Chapter 14: How to Make a Good First Impression
In the inner courtyard of the stone mansion, there was a small chaos.
When Shi Yue and Zhao Xiuwen hurriedly wiped the nosebleeds on the ground, it seemed that a long time had passed, but in fact, the stew in the bowl of the three of them was still boiling hot, and the fire charm under the boiling pot had only rolled a corner.
Shi Yue said with some embarrassment: "That, Lord Mountain, you can please get dressed." β
Wang Luo glanced at Shi Yue, and saw that the other party really had no sympathy for his flawless body, so he could only shake his head regretfully and said, "You have a good talent, but it's a pity that you are not assigned to physical cultivation at all." β
Shi Yue said: "It's okay if it's not assigned, at least I don't have to look at you to get a nosebleed......"
Wang Luo said: "A nosebleed will take at least three months of penance, and I don't know how many people were willing to bleed for it back then." β
Shi Yue pursed his lips, he was a little unbelievable about this kind of historical paragraph comparable to stall literature.
But soon, she was stunned, Zhao Xiuwen's skin beside her revealed a strange luster, and the original dark complexion faded at an alarming speed until it was light brown.
"You ......"
Zhao Xiuwen nodded: "Well, the condensing jade body is small, and by the way, the skin has been purified...... It was expected to take another three months of penance. β
"it!"
Shi Yue was really convinced now, and when he looked at Wang Luo again, his gaze was very different.
However, Wang Luo had already put on his clothes again at this time, and said: "Between physical cultivation, there is a set of reliable communication language, as long as you look at a person's skin, bones, flesh, fascia, qi and blood, you can generally know what kind of person the other party is and whether it is credible." β
Zhao Xiuwen was silent for a moment and said: "Yes, I subconsciously felt kind when I saw you, and what I saw with the naked eye just now is even more like a miracle!" β
Shi Yue couldn't help but interject: "Exaggerated, right?" β
Zhao Xiuwen and Wang Luo looked at her at the same time, and the gaze that seemed to be watching a low-level creature made her suddenly annoyed and angry: "Okay, okay, it's my reckless qualifications, and I can't comprehend the aesthetics of your muscles!" But because he is good-looking, you believe that he is the resurrection of the Lord of the Spirit Mountain? β
Wang Luo said: "He can believe in the baby kiss that you and I set a hundred years ago, of course he can believe that I am the master of Lingshan Mountain, some people are born with active thinking and are not limited to common sense; What's more, he should have only believed more than half of it by now, which is about the same as Ling. β
The second half of the sentence made Shi Yue speechless.
Yes, until now, her trust in Wang Luo is not 100%.
This is clearly shown on the ascension record, the loyalty is 79/100, and the meal of Li Ji Roast Pork has increased by 20 points, but it is still a cut away from the full value.
But Wang Luo is not demanding, because even if he is full of loyalty at this time, it is nothing more than to make this young girl's attitude more deferential and more subordinate. And Wang Luo never cared about these false courtesies.
As for winning Zhao Xiuwen's trust, half of it is convenient, after all, everyone lives next to each other, and more trust is not a bad thing. The other half is, just as Zhao Xiuwen looks at him well, Wang Luo also has a lot of praise for this young man with good physical cultivation talent.
Very suitable for income outside the mountain gate.
Looking at the empty pages of the Waiwaishan Gate of the Flying Ascension Record, Wang Luo had already labeled Zhao Xiuwen as the Waishanmen in advance.
After a brief interlude, the supper became extraordinarily lively.
For Wang Luo, Zhao Xiuwen had countless questions, and Shi Yue also took the opportunity to take out the questions that he hadn't asked before.
Of course, compared to these two people, Wang Luo actually had more questions in his heart, but he was quite restrained and did not rush to throw out questions, but chewed the answers to each question carefully and digested them clearly.
For Shi Yue and Zhao Xiuwen, the 84th generation of mountain owners of Lingshan is like a sudden addition to life, which can be curious, worth studying, and maybe changing their future, but that's all.
But for Wang Luo, this new world is his present and his future.
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After a supper, the sky was already dark, and it was five or six hours after eating.
The huge cooking pot was divided up by the three of them as early as the first hour, and there was not even the soup base left - Zhao Xiuwen temporarily found ten catties of dry fried noodles and threw them into the pot, and after absorbing the soup, he fished them out. For the rest of the time, the three of them simply talked about the big pot of white water that Zhao Xiuwen carried.
By the time the sky was bright, Shi Yue and Zhao Xiuwen were already tired - although both of them had the cultivation of building a foundation, and they were balanced inside and outside, it stands to reason that even if they stayed up for more than a dozen all-nighters, they should be regarded as idle.
But the problem is that these two people have been working overtime day and night for a long time before eating supper......
In the end, it was Zhao Xiuwen who took the lead in shouting to stop with an apologetic face.
"I'm sorry two, although I still have a lot to say, but if I don't take a break, the morning cram school will be abandoned."
Shi Yue also nodded: "I should also go to the Cultural Tourism Division to take orders, if only there could be a part-time tour guide such as the Ningyuan Pavilion Museum." β
Wang Luo said: "Then I'll go to Qingping Division to get an identity certificate for myself." β
Shi Yue was a little worried: "Don't you really need me to follow?" β
Wang Luo waved his hand: "You have work to be busy, so concentrate on work, I want to live in this new immortal era, and I can't rely on the mountain protector for everything." β
After speaking, Wang Luo took the lead in getting up and left the inner courtyard.
When he arrived at the door, Shi Yue chased after him and stuffed Wang Luo with a handful of jade-like small leaves.
These spirit leaves are the currencies that are now circulating in the [Zhuwang] country, and even the hundred countries of the Immortal Alliance, which are similar to the spirit stones of the old immortal calendar era, but the spirit leaves do not contain spiritual power, but contain many anti-counterfeiting and circulation mechanisms designed by the supreme authority [Golden Deer Hall] of Zhuwang.
The number of spirit leaves is not much, but it is obviously the result of Shi Yue's best efforts, so Wang Luo also accepted it politely, and then his divine thoughts worked, and the spirit leaves were taken into his body.
In this way, at least before going to Qingping Division, you can also go to Stone Street for breakfast.
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The morning of Stone Street is far less lively than the night, and only more than half of the shops are open on a long street, but the smell of all kinds of special food still fills the street.
Wang Luo followed his instincts, found a prosperous steamed bun shop, bought a drawer of steamed buns and a bowl of fried liver with the spirit leaves in his hand, and ate unhurriedly with the noise of the diners around him, before turning to the destination of this trip.
Qingping Division, Xiaobailou.
To be precise, it is the Qingping Sirong City Stone Street Office.
As the agency in charge of public security, the Qingping Division has set up more than 100 offices in Rongcheng, each of which has a number of small stations under its jurisdiction, and a total of more than 2,000 Qingping small stations, as well as 100,000 officials and officials who work hard in them, are like a dense net, enveloping the entire city.
What Wang Luo wants to visit is this node in charge of Stone Street.
The small white building on Stone Street is very eye-catching, among the low-rise buildings on Stone Street, the five-storey small building seems to stand out from the crowd, and the snow-white walls and golden eaves are even more noble and extraordinary.
In fact, Qingpingsi's Xiaobailou is indeed extraordinary, according to Shi Yue and Zhao Xiuwen, in Shijie, there is no official institution that can be more powerful than Xiaobailou.
In the bustling Shangcheng District, such as the Cultural Tourism Division, the Industrial Manufacturing Division and even the Breeding Division, they can often steal the limelight of Qingping Division, but for a bottom world where even the law of supper has to be rubbed, Qingping Division is the protagonist.
Stone Street is not very extensive, and the main area is located in the lower part of the three-dimensional structure of the Furry City, which is literally an underground world. But the underworld is home to nearly a million people.
And that small five-story building that stands out from the crowd is the manager of this million people.
When Wang Luo arrived, there was already a lot of traffic in front of the building, and a street that was quite spacious was crowded by all kinds of stone street people. So much so that the Tsing Yi who work here often have to fly in the air and enter directly from the entrances of the second and third floors.
Such a busy scene in front of him is the daily life of Xiaobailou. As the manager of millions of people, Qingping Division naturally has to respond to the daily needs of millions of people, in addition to basic security issues, such as neighborhood friction, business disputes, etc., all Qingping Division to decide, although most of the problems can be dealt with in Qingping Station, but beyond the authority of the station, such as for a person who has no background at all for identity authentication, then you can only come to Xiaobailou.
The detailed handling process, Shi Yue and Zhao Xiuwen have explained, Wang Luo explained, first went to a crowd gathering place in the courtyard outside the building to find a self-service wooden platform, pressed his hand on the table, and then a translucent number appeared on the palm, which was his service serial number, 97.
After that, it's just a matter of waiting patiently for the numbers in your hand to change color.
The work efficiency of the small white building on Stone Street is quite high, Wang Luo waited for about an hour, and then felt a slight heat in his palm, and the translucent No. 97 bloomed with milky white light, and then jumped out of his palm and floated to the front to lead the way.
Following the guidance of the numbers, Wang Luo walked all the way into the small building, and the moment he crossed the door, the space in front of him suddenly expanded, revealing an office hall that was far wider than the outside. At the same time, an invisible pressure is like an initiation, making people feel as if they are under an incomparably majestic will, and no matter how many thoughts and distractions they have, they will be restrained.
Many people on Stone Street who were clamoring outside the building to seek justice, their voices immediately lowered after entering the small building, and even their backs had to be arched, making people a little shorter out of thin air.
Wang Luo was not affected at all, but followed the path of this invisible pressure, traced its source with divine thoughts, and thought about it for a short time.
After thinking about it, the number 97 in front of him had led him to an office window, only to see a young woman in white sitting behind a brown desk, she looked up at Wang Luo, revealing a face that was still not a little beautiful with light makeup, and asked in a low and impatient voice, "What are you going to do?" β
Wang Luo said: "Applying for identity certificates is the kind of building wood. β
The woman snorted visibly and said, "Then this window is fine, what is your situation, the seed of Jianmu is missing?" β
For people in the new era, the seed of Jianmu as proof of identity is basically forcibly implanted in the body by the Great Law at the moment of birth, and it stands to reason that as long as the person is still there, the seed of Jianmu must be there. Even when a person dies, it can be extracted from the remains.
However, in reality, the seed of Jianmu is not absolutely stable, and many accidents can lead to its loss, such as accidentally going mad when practicing certain exercises, or a certain lawyer accidentally dialing the wrong strings when adjusting the Great Law......
In short, for Qingping Division, it is also a daily business to reissue identity certificates for people, especially in a place like Stone Street, where the fish and dragons are mixed and the great law is relatively weak, there is always an endless stream of people who "lose" the seeds of building wood.
But Wang Luo's situation is different.
"It's not that it's lost, I don't have the seed of Jianmu at all, and I need Qingping Division to implant a new one for me."
The woman in white raised her eyelids again, and looked at Wang Luo with some surprise: "There is no seed of building wood, what is your situation!?" β
A person who lived a thousand years ago will certainly not have an identity certificate a thousand years later...... But these words cannot be said.
Wang Luo's true identity can be said to Shi Yue and Zhao Xiuwen, but it is obviously inconvenient to say it to Qingpingsi.
So, let's talk about it according to the rhetoric designed by Shi Yue and Zhao Xiuwen.
"I'm from the Great Wilderness of Nanxiang, and I haven't been in contact with the Great Law, and last year my family's settlement was invaded by the Wild Demons, and I was the only one left alive, but fortunately I was rescued by a hunter from Furry City. He told me some stories about the mushroom city, and I was fascinated. At the same time, I considered that it was becoming more and more difficult for a person to survive in Nanxiang, so I went all the way to Rongcheng. β
The woman in white blinked her eyes and looked at Wang Luo with an expression of "Are you and I mentally retarded".
In fact, objectively speaking, the story made up by the supper duo on an improvised basis is completely reasonable.
A thousand years ago, the catastrophe came, the heavenly court fell, and directly collapsed the Kyushu continent, with Lingshan as the central axis, and the four western states became a wasteland.
And Nanxiang is the area where the enchantment effect is the weakest and the great law is relatively the most disordered on the border between [Zhu Wang] and the barren area. More than five million people lived there, and hundreds of thousands of them simply settled in the Great Wasteland full of wild beasts in order to collect all kinds of natural materials and earthly treasures that can only be found in the wasteland. And those who live in the deserted area will naturally multiply, but those newborns will not have the identity of the civilized world.
Although under normal circumstances, people who settle in deserted areas do not often leave Nanxiang, some are not accustomed to the taste of civilization, and of course, more people do not live to leave at all. But if there are really people who are tired of the chaos and disorder of Nanxiang and want to throw themselves into the arms of the civilized world...... So these people should be accepted by civilization, both from a humanitarian point of view and on the basis of existing legal principles.
In fact, every year, the Qingping Division of Zhu Wang provides identity authentication to many wanderers from Nanxiang, places them in a place to live, trains them in work skills, and promotes them as a good talk.
Shi Yue and Zhao Xiuwen also referred to a large number of on-site cases to design such a clichΓ© story for Wang Luo.
But obviously, this story did not impress the woman in white in the small white building.
Wang Luo didn't know what the problem was, maybe the story was too stitched, or maybe Wang Luo's temperament was too far from those wanderers in Nanxiang...... But in any case, he at least knew what to do.
Facing the questioning of the woman in white, Wang Luo smiled and asked, "You have a good talent in physical cultivation." β
"Huh?"
The next moment, Wang Luo reached out and pulled the placket open a little, revealing his collarbone.
The woman in white was stunned, and her cold gaze softened at an alarming rate.