The undead have descended upon the world? I possess a sword that can cleave the heavens once more!

During the meal between Wang Qi, Gongsun Baizhan, and Wu You, both of them kept their eyes down.

Their eyes were completely fixed on the dishes cooked from exotic plants in front of them, and they didn't dare to look up at all.

Occasionally, when Wang Qi wanted to pick up some food, he would pause in mid-air with his chopsticks to make sure his gaze wouldn't accidentally sweep across Wu You across from him before quickly reaching out, picking up the food, and retracting it. The whole movement was smooth and fluid, yet it carried a strange tension.

"Hey Lao Wu, can you turn this ability off?"

"It really obstructs the view."

Wang Qi finished eating the rice in his bowl and let out a burp.

Wu You, who had already stopped eating, shook his head without explaining anything.

After all, he himself didn't understand what was going on.

Then Wu You reached into his trench coat pocket and pulled out several small boxes of items.

The packages traced a short arc in the air, landed on the table with a soft thud, and then piled up in a small stack in front of Wang Qi.

"Yo, Yunyan!"

"You really understand me!"

Upon seeing the source of joy, Wang Qi's eyes lit up immediately.

He immediately opened a pack, pulled out a cigarette, and smelled it under his nose, his expression as if he had just received rain after a long drought. Then he stuffed the remaining small boxes into his trench coat pocket.

Wu You bought these packets of Yunyan cigarettes on a whim after seeing them by the roadside in Lanhe.

As for why not buy more...

It wasn't that Wu You was afraid Wang Qi would smoke too much; she simply found it troublesome.

After all, you can easily stuff a few packs into your pocket and carry them, but if it's a whole pack, you can only carry it in a bag.

He's too lazy to even carry a sword anymore, let alone anything else.

Wang Qi pulled one out of the opened packet, held it between his fingers, tapped it lightly on the table twice, and then put it in his mouth.

But considering where I am now, I still didn't set it on fire.

"How is Lanhe River now?"

Wang Qi tilted his head slightly, avoiding the direction where Wu You was.

"How did the first Wuhan University of Technology and Martial Arts meet?"

Wu You first nodded, then shook his head.

"The reconstruction is almost complete. The streets are quite lively."

Then, his silver eyes flickered slightly: "As for the martial arts exam, the number of applicants is not as many as predicted, and there are far fewer outstanding talents of Grade A than expected."

Gongsun Baizhan sat quietly to one side, listening to Wu You and Wang Qi chat, his gaze also glancing sideways at the cafeteria floor.

After listening to Wu You's words, Wang Qi nodded, not surprised: "That's normal. After all, it's only the first one, and many people don't yet understand the ins and outs. It will be much better next year."

Wang Qi was, after all, the deputy director of the execution department of the Lanhe Municipal Bureau, so he had some understanding of the situation in Lanhe.

He paused for a moment before continuing, "By the way, where's Director Ye?"

"How is he?"

"You're not overworked, are you?"

In the previous incident of divine intervention, the Torchbearers of the Anomaly Investigation Bureau in Lanhe City suffered heavy casualties, and the urban area was also extensively damaged.

Although several surrounding cities also urgently mobilized a number of people to fill the manpower gaps and quickly rebuild the cities, many of these tasks still required Ye Yi's responsibility.

After all, Ye Yi had already been handling various affairs of the Lanhe City Bureau as the acting director.

Therefore, he was indispensable in all aspects of the reconstruction of Lanhe.

After hearing Wang Qi's words, Wu You's mind flashed back to the image of a man with a few more strands of white hair at his temples and wearing a gold badge.

He hesitated for a moment, but decided to say something positive: "Director Ye has broken through to the seventh level and has been officially appointed as the director of the Lanhe City Bureau."

Upon hearing this, Wang Qi clicked his tongue twice and exclaimed, "That's impressive!"

"As expected of Director Ye."

. . .

Wu You chatted with Wang Qi for a while, and then taught Gongsun Baizhan the first half of the sword control technique.

This wasn't just a whim of Wu You's.

Instead, he wanted to see how a person with mental strength far exceeding that of a martial artist would fare when practicing sword control techniques.

Can the Sword Control Technique increase the growth rate of a user's mental strength?

However, he himself was not a power user, so he could only seek help from Gongsun Baizhan, who also practiced swordsmanship.

Regardless of the outcome, Wu You considered this half-finished sword control technique as payment for Gongsun Baizhan's experiment.

Gongsun Baizhan was overjoyed to have learned the sword control technique.

He thanked him repeatedly, his tone full of surprise. He was even so excited that he couldn't help but stare at Wu You for two seconds, which led to him covering his eyes as he left the cafeteria.

In the end, Wu You originally wanted to pay the bill, since the ingredients for this meal were all special medicinal herbs and exotic plants, which would probably cost several thousand contribution points.

A few thousand contribution points are nothing to Wu You, but for Wang Qi and Gongsun Baizhan, it's a significant expense.

But after thinking about it, Wu You dismissed the idea: he still needed to leave some room for the two of them to express themselves.

A relationship needs give and take to last.

If he always rushes to give, their relationship will change from friends to giver and receiver.

That's not what he wanted, and neither were Wang Qi and Gongsun Baizhan.

Give them a chance to contribute, and they won't refuse when you give them talisman swords later.

After all, in the corner of Wu You's living room, there is still a box of talisman swords left over from when he was practicing his talisman sword technique.

Those talisman swords were made by him before he reached the ninth rank, and they could only kill corpses around the seventh rank. They were completely useless to him now.

Since leaving them there is just a waste, we might as well find an opportunity to distribute them to Wang Qi and the others, and we can also gain some experience points along the way.

. . . . . .

Without lingering after leaving the cafeteria, Wu You immediately stepped back into his small courtyard.

Then he went inside and pushed open the door to the training room.

The moment the door was pushed open in his hand, a dense mist of energy surged out from the crack in the door, and then he saw the curled-up black ball of fluff in the center of the training room.

It lay there, its four little paws tucked under its body, its tail wrapped around its side, and its chin resting on its front paws.

Energy mist swirled slowly around it, its grayish-white color contrasting sharply with its black fur.

Wu You stared intently at the black fuzzy ball in the center of the energy mist, and without any hesitation, asked directly:

"What did you do to me?"

"You should know what I mean."

A moment later, although the black ball of fluff did not move, a mature, hoarse voice echoed in the energy mist in the training room.

First, I didn't do anything to you.

"second."

"I have no idea."

"Or rather, I'm curious too."