My dream connects to three thousand years later.

Chapter 136 The Dark Forest Version of the Extraordinary World

When Li Kang arrived at the captain's office, he found Chu Zhu sitting in his chair, staring at the ceiling with listless eyes and a hint of dejection.

"……What’s wrong with you?"

"I can't understand it. Something I should have... I woke up and found it was gone..." Chu Zhu was depressed. Who had embezzled his water?

"You were robbed?" Li Kang's eyes sharpened. After a moment's thought, he turned and looked outside.

"Where are you going?" Although Chu Zhu hadn't moved her butt off the chair, she straightened up.

"I'll go find the search and rescue officers to help you look! What else can I do?" Li Kang rolled his eyes, then his words took on a domineering tone, "Trying to steal from our special operations team... Hmph, this thief is asking for death!"

"If he were still in the Third District, I would dig up his entire family tree... no, I would dig up the ashes of his ancestors!"

"...Never mind! It's not really anything that valuable." Chu Zhu choked for a moment and waved her hand.

"?" Li Kang thought for a moment, then sighed, "You're still too kind-hearted! Yes, I should have thought of that sooner. If you really wanted to find someone, you wouldn't need to call the patrol officers at all. I'm afraid if you gave the order, the shantytown redevelopment area would mobilize and dig three feet into the ground for you!"

Chu Zhu: "..."

"However!" Li Kang looked at Chu Zhu with a puzzled expression. "Are you going to see Miss Lu today?"

"? No?" Chu Zhu was a little confused.

"Then why are you dressing up? I don't remember you having this habit."

"?" Chu Zhu realized what was happening and said with a subtle expression, "Is there any possibility..."

"Captain!" Ning Linglong suddenly rushed in. "When I was on duty at the search department today, I noticed something was wrong! There seems to be an unsolvable case there, involving kung fu... um, you know, supernatural abilities! Although the alarm never went off, which means that person hid very well and probably didn't show any supernatural abilities to the victim? But shouldn't we handle these supernatural crime cases? I've already taken over the case!"

"I'm going to search over there! If there are any more cases involving supernatural beings that require memory erasure, then let Bixuan handle them... Hey? Uncle Zhu, good morning... Ah?!"

Ning Linglong glanced at Chu Zhu and nodded slightly. Just as she turned her head away, she suddenly realized something was wrong. She looked at Chu Zhu again with suspicion and then gasped.

"Wait! Uncle Zhu, you...you've become a cultivator?!"

The texture of that skin, and the sudden surge in allure—she had experienced it all firsthand. Especially since Chu Zhu had met her just yesterday; the contrast was too stark.

Li Kang: "???"

No? Li Kang almost thought he had misheard. He stared at Chu Zhu, dumbfounded, and then stiffly looked at Ning Linglong.

What kind of cultivator?
Is this...right?!
"Isn't this normal?" Chu Zhu tilted his head, his voice tinged with amusement. He crossed his arms, propped his chin up, and struck a classic pose reminiscent of a certain commander. "Is there anything I want to accomplish that I can't do?"

Li Kang: "...?"

"We're all acquaintances, don't do this." Li Kang's face contorted in pain. It was awful, so incredibly painful!

Moreover, although what you said makes a lot of sense, and he admits it when recalling the past... the problem is, how can this be reasonable!

Where did you get your cultivation technique? And weren't you still exploring the path to immortality before? He didn't notice anything unusual yesterday either!

Where is your master's assistance? Where are the teachings of your predecessors? Where are your cultivation resources? Damn it, it feels like you just took a nap and leveled up directly?

Wait! Li Kang gasped. No, could it be... divine grace? This divine grace... is it, cough, is it serious?!

Ning Linglong appeared serious, but her eyes kept glancing at Chu Zhu out of the corner of her eye.

"If you want to see, then look openly!" Chu Zhu spread his arms and said magnanimously, "I have nothing about me that I would be ashamed to show to the world!"

"..." Ning Linglong's face stiffened for a moment, then she turned around hastily, "Then, Captain, I'll go carry out the mission first!!"

A brief silence fell over the room.

"Why are you flirting with her?" Li Kang stared at Chu Zhu with a helpless expression.

"What do you mean by 'flirting'!" Chu Zhu retorted angrily. "Can't you speak properly? This is clearly an elder teaching a younger generation!"

"...Is this kind of teaching...a proper kind of teaching?" Li Kang regretted his words as soon as they left his mouth; he saw the shocked look in Chu Zhu's eyes—

Even though he knew perfectly well that Chu Zhu was deliberately pretending to be like this.

"I never imagined you were this kind of person! What are you thinking about every day..." Chu Zhu was heartbroken.

"No, I was wrong!" Li Kang raised his hands in surrender with a stiff expression. He suddenly remembered something, took out a cell phone from his pocket, and pushed it in front of Chu Zhu. "I almost forgot, I've been saying I'd get you one!"

“Originally, guest elders didn’t have this authority, but considering that you are now the director of the Management Department… I pulled some strings for you! The application has been approved.” Afterwards, Li Kang put his hands together and bowed slightly to Chu Zhu.

"Thank you for your trouble." Seeing this, Chu Zhu stopped pressing the issue, after all, he still valued integrity. Take the money and shut up!
After fiddling with her phone for a moment, Chu Zhu's expression became subtle.

When he first met Li Kang, the mobile phone Li Kang was using could be found in the real world—Guozi's mobile phone and Guozi brand tablet computer!

However, after he altered the timeline several times, causing a butterfly effect that unleashed tremendous changes, the phone also underwent a dramatic transformation. For example, the phone in his hand…

He couldn't tell which brand it was!

No, the problem is, even in the real world, it's hard to call this a mobile phone.

The phone was entirely transparent... Holding it in my hand felt like holding a piece of precious jade; it wasn't cold, but rather very smooth and warm. After examining it repeatedly, Chu Zhu's fingers lightly traced across the screen, projecting an ethereal glow.

Huh? It can project images too?

Holy crap... wait a minute, why isn't there a battery icon in the top right corner? Don't tell him... this phone has unlimited battery?!

Chu Zhu felt a chill run down his spine. He glanced at Li Kang, who seemed perfectly normal and took it all for granted, then looked at his phone. He hesitated several times, wanting to say something but unable to utter a word, feeling as if he had a fishbone stuck in his throat.

Oh no, now he's the country bumpkin!

"I've already entered your phone numbers. Mine, Linglong's, Guan Fei's, Bi Xuan's... Oh, right, I also specifically called and asked Governor Lu for his number, and I've entered that one's number for you too!" Li Kang said, indicating that he had everything arranged.

After a short silence.

"It seems you and Lao Lu have been getting along quite well lately?" Chu Zhu finally regained his composure, and he looked Li Kang up and down with amusement.

Li Kang remained calm and made no attempt to hide his feelings. "It's all thanks to your good fortune that I was able to get this connection... I was almost transferred to the Second District as a team leader before, thanks to Lu Zhizheng's connections! However, I'm already quite old... it's pointless for me now! I just want to live a peaceful life, protecting this land until I retire... and eventually grow old."

Li Kang paused briefly, a touch of emotion appearing in his eyes, "Of course, if... before I die, I encounter something worth sacrificing my life for... like saving someone, or fighting against foreign enemies! And then die a glorious death, that would be even better... My life goal is, not to die in a hospital bed!"

Chu Zhu laughed, about to retort, "You're already a superhuman, why are you afraid of dying from illness..." when he suddenly thought of Li Kang's terrifyingly high level of pollution. His expression paused for a moment!
“…Don’t do that!” Li Kang glanced at the silent Chu Zhu and smiled. “If that’s the case, you should be happy for me.”

"Maybe!" Chu Zhu didn't dwell on it. He rubbed his face, composed himself, leaned back in his chair, and put his feet up on the table again.

Li Kang felt a throbbing in his temples as he stared intently at Chu Zhu's feet.

You're really something! He wouldn't even dare treat his desk like this. Be gentle, please be gentle! Li Kang slapped his face, indicating he couldn't bear to look. This desk was just replaced...it's a new desk! He tolerated how you treated his old desk before!
The table in front of me was smashed to pieces by Guan Fei yesterday... It's broken now, and there's no way to get it reimbursed...

"There's something I've always been curious about!" Chu Zhu asked in a cryptic tone, "When you go out to search for those extraordinary individuals, do you capture them?"

"?" Li Kang was taken aback, somewhat confused. "If they haven't committed a crime, they'll just receive a stern warning if they're caught! Then their names will be recorded! We'll then visit them every now and then to check on their recent movements and whether they've committed any crimes... However, if they have committed a crime, then they'll definitely be arrested..."

"I don't think I saw them locked up in prison?" Chu Zhu asked back. He had been to prison when Xue Laosan was arrested and found that the prison specifically for extraordinary beings was empty, while the ordinary prison was full of people.

"They've all been transported away! The logistics department did it." Li Kang shrugged. "That's normal. Although it's called a superhuman prison, it's really just a model... It can't control many powerful experts! If we really wanted to imprison them, we'd have to keep a superhuman there year-round... We don't have that kind of capacity here."

Chu Zhu closed his eyes, his emotions churning. He seemed to already know... what would become of these criminals!
Well, the only saving grace is that the Logistics Department, or rather the Great Qian, seems to have some bottom line... They don't just grab any superhuman and throw them into the nuclear facility without any regard for the consequences.

If that's really how it's done! Hehe...

"Do you know where the radiated water and radiated stone come from?" Chu Zhu asked abruptly.

"Wasn't it dug out?" Li Kang looked at Chu Zhu with some surprise. "I seem to remember that there's one mine in Jinghai... or maybe several? That's our good fortune! Because of this, plus the fact that Jinghai is a financial and industrial center... we actually receive significantly more resources than areas without mines..."

As expected, I didn't know!
Chu Zhu sighed inwardly... and judging from Zhang Hai's previous appearance, perhaps he didn't know either?

Considering this... this must be extremely confidential intelligence! Indeed, if this got out, how many people's values ​​would it shatter? At the same time, how much would it affect the atmosphere of the entire supernatural world... wait a minute...

Suddenly realizing something, Chu Zhu looked directly at Li Kang with a serious expression, "After Xue Laosan was killed, where did his body go?"

Without a doubt, Xue Laosan of the Omnipotent lineage is also a superhuman. If he were to actually fight Chu Zhu, even the current Chu Zhu would most likely be defeated…

"They were taken away by the logistics department! So what? The corpses of superhumans are not easy to dispose of anyway!" Li Kang said indifferently.

Chu Zhu: "..."

Okay! Now Chu Zhu has also confirmed something rather scary.

That means it's highly likely that there aren't any out-of-control superhumans... their blood might also be used to aid cultivation? Perhaps they even have radiated stones in their brains!

"Is your blood white?" Chu Zhu touched her temple and suddenly asked.

"What nonsense are you asking? It's definitely red! Blood red! You can tell just from the name." Li Kang's expression was a little off. He asked, "Is it because of that stolen item that you're still thinking about it...? I feel like your mental state isn't quite right right now. Don't keep putting yourself through this!"

He said earnestly, "Even if the thief is caught, we won't kill him! We'll just lock him up and educate him for a while..."

"It's nothing," Chu Zhu smiled. But there was no smile in his heart. After learning this crucial information... the extraordinary world he saw was now completely different from before.

"Never mind you! I'm here..." Li Kang suddenly frowned. Accompanied by the shrill ringtone, he took out his phone, glanced at it, and said, "The alarm is going off again! I have to go... Oh right, I almost forgot to mention, Xiaomin is on holiday from university this weekend and is coming back from Tianjing. Do you want to have dinner together? Just do me a favor."

"...That's really strange!" Chu Zhu exclaimed in amazement. "You used to treat me like a thief!"

“…Indeed.” Li Kang nodded expressionlessly and walked out quickly, not even waiting for Chu Zhu's reply. “Go if you want, don’t go if you don’t!”

The main reason is that he used to think, "You pig are eyeing my cabbage? You've even stolen my heart, and you're always nagging about it at home..."

But now, he looked at Ning Linglong, and then at Lu Muxue…

Is it possible that the other party never actually tried to seduce his "cabbage" (a desirable woman)? Or even further... is it possible that the other party is the "cabbage" (the desirable woman)?
and……

He hadn't actually had much objection to this before, but he felt that Chu Zhu was too young, and that they should at least wait until Xiao Min graduated from university before considering this matter, so he intervened slightly to stop it...

Now, however, he's completely relieved, or rather, he's given up hope. Let Xiaomin face off against Chu Zhu? Can she even win? She can't! She's not capable! Even with his help, she can't win! It's a sure thing—the young lady next door, Miss Lu, has a vice-governor as her support, but so far, it seems completely useless…

(End of this chapter)