Embers Ad Infinitum

Jiang Baimian picked up the phone, said "hmm" twice, and then looked at Shang Jianyao with a strange expression:

"The C-14 project team wants you to go over and do another test."

After the announcement, she said in a teasing tone:

"You are so busy!"

Shang Jianyao glanced at the wall clock in the room and said reluctantly:

"It's almost dinner time, I'll go there in the afternoon.

"They don't care about food!"

He resented this very much.

He had wanted to try the institute's cafeteria before.

"Hey, you are unorganized and undisciplined." Jiang Baimian rolled his eyes at this guy, picked up the phone, and called back.

She suppressed the smile on her face and said in a very formal tone:

"We have a regular internal meeting, which is very important. Shang Jianyao will be with you after two o'clock in the afternoon."

The C-14 project team seemed to have no objections. Jiang Baimian quickly hung up the phone and said to Shang Jianyao with a smile:

"Done!"

Then she joked:

"It's not easy to find a boss as good as me."

Shang Jianyao glanced at Long Yuehong:

"I'm talking about you! Listen carefully."

Long Yuehong originally planned to refute, but she thought about who she would work for after leaving the "old tune group" and felt a little uneasy, so she felt it and said:

"Yeah, I'm so lucky to have such a good boss as my team leader in my first job just after graduation."

He felt that if he had gone to another "old team" or other front-line teams in the security department, it was unknown whether he could still stand intact.

Of course, if you go to other positions, you will definitely not experience as much as you do now, and you will encounter a lot less dangers. However, Long Yuehong believes that her growth in more than one year is better than that of others in ten years. This is not only reflected in her rank. , as well as aspects of personal transformation.

"Yes, yes." Shang Jianyao agreed deeply, "Look, you have a mechanical arm."

"Are you trying to bury me?" Jiang Baiqian was angry.

She stood up, hummed twice and said:

"No, I must let you know the majesty of the team leader. You treat everyone to lunch!"

"Okay." Shang Jianyao responded with a bright face, "This way we can cook a lot of food."

Bai Chen listened and watched quietly, with a faint smile.

…………

At 2:15 in the afternoon, Shang Jianyao met the person in charge, Mei Shouan, at the C-14 project team on the third floor of the underground building.

Mei Shouan sat in the office with soft light, pushed up the gold-rimmed glasses on his face, pointed to the armchair opposite the table and said:

"Please take a seat."

"You just said sit down last time." The honest Shang Jianyao said something.

Just as Mei Shouan was about to speak, he suddenly let out a long burp.

He put the back of his hand to his mouth and said with a serious expression:

"You should know exactly why I came to you."

"I don't know." Shang Jianyao shook his head.

He immediately explained:

"There are so many reasons, I don't know which one."

Mei Shouan picked up the thermos cup next to him and took a sip:

"Why didn't you say you had become an awakened person last time?"

Shang Jianyao looked surprised:

"It's not like you don't know that I have a mental problem."

As he spoke, he pointed at his head, feeling very unreasonable.

Mei Shou'an moved her five fingers on the thermos cup and asked:

"What level have you reached?"

"Just entered the 'soul corridor'." Shang Jianyao was very honest.

Mei Shouan's eyes behind his gold-rimmed glasses seemed to widen a little in an instant. He stared at Shang Jianyao and said nothing for a long time.

"Are you sure?" he asked again as if confirming.

Shang Jianyao didn't respond with words. He leaned back on the chair and held his hands with his fingers intertwined.

Zizzizi, the fluorescent lights in the office suddenly flickered on and off.

"Interference electromagnetic..." Mei Shouan no longer has any doubts about Shang Jianyao's level of strength.

He frowned slightly and added a question:

"When did you wake up?"

Shang Jianyao had an expression of "Are you stupid?"

"While participating in your experiment."

Mei Shouan clasped his hands and asked with a rather strange expression:

"In other words, it only took you one year and three months to enter the 'soul corridor'?"

Shang Jianyao nodded sincerely:

"Yes, it was still a bit slow. It took a lot of time at the end. Alas, I still couldn't make up my mind."

Mei Shouan decided not to discuss this topic anymore:

"Your group has experienced so many things on the surface. Your team leader should have noticed that you were an awakened person very early, but she didn't report it."

Shang Jianyao spread his hands:

“Things that can be solved by one ‘reasoning clown’.

“If it doesn’t work once, try it again a few times.”

This is a plan discussed within the "Old Tune Group". Once the company knows that Shang Jianyao is an awakened person, all the responsibility will be put on him. Anyway, he is already an awakened person at the "soul corridor" level. No matter how punished a similar "small mistake" is, it will only be a penalty of three drinks.

"One of your abilities is 'reasoning clown'?" Mei Shou'an's focus was suddenly diverted. "Are you in the field of 'Zhuang Sheng'? What are your other abilities?"

Shang Jianyao looked this researcher with an intellectual temperament up and down:

"Are you an awakened one?"

"Yes." Mei Shouan didn't hide it.

After saying that, he burped again.

"What level have you reached?" Shang Jianyao was mainly anti-customer, acting like he was a censor,

Mei Shouan hesitated for a moment, and finally said calmly based on the opponent's strength:

"I have also entered the 'soul corridor'."

"You are all awakened at the 'soul corridor' level. Don't you know the capabilities and costs and try not to tell others?" Shang Jianyao immediately "criticized" the person in charge of the C-14 project.

Mei Shou'an couldn't help raising her hand to adjust her gold-rimmed glasses:

"It doesn't matter whether you say the cost or not, it's very obvious."

Mentally, no, there is something wrong with the brain!

"Therefore, abilities cannot be revealed to others." Shang Jianyao said matter-of-factly.

Mei Shouan exhaled slowly and said:

"Now that you have become an awakened person at the 'soul corridor' level, you will be tested and reviewed two to three times, and now is the first time.

"Shang Jianyao, what is your goal? In other words, what do you want to pursue?"

Shang Jianyao's expression became a little more serious:

"Save all mankind!"

Mei Shouan was mentally prepared, paused for a few seconds, and asked:

"What happens after you save humanity?"

"Be the director of the activity center on a certain floor and organize everyone to sing and dance!" Shang Jianyao suddenly became lively and excited. "If you transfer me to be the director of the entertainment department, I won't object."

Mei Shouan was speechless for a moment, so he had to pick up a pen and write and draw on the notebook in front of him.

He recorded Shang Jianyao's answer completely and added his own opinions at the end:

“The review subject has a strong sense of belonging to the company.”

After adjusting his mentality, Mei Shouan said thoughtfully:

"If you can pass all the reviews and tests at your level, your 'Old Tune Team' will then be in charge of you."

"No." Shang Jianyao shook his head very firmly.

"Why?" Mei Shouan asked in confusion, "If you are worried about your team leader's face, the company can transfer her to another team as a team leader."

Shang Jianyao's face gradually became serious:

"because……

"I can't beat her."

Mei Shouan raised his hand to rub his forehead and burped again.

"Is she also an awakened person?" the head of the institute asked.

Shang Jianyao shook his head:

"Not yet."

Mei Shouan couldn't help but ask:

"Then why can't you beat her?

"What does she rely on?"

Mei Shouan is very clear about how powerful the awakened people at the "soul corridor" level are.

Shang Jianyao was silent for a moment and said:

"She relies on her brains."

Mei Shouan was silent for a while, then picked up the thermos cup and took another sip:

"Well, what do you know about the level of 'soul corridor'?"

Shang Jianyao told me most of the situation he knew, but he didn't mention Du Heng's final instructions.

Mei Shouan gently nodded and said:

“You have indeed been through a lot.

"I can remind you one more thing, never transfer the aura or power in the props to your own 'Sea of ​​Origin'. This will cause your spiritual coordinates to be exposed, and it will be easy to be correspondingly explored into the 'Psychic Corridor' The strong men from deep invaded, and he could also find helpers to come together.

"This is a very dangerous behavior. We cannot hope that the other party will not notice it. Although this is also a relatively common situation, we should not be afraid of 10,000, just be afraid of the unexpected.

"I should have told you this when you entered the Sea of ​​Origin, but who told you to hide your strength?

"Also, try not to tell others the door number of your soul room. This may cause you to be attacked in the 'soul corridor'. You should not want one after another real enemies to open you up in the 'soul corridor' room, explore your soul, right? Exploration itself is tantamount to an invasion.”

Shang Jianyao thought carefully for a while and said:

"Then I can catch them all in one go?"

Mei Shouan felt like he was being choked, and it took him a long time to say:

"I hope your strength matches your ambition."

Shang Jianyao ignored the topic and asked proactively:

"Can exploring other soul rooms improve my own strength?"

Mei Shouan looked at Shang Jianyao again:

"When you are normal, you are still good at thinking.

"Yes, to use the company's internal definition, it is to improve your mental strength through such tempering.

"However, exploring other soul rooms is also a very dangerous thing. It is best to do it bit by bit, exit when you find an abnormality, and be prepared for it before continuing."

Speaking of this, Mei Shouan said another common sense:

"Under normal circumstances, you have to explore at least five soul rooms before your mental strength can be raised to the point where you can see the door to the 'New World'. Otherwise, you won't be able to find it."

"What's the abnormal situation?" Shang Jianyao was very curious.

Mei Shouan's expression changed slightly:

"As soon as you enter the 'Soul Corridor' and open any room, you will see the door to the 'New World'."

After saying this, his expression became serious:

"Such people often claim that they have been favored by Zhi Sui."