Chapter 141 Chapter 141

In the capital of China, at the headquarters of the Strange Response Department, Si Zai is looking at the video on his computer and feeling worried.

"If I watch something happy, does a comedy video count?" Si Zai asked Nong Xiang Ming Dao seriously.

Nong Xiangming lowered his head and tapped the keyboard, continuing his work: "Maybe, you can find some classic crosstalk sketches to make up the number. But it's hard to say whether Qiyi can find the funny points in these stories. Maybe they think it's funnier to see people looking for death."

Si Zai sighed and said, "Do you think my striptease is funny?"

Hearing this, Nong Xiangming imagined the scene in his mind and shuddered: "I feel disgusted."

Si Zai: "Hey, I'm a handsome guy after all."

"Not a young handsome guy anymore."

"Thirty-something is the prime of life. How am I not young?!" Si Zai glared at him and retorted. He stood up and bent his arms. "Look, what strong muscles I have!"

"If the weird businessman we are facing is a woman, maybe you can try seduction." Nong Xiangming pushed his glasses and scanned Si Zai, "But from a man's perspective, you have no charm except for your strong physique."

Si Zai slumped over the table with his head down, "A bottle of antidote, a bottle of healing medicine, a commodity that can be traded with a text message reminder from a weird merchant must be a good thing. This deal must be successful, it must not fail."

Nong Xiangming ignored him and walked to the printer, sorted out a stack of printed documents, and handed them to Si Zai.

Si Zai looked at him suspiciously and took the document: "This?"

Nong Xiangming: "I have selected three locations for the temple. The first one is Baifeng Mountain, which has undulating mountains and beautiful scenery. There are many open areas on the top of the mountain, so we can choose any place to build a temple. The city is not far away, so it is not difficult to bring building materials and labor. The disadvantage is that part of this place has been developed into a scenic spot, which is quite popular. But it doesn't matter. As long as we avoid the scenic spots, we can still find many comfortable places to use. Besides... I don't think the strange will really survive in a completely isolated place."

Si Zai nodded.

Nong Xiangming pulled out another file: "The second address is Jiuxia Mountain, located in southern China. Jiuxia Mountain has beautiful scenery and steep terrain. We have considered turning it into a tourist attraction to attract tourists, but because it is difficult to develop and costs a lot, we have proposed to develop Jiuxia Mountain as a tourist attraction several times, and the plan has been shelved several times. Developing a tourist attraction is difficult, but just finding a place to build a temple will require much less money, which can be used to make friends with the weird businessmen. This expense is nothing."

Si Zai opened the map and checked the location of Jiuxia Mountain.

Nong Xiangming continued: "The last location is in Antarctica."

Si Zai: "Antarctica?"

Thousands of years ago, officials sailed south to the sea and discovered the archipelago. Leaving the archipelago, there was endless ocean to the south, and no land could be seen after sailing for three to five days. People at that time believed that there was nothing further south, and the southernmost island in the archipelago was the South Pole, so they called it Antarctica.

With the development of transportation and people's exploration of the world, Chinese people know that there is actually land further south, which is connected to the mainland to the west of China in a winding way. The boundless ocean that was believed at that time is just a tiny pea in a bowl compared to the world map. However, the name Antarctica has remained.

As China's southernmost border island, Antarctica is uninhabited and only has a mountain range on the island.

The white-robed priest requested on the phone that the temple be built on top of a mountain, but he did not say that the top of the mountain must be a mountain on the inland. Aren’t mountains on islands also mountains?

"This island used to have an ocean survey station. Although it has moved to a new location, the infrastructure is still there. It is very simple to convert it into a temple, and the cost is minimal. The downside is that this place is a border after all." Nong Xiangming lowered his voice, "Some small countries in the south are always keeping an eye on us, especially after we received the secret book from the weird merchant. They have been making big moves in public but have never stopped. To put it bluntly, a temple is just the base of their organization. I am a little hesitant to choose this place."

Si Zai: "Is there no other choice?"

"I tried my best." Nong Xiangming sighed, "How many places do you think there are on the top of the mountain where you can build temples without being disturbed? There are many ordinary wild mountains, but can you really give them away? Even the rich don't want to live there. The ones with beautiful scenery and can be developed have already become tourist attractions and are crowded. The ones that have not been developed are because development is difficult in itself, or they are not suitable for development at all and it is difficult to build houses. Even if we are not afraid of weirdness, we can't let our construction team go to those extremely dangerous mountains to work. It is difficult to transport construction materials up there."

"The other issue is funding." Nong Xiangming rubbed his brows. "The country has money, but the amount we apply for is limited. Especially with the recent strange events, many places have had problems, and the funds are mostly used to support local areas. We should save as much as we can here, so we should give up projects that are too challenging."

"It's all about money..." Si Zai leaned back in his chair, his eyes wide open. Then he remembered something and raised his lips. "It's okay. We'll have money soon."

Nong Xiangming: “Really?”

"Did you know that many countries in the Western Continent have recently applied to study in China?" Si Zai smiled maliciously, "Their goal is the two secret books we obtained."

Nong Xiangming frowned, "Didn't you say that the secret manual will be made public in the future? Now we just haven't fully mastered the knowledge in it, so we can't teach it to the outside world. When our people have completely mastered the new power system and started teaching in the new weird response major established in the school, we will also publish the content to the outside world."

"Who can afford to wait? Even if they dare to wait, do they dare to believe what we publish?" Si Zai sneered, "The arrogant guys only believe in themselves, so they decided to send someone to personally 'learn' the original secrets." In simple terms, they did not learn it second-hand from them, but personally copied the original secrets and took the contents back to study.

Nong Xiangming: "Did the higher-ups agree?"

"Agreed." Si Zai tapped the table lightly with his fingers. "We can make a lot of money just by sending a few people to learn. This deal is not a loss. The people above didn't intend to keep these things hidden. It's not a good thing for us if the Western Continent is destroyed because of the weird. Of course, it's impossible for them to take the secret book away. They can only send people to learn, and the tuition fee is not low."

Si Zai smiled maliciously: "Why not talk to the higher-ups and transfer the cost of building the temple to the countries that come to study, such as the United States. They are very rich, so let them add a little more and allow them to bring one more person to study. What do you think?"

"I think... it's a good idea." Nong Xiangming immediately opened the document, "I'll apply now."

As for how to persuade the United States to pay more money, and then bring a team with one more person than other countries to study, and then coax other countries not to harbor resentment and think that this is preferential treatment for the United States, it all depends on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' eloquence.

The next day.

Bai Yixin came to the capital. This time he appeared directly at the headquarters of the weird response department and did not start a live broadcast.

Si Cai and Nong Xiangming had received the news early in the morning and were waiting here. After seeing the people, Si Cai welcomed them into his office with a smile as if he had met an old friend. The first thing he did was to take out all the things he thought were funny.

A classic comedy video full of jokes and funniness, but Bai Yixin sat on a chair with his legs crossed, watching the whole thing expressionlessly, without a single smile on his face.

Although we had anticipated the possibility of a Waterloo, it was still a bit of a blow to fail like this.

Si Zai put his finger on his chin and asked, "How about trying a dance?" Nong Xiangming said that striptease is not good, so how about a steel pipe?

For the sake of those two bottles of medicine, he would throw away not only his face but also his bottom line.

As a result, Bai Yixin took the initiative to ask about something else: "Have you chosen the address of the temple to worship the gods?"

Si Zai immediately deleted the entry of pole dancing from his mind and found the address selected by Nong Xiangming, but he only took two copies and hid the information about Haidao in the drawer.

"We have only found two suitable addresses so far." Si Zai handed over the information.

Bai Yixin took them and flipped through them one by one, and finally put the information about Jiuxia Mountain in front of himself: "This is it."

"Okay. I will contact you again after the design is out." Si Zai said.

Of course, the budget must be worked out as soon as possible so that the United States can increase funding.

"By the way, about the medicine..." Si Zai looked at Bai Yixin's face, which did not show much smile, and asked, "Can we exchange it for something else?"

Bai Yixin looked at Si Zai, and then the corners of his mouth slowly pursed up, with a faint smile: "I think the striptease is actually good."

Si Zai: ...

Was this guy eavesdropping before?

"Or, steel pipes are also acceptable."

Si Zai: ...

This is more than just eavesdropping, it's like becoming a worm in his stomach, or is this guy able to read people's minds?

Nong Xiangming next to him widened his eyes, and for a moment he didn't know whether to look at Bai Yixin or Si Zai.

"Okay, hold a steel pipe over here!" Si Cai took off his coat and said to Nong Xiangming.

"Wait, are you serious?" Nong Xiangming asked in surprise, "You can dance?"

"You have to learn even if you don't know." Si Zai gritted his teeth, and then he remembered something and asked Nong Xiangming softly, "Is the weird live broadcast open?"

Nong Xiangming shook his head slightly: "No, I just checked it."

"That's fine." At least it didn't become a social disaster to the whole world.

"Okay." Si Zai put his hair back and said, "Please have a look, my guests. I..."

When I turned around and looked at Bai Yixin's position, there was no one there. It was empty.

The only things on the table were two glass bottles of medicine, one red and one green.

There is a note under the medicine, with words written on it: Red is a healing medicine, as long as there is a breath, you can recover as before. Green is an antidote, no matter what kind of toxin, even if it is a strange poisonous mist that invades the body, one bottle can completely eliminate it. PS, your expression when you decided to dance was very interesting, and I was very happy to see it.

Si Zai: ...

He felt that he probably understood Bai Yixin's temper.

A weird businessman who loves jokes.

Likes to play tricks on people.