Chapter 235
All the initial signs of change seemed to be related to a fever.
When Zhou's mother's low-grade fever did not subside and she had no other obvious unusual symptoms, but she was getting weaker and weaker, she knew that she could no longer hide the fact that she had been briefly kidnapped.
She didn't know exactly why she continued to have a low-grade fever, but her intuition told her that it must be related to her experience that day.
"You may have heard most of what happened next from your 'source'." Zhou Jinxue said.
When she mentioned the "source of news", her tone was a little teasing, as if she was politely saying: I didn't expect you to have such a good relationship with this "source of news".
They can all do their best to find out the news.
It was confirmed that Zhou's mother's "low fever" was related to the "merchant" from the edge of the eighth district. The "merchant" did not hide it and said when Zhou's father contacted them that they did invite Zhou's mother to taste some "good stuff". They said that since the Zhou family was still hesitant to trust their goods, and the Zhou family did not understand how commendable their goods were, they had to resort to some tricks and force one of the Zhou family members to taste them.
"This is a priceless treasure." The "merchant's" contact spoke as if the Zhou family had scored a great bargain, smacking his lips on the other end of the line. "If such a treasure were in the Upper Three Districts, many nobles would be waiting to purchase it with fistfuls of star coins. Yet, we are so generous as to invite your wife to taste half a milliliter for free—a half milliliter that is more precious than the Alliance's most precious metal. Do you feel our sincerity?"
What they call sincerity is clearly full of coercion and malicious intent.
The "supplier" contact also "generously" told Zhou's father that due to the Zhou family's negative attitude towards cooperation, they were embarrassed to give such a precious item to Zhou's mother for her to taste. Therefore, they only gave Zhou's mother the half milliliter of "amplifying essence" but did not give her the matching "stabilizing stock solution."
"Amplification" plus "stabilization" can synthesize a complete enhancement potion.
As for what would happen if Zhou's mother only received a small amount of the enhancement essence injection without the stabilization of the original solution? The contact person said they couldn't say for sure, but they would be happy to see the Zhou family provide them with a sample.
But the Zhou family did not give in in the end.
They found ways and, with the covert help of other local forces in the Seventh District, learned that the A-level crystal core could help stabilize the situation.
"Without the stabilizing fluid, the injected amplification essence won't fully integrate with the human body. It will float around the energy core, continuously stimulating it and worsening the body's condition," Zhou Jinxue said. "But because this external energy is still floating around, it can't be fully absorbed by the energy core. Therefore, using an A-grade crystal core as a conductor can absorb most of the impurities and minimize the damage to the core caused by the amplification essence."
——This is why the Zhou family urgently needs an A-level crystal core.
This information was not strictly guarded by the "merchant", and was allowed to float to the Zhou family.
Because this group of "merchants" from the Eighth District are confident enough and know how difficult it is to find an A-level crystal core in a backward area.
What is more painful than having no hope is giving people hope, but then making them clearly realize that there is a chasm between themselves and "hope", making it difficult for them to get close to hope.
The "merchant" is waiting for the Zhou family to bow to Zhou's mother's worsening "alienation disease".
Who would have known that after several twists and turns, this news was brought to Jiang Yunu by Xie Shi. Jiang Yunu happened to be participating in the advanced league in the upper three districts. Among the rewards pre-stored in the top floor of the special level trial tower of this league, there happened to be a super A-level crystal core.
It just so happened that Jiang Yunu was strong enough, she and Zhou Jinxue had a deep relationship, and she also had the omnipotent intelligence officer Miss Pei Ya, who could borrow the secret transportation channels of the Aole family.
"I am the chosen one who can help senior sister." Jiang Yunu said without any modesty.
Anyone else would be unavoidably polite at such a moment and would be careful with their words so as not to appear to be demanding a return of favor.
This kind of concern obviously does not exist for Jiang Yunu.
She said this openly, which made Zhou Jinxue feel that "this is Jiang Yunu" and also alleviated the psychological pressure of the senior sister owing the junior sister a major favor.
"Yes." Zhou Jinxue smiled. "You are the chosen one. Luckily, when the school decided to implement the one-on-one mentoring program, the campus system assigned me to be your senior."
"I am also very happy to be assigned as the junior of the senior." Jiang Yunu said sweetly.
Although she'd grown accustomed to Jiang Yunu's sweet talk at Enge Junior School for Supernatural Powers, it was likely that after Jiang Yunu skipped a grade and was promoted, the frequency of such sweet talk had decreased significantly, to the point where even her immunity to it had weakened. Zhou Jinxue's eyes had been red when she'd first called, and now her cheeks were flushed by her junior's sweetness.
Jiang Yunu struck while the iron was hot and made a heart shape with his hands to his senior.
"Have those 'merchants' continued to trouble my family recently?" Jiang Yunu asked an important question.
The redness on Zhou Jinxue's face faded and he returned to his normal self.
"No," she said. "They've probably given up on my house as a channel. They don't plan to waste their time on it."
The Zhou family clearly had a benefactor who was helping them. They were unyielding, even using dirty tricks. Rather than wasting their energy on simply taking over the Zhou family's distribution network, they should have found another way out and gotten the goods shipped out as soon as possible.
Just because the Seventh District is unwilling to get involved in this "money-making road" doesn't mean that no one in the Sixth or even Fifth Districts above it is willing to do so.
——As long as the rewards are high enough.
"And I heard from my father that the group was very excited last week." Before hanging up, Zhou Jinxue carefully shared the latest news with her junior. She whispered, "I heard that one of their projects has made a breakthrough, and the test results are exactly as expected. So they've been instructed to expedite the delivery of the 'new goods', and they can be more cautious about whether the transportation route is completely legal."
"When the profits we can create are huge enough, the rules will be rewritten for us." — This is the latest action slogan circulating among "merchants."
Jiang Yunu hung up the phone and sat on the toilet for a while.
She digested all the important news she had recently received, went over them all in her mind, and then, with a heavy look on her face, she stood up, pushed the door open, and walked out of the bathroom.
"You look so serious, is the toilet blocked?"
As soon as the door opened, someone outside asked this question.
Jiang Yunu paused, raised her head, and suddenly found that seven heads in the conference room turned to look at her.
The atmosphere was a little subtle and awkward for a moment.
Jiang Yunu quickly realized: "Did I miss the meeting notice?"
Senior Jin Qing coughed and said, "We thought you were in the room."
As a result, Jiang Yunu was not found in the room. The message sent to her personal terminal did not receive a reply. When trying to send her a communication signal, it was found that her signal was busy.
No one saw Jiang Yunu in the public area, and they almost thought she had sneaked out alone again. Suoroke was almost panicked, and immediately went to find Pei Ya to ask her if Jiang Yunu had gone out alone to do something "important" again.
Peiya said, "She just came back to the building a while ago. She might not have left again right away. How about you check the locked common spaces?"
Ye Li was the first to notice the locked conference room bathroom.
"...Why didn't anyone of you knock on the door to remind me?" Jiang Yunu asked in disbelief.
"The bathroom door in the conference room is more soundproof," said Jin Qing.
It was not until the end of the team meeting that Jiang Yunu realized that Jin Qing's words did not mean "We are afraid that you can't hear us knocking on the door."
Rather, it means "We are afraid that you are busy with your own little secrets in there, so it is inconvenient to disturb you rashly."
Jiang Yunu: "..."
Oh, her teammates are so thoughtful.
Jiang Yunu doesn't have any secrets that cannot be told, but she does have some secrets that are not convenient to share publicly for the time being.
Pei Ya used the Aolai family's channels to help her deliver the goods, and did not ask for the specific details of the confidential transportation of a super-A grade crystal core.
Her intelligent and low-key friend said bluntly, "Sometimes the less you know, the safer you are. The less you know, the easier it is to do things for others without any psychological burden. All my family knows right now is that we need to help you deliver a crystal core to the Seventh District. I only know that this crystal core is very important to someone, and that's all I need."
Jiang Yunu thought about it and felt that the information she had recently received was indeed of extraordinary importance. If she told all of it to her friends at once, there was a possibility that her friends would share the risk.
She needs to find someone who can share the risk more wholeheartedly.
...Who are you looking for?
The answer seems to be already written in the question.
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