The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 760 Go to the other side? Shen Le: Or should I swim over?
Let's stay a little longer!

"Please help me find Mount Guyan! The sealing of the wolf's lair and the abdication of the Buddha at Guyan—it's too painful if these two don't match!"

"Even finding Qilian Valley would be helpful! It's nearby!"

Special Affairs Bureau personnel and archaeological experts surrounded Shen Le, relentlessly trying to persuade him. However, no matter how much they pleaded, Shen Le only shook his head vigorously, like a rattle-drum.
"Don't keep it! Don't keep it! I can't sense it at all! If I could sense it, I would have pointed it out long ago, but I can't feel any resonance between it and Langjuxu Mountain!"

"Qilian Valley is even more out of the question! I have no intention of looking for it! According to the Mongol funeral practices, it's probably all rotted away by now, there's no way I could find it!"

"I've done everything I could! I'm off!"

Amidst a sea of ​​regretful glances, he jumped into the car, sped off to Ulaanbaatar, and then took the earliest flight back to China. Back in Zhuxi Town, he'd barely slumped down when his phone rang:
"You're home?"

"I'm back..." Shen Le lay lazily, sinking her whole body into the soft sofa, not wanting to move a single finger.

A flowing dress billowed out, revealing her long, black hair. She eagerly held her phone up to him, allowing him to chat effortlessly.
"And you, Gu?"

"I just got back from a meeting..." Gu Yulin's face was pale and black, with huge dark circles under his eyes, clearly indicating that he had suffered inhuman torture—

Shen Le asked curiously:
What was said at the meeting?

"It's roughly like this, Liu Yalou, write this down..." Gu Yulin, weak and listless, with his eyes half-open and half-closed, recited a passage very fluently:
"Your departments must be keenly aware of the severity and complexity of the current war situation, refine the management responsibilities at all levels, and strengthen the implementation of the main responsibility and command responsibility system."

We must clarify our responsibilities, shoulder them firmly, transform our sense of responsibility into concrete actions, continuously strengthen the foundation, ensure that all parties fulfill their responsibilities, and conscientiously perform our duties.

The key to fulfilling responsibilities lies in action, and the fundamental aspect lies in taking action…

He had barely begun speaking when Shen Le started chuckling. By the second sentence, Shen Le had curled up on the sofa like a shrimp.

Upon hearing the third sentence, he laughed so hard that the sofa trembled, and he pounded the sofa armrest repeatedly, startling several women in flowing skirts who rushed over to see what was wrong with him...

"So the Special Affairs Bureau has never given a clear answer regarding what I can and cannot do if I go to the other side, what kind of support the higher-ups can give me, and what they expect me to do?"

He sprang to his feet with a swift movement, sitting up abruptly and asking with great interest. Gu Yulin quickly shook his head:

"No, no! It's not that serious! You don't need to be addressed like this in a meeting—they wouldn't dare!"

Making a lot of bureaucratic jargon about such specific and important matters can really cause trouble!
After all, the Special Affairs Bureau couldn't rely on Shen Le to decipher what his superiors wanted him to do and not do from these bureaucratic documents.

If Shen Le had possessed such abilities, he would have passed the civil service exam back then, instead of facing unemployment upon graduation and ultimately becoming a freelance cultural relic restorer and practitioner.

Besides, even if he still retained some ability to read official documents back then, over the years his ability has deteriorated to the point where he can no longer read them!

Let alone Shen Le, even Gu Yulin wouldn't be trusted by the higher-ups to explain bureaucratic formalities. It wasn't a lack of confidence in his attitude, but rather in his abilities.
It's important to understand that the lower you are in your position, the worse your ability in this area tends to be. For lower-level civil servants, unless they have any ambition for advancement, this ability to interpret information is generally quite disheartening.

The same applies to the practitioners in the Special Affairs Bureau; after all, their foundation lies in cultivation, not writing ability. One writer is enough for an entire unit!

"Seriously, the higher-ups have given us three options." Gu Yulin took a deep breath, sat up straight, and composed himself.

"The first option is to put you in one of our agencies there, whether it's an office or a trade commission or something similar. You'll go there with dignity and come back with dignity."

Shen Le shook his head vigorously without even thinking. He had no idea how many places he would have to travel through this time, whether he would stumble into some forbidden area, whether he would fight someone on the other side, he had no idea...

In this situation, should one go there under official credentials?

If things escalate, the blame will fall on the authorities!
Gu Yulin shrugged, glancing sideways. He couldn't tell if someone was sitting next to him listening to the proceedings or if a camera had been set up for a video conference and network support.

Shen Le pretended not to see anything and urged him:

"What about the second one?"

"Secondly, we'll find you a civilian identity, such as a technician at a company or a business negotiator for a company."

This offers more freedom; you can travel a bit further. However, if something happens, the authorities might not be able to provide support.

"If something goes wrong, will the company that gave me my name and the company that invited me be held accountable?"

Shen Le sat up straight on the sofa and asked seriously. Gu Yulin quickly shook his head:

"Don't worry about that! We have quite a few of these companies in our hands, including many shell companies and empty shell companies. We can just throw them away!"

Hmm... these resources aren't easy to accumulate, so let's use as little as possible. Shen Le pondered:
"So, what about the third option?"

"Thirdly, I might need your help to smuggle myself across..." Gu Yulin's voice suddenly lowered:
"But don't worry, you will definitely have support! Once you get there, we'll give you some addresses and some pre-set codes!"
Just give them the code, and you can get a different phone, bank card, ID, or cash—it's convenient anywhere!

This is great... I never imagined I would need to buy things, find accommodation, or make phone calls there.

Shen Le, who possessed a grand three-courtyard house, the ability to quickly burrow underground, and virtually unlimited survivability and mobility—enough to wander around in the morning and return home to sleep at night—only then realized she had forgotten to prepare something:
"Won't this cause you any trouble?"

"No, no! How could that be!" Gu Yulin thumped his chest loudly.

"Don't worry, this is nothing compared to what we've prepared over there! Their permits and licenses aren't as strictly regulated as ours; they can get them easily! Besides,"

He suddenly lowered his voice:

"We can even arrange a passport for you... just send it to some small Southeast Asian country, they won't be able to find out anyway..."

Okay... fine... Shen Le forced herself not to show it on her face, but inwardly rolled her eyes frantically:

"So how am I supposed to get there? Should I go on a trip to Southeast Asia first?"

"Um……"

"Then let's forget about it." Shen Le decisively rejected the proposal.

"I'll swim there!" "Swim...swim?!"

Swimming across was obviously a lie. Although Shen Le was certain he had that kind of physical strength, he was unwilling to soak in the sea for days and nights, desperately paddling and attempting an armed swim.

Moreover, he had plenty of options: teleporting via ley lines, having Yun Kun take him there, or finding a sea monster, like an old sea turtle, to carry him there...

"Well, you don't need to worry about how I get there. Now let's talk about what I need to do over there?"

"I don't expect you to do anything—just don't tell anyone about your teacher if you cause trouble!"

Gu Yulin blurted it out. Shen Le burst out laughing.

The two laughed for a while through the phone before Gu Yulin took a deep breath and said seriously:
"I really don't expect you to do anything—just be careful over there and don't get into any trouble. You know, when they retreated there before, they really took a lot of good stuff with them..."

Shen Le wrinkled his nose and made a soft "tsk" sound. Seeing this, Gu Yulin had no choice but to give him a serious warning:

"It's true, they really brought a lot of good things. For example, the authentic orthodoxy of Zhang Tianshi and so on... You absolutely mustn't go and try to take it back! Absolutely not!"

We have policies regarding these people; don't go around beating them up for no reason and disrupt our policies!

"Okay... alright." Shen Le shrugged listlessly, reluctantly agreeing. Gu Yulin stared at him carefully, making sure he really wouldn't have a sudden whim, before continuing to instruct him:

"Also, there are a lot of all sorts of strange and monstrous things over there, and foreigners have a lot of influence and influence there as well."

Just finish your business quietly and come back quietly. Please, please, please don't cause any fighting or violence!

"What if...they come and hit me?"

"Try to get out of here!" Gu Yulin felt his blood boiling.

"You think you can just run away?"

"Alright then." Shen Le felt he had finally reached an agreement with the Special Affairs Bureau, or rather, he had probed the Bureau's bottom line. The only problem was:
Why do you think they'll come and hit me?

Gu Yulin: "..."

Don't you know how remarkable you are?
Zhuxi Town, your mansion, how many overt and covert prying eyes have you attracted so far? Don't you know it?
That big camphor tree in your yard is only well-behaved in front of you. When you're not around, it really eats you up! It eats you up!

Those who come to spy with ill intentions are strung together one by one with tree roots and dragged underground to be eaten slowly! Do you know how difficult it is for us to drag a couple of people from under its roots to interrogate them?
Oh, you don't know, it's so well-behaved in front of you, especially well-behaved, pretending to be a harmless garden plant...

Those vampires, werewolves, priests, and Japanese pirates in Paris—they're practically ready to print your image on playing cards and give one to everyone out there on reconnaissance missions!
He launched into a tirade, but of course, he didn't mention the big camphor tree, for fear of being attacked by it.

Seeing Shen Le's face turn from white to red, then from red to pale, muttering something like, "Friendly exchanges can't be considered the use of force... Exchanges! Can the affairs of cultural relics workers be considered the use of force?"

Gu Yulin was finally satisfied and earnestly gave another instruction:
"What you do there this time isn't important, your safety is the most important thing. Really, you've already made enough contributions, we just hope you come back safe and sound!"

Shen Le received the documents they had prepared, a mobile phone that could be used there, bank cards, cash, and so on.

After making all the necessary preparations, the little ones were packed up, some into the old house and others into backpacks.

Place your hands on the clay block, take a deep breath, and slowly enter a meditative state, evoking resonance in the clay block's scattered components:
“Come, show me where they are, and I’ll bring them home…”

In the world of meditation, the copper sheet quietly flew out, stretched into a cauldron in the void, and then presented the lines of mountains and rivers on the cauldron's wall.

Shen Le carefully explored the map, illuminating the shimmering highlights, and then zoomed in:
Yes, on that leaf-shaped island, mountains of varying heights gradually emerge:

First, there is a huge ridge, and then, as the "camera" zooms in little by little, the huge ridge is divided into five mountain ranges of different sizes.

They share almost the same breath and fate; though divided into five, they remain closely intertwined. At the same time, they face the Wuyi Mountains across the sea, echoing each other's presence.
On the bronze plate, Shen Le could almost see a giant dragon coming from the Kunlun Mountains, passing through the Hengduan Mountains, Miaoling Mountains, and Nanling Mountains, stretching and undulating, before arriving at the Wuyi Mountains.

Finally, it plunged into the sea, then raised its head on the opposite shore.

On the entire map, many mountains radiate light, especially the Langjuxu Mountain that Shen Le had just visited, which stands as an exceptionally bright and unwavering point of light.

Shen Le even felt that he could instantly teleport from his home to that place with just a thought, as a huge karmic connection had already been formed between him and that place...

He regained his composure and looked again at the location of the pottery shards. At the foot of the five mountain ranges across the strait, on the plain facing the strait, a cluster of bright dots was scattered, clearly issuing a summons:

I'm here!

We're here!
Take us home, we were whole, we need to become one...

"It feels like I can teleport directly there along the earth's veins..." Shen Le murmured. He tightened his backpack and began to summon the copper pieces, calling upon the earth:

Take me away!
Take me there!

"Huff... cough cough cough cough!"

Shen Le emerged from the water in a disheveled state. Oh no! His Earth Escape Technique, or rather, his Earth Levitation Technique, seemed to have a flaw: it wasn't very effective in water.

Although the ley lines appeared to be connected, plunging in headfirst and choking on water caused one to be choked out on the spot…

"Alright...looks like I'll have to swim there..." Shen Le sighed, took out his phone, and called Yun Kun.
"Want to come and give me a ride?"

Yun Kun arrived happily and quickly. Not only did she arrive, she clung to him tightly, insisting on going ashore together and joining him on the mission.

"Otherwise, if you get chased to the beach and can't use earth magic, call me again? I'll go with you, it won't be long anyway!"
"What? You don't need it? You want me to continue my mission? Then... I'll have Lan Zhuang and the others accompany you? No, at least have the compass and the scroll with you! Otherwise, you won't know your way around over there!"

Shen Le: "..."

At least I have a mobile map, okay?
(End of this chapter)