Bai Zhiyi said, "You will never see me again."
Jiang Li sighed deeply and said nothing more.
He arrived at the prison gate without stopping and said to the two men guarding the entrance, "You two come with me, we're going to patrol the other areas."
The two trackers, bored out of their minds, were eager to get some exercise and immediately caught up with him.
After navigating several long corridors, a tracker approached and said, "Commander, the Creator wants you to see her."
Jiang Li instructed the three to continue patrolling, while he went into a doorway.
A glass wall stood in the doorway, dividing the room into two parts. He stood outside the glass wall; inside, it seemed to be a bedroom in a luxurious residence, furnished with furniture he couldn't identify. Zhang Ying and Chu Ming, both dressed in blue bodysuits, were sitting at a square table drinking tea.
He wasn't surprised; the pursuers were the closest to the Creator, and everyone knew the Creator came from the future. They swore allegiance to the Creator, and in return, the Creator promised them eternal life.
When Zhang Ying saw him come in, she put down her teacup on the table and asked, "Xiao Yi didn't cause any trouble, did she?"
Jiang Li knelt respectfully on one knee, lowered his head and said, "Reporting to the Creator, I have just inspected the prison, and it is very quiet."
Zhang Ying said, "That's good."
Chu Ming put down his teacup and said, "Just because she lost the Eagle Whistle, you locked her up for so many days? Didn't you already make a new one?"
Zhang Ying laughed and said, "It's not about the whistle. This girl seems harmless on the surface, but when she really sets her mind to something, it's impossible to guard against her. The emperor and the imperial concubine of the Jin Dynasty both died at her hands, and even the seventh prince of Southern Chu was completely fooled by her. The factor extraction is almost over, and I have to prevent any unexpected complications."
Jiang Li said, "Since the Creator is worried, why not just kill her and be done with it?"
Zhang Ying said, "You don't understand, Bai Zhiyi is still useful to me... Is there any new information outside?"
She and Chu Ming had always kept to themselves, only leaving temporarily when operating the cloning equipment. Anything happening outside was investigated by the trackers led by Jiang Li.
Jiang Li said, "Yes. The Emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty conscripted hundreds of thousands of laborers to break ground outside Yanxun Pass, saying that he wanted to build a building called the Star Gazing Platform."
Zhang Ying said, "Interesting. This emperor was saved by Su Wan at the cost of her life. Instead of going to the East China Sea to rescue Su Wan, he came here to build the Star Gazing Platform?"
She pondered for a moment, then said to Jiang Li, "You've investigated, haven't you? They're all migrant workers?"
Jiang Li said, "I sent trackers to infiltrate among those people, and the information we received confirmed that they were all workers recruited from various places."
Chu Ming said, "Xiao Ying, could they be targeting us?"
Zhang Ying waved her hand and said to Jiang Li, "I know about this. You all guard the area well and go down."
After Jiang Li left, Zhang Ying stood up and said to Chu Ming, "They're just a bunch of savages from ancient times. They have no idea what power I possess. Let them mess around. What kind of tricks can they possibly pull off? I'll send you back to your hibernation pod first."
After sending Chu Ming back to the hibernation pod, Zhang Ying went to the control panel of the life factor extraction device.
The numbers on the screen were, in the next second, changed.
“Less than a month,” Zhang Ying clenched her fists and excitedly muttered to herself, “Five hundred years, I’ve waited for more than five hundred years…”
If Su Wan were here, that would be great. She could have Su Wan wear the helmet, causing the extraction device to operate at overload, increasing the speed tenfold. The cost would be damage to the extraction device, but it wouldn't be needed later.
She was excited for a while, but finally calmed down and picked up her water glass to drink. She had just taken a sip when Jiang Li's voice suddenly came over the loudspeaker.
"Creator, there is something I must report to you immediately."
Zhang Ying was somewhat displeased and asked, "What's the rush?"
"Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers from the Great Jin Dynasty are pouring into Yanxun Pass and are heading towards Jinhua Mountain."
Zhang Ying asked, "Migrant workers coming to Jinhua Mountain? How could the guards at Yanxun Pass let them in?"
Jiang Li said, "The Emperor of Great Jin and the Emperor of Southern Chu have spoken to each other, saying that they lack stone materials for building the Star Gazing Platform. The Emperor of Southern Chu has allowed them to come to Jinhua Mountain to quarry stone materials."
Zhang Ying was stunned.
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