mysterious forerunner

Chapter 409 [Secret Eyes]

This final hurdle is not a rigid restriction, such as being unable to ascend to a True God without a True God Secret Treasure.

But it is a limitation of Zhang Qingxiang himself.

In fact, at this time, Zhang Qingxiang can integrate the [Secret Treasure of True and True God] at any time and try to become a true god.

Even if the mysterious power accumulated in the body is not enough, it is not a problem.

For professionals at this level, the accumulation of strength is no longer a step-by-step training and improvement as in the early stages.

If necessary, you can connect to the secret world and draw it directly.

Zhang Qingxiang’s key point is: the confidence that he will become a true God.

After all, I didn't reach that height in my previous life. After my rebirth, I have come to this point step by step. Although all my plans have had twists and turns, I have achieved my goals.

China is becoming increasingly powerful in the field of mystery and is undoubtedly leading the world. Both the APP [Mysterious Pioneer] and the Academy of All Nations have already surpassed North America.

A large number of top professionals have been trained.

The complete Secret Security Bureau and the framework of the [Twelve-Storied Tower] have been set up, and we can just develop them step by step in the future.

At the same time, Europe and North America were severely weakened, and the dogs around China were also secretly weakened.

Everything seemed to be going well, but for Zhang Qingxiang, he was always full of awe for the True God.

This is a fixed mindset from the previous life, which is difficult to change in a short period of time.

Moreover, there is nothing fundamentally wrong with being full of awe for the True God.

Zhang Qingxiang stood at the threshold of the [True God], feeling the most uncertain he had ever been since his rebirth - but this in itself was not a problem.

No matter how well prepared you are, you can't guarantee that everything will go wrong.

This is the [True God] after all!
In the previous life, professionals around the world did a statistics and found that the success rate of professionals on Earth to be promoted to [True God] was only... one percent.

This success rate refers to the success rate of the third-level [Domination Realm] plan to be promoted to a true god.

If we calculate from the time he started working... I'm afraid it's less than one billionth.

The probability of monsters in the [Secret World] being promoted to Elephant Lords will only be lower.

But this mentality still proves one thing, that Zhang Qingxiang must first overcome his own psychological barrier.

In addition to his own self-confidence, Zhang Qingxiang found that his mentality was more concerned with: he couldn't let go.

He couldn't let go of the entire China, his parents, the little girl, Bai Tianhou, Shi Luo, Tian Mingkun, Feng Lintong and other good friends.

Whenever Zhang Qingxiang was about to go on an adventure, he would arrange everything in advance.

However, to be promoted to a [True God] requires an indomitable and desperate mentality.

After thinking about it for more than ten days, Zhang Qingxiang came up with a way to break through his mentality: go to the [Secret Realm] to meet a certain elephant master.

Face the powerful one at the level of true god!
Then get out of it safely and build up a strong mindset for yourself.

This time, Zhang Qingxiang did not make any arrangements, nor did he meet anyone to say goodbye. One morning, just like going to work, Zhang Qingxiang got up, dressed, washed up, and ate breakfast. Then he called the little girl and said, "I'm not going to the bureau today. I'm going out for a while and may not be back for a few days."

"Oh, okay." After just being reunited for more than ten days, they had to separate again. The little girl was obviously not in a good mood, but she didn't complain about anything.

……

In the capital, the new Secret Security Bureau headquarters has been completely completed and all departments have moved in.

There is a twelve-story independent office building in the northwest corner, separated from other buildings by a large green belt and connected only by one road.

They go to the cafeteria later than other departments at noon, and the cafeteria has a small hall specially set up for them.

Even when eating, they are prevented from having much contact with other employees.

The building is the General Inspection Office of the Secret Security Bureau.

A department that specializes in investigating "our own people".

In any organization, this kind of department is the most hated, but it must exist.

The director's name is Xing Zhifeng, and he is one of the most powerful people in the Secret Security Bureau, second only to the three elders.

In fact, after Mr. Xu fell from power, many forces that had originally been dependent on Mr. Xu finally defected to Xing Zhifeng.

Judging from Xing Zhifeng's personality, he is indeed very suitable for internal audit work.

He has always disliked people like Zhang Qingxiang, Guan Xuanbai, and He Xu.

Xing Zhifeng feels that their power is too strong. Although they play a big role and have made many contributions, this type of people often gain too many "privileges", which leads them to act arbitrarily and fail to abide by the rules!

Xing Zhifeng’s inspection department investigates people who violate the rules.

Serious violations are illegal!
The Inspection Department is almost completely independent of the General Administration. It was established by Xing Zhifeng from top to bottom, and it is almost a solid block.

Xing Zhifeng had the most opinions about Zhang Qingxiang.

In addition to the above reasons, it is also because the director of the Inspection Department of the Northwest Bureau is Liang Zimian.

He is Zhang Qingxiang's man. Zhang Qingxiang arranged his own people to the Inspection Department to supervise himself?
That's too much.

Xing Zhifeng has always wanted to remove Liang Zimian from his position, but he has never been able to find any fault with him.

Two months ago, the Inspection Office made significant progress in its work.

It wasn't that some "big fish" was caught, but rather that a field agent from the General Administration brought back a precious secret object from a shipwreck off the coast of the peninsula.

The professionals from the peninsula countries tried their best to stop them, and the two sides fought secretly four times.

Both countries in the north and south of the peninsula have taken action.

They are worthy of their ancestors and are all extremely confident. The field officer's strength is not ranked in the top 20 in the General Administration, but it is easy for him to deal with the two countries on the peninsula. He repeatedly repelled the blockades and brought the things back.

Today, this secret object has been debugged for two months and can operate smoothly.

Xing Zhifeng appeared in a secret room deep underground early in the morning, wearing a neat uniform.

There are eleven staff members on duty in the Inspection Department.

"Director!" When everyone saw Xing Zhifeng coming in, they immediately stood up and saluted.

Xing Zhifeng pressed his palms together: "Sit down. How is the [Secret Eye]?"

"It's running smoothly. We have been monitoring twenty-four subjects for one hundred and forty hours straight."

"Well done." Xing Zhifeng said, looking carefully at the secret object behind the glass wall.

It was a large blue and white jar from the Yuan Dynasty, filled with a viscous light blue liquid, in which was soaked a whale's eyeball as big as a human head.

Xing Zhifeng looked around and ordered, "Turn off all surveillance."

Everyone was stunned. Xing Zhifeng glanced at them coldly: "Huh?"

Everyone shuddered, and a middle-aged male team leader immediately stood up and cut off all surveillance inside and outside the office, then ordered everyone: "Turn off the recorders on your body."

Everyone silently turned off the recorder on their chest.

After Xing Zhifeng confirmed it, he gave another order: "Retrieve the whereabouts records of employee Zhang Qingxiang!"

Several young employees were shocked. They looked at each other and no one dared to proceed.

They knew that the director was going to do something "shocking", but they didn't expect that he wanted to monitor that person!
Although Xing Zhifeng has been instilling the so-called "independent thinking and independent case handling" concept in his subordinates, and repeatedly emphasized to everyone that all employees of the Secret Security Bureau are not our colleagues, but the objects of our work.

Never become emotionally attached to the people you work for.

His subordinates also agree with Xing Zhifeng's idea. In their eyes, even the three elders are both their superiors and the objects of their work.

But...that person is different after all!
It can be said that every mysterious practitioner in China knows who is the most special one.

Xing Zhifeng was really annoyed this time and glared at the middle-aged male team leader.

A few drops of cold sweat oozed out of the team leader's temples. He then angrily pushed the young man under him away and operated the [Mystical Eye] himself.

"A bunch of rubbish!" The team leader cursed angrily, "What is there to be afraid of? He is just our target!"

"Moreover... through secret surveillance by the [Secret Dragon Eye], the target will not be able to sense anything."

It's a pity that the last sentence gave him away, it was just to give himself courage...

As long as you know the target's birth time, or feed some of the target's hair into the tank, you can monitor the target's actions at any time.

And it will not be noticed by the target.

In this respect, [Secret Dragon Eye] is far superior to the secret object like the live broadcast camera that Daying once had. When that thing is broadcasting live, people above the Command Realm can sense that they are being monitored.

But at the same time, the side effects of [Secret Long Eye] are extremely strong.

For the Inspection Office, this is also a "waste of resources".

Therefore, after the initial operational tests are completed, this large secret object should be sealed up. Only when definite evidence of a crime is obtained will the procedure be initiated to track and monitor the criminal.

However, Xing Zhifeng, who always claimed to maintain the "procedural justice" of the entire Secret Security Bureau, took the initiative to violate procedures and wanted to use this secret object against Zhang Qingxiang.

If [Secret Eye] is used to monitor the Secret Security Bureau, no one can escape.

Because the [Secret Eye] has been connected to the [Mirror of the Heart].

Each agent registered on the [Mirror of the Heart].

After the transfer of the [Mirror of the Heart], Xing Zhifeng was very confident that no matter how powerful Zhang Qingxiang was, he would never be able to realize that he was secretly monitoring him.

The middle-aged team leader operated it personally, and soon the eye in the large vat behind the glass wall began to float and move, and the pupils converged and diverged, as if it was adjusting the focus.

Soon, a vast and boundless picture was projected onto the glass wall in front of him.

Everyone in the room looked at the screen in amazement. A young female agent couldn't help but ask, "What on earth is this place..."

……

Zhang Qingxiang was walking on a busy lake beach.

There are many small lakes on the ground, each of which is only a dozen square kilometers in size. The water surface is like a mirror.

There are muddy mudflats between the lakes. There is no tall vegetation, only a kind of dark red flesh moss growing!
If left undisturbed, these flesh mosses remain motionless.

The sky here was gray-blue, reflecting in the lakes, and there was a deep and melancholy beauty between heaven and earth. But when Zhang Qingxiang walked in it, the flesh and mosses began to wriggle, opening up strange buds like staghorn ferns, like the hands of a drowned water ghost, desperately grabbing at Zhang Qingxiang.

The root has opened into a large ring-shaped mouth that is seeping with dark red mucus, and inside it are circles of fine sharp teeth.

So the whole style of painting immediately became extremely terrifying and weird.

The middle-aged team leader couldn't help but frown: "Is there such a place on Earth?"

of course not.

Every professional can tell at a glance that this is clearly a [mysterious scene].

But judging from the scale, even a [super-large scene] would not be so vast. If a scene of this scale were to occur, it would surely attract global attention.

There's no way the Secret Security Bureau didn't know about this.

Suddenly, the young female employee who spoke first exclaimed, "Did Director Zhang enter... a secret world?!"

Zhang Qingxiang has already spread the concept of the [Secret World] through the [Mysterious Pioneer], but because the [Secret World] has not yet overlapped with the Earth world, no one thought about it in that direction for the time being.

Now that it was pointed out, everyone immediately realized that it should be the case.

The situation behind Base 184 is somewhat similar to here.

Xing Zhifeng gave the female employee a vicious look.

The female employee was confused: How did I offend the boss?
The team leader frowned and reprimanded: "He is our mission target now, you are not allowed to use honorifics."

The female employee lowered her head. Although she felt aggrieved, she did not dare to argue.

She is a newcomer and joined the Secret Security Bureau just a month ago.

On her first day of reporting, she got lost in the huge new headquarters and was helped by a seemingly fragile girl.

Everyone around the girl called her "Senior Sister Liu."

Although Sister Liu does not have a strong personality, it can be seen that her colleagues around her respect her very much.

Later, the female employee found out that this Senior Sister Liu was actually Director Zhang’s “first disciple”.

Although the female employee understood that she should not develop friendships with any other agents in the Secret Security Bureau, she never had any contact with Senior Sister Liu again.

However, when working in the Audit Office and reviewing every task report, she would always see Sister Liu's name from time to time, and she would pay special attention to it.

Senior Sister Liu completed her mission almost 100% with an extremely low casualty rate.

Sister Liu looks weak, but she is very responsible during missions and always protects the weakest member of the team.

The female employee secretly admired him.

She even secretly checked Sister Liu's file and found out that she was afraid of working outside at first, which was why she was transferred to work in the warehouse.

But after becoming Director Zhang's student, he was completely transformed.

She unknowingly began to admire Senior Sister Liu and felt that she was the person she wanted to pursue.

I also have even more respect for Director Zhang: What kind of person could teach Senior Sister Liu to be what she is now?

I just called him "Director Zhang". What's wrong with that? Director Zhang has made great contributions to the Secret Security Bureau. Do we, the younger generation, have to disrespectfully call him by his name?
The director is too narrow-minded.

Zhang Qingxiang was walking through the secret world. Although the blood, flesh and moss tried their best, they couldn't even touch the corners of his clothes.

Although Zhang Qingxiang didn't seem to be walking fast, he seemed to be using the art of shrinking the earth, and each step covered hundreds of meters.

The flesh and blood mosses discovered him and prepared to hunt him, but Director Zhang was already several hundred meters away.

Zhang Qingxiang entered the secret world to "meet" a certain elephant master.

Zhang Qingxiang knew all about these elephants in the secret world. His first thought was to find the "Lord of Laziness".

You can tell this person’s character just by listening to his name.

His real name was a bit long and the professionals couldn't remember it, so later they simply called him the Lord of Laziness.

He may be the only elephant lord in the entire secret world who does not suppress his subordinates from advancing to the third level.

Because I'm too lazy to care.

In the previous life, it was not until the late stage of universal cultivation that the people on Earth knew that when the [Secret Realm] and the Earth world overlapped, He was originally closest to the [Observation World] of the Lord of Laziness, and He should be the first Elephant Lord who could directly invade the Earth world.

But He didn't do that.

Because I'm too lazy to invade.

Laziness is His character and His power.

He is just lazy, and he has no good intentions towards the world.

His world of vision is close to the earth's world, and this power also affects the earth's world.

At that critical moment, professionals from many countries in the Earth world had the opportunity to discover in advance that the [Secret World] overlapped with their own world. If they had prepared in advance, not to mention changing the subsequent course of history, they could at least have gained some initiative.

However, these countries became "lazy" during those days and missed the opportunity.

If Zhang Qingxiang were to meet this Lord of Laziness, he believed that even if he stood next to his mouth, he would be too lazy to open his mouth and eat him.

But this idea was immediately rejected by Zhang Qingxiang.

There is no point in doing this and it is impossible to achieve your goal.

Therefore, Zhang Qingxiang decided to choose "Ruxian Gulituo", the most malicious and violent elephant master who was most hostile to humans.

The world before our eyes is nothing but the only way to Ruxiangulituo's [viewing world].

After walking for a while, Zhang Qingxiang felt bored and released the [Steam Engine Core].

This time, there was no more annoying people around to compete for his favor, and the [Steam Engine Core] was very happy. It turned into a steam aircraft, whirring out large amounts of steam, and rushed into the gray-blue sky with a whoosh.

One of the team members couldn't help but say, "Zhang... Qing Xiang himself said in [Mysterious Pioneer] that you can't fly easily in the [Secret Realm], and the high altitude of the [Secret Realm] is very dangerous."

The team members were all wondering, how could Director Zhang take the initiative to make such a serious mistake?
Ripples suddenly appeared in the originally calm sky. From the center of the ripples, illusory, fat, long tongues stretched out. The tongues were covered with pale barbs and quickly rolled towards the [Steam Engine Core]!
"Ah!" The team members couldn't help but exclaim.

The monster was extremely scary. One could imagine that once one was caught in it, one would be swallowed up to an unknown place and would never be able to get out.

[Steam Engine Core] was overwhelmed with desire to perform, and two huge steam chain saw blades flew out from under his body, with two invisible psychic lines behind the blades for control.

Steam roared, black smoke gushed out, and the chain saws turned rapidly.

Then with a few hissing sounds, several pieces of the thick tongues were cut off and fell off.

The remaining tongue was startled and shrank back with a whoosh.

The ripples in the sky were followed by calm, and the sky remained a gray-blue color that looked very peaceful and harmless.

The team members were silent.

It turns out that Director Zhang’s reminder in [Mysterious Pioneer] was aimed at the weak ones like us.

For the strong, nothing is dangerous or safe - everything is safe.

Xing Zhifeng's face was gloomy, and he shouted in a low voice: "This secret object is so powerful, why has he never reported it to the General Administration?"

No one could pick up his words, so Xing Zhifeng said bitterly, "This boy really has evil intentions!"

No one knew how to respond.

Even the middle-aged team leader, whose level of servility was second only to that of [Steam Engine Core], felt that the director was overly "fraudulently accusing" him.

Xing Zhifeng stared at Zhang Qingxiang. On the screen, the [Steam Engine Core] was running wild, flying at an incredibly fast speed. It soon rushed out of this area, and a dangerous mountain range appeared in front.

Each mountain peak is like a narrow and slender blade. The strange gray-black wind flows back and forth between the peaks, and from time to time a huge and hideous ghost face appears in the wind.

Seeing the [Steam Engine Core] from afar, the ghost face in the strange wind suddenly blew a loud whistle.

Then these blade-like mountains rose rapidly and cut straight into the [steam turbine core].

[Steam Engine Core] doesn't care about you at all. Hatches popped open under its body, and machine guns with huge caliber extended out.

Boom boom boom! The fire started.

The shells hit the mountain range like hail, making loud noises and blasting rocks everywhere. A large part of the mountain was flattened by the shells!

Although the rubble rolled back automatically after falling to the ground, and the mountain could still grow, the [Steam Turbine Core] took this opportunity to fly over.

In the underground secret room, the staff who were monitoring Zhang Qingxiang all secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

No matter what the director thought, they did support Director Zhang in their hearts.

But after that, [Steam Engine Core] did not intend to give up.

Hundreds and thousands of them shot out from behind the buttocks into the psychic line.

Dozens of psychic energy threads penetrated into the strange winds, trapped a long ghost face, and were about to pull them out!
The staff were also stunned when they saw this scene. Brother, isn't this too arrogant? !

Those ghost faces shrank back together, and actually pulled the [Steam Engine Core] to a stop.

[Steam Engine Core] became furious, and doubled the number of jet nozzles behind it, booming and spraying out a huge blue flame tail backwards. It exerted force suddenly and pulled all the ghost faces out from the strange wind with a puff!
The ghost face was twisted in pain, and the strange wind crashed heavily into the mountain peak backwards, then twisted and shrank into a ball.

It shrank smaller and smaller, its color darkened, and finally turned into a mass of black mud, moving more and more slowly...

[Steam Engine Core] flew away arrogantly, higher and higher, then retracted the psychic energy line and swallowed those ghost faces in one gulp.

There was dead silence in the underground chamber.

Really so arrogant - but why do I feel my blood boiling and a sense of "a real man should be like this"?

Then they were shocked to see that the [Steam Turbine Core] was broken again.

Zhang Qingxiang appeared on the [Steam Engine Core] at some point, waved his hand and opened the [Divine Chamber], taking in the still squirming black mud, and then the [Steam Engine Core] turned and flew away.

The source of this mysterious object's arrogance... has been found.

Xing Zhifeng became suspicious: "Why does he keep these monsters? If they get out of control, it will be a huge disaster!"

"He is being extremely irresponsible and willful!"

(End of this chapter)