No strange things are allowed to evolve!

But Jiang Shu was a gentleman.

He has always adhered to the belief that good girls should not be let down and bad girls should not be missed.

Snow Queen is clearly a good girl, so he doesn't want her to get hurt.

If someone gets too close to you, sooner or later they will discover that you are not as wonderful as you see in their eyes, but rather a wasteland. This could be a lifelong shadow for a simple and kind person.

Nightmares haunt him, he says.

"Zhao Cixue..."

Inside the elevator, Jiang Shu muttered about the Snow King's real name, which she had just learned.

"Your name contains the character for snow, so you're called Snow King? I thought it was because you love Mixue Ice Cream."

Unbeknownst to Jiang Shu, at this very moment, inside the car, Xue Wang was busy working on all the nicknames he had given Jiang Shu.

Even the nickname on the dark software was changed by Xue Wang to Jiang Shu's name.

After deleting the words "Hot Teacher" and typing "Jiang Shu," Xue Wang finally put down her phone with satisfaction, seeing that both the kind-hearted and the wicked Jiang Shu finally had an official name, and started the car.

"From now on, you won't be a 'hot teacher' here anymore."

"very nice."

......

Early the next morning.

On the third day after the appointment with the bureau chief, Jiang Shu received a call as scheduled, informing him that he could come to the bureau for the "sublimation" process.

After grabbing a quick bite of soy milk and fried dough sticks at a breakfast shop downstairs, Jiang Shu took the small, seemingly just a piece of black coal-like stone that he had been polishing all night and hailed a car to head to the Bureau of Unification.

When he arrived, Shen Mo was waiting in the office.

He had dark circles under his eyes and kept yawning.

Jiang Shu was startled to see him so listless for the first time: "Are you completely drained?"

"It's true, there's almost no drop left." Shen Mo sighed.

"What's going on?" Jiang Shu's gossip instincts flared when Shen Mo actually admitted it: "What kind of hero could drain you dry? By the way, can't you transform into a dragon? You didn't?"

"Get lost." Shen Mo rolled his eyes, his whites bloodshot. "I wasn't talking about being drained, it's all because of you."

“Hey, hey, hey, you can’t say things like that.” Jiang Shu waved his hands repeatedly: “Has the version evolved from accusing someone of being physically strong to directly imagining the result? I have to remind you, you can’t use this trick, because being physically strong is not a crime.”

"What nonsense! The spiritual root of lust is disgusting."

Shen Mo shook his head:

"I mean the sublimation ceremony."

"What's wrong with the sublimation ceremony?"

"You don't think you can just pile the materials up there and be done with it, do you?"

Shen Mo said helplessly:

"Smelting, building combinations, and establishing connections all require a lot of effort and cannot be taken lightly. It's not just about staying up all night; it also requires a lot of energy. The mental energy I've used up for you these past few days will probably take several days to recover."

"You did this for me?" Jiang Shu exclaimed in surprise, "Does it require intelligence?!"

you?

Silence?

Pure military commander?

Shen Mo pondered for two seconds, then demanded, "What the hell do you mean?"

Jiang Shu then realized that he had rushed things and should have started by discussing the attributes of spiritual roots.

"I'm just curious, there must have been someone who inspected it..."

Shen Mo could understand his unspoken meaning, but he was exhausted and even a little neurasthenic at the moment. He just wanted to quickly tell Jiang Shu what he needed to tell him so he could rest. He was too lazy to argue with him.

"Don't worry, this kind of sublimation ceremony, which is full of natural disaster-level items, is very difficult and troublesome to prepare. I just assisted you. The minister mainly handled it for you, and there were also several other leaders you haven't met who helped. Moreover, the minister has checked the parts I completed, and there are no problems."

Hearing this, Jiang Shu breathed a sigh of relief: "That puts my mind at ease."

But then he thought about it again and felt a little embarrassed: "I really didn't know that so many leaders would go to so much trouble for me. They're busy doing all this while I'm resting at home. I feel so bad. You know, why didn't you invite me to come along?"

"You haven't studied this, how can you be of any help?"

Even if you can't help, you can still learn by watching.

These words finally gave Shen Mo an opportunity.

"You?" He sneered, "With an intelligence of 1.6, you've managed to learn some class. I don't know how you dare to laugh at me."

"Actually, I didn't really want to learn it." Jiang Shu shrugged, looking indifferent. "I mainly felt that it would make me seem immature, and I felt that I should at least be there to make things more appropriate."

Seeing that Jiang Shu didn't care at all about his attack on his intelligence and even readily admitted it, Shen Mo felt like he had punched cotton.

It really is both smelly and hard.

After glaring at Jiang Shu for a long time, Shen Mo finally gave in.

"Actually, I mentioned this to the minister, but the minister doesn't plan to have you present."

"Why?" Jiang Shu asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Because not many people know about you, your information has always been kept secret. If you come forward, those leaders will know that this promotion is for you, and your affairs will inevitably be leaked."

"But now is not the time for you to officially emerge. The minister and the director both hope that you can serve as a secret weapon, catching everyone off guard at the Ancestral Spirit Root Incubation Ground later," Shen Mo explained earnestly.

Jiang Shu nodded.

Should we also guard against our own people?

"I understand." He replied, but then something else occurred to him: "But they've already participated in the construction of the ascension ceremony, and the minister has mobilized so many resources. It's impossible that no one noticed, right? These are all calamity-level items. Don't they have any doubts?"

"This is unavoidable."

Shen Mo explained:

"That's why the minister simply asked everyone to help in order to save time, instead of hiding anything, which actually reduced people's wariness to some extent."

While everyone is certainly curious about who this grand ceremony is for, the minister has already considered that.

There are many types of ascension ceremonies. It is not that the ascension of level six and level twelve are the same. Different diagrams lead to different ascension ceremonies. Even leaders cannot tell whether it is a level six or level twelve ascension.

Therefore, today there will be someone who will act as your protector and ascend alongside you, someone who is compatible with this level of ascension ritual.

"Who?" Jiang Shu asked.

"It's me." A somewhat familiar voice rang out.

Immediately afterwards, a man wearing glasses and dressed like a clerk pushed open the door and entered.

Jiang Shu turned to look at him and was taken aback.

"Surprised?" The man smiled slightly. "Didn't expect that I'm actually level 12 higher than Shen Mo?"

"That doesn't matter..."

Jiang Shu shook his head, then looked confused:

"By the way... who are you?"

The man's smile froze, then his lips twitched.

Shen Mo blinked blankly, then couldn't help but slap the table and burst into laughter.

"Hahahaha, come on, tell him who you are!"

Then the man's eyelids began to twitch.

Veins bulged on his forehead as he forced out two words through gritted teeth: "Qin Lang".

"Qin Lang?" Jiang Shu suddenly remembered: "Oh, you're that first-grader whose winter break homework was found by a cat in Paris? You've grown so much in just a few years?"

"?" Qin Lang was full of questions.

"Hahahaha, first grader!" Shen Mo, who was quite sleepy, suddenly woke up.

Seeing that Qin Lang didn't seem to be a particularly funny person, Jiang Shu restrained himself: "Just kidding, deputy team leader. Actually, I recognized you at a glance."

Qin Lang narrowed his eyes: "I can tell you remembered me after I told you my name, but before that, it seems you weren't pretending not to know me..."

“This…” Jiang Shu’s eyes darted around.

"Alright, stop scaring him." Shen Mo had finished laughing, glanced at his watch, and smoothed things over, saying, "It's almost time, let's go first, we'll talk on the way."

Jiang Shu nodded: "Okay."

Qin Lang also hummed in agreement.

On the way, Jiang Shu learned that, in addition to Shen Mo, there was another hidden big shot among the group of team leaders and deputy team leaders in the execution department, namely Qin Lang.

In terms of seniority, he is the most senior of all the team leaders, and also the most low-key.

So apart from a few people who were close to Qin Lang, few people knew that his level was higher than Shen Mo's, and that he had even reached level twelve a few months ago, reaching the threshold to move from a middle-level team leader to a senior level.

However, he is a very self-disciplined person who has high standards for himself and strives for excellence in everything. So even though he was already capable of a second level of improvement, he is still constantly preparing.

That is why he became the best cover for Jiang Shusheng's transformation.

"Logically speaking, my conditions are slightly worse than Shen Mo's, and I don't need a catastrophe-level item for the second sublimation. However, I rarely take action. Apart from a very few people, most people who know me don't know my methods and background. Moreover, my achievements over the years are enough for a catastrophe-level sublimation, so no one will suspect anything."

Qin Lang calmly said to Jiang Shu:

"Even if someone discovers later that my sublimation results are not up to par with the enhancement brought by the Cataclysmic Ritual, it doesn't matter. Just tell the outside world that I failed."

This made Jiang Shu even more embarrassed.

As someone who often gossips about others behind their backs, he understands better than anyone how dark some people's hearts can be.

Qin Lang's grand gesture yielded a result that didn't live up to the catastrophic level of advancement. One can only imagine how many people would laugh at him behind his back and kick him while he was down.

He believed Qin Lang was aware of this.

So Jiang Shu said sincerely and solemnly, "Thank you, Deputy Team Leader. I will remember this."

"Don't worry about it." Qin Lang waved his hand. "You were brought back by me and Shen Mo, so of course we have to protect you. Besides, you deserve it. If you really want to thank me, just work hard in the future."

"it is good."

Shen Mo, standing to the side, looked at Qin Lang and then at Jiang Shu with dissatisfaction: "I say... you two are a bit biased towards people."

Qin Lang never helped him without expecting anything in return, and Jiang Shu never seriously called him team leader.

In that instant, Shen Mo felt somewhat superfluous.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, and he couldn't help but bring up old grievances: "I also put in some effort, and instead of thanking me like this, you're questioning why I messed things up for you?"

"I can only say..." Jiang Shu thought for a moment, "That's just how the character is supposed to be."

"...I will definitely find a way to deduct your bonus next month."

"Then I'll come back to work the month after next."

"You fucking bastard!"

As the three talked, they soon arrived at the underground special security zone of the Bureau of Different Principles, which was said to be able to withstand nuclear bombs.

Besides being used for the sublimation of senior members, this space can also be used for various experiments and tests.

Jiang Shu had never been to this place before, or even heard of it, because he was not of a high enough rank.

So after getting off the elevator, he looked around curiously.

This place is much larger than the area occupied by the Bureau of Different Principles on the ground.

It was only at this moment that Jiang Shu finally obtained the answer to a question that had troubled him for a long time.

Why does the Line 4 loop of the Tancheng Metro appear to take a detour instead of a straight line when it passes through this area, as seen on the map?

So it turns out that the Circle Line has to pass through the Special Security Zone of the Bureau of Transmission, so all subway lines have to be built around it?

"Awesome." Jiang Shu couldn't find a second adjective to describe the domineering aura of the Bureau of Different Principles.

The last thing that was this awesome was the Terracotta Army.

This place should be full of people working every day, but Shen Mo said that today, apart from a few key technical personnel, everyone else was given a day off, which is a disguised way of clearing out the area.

Looking ahead, Jiang Shu immediately spotted several familiar figures.