration team members living in it.
People from any space and any time can find a trace of their own dimension here.
Bai Jinshu didn't feel anything new while walking, but he did feel a little curious about the formation process of this city.
He already had a rough idea of the composition of the foundation. The low-end and mid-end team members when they first joined the foundation were the firewood at the bottom of this behemoth. The foundation looked for people with strong obsessions in various spaces and signed contracts with them. In order to fulfill their obsessions, these team members were willing to enter and work for the foundation.
Going a little further up, the members of the high-end space do not pursue fulfilling their own wishes. They each have their own ambitions, like Yun Guang and others who realize that there are people outside the foundation who want to explore higher, like Shi Zhou who is maneuvering for his twin sister, or like him at the beginning who only wants to be number one on the list and unconditionally let the foundation fulfill his one wish.
The special space is the true appearance of the Foundation. The investigation organizations here are partners of the Foundation, providing it with a stable supply of collection space and mature team members. They are the highest level in the entire investigator pyramid.
And investors...
There is a famous saying in the stock market: retail investors may make money, but bankers will never lose money.
These investigative organizations entrenched in the foundation and deeply bound to it are like bankers, while retail investors who invest in the space and profit from it only get a few scraps that slip through the fingers of these organizations.
In order to share the risk, the dealer is naturally willing to give up a part of the space's profits in exchange for stability. In the end, no matter whether the space is developed and utilized by the foundation or bought by an organization in need, the biggest beneficiary will always be the owner of the space.
Everyone below the Foundation's special space, from exploration team members to investors, is just working for a small group of people above the special space.
Very good and very capitalist.
Bai Jinshu expressionlessly compared the differences between the foundation and the capitalists, and then found out——
No difference
Everyone is equal below the special space. Low, medium and high-end investigation team members work for special organizations and explore their space for them. Low, medium and high-end investors hedge risks for special organizations and bear most of the investment risks.
And those members who discover the existence of the special space may get a chance to leap upward and become a member of the pyramid.
Then... continue to climb up in the pyramid of the special space.
Of course they can leave, and those who can get this far can leave at will. But when they witness that thousands or tens of thousands of high-level dimensions can be created with a wave of the hand, and that billions of lives and deaths can be traded in space while they chat and laugh, will there be anyone who is willing to leave instead of wanting to become a part of it?
The high-end space is the screening room that enters here.
Those who have no such ambition and would choose to leave have already chosen to leave the foundation after accumulating enough points.
"Here..." Huai Jiamu's voice suddenly interrupted his thoughts, "It seems that there was no such tall sign before."
Bai Jinshu followed him and looked over. Huai Jiamu's sight fell on a place that seemed like a handicraft shop. It was filled with mist, and the owner should be from the realm of immortals.
"The smell of this fragrance is very familiar." Huai Jiamu nodded.
"Is this incense?" Bai Jinshu's eyelids twitched.
How can incense be lit like this? The shop is filled with smoke, and he would believe it if you said it was on fire.
There is also a very tall sign next to the store: [Designated supplier of talismans of the Foundation]
"Yunwuxiang!" A very young man appeared in the shop. He had a baby face and looked about seventeen or eighteen years old. He was so tender that water could be pinched out of him. He was wearing a wide-sleeved robe suitable for the immortal realm. His hair was neatly tied up, giving people the illusion of traveling through time and space.
The baby-faced young man who suddenly appeared from the store had obviously heard what they had said before, and immediately said excitedly: "My fellow Taoist... no, my friend, you haven't been to the Free Trade Zone for a while!"
"You can't go wrong if you look for the signature Cloud Mist Incense. My master, great-grandmaster, and great-grandmaster all used this incense when they were here." The baby-faced man rolled up his sleeves and puffed out his chest with great honor. "It's been more than a thousand years since we [Qingshuang] became a supplier! I've been in charge of the store for more than five hundred years. My friend, you should know my master or great-grandmaster."
It’s true that you can’t judge a book by its cover.
Bai Jinshu took a close look at the baby-faced man and couldn't relate the fact that he looked about seventeen or eighteen years old to words like "taking over the shop for five hundred years".
Probably because he had been looked at like this too many times, the baby-faced boy was not angry at his gaze, but instead looked even more proud: "I reached the Nascent Soul stage when I was sixteen!"
Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows.
It seems that in their world... the meaning of Nascent Soul should be eternal beauty.
Maybe it was because of what Huai Jiamu said that he thought the two of them were old customers. The baby-faced man did not intend to introduce the proper nouns in his words. Instead, he looked at the two of them and said, "My friend, you don't look like someone from our cultivation plane. You should be from the science and technology plane!"
"My master told me before he went into seclusion that many old customers from the technological plane would often make space jumps."
When words like "space jump" come out of the mouth of a person dressed in antique clothes, there is always a very strong sense of separation.
"Master said that these customers often go to planets where the speed of time is different from the universal standard speed, resulting in them having no concept of standard time." The baby-faced man nodded, "Before you, I also met many such customers. The most distant one was actually from the time of my great-grandmaster... maybe thousands of years ago."
"Come in, come in!" He welcomed the two people in very attentively. "It's much cheaper to buy directly from me than from the Foundation Mall. If you buy in large quantities, you can get a 15% discount, so you don't have to let the middlemen make a profit from the price difference!"
Bai Jinshu was led in by the other party in a daze. After passing through the thick white smoke that looked like a fire scene, he suddenly entered a very large space, and was greeted by a very clear and faint fragrance.
This fragrance seemed to have some strange effect. With every breath he took, the surging anger that had been filling his heart was unconsciously taken away a lot, and his mood unconsciously calmed down.
This should be the smell of Yunwuxiang.
This smell should be the "familiar fragrance" that Huai Jiamu mentioned outside.
The space inside is much larger than the outside. It can be seen that the owner of the shop has put a lot of thought into decorating this place. After entering the door, there is a row of wooden display racks on the left with many yellow talismans.
"This thing..." Bai Jinshu walked over and narrowed his eyes slightly.
Isn't this the miracle sold in the Foundation Mall?
He vaguely remembered that the one on the far left seemed to be priced at more than 10,000 points per piece.
It's something only the rich can afford.
The sign at the door that says [Designated supplier of talismans for the Foundation] refers to the talisman supplier in the mall?
The Foundation...has indeed shown its true capitalist character.
It turns out that the miracles in the mall are also provided by organizations in these special spaces!
"My friend, you are here to buy talismans, right?" The baby-faced man saw his eyes resting on the row of talismans and introduced them enthusiastically, "The talismans here are better than those in the mall. The ones in the mall are all old stocks, while ours are all newly painted."
"Many organizations buy from us at a 12% discount, and they buy in batches at a time. If you want newly painted talismans, you can also sign a supply contract with us [Qingshuang] and get an 15% discount on the internal price."
"If you want to buy it, please leave the name of your organization and we can deliver it to your door."
This baby face is so incredibly enthusiastic.
How big an organization would have to be to need to purchase a large number of these talismans on a regular basis?
Also, this price is too real.
The Foundation doesn't even try to take advantage of the low-level explorer tools, and the price in the mall is 20% more expensive than buying directly from the store.
After Huai Jiamu came in, he didn't say anything familiar. It was probably because there was nothing in this store that could evoke his memory.
Bai Jinshu had no interest in talismans, but he was somewhat interested in the cloud incense they had.
This kind of incense should be the kind of incense that has the unique "calming" effect in the world of immortal cultivation.
Maybe it will have a certain restraining effect on his fixed attribute sequelae that his synchronization rate will unconsciously increase when he is emotional.
Bai Jinshu tapped the table and asked, "Are you selling this cloud mist incense?"
The baby-faced young man narrowed his eyes and smiled like a fox: "Logically speaking... it is not for sale, because this product has not been approved by the foundation."
“But if the money is enough…” Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows.
"How can you say that I gave you enough money!" The baby-faced young man said righteously, "A cultivator of immortality doesn't need worldly money. I just saw that we have a connection. You might be an old acquaintance of my master, so I gave you some gifts when I sold you the talismans!"
In the end, Bai Jinshu left the store with only one "product" and a whole box of "gifts".
"Come back next time, my friend!" The baby-faced young man waved in the mist, "I'll tell my apprentice! Even if thousands of years pass, you can still enjoy a 15% discount!"
Really good at business.
Bai Jinshu waved the peach blossom talisman in his hand and slapped it on Huai Jiamu.
Evil God:?
"This is for you," Bai Jinshu smiled, "Is it effective?"
There was obvious confusion in the evil god's eyes.
"It seems useless. I have to carry it with me for a while longer." Bai Jinshu folded the talisman into a triangle and stuffed it into Huai Jiamu's coat pocket. "The peach blossom talisman is worth hundreds of thousands of points. It would be a big loss if I lose it."
Huai Jiamu seemed to want to say that this talisman was a gift for buying Yunwuxiang, but facing the matter-of-fact expression of a willful believer, he chose to swallow the words.
There are many small shops like this throughout the free trade zone.
Most of the foundation's products are produced by these special organizations. Bai Jinshu originally planned to just wander around the city to see if Huai Jiamu could remember anything.
It turns out that shopping does have a kind of magic. After spending a long time in the free trade zone, even he was lost in the 12% and 15% discounts.
And the goods here... are really weird.
Bai Jinshu actually found the kind of sunflower seed shop that Guan Hongyan often ate. The Plants vs. Zombies sunflower seeds that were sold by the piece in the foundation mall were actually sold by kilogram here.
And this thing is actually a snack.
There are even cream and matcha flavors...
Bai Jinshu weighed half a pound of each with mixed feelings, and prepared to go back to their 0106 base and throw them into the fruit bowl on the coffee table.
I hope Yun Guang doesn’t feel dizzy when he sees the sunflower seeds in the fruit bowl.
And this afternoon, Huai Jiamu indeed found many familiar shops in this area.
All of these shops are old shops that have been around for many years, and most of the shop owners are immortals, but the strange thing is that none of these owners know Huai Jiamu.
They both thought that it was their predecessors who knew each other.
In other words, if Huai Jiamu really came to the Foundation a long time ago, it must have been at least several thousand years ago.
To put it another way, the Foundation has been around for thousands of years.
It is also a new discovery.
The Yunling project submitted the final project report. There was currently nothing else to deal with in the special space. Guan Hongyan, who had been staying in the base for the past few days, returned to his own space with peace of mind.
Yun Guang and Lu Changfeng did not question the appearance of Huai Jiamu. Perhaps it was because the precautions he had taken before were too effective. The three of them now felt that it was not strange for any strange people to appear in [0106], and they also recognized Huai Jiamu as one of their members.
Bai Jinshu wanted to stay in the foundation's special space for a while longer to see if Huai Jiamu could remember anything, but the problem was that his leave from the crew was almost over.
As an actor who is still in the filming period, there is no possibility for him to be willful.
If he goes on strike alone, the entire crew will go on strike.
However, Huai Jiamu seemed to have no desire to explore this city. When Bai Jinshu expressed that he wanted to go back, the evil god himself did not say anything. He just said that if Bai Jinshu left, there was no need for him to stay here and he wanted to return to his own kingdom of God.
If conditions allowed, Bai Jinshu would really be curious about what Huai Jiamu's kingdom of God looked like.
But soon, the mountains of shooting tasks every day drained away all his time.
Yun Guang was responsible for the final payment for Yunling. It was said that they [0106] took the lion's share of it, and among the remaining three organizations, [Fan Duo] where some personnel had died also received a compensation.
The aftermath of this business war seems to have passed just like that.
Until one day after the filming ended, Yun Guang suddenly contacted him.
[Mo Chu, can you contact Skao? ]
Why did Yun Guang suddenly look for Scarao?
Bai Jinshu decided to maintain Scarao's character as a hands-off boss.
She Mochu: [? ]
She Mochu: [No, as long as he goes on vacation, no one will be able to find him.]
She Mochu: [What's up?]
Yun Guang paused for a moment, then sent a long paragraph of text: [The last time, there seemed to be other hidden secrets in the Yunling project. The crisis in their world came early because other competitors were messing around and trying to destroy Yunling and severely damage the foundation. Did you know this? ]
She Mochu: [I know.]
Yun Guang: [Because Yun Ling and our four investigation teams were all innocent organizations affected by the attack on the Foundation, the Foundation sent people to ask for compensation from us this time.]
Yun Guang: [We need the leaders of each organization to talk, so I'm going to talk to Skao.]
Bai Jinshu rolled around on the bed in the hotel: [You can just go directly. Even Skao was too lazy to go before. ]
Yun Guang: [Hmm…]
Yun Guang: [I think it would be better to have someone who knows our organization better to come and discuss this, because the compensation this time... seems a little special.]
As Yun Guang sent over a document, Bai Jinshu suddenly sat up from the bed.
The compensation proposed by the foundation was indeed significant.
It offered three options and asked them to choose one.
[Team Member Promotion Rights], [Entrustment Priority], and the last one -
[Ownership of unexplored unknown space].
The former allows players to directly select team members who have already entered the foundation, and they can be directly promoted to a special space regardless of their current level, and they have the priority to display and distribute all commissions of the organization within one year.
And the latter.
The Foundation recently has a batch of unknown spaces that do not belong to any special organization but are discovered independently by the Foundation.
These spaces have not yet been rated and have not yet had survey teams sent in. They may have great potential or may be completely useless.
If they choose this compensation, they can choose one of these organizations and become its owner.
This space will completely belong to this organization, whether they choose to choose their own people to explore it, or choose to put it into the foundation's process, and have a dedicated person evaluate the level and name it, and then put it into the task pool, entering the vision of exploration team members and investors in low, medium and high-end spaces, and they can handle it any way they want.
The chosen space may be extremely developed, or it may be a desert without any civilization.
It seems to be the most useless, the most luck-intensive and the least secure of the three options.
For a large organization, sending a special talent who may not be able to be promoted to a special space through his own efforts, or giving priority to all commissions within a year, these two compensations are much more attractive than a space with unknown potential.
But for Bai Jinshu...
It's a no-brainer.
Choose three, just choose three!
This is a space that can directly belong to [0106]!
A space without a name and without any prediction of potential.
A space where he can completely explore it by himself and do whatever he wants after the exploration.
For [0106], the third compensation is much more attractive than the first two!
However, there is only one problem. As an old organization, [0106] if there are only newcomers like Guan Hongyan and Yun Guang in this internal exploration project, it seems a bit too shabby.
But...how can he get a bunch of people other than himself?
Bai Jinshu sat on the bed in the hotel, picking and choosing from a pile of scripts sent by Lao Wu, and successfully found a very constructive role.
Cen Bingqi.
Or, can you also call him Cen Bingqi?
Buy one of this character and get twenty-three free.
He has a total of twenty-four personalities.
The two most dominant personalities are:
Cen Bingqi, an emotional weapon created through experiments.
Cen Bingqi, a biological weapon produced by experiments.
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My childhood sweetheart is a human-shaped disaster By Liu Chu
——The following copy——
Occasionally, strange things happen around me, but I firmly believe that there are no super powers in the world, and my daily life is as peaceful as ever.
Until one day, the end of the world came without warning. I survived for a while in the dangerous wasteland, and was suddenly reborn.
This time, I took the initiative to knock on the door of my childhood sweetheart's house.
Before the end of the world, we were in a cold war for two months.
Ji Wangcheng opened the door, and I apologized at lightning speed: "I'm sorry, let's not quarrel anymore!" Then I talked about the most important things, "You may not believe it, but the end of the world is coming soon..."
How can a weak and unsociable kid like my childhood sweetheart survive in the apocalypse without me?
He stared at me for a long moment, then asked, "Are you serious?"
I nodded frantically.
He: "Why don't you go find your girlfriend?"
I:? ?
When did I have a girlfriend?
-
As a result, I successfully convinced my childhood sweetheart to live together and stock up on groceries.
…However, the end of the world did not come, it seemed like just an overly realistic dream.
I was so embarrassed that I wanted to find a place to sleep forever.
Life seemed to have returned to normal and everything was in order, until the day I was about to pack my bags and move out of my childhood sweetheart's house, when someone suddenly showed up at my door.
That person: "We classify disasters into pioneering level, ocean level, abyss level... the top level is natural disaster level."
I:"?"
The other party lowered his voice and said with difficulty: "Actually, your childhood sweetheart..."
——He didn't finish his words, and the next second, he suddenly fell down as if all his vitality was drained!
I looked at the person who suddenly fell to the ground, and my fingertips turned cold with fear.
Ji Wangcheng's voice came from behind, still as cold and steady, but chilling.
Ji Wangcheng said softly: "He is a lunatic, don't listen to him."
His eyes fell on the suitcase in my hand, and he raised his eyebrows nonchalantly, but his voice became deeper: "Well... where do you want to go?"
I:……
#Haha fuck, it turns out my childhood sweetheart is a human disaster#
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