No strange things are allowed to evolve!

After explaining, Jiang Shu tentatively asked:

"Besides the Boundless Sand, I know of several other guides of the same level."

As he spoke, he listed several items produced by the incubator that were mentioned in his friend's document.

After listening, the minister was clearly surprised: "It seems you really put in the effort. What you're talking about are indeed items produced by the special incubator in the past."

Upon hearing this, Shen Mo patted Jiang Shu on the shoulder with satisfaction: "Not bad, although I've never heard of any of them."

Seeing the minister's reaction, Jiang Shu nodded inwardly.

There was no rebuttal, so it seems they really are all guiding objects.

but...

He was a little puzzled.

Why would a friend leave so many clues and directional information for you?

Could it be that he knows what kind of diagrams I'll choose? So no matter what I choose, he can find the guide I need?

Or is it just a coincidence, and the patterns corresponding to these guide objects have some special meaning?

At the same time, the director, who was in his office, put down the receiver.

Out of curiosity, after the minister left, the two connected on the phone so that he could hear what Jiang Shu was saying.

He originally just wanted to see for himself whether Jiang Shu had the confidence and determination to forge his own path, but he didn't expect that Jiang Shu would bring him an unexpected surprise, or rather, a little shock.

Unbeknownst to him, a rare look of confusion appeared on the director's face.

"Is it a coincidence? Or do those diagrams indeed hold some secret, just as I suspect?"

Chapter 140 Can it even affect reality? How could the hatchery be so wicked!

"Are you satisfied now?"

The minister watched as Jiang Shu rolled up the map, assuming that he had given up after finding out what the required guide was.

After all, he had done his research and should know that this was not something he could obtain at this stage.

Jiang Shu nodded in agreement.

"Thank you, Minister. I have noted down everything I need."

"That's right, you have to use your feet..."

Before the minister could finish speaking, he realized something was wrong:

Why are you memorizing that stuff?

"It's better to be prepared, just in case," Jiang Shu grinned. "If I really find the Boundless Sand, Minister, is the Cataclysmic Catalyst Stone you just mentioned that can help me figure something out?"

The minister frowned, but still said, "If you can really find the guide, I can help you think of a way, but it can't be considered as giving it to you. At most, it can only be considered as giving you the authority to use it in advance."

“No problem,” Jiang Shu readily agreed.

However, despite saying that, Jiang Shu actually had no intention of paying it back.

Because he knows that overspending is not a good habit, and since he has already borrowed in advance, he cannot pay it back in advance.

"If you make a mistake once, you can't make the same mistake twice"—that's his life motto.

Perhaps not believing that Jiang Shu could do it, the minister simply promised: "How about this, you already have the essence of the Love and Desire Spiritual Root of the Cataclysm level. If you can also find the Boundless Sand, then not only the Catalyst Stone, but all other items will be provided for you. Anyway, we have already prepaid the most precious things, so we don't care about the scraps."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Shu was momentarily moved.

"Thank you for your trust, Minister!"

Seeing this, Shen Mo couldn't help but say, "But this doesn't seem like trust..."

......

After leaving the minister's office, Jiang Shu immediately returned to his seat to pack his things.

He also had to go to a friend's house.

The mole in the mission department assigned him the task of investigating the missing persons case, and even if it was just for show, he had to go again.

As soon as he entered the office area, he found Bai Lian sitting in her seat, lost in thought. When he walked past her, she didn't react at all, as if she hadn't seen him.

After thinking for a moment, Jiang Shu finally spoke up: "It can't be that bad, can it? I just said a few words to you."

"As for it!"

Bai Lian immediately retorted.

Clearly, she wasn't so distracted that she didn't see Jiang Shu; she was just waiting for Jiang Shu to speak up and comfort her first.

"The team leader has never spoken to me so seriously before."

She gritted her teeth, pouted, stared wide-eyed, furrowed her brows, her eyes were a little red and wet, and her expression was a mixture of anger and grievance.

It seems her pride wouldn't allow her to shed tears.

Seeing this, Jiang Shu sighed: "Why are you acting like a girl? You should be stronger."

Bai Lian was stunned for a moment, then her expression became even angrier and more aggrieved: "I'll bite you to death!"

"You wish! You're not a pea shooter."

Jiang Shu made a casual remark, and before Bai Lian could figure it out, he said seriously:

"But I think you could pay more attention to your work attitude. I won't comment on what Shen Mo said about writing reports, since I haven't seen any of your reports before."

However, when it comes to getting along with colleagues, I think you can make some changes.

I don't know about others, but actually, Coca-Cola and the others are somewhat afraid of you.

I used to think you didn't care, but now it seems that's not the case. It's as if you didn't feel anything at all, otherwise you wouldn't have been upset by what Shen Mo said. Deep down, you do crave recognition, don't you?

"Wait a minute, no... you mean they're afraid of me?" Bai Lian was a little confused: "I often take them on missions."

"Is it possible that this is the reason I'm afraid of you?" Jiang Shu stroked his chin.

“That doesn’t make sense.” Bai Lian couldn’t understand it at all: “Even if I think the tricky tasks might be a bit difficult, I always only let them do a small amount of work, and I also give them the performance bonus. Moreover, they can gain practical experience from it and become stronger. There’s no reason why they wouldn’t want to do tasks with me.”

So...you don't always think you're very popular, do you?

Jiang Shu suddenly felt that perhaps it would have been better if she hadn't woken the other person up.

"Is that so... then maybe it's just my imagination."

He nodded, not intending to say anything more.

With that, Jiang Shu prepared to leave.

Bai Lian wanted to have a serious talk with Jiang Shu and find out what happened, but when she saw Jiang Shu taking the things and heading out, the words that were on the tip of her tongue turned out to be: "Where are you going?"

She was unaware that Jiang Shu was going to take over her job to investigate the missing persons case.

So Jiang Shu only vaguely replied, "I have something to take care of and need to go out for a bit."

"Oh." Seeing that Jiang Shu didn't want to talk about it, Bai Lian wisely stopped asking.

But just as Jiang Shu reached the door, she called him back.

"Are you afraid of me?"

"Why?" Jiang Shu found it amusing: "Just because your name is Zhanlong?"

"..."

Jiang Shu waved his hand: "I'm leaving."

Bai Lian pursed her lips tightly as she watched Jiang Shu disappear around the corner.

Great, whether they're genuinely afraid of me or not, as long as you're not afraid of me, that's fine. If my carefully selected teammates were secretly afraid of me, I'd be in real trouble...

......

After leaving the bureau, Jiang Shu got into a ride-hailing car.

After giving the last three digits of his phone number, he didn't say anything more. Instead, he sat in the back row and focused on studying the incubator that was supposed to produce Boundless Sand.

According to my friend's document, the incubator was not in Tancheng, but in a small town in Yanbian, far to the northwest.

At first, Jiang Shu thought that this incubator required actual arrival at the location to enter, since it was in the same document as [Day of Great Joy] and could sit at the same table for a meal.

However, he had already checked it in the system yesterday when he was at his friend's house.

It has been confirmed that the unexplored hatcheries mentioned in the document can be accessed through the system.

The names of these incubators are clearly recorded, so they are not difficult to find.

【Hatching Ground: Lone Smoke in the Desert】

[Type: Multiple (Death)]

[Difficulty: Catastrophe]

Recommended Level: 4-6

The descriptions in the system are always so concise; whether it's an introduction or a task objective, you can only view them after entering the incubator.

The descriptions in the documents are much more detailed.

It was so detailed it was almost frightening.

【Hatching Ground Name: Lone Smoke in the Desert】

Location: North of Suzhou, Bamuge Desert

[Difficulty: Catastrophe Level or Higher]

[Details: The culprit behind the desertification of the Bamuge Oasis a century ago. Because it has caused few casualties since its appearance and does not actively absorb near-stage evolvers who have not entered the incubation ground for a long time, it was only regarded as a high-difficulty incubation ground that was difficult to conquer. After being marked by various evolver organizations, it has not attracted any attention since.]

[Reward: Suspected to include Boundless Sand]

Status: Not yet completed

[Related figures: None]

Death toll: 20+

[Note: Due to its long existence, the actual difficulty may have reached the level of a natural disaster; proceed with caution.]

This was the first time Jiang Shu had heard that the difficulty of the hatchery would increase.

Is it described as a catastrophic event but actually a natural disaster?

That's clickbait; they're luring the evolved beings in and saying they're going to kill them.

However, what puzzled Jiang Shu was that, after careful recollection, even though the records of those incubators in the document were so detailed, they were all about the real world, or rather, the impact of the interaction between the incubators and reality, but there was no mention of the situation inside the incubators.

But after thinking about it carefully, it's actually quite easy to understand.

If someone goes in and can come out, then the hatchery's status will no longer be "uncompleted".

As for those that have already been conquered...

Just kidding, why would I write about the content if I've already completed the walkthrough?

However, it is obvious that friends' records focus more on reality.

With the information he currently has, Jiang Shu cannot yet understand this point, but he is certain that the incubators seem to be more than just underground cities in another world; they may have been quietly influencing the real world for a long time.

Although she couldn't understand it, Jiang Shu didn't dwell on it.

He knew that as he grew stronger, he would eventually be able to solve this mystery. His immediate priority was to figure out how to obtain the Boundless Sand.

Now a more direct problem is facing him.

The hatchery is for multiple people, but because this hatchery has been marked by evolutionary organizations that have suffered losses here before, everyone who opens the detailed page of this hatchery can see its impressive record, which makes no evolutionary actively match with it.

Moreover, unlike [Day of Great Joy] which occasionally sacrifices young men and women, or [Creative Workshop] which occasionally absorbs evolved individuals who haven't entered the incubator for a long time, it's a place where you won't encounter trouble as long as you don't actively provoke it.

It's like a pile of stinky dog ​​poop. Although it smells terrible, it won't fly onto passersby on its own. It's obviously more cost-effective to walk around it than to clean it up, so it can always exist.

In short, if what the records say is true, although it has existed for hundreds of years, it is still a nobody and no one cares about it.

The incubator requires four people to open. If there's no one else to match with on this dead server, where am I supposed to find three people?

If she invited Xue Wang and Bai Lian, and then randomly picked someone else, Jiang Shu was quite confident that she could easily start the ride, since the two of them had mentioned forming a team to her before.

However, the difficulty of this incubation site is said to be comparable to a natural disaster. I am experienced and confident that I can handle it, but it is hard to say about the two of them.

Moreover, Jiang Shu also felt that it was inappropriate to put others in danger because of his own affairs.