Chapter 219
The initiator of the newsletter is Shesh.
Jiang Yunu seldom received calls initiated by Xie Shi. She was stunned for a moment when she saw the contact's name flashing on her terminal screen.
Senior Jin Qing asked from the side, "Is anyone looking for you?"
The team meeting had just ended, and there were still a few people left in the team meeting room in the apartment building. Jin Qing's seat was next to Jiang Yunu.
Jiang Yunu said, "Well, yes."
She stood up from her chair, quickened her pace out of the conference room, and then found a quiet place in the public area of the floor before connecting the call.
Xie Shi's voice came from the other end of the line: "How slow! You know, if someone had made me wait on hold for more than a minute, I would have withdrawn my application long ago."
Jiang Yunu was chatting casually with her friends from her hometown. She laughed and said, "Great! I'm on the list of people who can keep you waiting for more than a minute."
"..." Xie Shi was silent for a moment on the other end of the communication.
Then Master Xie changed the subject directly.
"I have something important to talk to you about," Xie Shi said. "Didn't you ask me to pay more attention to Senior Sister Zhou Jinxue? Something happened at her home."
Jiang Yunu paused, and the relaxed smile on his face disappeared.
"Did something happen at home, senior sister?" she asked to confirm, her heart sinking slightly, and her tone of voice also lowered.
Master Xie answered with one clear word: "Yes."
Zhou Jinxue had given Jiang Yunu a strange feeling since last semester. She felt as if the senior student was carrying something, making the already calm and steady person even more silent and reserved. However, when she tried to probe her a few times, the senior student noticed her probing and easily turned her probing back, telling her not to worry.
Jiang Yunu quietly placed a "spy" and asked Xie Shi to pay more attention to Zhou Jinxue in the Seventh District. She knew that Xie Shi had many information channels in the Seventh District and was well-informed. It would be more reassuring and reliable to entrust such matters to him.
Xie Shi was indeed reliable and took the tasks assigned by Jiang Yunu seriously. However, he hadn't noticed anything significantly different about Zhou Jinxue over the past few months.
——Until recently.
"Recently, my elders were the first to get wind of the situation. I overheard their casual conversation in the living room," Xie Shi said. "I heard them say, 'The Zhou family seems to be having a hard time lately.'"
In the entire Seventh District, there was only one family worthy of being called the "Zhou Family," and that was Zhou Jinxue's.
Jiang Yunu asked, "What happened at senior sister's home?"
"The elders refused to tell me at first," Xie Shi said. "They even blamed me for eavesdropping. I told them I was going to senior high school in a year and wasn't that young anymore, and that Senior Zhou was a senior I had contact with. Only then did they finally share some information."
The intelligence Xie Shi obtained was roughly like this - there was a batch of difficult-to-transport goods staying in the Eighth District. They wanted to go through the Zhou family's channels, find a way through the Seventh District, obtain compliant approval documents and passes, and then continue to transport them from the Seventh District to the superior district.
The Zhou family did not agree.
"I asked the elders what kind of cargo was so difficult to transport, but they refused to tell me." Young Master Xie was still a little dissatisfied when he spoke about this. He snorted lightly on the other end of the communication. "But even without them telling me, I can guess it's definitely not good stuff. Or at least, it's definitely not something that can be directly submitted through the normal declaration and wait for approval from the regional government."
Jiang Yunu had met Zhou Jinxue's parents when they were studying at Enge Primary School for Supernatural Powers.
She remembered that her senior's father was a bit serious and had a habit of looking at everything with a scrutinizing and evaluating eye, while her senior Zhou's mother was more elegant and dignified, with a decent aura that was closer to that of an elegant lady in the upper third district.
But no matter what, to be able to educate a girl like Zhou Jinxue, they must have basic moral standards and good character.
This special batch of goods had to go through the Zhou family's channels, but Zhou's father did not agree, and Zhou's mother also refused in a decent and elegant manner.
——Then the Zhou family suffered secret revenge.
Jiang Yunu was concerned about Zhou Jinxue, his tone a little anxious: "Is senior sister's family okay now? How is she doing recently?"
"Because of this incident, Senior Zhou was supposed to enter senior high school this year, but she applied for a deferral and hasn't registered yet." Xie Shi's tone was also solemn. "The Zhou family currently dares not allow family members to leave the core area of the Seventh District. They are afraid that if a family member steps out of the regional protection network of the core area and escapes the core's surveillance, something bad will happen."
Jiang Yunu was really furious.
She didn't expect that this was the reason why Zhou Jinxue couldn't even go out of the district to continue his studies normally.
But the senior student kept pretending that nothing had happened. Whether she was talking to her about the "Challenge Cup" district competition before the summer vacation, or celebrating the victory in the Enge Junior League, Zhou Jinxue didn't reveal even a little bit of the trouble she was in.
hateful!
Senior sister is too patient!
"It's also possible that the situation wasn't that bad at that time." Xie Shi seemed to be able to feel Jiang Yunu's emotions through the pure voice call, and he comforted him from the other end.
Then he continued, "The Zhou family is in urgent need of a high-level crystal core."
Jiang Yunu immediately asked, "How urgent is it?"
Xie Shi paused again on the other end of the line. After a moment, Master Xie said, "...You didn't even ask why they needed this thing so urgently?"
Jiang Yunu said: "First, figure out the time constraints, then figure out the reasons for the demand. The former is more important."
Young Master Xie sighed, "It's urgent. The entire Zhou family can't easily leave the core of the Seventh District right now. This high-level crystal core must be at least A-grade. And as you know, obtaining an energy crystal core that reaches A-grade or above in the Seventh District is as difficult as building a high-level supernatural power school in a lower-level district."
Xie Shi's tone was tinged with a sigh. The young master had always prided himself on his family's well-being in District 7, but he was also well aware that District 7 was completely insignificant compared to the other eight numbered districts. The resources he held onto were nothing compared to the outside world.
Perhaps the Zhou family still has certain connections in other regions, but if they want to get an A-grade or above crystal core, Zhou Jinxue's father or mother must personally go out and see if they can purchase a crystal core of the appropriate grade through a formal trading platform.
Jiang Yunu suddenly remembered the crystal core group he had joined in elementary school.
Although the crystal core group at that time was an online game group, Jiang Yunu also learned through the team leader that there is a crystal core trading platform in reality, and many superpowers in the Superpower Association would make some extra money by selling the extra crystal cores they obtained.
"Isn't there an online platform that can sell crystal cores?" Jiang Yunu quickly provided information.
However, Master Xie sighed again: "Have you forgotten? Only crystal cores below Grade B are sold publicly on the platform. Grade B and above cannot be purchased through this convenient public platform."
Zhou Jinxue's family urgently needs a crystal core of at least A-grade quality, and it is difficult to find in the Seventh District. The Zhou family cannot leave the Seventh District, and there is no way to trade online.
Xie Shi only came to report important information to Jiang Yunu. He followed Jiang Yunu's instructions and carefully observed Zhou Jinxue's movements for so long, and finally he was able to help Jiang Yunu a little.
"I just came to tell you this," Shesh said, "as a way of fulfilling your previous request."
Jiang Yunu didn't say anything on the other end of the communication, as if he was thinking about something.
Young Master Xie immediately became alert and warned, "You must understand that the Zhou family's predicament cannot be solved by just anyone, let alone a student who hasn't even graduated from a high-level supernatural school. Are you listening to me?"
Of course Jiang Yunu was listening, she was just distracted by thinking about the problem, but she was not deaf, and she was very good at multitasking.
She said, seemingly perfunctorily, "I'm listening, I'm listening. I understand everything you're saying."
Xie Shi didn't believe it: "Then repeat what I said just now?"
Jiang Yunu was very tolerant of the young master and said, "You said that the dilemma of the senior sister's family is not so easy to solve."
When Xie Shi first heard it, he felt that Jiang Yunu's retelling seemed to be fine, and the other party seemed to have really understood what he meant, which made him feel a little relieved.
It was not until several days later that Young Master Xie realized that he had been too reassured.
——Jiang Yunu didn’t even repeat the key point: “This is not something that a student who hasn’t even graduated from an advanced supernatural power school can solve!”
After receiving this inter-district call, Jiang Yunu found a sofa in the public area of the apartment and sat down, and began to search for various related information about the "A-level crystal core".
She sat in the common area until almost midnight.
Pei Ya came out of the room and walked to Jiang Yunu very naturally. Seeing that she seemed to be concentrating on her work, she did not disturb her. She just sat down next to her and continued playing games. Then she occasionally glanced at the content displayed on her personal terminal screen.
When the search keyword "A-grade crystal core" came into view, Pei Ya stopped operating on the virtual keyboard.
After watching for an unknown amount of time, Pei Ya heard Jiang Yunu ask, "Do you have any idea where I can get an A-grade crystal core the fastest?"
Pei Ya first spent five minutes staring at Jiang Yunu to confirm whether the white-haired girl was serious.
After confirming that Jiang Yunu looked serious, Pei Ya pushed up her thick glasses and said, "If you're particularly confident in your fighting ability, we can break into the apartment building next door at night. Then you can kidnap Duma's captain, Shen Yijing, and see if you can remove the elemental core from his long sword."
"..." Jiang Yunu said, "Is there a way to obtain it through legitimate channels so that I don't look like a gangster or a robber?"
Pei Ya thought for a moment and said, "There's also the Upper Three Districts annual auction at the end of the year. There's bound to be some A-grade crystal cores being sold at places like this."
Jiang Yunu: "It's a bit late, and I guess I can't afford the auction price if I sell myself."
"You can't say that. What if you are worth much more than an A-grade crystal core in the future? Who knows, someone might spend a hundred A-grade crystal cores on you." Pei Ya first seriously denied Jiang Yunu's "self-deprecation", and then she also fell into thought.
She said, "Wait a minute."
The daughter of the Ole family, the low-key rich woman, the future top intelligence expert, Pei Ya, began to take action.
She pulled her thick-bottomed glasses down again and seemed to be frantically searching for information. She even went to the window and made one or two late-night calls.
Around one o'clock in the morning, Pei Ya returned to the sofa in the common area.
The lights in the common area of the apartment were on all night, and the sofa was still bright. Jiang Yunu had already brewed a cup of hot drink for each of them, and the white mugs were placed steaming on the table.
Pei Ya only said three words to Jiang Yunu: "Trial Tower."
Jiang Yunu said, "Okay."
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