"Professor Wang Ya returned last night, got off the plane, and went straight to the Security Bureau, demanding to be assigned to work. So, Engineer Wang sent Professor Wang Ya here..." the Monkey King explained to Master Fuli.
Being fascinated by Fuli Master, Wang Ya was no longer just motivated by a sense of duty to fulfill the Dragon People's commission after witnessing Fuli Master's Body Sanctification. Instead, she was driven by... fanaticism.
The harder she worked, the sooner the spiritual particles would be made public.
Once the spiritual particles were disclosed, the existence of spirit beasts would inevitably become known to the public.
In the future, the adorable little beastmen or the muscular beastmen with their fluffy fur and cold demeanor would freely walk down the streets.
Just imagining their dashing appearance, walking with their paws on display and just wearing pants, filled Wang Ya with uncontrollable excitement and an intense zeal for her current job.
She dreams of promoting a world full of fluff!
"Not taking any days off? Ridiculous, a real grinder of the new era..."
Listening to what the Monkey King said, Ansheng couldn't help but comment sarcastically, as he walked toward the excavation site.
"Master Fuli—"
Ansheng jumped over the colored steel fence, swiftly like lightning.
Wang Ya looked on with inexplicable joy, crouching on the ground, looking at Master Fuli with some expectation, reaching out her arms.
Master Fuli, hug me, I want a hug~
"...Good morning, just heard the Monkey King say, you just got off the plane last night, not resting?"
Ansheng dusted off his paws, climbed up Wang Ya's arm, and settled on her shoulder, hanging the entire fox onto her.
"Rest? I'm in an office job where I sit in the office looking at the computer every day, so when there's a chance to be in the field, I naturally won't pass it up..." Wang Ya expressed happiness, even unconsciously covering her face with her hands.
Though, this time isn't related to fluff, but according to Wang Qiqi.
If they successfully excavated the Tree Elder, she might see the second human-form spirit beast aside from Master Fuli.
"Rest? Rest is for the dead. People alive without a sense of social responsibility, what difference is there from a salted fish!"
Wang Ya's tone remained as gentle as ever, like a learned and courteous lady of a distinguished family, but her words were imbued with determined firmness.
"I bet you're merely interested in seeing if the Treasure Tree has grown a bird by peeling its bark..."
Ansheng raised an eyebrow, unable to resist making a joking comment.
Despite your righteous words, your silent wishes in your heart of wanting to dress the Tree Elder in a skirt have already made it onto the wish list.
"Ahaha..."
Exposed by Master Fuli, Wang Ya let out a series of awkward laughs, choosing to ignore the jokes and began discussing the excavation site.
"No wonder Master Fuli, instantly seeing through my inner darkness and shame..."
"But I remain loyal to the Security Bureau, definitely not abandoning the fluffy forest for a tree. The excavation is ongoing; the surface cave is quite narrow and requires manual excavation down to about two hundred meters underground."
"After two hundred meters, the cave can accommodate spirit beasts fitted with surveillance cameras to proceed inward. Perhaps within three days, we'll locate the Tree Elder..."
Wang Ya, taking Master Fuli, entered the excavation site for inspection and supervision.
The surface tunnel was dug by Treasure Tree Ants when obtaining tree branches, with a diameter of only eight centimeters.
Based on the insect probe's findings, as it delves twenty meters underground, the tunnel's diameter expands to twenty centimeters.
At a depth of two hundred meters, it's about forty centimeters wide.
The further underground they go, the more spacious the tunnel becomes. The analysts from the Security Bureau used this point to suggest that the Tree Elder might be an inverted large tree, a somewhat bizarre assumption.
Otherwise, it truly is difficult to explain how the root areas formed tiered cavities.
Somewhere beneath Chang'an City, possibly a cave yet to be detected by humans exists, wherein the Tree Elder's crown hides within, drawing spiritual particles and searching for [Spiritual Objects] through its roots in the soil.
The current excavation aims not simply to find the Tree Elder but rather the large cave it hides in.
"Hiding in a cave? Surely the Treasure Tree didn't traverse the underground river via the Ba Mountain Sky Pit's primitive forest features and enter the subterranean?"
Upon hearing Wang Ya's analysis, Ansheng was taken aback, revealing unknown information to Wang Ya.
The Ba Mountain Mosquito stated that the Tree Elder vanished overnight, with the Security Bureau's satellite imagery and local investigation yielding no useful info, seemingly evaporating.
However, if the Tree Elder never left the Sky Pit and didn't enter human cities and instead slipped into the underground via the darkness of the river, wouldn't it have completely disappeared?
"Is this really possible?"
Wang Ya was startled at the remark, instantly pulling out her phone to call the resting Wang Qiqi.
This excavation will likely take three to four days. If there is indeed an entry to the underground river.
The Security Bureau has a large number of biomimetic aquatic detectors that can be released into the river to explore, possibly covering the entire underground water system in half a day, constructing a three-dimensional model of the river's features.
Upon receiving the call, Wang Qiqi was momentarily surprised, then immediately reached out to the Security Bureau, deploying the intelligent troops and notifying the Ba Mountain Mosquito to assist in the investigation.
"Alright, I've told Engineer Wang. She said she has now dispatched investigators for the investigation." Wang Ya hung up the phone in her hand and reported to Master Fuli.
After talking about the serious stuff, Wang Ya seemed to remember something and asked, "By the way, our place opened a fox café recently, Xiaohua really misses Master Fuli. Master Fuli, got time for a cup of coffee? The decaf kind..."
"Xiaohua misses me?"
Ansheng looked at Wang Ya with a peculiar expression, imagining the scene of the Fennec Fox in a nightgown, holding a butterfly knife, chirping around trying to stab him:
"Do you believe what you're saying? If you say this in front of Xiaohua, it's going to turn on you..."
"Yes, Xiaohua says it's bitter inside and wants to pour out the inner agonies to Master Fuli." Wang Ya said with a face full of worry:
"I feel... Xiaohua might have reached the age where it wants a male fox and is ready to compete with me for one..."
Ansheng: "......"
Oh, right, almost forgot, Wang Ya liked stuffing the Fennec Fox in front of her chest and taking Fox Fox around for work during the summer.
Now winter is approaching, she'll have to wear a down jacket, so taking the Fennec Fox out means completely stuffing it inside her clothes, not even a bit of its head visible?
If it's a long down jacket and Wang Ya secretly farts, that environment is simply atrocious.
The Fennec Fox does genuinely miss me.
It wants to complain about Wang Ya.
Master Fuli chatted leisurely with Wang Ya, talking about the follow-up things in the Da Xing'an Ridge.
But just then, Wang Ya's phone rang, and she quickly answered it.
"Hand the phone over to Master Fuli beside you." A laughing voice from Li Wenkang was heard on the other end, Wang Ya responding with a start: "Master Fuli, the phone, Principal Li is calling..."
"Hmm? Old Li's call?"
Ansheng looked at the phone curiously and said, "What is it, Old Li? Is my weapon ready?"
"No, instead, there's an overseas call to my research institute."
"It's quite wild, the signal almost sparked." Li Wenkang laughingly said, "Didn't you mention before that your patience with Vimal has reached its limit and you want her gone?"
"I discussed with Old Lin's group to set up a plan to lure her to the southern open sea of our country. Old Lin has been busily preparing to take over Vimal's assets, and under your command, a fierce warrior has messed it up, leaving Old Lin fuming and coming to me to complain..."
The overseas Lin family received top-level approval and is transferring assets and biological laboratory data to the Xia Country.
Through Xia Dong customs for entry, part stored at Lin Manor, and another part temporarily stored at Lin Ying's villa in Changxi Town, intended for transfer to the new laboratory next to Fox Immortal Temple, in collaboration with the Security Bureau.
But during the transfer, the transport team was ambushed by the greedy snake, eating Old Lin's stuff.
Changxi Town isn't Master Fuli's territory but belongs to that pure black King Cobra.
Lin's transport team acted suspiciously and everyone emitted unusual heat, the greedy snake directly treated them as [Longevity Club] thieves, breaking seven ribs per person, then called the police.
Grandmaster Lin learned the information, angrily called Master Fuli, but Master Fuli's phone was managed by Ba Mountain Mosquito and Lin Bingyun, hence was without a phone.
Unable to contact Master Fuli for now, Grandmaster Lin called Li Wenkang, asking him to coordinate, and notify Xia Dong Security Bureau to communicate with the King Cobra.
"A greedy snake ambushed Old Lin's convoy?" Ansheng's expression turned peculiar upon hearing the news: "Then... there's no loss for Old Lin's side, right?"
"More than two hundred spirit plant seedlings, some inferior spirit particle potions for watering spirit plants, and seemingly experimental spirit beasts for gene extraction?" Li Wenkang shrugged: "Financial loss isn't large, just the raid at home infuriating Old Lin..."
"Who can be blamed, unaware that spirit beasts cherish their territory more than life itself. Let him try living in a community without notifying the property, see if the security won't puncture his car tires."
Ansheng said, face full of black lines.
Listening to Li Wenkang's story, Ansheng didn't even need to think to realize, Old Lin surely hadn't informed Xia Dong Security Bureau and the Spirit Beast Gang, might not have even told Lin Ying, had he informed, there wouldn't be a greedy snake ambush.
"Alright, I'll talk to Xiaobai and them, he needs to transfer two million dollars to my bank card now. When I return, I'll have to reward the greedy snake, either way, he has to cough up..." Ansheng complained.
Logically, Old Lin suffered losses, though he was at fault himself.
The greedy snake wasn't wrong, it's a village-protecting good snake, deserves to be specially commended.
"Fine..." Li Wenkang responded and said, "I remember you said you're going back to Xia Dong to compete, we'll prepare things soon then go settle Vimal's place..."
"Hmm..." Ansheng responded, hanging up and returned the phone to Wang Ya saying, "It's getting late, I'll be at the school all day today, if there's something new, notify me at the school, I'll come by then."
"I'll walk Master Fuli out..."
Wang Ya picked up Master Fuli, preparing to take him outside.
But due to the fabulous feel of Master Fuli's winter fur, and his distinct alluring scent, Wang Ya couldn't bear to let go, holding him all the way until reaching the farmland of Mawang Village, seeing students releasing agricultural drones for fertilizer work.
"Sister Wang Ya?"
Ah Qing was originally designing a new patrol route map for the agricultural drone, but upon seeing Wang Ya appear with the little fox, she called out oddly.
Wasn't the hotpot last night treated by Sister Wang Ya?
"Long time no see, Ah Qing——"
Wang Ya hugged Master Fuli, rubbed her face against him in front of Ah Qing, and exclaimed: "The little fox is simply wonderful... the texture of the winter fur is first-rate, totally covered in immaculate fluffy white fur."
"I can't imagine, snuggling nude with a fox in winter would feel so silky..."
"Uh... not wearing clothes, with the fox as a heater warming isn't quite appropriate, right?" Hearing Sister Wang Ya's sentiments, Ah Qing hesitantly said.