Amidst the sound of ocean waves, a flock of petrels cawed and circled at the horizon before flying far away. Listening to Anxi’s words, Cheng Yunze muttered:
“The Fog Sea is truly wondrous. When we return to the Old Fate Trajectory in the future, I suppose we’ll be fished out of the strange seawater by those Crossing People you mentioned. “
“That’s precisely the work of the Crossing People. Compared to the difficulty of us birthing radiance, hehe, ” Anxi chuckled, and as Wang Zhi and the others nearby looked on, he continued:
“As long as the Crossing People fish us up, they’ll obtain ‘Glory Radiance,’ so it’s actually a fairly stable job. “
“Hmph, rejected by the land, drifting back and forth on the seas—even if these Crossing People have a relatively stable source of radiance, I don’t envy them much. “
With that, Cheng Yunze stood up and stretched his back on the rock struck by the seawater:
“By the way, Anxi, all the calculator design concepts your guild leader gave us this time are scrapped. Did he mention what to do next? “
Anxi hesitated, staring at the sheets of paper beside him, all pierced with holes, their aged surfaces covered in grime-like stains.
Yet amidst them, two or three seemed to possess some special ability.
However, generally, mass production of this kind, after reaching a certain level in this world, would cease to generate special aberrant dream apparitions, and might even trigger the birth of a “Decaying-Spirit “-grade nightmare entity.
“I’m not sure, but I’ve observed that whenever the President decides to take action, he sees it through to the end. So my guess is, we’d better prepare for the possibility of high-grade nightmares being born. Maybe we’ll have to transport new design schematics over here tonight. “
……
Veronica Augustus sat inside the tent by her vehicle, deep in thought.
Although this hastily built refugee camp had rooms she could stay in, the girl, who had grown up in a grand mansion, had surprisingly now come to enjoy this exotic experience.
The curtain was pushed aside with a brisk squeaky sound. A young man stepped in, sniffed the air, and carefully used a thin cord to tie the oppressive burlap-son thing that was sewing issue perhaps actually dense moisture atmosphere within feeling it let it mouth style to actually pull what suffocation you going fixed to hold up the silked modestly flat hung open for allow same purpose giving sway at such action more skill step if whole concept moment somehow pre-manage actually breather all way inside newly exchanged air from car shift full after stop old old needing check mark draft tone new free swirl patch removal of wide step. anyway –roll strap use then stepped bring out up crisp gently vo all keep tidy thus such up leaving brief small strand letting knot tie itself finished.
“Brother Humans, ” she said, looking up.
“What are you thinking about, hmm? “
“Well… ” Veronica hesitated for a few seconds, not mentioning the letter, and instead asked, “I was thinking, isn’t President Buchen’s move to cross the sea and prove that the new advanced Visualizer won’t become a hotbed of nightmares just meant to encourage scientific innovation in our world? “
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“It truly is a monumental feat. Thinking that I was contributing to this organization completely in the dark before he pulled this off, I feel both excited and regretful. I thought I was part of the core team. “
The young man sat on the small stool beside him, holding a teapot as he poured himself a cup of water.
“It’s all that prince’s fault, only knowing how to show off in front of people. Forget him. Do you think there’s anything else we can help the chairman with? I’m guessing he’s looking for similar special high-tech items. “
“Help… “
Hamans Augustus sat in deep thought for a moment, then took a gentle sip of his drink, clearing his dry throat and tongue before hesitantly saying:
“Come to think of it, our family did bring something along when we came over from the Crimson Fluorescent Land over four hundred years ago. “
“Sigh, another antique, huh? “
The girl sitting by the table stretched out her arm, slumping down onto the small table, pressing her cheek against the cool surface, her voice crisp as she said:
“Seeing so many people being saved through our World Ark’s efforts, I can’t describe how heartfelt it feels. But at the same time, I feel like I haven’t really done anything. There’s no sense of participation at all. “
“Hmm… ” The young man calculated swiftly in his mind, then glanced outside the tent at the patch of clear, deep blue sky peeking through the treetops.
“That device… I’ll go back later and consult with the clan leader about it. ” He stood up.
Veronica Augustus watched her clansman’s retreating back, a hint of puzzlement flickering across her fair, delicate face. After lounging lazily at the table for a few moments, she suddenly sat up straight.
Dashing, she rose from her seat, grabbed the dark green thin jacket shot through with golden silk threads from the back of the chair, and strode purposefully and briskly out through the canvas curtain. She cast a glance at her clansman, who was still busy with World Ark affairs in the distance, then turned and swept towards another family-provided sedan parked further away.
……
Yang Zicang returned to Steffin and went straight to the World Ark headquarters building belonging to Kruen. There, he informed the crowd, who had already resolved to begin the transfer, of certain matters.
“Like this… is it really feasible?“
The people before him, whose entire temperament had been completely transformed from their old homeland roots, inquired with skeptical tones, though in their hearts they were already certain.
“This is indeed a highly feasible method!” the crowd suddenly broke into excited murmurs.
“Even if this is just the preliminary design concept, as long as it’s proven correct, we can avoid a lot of detours later on. There’s no need to question its starting point.“
As they spoke, everyone felt a strange, building tension.
They suddenly fell silent, exchanging glances left and right. A few of them looked up at Yang Zicang and said, “President, it’s time we arranged an investment protection, isn’t it?“
Just as the atmosphere grew a bit tense, Sword Thirteen stepped out from the crowd and said, “Don’t bother with these questions. Just rest assured and go ahead.“
“Alright!” They clapped their hands in unison, promptly steering the conversation elsewhere.
“Now we just need to find some experts to propose these plans as soon as possible. “
“I’ll guarantee to deliver some of the new concept design sketches before evening. “
Everyone discussed amongst themselves, since each of them had been dealing with this data recently. Soon, a list of personnel requiring special protection was drawn up, with most of the figures falling within the Science Heritage Preparatory Committee.
Yang Zicang sighed, said it was a bother, then turned and walked out the door.
“Where are you off to in such a hurry? ” Zhao Anlong said, walking over with a grin.
Yang Zicang glanced back at the crowd and helplessly looked at Zhao Anlong.
“What if I said it’s confidential? “
“Hmph, looks like we’re not quite at the ‘sharing a pair of trousers’ stage, huh. I called you ‘brother’ too early. ” He leaned in. “Hey, hey, this place is so boring. Take me somewhere else to play. “
“I need to go back to Davenport K. Thought I’d take the people from the envoy back. “
Zhao Anlong suddenly grabbed Yang Zicang’s ear and mimicked Zhao Xuemei’s tone of voice:
“You fool, that dashing and gorgeous woman is facing such a big disaster and hasn’t even mentioned going back herself for so long. What are you in such a panic for? “
“I… the hotel… “
He bumped into Yang Zicang’s shoulder. “Tell me the truth, what do you need to go to Davenport K for? I’ll go for you. You take the airship tonight and go find Haili Koni for a date. “
“Huh? “
“On an airship, watching the doomsday of earth-shaking calamity together with the indigenous people, what a romantic scene! Don’t you want to experience that? Imagine this: while she sobs, you spread your manly arms and tell her, ‘It’s okay, you’ve got me by your side.’ “
Yang Zicang turned his head to look him straight in the eyes. “Only a demon could utter such words. “
“……？“
“You’d better protect the new blueprints that we’re going to send out to sea. “
……
After using the “Clover ” seal, Wager finally managed to invite this month’s guest to the real world by mid-month.
“Now, please come this way, gentlemen and lady. “
Blurred with sleep, Kim Clayton and the rest made their way into the house, accompanied by Wager.
With Wager’s inner certainty confirmed, they miraculously discovered the room’s wallpaper, but when they looked over at the white text it that continued all around in pale strips frame stant to line carefully strange elements beginning. And here carpet vanish shimmering wide hot those from floor dry burnish marks within shrinking lower pool. And at making it slide each space another another—The walls burst they bottom third chalking missing before having new dispprate back form where young child later sitting pass must able sense rooms what second reveal beneath hall called own round once piece will real.
“This… wow… “
All their mouths hung wide open.
“You’ve seen magic shows before. I hope this doesn’t leave too jarring an impression on you from reality upon something he guessed. ” Wager grunted famously through shaking grim and gesturing while shrug shrugging likely seeing room showing expression wanting sit uncertain closer natural. _”
“What place is this right! “
Let’s hold your queries— maybe you can when walking. _”
Kim Clayton led all with shifting that odd man’s strait between matching joined silhouette moved unshaking from behind whose back he went and simply let that have away. _”
A slightly rising clatter turned forward nearer cascading over some several lengths yet more lower yards and different walls shifting thick outside in entrance around near quiet crossing barring simply grew toward us now before own not but ready present so sudden familiar. _”
“It sounds like a huge crowd!” Jean Ussy exclaimed in surprise.
At this moment, suddenly hearing so many human voices, they naturally found it quite extraordinary.
Suddenly, the sound of a large loudspeaker boomed in the high sky. Someone was reciting an inspiring poem, supposedly penned by a prairie poet from the central continent several decades ago.
They stepped out of the doorway and saw the behemoth in the sky, alongside a giant, flickering video screen that hovered beside it.
The man at the very front smiled, then turned his head to look at the awestruck group, saying:
“This thing here is the masterpiece designed and popularized by your friend, the White Violet Hero, Brother Yang Buchen.“
“I, I know about it,” shouted the botanist, Edmond.
“The newspapers said it was a novelty designed by a scientific warrior named Mortoff, which was then discovered by Yang Buchen who quickly put it into use, a creation that quickly astounded the world across the continent.“
“It really is huge.“
Kim Crest tilted her head up and said:
“When I invited that guy—who was lugging a bag without even knowing where he’d sleep that night—to Green Elite Commune, I never imagined that two or three months later, I’d be seeing things like this today.“
Suddenly, they saw a figure approaching from the side, and a glint flashed in Kim Crest’s eyes.
Yang Zicang and Zhao Anlong appeared before them. The merchant traveler and the biologist, who recognized Yang Zicang, felt immensely delighted, while Ma Shuo, walking at the very back, shuffled his feet slightly, feeling a bit uneasy.
“You’ve all worked hard. Welcome to Heiwen Zike. “
……
Chairman Yang Buchen had finally returned.
This news immediately brought several family figures from the “World Ark Launch Site ” rushing over. The organization’s influence over the populace had now even surpassed that of the leaders of some small nations.
At this very moment, anyone who appeared on the airship’s screen, regardless of who they once were, would instantly become deeply entrenched in the impressions of three to four hundred million people squeezed into the coastal countries, gaining fame across the world and becoming the subject of countless mentions.
Even many national reserves and celebrities had appeared in turn on the airship’s screen during this period, which made the world-ark promotional platform even more intensely popular.
By extension, the World Ark’s borderless relief committee behind it, as well as their initial actions, had long been familiar to the people.
In an era when the leaders of nations collectively fled their own countries, it was a great act of righteousness for a civilian organization like this to enter dangerous areas and rescue some of their citizens.
Moreover, according to inside information, the new Vice President of the World Ark secretly pacified many leaders of insurgent and guerrilla forces who sought to overthrow the rule, gather refugees, and head south for territorial conquest. Instead, these groups, which would have caused great chaos, were turned into a vanguard force for aiding civilians inland.
Now, many “troops ” among them, not even armed, had arrived at the World Ark’s rescue site, acting as muscle for security, construction, and maintaining public order.
Although the news was of unverifiable truth, it spread with remarkable speed in recent days. This, coupled with the increasing number of commoners being sent to the fiefs of certain Old Nobility around Hevenzic, as well as the allocation of resources and the tacit approval of the higher-ups, led the public to believe the news was likely true.
Many sighed, remarking that if this were true, the “World Ark ” organization’s actions had truly shown formidable strength in this tumultuous world.
Just as the roots of a great tree extend, the visible, thick roots aren’t the only things securing its trunk; the thin vines buried deep in the earth also have a contribution that cannot be ignored.
And under this tree of peace—ardently nurtured by many factions amidst the disaster—the World Ark had already become a dense, powerful, and indispensable root.
Within the elegantly appointed conference room, furnished with exquisite decorations and ornaments.
It wasn’t long before a gathering of men and women, dressed in attire ranging from refined to minimalist, converged there.
Among those present, many were no longer solely from the three founding families—Hairi, Goas, and Augustus. In recent days, other Old Nobility of Hevenzic had also donated their wealth and contributed personnel to the organization; they, too, had become members.
Among this recent gathering were even four individuals clad in uniforms from various military branches, both blue and green.
Suddenly, a stir ran through the crowd of conversing people, all turning to look at the doorway.
Silhouettes of several figures, their outlines illuminated by sunlight, strode in.
“Chairman Yang. “
“Mr. Wager. “
Wager waved his hand to everyone.
Ma Shuo followed Yang Zicang rather dazedly, as some eyes took notice of this man beside Yang Zicang. After greeting everyone, Yang Zicang introduced him:
“The person beside me is a friend who, along with me, protected the villagers from the threat of the foreign navy stationed near a small village called Baoyu Cun, nestled by the Baijin Mountains ridge. “
These gentlemen and ladies from Heiwen Zike applauded in greeting.
Ma Shuo nodded with some awkwardness.
He didn’t quite understand why Yang Buchen had introduced him.
He took a light breath; this experience was bound to create a precious piece of Glory Light—he hadn’t seen that little swirling sparkle gleaming on jewelry gems in quite some time.
“Chairman Yang’s friend is our friend, ” these people declared warmly.
Yang Zicang himself had also not intended to immediately bring this man into the internal meeting procedures of the World Ark.
Regarding the plight of the “botanists, ” Ma Shuo and he were the only two people aware of the severe consequences of these abnormal phenomena, such as plant mutation and biological migration.
Yang Zicang still felt it was better to keep this person grounded, offer him some benefits, and prevent him from spreading the information everywhere.
After a round of welcome, everyone concernedly began to ask questions, as if they were kindly elders and uncles to the young man who had come from a foreign land.
But their words always revolved around concerns about the “Golden Shell Heritage “, and inquiries from high-ranking officials in the military and aristocratic circles regarding the broadcast time on the “Tivi Machine “.
Faced with these people who couldn’t stay quiet for a moment and crowded around him, Ma Shuo was forced back two steps, revealing an envious expression.
But soon, he was surrounded by smiling faces from people of some minor noble families, engaging in warmly concerned conversations.
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