Chapter 120 - 120 Return and Reward
120 Return and Reward
Ning Shi rested for a while. After recovering his transformation ability, he transformed into a war insect again and gave orders to the generals of the Black Hole Branch.
He ordered them to listen to Ning Yi’s commands when he was not around.
After Ning Shi left the insect world, the Black Hole Branch would not have a commander. The reproduction of the clan had no support. Ning Shi planned to let the battle insects and the guardian spirit insects join forces and be temporarily led by Ning Yi.
If there were any issues, Ning Yi could contact Ning Shi through the mother nest.
Ning Shi could only receive the brainwave information of the war insect generals when he transformed into a war insect. However, Ning Yi and Ning Shi’s communication were not impeded by their forms.
After making arrangements for the insect world, Ning Shi said to Ilya, “Ilya, I’ll unsummon you first. When you return to school, summon me.”
This was the method that Ning Shi had thought of long ago, to utilize the bug of the summoning skill.
There was a benefit to using Ilya’s summoning skill to return to Saturn. If the insect world needed help or Ning Shi wanted to enter here again, he could have Ilya unsummon him and he would return to the mother nest directly.
On top of that, with the summoning skill from the battle partner contract, Ning Shi’s main body could also enter the World of Moen directly without going through the world passage of the Mieln Federation.
The contract skill of a battle partner was bound to Ning Shi’s soul and main consciousness.
Ning Shi could attach his main consciousness to the game avatar and let the game avatar summon Ilya to the World of Moen.
Or he could ask his main body to cancel the summoning on Ilya and send her back to the World of Moen.
After that, he could leave his main consciousness in his main body, and Ilya could summon it to the World of Moen.
Ning Shi planned to study and cooperate with Ilya in the future. The summoning ability of the partner contract could be used well. Not only could it be used as a portal to travel back and forth, but it was useful as a last resort.
When they couldn’t defeat the enemy, one of them could summon the other and instantly escape.
Upon hearing Ning Shi’s words, Ilya nodded and replied, “No problem, you can unsummon me.”
Ning Shi canceled the summoning, and after a while, he felt Ilya’s summoning.
An unknown wave appeared in front of Ning Shi, and the space rippled like water.
Ning Shi no longer hesitated. He jumped into the rippling space.
After a moment of dizziness, he discovered that he was standing in a room.
The room was filled with all kinds of statues. On the table, there were also a few walnut shell carvings. The carvings shone with a round luster, indicating that they were often played with by the owner.
Ning Shi instantly guessed that this was Ilya’s dormitory.
Ilya probably didn’t want to expose her contract summoning ability, so she chose to summon Ning Shi to her own room.
After returning to Saturn, Ning Shi’s mobile phone kept buzzing and vibrating. He received all kinds of notifications.
He took out his phone and saw many missed calls and text messages from his parents and friends, as well as all kinds of spam from advertising fraud.
Yun Moxiang also sent him a text message.
Ning Shi first called his mother to let her know that he was safe and promised to return home at night.
Then, he replied to his friends’ messages one by one.
After he finished, Ning Shi saw Ilya sitting on the sofa, playing with her phone.
Only then did he realize that he had been occupying her dormitory, so he quickly said, “Ilya, thank you for your help this time. I’ve just returned and have a lot of things to deal with. I’ll treat you to a meal tomorrow!”
Upon hearing Ning Shi’s words, Ilya put away her phone, gulped and said, “I want to eat hotpot, the spiciest hotpot there is!”
“No problem!”
After Ning Shi finished speaking, he quickly sneaked out of the room.
A male principal appearing in a female teacher’s dormitory might cause a misunderstanding if he was seen by others.
As he walked around the campus, he admired the tree-lined paths, speckles of sunlight, and chirping birds in the forest.
It was already the end of September, and the osmanthus flowers on campus were in full bloom. A sweet fragrance filled his nose.
The students were walking together in twos and threes, talking and laughing.
Although he had only been away for a month, Ning Shi still felt like a lifetime had passed since he last enjoyed the peace and beauty of the campus.
Just a moment ago, he was still in the wild forest, undergoing a bloody evolution. Now, he had returned to a peaceful life.
Ning Shi cherished this peace and tranquility even more.
When he returned to his dormitory, everything was clean. It seemed that someone had been helping to clean it while he had been away.
Yun Moxiang had left him a message before, saying that the official reward had been confirmed.
Ning Shi gave Yun Moxiang a call.
After three beeps, Yun Moxiang picked it up with a gasp.
She exclaimed, “Consultant Ning, when did you return? There’s no news from the northern world boundary.”
The government had always been concerned about Ning Shi’s safety. Hu Changjun had ordered Commander Ou of the Northern Army to alert everyone as soon as Ning Shi returned.
However, Ning Shi came back by summoning and did not pass through the northern world boundary, so Commander Ou would not have known that he had returned.
“I came back using the Fei Li Island route, so the Northern Army would not know.”
Ning Shi casually explained and changed the topic.
“Has my reward been approved?”
Yun Moxiang did not dwell on how Ning Shi had returned. She replied, “The reward has been given out. Are you in school? I’ll go over to find you now.”
“Sure, I’m in my dormitory. Come over.”
After making an appointment with Yun Moxiang, it was close to noon. Ning Shi went to the cafeteria first to have a meal.
As he chewed on the sweet white rice and ate a large piece of red braised meat, Ning Shi almost shed tears of happiness. Life on Saturn was still better!
Be it the World of Moen or the insect world, although both were magical places, they were not Ning Shi’s home.
The Yunmeng Kingdom was where Ning Shi’s roots lay.
People could only live a happier life in their hometown.
After dinner, Ning Shi returned to his residence. Yun Moxiang hadn’t arrived yet, so he went online to check the latest news.
In terms of the insect disaster, the Bei Shi Nation and Fei Li Island had been completely occupied by the insects, and all the resources on the ground had been devoured.
The insect swarm occupied these two countries and did not expand further.
There had been no new insect disasters in the month that Ning Shi had been away.
There were no major movements around the world.
In the Yunmeng Kingdom, the National Awakeners’ Competition ended yesterday.
The champion was a handsome 30-year-old man named Yi Shengjia. He was a genius who was already a Tier 8 awakener at the age of 30.
His ability was one of the rare enabling-type talents.
There might have been a secret agreement for this year’s National Awakeners’ Competition; no Tier 9 awakeners participated.
After Yi Shengjia won the competition, his reputation soared. He was known by the media and the public as the top young awakener and the most powerful Tier 8 awakener in the Yunmeng Kingdom.
He had become the idol and role model of countless young men and the crush of countless young girls.
The official competition reward alone had made Yi Shengjia a billionaire, and there were countless business endorsements awaiting him.
Ning Shi could feel Yi Shengjia’s terrifying popularity. Every website or platform he visited was filled with reports of the latter.
In his newsfeed, there were also all kinds of inspirational stories about Yi Shengjia.
Ning Shi didn’t like this level of reputation. If one was too famous, they would lose their privacy.
Ding!
The doorbell rang. Ning Shi put away his phone and welcomed Yun Moxiang in.
Ever since Ning Shi had praised Yun Moxiang for looking good in a uniform, she was always in uniform every time she met him.
However, her uniform today was a little different. Her skirt seemed to be a little too short, and her black stockings only reached halfway up her thighs, revealing a part of her thigh between the stockings and the skirt.
Contrasted by the black silk, her legs appeared extremely fair, exuding an alluring shine.
Yun Moxiang carried a black bag in her hand. After putting the bag on the table, she went to Ning Shi’s refrigerator first and took out a bottle of Sprite. She opened it and took a sip before saying, “The reward for the original version of the extreme body forging method has been announced. There was some dispute about the reward this time, but Commander Ou mentioned that you contributed to the idea of transforming into an insect. After the two contributions were added together, the reward was finally decided upon.”
Yun Moxiang took out a box from the black bag and handed it to Ning Shi, saying, “You receive 3000 merit points and five A-level spiritual crystals.”
She explained, “At first, Minister Hu suggested that we give you 5000 merit points. However, compared to past evaluations, 5000 merit points seemed too high of a reward. The main reason is that you’ve already been rewarded once for the simplified version of the technique. The official consensus was to give you 3000 merit points, but Minister Hu disagreed. In the end, Commander Ou intervened, and we finally came up with a reward of 3000 merit points and five A-level spiritual crystals.”
Ning Shi took the A-level spiritual crystals and said, “I am grateful for Minister Hu trying to help me.”
“What a pity,” Yun Moxiang said.
“What pity?”
“The reason why Minister Hu helped you fight for 5000 merit points was to help you gather enough points to exchange for S-level spiritual crystals. His plan was for you to get 3000 points and exchange the 5 A-level spiritual crystals for 1000 merit points. Combined with the 1000 points you received last time, you’ll have exactly 5000 merit points.”
“It’s a shame that you’ve used up the previous 1000 merit points, ” Yun Moxiang lamented. “The S-level spiritual crystals in the storage will probably be taken by Yi Shengjia.”