the next day.
Li Wen held up the Zion Daily published this morning and raised his eyebrows slightly.
The back page of the newspaper had a very exaggerated title, at least in Li Wen's opinion it was very exaggerated, but it had to be said that this writing style was very eye-catching.
Shocked! The Gangshi Organization branch of the Guyinduo Descendants claimed responsibility for the attack on the Zion Progressives.
Below the title, many specific contents of Gu Yin Duo Zi Si's actions were repeated, as well as photos of the battle between Warlock Luo and Xu Le.
There are some small words added below the content about Xu Le.
This image was added randomly and has nothing to do with this case.
Seeing this line of small words, Li Wen's mouth twitched...
While Li Wen was reading the newspaper, Secretary Liu next to him also said with a strange look on his face:
"All the contents were written according to Xu Le's request, but I don't quite understand why he came up with such a strange reason. Moreover, he exposed the information about Gu Yin's multiple offspring... Isn't that a bad thing? Will it alert the enemy?"
Li Wen shook his head slightly, then nodded:
"He just wanted to alert the enemy."
"Why? It would be difficult to catch him if we do that."
"Someone has to be held responsible for the attack on the Zion Progressive Building. If they don't put the blame on the descendants of Gu Yinduo, do they want us to take the blame?"
"Is he helping you? Does Xu Le have such a broad vision?"
Hearing Secretary Liu's words praising Xu Le, Li Wen became a little angry:
"He has a shitty vision. He can only see how much benefit he has gained and whether his enemies are dead or not. Help me? You think too much."
"Forehead… "
"But from this incident, we can basically confirm one piece of information."
"What?"
"Gu Yinduo's descendants are divided into different camps. This is why Xu Le specifically noted the distribution of the adamantium and wrote the situation so clearly."
"So what should we do now? Cooperate in arresting people?"
“We are not law enforcers, we are Zion progressive researchers, why are we arresting anyone
His purpose is to let the public know that they are a terrorist organization, an informal organization, and let the descendants of Gu Yinduo start a chaos on their own. You should learn more about this method of shifting the blame."
Li Wen glared at Secretary Liu, then picked up his coat from the hanger and was about to go out.
"Where is the Minister going?"
"I'm going to go see Xiao Cheng."
"yes."
…
Zion Progressor's 7th floor. Because the 8th floor was damaged too badly, all the injured were transferred to the 7th floor.
Among them are Xu Lei, Li Qingcheng, Wang Man and others.
Sha, the main person in charge of the art troupe, stood at the door of Wang Man's ward with a gloomy look on her face and started arguing with another person in the corridor.
"Everyone in the group has died, and the annual performance on the 9th is basically going to be cancelled."
"Miss Sha, can't you think of a solution?"
"There's no one left, what else can I do?"
While the two were arguing, Xu Le and Li Wen happened to come to the 7th floor. Li Wen came to visit Li Qingcheng, while Xu Le was looking at Wang Man.
After a few people met, they just had some simple eye contact and continued walking towards the ward.
But when Xu Le met Sha, his eyes lingered on Sha for a moment.
At the end of the road, Xu Le stopped and said to Li Wen with a smile:
"Uncle Li is here to see his daughter?"
"Don't beat around the bush, it's boring. Just say what you want to say." Li Wen simply closed his eyes.
"Um, Secretary Liu has a lot of information here, so I have something I want to ask Secretary Liu."
Xu Le spoke awkwardly, and Secretary Li looked at Xu Le only after Li Wen nodded:
"If you have anything to ask, just ask."
"That woman just now, the one with the beautiful big waves, is she from the art troupe?"
Secretary Liu closed his eyes slightly and pondered for a while. Xu Le didn't know whether he was thinking or something else, but he felt the spiritual energy.
And it is a very special psychic aura, some kind of warlock's ability
After a pause of about 1 minute, Secretary Liu opened his eyes:
"The head of the art troupe, Sha, is 29 years old. Although she is young, she has a lot of experience. She started organizing Zion's art propaganda projects when she was very young. She is considered a staff member directly under the parliament. What's wrong with that?"
"How many people know the personnel information of the art troupe?"
Li Wen narrowed his eyes slightly at this time. He had a certain understanding of Xu Le's question:
"You have a good chat with him. I'll go see Xiao Cheng."
"yes."
After Li Wen left, Secretary Liu looked at Xu Le:
"You doubt this Sha?"
"I just think there are too many coincidences. Song Xiaojia is a doctor who arranges physical examinations for the art troupe members, and then this kind of thing happens.
If she hadn't known the information of the art troupe members in advance, she wouldn't have been able to make such a judgment. Then who leaked the information of the art troupe members, mainly Wang Man's information, to Song Xiaojia?"
After hearing Xu Le's analysis, Secretary Liu nodded:
"I understand, but this matter needs time to investigate."
"clear."
After the two broke up, Xu Le came to Wang Man's room and promised Wang Man that he would come to see her again. As an honest and trustworthy man, he would naturally not break his promise at this time.
"Feeling better?"
"I wasn't injured in the first place, so it's not like I'm in any good or bad condition."
Xu Le saw the notebook next to Wang Man. Wang Man had almost no defense against him, so Xu Le also looked through the notebook once.
But the problem is that he couldn't see anything from this notebook. Only Wang Man himself could see it, and he read it with great interest.
In other words, he is not the one chosen by the so-called fate!
"Without power, yet with the ability to interfere, huh..." Xu Le secretly despised this statement.
"Brother Xu Le doesn't have to go to work today?"
"Of course I have to work. After all, Zion has been in turmoil for several days. This city shouldn't have so many rhythms."
"What's the meaning?"
"I just feel that there shouldn't be so many bad people in this city." Xu Le said with a smile.
"Yes, Zion used to be a very peaceful city, but now it has become very chaotic."
Wang Man's expression was somewhat gloomy, as she already knew that all her colleagues were dead.
This incident was a big blow to her, and Xu Le had no good way to comfort her, so Wang Man could only rely on herself to get over it.
"Brother Xu Le..." Wang Man spoke again, but her voice was blocked by some force again.
Xu Le quickly took out his black stick and placed it in front of Wang Man, and said:
"In the future, if I am not here and I don't take out the Black Staff to bless you, you can't talk about anything related to Lightforging. Do you understand?"
"knew."
Wang Man nodded guiltily. Xu Le had no intention of scolding her. Besides, their relationship was not that close. At least Xu Le didn't feel it was that close. They could just be described as ordinary friends.
"If you have anything to say, you can tell me now."
"I feel a light spreading around me. When I sleep now, I feel that the surroundings are bright. I feel a little uncomfortable..."
Xu Le nodded slightly after hearing Wang Man's explanation. He was not clear about the distance relationship between Guangzhu and Wang Man.
He was not very clear about the role of the pure people.
"Did anyone threaten you to do anything?"
"No."
"So what does he want from you?"
"Just meeting him every week and chatting about my things, stories, and what's happening around me."
Hearing this, Xu Le thought of Night Fury.
The requirements for the Lightforge sound similar to those for the Night Fury, but there are differences between the two.
Ye Fury had no interest in what was happening around him, or in the world. She just wanted to hear a story.
Everything else and the conversation is just incidental.
The other Night Demons, sons of Gu Yinduo, didn't care at all. Her daily routine was to make fire there.
So the Lightforged and Nightfuries are still different.
"Be vigilant against this Lightforge. Don't resist too much, because you have no room to resist such an existence. But you can't be too submissive either. You must have your own subjective thoughts."
"I see."
At this time, Xu Le still did not feel the ancient sound energy from Wang Man, nor did he feel anything like the red moon spiritual energy.
According to his original idea, if Guangzhu wanted to use Wang Man, he should give her some training or something like that.
But now there is none, so what is the reason for looking for Wang Man
Just chatting? Xu Le didn't believe it at all.
After ending the protection of the Black Rod, Xu Le asked casually:
"Oh, by the way, are you familiar with that Sha?"
"Sister Sha, she's our leader, and she arranged our schedule. After this incident, the performance is basically ruined.
This is all Sister Sha's hard work over the years. What a pity. Why did Brother Xu Le think of asking her what happened to her? "
"Nothing, I'm just asking casually. Okay, I'm going to work, you have a good rest." Xu Le narrowed his eyes and nodded.
"Okay, see you, Brother Xu Le."
Xu Le did not remind Wang Man to be careful of Sha.
It was meaningless, he didn't have any evidence, and even the Ancient Sound Multi-Vision didn't find anything.
Wang Man didn't have any thoughts. Reminding her rashly now would only expose her true colors.
Wang Man's identity at this time has become special. A person who can talk to Guangzhu is probably a huge object of competition for interests for other sons of Guyinduo.
Determine the location of the Lightforged Head... Perhaps this is of no use to ordinary people.
But for the descendants, even for the son of Gu Yinduo behind him, it has huge value.
For example, what Ye Fury said, eat
…
Coming out of Wang Man's room, Xu Le went straight out of the Zion Progressive Building. The environment of the building was indeed very suitable for research, but what they were going to do next was not very suitable to be done inside the Zion Progressive Building.
After hailing a taxi, Xu Le headed towards Area 1, the direction of the Chapel of Destiny.
After getting off the car and entering the hall of the chapel, Lai Lai came over very enthusiastically.
"Lord Xu Le."
The way she addressed Xu Le changed from "Mr." to "Sir," just like the way she addressed Xia Libo.
"Come here, Sister." Xu Le also nodded.
Soon, the sorcerer Luo walked out of the chapel on crutches, followed by Xia Libo.
Xu Le looked at Warlock Luo and opened his arms enthusiastically, feeling as if he was welcoming his long-lost brother.
"Sorcerer Luo, you seem to have recovered well. Doctor Xia even arranged a prosthesis for you, but you don't seem to be used to walking with it yet. I'm sorry about what happened yesterday, but you are free now."
"Freedom..." Warlock Luo had a strange expression.
The look he gave Xu Le was even stranger. Is it really possible to remove the mark of Gu Yinduo manually
"What do you want me to do for you?"
"Well, you have recovered a lot now. Can you try to replace it with some metals similar to gold?"
"… "
Warlock Luo's expression became more and more strange. He originally worked at Zion Progressors, so he was naturally familiar with researchers like Xu Le and Xia Libo:
“Researchers like you receive a huge amount of research and development funding every year, and you can spend this money freely. The Zion Progressives also provide you with unlimited amounts of materials. Why do you still want to be greedy for money
Are you doing this to justify Zion's investment and cultivation of you?"
Seeing the indignant look on Warlock Luo's face, Xu Le curled his lips and said to Xia Libo beside him:
"Look, I just said it casually, but he got anxious."
Xia Libo turned his head away, unwilling to talk to this hypocritical guy.
However, Xu Le expressed some of his true thoughts at this time.
"I think Warlock Luo's ability is very special and can be of some help to our next plan in terms of mechanical manufacturing. I plan to make a machine, so I left Mr. Luo's."
"Make a machine? Our research direction is biology, and we know nothing about mechanics. It's a blind crossing of boundaries..."
Xia Libo chattered a lot of nonsense to Xu Le. Xu Le knew that Xia Libo was very unrestrained in combat, but he was a very conservative person when it came to research and development.
He waved his hand at Xia Libo:
"Doctor Xia, please don't be anxious. Although what I want to make is a machine, it has a great relationship with biology. This will definitely require the full support of Mr. Xia Libo and all the R&D personnel in the entire laboratory."
"Machines related to biology? What do you mean?"
Xu Le pondered for a while. It was quite difficult to turn a strange idea into reality.
It can even be said that even his idea is still in its infancy.
"I want to build a stove."
Xia Libo frowned immediately. According to what Xu Le said before, shouldn’t their next research direction be to make Zion greater and then research a new energy core
"A stove? A stove that burns fire?"
"If a stove doesn't burn fire, can it still be called a stove? But... it doesn't necessarily just burn fire, maybe it can burn something else." Xu Le's eyes lit up slightly, the kind of expression that showed you were up to no good.
"I advise you to think carefully and not waste taxpayers' money. Okay, first tell me what kind of stove it is?"
Xia Libo wanted to dissuade him, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that he could not persuade Xu Le, so he simply asked about the specific situation first.
"I have an idea for an energy furnace, but I can't come up with a detailed drawing. I don't even know what the machine should look like, so it's a problem now.
I want to build the furnace bit by bit. Others cannot modify it anytime and anywhere with real objects, but Mr. Luo can. This requires Mr. Luo's replacement ability."
"No blueprints? Just an idea? You have to be down-to-earth when doing scientific research. You can't just rely on your imagination, okay?"
"I know." Xu Le nodded.
"So what are you going to burn?"
"This brings us back to the most basic energy issue. There are many types of energy in this world. For example, Moon Spirit is a very high-end energy. We can even use Moon Spirit and Moon Stone to create Moon Stone technology weapons.
So let's change our way of thinking. From the perspective of the opposite of Yue Ling, can Gu Yinduo also become a source of energy
Ancient Sound Energy is very extensive, and it can be said that it is everywhere in the world. Its distribution area is much richer than that of the Red Moon Spirit. Can we use it?"
After hearing Xu Le's idea, Xia Libo and Warlock Luo did not refute it for a while.
"It's not like no one has proposed this before, it's not a new proposal."
"Then what?"
"The ancient sound energy is indeed very extensive, but the key issue now is how to safely extract the ancient sound energy? The things that the ancient sound corresponds to are strange."
Xu Le nodded, agreeing with Xia Libo's statement:
"I know."
"Burning weird?"
"Yes, it's burning weirdness."
“This is dangerous!”
"I know it's dangerous." Xu Le nodded again.
"You know the danger and yet you propose this idea?"
“When there are difficulties, we need to overcome them instead of giving up.”
"Come on, tell me how to overcome it."
“For example, we can create a relatively closed environment, make the ancient sounds more bizarre, such as zombies, and lure them through some fixed means, making them run and chase, thus providing biological power.
After their biological energy is gradually exhausted, they will be thrown into the furnace I imagined before, so that they can release the last ancient sound energy in their lives and then return to nature..."
Xu Le's words became more and more ridiculous, and Xia Libo's expression became strange.
"You have a nice thought."
"Shouldn't people have some dreams? Are you going to keep researching with those clumsy ideas you had before?"
"My ideas are poor? I am the most outstanding researcher in Zion."
"You are now, and I guess I will be the next one."
Warlock Luo is not a scientific researcher, and he also has the curse planted by Xia Libo on his body, so he didn't dare to interrupt at this time.
All they could do was watch Xu Le and Xia Libo arguing endlessly.
After arguing for a long time, neither side had a clear answer, and finally returned to the original topic.
Regarding the weirdness, for example, using the rules of darkness and mental energy to spawn monsters, and then turning the weirdness into energy... This ridiculous-sounding project was finally approved.
As the main researcher, Xia Libo was the first to propose the first difficulty that needed to be overcome.
"How do we use rules to guide monsters to refresh? How should we correctly guide the flow of kinetic energy after the monsters refresh? If we use them as labor, what kind of planning should we do
Should we use the rules of darkness or the rules of mental energy?"
Xu Le pondered for a while. With the ancient sound multi-vision and the soul tree, he could almost be said to be on the side of the heart energy.
But if you think about it carefully, if the dark rules are really related to Big Brother, then he is not very far from the dark rules.
"The dark rules cannot determine the monster spawning, and the level 1 rules of the mental energy are just weird lures, so this matter must start from the level 1 mental energy rules."
"What about more specifics?"
"If you keep someone's heart energy at level 1 alert, they can continuously attract the surrounding monsters, and these monsters will spontaneously move in the direction of the heart energy..."
Xu Le talked a lot, but mental energy was not Xia Libo's forte, so he asked again:
"Can you be more specific?"
"Make a Heart Energy Trap to lure monsters..."
"I know you made a Heart Shield before, and now you've made a Heart Trap. Are all Red Moon Warlocks like you?"
"No, I'm not an ordinary Red Moon Warlock."
"Indeed, most Red Moon Warlocks are not as insidious as you. So should we still make the furnace?"
"Of course we have to do it. Burning the weirdness and restoring it to the furnace of ancient sound's multi-energy essence sounds great."
Xu Le looked at the warlock Luo who had been silent before, and asked with a smile:
"Does Mr. Luo also think we are great?"
"Well, probably." Luo didn't dare to refute.
…
A few days later, it was already January 9th.
In Li Wen's office, Li Wen was reviewing research funding applications from various research departments.
Li Wen felt a headache when he saw these bills. A large part of Zion’s financial resources were invested in these researches, and a large part of them were wasted.
Li Wen himself is aware of this situation, but can he stop it
cannot.
The young city of Zion needs to rely on constantly improving advanced technology to maintain its vitality and combat effectiveness.
Something like the steam engine was originally just a by-product of an alchemist's research.
But it was this unintentional by-product that changed the entire city, and it could even be said that it changed the landscape of the four major city-states.
If you block the funding for those research laboratories, they will accuse you of hindering Zion's technological progress, and even he, the logistics minister of Zion's progressives, will not be able to stand it.
After all, Zion does need to rely on technological advancement to maintain itself.
"Where's Xu Le's research funding application? Why can't I see it?"
"He... didn't apply." Secretary Liu answered truthfully.
"You didn't apply? You're such a loser."
Research funds are allocated according to a fixed fiscal proportion every year, which means that they must be distributed, no matter which department they are given to.
Li Wen had thought of giving some to Xu Le before, but he didn't expect that this guy was so useless that he couldn't even apply for excess funds. He was so stupid.
"Minister, Xu Le is here."
"Let him in."
Xu Le walked into the office with a smile and first put down a box of unpackaged tea.
"Uncle Li likes to drink tea. This is the Yu Lou Chun I prepared specially for you. It's guaranteed to be good."
Li Wen opened the tea leaves, took a look, and nodded:
"It's quite similar to the loose tea sold downstairs for 60 cents."
Xu Le: ... He drank it? You can tell from that
"Tell me what's the matter."
"I want to apply for some research funding, personnel, and... space."
Looking at Xu Le in front of him, Li Wen's expression became playful.
Is this kid finally going to get down to business
"You kidnapped Xia Libo and kept a fugitive with you all day. What on earth are you doing? Tell me what your project is."
“We call this project… The Crucible.”
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