"Master Fuli, I've brought your things." About fifteen minutes later, Lin Bingyun entered the hideout and knocked on the wooden plank beside the entrance stairs, reminding the Master Fuli inside the house.
"On my way..."
Sitting at the tea table and sipping tea, Ansheng noticed Lin Bingyun entering, turned off the video playing on his phone, leaped to the ground swiftly, and while heading out, glanced at the lazy fat cat as if it were midwinter and said:
"Fat cat, I need to go out for a bit. Help me clean the tea set on the table."
"Alright..." The fat cat turned around, agreed, waved his hand, and bid farewell to Master Fuli.
It's just cleaning the tea set. Later, pack it, stuff it into the principal's office, and take it out the next day.
"Let's go!"
Ansheng jumped onto Lin Bingyun's shoulder, cheerfully said to Lin Bingyun, "Thanks Lin Ying for helping with Ah Qing's matter, when Ah Qing received the notice, I saw she was very happy, almost became confident."
"Hmm? What matter?"
As Lin Bingyun walked out with Master Fuli, she was puzzled by what was being said, and looked at Master Fuli with confusion:
"Miss Lin didn't return to Xia Dong. After leaving Chang'an, she went to the Lingnan Region to form an alliance with other Xia Country capital institutions to promote certain matters..."
Lin Bingyun didn't quite understand what Master Fuli was saying.
Lin Ying has actually been quite busy recently. The Lin Group Holding Company, along with other financial institutions, formed an alliance under higher-ups' leadership, preparing to invest in a new plan that is set to be implemented.
From Lin Bingyun's view, Lin Ying's itinerary and arrangements had nothing to do with Xia Dong's local base.
"It's the official spokesperson for the tea competition." Ansheng's little fox face showed a strange expression.
"No." Lin Bingyun shook her head, saying, "Although the tea competition is just a tea industry match, when it comes to the provincial level, there are many intricate issues involved. We haven't done anything in it; Ah Qing's official invitation is due to her factors and effort, unrelated to us...."
"If Master Fuli cares, I can help you inquire about the reason."
The tea industry market is very large, and as the competition reaches the provincial level, large tea enterprises and leaders are watching it closely.
Ah Qing's family is a participant. Helping now would rather bring trouble and criticism to Ah Qing's family.
"Hmm... Alright! Sorry for troubling you, Steward."
Ansheng gently nodded, a subtle sense of relief blossomed within him.
During the tea competition, Ah Qing's influence as a streamer and blogger received official recognition, which at least turned her into an unrestricted green streamer.
"I need to find a way to get a steel pipe..." Ansheng jokingly remarked in his heart.
...
Sitting on the Golden Sunflower, heading to Ba Mountain Sky Pit, Ansheng was at the back seat, pulling out his Security Bureau phone to check Liu Lingyu's number, planning to use Liu Lingyu as a liaison to invite the Hermit of Qinling for a meal.
Except.
Just as Ansheng found the number, Wang Qiqi's call directly came through his phone.
Ansheng was taken aback, picked up Wang Qiqi's call, and asked, "Is there a discovery at the Sky Pit?"
"In the original landform dark river branch of the Sky Pit, we found an unexplored cave. The probability of the Treasure Tree being inside is as high as seventy percent..." Wang Qiqi said, "Master Fuli, where are you now? We need support here..."
"Seventy percent probability? Support? You talk like a riddler, either say yes or no." Ansheng remarked, "I'm on the car now, probably around twenty kilometers more."
"I want to give a definite answer, but we've just discovered the dark river cave, and the drones and bionic fish probe devices got wrecked by something rising upstream."
On the other end, Wang Qiqi said helplessly, "Although it was brief, I still saw in the monitor... the texture of that object resembled the biological armor seen at the Dragon Man Ruins."
"Otherwise, why would I rush to inform Master Fuli in such haste..."
During this operation, the Security Bureau's intelligence force dispatched 200 drones and a thousand bionic fish with signal fiber optics into the dark river for search.
After four hours of searching, in a branch eight kilometers from the dark river found a cave, the intelligence force hadn't even entered when a shadow emerged upstream and annihilated all reconnaissance units.
Whether the Treasure Tree is inside is uncertain, but surely extraordinary things exist within the cave.
"Black fungus biological armor?"
Ansheng frowned slightly, the fungal biological armor from Dragon People is strictly a biological amplification diffusion device, which greatly enhances full attributes through the fungal network when worn.
If in large numbers, it can even converge collective will and distort the material world.
"My Gravity Hammer, did you bring it?" Ansheng directly asked, understanding the seriousness of the situation.
"Yes, it's at the temporary camp above the cliff." Wang Qiqi told Master Fuli.
"Okay, I'm heading over." Ansheng tossed down the phone, dropped the car window, leaped directly into the roadside woods, rushing point-to-point.
...
"Master Fuli is almost here....."
Listening to the busy signal coming from the phone, Wang Qiqi said to Ba Mountain Mosquito and Golden Leopard beside her, then looked at the logistics team in the process of evacuating and said:
"Don't worry about the equipment and instruments, retreat! Everyone evacuate to the perimeter for vigilance as quickly as possible. Losing equipment won't dock your pay, what are you packing for? All of you retreat to the safe zone immediately!"
Wang Qiqi yelled, telling the logistics team not to worry about the smart equipment and to retreat immediately, while she opened the weapon box, took out two specially made ammo drums, and hung them on the sides of her legs, strapping a particularly large grenade launcher to her back.
"Let's give it a taste of some concentrated firepower!"
Wang Qiqi hoisted the laser-guided rocket launcher, glanced towards the dark river entrance six hundred meters away.
The temporary resting point was evacuating since the location was at the bottom of the Ba Mountain Sky Pit. Even though they had fixed anchors on the cliff wall when capturing the Ba Mountain Mosquito earlier, the 300-meter drop still required a lot of time for the logistics support team to evacuate.
"Sssss—"
The sharp, piercing, angry hiss, visible to the naked eye, exploded in a spreading misty form in front of the dark river entrance. The sound waves that should have been formless caused the water molecules in the air to scatter through oscillation, thus revealing their form.
The equipment left in front of the dark river entrance all smoked up from the explosive screech, followed by consecutive blasts and fire swirling straight into the sky.
Amid black smoke and fire, a black creature about two meters tall leapt out from the dark river. Its pitch-black skin looked like that of a frog, revealing a shiny, translucent texture, and its head was exceptionally squared.
Any square-faced person looked almost like a delicate oval face in front of it.
Its head width was almost consistent with its shoulder width.
As if... fitted with a box?
"Box?"
Through the laser-guided scope, Wang Qiqi observed the dark river entrance, startled, the more she looked at that bizarre head, the more she felt it looked like... fitted with a clay box?
The clay box became sentient!
However.
Just as Wang Qiqi figured this out and even didn't manage to start moving.
A sudden, deafening roar erupted extremely abruptly above Ba Mountain Sky Pit.
A white, narrow beam, wrapped in a layer of acoustic burst dispersal airflow, accompanied by a whistling shriek, slanted down beside the black creature into the ground, "Boom," and the originally loose soil blasted directly upwards.
The black creature stiffened, glancing at the object that nearly struck it.
A broken white tail more than ten meters in diameter lay in the pit, the black creature stunned. The white tail gradually began to contract and inflate, dazzling blood-red light radiating from the gaps in the white fur.
"Boom—"
The blood-red mushroom cloud ascended from the pit, endless layers of earth, gravel, ancient trees, spiraling into a cyclonic blast down into the Ba Mountain Sky Pit, twisting into a brutal tornado.
Master Fuli, wielding the Gravity Hammer, ascended against the storm, tearing the ripping gusts apart with his bare hands, his figure slammed down to the bottom of the pit, raised the Gravity Hammer high, hammered forward, erecting a wind-stabilizing barrier.
"All of you retreat..."
"I am not the same as before, today, I must fight the old geezers and exact revenge until dusk!"
[Will]!
Last time, against the King of the Universe, Ansheng suffered greatly due to the lack of long-range methods and understanding of the old geezers.
This time, although it's not the King of the Universe, Master Fuli is still prepared to regain face against it!
No matter what, it's still an old geezer, break it down, just say!
The explosive hurricane gradually subsided, Wang Qiqi and Golden Leopard stared wide-eyed, looking at Master Fuli who defined the wind, raised the air barrier, and at the terrifying storm sweeping across the entire Sky Pit, forming a question mark.
You still say you're not primordial!
This friggin' overpressure bomb isn't even like this!
You friggin' spouted tailed beast bombs!
Wang Qiqi looked dumbfounded, even having so much to say that she didn't know where to start, rendering herself speechless for a moment.
"Ah, father showing his might!"
Ba Mountain Mosquito had already witnessed the scene of [Fu Traveling Cannon] shattering the rocky mountain at the Mountain Viewing Pavilion, now seeing the fox tail overpressure bomb explode, there's no shock, only cheering for father's divine power.
"It... died so thoroughly scattered, even the forensic experts need a vacuum cleaner to retrieve two la of ash."
"That two la of ash, mixed with one and a half la of sand." Wang Qiqi said awkwardly: "Information... error."
"Hm!?"
Guarding the crowd behind him, Master Fuli turned slightly surprised to look, sculpting a question mark.
Information error?
Then... what did my Fu Traveling Cannon just hit?