Chapter 10, Group 111: Difficult-to-understand cognitions.
Amidst Yun Qiandu and Chu Jue's attempts to comfort them—saying things like, "It sounds like your daughter needs more help," and "Try to think positively; although you've lost your husband, you've also lost your child"—the group was driven out of the house by Jiang Zhaodi, who was on the verge of a stroke.
Before leaving, Jiang Pan'er didn't forget her business. She took Da Huang with her and the three people and two dogs stood at the gate of the Jiang family, looking at each other in bewilderment.
Those who had wanted to watch the spectacle quickly gave up their curiosity and left under Chu Jue's friendly gaze.
"Ahem." Yun Qiandu was somewhat embarrassed to be facing a spiritualist and two dogs after being called a "lackey of the spiritualists" by Jiang Zhaodi.
"Hello, I was so focused on getting information that I forgot to introduce myself. I'm a member of... group."
"What group?" Hearing the vague group name she mentioned, Jiang Pan'er couldn't help but ask again.
"Uh," Yun Qiandu repeated somewhat helplessly, "One group at a time."
...Why is it called that? It sounds like a sham.
Noticing the doubt in Chu Jue's eyes, Yun Qiandu added, "Well... our team leader is quite easygoing."
I didn't know what to name it, so I just dialed 111 to get through the process, and the name was automatically approved...
"Ah! Group 11? It sounded vaguely familiar..." Jiang Pan'er murmured to herself, then suddenly realized something, "I know! I know! I knew it! Jiang Jingshu mentioned this organization to me before—"
Such a unique name is actually quite easy to remember.
Yun Qiandu raised an eyebrow: "You know Jing Shu?"
"Huh? You, you know Jiang Jingshu too?"
Seeing how familiar she seemed with Jiang Jingshu, Yun Qiandu had some guesses.
“I see… Jiang Pan’er, right? Jing Shu mentioned to us that she has a younger sister named Pan’er.” She glanced at the somewhat excited Jiang Pan’er. “Little sister, your sister Jing Shu is also in our organization. Since we’re so destined to meet, why not consider joining our organization?”
Judging from what happened not long ago, Jiang Pan'er is at a critical juncture where she needs to separate from her family of origin. At this time, it would be perfect for them to take advantage of her vulnerability... no, to extend an olive branch.
Hearing this, Jiang Pan'er was even more eager than her: "Join! I'll join! Team Leader Yun, if I join now, can you take me to see Jiang Jingshu? I have so much to say to her, but I haven't seen her for several days."
Was Jiang Jingshu not going home because she was in the organization? But why didn't she inform me before she left?
Upon hearing this, Yun Qiandu frowned: "That's not right, she's not home? We haven't seen her in the organization for several days either."
"I thought it was strange, so I went to ask, and it turned out that my neighbor told me that Jiang Jingshu had gone to get married..."
"Impossible." Yun Qiandu said decisively, "Are you sure that's what your aunt said?"
Jiang Pan'er nodded.
Yun Qiandu's expression was somewhat serious: "That's impossible. Even if she said she was knocked unconscious by bird droppings and didn't want to see anyone, she wouldn't use such an outrageous excuse. There's obviously something wrong with Auntie saying that."
As he spoke, he raised his hand to check Jiang Jingshu's coordinates and found that the target was still in private. Yun Qiandu couldn't help but frown.
Although he didn't know Jiang Jingshu, whom they were talking about, Chu Jue remembered that the human trafficker had mentioned "the previous one" before, and interjected at the right time: "Could she have encountered a similar situation?"
Suddenly losing contact, and with everyone in the family telling the same story... Jiang Pan'er and Yun Qiandu felt a sinking feeling in their hearts.
They were acquainted with Jiang Jingshu and naturally knew that Jiang Jingshu's family had a strong preference for sons over daughters.
Even though she doesn't even have a younger brother.
Her father never hid his desire for a son. That man repeatedly berated her for not being a boy, and after berating her, he would then go on to berate her mother.
Fortunately, her mother never gave birth to a younger brother, but she always hoped that Jiang Jingshu would be obedient and well-behaved, and that she would run away far away in the future and find a man to protect her.
But Jiang Jingshu wasn't out of her mind; she knew that only she could protect herself.
The thought that Jiang Jingshu might have gone through the same thing as her made Jiang Pan'er furious. She slapped her thigh and exclaimed, "Damn it! Let's go find the human traffickers!"
However, she was Jiang Jingshu's sister, Yun Qiandu was Jiang Jingshu's friend, while Chu Jue was a stranger who had no relation to Jiang Jingshu and had no obligation to worry about her. It was neither reasonable nor ethical for her to trouble Chu Jue again.
Jiang Pan'er felt a little reluctant at the thought of parting with Chu Jue, but Chu Jue spoke up before she could say anything, saying, "I'll go too."
If that were the case, she could almost hear the sound of merit being deposited into her account.
Ms. Chu, a concerned citizen, was very interested.
Fang Zhiyi, who was sniffing the rhubarb, heard that Chu Jue was going to join in the fun and promptly said, "Oh, I'll go too."
Yun Qiandu thought it was just an ordinary puppy, but it turned out to be a spirit beast? She glanced at Fang Zhiyi with some surprise, and became even more curious about Chu Jue who was traveling with her.
A mysterious woman with a harmonious relationship with mythical beasts.
I need to find a solution.
Big Yellow barked twice, expressing its own will. The yellow and white dogs stood together harmoniously.
Yun Qiandu's hands were itching, but he didn't dare offend Fang Zhiyi. Instead, he poked Da Huang's nose.
Big Yellow nudged her gently, telling her to get down to business first.
Under Fang Zhiyi's wise gaze, Yun Qiandu withdrew his hand, cleared his throat, and said, "Alright. The search team is temporarily formed."
"Okay, Captain Yun, got it, Captain Yun!" Jiang Pan'er made a gesture of striking the sun with two fingers, and Yun Qiandu couldn't help but adjust her to the correct oath-taking posture.
"Let's go." Chu Jue glanced at the sky, hoping not to miss lunch.
"Hmm." Fang Zhiyi walked ahead with an air of superiority, her wagging tail attracting Da Huang's attention. Luckily, Da Huang wasn't a cat, otherwise Fang Zhiyi's tail would have been in trouble.
After walking less than two meters, Fang Zhiyi stopped and turned the dog's head.
Ignoring the fact that Big Yellow bumped into her rear, the dog-faced man asked in confusion, "So, where are we going?"
Silence filled the air.
Indeed, they said they were going to catch human traffickers, but who knows where they were actually going?
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"Sister Ying, please help me check on the human traffickers in the vicinity." Yun Qiandu was on the phone with Ying Yi.
"..." Ying Yi, who was separated by most of the Spirit Transformation District, was speechless. "Do you think human traffickers' track record is verifiable? Do you think they would deliberately write 'human trafficker' on their faces?"
"Sigh." Yun Qiandu sighed.
Despite his complaints, Ying Yi had a direction in mind. After chatting for a few more minutes, Yun Qiandu ended the call: "Sister Ying said she would help me investigate the internet surveillance in this area a few days ago, and she will send the results to my personal computer later."
"Surveillance footage?" Chu Jue pondered. "Why didn't we just check the surveillance footage for what happened earlier?"
Yun Qiandu was very surprised: "You mean, you didn't destroy the surveillance footage before you killed him?"
Is there really such a refreshingly unconventional murderer?
Chu Jue: ...
The Empire has developed a habit of striking anytime, anywhere; be more careful next time.
Chu Jue glanced at Yun Qiandu, who showed no reaction to the matter: "Your organization does not reject killing."
Yun Qiandu chuckled and said, "What's the big deal? You're just killing a man, not a woman."
"Killing women requires some discretion," Yun Qiandu thought.
“But you accepted Jiang Zhaodi’s request for help, so you should have known about this before you came.”
Stared at by Chu Jue's deep gaze, Yun Qiandu's eyes darted around: "Oh dear, well, it's not like this... Well, originally we didn't want to get involved when we heard it was a family matter about a man being killed. But when we heard that the woman who killed the man was also a ruthless woman, Ying Yi suddenly got excited and insisted that I come and see you."
Ying Yi originally wanted to come in person, but there were only three people in their organization, and Jiang Jingshu had skipped work without reason, so they had to leave one person behind to create momentum online. Yun Qiandu thought to himself, "Luckily I ran fast. I can take advantage of this field trip to slack off a little longer."
The group found a bench and sat down. Seeing that Chu Jue had shown some interest in their organization, Yun Qiandu decided to give her a proper introduction.
Yun Qiandu said, "Don't underestimate them just because they're few in number. They're highly skilled—they're a reorganized version of a mysterious organization that was broken up. It's basically a reincarnation with a new skin. 'Group 111' is their new name."
Although the process was really casual.
"That's why there are only the three of you." Chu Jue understood.
"Yeah, we used to have quite a few sisters, but those bastards... those men all ostracized us. We often saw them fighting amongst themselves and backstabbing each other, but they're surprisingly united in times like this."
"Is the organization only comprised of women?"
"Of course, the team has only had women since it was formed. You don't think that's strange, do you? Look at the other teams, they're almost all men, so of course we can only recruit women."
Chu Jue certainly didn't find it strange that they only recruited women, but her focus was on the latter: "Are the other groups all men?"
She remembered the "recruitment fair" she had seen yesterday, where all the underage children were boys. It turned out they really only recruited men.
"Yes. All those well-known and unknown organizations are like that, even the management and executives of the central area—basically, everyone you can name is a man. Oh, and maybe to deliberately show their generosity and equality, they'll specifically recruit women for positions that don't affect the central operations."
Discovering that Chu Jue seemed to know little about these organizations, Yun Qiandu was immediately given a chance to speak.
"To justify their preference for attracting men, they keep saying things like 'men have better innate physiques,' 'men are better at spiritual cultivation,' and 'spiritual cultivation is a man's domain.' Pshaw. If they keep saying that, they might even start to believe it themselves."
Yun Qiandu rolled his eyes, clearly scoffing at these words: "There are quite a few female spiritualists, if you have to say, it should be a one-to-one ratio. It's just that they don't like to show off, and they don't wear 'I'm a spiritualist' on their sleeves like men do. They also rarely cause trouble, so their fame is naturally not as great as those men's."
"And this solid, one-to-one data has been turned into the 'women can't compare to men' that men say. I spit on that."
Chu Jue frowned, somewhat finding it hard to understand. This was quite different from her understanding.
Yun Qiandu seemed to think that the one-to-one ratio proved that "women are not inferior to men," but in Chu Jue's eyes, this was an extremely exaggerated ratio that he could not understand at all.
She had only encountered a few male spiritualists before, and their spiritual energy was so weak that it was equivalent to defective products. Chu Jue thought they were just a very few "mutants".
But is it actually possible to achieve an astonishing 1:1 ratio?
According to her deduction, spiritual power and spiritual energy actually share the same origin. But now, why is there such a vast difference between spiritual energy and spiritual power? To the point that the mainstream view in the era of spiritual energy revival has become "men are more suitable for cultivation"?
Was her deduction wrong? Otherwise, Chu Jue would never be able to figure it out.
After all, in the Empire and even throughout the entire distant planet, only women have ever been able to comprehend and rule spiritual power.
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