Although Joohyun wanted to figure out what happened to Zhang Ziyang, all of this was predicated on the premise that Zhang Wenwen and the others would seek her out again.
But Joohyun didn't know what happened. Since she left the hospital two days ago, Zhang Wenwen didn't look for her again, and neither did Qin Yi and Shao Hui. Joohyun found it strange at first, but then thought that she was innocently implicated in this matter from the outset. She originally thought that since she saw it and couldn't resolutely leave them in the lurch, she might as well try it and see if there was a better solution.
However, two days had now passed without any sudden movement from the other party. Joohyun didn't have the character of a eunuch, dying of anxiety when the Emperor wasn't, so she wasn't bothered by it. She also thought that they might have found a more powerful Celestial Master, but not necessarily so.
Hence, according to Joohyun's previous plan, she happily ran on the road of receiving tasks from the metaphysics network and upgrading as soon as possible.
After lunch that day, Master Mao appeared in the Lous' courtyard again with a bronze sword. Lisa was surprised to see Master Mao personally deliver the bronze sword: "Master Mao, why did you come in person?"
"I happened to come over to see how you were doing, and in time for the top to send you the bronze sword, so I brought it along with me." Master Mao put the wooden box containing the bronze sword on the table and admonished. "It's rare for you to apply for something from the higher ups, so when you asked for the bronze sword this time, the top management approved it for you almost without thinking. But I must remind you that it's very dangerous to put this sword around you."
"I know." When the evil spirit rioted violently in the research room last time, the Assistant Group together with Master Mao concealed everything. If the above knew that this sword would trigger the evil spirit, then this sword would definitely be strictly kept.
"If something happens again this time, I won't help you hide it anymore," Master Mao said.
"Understood." Lisa smiled, "Irin has a magical weapon, so naturally she will be safer when catching ghosts. Besides, you also said that a malevolent ghost of the level of the Ghost King is rarely seen."
"That's true, the Luoshan Sect's ghost repelling technique is ranked among the top three in the metaphysical world. Although Little Friend Chen is very young, her cultivation is already high. With the Bronze Sword's protection, I think she won't encounter any more danger." This was also the reason Master Mao agreed to give the Bronze Sword to Joohyun. It was only when Joohyun was safe would Lisa not act rashly.
"By the way..." Speaking of the Ghost King, Lisa suddenly remembered Qi Changming. "Has the Celestial Master who manipulated the Ghost King before been caught?"
"Yes," Master Mao couldn't help but smile when he brought this up, "That Qi Changming is very powerful in escaping. The Six Teams hunted him for five days, but still let him escape back to the White Mountain."
The so-called Six Teams was an arrest team established by the metaphysical organization specifically to catch those bad Celestial Masters who used metaphysical methods to harm people. They were equivalent to the police in metaphysical circles.
Lisa was surprised: "He fled back to White Mountain?"
"There is a White Mountain Sect in White Mountain, and Qi Changming is from there. The White Mountain Sect is a relatively isolated sect in the metaphysical world." Master Mao introduced, "Their founding ancestor was a bigoted Celestial Master. During the war period, he took advantage of the people's unhappiness and the world's deep grievances and refined a lot of malevolent ghosts, which later evolved into Ghost Kings after long periods."
"Ghost Kings are very powerful, and ordinary Celestial Masters can't rival them easily, so the White Mountain Sect gradually flourished. Later, the war stopped. The world's grievances were no longer so deep, and many of the evil spirits returned to hell. Refining Ghost Kings also became increasingly difficult, so the White Mountain Sect gradually declined." Master Mao explained, "That Qi Changming is the current White Mountain Sect patriarch's last disciple. Because of his outstanding aptitude, plus his master likes him, his master passed on a Ghost King to him."
"Passing on one to him? That White Mountain Sect must have more than that Ghost King. So did he escape back to the White Mountain Sect to let his master shelter him?" Lisa was puzzled. "Then how did the Six Teams catch him later?"
"When they first arrived in White Mountain, the leaders of the Six Teams also considered this problem. Although the White Mountain Sect has declined, it's impossible that they only have one Ghost King. When they were hesitating whether to go up the mountain to catch him, Gu Rufeng, the sect's patriarch, personally tied him up and sent him over," Master Mao narrated with another smile.
"I can't imagine that Patriarch Gu is quite profoundly righteous," Lisa said with some surprise. The White Mountain Sect had produced a disciple like Qi Changming, so he could be considered as an exceptional bamboo shoot out of evil shoots.
"Not really." Master Mao shook his head. "There are rumors that two days before Qi Changming ran back, someone came to the door and exterminated several Ghost Kings of the White Mountain Sect. The Sect was afraid of suffering a family extermination calamity, so they did not dare to shelter Qi Changming."
"Who is so powerful?" Lisa wondered in amazement.
"I heard that the expert went there to avenge his disciple," Master Mao recalled.
"Irin's grandfather?" Lisa instantly reacted.
"As far as I'm concerned, only Qi Changming is the disciple of the White Mountain Sect who has practiced outside, and the only person in metaphysics that he has offended recently is Little Friend Chen." Master Mao's words almost confirmed Lisa's guess.
"I never thought Irin's grandfather was so powerful," Lisa exclaimed.
"That's why... you must meet Little Friend Chen's grandfather as soon as possible," Master Mao said, "Maybe he really will have a cure."
"Mm." Lisa nodded.
Master Mao set his mind at ease when he saw Lisa's nod, then he fished out a bracelet made of three red ropes, with a coin-size jade piece pendant from his Daoist robe, and said, "This is the amulet that Little Friend Chen asked me to refine. Please pass it to her for me."
"Irin will be very happy to see it." Lisa smiled, "Thank you for your trouble."
Master Mao changed the subject and asked, "How are you feeling lately? Is there anything you don't feel comfortable with after we unsealed your Yin Yang Eye?"
"Everything is quite normal, except that when I went to the National Academy of Sciences two days ago, I saw some ghosts on the road." Lisa laughed. "It's only then that I discovered how crowded the capital is at night."
Master Mao laughed. After chatting with Lisa for a while, he left the small building.
After Master Mao left, Lisa planned to keep the amulet on the coffee table, but just as he raised his hand, he suddenly withdrew it again and summoned Tian Fei instead.
Tian Fei found a box to put the amulet away, while saying, "Young Master, there was another call from the military factory just now."
"Why? Did the prototype still fail to achieve the expected effect?" In May this year, Lisa forwarded the design of one of his newly designed intelligent weapons to the military factory for them to mass produce. In order to produce this batch of weapons, the state invested particularly heavily. Against all expectations, when the first batch of prototypes came out, it was found that the weapons had a 10% possibility to spontaneously self-destruct.
With such a big hidden danger, the state wouldn't distribute it to the army. After receiving the feedback, Lisa gave remote coaching multiple times, but the effect was still not obvious.
"Yes, Section Chief Wang said he filmed the whole production process of the latest batch of weapons for you and asked you to make some comments after watching it." Tian Fei said, "I have the video file on the desktop computer in the study."
"Okay, I'll go watch it now." Before the weapon design was handed over to the military factory, Lisa himself had produced a prototype, and all the data of the weapon were very stable. He just didn't know why frequent problems occurred after it arrived at the military factory.
For scientists, disregarding mealtimes and going without sleep to work was the norm, and Lisa was no exception. He carried on with the research late into the night. Joohyun waited until everyone in the family fell asleep before running over through the window again, but he still did not leave the study.
"Where is Third Brother?" Joohyun asked while handing Tian Fei the Evil Repelling Talisman she had drawn today.
"Young Master is working in the study," Tian Fei replied as he took out the box under the coffee table and handed it to Joohyun. "Young Master asked me to pass this on to you."
Joohyun opened it curiously and found that it was a three-spirit qi-filled Protective Talisman, and the aura on it was authentic Daoist healthy qi. It was much stronger than the Peace Talisman she had drawn herself. A happy smile immediately smeared Joohyun's eyebrows: "It's an amulet that Master Mao made. Master Mao is indeed powerful."
Tian Fei smiled, turned around and was about to go and heat up dinner again, in case his Young Master was hungry and wanted to eat. Just as he turned around, a flicker suddenly flashed in his eyes. He turned back to Joohyun and said politely, "Miss Joohyun, Young Master hasn't eaten dinner until now. I will go and heat up the food. Can you help me go upstairs and ask him to come down for dinner?"
"Third Brother hasn't eaten dinner yet? Why didn't you guys call him earlier?" Joohyun said and stood up, "Quickly go and heat it up. I'll go and call Third Brother down."
After saying that, Joohyun stomped upstairs in a jog.
Tian Fei revealed a triumphant smile and quickly slipped to the kitchen.
By the time Lisa rubbed his sore eyes and was dragged down from the second floor by Joohyun, Tian Fei had already served the hot meal on the dining table.
"Third Brother, even if you're busy with work, you can't skip meals. When I'm not full, I can't even calculate what one plus one equals what, so how can you possibly do scientific research on an empty stomach?" Joohyun exaggerated.
"That's exaggerating it." Lisa couldn't help but laugh. "Can't you even add one and one?"
"Ah ... when I was in elementary school, I did not eat breakfast one time, and the math teacher asked me what's the sum of one and one. It took me a long time to calculate," Joohyun said.
"Why didn't you eat breakfast?" Lisa asked curiously.
"I was still young, and just started the first grade. The mountain road to school is rough. While walking down the road, I accidentally tumbled halfway through, and the money that my grandpa gave me to buy breakfast dropped." Joohyun recounted, "So, I had no money to buy buns."
This was the first time Lisa had heard Joohyun talk about her childhood experience. Through Joohyun's description, he seemed to picture a little girl crying sadly on the mountain road because she lost one Yuan. It was then that he suddenly understood why the little girl loved money so much.
"Third Brother, eat, ah." Seeing the dazed Lisa, Joohyun could not help but remind him.
"Okay." Lisa picked up his bowl and chopsticks and slowly ate, while Joohyun sat on the side admiring the amulet she had just received.
"Master Mao is really powerful. This amulet is especially powerful and is beautifully crafted." Joohyun marveled. "I'm worried about how to carry such a large jade pendant on the body conveniently."
The ancients were fond of wearing jade accessories around their waists, so the jade pendants brought from the South were very big. However, modern people were no longer into this fashion. It would certainly not look good to have such a large piece of jade hanging around your neck. Therefore, Joohyun specially selected several small jade pendants when she picked, just to make it convenient for her family to carry it with them. However, she obviously didn't expect Master Mao to also take into account the shape when helping her refine the amulets.
Could it be that he thought breaking a jade pendant into several pieces could save a lot of jade material and allow him to make more amulets? After all, the power of the amulet would not be affected by the size of the jade pendant. The more Joohyun thought about it, the more she thought that her guess was right. It turned out that Master Mao was also such an economical person.
Lisa smiled faintly and never mentioned that he had found someone to polish the jade pendant in advance.
"Bzz-bzz-bzz!" Joohyun was sitting when the compass on her suddenly began to vibrate fiercely.
At the same time, Joohyun sensed a hostile intent. She turned her head to look, only to see Tian Fei slowly walking over holding a wooden box.
"Assistant Tian, what are you holding in your hand?" That hostile intent was coming from the wooden box.
"The Bronze Sword..." Barely did Tian Fei's words fall when the Bronze Sword in the box followed with a restless vibration, as if in response to Tian Fei. Tian Fei almost lost his grip, but after a startled jump, he tightly held the box in his arms.
"Don't you come any closer. Back up," Joohyun ordered. She even retreated two meters away.
"What's wrong?" Tian Fei also withdrew far back in fright.
"This Bronze Sword is too vindictive. Why is it fiercer than before?" Joohyun said aggrievedly.
"What's going on?" Sensing the fury of the Bronze Sword, Lisa asked in surprise.
"It's because I fought with it previously at the Research Institute, so it holds a grudge against me and wants to attack me every time it sees me." Joohyun added, "Last time, I borrowed it to cut a soul chain, and it cut my finger. This time, it's even more exaggerated. It's still several meters away, but it's actually bubbling with killing intent."
"Will the Bronze Sword attack you?" Lisa questioned in surprise.
"Yeah, it's a particularly petty sword." Joohyun said, walking a few steps toward Lisa. Just when Joohyun was about to reach Lisa, the Bronze Sword, which had just been quieted down because of the distance, suddenly vibrated fiercely again.
Tian Fei gripped the wooden box tightly in his arms, but the Bronze Sword was vibrating too fiercely, and Tian Fei was having some difficulty restraining it.
Sensing that killing intent anew, Joohyun dashed two meters away in retreat. In the instant Joohyun backed away, the Bronze Sword immediately calmed down again.
"Assistant Tian, quickly carry it away. Don't let it fly out all of a sudden," Joohyun just couldn't understand why this sword found her so disagreeable.
"Oh ... Oh." Tian Fei froze for a second. He was just about to carry it away when Lisa suddenly called him to a stop.
"Hold on." Lisa stopped Tian Fei and strode toward the Bronze Sword. The closer he got, the more complicated Lisa's expression became. Lisa sharply felt the Bronze Sword's mood, which slowly changed from anger to joy.
"Cackle-cackle-cackle..." Lisa approached it hesitantly, and the Bronze Sword happily hit the wooden box, as if greeting him.
"Quiet," Lisa ordered in a deep voice.
"..." The trembling wooden box instantly became silent.
Joohyun's mouth widened in surprise: "Is it jealous that I took advantage of Third Brother?"
Lisa stumbled and almost fell down.
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The author has something to say:
Lisa: No matter what you just heard, you are not allowed to speak about it.
Tian Fei: Yeah (ahhhh, it's so uncomfortable to have a gossip that can't be revealed!!)