Although it's four or five in the morning, such important information must be reported to superiors as soon as possible. Delay could lead to complications. The night is long and fraught with dreams.
Speaking of which, Fu Baifuzhang's search for Black Impermanence has been stalled for quite some time.
“Dudu~”
The ringtone rang for a full half-minute before it was finally connected, and Fu Qingyang's cold and ruthless voice came through:
"Calling me at this hour, it must be something important."
Sensing that he was suppressing his morning grumpiness, Zhang Yuanqing said, "Baifuzhang, I just went to see the Palace Master of Zhisha Palace."
Fu Qingyang was taken aback. "She requested it?"
"Yes!" Zhang Yuanqing said, "She invited me to meet and discussed some things, about the Xiahou family."
After speaking, Zhang Yuanqing heard the faint sound of the other party suddenly throwing off the quilt and sitting up. Then came Fu Qingyang's serious tone:
"The reason she almost killed Xiahou Tianwen?"
Sure enough, Fu Qingyang also noticed something unusual. Guan Ya could sense it, and Fu Qingyang, who was also a scout, would only be more敏锐…
Zhang Yuanqing didn't keep him in suspense and said:
"The Palace Master of Zhisha Palace said that the Xiahou Chi lineage are members of the Dark Night Rose."
There was no sound on the other end of the phone. After about five or six seconds, Fu Qingyang spoke. This time, his voice was extremely solemn:
"Are you sure?"
Zhang Yuanqing then relayed the situation said by the Palace Master of Zhisha Palace to Fu Qingyang, word for word.
"That's what she said, but I can't be sure of its authenticity, so I'm calling you to report."
Fu Qingyang slowly said:
"Behind the destruction of the Chu family, there is indeed the shadow of the Dark Night Rose. The target of the Soldiers' Sect in that turmoil was a Rule-class item belonging to the Musician profession. In this battle, the official response was a beat too slow. Someone interfered with the transmission of information. Only someone within the Five Elements Alliance could do this, and they would need to control a considerable amount of power."
After realizing that Black Impermanence was in private contact with the Dark Night Rose, Fu Qingyang called the elders of the Fu family and learned about the outline of the incident that year.
After the Chu family was destroyed, the Five Elements Alliance noticed the existence of the Dark Night Rose and conducted a secret cleansing within the organization.
However, this matter was detrimental to the official reputation, so it was kept secret and discussion was prohibited. Twenty-one years have passed, and the new generation of official practitioners basically doesn't know about this past event.
"So it seems that the Dark Night Rose is not only involved with Black Impermanence but also joined forces with the Soldiers' Sect to destroy the Chu family." Zhang Yuanqing frowned. "This organization has big plans."
Being able to infiltrate its members into Spirit Realm families and official organizations, the energy of the "Dark Night Rose" is unimaginable.
With such great power, yet hiding in the dark all the time, the things they are plotting must be unimaginable.
Fu Qingyang "hmm"ed, agreeing with his subordinate's statement, and said in a deep voice:
"Besides me, who else have you told?"
"I reported to Baifuzhang as soon as I got the news," Zhang Yuanqing replied.
Fu Qingyang immediately said: "This matter is not allowed to be leaked."
Judging from his tone, he seemed very satisfied with Zhang Yuanqing's answer.
"I understand!" Zhang Yuanqing then asked, "What is Baifuzhang planning to do with the Xiahou Chi lineage?"
Fu Qingyang sneered: "If you were a high-level member of the Dark Night Rose, what would you do after learning that Xiahou Tianyuan was imprisoned?"
"Pay close attention, and if there is a risk of exposing their identity, they would try to silence him," Zhang Yuanqing said thoughtfully.
"I will use the charge of endangering public security to keep Xiahou Tianyuan under control, and then cast a long line to catch big fish. Before that, I won't startle the snake." At this point, Baifuzhang's tone was no longer cold but gentle:
"Don't worry, as long as Xiahou Tianyuan is in my hands, Xiahou Chi and Xiahou Xin won't dare to retaliate against you. By the time I close the net, they won't have a chance to retaliate against you either."
Hoo! Zhang Yuanqing breathed a sigh of relief. In this way, the Xiahou family's matter can be considered over.
Fu Qingyang said: "There's no hurry to close the net now. In a few days, there will be a general physical examination. I plan to screen a round first to see the reactions of the official practitioners."
"General physical examination?"
Zhang Yuanqing's heart sank, and he thought of what the Devil Lord had said: I can't pass the general physical examination!
Fu Qingyang explained:
"The general physical examination is a welfare for the organization members from the high-level, and also supervision. The former can check and treat physical problems, and the latter can detect mental state and disposition. For the fallen, this is a mirror that will make them have nowhere to hide.
"People with a guilty conscience will reveal clues."
Don't let the Dark Night Rose people not be found by then, and end up finding a Devil Lord successor… Zhang Yuanqing had ten thousand alpacas galloping through his heart.
His subconscious thought was: It's your turn to appear again, little silly!
On second thought, is the general physical examination really that easy to avoid?
He'll go back and ask Guan Ya about the general physical examination. Zhang Yuanqing then asked:
"Baifuzhang, have there been any large-scale Slaughter Instances opened recently?"
Fu Qingyang shook his head: "Large-scale Slaughter Instances are concentrated in the middle and at the end of the year, and will not appear recently."
Strange, then how did the Palace Master of Zhisha Palace advance to the Ruler level? She had no need to deceive me… Zhang Yuanqing thought for a few seconds and said, "Baifuzhang, I have no more questions."
"Go back and rest!"
Young Master Fu rarely expressed concern for his subordinates.
The next morning, the big villa.
Three bunny girls were busy setting the breakfast on the table. Ling Jun yawned and sat down, greeting Fu Qingyang across from him:
"Morning~"
His eyes swept across Fu Qingyang's cold face and then moved back, scrutinizing him: "You seem to be in a good mood."
The corners of Fu Qingyang's mouth curled up slightly: "Because I discovered that serving people with virtue is more convincing than processing wages."
The same morning, in the presidential suite, the female assistant got up on time, washed up, dressed neatly, and then twisted open the door of the master bedroom to wake the young lady up.
"Ka-cha!"
The moment the door lock popped open, she felt as if she had broken through some kind of barrier, and an invisible wind was rippling in the room.
As the door opened, the scene of the master bedroom came into view.
Her own young lady was hung under the crystal chandelier by a faintly visible red rope, wearing only a pair of girls' underwear, a small bra, her fair and tender body was quite dazzling.
At this moment, she was looking at the female assistant entering the room with teary eyes.
The female assistant's face changed drastically, and she exclaimed, "Miss…"
She rushed forward to untie the slender, hair-like red rope.
"Who did it? Who did it?" The female assistant roared.
Xie Lingxi burst into tears and cried, "Palace Master Sister has been here, Brother Yuanshi harmed me, boo hoo~"
In her intermittent sobbing, the female assistant understood that at dawn, the Palace Master of Zhisha Palace had been here. It seemed that because the young lady had revealed her background to outsiders, she had hung the young lady up and beaten her.
The female assistant thought to herself, it's good, it's good, it's just a beating.
When she saw the young lady stripped naked just now, she thought that a flower thief had sneaked into the hotel and taken the young lady's chastity. Once the family asked for responsibility,
she would have to commit seppuku to apologize.
Good Music Hotel.
Wang Qian condescendingly looked down at his three companions and said in a deep voice, "You look really good from this angle."
The three companions looked at him with pity.
Wang Qian was silent for a moment and tentatively said, "The Palace Master has already left, can you let me down?"
The companions looked up at him and shook their heads one after another: "We think you look very good from this angle too."
After Zhang Yuanqing returned home, he took a nap for a while until he was awakened by his grandmother's knock on the door.
He put on his shoes and came to the living room, and saw his listless cousin and aunt. The two who had worked the night shift had already returned and were sitting at the dining table waiting to be fed.
Chen Yuanjun rubbed his eyebrows and looked at his listless cousin, shaking his head:
"You stayed up all night playing games again last night, right? I want to sleep but can't sleep, and you can sleep but don't sleep."
No, I also want to sleep but can't sleep. The sun is shining outside, it's the perfect time to sleep… Zhang Yuanqing sighed. He was already an elf of the night, but he was forced to be active during the day.
The aunt on the side took the opportunity to make a complaint, and said coquettishly, "Mom, your grandson stayed up all night playing games last night, you go and beat him."
Stinky woman, what have I done to offend you! Zhang Yuanqing shouted, "Mom, your daughter said she's going to stay up all night playing games with me tonight."
Grandma ignored them.
After breakfast, Zhang Yuanqing returned to his room and summoned Little Silly, letting him crawl around the room by himself.
"The Xiahou family's matter has come to an end, so I don't need to worry about it for now, but this general physical examination is making me a little uneasy.
"Also, it's time to train Little Silly. Spirit Servants and zombies are important methods for Night Wanderers in the later stages to defeat the enemy. The spirit seal I control can't refine zombies yet, so I'll enhance Little Silly first."
He believes that training Little Silly is very necessary. On the one hand, it's to improve the Spirit Servant's intelligence, and on the other hand, it's to improve his strength.
Before the third Instance, the ways he can improve his strength are limited. Devouring Spiritual Bodies is already difficult to increase experience points, and it's obviously unrealistic to hunt down evil professions in order to level up.
Then he can only enhance his strength by training Spirit Servants.
Glancing at the infant spirit crawling around the game console, Zhang Yuanqing was a little troubled: "The problem is, I don't have any materials to refine Spirit Servants…"
Simply using Lunar Force to nourish the Spirit Body, the Spirit Body's growth rate is very slow, and its quality won't change.
Therefore, materials are needed. Materials from different professions will give the Spirit Body different characteristics, and the meaning of the Spirit Seal is to strip out the spirituality in the materials and add it to the Spirit Body.
However, not any material can be used to refine Spirit Servants. There are two restrictions: one is materials that belong to Yin, and the other is materials that are compatible with the Spirit Body.
The former is not difficult to distinguish, but as for the latter, only the Spirit Body itself knows whether it is compatible or not.
Little Silly was affected by the Musician profession's item and became a Spirit Servant. In theory, the subsequent training direction may be inclined towards this profession.
"I don't know what materials Little Silly's 'constitution' is compatible with, and what abilities he will gain. If it's the type with unlimited potential, then Little Silly will be able to go to battle on behalf of his father in the future."
Thinking of this, Zhang Yuanqing couldn't help but look forward to it.
But the problem is, he doesn't have any materials, and he doesn't know where to find materials.
"Sure enough, I still have to go to Guan Ya. She knows a lot."
After becoming an official practitioner, Zhang Yuanqing developed the habit of asking Guan Ya Jie when he has problems, and being an old driver when he has nothing to do. Guan Ya has been playing the role of "teacher,"
teaching him how to write reports, giving him popular science about Spirit Realm knowledge, and so on.
So far, except for not wanting to teach him how to practice squats and show off her arm strength, Guan Ya is still a very competent teacher.
He put on a mask and baseball cap, went out quietly, took a taxi to the Kangyang District Security Bureau, bypassed the administrative building, and arrived at the two-story glass building in the back.
The True Eye Foreman is resting at home, and there are only Guan Ya and Wang Tai on the second floor.
Zhang Yuanqing greeted Wang Tai tirelessly, then pulled over an office chair and sat next to Guan Ya.
As soon as Guan Ya saw this posture, she knew that something was up. She turned sideways, facing him directly, and smiled:
"Take your eyes off my chest, and tell me, what's the matter."
"They all say that women with big breasts have no brains. I want to know, how did you manage to have both?" Zhang Yuanqing used the tone that old drivers like to use as an opening.
"How do you know this isn't fake?" Guan Ya said with a very self-deprecating spirit.
"Then you're done for!"
"Huh?"
"When your child is born in the future, he will angrily say: Mom, is there still safe milk in the world?"
"Hahaha…" Guan Ya's chest was a mess of colors from laughing.
Satisfying the old driver's habits, Zhang Yuanqing got to the point:
"I heard that there will be a general physical examination in a few days? I haven't been in contact with this kind of activity before, what kind of items are there? Please don't tell me one-stop service, we're talking about serious business."
He believes that based on the possible problems of official practitioners, if they are simply divided into good people and bad people, at least more than 50% of the people have problems.
Guan Ya said:
"Divided into two categories, one is to check the body, and the other is to detect the spirit.
"The former can check for diseases in the body, and whether it has been controlled by others. The latter is more complicated. If it is subdivided, the first is to detect whether the spirit is normal, whether there are mental illnesses. This step is done by props.
"The second is a lie detector. The content of the lie detector varies. Sometimes it is asking about moral values and reputation values, and sometimes it is directly asking whether you have betrayed the organization.
"Finally, there is a Q&A, with a high-level binghou asking questions face-to-face. He will analyze you based on your feedback."
I should be able to pass the lie detector, and there should be no problem with the mental test. I'm not crazy, but the advanced scout is a bit of a headache. I don't know if it's the deacon or the elder who will come forward… Zhang Yuanqing then asked:
After I get leveled up, I want to collect some yin materials to do experiments, but I don't know how to get materials."
Without thinking, Guan Ya gave the answer:
"There are two ways, one is to submit an application to the organization and choose from the organization's inventory. According to the merits and position, you can enjoy a certain discount, which is very cost-effective.
"The second way is to go to the black market, Qiu Qiu. There are several black markets in Songhai, which are gathered by folk organizations and wild Spirit Realm practitioners. Official practitioners sometimes go there too."
"Does our branch allow black markets?" Zhang Yuanqing asked.
"It's not allowed, but the existence of black markets is tacitly allowed. As long as there is a transaction, this thing will definitely appear. It can't be stopped by banning it. A typical example is drugs and human trafficking." Guan Ya said:
"So the branch tacitly allows the existence of black markets, but only people with certain official backgrounds or relationships can open black markets, trying to keep them under control. Our Kangyang District's 'Fist King' Captain is the person in charge of the black market in this district."
Zhang Yuanqing nodded, thought carefully, and decided to go to the black market to have a look.
Although you can get a certain discount by finding materials from the branch's inventory, which is more economical, the outgoing materials will be registered.
People who know the goods will know that he wants to refine Spirit Servants when they see the materials he chooses. Zhang Yuanqing doesn't want people to know that he has Spirit Servants yet, after all, it has only been more than twenty days since Yuan Ting's questioning of him.
I'm going to the black market."
"Then I'll take you there after get off work," Guan Ya said.
Old driver is so good. Zhang Yuanqing nodded, and then heard Guan Ya cough and said seriously:
"Later, the acting foreman and another colleague will be coming over."
"So fast?" Zhang Yuanqing was stunned: "Didn't the foreman say tomorrow."
Guan Ya smiled sideways: "They heard about your deeds of not hesitating to offend the Xiahou family to rescue the hostages, admire you very much, and decided to come over early."
ps: Fix the typos later and update first.