Chapter 138. Era of Spiritual Energy

     When Gan Lan suggested a ghost-controlling technique, more formal and harmless than Southeast Asian sorcery, allowing one to keep a couple of Qing Dynasty ghosts from the mountains as fighters and scouts, Wang Xue shook her head like a sieve and slipped away in a flash.

     Ye Mo also declined.

     She didn’t have any immediate plans to keep an intelligent creature that could pass through walls at will in her home. Hearing movement from outside the tombs, nodded to Gan Lan and Ulangda, and left as fast as lightning.

     In the blink of an eye, Gan Lan and Ulangda could only see two small dots, which were only visible because the Qingshan, affected by yin energy and earthquakes, were devoid of any obstructions.

     They looked at each other and saw the reluctance in each other’s eyes. They didn’t know when they would meet again? When would they be as strong as them?

     At this time, Yuan Yuan and several teammates from the special agent team had approached them.

     After spending so many days in the village, the special agent team finally got a clear picture of the village head, the Gu practitioner Mo Shenpo, the more than ten young men and women surnamed Yang or Mo in the village who were being taught Gu techniques, the ghost technique inheritors Gan Lan and Ulangda, and others.

     Just now, the survivors discovered a deep cave at the foot of the mountain that wasn’t well concealed. Inside the cave were all sorts of abnormal corpses.

     The toxins in these naked corpses have been eliminated by the wood energy. Their facial features are very single race, which is obviously different from the facial features of modern people who have undergone many changes.

     Furthermore, based on their fingernails, complexions, and manners of death, they strongly resembled the mid-to-high-level zombies from the high-level copy that some survivors had experienced. They are definitely related to the Miao and Shui Village, and it looks like whatever’s happening here has gone way beyond the normal rules of reality.

     Yuan Yuan and the other came to find Gan Lan and Ulangda precisely because of this. They pretended not to have discovered the two of them meeting with that powerful survivor. Yuan Yuan asked, “We found a pit of corpses at the foot of the mountain.”

     Gan Lan replied, “They are the first ancestors of the Shui and Miao villages who fled to this mountain.”

     The special agent team finally obtained 70% of this instance’s storyline and also learned about the predicament the mountain village faced at that time.

     In a magnitude 7 earthquake, the combat power of those corpses must be very strong.The big boss not only saved the mountain village, but also saved the county, and even the prefecture and Yunnan Province.

     A simple ‘thank you’ wouldn’t be enough to express it.

     Yuan Yuan and Guo Lei reported these findings truthfully to the Bureau of Supernatural Investigations. The higher-ups added the entire mountain village to the list of special national cultivation subjects and also halted the investigation into the real-world identities of Li Jing, Wang Xue, Watson, and Li, who was ranked third on the leaderboard.

     Since the big bosses did not want to join the Supernatural Investigation Bureau for the time being, they would not be annoying.

     Although it was not solved by themselves, the mountain village incident was still the first sealed file for the Supernatural Investigation Bureau.

     From this file, they understood that a nation with spiritual energy resurgence, multiple civilizations, and numerous reality instances is not necessarily all good. It’s a double-edged sword, and only perfect handling will prevent it from affecting the country.

     Before sealing the file, Ma Guotao, the director of the Bureau of Supernatural Investigations, took it to hold a meeting, giving the national leaders a look, shutting them up, and stopping them from complaining and assigning blame.

     “We suffered huge economic losses in this earthquake, but not many casualties. Compared with the ghost arts and witchcraft we got, we still made a profit.”

     “Don’t just focus on the earthquake. If the hundreds of zombies that caused the earthquake appear in Yunnan Province, we will not only suffer heavy economic losses, but also casualties. “Resident Evil” may be staged in the real world.”

    “Regarding the magnitude 7 earthquake, or more accurately, the 6.9 magnitude earthquake, 50 countries have already sent condolences, and more than a dozen have sent relief supplies. This is only a few hours in. Countries like the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom are showing a clear shift in their attitudes towards China. These changes are all brought about by our culture. Furthermore, regarding Li, who is ranked third on the list, and Mi Wenjing, who is ranked first, some countries should already be starting to have suspicions.”

     “The Earth is entering an era of spiritual energy. We must seize every opportunity to make China stronger and stronger, and reach the peak!”

     …

     On the other hand, Ye Mo and Wang Xue are still in Yunnan Province.

     It is well known that Yunnan Province is a multi-ethnic province, home to the Yi, Bai, Hani, Dai, Zhuang, Miao, Hui, Dulong, and other ethnic groups. It is one of the concentrations of the Baiyue civilization.

     Ye Mo had not yet exited the reality instance. With more than four days of mission time remaining, it wouldn’t hurt to wander around. Even if she couldn’t find any Baiyue heritage, this place was still a beautiful environment

     It’s good to be a free and easy backpacker. In this regard, Wang Xue is a good tour guide.

     It’s just that Yunnan Province was really severely affected by the disaster. The official announcement of the earthquake was 6.9, but because the epicenter was very shallow, so shallow that it was not easy for the official to announce it, the earthquake hazard level must be raised.

     People were driven to despair by waves of earthquakes, but after the tremors subsided, they embraced each other, celebrating the joy of rebirth. With relatively few casualties, the nation’s primary focus now is on resettlement and post-disaster reconstruction.

     It was because of the earthquake that Ye Mo and Wang Xue, while helping some people, also discovered that the vast majority of ethnic minority communities, including Miao and Shui villages, had been forced to lose their heritage due to millennia of dwindling spiritual energy, or had become Sinicized. What remains now are merely some customs

     It’s not that deep, poor mountains always hold inheritances. If there were no spiritual objects preserving the spark of civilization, the deep, poor mountains might only harbor unruly people. Wang Xue, who happened to live in the copy, is probably a rare survivor in the world!

     The two people found only one other spark of civilization – the Yi people’s Bimo shamanic rituals, a series of practices including praising, praying, and sacrificing on behalf of others. This might be somewhat suitable for Wang Xue.

     She began to move beyond the confines of music and words themselves, exploring how to harness their power.

     Because the Yi people are a mountain-dwelling ethnic group in Southwest China, distinct from the Baiyue peoples, and their settlements are extensive, like the Miao people’s gu techniques, the system did not grant rewards for side quests.

     In addition to that, they also learned and studied a variety of miscellaneous crafts, including the Dai people’s slow-wheel pottery technique, the Bai people’s tie-dyeing technique, the Achang people’s Husazao knife forging technique, the Jingpo people’s Munao Zongge dance, the Hani people’s polyphonic folk songs, and the Dai people’s peacock dance.

     During the day, Ye Mo traveled around the southwest region, occasionally answering work calls and holding video conferences. At night, Ye Mo began to make weapons and equipment. When making the first batch of weapons, the basic alchemical equipment was already available, and Wang Xue and Watson could help her buy basic materials.

     Until the day before the end of the dungeon mission, Sunday, the two stopped searching.

     Wang Xue planned to walk from Yunnan to Guangdong to find Watson. First, Watson’s family had a bit of local influence and money, so her friend could help resolve some identity issues. Secondly, Guangdong and Guangxi were the territories of the Nanyue within the Baiyue region. With her ‘survival value,’ she might trigger something!

     Afterwards, Ye Mo also silently said to the survivor system: “Exit the Liushui People dungeon.”

   【Exiting the dungeon…】

   【Congratulations to the survivor Ye Mo for successfully passing the real dungeon ‘Liushui People’. The dungeon reward has been settled successfully and temporarily stored in the survivor APP. Please claim the reward.】 

     In the blink of an eye, Ye Mo disappeared from under Wang Xue’s nose, instantly appearing in her own room thousands of miles away. The clothes on her body were still the same set she wore in Yunnan Province. The real-world instances were no longer virtual data.

     This means that physical injuries must be treated, and don’t dream that everything will be restored to normal after the dungeon ends.

     Woof woof woof, Bandit’s voice sounded outside the door, accompanied by the sound of it scratching the door.

     This was the first time she leaving home for such a long period, and the big black dog was already expressing its unease in a human-like way.

     Ye Mo opened the door, squatted down to pet the dog, and told the HawkEye, which had emerged from her body, not to cause trouble. She explained things for a while to Bandit, who was barking angrily, and made numerous food promises.

     Hawkeye glanced sideways at Bandit, then floated into the living room. The TV wasn’t on, but that didn’t matter. It could watch any TV within a hundred miles, and it was sure to find one to watch cartoons.

     “…”

    …

    When Ye Mo clicked on the survivor app, a dialog box popped up as usual,

   【Welcome to the chief survivor Ye Mo to log in to the account, the chief survivor’s current account is detected as ‘Heim’, do you want to change other account names? 】

     “Change the name to Traveler.”

   【The name has been changed successfully: Traveler. 】

     Blow up a firework and send a global announcement. All survivors except those who are doing tasks in the dungeon can hear:   【The chief survivor ‘Heim’ has changed their name to the new account ‘Traveler’. 】

      “…”

     Very high-profile.

     Ye Mo went to see her task reward, and the column content was the shortest among all dungeons.

   【Your overall rating in Liushui People is A, and you have received the following rewards: Points × 3000 (two high-level swords).

     Roasted fragrant pig × 100 (useless except for being delicious).

     Wood Spirit Jade Essence (equivalent to one-tenth of a small spirit jade mine you made a fortune!)】

     It’s actually jade essence!