Chapter 216 Stars
There was no need to use an abacus to figure this out; Su Ming could do the math in his head and figure out the pros and cons at once.
Staying in the Investigation Bureau to optimize your superpowers is so convenient as the quantity is large, the safety factor is high, and there is also the possibility of gaining high-quality superpowers!
Given the temptation of such conditions, why would you want to set up a bounty guild that has not yet been established and whose stability is still unknown?
Wouldn't it be nice for him to just cling to the Investigation Bureau?
What's more, the bounty guild can be set up at any time, so it won't be a bad idea to hang out in the Investigation Bureau first!
If it really doesn't work, just take a part-time job. Then you can have a two-pronged approach and handle public matters and private matters at the same time. Isn't that great?
Faced with such a huge temptation, Su Ming compromised instantly.
"Minister, I was impulsive just now! It turns out that staying in the Investigation Bureau has a better future!" Su Ming immediately changed his words, and Xia Xiaoyu beside him was stunned.
"Very good. I will write an application for you to take back later. You will probably get the authority to execute people in a few days." Sylvie nodded and smiled with satisfaction.
At this time, other people in the village also came out. The leader walked up to them and said to Sylvie, "We are ready to start the ceremony."
"Wait a moment, we still have some things to prepare."
After saying that, Sylvie called Isabella and asked her to bring pen, paper and seal. She directly drafted an application form, stamped it and handed it to Su Ming.
Then, she asked Jiang Yichuan to give the parchment scroll to Su Ming and said to Su Ming: "You will use these things from now on, so take good care of them and don't lose them."
After handing the parchment to Su Ming, she gave Jiang Yichuan a few more instructions, then nodded to the high priest: "Let's get started."
The high priest gathered these believers of the Church of Hope together and began to mutter some strange spells.
Each of them took out a knife and began to cut their hands. This action was to use the physical pain to awaken the painful emotions in their hearts and provide energy for the demon of hope.
Of course, only Su Ming and his friends knew the truth. The villagers merely thought this was a way to express their sincerity to the gods.
As the ceremony progressed, a faint white mist suddenly appeared on the flat ground, and then the mist became thicker and thicker, soon covering a small area.
The high priest who presided over the ceremony clasped pressed them against his forehead. After muttering a few words to himself, he looked at Sylvie and nodded to Sylvie.
"Okay, you can go in." Sylvie said.
After everyone said goodbye to Sylvie, they stepped into the white mist.
"Captain, what is this about introducing the demon that you just mentioned?" Su Ming asked Jiang Yichuan.
“The content of the contract between the devil and the contractor is often determined by the number of devils. When a devil appears but no one can resist it, the final result will often become like the world just now, where the devil completely enslaves humans and humans are completely powerless to resist.
But this situation will change once the number of demons increases, because in order to survive, demons must rely on human negative emotions. In order to win as many contractors as possible from other demons, they will naturally pay as much as possible to collect the price from you.
You can think of this as market competition between demons. The more intense the competition, the more the cost of trading with demons will tend to be equivalent to the exchange of power.
There are many demons in our world, so it is not easy for any demon to take the price from humans for nothing.
In non-emergency situations, most transactions between demons and contractors are fair.
What the minister has to do is to bring the devil into another world and completely disrupt the situation of the three gods being separated.
This is what the Hope Demon wants to see, and it is also a powerful blow to the Plague Demon and the Dream Demon. Moreover, this approach can also reduce the management pressure of our world, which is good for both worlds. "Jiang Yichuan explained.
"I see." Su Ming nodded, still a little unconvinced, "This demon thing actually has benefits."
"Don't view demons as mere villains. Think of them as natural disasters. Objectively existing phenomena can be utilized."
Jiang Yichuan paused and added: "But this is not a long-term solution. After all, this is just a deal to get us back. The specific impact of this deal can only be discussed by the people above."
The white fog did not last long. Soon, the surrounding scene began to blur and the ground underfoot began to become hard.
The familiar feeling when I first entered the white fog reappeared at this moment.
Not long after, the surrounding environment gradually became clear, the white fog slowly receded, and the familiar modern buildings reappeared in front of Su Ming. The surrounding streets were empty, with empty shops on both sides.
They are back.
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Planar organization - Stars.
In a high-tech-looking metal cabin, there lay a handsome young man. As the technology cabin emitted a crisp sound, the lid covering the cabin slowly opened, a cool white mist dissipated, and the young man opened his eyes.
"Roland, how do you feel?" A woman's voice came, buzzing in Roland's ears.
Roland blinked his eyes, stood up from the technology cabin, slowly stretched out his five fingers, and asked, "Susan, it's been about ten years since I woke up last time?"
"Yes, no more, no less, exactly ten years."
The woman named Susan asked Roland various questions while writing them down on paper.
"Was the mission accomplished? Was the objective met?"
“It has been resolved.”
“Are there any hidden dangers that need to be dealt with?”
"There is a kingdom called Deke in the west of the continent. The prime minister there is called Glord. There is a man called Scland beside Glord. I think he is in great danger. It is better to send someone to deal with him."
"Anything else?"
"I'll talk about the rest after I've calmed down a bit. First, tell me if Su Ming and Qin Yi have woken up."
"Su Ming had just started his mission not long ago, and Qin Yi had already left the lighthouse." Susan said lightly.
Hearing this, Roland's face suddenly changed: "What! Qin Yi quit the Lighthouse?! Why did he quit the Lighthouse?!"
Susan sighed, "In the first year of your mission, Qin Yi also started a mission. That mission had to be completed in a black box plane where the inside could not be seen from the outside. After he crossed over, all his memories except the original ones disappeared during the journey."
"Wait! Are you kidding me? If he loses his memory, he will just be an ordinary person!" Roland exclaimed.
The black box plane is the most dangerous plane of all. The reason for the emergence of this plane is that the plane as a whole is trapped in a certain time loop and is itself an uncertain existence.
No matter who you are, once you enter this plane, you will never be able to escape unless the time loop disappears, so it is nicknamed the black box.
Generally speaking, black box planes involving time and space crises are, without exception, missions of super S-level difficulty. Even if an experienced specialist enters such a plane, he may be trapped in it forever and unable to escape.
Although Qin Yi is known as the "strongest commissioner of the Lighthouse", if he loses his memory and enters the black box dimension, he will never be able to come back.
Because no matter how strong a person is, once he loses his memory, he loses all his experience and becomes an ordinary person. How can an ordinary person who doesn't even know his true identity solve the most difficult super S-level task ?
Although it was understandable, it was really regrettable, and Roland felt sad for Qin Yi from the bottom of his heart.
"So... he didn't come back?" Roland sighed.
At this moment, Roland felt indescribably sad. He had lost an interesting opponent.
"It seems like there will never be a clear winner between him and me." Roland sighed regretfully.
Susan frowned slightly and interrupted, "Win or lose? You've never beaten him, have you?"
"What did you say?!" Roland's face suddenly changed. "What do you mean by never winning? Have I ever lost? Huh? Have I ever lost?"
"He's always faster than you."
"It's fast, but I also completed the task every time, didn't I? Some people focus on speed when completing tasks, while others focus on quality! As long as the task is completed, everyone is great. How can we say we lost? Susan, you are always so superficial. You like to use a superficial indicator to measure a complicated thing!"
Roland angrily accused the other party, and Susan looked at Roland with a smile but did not say anything.
Roland didn't want to continue dwelling on the topic of winning or losing, so he changed the subject and said, "Oh, what a pity. Why did Qin Yi lose his memory? If he hadn't lost his memory, he might not have lost to Black Box.
But it doesn't matter, if he doesn't come out, sooner or later I will go in and rescue him, then I will win!"
Susan shrugged. "No, he's back."
"What?!"
Roland yelled, his expression even more shocked than before.
Susan looked at Roland's wonderful expression and felt indescribably happy. She knew Roland would have this expression when he heard the news.
After all, there has been no record of an ordinary person who lost his memory solving an extremely dangerous task and got stuck in a time loop.
"Wait! Are you kidding me? How could he possibly complete it! How could he...didn't he lose all his memories when he went in and become an ordinary person?!"
"Yes, but he came back and saved that world beautifully." Susan smiled, "And I have to tell you that that world is a closed dimension."
Roland's shoulders drooped, he had completely lost to Qin Yi.
A closed plane is an independent plane that has no connection with other planes. If you want to enter that plane, you can only enter it with your soul, not with your body and soul.
In other words, the power system within this plane is closed. If you want to enter, you can only project your soul into the indigenous people of that world. Even if the soul-transmigrating specialist originally possessed extremely powerful strength, after entering that plane, except for rich experience, any other conditions are no different from the local natives.
Qin Yi's memory was even erased, which means that when he performed this mission, he was just an ordinary person with zero experience!
