Chapter 199 After the Press Conference

The changes in the sky, while marvelous and astonishing, did not stop normal work from continuing, as no one was quite sure what impact they would ultimately have.

"Everything is under control. You ask my evaluation of this expedition? A perfect score of ten! And I'd give my own work a ten!"

This was Su Zhou's attitude, which he expressed passionately at the press conference: "Yes, the Qingqiu people are our compatriots. Since ancient times, the Qingqiu Star has been an inseparable part of our civilization as successors to the immortals and gods. However, the Qingqiu people have just emerged from disaster, so please do not disturb them too much. Give them time to quietly rebuild their homes. We have official donation addresses..."

"Any information I can reveal? I've broken through to the Overlord realm. Other than that, I can only say 'no comment.' Next."

"Hmm, why is everyone silent?"

"No next question? Then this press conference is over."

With many reporters somewhat distracted, Su Zhou used his Overlord-level aura to easily control the situation, successfully hosting and smoothly concluding the press conference regarding the Qingqiu Realm.

Although several thousand Qingqiu people are currently temporarily taking refuge on Earth, as the Qingqiu Star gradually returns to normal, the vast majority of Qingqiu people will return to their homeland in the future and rebuild their homes.

Under this major condition, the Qingqiu Star is temporarily closed to travel and tours—not only because the spacecraft and teleportation arrays cannot handle the traffic, but also because of concerns about various unknown wild germs and the remnants of the 'Heavenly Devils' (tianmo) mind virus.

However, a group of Qingqiu people, led by Gu Zechuan, are willing to 'pledge allegiance' to Su Zhou.

Or, as it is said now, they are willing to serve as communication ambassadors, bridges of communication between Qingqiu and Earth, and work in the relevant departments of the New World Exploration Department.

"That's about it. Not bad performance."

As the press conference ended, Su Zhou turned his head and said to the white fox, who still looked dazed, in the backstage of the venue.

Gu Zechuan was still a bit confused.

As Su Zhou's loyal follower and one of the representatives of the Qingqiu people, he had been bombarded with questions from reporters and was stammering.

"Ah, yes, yes. Supreme Su has helped us Qingqiu people a lot. He led us to fight against the heavens—against many evil beings. All the Qingqiu people are grateful for the Divine Court's support this time."

"That's right, the First Emperor and the Yu Emperor are the immortals and gods we worship the most, our ancestors... Since ancient times? Of course, since ancient times! It has been like this since before the establishment of the Qingqiu Kingdom!"

"Is there anything worth mentioning on Qingqiu Star? I don't think so, because of the destruction caused by many evil beings, many of our big cities..." "Let me say this part."

If Su Zhou hadn't often interjected or simply taken over, the young white fox might have accidentally revealed confidential information about the Heavenly Devils and the Lord of War (bingzhu).

"I lost my composure, Your Excellency."

Having never seen the spectacle of Earthling interviews, Gu Zechuan took a deep breath. His handsome face was full of shame as he clenched his fingers and resolved, "If there is a next time, I will practice more and strive not to make any more mistakes!"

"Haha, you didn't make any mistakes, just almost made a mistake... It's good that you have the intention. But based on your looks, if the department needs a spokesperson for any press conference in the future, you will naturally be the best choice, saving me from having to appear every time."

Su Zhou didn't take it seriously. He wouldn't care even if he made a mistake—it was just a press conference. In the time to come, it was most important to have in-depth exchanges of culture and skills between the two sides.

For thousands of years, the Qingqiu people developed the 'Dao Armor' (dao kai) technology to fight against evil beings, which has a similar approach to Earth's exoskeleton armor... Both sides can learn from each other, making rapid progress in related design skills.

Speaking of which, for so many years, he always wanted an exoskeleton armor, but he still hasn't worn one yet...

But that's thinking too far ahead.

At this moment, the young man lowered his head and looked at a boy on the other side, who, although young, had a hint of maturity in his expression and a head of silver-white hair. Su Zhou's tone was amiable: "Little Yin, how are you feeling?"

"I'm... fine."

At this time, the boy called Little Yin was still vigilantly and curiously observing the environment of the Two Worlds Fortress and the appearance of various Earth creations. He replied weakly, his thin lips pursed, as if he were smiling.

His face was as beautiful as all Qingqiu people, with a slightly pointed chin, but his figure was a bit thin, even for a teenager, making him feel like he could be blown away by the wind. However, his silver-white shoulder-length hair was very dazzling, reflecting the light.

He was none other than the Ice Fox Elder from the Ice Fox Clan, whom Su Zhou and others had found on Qingqiu Four.

Compared to other Qingqiu people, the Ice Fox Clan on Qingqiu Four obviously needed the most treatment—no need to say much about the suffering they endured physically over the millennia and generations. The most terrible thing was the mental wear and tear they suffered.

In addition, they sealed the shattered core soul of the Lord of War for nearly a thousand years. This alone was immeasurable merit and an unparalleled achievement. It could even be said to be one of the greatest contributors to the entire Qingqiu Star.

Therefore, in the beginning, the entire Ice Fox Clan, along with the Ice Fox collective consciousness, were sent to the Zhengguo Kunlun Secret Realm to receive treatment from several Pseudo-Dao Family masters.

Because they had been transformed for too long, they had almost forgotten that they were human. This has been recorded and treated in various Pseudo-Dao Families, but it takes a long time... The best way to treat the Ice Foxes is to have them work with professional human doctors.

However, the Ice Fox Elder's fox body was too old. If he continued to maintain it, it might lead to the demise of both his body and soul. Therefore, he could only be forced to maintain his human form, and then he would be slowly taught.

Fortunately, the Ice Fox Elder was very intelligent and had a lot of humanity originally. After transforming into a human, he quickly grasped the current situation. He even gave himself the name 'Bing Yin' (Ice Silver) in the following studies.

Originally, Bing Yin should still be receiving restorative treatment in the Kunlun Secret Realm, but because he insisted on seeing the human world and adjusting his values, Su Zhou took him to the press conference.

Of course, Su Zhou knew very well that this was just the superficial reason. The most important thing was actually another point.

"I, I have seven grandchildren and granddaughters... I have even more great-grandchildren and great-granddaughters... But I'm only fourteen years old..."

Su Zhou remembered that Bing Yin, who had been very calm and wise, showed a desperate expression when he finally understood the relevant human ethics and looked at the recovering Ice Foxes outside the window: "Your Excellency, please, please take me away from here... I can't stay here any longer!"

"Please, Your Excellency, I'm willing to do anything. Please let me leave here..."

At that time, the Ice Fox Elder would have basically fainted if Su Zhou hadn't extended a hand for him to hold onto—Heavenly Venerable is above, especially with the gradual recovery of various human knowledge inherited in Bing Yin's bloodline, he was collapsing at this moment. The hardship of leading the Ice Fox Clan to survive in the Arctic for more than ten years was not as great as the blow he received that day.

--It was too miserable. Even Su Zhou couldn't help shaking his head. This was really something that made men silent and women tearful.

Su Zhou naturally agreed to the request of the Ice Fox Elder, a beautiful boy with a high seniority... To be honest, this was really difficult to solve. After all, the reproductive period of the fox body and the human body were indeed different. Moreover, in the era when spiritual energy was cut off, there were very few Pseudo-Dao cultivators who were forced to maintain their Pseudo-Dao True Body. There were even fewer who had to reproduce in their True Body form. There had been no precedent from the Immortal God era to now.

In order to prevent Bing Yin, a great-grandparent in his teens, from seeing his 10- and 11-year-old sons and daughters, 6- and 7-year-old grandsons and granddaughters, and 2- and 3-year-old great-grandsons and great-granddaughters every day and falling into self-loathing, Su Zhou used his privileges to take him out of the sanatorium and took care of him himself while entrusting him to Gu Zechuan.

Fortunately, Bing Yin has roughly emerged from the intense mental shock and is now barely normal. However, everyone knows how awkward it will be when the Ice Fox Clan meets in the future.

Fortunately, Bing Yin was not a female, otherwise he would be a fourteen-year-old great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother.

After the press conference, Gu Zechuan took Bing Yin away.

As a bridge of communication between the Qingqiu Fox Clan and humans, he still had many things to do, and Su Zhou couldn't pay attention to him all the time—and the other party was essentially a very organized and powerful-minded person, and the young man believed that he could handle things on his own.

Although he wanted to know if there was a huge wave of public opinion on the Internet because he had broken through to the Overlord level, Su Zhou had other things to do at the moment.

Just like now—as the reporters and staff of the Two Worlds Fortress dispersed, Su Zhou's group of relatives and friends also came over.

"Minister, congratulations on advancing to the Overlord realm!"

The first one to come out was Tang Yuan. The pale-faced young man wasn't surprised at all—after all, he had already been surprised on Qingqiu Star. Su Zhou's breakthrough to the Overlord realm and becoming an Earth Immortal was nothing new to him.

"You're not worried about me at all." "Isn't that because I trust you?"

The two chatted and joked for a few words, and then the topic turned to work. Tang Yuan reported to Su Zhou on the process of donating money and materials to the Qingqiu people. Many merchants also expressed relevant intentions to cooperate. Su Zhou listened carefully and made some instructions on the major aspects. He left the rest to Tang Yuan to be responsible for—after all, if he had to handle everything in detail, Su Zhou wouldn't need to cultivate and would just stay in the office all day long.

Even Tang Yuan couldn't handle everything. As Su Zhou's secretary, he also had many employees under his command.

After finishing his official business, Tang Yuan let out a long sigh: "That's roughly the situation, Minister. There are some things that are not convenient to say here, such as the fact that you need to go to the office to sign for the report from the Dao Discipline Bureau."

"Next, are you planning to return to Tiandu to report on your duties, or are you going to return to Hongzhou first? Do you need me to arrange it?"

"...I'll return to Tiandu to report on my duties first. There are still many things on Qingqiu Star that the previous report couldn't explain clearly."

It wasn't that Su Zhou didn't want to see his family, but he had already seen his mother on Qingqiu Star, so there was no need to rush it—anyway, his father would definitely watch the press conference and know that he was doing well.

As for the arrangement of the vehicle...

"By the way, Tang Yuan, do you know that the intelligent AI of my exclusive car has upgraded its intelligence because it chatted with you?"

"Ah?"

Hearing this, Tang Yuan was a little confused at first, but soon, his expression changed slightly: "Wait, could it be..."

At this moment, Tang Yuan's expression became a little strange.

When Su Zhou saw this, he was also a little puzzled—could it be that Tang Yuan didn't know about this?

That shouldn't be the case, after all, he spent the most time with that car...

The young man didn't use the Mind of No Thought to deliberately pry into Tang Yuan's inner thoughts. He just sensed Tang Yuan's confusion and a hint of realization.

This immediately made the young man raise his eyebrows—could it be that there was some hidden secret about the car AI's upgrade? Interesting.

Thinking this way, Su Zhou didn't intend to take it any further and pry into other people's minds.

Except for the period of time after he advanced to the Earth Immortal, when his supernatural powers broke through, he would always use them passively. He would basically not deliberately sense other people's inner thoughts.

After all, for friends, it was a bit disrespectful.

"In short, tell me if anything happens."

"Yes, I understand, Minister."

He instructed Tang Yuan in this way. After he retreated, Su Zhou heard footsteps waiting outside the door.

It was Shao Qiming and Jin Qiong.

"You've actually advanced to the Overlord realm. I've been worried about you for months!"

"You would actually worry about me, instead of worrying about my enemies?"

"I'm worried that you're killing too much. That's what's scary!"

There wasn't much small talk between Su Zhou and Shao Qiming. The two laughed and hugged, and then talked about Shao Shuwu and Auntie's concerns during this period, complaining about not having any news for so long. Su Zhou's parents were also worried about him—they didn't say much else.

So later, Su Zhou turned his head and looked at Jin Qiong on the side, quite curious: "Little Jin, why are you here too?"

"What's wrong with me coming?!"—This was the angry rebuke he imagined in his mind. In reality, a certain Golden-Winged Bird dared not say such things.

"Because everyone is concerned about the Professor."

In fact, in reality, Jin Qiong said softly and gently, "The others are all preparing for the graduation exam recently. Sister Ye Yu is in seclusion, and Wan Jing and Han Shan are also in their respective hometowns receiving training, so they entrusted me to send you a greeting card and a small gift."

Su Zhou's team, which he was responsible for teaching, had long known that Su Zhou had advanced to the Earth Immortal, so they had prepared corresponding greeting cards and gifts as congratulations.

Li Yeyu made a small shadow pouch using her 'Communicate with the Netherworld' ability, which could be considered a kind of space equipment, but it could only hold a little change.

Guan Wanjing sent a stone carving that he had made with his bare hands. It was said to be a byproduct of controlling his power during cultivation. The image of the stone carving was Su Zhou's true form when he fought against the Crostar exploration ship, which was very majestic and domineering.

Li Hanshan sent a hat woven from Chongming feathers—he often saw Su Zhou wearing half a hat (transformed by Yala), and thought that Su Zhou's hat was broken, so he sent him this hat.

By the way, the hat was black.

The gifts were not heavy, and the greeting cards were not very exquisite, but they were all handmade and very sincere, which made Su Zhou feel a little touched.

He didn't expect that so many people would care about him during the past few months of fighting in another world... But it wasn't surprising, after all, it was him.

He, Su Zhou, was not a jinx. Not only did he have both parents alive and well, but he also had many relatives and friends. This was a matter of course!

Shao Qiming also smiled and watched Su Zhou holding the greeting card and showing a smile—as Su Zhou's friend who knew the most truth, he had always been worried that Su Zhou's travel to various worlds and fighting alone would cause him mental problems... But now it seemed that there was no need to worry too much.

After all, Su Zhou not only had a very strong heart, but also had a group of people supporting and caring for him. In that case, the young man would never embark on the path of loneliness.

However, Shao Qiming seemed to have suddenly remembered something, so he made his petrified hair stand up and transform into a wooden hand, patting Su Zhou on the shoulder—because his cultivation of the Divine Wood True Body had improved recently, he had developed such a habit: "By the way, A'Zhou, there's something."

"What's the matter?" Su Zhou blinked. He knew that this was something confidential, so he used soul communication to reply: "Confidential? If it's confidential, let's talk about it when we get home."

"It's not very confidential. In general, it's that Crocell—you know who he is—has recently discovered a lot of anomalies in the ritual and wants to report them to you in detail. He hopes that you can find time to meet with him."

"Crocell, huh..."

Hearing this name, Su Zhou couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Crocell, the new leader of the Saint Serpent Litanic Society, can also be considered half a person who has sworn allegiance to him.

Because Yala was with him, they had to obey Su Zhou's management if they wanted to maintain their organization.

Generally speaking, Crocell would rather die than have too much contact with Su Zhou, and if it was something that Qiming had to specifically instruct him on, then this matter was definitely not small, and there must be very important information.

"Go see him."

At this moment, Yala, who was originally disguised as Su Zhou's tie, suddenly emerged from Su Zhou's collar with a serious tone: "That guy has some of my former information in his hands. I can vaguely feel that that matter is indeed very important to you."

Su Zhou ignored Jin Qiong's exclamation of 'You're carrying a snake on your body!' and the subsequent mumbling of 'It would be great if your true form was like this too'. He raised his eyebrows, and thoughtfully said, "Even you say so, Yala, then it seems that I really have to find some time to meet him."

At a time when the pioneers, destiny, and various great beings have begun to implement their plans to change the entire multiverse... No seemingly subtle information can be ignored.

At the same time.

Zhengguo, Hongzhou, Hongcheng, the Shao family mansion.

In the boudoir of the girl with a demon-expelling power as high as 295.

"Tch, looking at this, there's nothing wrong with him. The problem is with his enemies, okay!"

Having just finished watching the Qingqiu press conference and confirming that Old Brother Su was indeed okay, Shao Shuangyue, who was yawning and tidying up her hair, couldn't help but complain: "He hasn't had any news for half a year. He must have gone to pet foxes, right?"

"Half a year! Do you know how I've been spending the past half a year?! Do you know?!"

"I pet foxes every day, it's so great!" She even imitated Su Zhou's tone vividly, and then planned to go to sleep: "Forget it, forget it, I have class tomorrow, I'll go to sleep first..."

This year was the year of her Holy Ascension Selection Test. Since the beginning of this semester, Shao Shuangyue had basically not played any games and had been studying hard every day. Of course, this didn't mean that she didn't buy games. After all, sometimes buying a game was the same as playing it, playing it was the same as having a special skill, and playing it a few times was the same as having an absolute skill.

However, just as Shao Shuangyue was about to get up, turn off the computer, and fall headfirst onto her bed.

Suddenly, a prompt box appeared on her computer screen.

[Do you desire to become stronger?]