Chapter 358 - They’re Here!
Chapter 358: They’re Here!
After Gu Xiqiao had led the team of people to drop the bomb, she returned to Nine Heavens. Feng Jiu was still in the same spot that she had left him.
When he first saw Gu Xiqiao appear on the screen, he had been in a daze. She had been sitting right opposite him just a second ago, how did she appear on screen the next moment?
Especially after hearing her words, and the first time he was seeing the Peace Squad.
Feng Jiu had still yet to collect himself. He opened his mouth when he saw Gu Xiqiao, who had come back god-knows-when, but no words were forthcoming. He could only feel his hands, and even his feet were shaking.
“Mr. Feng Jiu, regarding the matter that I just said, I’ll get the great elder to contact you later. Hmm, I heard that you have a good relationship with the second elder, I’ll get him to contact you instead then.” Gu Xiqiao patted Jiji on its head.
Jiji immediately shoved the computer in its hand back into its storage, standing up to look at Gu Xiqiao. “Are we going back now, Beauty Gu?”
“Wait a bit more, I have to go to the web department first.” Gu Xiqiao said, touching her chin thoughtfully.
This sentence made Yu Ning, who had been sitting down quietly, jump up to his feet. “Boss Gu, let’s head there without delay then.”
“Wait, Miss Gu!” Seeing that Gu Xiqiao was about to leave, Feng Jiu finally snapped out of his dazed state. He stood up, turning to face her. “The plan that you mentioned about bringing the entire nations to arms, how are we supposed to do it?”
Also, how did she know that he was more familiar with the second elder?
Hearing those words, Gu Xiqiao raised an eyebrow, waiting for him to continue.
“These monsters have appeared in various places recently, N City, S City, even the capital. You’re saying those monsters…” Feng Jiu was more concerned about the population’s safety right now.
“Ten days. Within ten days, you only need to be concerned about using various methods to improve your physical fitness or strength. For these ten days, you don’t have to worry about anything else.” Gu Xiqiao shoved her hands in her pocket, flashing him a small smile.
Her tone was calm and unhurried. She always had the ability to soothe people when needed.
That was exactly what Feng Jiu wanted from her. Although her reassurance sounded a little absurd, there was a sense of inexplicable trust towards her, and he thanked her for it.
Seeing that he didn’t have any further questions, Gu Xiqiao turned around and left.
After she left, Feng Jiu finally managed to fully gather himself. Taking a deep breath, he noticed that Mu Zong was still in the room, flipping through some documents and seated at the other side of the room. He couldn’t help but be astonished. “Mr. Mu, aren’t you surprised in the slightest?”
“Surprised?” Mu Zong raised his head, then he thought Feng Jiu was probably referring to the incident that had just happened, and he smiled. “I am indeed very surprised, but I’ve already recovered from it.”
“That quickly?” Feng Jiu’s eyes widened drastically. He often dealt with the ancient martial arts world, and even that didn’t help him in recovering so quickly, and this ordinary person had managed to recover so quickly?
“This matter,” Mu Zong started calmly. “It’s very insignificant compared to what happened in the States. It was her decision after that surprised me a little.”
Feng Jiu: “…” Just what kind of people were following her at her side?
Mu Zong kept away the documents he had been looking at, and heard Feng Jiu’s phone ringing at this time. He couldn’t help the smile that spread on his face. “Mr. Feng Jiu, your phone is ringing. If you have any need, you may call on the secretary at any time.”
Feng Jiu nodded his head towards him, then picked up his phone to answer the call. It was the second elder.
“So Feng Jiu, how do you feel?” Before Feng Jiu could say anything, the second elder’s voice came through.
“I still feel like I’m in some sort of bizarre dream.” Feng Jiu replied blankly. He felt as though his head was still in the clouds, like he was drunk and couldn’t gather himself properly.
The second elder was joyful when he heard that. “That’s right, that’s how you should be feeling. I told you a long time ago that her methods were aggressive, now do you believe me?”
Believe? Believe was just too mild a word to describe it?! Feng Jiu wiped the cold sweat that had broken out just now, he was scared to the point that he nearly peed himself, okay? His heart felt a little guilt when he thought about this. “When Miss Gu so easily announced the news to the masses, I was almost scared to death. I didn’t know how the public would take it, and I was afraid that the entire nation would be in chaos after that.”
It was a live broadcast after all, and all the channels were locked into it. Unlike Jiji, Feng Jiu couldn’t observe everybody’s reaction to the happenings on it.
“You don’t have to worry about that,” The second elder was still overly cheerful as he said that. “Our Miss Gu has always had her hands of brainwashing, you can look it up on the internet later. Now there’s something else I need to discuss and brainstorm with you, it’s regarding the things that Miss Gu has sent me to follow-up. Come on to the ancient martial arts world later and let’s discuss it then.”
Having said that, the second elder hung up the call.
Feng Jiu thought about what he had always been worried about, then searched through the internet after the call had ended. Sure enough, all the hot topics were about what had just transpired. He scrolled through the topics to look at the comments, which were the reactions of the netizens.
Some couldn’t believe it, some were positive, some were more enthusiastic than some… there was not a single hint of panic anywhere he looked.
After the last time, Feng Jiu was once again experiencing Gu Xiqiao’s magical brainwashing abilities. He really wanted to kneel down in worship to her at this very moment!
He continued walking in a dazed state, and he kept seeing the employees of Nine Heavens, who all maintained their positive attitudes and usual demeanor as he passed them. Looking at the tranquil expression on their faces, he was really tempted to just pull someone aside and ask, Miss Gu has just announced the end of the world, and even broadcasted that bloodied scene just now, didn’t you see any of that? How are you all so bloody calm?!
There were also comments online about how they were training hard, and money was nothing worth worrying about now. Why weren’t any of you reacting at all?
Feng Jiu dragged his hand down his face, silently pondering all these thoughts in his head.
When Feng Jiu reached the outside of the building, he saw one of the guards outside Nine Heavens, easily moving a car that wasn’t parked in the box into one, and his face was just: （⊙o⊙）!
None of the people at Miss Gu’s side were ordinary at all!
He really was going out of his mind, Nine Heavens was also something that belonged to Miss Gu, and she could even call the entire nation to arms, how could she have any ordinary person under her?
But, what should he do if he was feeling so extremely jealous about this?
***
Gu Xiqiao naturally didn’t know what Feng Jiu was thinking, while Jiji pulled out the computer from its chest, finding Feng Jiu’s face in the surveillance camera and snickered. “Beauty Qiao, you should look at Feng Jiu’s expression. He looks like there’s nothing to live for, and even doubting life as a whole right now.”
She didn’t say anything in response to that, but the young IT guy next to her spoke up. “Jiji, it’s not good to discriminate against people like that.”
“Come to think of it, why doesn’t it seem like you guys are surprised in the slightest?” Jiji raised its head, looking at the people in the web department. All of them had calm looks on their faces, like nothing unusual had happened.
“What’s there to be surprised about? It’s Miss Gu!” The young man raised his chin proudly, as though anything Gu Xiqiao did, it was only natural to be of this effect.
Jiji: “…” Why did she have so many braindead, die-hard fans?
“OK!” Gu Xiqiao finished inserting a string of commands, then pressed the ‘Enter’ key. Rows of numbers appeared on the screen once she did that.
“What’s that?” Seeing that she was done, the eyes of everyone around her now focused entirely on her and the screen.
Yu Ning had been watching her work the entire time. None of the others knew the string of commands that she had inserted, as well as the data that she had tampered with, but he did. He had done things of the same manner a lot back in his days too after all. When someone asked that, he casually answered, “Oh, Miss Gu has hacked into the satellite that’s monitoring the earth. I’m guessing that the surveillance of everything happening in the entire world is now in our control.”
As soon as he said this, everyone fell into an amazed silence.
“If it wasn’t for you being too lazy to do this, I wouldn’t have to waste my time here either,” Gu Xiqiao said, looking at Yu Ning tempted to smash his face with the keyboard.
Yu Ning wasn’t fazed at all. “I’ve done so many similar things before in the past, there’s no sense of accomplishment in doing it now. Also, your hacking is way faster than mine. You only needed twenty minutes, I’d need at least an hour. If I had the time, I might as well be studying the Star Network instead.”
Those who were recruited into the web department of Nine Heavens were all top hackers or excellent talents in the computer field. But even so, they felt like they had been given a tight slap in their faces and wanted to puke blood by both Yu Ning and Gu Xiqiao with the conversation that they just had in front of them.
That was the global satellite surveillance that they were talking about. Every country’s defense forces had incredibly strong firewalls, and the two were just bantering about how not challenging it was, hacking through that. Was that really something to casually throw out like this?
Weren’t the two afraid they would be beaten up by the others who were here?
“But why did you do this anyway?” Yu Ning glanced at her. “Do you want to do a live weather forecast?”
Gu Xiqiao turned to the computer screen, then looked at the time at the bottom right of it. “No, I initially wanted to assign people to observe the appearance of those undead monsters, but it’s too troublesome to do that. By hacking directly into the global satellite, we can just monitor all the places. When there are any changes, the ancient martial arts world will know, and we’ll not be in a passive position at this rate.”
“… F*ck.” After hearing her reasoning, Yu Ning was only able to utter this single word as his response after a long while.
“Alright, continue researching on the Star Network, I’m heading back to the ancient martial arts world first.” Gu Xiqiao stood up, clapping her hands together. “As for the matter of surveillance, just feed it to the supervisory room in the ancient martial arts world later.”
Yu Ning nodded his head, then turned to Jiji. His eyes lit up when he saw the robot. “Can you lend me Jiji?”
“Ask it, not me.” Gu Xiqiao was indifferent either way.
Jiji immediately grabbed the corner of Gu Xiqiao’s clothes, a grave expression on its face. “Master Jiang isn’t around, Xixi isn’t around, I need to protect Beauty Qiao with all my might!”
Yu Ning: “…” What use are you?
Jiji glanced at Yu Ning, then stretched out its hand. “The might of Balala~”
Pop!
A basin of water appeared above Yu Ning’s head suddenly.
It was in the middle of a cold winter right now, and though they were indoors, Yu Ning was still soaked to the bones by the water.
Gu Xiqiao chuckled lightly as she watched the entire thing happen.
Jiji followed behind Gu Xiqiao, shooting a triumph look towards Yu Ning. “Hah!” That’ll teach you to look down on me!
After Gu Xiqiao and Jiji left, only did everyone else from the web department started laughing, starting with a ‘pft’ that got the entire room roaring with laughter. Yu Ning wiped his face, taking out his phone stiffly from his pocket. Fortunately, the phone had been saved from getting a shower. He sent a message—[Say, I’ll be coming to Peace Manor tomorrow.]
The reply to it came quickly—[To act cute?]
There was no winning anything at all! Yu Ning shoved his phone away.
***
To save time, Gu Xiqiao didn’t bother bringing out her little pink car, but had Jiji teleport them to the coordinates in the ancient martial arts world instead.
As soon as they appeared on the edge of the ancient martial arts world, they saw Tengen sitting on a stone nearby.
“Mas… Miss Gu, wait a minute!” Tengen had been waiting here for Gu Xiqiao for some time now. As it wasn’t easy to catch her, and seeing that she was about to leave again, he couldn’t help but call out to her excitedly. Thankfully, he managed to catch himself, recalling that she didn’t like him calling her ‘master’.
“Mr. Tengen, is something the matter?” Gu Xiqiao asked as she checked her phone, before turning around to face Tengen.
Tengen nodded his head. “There is something, and it’s very important.”
Gu Xiqiao twirled the phone in her hand, her face calm. “Tell me then.”
“It’s regarding Mr. Jiang,” Tengen said, fixing his eyes on her face.
Gu Xiqiao’s lazy, casual expression changed immediately when the name was uttered. She straightened up, her eyes sharpening. “What happened?”
This was the first time Tengen was seeing Gu Xiqiao like this. He had in fact been watching the live broadcast just now, but she had been calm and relaxed at that time, though she had been facing the entire nation, her composure had not broken once.
He didn’t expect her entire person to change the moment he mentioned the name, as though she had turned into a different person altogether.
“Delxun Forest, Mr. Jiang has yet to complete his inheritance. The only way for him to recover from his memory loss is to return and complete the other half of his inheritance.” Tengen’s expression became serious as he spoke. “He was in the middle of the process, and he shouldn’t be able to come out at will. However, it’s unsure why he decided to forcefully break out, and this impacted his body directly. If he doesn’t go back, I don’t know what will happen in the future.”
“Inheritance?” Gu Xiqiao narrowed her eyes. “Does this inheritance have a large impact on him? Or, who’s inheritance is this?”
“It’s not a great impact.” Tengen signed. Then, not knowing what he had thought of, his voice tightened when he next spoke, “It’s originally a power that he had sealed there in the beginning. But when I tried to talk to him before this, he refused to see me.”
Tengen couldn’t help but sigh again when he said this.
It was a power that he himself had sealed away? Gu Xiqiao wanted to ask something else, but she suddenly felt her heart beating violently in her chest.
“Alright, I understand.” Gu Xiqiao nodded. “Is there anything else?”
“No, that’s all.” Tengen knew that Gu Xiqiao must be having a lot on her plate right now, and so he didn’t disturb her any further, respectfully letting her leave.
Gu Xiqiao headed towards Peace Manor directly after that.
She left, but Jiji didn’t, looking at Tengen thoughtfully. “Why do I feel that your aura is so familiar?”
“Of course it is.” Tengen smiled when he heard Jiji say that. “Master Jiji, the materials used to make my body was originally found by you in the interstellar.”
Jiji: “…” Your brain’s not broken, right?
Tengen merely continued to smile, not affected by Jiji’s reaction. “Master Jiji, when Mr. Jiang returns to Delxun Forest, you have to go with him. I’ll be waiting for the two of you to return.”
Jiji glanced at Tengen. “Oh.”
Watching Jiji’s retreating back, Tengen chuckled. “The day is finally coming…”
Now that everything was starting to surface, the forces in the dark could no longer stay hidden. The ancient martial arts world took mission after mission, and basically every team available had been dispatched out. For those higher level, life-threatening missions, they were passed onto the Peace Squad in Peace Manor to handle.
“Miss Gu, the second team of the ancient martial arts world has sent word. The mission in the desert town has changed from a normal level to high risk, and they are requesting aid.” The second elder said from the other end of the line, his voice grave.
Desert town? Gu Xiqiao touched her chin thoughtfully, and looked towards the team that had just returned to Peace Manor. She snapped her fingers. “Team One, follow me to the desert town!”
“Yes!” Their eyes all lit up, Miss Gu was going with them?
***
In the mentioned desert town, a group of people were covered in blood and fighting for their lives. At this time, the air around them distorted, and eleven people suddenly appeared.
The leader of the struggling group wiped the blood off his face, brightening when he saw who had appeared. “It’s the Peace Squad, they’re here! We’re saved!”