Chapter 60: The Coming Storm
Recently, there has been a rumor among the homeless.
If you are in the East End and you see three people at the mouth of a small alley, two of them are ordinary-looking and one is very ugly, then boldly go up and talk to you, and they will take you to a small black market hidden deep in the building.
The black market was small, but it was full of variety, at least for the homeless.
As long as you have enough money, you can even enjoy the refreshment of wholesale shards.
On top of that, because the volume of goods comparable to the medium-sized black market is piled up in a small black market, it becomes much easier to find what you need.
People who have been there often have something to gain.
This rumor, which seems to be like an urban legend, gradually spreads among the displaced people, causing a certain amount of discussion.
And Wan Yi, counting the money until the hand is soft.
Of course it's impossible, why does he count the money himself? The matter of managing money is also handed over to a few clones, and all kinds of things are handled in an orderly manner.
Wan Yi has been preparing to increase his strength recently, because he feels that the time has come.
But when he was about to leave for the target world, he was called by a message from Chen Changcai.
Guiyi Headquarters sent someone to 014 Sky Island.
Someone wants to play airborne, and it has nothing to do with Wan Yi, but Chen Changcai said that there are some important things behind this incident, so Wan Yi passed.
A familiar office building, a familiar one-floor office.
Wan Yi arrived at the location and greeted Chen Changcai, who was already waiting.
"What's the matter with you?" Wan also looked at Chen Changcai at this time with some surprise, and now Chen Changcai's whole person loomed, as if he would disappear at any time.
"Yesterday, I made the third qualitative change, and I chose 'intangibility', which is a bit difficult to adapt." Chen Changcai said and stretched out his hand to touch Wan Yi.
Wan also retreated in disgust.
"Hey, don't run, shake hands, or I feel like I'm going to fall apart." Chen Changcai said.
Wan Yihu stretched out his hand suspiciously and shook it with Chen Changcai.
It feels strange to the touch, you can't feel the touch of the skin on your hands, it's more like fighting wind resistance.
After shaking it for a while, Chen Changcai's appearance became a little more normal, and then the two let go, Chen Changcai's two hands were still restless, touching things in the room everywhere.
"How many pieces have you eaten?" Wan also asked.
"Forty-three, half of them are wind element fragments, as well as light fragments and visual fragments." Chen Changcai replied.
"What effect does it have?"
"The body is invisible, the collision volume disappears, it can move like the wind, fly short distances, and the energy movement is fast."
"It's amazing."
"If it's not powerful, then I'm not a loss." Chen Changcai turned his head and asked, "What about you, won't you have a qualitative change?" β
"Not yet, I can't think of anything good to pick." Because the clones themselves had enough fun, Wan Yi himself didn't care much about the qualitative change.
But as soon as Chen Changcai said this, Wan Yi also felt that it was almost time for the qualitative change to make up for it.
Anyway, I have a lot of options now.
"That's amazing." Chen Changcai said with a sigh.
There has not been a qualitative change, and it has already been mixed.
"Don't talk about this, what do you mean behind the scenes when you say that Guiyi Headquarters sent someone here?"
"Quite simply, this empty island is dangerous." Chen Changcai casually said a terrifying thing.
Wan Yi tilted his head: "The sequelae of qualitative change? β
"It's not the after-effects, I'm serious." Chen Changcai said helplessly.
"No, I just think it's a bit strange to casually talk about the destruction of such a large city and even the empty island below." Wan Yi said, "It's like your colleague telling you that the earth is about to explode at work in the morning." β
"Even though we're not on Earth anymore." Chen Changcai added.
Wan Yi nodded.
Chen Changcai added: "It's not that it will be destroyed directly, but you have to be vigilant next." β
He thought for a moment and began to use his unbeatable descriptive technique: "Have you ever played PokΓ©mon?" Or call it Pokemon or whatever. β
"Played."
"Remember the Scourge Beast? It can also be called Absolu. β
Speaking of this, Wan Yi immediately understood what Chen Changcai wanted to say: "Are you saying that the situation of Guiyi is the same as that of the disaster beast, because it can predict the danger, it wanders around the disaster site in advance, and then is misunderstood as the embodiment of the disaster?" β
"Clever. However, it is not necessary to be misunderstood, it is just that those who understand this aspect will judge whether something is going to happen by acting together. Chen Changcai said.
"I see, so I can still predict the catastrophe?"
"Disasters don't happen for no reason, there's always a trace." Chen Changcai said.
At this point, the door was suddenly pushed open, and footsteps came one after another.
Wan Yi turned his head and saw a group of five people he didn't know.
Three men and two women, all dressed in a very formal white uniform and wearing a badge that symbolizes status.
One of the women is the leader, with black curly hair, a tall figure, taller than Wan Yi, probably one meter eight, with an atmospheric aura, and when she walks into the room, she brings some unusual atmosphere.
Among these five people, one man and one woman are the faces of Western Europeans and Americans.
After coming in, they also looked at Wan Yi and Chen Changcai, but they quickly lost interest.
The woman in the lead said, "It seems that the funds and other support we have allocated to other empty islands should be increased, but I didn't expect that there is only such a small place for us on this empty island." β
"This kind of edge of the empty island is like this, after all, it is a free empty island, you can't ask for too much." So said the man with the eyes in the back.
Yu Jin, who followed alongside, said: "The distribution of empty islands provides a lot of difficulties for upper and lower management, and it is difficult to do without practical support. β
Wan Yi glanced at Yu Jin.
Although the person who came seems to be a big name, it may not be easy for Yu Jin to speak with this attitude.
"Then without further ado, we're not here for tourism." The woman in the lead said, and everyone walked into the conference room next to it.
Wan Yi and Chen Changcai were like a little transparent throughout the whole process.
Wan Yi turned his head and saw Chen Changcai, who was silent next to him and his whole person was a little more transparent, reached out and patted him on the shoulder, pulling his color back a little.
This one is really going to be a little transparent.
"Do you know each other?"
"How do I know the people from the headquarters, they are people from the Bright Sky Island group."
"What's the Bright Sky Island Group?"
"The core area of the jurisdiction is completely under the control of the Dawning Alliance, which is to our Free Sky Island what the center of the city is to the displaced area." Chen Changcai said.
"It's a kiss over there, we did it, right?"
"Almost, even a little farther than what you do, because Liberty Sky Island has independent city governments, and most of the free governments like to play left and right, even if they belong to a certain group nominally, it is not impossible to be secretly close to other groups." Chen Changcai said.
Wan Yi frowned and said, "Then are we going to a meeting?" β
"Go, listen to it, just don't disturb them, it's all intelligence." Chen Changcai followed into the conference room.
Wan Yi also passed.
Although he estimated that he couldn't understand it even after listening to it, he could only leave an impression.
"Hello everyone, I am the one who led the team to deal with possible problems, so let's sort out the current situation on Sky Island 014." The woman in the lead gave a brief introduction to herself and then got to business.
"Shhh...... to one person. Chen Changcai suddenly gasped.
"Who?"
"Belong to one person, belong to the person at the management level within the first department, and it is also the highest-level force unit under normal dispatch. I've only heard of it, but it turns out that this one is actually ah, and he looks very young. Chen Changcai said.
Wan Yi listened quietly, and then saw them start discussing.
"First of all, it's the abyss line that has come up." The person in charge of telling the story is the man with glasses, and the name introduced before seems to be Xu Geyin, a very literary name, and the person looks more serious.
"The abyssal boundary zone is a series of boundary zones composed of a large number of high-depth boundary lines at the lower end of the observable sky island group belt, which is extremely unstable and in a state of constant motion, regularly floating up and down. It will swallow empty islands along the way. The abyssal boundary zone that is about to pass through the 014 Sky Island is the latest discovery of Guiyi, codenamed 'Sea Monster', which has engulfed thirteen uninhabited air islands along the way, and is heading towards the 014 Sky Island. β
On the PPT of the conference room, a dark blue boundary line that looks like a giant tentacle is projected, and the difference from the ordinary boundary can be seen from the visual point alone.
The dense whirlpools on the surface seem to be a pair of eyes peeking around, twisting and bending, very weird.
Suddenly, there was some discussion in the conference room, and the members of the Gui Yi on the side of 014 Sky Island seemed to be a little panicked about this matter.
"However, according to the prediction, the 'sea monster' will not directly engulf 014 Sky Island, but will pass by 014 Sky Island, and according to calculations, the two will only overlap by 127% at most." The other party continued.
Everyone's emotions relaxed.
"But that 27 percent overlap alone is enough to raise a series of problems." The man continued, "First of all, the contact between the boundary zone and the physical sky island, which will cause a boundary storm that will hit the city. The boundary zone between the 'Kraken' and Sky Island 014 will also collide as it approaches, making the situation worse. β
The content on the PPT has become a bit abstract, but Wan Ye can see that it should be a simulation of the collision of two boundary bands. Wan Yi felt a bit like the typhoon diagram he had seen before, and the fact that he had replaced the boundary line deepened this sense of dΓ©jΓ vu.
"If it's not done properly, the worst outcome is that the entire city will be reduced to rubble under the boundary storm, and a large amount of material will be re-reduced to pieces and returned to the boundary zone to be taken away."
The atmosphere was solemn.
"That's our number one issue. Then, there is the matter of worshipping the cangism. The general doctrine of the Worship of Cang Sect believes that human beings can only return to the boundary is the true destination, and the thousands of boundaries are the foundation of the world, so they will be present for the boundary storm and the collision of the boundaries, even for the purpose of witnessing, and it is obvious that there are traces of the Worship of the Cang Sect on 014 Sky Island, and their reaction is faster than ours! β
"Are we bound to clash with each other?" Said a member of the 014 Sky Island.
"Yes, because we want to prevent the collision of boundaries and storms, and the purpose of the cult is to let it go, even amplify the disaster." Huang Pu answered solemnly.
Everyone nodded silently when they heard this.
In the course of the conversation, the enemy to face became clear.