Chapter 268



Chapter 268

"Lucky to have not let this team down?" Wen Yuxin's expression was a little strange. "Are you sure you don't want to reconsider this?"

"Don't think about it!" Hao Zhizhi waved her hand, "This is it!"

This simple and unpretentious team name carries their most sincere wishes!

"Don't worry, junior, the name is not permanent. If you don't like it, you can change it in next year's competition." The senior in charge of registration is not surprised by such unconventional names. "Lucky to have not let this team down, right? I'm sure I'll register."

The five people looked at each other and nodded: "Confirmed."

After this confirmation, Yu Tu's watch vibrated, and he received two messages—

【You have successfully registered for the tournament. 】

[You have successfully joined the [Lucky Team]. ]

"After the team is assembled, you can start choosing your mission." The senior in charge of registration pulled a light screen over from the side, operated it for a while, and then held it upright in front of them. "I have just obtained temporary authority to check your information. Based on your performance in other schools, your team can be directly exempted from the mission restrictions of Class C and Class D."

He turned his gaze to Yu Tu and raised his thumb: "Junior brother Yu Tu actually chose two tasks for the entrance test that year, and one of them was C-level. Awesome!"

Yu Tu: "Thank you for the compliment."

The reason why he had to take two entrance tests was because he took on the E-level [Old Building] which triggered the C-level [Bloody Wedding Dress], so he had no choice but to do it—in his task list that year, there was no task lower than E-level!

The other four people who knew the truth suppressed their laughter.

The senior, who didn't realize he had unknowingly stabbed Yu Tu, pulled out a list of Class B tasks and enthusiastically introduced them to them:

"Among the four levels of A, B, C, and D, A-level missions are few but dangerous, while C-level and D-level missions are many but have low scores. Generally, capable teams will choose to take B-level missions as long as they have cleared the C-level and D-level restrictions."

"B-level tasks are more popular, and there are only these two left." The senior removed the grayed-out B-level tasks, "[Strange Taoist] and [Green House], which one do you want to complete?"

A single Class B mission is worth 30 to 50 points, which corresponds to a Class D mission in the general mission system of the Foreign Affairs Bureau and is somewhat dangerous.

[Strange Taoist] asks them to find an old Taoist fortune teller under the bridge in Lanyun City's Ring City Park to determine whether he has done anything illegal or criminal. [Green House] is in a run-down building in the suburbs of Lanyun City, and the team needs to go in and check whether the run-down building has any safety hazards that ordinary people cannot solve and report them.

Just looking at the task requirements, [Green House] is relatively simple, with a task score of 30 points, while [Strange Taoist] may not be able to reach a conclusion in one go, so the task score is 40 points.

Hao Zhizhi used her elbow to nudge Gu Hongying: "Which one do you choose based on your intuition?"

Gu Hongying: "...Green House?"

"Okay." Hao Zhizhi nodded. "Then let's take on the "Strange Taoist" as our first mission. Does anyone have any objections?"

Gu Hongying couldn't help but complain: "So my role is to exclude options?"

Yin Li: “[The Green House] is an abandoned building.”

She emphasized the words "abandoned building", and the five members of the newly-minted lucky team all thought of the Spider's Nest and Gu Hongying's remarks in the Spider's Nest that made them want to hang him on the street lamp.

Being stared at by four pairs of eyes at the same time, Gu Hongying's complaining momentum weakened: "I think this mission of [Strange Taoist] is also quite good."

The team reached a consensus in an extremely harmonious manner. Fortunately, the team was not fooled and accepted the Class B mission "Strange Taoist". The relevant data was simultaneously sent to their watches.

"We'll take some time to study it these two nights." Hao Zhizhi said, "There will be an event at Ring City Park the day after tomorrow, Saturday, and there will be a large flow of people. There's a high probability that the strange Taoist will show up."

As Hao Zhizhi was talking, she suddenly remembered something. She turned her gaze to Gu Hongying and emphasized, "You must, must not set a flag!"

Gu Hongying: “…”

He silently raised his hand and made a zipper-pulling motion near his mouth.

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"Senior Buyehou?"

Yu Tu heard someone calling him.

Because the vest is synchronized with the main body's memory, the part of the consciousness in the vest is also paying attention to the tasks in Wen Dao Hall, so it appears a little absent-minded to outsiders.

Yu Tu raised his eyes and looked at Kuang Mian who was sitting opposite him, with a questioning look in his eyes.

Even indoors, Kuang Mian still wore a gray robe that fell to his feet, with a large hood covering his entire face, revealing only the tip of his chin with stubble. Seeing that Buyehou was looking at him, he said, "The Hundred Days Plan has been revised into three versions by the Bureau of Foreign Affairs. Which version do you prefer?"

Sitting opposite him, Buyehou seemed a little surprised, as if he had not expected Kuang Mian to ask for his opinion on this matter. He raised the corners of his lips and said, "None of the three versions seem to have much to do with me."

The Hundred Days Plan is led by the Alien Bureau, assisted by Kunlun, Guixu, Millerkel, and Chang'an Academy. During the 100-day countdown before the barrier is broken, every possible protective measure will be taken to save the lives of more ordinary people in the surface world.

Before we knew the news that the barrier was going to be broken, or to be more specific, before Yu Tu entered school, all the actions of the inner world were moving in this direction, but it was not as obvious as it has been recently.

Provinces and cities set up large shelters to prepare for emergencies, suburban police rotate patrols on a regular basis, some videos related to the other world are released on the Internet on a trial basis, martial arts and meditation are added to the curriculum of primary and secondary schools...

All the storms and changes are concealed in these tiny changes. Before the big changes really come, everything seems silent, yet as if there have been signs in advance.

"How can it have nothing to do with you?" Kuang Mian joked half-seriously, "As a senior in the inner world, your attitude is crucial."

"Really?" Buyehou took a sip of tea. "That's a bit strange. I'm not the only one who has lived a long time."

"Although I was awake for a short time, I'm not that easy to fool." Most of the time, Buyehou was gentle and tolerant, but when he was angry, he was actually a little scary. "Just because I don't say something doesn't mean I don't know it."

"Director Jiang, Jiang Jiang." The teacup in Buyehou's hand made a sound when he put it back on the table, like a clear alarm bell. "Don't you think it's too rash to let her take the lead in deciding the life and death of the world?"

Although Jiang Jiang has been in charge of the Alien Bureau for twenty years, no matter how outstanding she is or how gifted she is, she is still too young. She is already middle-aged in the human race at the age of forty, but she is still immature in the eyes of the demons and plants. The experience brought by her long life is a gap that is extremely difficult to fill in a short time.

The Hundred Days Plan affects all parts of the organization. It is not normal that all three versions are led by humans. No race is indifferent to life and death.

The wide hood covered most of Kuang Mian's face. Yu Tu was unable to see his expression through the special hood and could only listen to him slowly explain:

"Human life spans no more than a hundred years. You can't arbitrarily measure everything by age. How can humans not care about the continuation of their own race?"

What Kuang Mian meant was that it was because the human race cared too much that they came up with three versions of the Hundred-Day Plan; it was because the human race cared too much that they took the lead in all versions.

But Buyehou obviously didn't believe his words:

"At the meeting when Yu Tu came out of the Kunlun Forbidden Land, the only people who could attend were the humans and the plant tribes, and the monster tribes were all projections."

"That's because the core of Kunlun Snow Peak is special. We can't use the small cross-domain transmission array. We can only participate in the meeting through projection." Kuang Mian said, "Except for the several clan leaders of the demon clan, Director Jiang, Special Team 1, me, and Wen Jijiu - we can only participate in the meeting through projection."

"Okay, let's assume that I'm overthinking this." Buyehou did not argue with him, but simply changed the subject lightly, "Then let's talk about something else."

"For example... Canglong?"

There is nothing like a bolt from the blue.

Under the wide hood, Kuang Mian's eyes revealed a look of pain—each question from Senior Buyehou was more direct than the last.

"The Canglong has been causing trouble in the inner world for so long. I don't think you have any means to control it, but most of the time, you choose to let it go."

Buyehou's elegant voice sounded like a death horn: "Is it because Gu Hongying hasn't fully grown up yet?"

Kuang Mian felt a chill down his spine for a moment.

"I always thought it was strange. Even if Gu Hongying was Bai Ze's reincarnation and was gifted after reincarnation, a few years of hard work could not easily erase the gap of ten thousand years." Buyehou spoke slowly, perhaps he was thinking, or perhaps he wanted Kuang Mian to hear more clearly, "but you never questioned this."

He seemed to be talking to himself, but also seemed to be putting pressure on Kuang Mian: "Since Gu Hongying was eighteen years old, the arrangement surrounding him was started secretly. All the elders of the demon clan have been hiding from the world collectively, which is related to this secret."

"But no one knows whether these arrangements are effective or not, and to what extent they can be achieved. It was not until Yu Tu brought out accurate information from the Kunlun Forbidden Land that you began to believe that all this was feasible." Buyehou smiled, "Do you need me to explain it more clearly?"

Kuang Mian: “…”

I'm a little sweaty.

He didn't reveal anything important, but Senior Buyehou seemed to have gradually touched the edge of the truth: "I don't know what you are talking about."

Buyehou didn't care whether Kuang Mian really didn't know or was pretending to be ignorant. Psychological warfare works like this. When one side is at a disadvantage, the other side will take advantage of the situation and attack:

"You can neither deny nor admit that it was because of the information that Yu Tu brought out from the Kunlun Forbidden Land that I became part of the plan?"

Kuang Mian was really getting restless at this moment. He was suddenly glad that the hood was big enough to hide the expression on his face that could easily reveal too much information.

"This is just your guess." He chose his words carefully. "You have no definite evidence."

"Guess?" The slightly aggressive tone of Buyehou softened, "Aren't you admitting it?"

If I didn't get part of what he said right, why would I be so cautious in responding to him?

In the conversation just now, the initiative has been taken into the hands of Buyehou.

"I have to say, you are indeed very sensitive." Kuang Mian sighed and was forced to be frank. "I can't tell you, not because you are untrustworthy, but because you are too deeply involved."

He said: "If you had not gone to the old court, there might have been room for maneuver."


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