The Witch's Taste

Forget it anyway.Maybe she doesn't care, but if my house is blocked by angry fans, it will be troublesome for me.

Chen Ziang turned around, left the scene quickly, then walked back along Ligenchuan Road slowly, and sent a message to Xia Zili at the same time:

"If you have any trouble, just call me anytime."

There was no response from the other side, probably because he had no time to look at his phone.

Another strange thing is that Tsukimiya Suzuna still hasn't responded to yesterday's message.

This is so strange, something will happen to her, right?

Chen Ziang was a little uneasy, and tried to call her again, but the result was still "the user you dialed is not in the service area".

He had no choice but to call Xia Qingyu and ask if she had asked for leave from work.

"Hello." Xia Qingyu's cold voice sounded through the receiver.

For some reason, Chen Ziang suddenly remembered what Xia Zili had said, "My sister won't answer the phone of people who are not interested in them", but he was quickly taken aback by this thought.

Don't be interested in me, then spray me with venom again.

"I want to ask, did Yuegong Lingna ask for leave from the unit?" Chen Ziang asked cautiously, "It seems that she can't be contacted these days."

"Didn't she tell you?" Xia Qingyu asked suddenly.

I don't know if it was an illusion, but Chen Ziang could hear some gloating from it... But considering the other party's personality, there is a high probability that it is his own illusion.

"Yuegong Suzuna asked the unit for half a year's personal leave." Xia Qingyu continued, "She is going to another galaxy to do private affairs, and she has already left the Gaotianyuan star region."

"Half a year?!" Chen Ziang was shocked, "Why does it take so long?"

"What do you think?" Xia Qingyu said coldly, "The distance between galaxies is tens of hundreds of light-years. Even if you take the space string to jump all the way, it is common for the journey to take a month or even half a year. If you don't understand You can look it up online."

"I'm not questioning this." Chen Ziang explained, "Why did she go to another galaxy?"

"I don't know." Xia Qingyu said impatiently, "If you have any doubts, you should ask her yourself in advance."

"She didn't tell me that she was leaving Gao Tianyuan!" Chen Ziang said angrily.

"She didn't tell you, is that my problem?" Xia Qingyu asked directly.

Chen Ziang: ……………

"Sorry, I lost my composure." Chen Ziang sighed, "I won't disturb you anymore."

After hanging up the phone, Chen Ziang returned to the door of his house, looking at the empty courtyard of his house, a little dazed.

Suddenly recalling the previous afternoon of a working day, Suzuna once asked herself, "If you want to leave Takamahara, which planet would you like to move to?"

Wouldn't it be to go to the spot in advance to find the moving galaxy?Hahaha……

Just as Chen Ziang shook his head and laughed, he was suddenly attracted by the expanding shadow on the ground.

He raised his head as if aware of it, and his pupils dilated uncontrollably in astonishment:

A super huge spaceship is slowly sailing directly above Extreme North City.

It has the unique streamlined style of the elf starship, with a silver-white hull coating and orange-red jet tail flames. The shadow it casts almost covers the entire Tonegawa area...

No, it should be the entire Gunma Administrative District, all covered.

152. Chapter 151 The Sword of Damocles

The shadow was enough to cover half of the starships in Extreme North City, and it slid across the sky like a dark cloud, which naturally alarmed almost all the residents of the city.

In less than half an hour, everyone received text messages on their mobile phones:

"To all the citizens, the Dijing Group invited the Bacht Group's mining ship to come to the star area for mining resource development. Its mining ship arrived at the sky above Extreme North City at 2:42 pm today. Please do not be overly alarmed."

So the online discussion quickly turned to "what are mining ships for".

Of course, if you are not a member of the system, you naturally don't know the concept of "sending text messages to the whole city"... It means that the officials got the news of the mining ship definitely not much earlier than the citizens.

Relying on the public security department's network of contacts, Chen Zi'ang quickly learned that the huge monster above his head was indeed a mining ship, and that it was indeed contacted by Dijing Group. The only problem was that he hadn't communicated with the authorities in advance.

Although the report has been filed, the registered mining ship is also a mining ship, but how can there be such a large mining ship?Are you kidding me!

Regarding this incident, Dijing Group, a local mining giant, expressed its innocence, claiming that they did not know it was "a mining ship of this tonnage".

The cause of the incident is simple: around June this year, Dijing Group and Bacht Group, as business allies, reconciled their accounts in the middle of the year, and found that the mineral transaction volume in the first half of the year was particularly small.

This is not a surprise: after decades of long-term mining, most of the mineral resources on the surface of Gaotianyuan planet are close to exhaustion, and the mining cost of deep crust minerals has risen sharply. The group is also unwilling to mine at a loss, so it is still going around in surface mineral sources, which naturally affects its trade share.

The two parties have been negotiating on this matter for several years, and neither side is willing to make concessions. However, the report in the first half of this year is too ugly, so the Bacht Group proposed a new plan—using their newly developed mining ship.

What is a mining ship?It refers to the space starship that specializes in mining asteroids.They will roughly drill holes in asteroids, insert giant professional mining equipment deep into the surface for crushing, and then use conveyor belts to pull massive amounts of gravel out to filter minerals... Since this mining technology can be used on asteroids, it is also natural It can be used to colonize planets, and can effectively solve the problem that mineral deposits are located too deep.

The reason why it is not widely used is that this kind of mining is too destructive to the surface.It’s fine if no one lives on the asteroid. If the colonized planet does this, whether it’s noise, dust or other environmental pollution, it will seriously affect the nearby colonies.

But Gao Tianyuan is a special case.Because it is extremely far away from the star, most of the planet's surface is no man's land, extremely cold, and only the north and south poles with abundant geothermal resources have colonial cities.

After calculation, the Bacht Group believes that as long as the mining site is limited to the area near the equator between north and south latitudes of 27.6 degrees, the damage to the environment caused by deep mining will not affect the extreme north city and the final south city at all.

As for the nearby remote villages and towns, considering that most of the mining families are employees of the Dijing Group, the group can move out the employees collectively to create an experimental exploration environment for the Bakht Group's mining ships.

Things are roughly as mentioned above, and it should have been just an ordinary business cooperation development.

But it wasn't until Bakht's mining ship arrived in Extreme North City that everyone realized that this thing was not a serious mining ship at all-this ship was too fucking big!

Comparing it with the warships of the human empire, its volume even exceeds most of the battleships, so it is difficult for people not to suspect that it has some military uses.

It is said that the military has made serious representations, requiring the mining ship to leave the atmosphere and dock in outer space immediately, and ask the military to send commissioners to board the ship for inspection to confirm that it does not carry any equipment with suspicious intentions.

The request was rejected by the Bacht Group. The two sides are still in a stalemate, and Dijing Group is actively mediating among them. It is said that it has initially persuaded the other party to drive the mining ship out of the atmosphere and stop on the outer orbit of the planet... because This ship is really too big, there is no berth available for berth at Star Port, so it can only be allowed to "find a parking space by itself".

By 9:[-] a.m. the next day, the Bacht mining ship had left the atmosphere of the plateau, and then carried out an orbital hover.

After Chen Ziang arrived at the unit, he looked out from the office and could see a round white object hanging in the distance, like a smaller moon.

This thing... reminded him of the "Sword of Damocles" in myths and legends.

It is said that a certain ancient lord had a favorite named Damocles. He flattered the lord and said, "You are so lucky to have power", so the lord proposed to exchange identities with him for a day.

Damocles enjoyed the feeling of being a lord very much, but when he was having a banquet at night, he suddenly found a sharp sword hanging above his head with only a single horsehair, and he was frightened to the point of shit.

There is such an unknown thing hanging above everyone's head, it is like Damocles under the sword, it is really hard to let people feel at ease.

I can only hope that the military will find out as soon as possible.

He sat back at his workstation, turned his head to look at Tsukimiya Suzuna's empty chair, could only take a deep breath, and after calming down, he began to deal with the recent backlog of work.

Now it is approaching the end of the year, and all major units are summarizing the materials needed for year-end reporting.Although Xia Qingyu is the kind of leader who doesn't like trivial matters, and usually doesn't ask to write daily, weekly and monthly reports, but the fifth department is still under the intelligence bureau's system, and it's too outrageous not to even have a year-end report.

Therefore, she quickly made a decision that all leaders would make: let the supervisors write their own year-end reports and hand them in, and then pick and piece them together.

The pressure came to Chen Ziang.As we all know, the key to the year-end report is not "what I did", but "how well I did it".

Fortunately, the influence of Xichuan Meihui's incident has been completely subsided now, and there have been no ghoul mutations for two consecutive weeks, so this report is not impossible.

Chen Ziang thought for a while, and quickly drew up a year-end report discussing field work from four directions. Just as he was about to start making an outline, Xia Qingyu's news came again:

"come over."

Having been with this beautiful snake leader for a long time, Chen Ziang has also discovered some of her habits. For example, when calling a subordinate, the fewer words used, the more urgent the situation is.

"Come to my office" means ordinary cases; "come" means urgent cases; "come" means urgent cases.

Therefore, seeing Xia Qingyu only sent two words, Chen Ziang also became a little nervous, wondering if it was Seiko Takahashi who started to move again?

The last time we talked about "no action during the mid-term elections", now that the mid-term elections are over, the other side will naturally continue to pursue...or more precisely, hunt down.

After knocking on the office door, Chen Ziang pushed the door open and went in. He saw Xia Qingyu standing in front of a big blackboard with his hands behind his back.

There are a lot of symbols and marks written on the blackboard, which seem to be some kind of logical relationship or social relationship, anyway, it is the kind of thing that cannot be understood without explanation.

"Chen Ziang." Xia Qingyu didn't turn around, but continued to stare at the blackboard, saying:

"Have you ever heard of an occultist?"

153.Chapter 152 Humans are not allowed to enter

If human beings are like penguins living on the ice floes, then there are always some lucky or unlucky individuals who fall from the ice floes and sink into the abyss due to various reasons .

They are collectively referred to as the "High Spiritual Vision Crowd".

In fact, the name is rather vague.Because the vast majority of people are passively exposed to the mystery and belong to the category of victims, so there is no need to pay too much attention to it.

There are three groups of people who are really dangerous: witches, demon priests, and occultists.

Needless to say, the witch, just one Mie Nishikawa has already created such a horrible mess, even the governor of the star region was alarmed... so that Takano Seiko is relatively restrained in killing now, and the higher-ups are cautiously restrained, for fear of Offended her.

Demon priests refer to fanatics such as Neko and Sarah Hek who believe in the gods of the abyss, and of course they may also be humans, and their threats are often related to the characteristics of the gods themselves.The more chaotic and disorderly the god, the more vicious and crazy its priests and believers are.

The above two groups of people are actually not too many, after all, the prerequisite is to be selected by the gods - this one is enough to screen out the vast majority of people.

As for occultists, they first refer to the human beings who are in contact with the mystery, understand the mystery, and take the initiative to get involved in the mystery and pursue the mysterious power.

With the advent of the information age, the ruler’s ability to control the people at the bottom has improved, and soon there have been official agencies that specialize in dealing with mysterious threats, so the definition of “occultists” has gradually become those “unofficial people who actively study mysteries.” , the emphasis is unofficial.

Strictly speaking, ghost detectives, monks and witches, including Chen Ziang's parents, Ashiya Yu and others, all belong to the category of occult scholars.

However, according to the estimates of the big intelligence database, the number of people who are actively exploring the mystery in private is likely to have exceeded three times the number of these public organizations—many troublesome changes in the history of Extreme North City were also caused by these mystic scholars Yes, though most of them consider themselves harmless folklorists, archaeologists, or travel enthusiasts.

"When there is no sign of danger, human curiosity is endless." Chen Zi'ang said seriously, "The existence of mystic scholars is a potentially huge hidden danger, but at present we have no good means to solve it."

"Mystic scholars, by the definition of human beings, refer to unofficial people who study mysteries." Xia Qingyu was noncommittal, but said coldly, "Generally speaking, the regime controls organized institutions and controls unorganized individuals Let it go... because from a political point of view, the more organized unofficial forces are, the more likely they are to threaten the regime."

"However, all of this is based on a certain premise, that is, the regime has achieved the unification of ideology, culture, and ideas, so it has completely shifted its focus to stabilizing internal affairs. The fundamental purpose is to make the rule last. But Unlike federal countries, most of their energy is spent on internal games and competition for interests, so mystic scholars are not a threat to them, but a bargaining chip they can use."

"The Bakht mining ship is currently hovering in outer space and has not received official permission to enter, but they have proposed to send a team of folk mystical scholars to Gaotianyuan for safety inspection."

"Is it really from a folk scholar?" Chen Ziang asked suspiciously.

"Proclaimed to be folk scholars." Xia Qingyu said with a sneer, "But who knows? After all, using third-party agencies to carry out secret military activities, and throwing the blame to civil organizations when something goes wrong is also the consistent operation of high-level elves."

Hearing what she said, Chen Zi'ang thought of the "Human Rights Observer" organization. On the surface, it was here to supervise, but in fact it was here to preach... Immediately, he became very wary of this so-called "folk scholar group".

"The bureau appointed us to receive them." Xia Qingyu finally said, "Leave now."

"Okay." Chen Ziang also knew that the matter was urgent, so he agreed immediately.

The two left the intelligence station, but this time the driver was not Yuki Izumo, the director of the Public Security Bureau, but Shinichiro Oishi—that is, he was found to be infected by the secret ritual of the corpse cult at Xia Zili's concert. , the college student who was rescued later.

Unexpectedly, this guy also successfully entered the establishment... But depending on the situation, it seems that Xia Qingyu was arranged by Xia Qingyu to be a driver in the logistics team of the intelligence department?

Oishi Shinichiro wore sunglasses, and when the two sat in the back row, he closed the car door, then sat in the driver's seat, and asked:

"lead?"

"Go to the Federation embassy." Xia Qingyu ordered, and Oishi Shinichiro started the car and called out the navigation route to Tianyuan District.

The Federation Embassy, ​​located in the northern area of ​​Tianyuan District, Jibei City, is a state-level diplomatic institution.

Within the territory ruled by the empire, apart from the capital city, the God Capital Star Area, the rest of the Empire Star Areas are only allowed to establish federal consulates, not higher-level embassies, and the diplomatic authority of the Empire Star Areas is also greatly restricted.

During the reign of the second-generation Governor Shi Jintang, in order to successfully join the Federation Interstellar Trade Union, he approved the establishment of the Federation Embassy in Gaotianyuan for the first time.It is said that the high level of the empire was extremely dissatisfied with this at the time, and there were even rumors that they planned to send a fleet over to remove Shi Jintang's position as governor by force...but in the end they failed to fight.

As a result, the historical Gaotianyuan Federal Embassy was quickly established as a landmark building that broke through the imperial power framework.

Arriving at the Federation embassy, ​​Shinichiro Oishi just drove his car to the entrance of the underground parking when he was stopped by the elf guards on duty next to him.

"No stopping inside." The other party said bluntly, the Lu language was not standard, with some strange accents.

"Takamahara Intelligence Bureau." Shinichiro Oishi showed his ID, "We have an appointment with Mr. Ambassador."

"The parking lot is owned by the Federation embassy." The elf guard repeated in broken Lu language again, "Only staff are allowed to park. Humans, no."

Oishi Shinichiro took off his sunglasses, turned his head and asked Xia Qingyu for instructions.

Xia Qingyu folded her arms and said nothing coldly, as if waiting for something.

Chen Ziang next to him was suddenly blessed, and immediately realized that this was the federation ambassador trying to slap his group.Otherwise, just look at the elf at the gate, how dare you say "humans are not allowed to park"?

He didn't move his body, but quietly activated [Touch of Entanglement] with his mind.

The elf guard stood by the car window expressionlessly, as if he wanted to continue to spend time with them, but soon he rolled his eyes suddenly, foamed at the mouth, and his tongue slanted.

"Tentacle, tentacle!" He murmured repeatedly, sticking out his tongue and licking the car window, as if suddenly suffering from a mental illness.

"Raise the barrier!" Chen Ziang tried his best to use his power to send him instructions.