Chapter 114 I'll Take Everyone on a Live Broadcast of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations Between the Two Worlds of Immortal Cultivation... (From Live Broadcast to Transmigration)
Let's go back three days to the day Si Qi disappeared.
The couple were inexplicably summoned to the police station because their nephew, Si Qi, had gone missing, which made them very nervous.
The reason for their tension wasn't that Si Qi's disappearance had anything to do with them, but rather that they felt guilty and knew exactly what they had done to Si Qi over the years, and they thought those things had been discovered.
Later, when they saw that the police were only focused on investigating Si Qi's whereabouts, they questioned them about what they had done and how they had managed to suddenly take Si Qi to a mountainous area thousands of miles away. They were terrified for a while, but then realized that this matter had nothing to do with them. So they resigned themselves to their fate and said that they had not done anything and that the police could investigate if they didn't believe them.
The police thoroughly investigated them, uncovering everything from their past to their present situation. They even discovered that they had been shamelessly spending money without earning any over the years, and that Si Qi had provided them with living expenses for all their spending.
The couple was quite embarrassed by the contemptuous look the police gave them, as if they were looking at trash. However, they eventually stopped caring about losing face and asked in return, "Is my nephew really gone?"
Wow, what a windfall!
"He's just missing!" the police officer slammed his fist on the table angrily, warning them to behave themselves.
"Same meaning, same meaning, hehe," the uncle rubbed his hands together with a grin and said shamelessly, "I raised my nephew from a baby to an adult. I can say that I did my best for him, even if I didn't do anything special. I was very sad when he suddenly passed away!"
“Yes, it’s sad to lose a dog, let alone a person,” the aunt said, pretending to wipe away tears. “My nephew was disobedient when he was little, but we’re kind-hearted and never hold it against him. We cook three meals a day for him, isn’t that good enough? We’re also very sad that he suddenly disappeared, but it’s not our fault at all. We’re just two ordinary people, how could we have the guts to kidnap and kill someone? If he dies, it has nothing to do with us.”
The policeman's forehead veins bulged, and the pen he was using to take notes creaked as he warned, "When Si Qi disappeared, only the two of you were at the scene."
"That's not true!" the uncle reacted strongly, his voice rising, "He clearly kicked me out of the room! He's always been so domineering, he has absolutely no respect for me..."
The aunt quickly distanced herself, saying, "That's right, I was cooking in the kitchen at the time, and my husband was lying on the sofa watching TV. I can testify to that!"
The uncle kept protesting his innocence: "Besides, what would I be after? If I really wanted to murder for money, why didn't I do it when Si Qi was young? Why did I have to wait until he was so old, and he was about to transfer the house to me? That's why I went through all this trouble."
“That’s right, that’s right! Si Qi has already said he’ll transfer the house to us, so why should we do anything to him? But if something happens to Si Qi this time, shouldn’t the house automatically belong to us? After all, we are his only family!” Auntie quickly interjected.
The police officer was almost amused by these two shameless guys. He gritted his teeth and said with a half-smile, "Si Qi is still fine, and even if something does happen to him, his things belong to him and have nothing to do with you."
"Hey! That's not how it works!" Auntie's eyes widened, and she said with dissatisfaction, "He's just a kid, he only has to eat his fill and the rest of the family isn't hungry, what use is all that stuff to him! We're different, we raised him with great difficulty from childhood, and we sent him to such a good university, what's wrong with taking a little money for our hard work? If my brother and sister-in-law were still alive, they definitely wouldn't have anything to say! You can't be so heartless."
The police were too lazy to listen to the couple's ramblings about how hard they had worked to raise Si Qi, how they had neglected their own child and how Si Qi failed every exam, how Si Qi preferred to help outsiders rather than his own brother, and how Si Qi was so lazy in his daily life that he didn't even help with housework. They made themselves sound incredibly aggrieved.
Seeing that they couldn't get anything out of the couple, the police had no choice but to release them after the allotted time was up.
They did have people secretly watching them to see if they were contacting any suspicious individuals. But aside from seeing them and the neighbors spreading the word that Si Qi had left and promised to give them the house before he left, they didn't see any other useful clues.
The same was true for communication. Besides telling their friends and relatives that Si Qi had given them the house, the couple would call their lawyer to ask whether their nephew's property and bank account balance would belong to them after his death. They asked very carefully and thoroughly about these matters.
Every word and action of the two indicated that they were indeed very greedy for Si Qi's property and were suspected of plotting to kill him for money. However, given that they had not worked for several years and had been living off their nephew's "old" life, they simply could not possibly disappear into a place where no one could find them.
During this time, the police summoned Si Qi again, asking him if he had encountered anything unusual during this period, if he had behaved abnormally, and if he had offended any strange people.
The couple knew absolutely nothing about Si Qi's private life, and their reactions suggested they were actually hoping that Si Qi had offended someone and been kidnapped.
"By the way, I consulted a lawyer these past few days, and he said that if Si Qi didn't leave a will in advance, I am entitled to take his estate," the uncle said with a chuckle, rubbing his hands together.
The police were speechless that the person was still alive and yet they were already using the term "inheritance."
They had given up hope that the couple could help them find Si Qi's whereabouts; in the past two days, they had contacted the teacher more often than the couple.
Police officers learned from the attitudes of Si Qi's teachers, principal, and classmates that Si Qi was usually an excellent student with outstanding character and academic performance. Seeing the couple's behavior, they felt sorry for Si Qi.
A minor, orphaned at a young age, whose only relative is a bloodsucker who wishes him dead. Despite having such a good personality, being diligent and studious from a young age, and being recommended to a prestigious university, he then encounters the terrible thing of time travel, where he can't even guarantee his own life or death.
How can this not be heartbreaking?
Privately, some police officers chatted about whether Si Qi's house and savings would actually fall into the hands of those two if he were to die. The discussion was not very satisfactory.
But perhaps heaven took pity on this poor child, Si Qi. The police officers who were unable to participate in the search mission suddenly received a notice from their superiors that Si Qi's house should be sealed off and no outsiders should be allowed to enter.
Outsiders? They're talking about my uncle's family!
The police were very excited. They received their assignment, rolled up their sleeves, and took the documents approved by their superiors to raid homes (crossed out) and drive people away.
The process of shooing them away was quite enjoyable. The uncle, aunt, and the little boy were still sleeping in the room when they were woken up by the knocking on the door.
Upon waking up, the family of three were immediately informed that their house was to be seized in order to search for Si Qi's whereabouts. Ignoring the couple's shouts that "this is my house," they grabbed the family and threw them out the door.
"My things!!" Auntie stood in the corridor, jumping up and down in anger, waving her arms as if to break through the cordon.
“You say these are yours, then produce your proof of purchase,” the policeman, who had long disliked her, sneered. “As far as I know, you haven’t worked all these years, and all the money you’ve spent has been Si Qi’s. In other words, everything here was bought by Si Qi.”
The aunt was furious, her face turning green, and her body trembling uncontrollably. The little boy she was protecting was screaming at the top of his lungs, as if he had been abused. He hadn't cried this hard when his brother went missing a few days ago, repeatedly shouting, "My toys! My game console!"
The police were immediately moved with sympathy and quickly packed up his schoolbag and homework, stuffing it into his arms.
The little boy cried even harder.
The police didn't go too far by forcing the family to leave with nothing. They allowed them to take some clothes and personal belongings they had brought with them years ago. Everything else related to Si Qi was left inside, since no one could say for sure if Si Qi's time travel was related to something inside, and it was best to leave the scene as it was.
As for the family of three who were kicked out of their home in the middle of the night, they had no jobs, no income, and no financial support from Si Qi. No one cared how they would live from now on.
Since they don't care about Si Qi's life or death, no one else will care about them either.
How could two able-bodied, healthy adults not be able to support themselves and their child?
A policeman closed the windows and doors of Si Qi's room tightly. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the three people downstairs still looking up at them with reluctance. The corner of his mouth curled up with a hint of schadenfreude.
His colleague thought he was standing up for Si Qi and joked a bit, but the policeman said, "Losing a house is nothing. I'm laughing at them for living with the 'chosen one' and still missing out on such a great opportunity."
"Huh? What?" My colleague chuckled, "Have you been reading too many time-travel novels lately? Are you confused?"
"The chosen one"? What kind of childish adjectives are these?
"Look at Si Qi's situation. His parents died early, his life was full of hardships, but he is self-reliant, has excellent interpersonal relationships, and he even has a cheat code from his own time travel—what else could he be but the chosen one?" The policeman said confidently, "This kind of person is destined to achieve great things, just like the protagonist in a novel. Then his relatives and friends will rise to prominence along with him, becoming the envy of everyone."
"Look at those students and teachers who are closest to Si Qi right now. Didn't they know about the existence of cultivation immediately? Didn't they get firsthand information before anyone else?" The policeman spoke logically and with evidence. "If Si Qi's teacher hadn't chosen to call the police and let us join in, wouldn't those people in the live stream be the first to know about the existence of the other world and exchange resources between the two worlds with Si Qi? You have to understand, that's the cultivation world! Anyone can fly through the clouds. It's normal for there to be all sorts of rare treasures there. What they brought to our world must be full of treasures!"
"Do you think this counts as them all getting promoted because of the protagonist? If Si Qi encounters any benefits, won't they be the first people he thinks of?"
The more the policeman talked, the more convinced he became of his analysis. He said with certainty, "That's why I said this family is stupid. Si Qi is such an amazing person, yet they don't try to build a good relationship with him. They can only see the small patch of land right in front of them. They've ruined their relationship with Si Qi for such a small benefit."
"Now look what's happened! Even we know about the existence of cultivation, but that couple still doesn't."
"If Si Qi really becomes a god who can turn the world upside down by cultivating, this couple can forget about benefiting from Si Qi's influence. They definitely won't get any longevity or anything like that."
Seeing how animatedly he spoke, his colleague agreed that what he said made sense and nodded, saying, "That's true! But it's fortunate that Si Qi was live-streaming when he transmigrated, otherwise, if he had suddenly disappeared, the couple definitely wouldn't have called the police. In that case, Si Qi's disappearance would have been a real disappearance, and the couple might have benefited from the supplies they sent. It's so frustrating to think about!"
"That's right, thank goodness there was a live stream!" The police officer recalled this incident and said with a bright smile, "Otherwise, if Si Qi had disappeared, not only would they have gotten the house for nothing, but they might have also lost a great opportunity to them."
If these two were to obtain something from the cultivation world, what good could they possibly do with it? There's no way they'd hand it over to help the country with research.
They might even commit murder for money.
Therefore, when they drove the family away, they didn't feel they had done anything wrong; on the contrary, they were quite pleased.
As they sealed the house with tape and were about to close the door, neighbors who heard the commotion came out in twos and threes and asked the police what was going on.
Their main concern was whether something had happened to Si Qi. Seeing this scene, they were afraid that Si Qi had been murdered by the couple.
After hearing the explanation, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Several elderly people couldn't help but hold the policeman's hands and mutter, "I knew those two guys had bad intentions!"
“If Xiao Qi were to leave, he would definitely tell us in advance. He is a polite and good boy, and he would never disappear without a reason.”
"And this house too. I've told you so many times, you absolutely can't give it to that couple. Xiao Qi won't disobey me. They were lying before, after all."
Everyone kept repeating that Si Qi was obedient and sensible, and that Si Qi had been well-behaved and polite since childhood. After saying that, they kept asking where Si Qi was now, worried that Si Qi might have encountered trouble and was unable to go home. They told them to let them know if Si Qi needed their help.
The police were both amused and exasperated. They repeatedly assured everyone that Si Qi was not in any danger and urged them to rest as it was getting late. Only then did the group slowly disperse, glancing back every few steps.
"Hey... this uncle is not as good as the neighbor," the policeman said to his colleague as he watched everyone gradually leave.
"Some people are just like that, there's nothing you can do about it."
While waiting, everyone habitually took out their phones to watch the live stream. Fortunately, the live stream room had a password lock, requiring the user to enter their class and student ID to enter; otherwise, given Si Qi's live stream scenes that resembled a fantasy cultivation movie over the past two days, passersby might have seen them and then spread them around.
As they were chatting, a young boy's head popped up from the split-screen view, and he asked anxiously, "Si Qi, are you alright?"
Si Qi was experimenting with how to teleport things to the modern world when he heard this. He looked up and smiled, "I'm fine. Did you all do well on the exam?"
"You did well on the exam, you did well! Everyone did well, don't worry." The child who spoke carefully checked that Si Qi was alright, that he was safe and sound and hadn't lost any limbs, and then breathed a sigh of relief.
“The teacher said they didn’t want us to be distracted during the exam and wouldn’t let us watch the live stream, but we were worried that something might happen to you, so we suggested that we send me to check on you to make sure you were okay before going back to tell them.”
Si Qi: "I'm fine here, don't worry. Focus on the exam and don't think about me."
"We'll definitely focus. As soon as we pick up the test paper, we'll automatically concentrate and won't think about you." The classmate said with a grin, assuring everyone that their group wouldn't be affected by Si Qi. Then, after a few words, he left the live stream under the teacher's warning look.
Before parting, he did not forget to comfort Si Qi: "We will come to see you after the exam. You are all alone there, so please take good care of yourself."
The other police officers watched silently, without saying anything about not welcoming the students into the live broadcast room to participate in such an important matter.
The authorities did not revoke the children's access privileges, firstly because they already knew the inside story and it was too late to block the news; secondly because no one was sure whether Si Qi's ability to time travel and start a live stream was related to these children who were video chatting with Si Qi at the time.
Rushing to kick someone out might result in no one being able to watch Si Qi's live stream anymore.
Since these children are already participants and have a close relationship with Si Qi, keeping them involved is not a big problem.
At least it can stabilize Si Qi's emotions to some extent, giving Si Qi, who is adventuring alone in another world, more emotional support.
So apart from the teachers requiring students not to watch live streams during exams, in case something happened to Si Qi and it affected the children's mentality, no one else ever suggested excluding them.
After confirming that Si Qi could indeed teleport objects from another world to this place, the official level of attention paid to Si Qi increased several notches.
After watching the live stream, no one would not yearn for the cultivators' abilities to move mountains and fill seas, and to summon wind and rain with a wave of their hand.
Especially since Si Qi is in the past, using his own human body from Earth. Since he can control his cultivation and use magic, those from the same world as Si Qi can most likely do the same.
Furthermore, the cultivators in that world are all incredibly friendly and compassionate, and their cultivation will immediately dissipate if they do anything wrong, making it difficult for anyone to feel wary or hostile towards them. If the two worlds could establish diplomatic relations, the benefits would definitely outweigh the drawbacks.
Therefore, they provided tremendous support to Si Qi. A team of experts and researchers was immediately dispatched to Si Qi's city to provide him with 24-hour service. They analyzed various situations for him, offered advice, and ensured his personal safety.
As for the high-quality grain seeds and instrument design blueprints that the original owner had to endure various manipulations and nitpicking from his uncle and aunt in exchange for, the logistics team had already packed and collected them in advance before Si Qi could even ask, just waiting for the day Si Qi might need them so they could be provided to him immediately.
They understood the situation clearly: if they wanted Si Qi to live well in that world, learn more information, and send valuable things over, they first needed to ensure Si Qi's personal safety and improve his status and cultivation level in that world as much as possible.
As for how to improve cultivation, the answer is to leverage the power of the entire nation to send things that exist in the modern world but not in the cultivation world, in Si Qi's name, and then promote them as much as possible.
As long as what Si Qi brought there effectively helped the mortals there, Si Qi's cultivation level would improve.
With improved cultivation, personal safety is guaranteed, and at the same time, status, fame, and other benefits can also be obtained.
At that time, it would be very easy for Si Qi to obtain anything he wanted from the cultivation world.
In Si Qi's memory, the original owner of this body also followed the same path.
However, without the support of a country, he struggled alone in the cultivation world, relying on the limited knowledge of a high school student to gradually learn about the daily necessities of ordinary people, such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and tea. In the end, his progress was somewhat slow.
Now it's different. Before Si Qi could even make a suggestion or say what he wanted to do, the logistics team that the authorities had set up for him had already listed more than a dozen effective and reliable action plans and invited Si Qi to come and choose one.
The scope is not limited to daily necessities; it can also expand awareness by starting with culture, infrastructure, and agricultural inventions... There are many options, too numerous to mention.
Based on the original owner's memories, Si Qi chose the high-yield grain varieties that the cultivation world currently urgently needs. As for classic literature, poems, cement, and red bricks, they can be set aside for now, as they are not urgently needed.
“Tell me the gunpowder formula as well,” Si Qi said. “I’ve noticed that people in this world tend to be a bit stubborn. They always think that mortals are weak and that only cultivators can deal with demonic cultivators.”
This kind of thinking has been deeply rooted for tens of thousands of years. Everyone puts all the pressure on cultivators and never considers tapping into their own potential.
Once Si Qi successfully manufactures the firearms, everyone will see their power and their opinions will surely change.
After all, people are always smart. If they see something useful, they will definitely try to use it even if there has never been a successful case before.
Moreover, unlike modern society where everything must follow basic physical laws and be built from scratch bit by bit, the cultivation world possesses omnipotent spiritual power. Tasks that are originally difficult to handle, such as steelmaking and forging, can be accomplished simply by activating spiritual power in the hands of cultivators.
With the help of blueprints and formulas provided by experts, everything becomes much easier; you can simply follow the instructions.
The manpower is readily available, and the city lord and Chu Feng are absolutely willing to help.
The expert panel took Si Qi's opinions very seriously. As long as Si Qi's proposals were reasonable, everyone would pay attention to them.
They had never witnessed the existence of demonic cultivators firsthand; they even learned the term from Si Qi. Unaware that the two worlds would merge, they wouldn't specifically focus on demonic cultivators, at least not as their primary target.
But since Si Qi wants to make weapons first and find a way to deal with the demonic cultivators, they won't stop him. They've already prepared the high-quality grain seeds; Si Qi can use them whenever he wants.
After the gunpowder formula and simple musket blueprints were shown to Si Qi through the live broadcast camera, a member of the expert group asked, "Did you see the blueprints we showed you with your 'eyes'? Would you not be able to see them if you closed your eyes?"
The expert group consists of hundreds of members, some of whom specialize in researching "live streaming." They want to know where the force supporting the broadcast from another world comes from, and who is filming footage of Si Qi.
If they don't figure out the source of this power, they worry that one day the live stream will be suddenly shut down by the "person behind the scenes," and then they will have no other way to contact Si Qi except through the transmission channel.
This feeling of being passive is awful.
Si Qi thought for a moment and organized his thoughts, saying, "I can feel a video chat window in my mind. This chat window should be exactly the same as what you see. You can see and hear it even if you close your eyes. But if I don't want to listen or watch, I can close it at any time. It's just that I'm afraid that if I close it, you won't be able to see anything either, so I've never tried to close it."
The expert team took careful notes on their keyboards, nodding frequently.
"And unlike you guys, I can see a progress bar next to the chat box, and this progress bar has been slowly increasing over the past few days."
Si Qi gestured with his finger in the air: "You can imagine it as a bamboo stalk, segment by segment, with a picture of a gift box next to each segment."
He speculated: "I feel that if the progress bar is full, something new might happen, like leveling up in a game to unlock new features."
As the expert panel listened, they drew a diagram on the document and showed it to the camera: "Is that so?"
"More or less," Si Qi nodded.
“Then perhaps we could try filling up a section of the progress bar and see what’s in that ‘gift box’,” the expert team pondered. “After all, as you said, even if we haven’t done anything before, the progress bar has been increasing. Since it’s something that can’t be avoided, it might be worthwhile to check the situation in advance.”
“Yes,” Si Qi agreed.
"So what do you think the progress bar is related to?"
"Cultivation level?" another expert joined the conversation.
“It shouldn’t be,” Si Qi shook his head: “On my first day here, before I even had any magic power, the progress bar was already halfway there.”
"Then... could it be related to the extent of your exploration of that world? Or to the degree of your contact with that world?" the expert speculated again.
“…That’s unlikely,” Si Qi replied after a moment of contemplation. “I’ve been in this room for several hours now, and I haven’t had any contact with the outside world, but the progress bar has been slowly increasing. If it’s based on the level of exploration, then the progress bar I had on my first day doesn’t make sense.”
"If it's unrelated to what happened in that world..." the expert team pondered, "then perhaps it's related to what's happening here?"
They quickly went through the connections between Si Qi and their world in their minds, such as the transfer of supplies, the spread of information, and the increase in participants. Finally, a thought flashed through their minds, and they guessed: "Since it exists in the live broadcast room, could it be related to the live broadcast room itself?"
Si Qi, quick-witted, blurted out, "Number of viewers?"
"Yes!" The expert team's eyes lit up, feeling that this was very likely. They immediately called over several colleagues who hadn't had a chance to watch the live stream and asked them to log in now.
At the same time, Si Qi was also watching the progress bar. The moment it changed, he immediately said, "The progress bar has moved forward a bit."
“Someone did come in just now,” the expert who witnessed the whole thing replied. “Let’s try again.”
After he finished speaking, three more experts logged in one after another. Si Qi gave the answer: "This time, the progress bar has advanced by about three times more than before."
"It seems to be related to the number of viewers," the expert group said knowingly. "Take a look at how many people are needed to get the progress bar to full after the first segment?"
Si Qi estimated: "Seventy or eighty, I guess."
"Then let's call in another eighty people."
This number is easy to meet; the number of expert group members alone is more than that.
In just ten minutes, the progress bar for the first segment was quickly filled. Everyone looked expectantly at Si Qi on the other side of the screen. Si Qi paused for a moment and said, "I think I know what time travel is all about in the live stream now."
"It was 'Heaven's Way' that brought me here."
"The Way of Heaven?" Everyone repeated instinctively.
Because of the time travel incident, people have read a lot of cultivation and time travel novels during this period, and are very familiar with the existence of the Heavenly Dao.
Si Qi spoke nonsense with a straight face, using a non-existent progress bar as a pretext to spoil the story for the people in China: "The Heavenly Dao says that the two worlds will merge soon. The reason I was able to travel through time is because the two timelines have begun to overlap."
The expert team was momentarily stunned, their hair standing on end, and they asked nervously, "So, in the future, there will be more and more time travelers like you?"
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