Did the Kuafu Program Succeed?

[The city at night is a vibrant scene of bright lights, bustling traffic, and endless flow of people.]

[Chen Dyson is sitting in a floating car, driving home.]

As the head of the Lineage business, he doesn't need to drive himself; he has a personal chauffeur.

Even while on the road, Chen Dyson was busy with company business, operating it online through his smart glasses.

[At this moment, the car's AI assistant is playing the news.]

["Earlier this month, Sakura Country submitted its twentieth application to the United Nations regarding 'joining the Kuafu Program,' which was vetoed by China. Just yesterday, Sakura Country submitted its seventy-first proposal to the United Nations to 'remove the veto power of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council,' which was also vetoed by all five permanent members..."]

[Chen Dyson, who had taken a break from his busy schedule to listen to the news, couldn't help but chuckle.]

"This little cherry blossom, always hopping around like a grasshopper..."

Suddenly, he realized the car was traveling in the wrong direction and said to the driver.

"Little Liu, you've taken the wrong road, haven't you?"

"Air traffic control is in effect in the city; we need to detour to the suburbs."

["oh..."]

[Chen Dyson sensed something was wrong, but then a work call came in, diverting his attention.]

[After he finished the call and looked out the window, he realized he hadn't been taken to the suburbs, but to a deserted agricultural area.]

["Parking!"]

[Driver Little Liu ignored him.]

"I told you to stop the car!!"

[Chen Dyson knew something was wrong with this guy, so he immediately smashed the car door open and jumped out from mid-air.]

["Snap!"]

[Although he fell from a height of tens of meters, Chen Dyson was unharmed, only his suit was slightly dirty.]

Before Chen Dyson could even regain his footing, a whooshing sound ripped through the night, hurtling towards his heart.

That was a shuriken.

[Chen Dyson reacted swiftly, his black leather shoes sparking as he darted into the nearby cornfield at an angle and speed impossible for an ordinary person.]

The tall corn stalks engulfed him, also blocking the enemy's line of sight.

"Who goes there!"

[As Chen Dyson moved and shouted, sure enough, the spot where he had just spoken was quickly engulfed by a large number of shurikens, interspersed with Explosive Talisman that created plumes of smoke.]

[Chen Dyson casually plucked a corn stalk from the ground and used it to carve some strange characters on the muddy ground.]

[After being written, these characters emitted a golden light, then with a "whoosh," they materialized and swept towards the direction from which the shuriken had just flown.]

[Wherever they went, corn stalks fell in droves, clearing a wide, open Great Dao in their wake.]

Unfortunately, the enemy was not hit.

["Hehehe... Chen Sang! Surrender! Today, our ambush is huge! You can't escape!"]

[Someone in the shadows, speaking with a colonel's accent, threatened Chen Dyson.]

[Chen Dyson heard rustling footsteps all around him.]

[Many people arrived and surrounded him.]

[Chen Dyson tried to jump out of the cornfield, but was immediately caught in a large net that fell from the sky.]

"Prepare to die!"

[Chen Dyson closed his eyes, inwardly cursing himself for being careless and falling into an ambush.]

[Before he died, he took out his phone, intending to send the news of the foreign enemy's incursion to his Lineage and fellow cultivators within the country.]

However, the imagined blade did not fall upon him.

He heard those who were besieging him, and it sounded like they were fighting with someone else.

["Who! Come out! You idiot!!"]

["Don't hide! Come out and fight me one-on-one!!"]

"Captain! It seems we can't see him because he's too fast, not because he's hiding from us!"

["He cut off our hands and feet but didn't kill us! He's torturing us!! How utterly despicable!!]

Screams echoed throughout the cornfield.

[Chen Dyson broke free from the net, stood up, looked around, and saw a bloody scene.]

[About twenty Sakura Country Cultivator, dressed in night clothes and resembling ninjas, had their limbs severed. They couldn't stand up or crawl; any movement would cause their severed limbs to come into contact with the soil, causing them excruciating pain.]

[Chen Dyson saw someone not far away, walking towards him step by step.]

The night covered his face, making it impossible to see clearly from a distance.

[Behind him was a full moon, faintly glowing with blood-red light.]

[He was dragging someone along with him; it was his driver, Little Liu.]

["Who are you..."]

The visitor remained silent.

[It wasn't until he got closer that Chen Dyson recognized him—it was you!]

"Chen Dong?"

"It's me."

"You... you did all of this?"

"It was nothing. This is your driver. Three days ago, he received a large sum of money from overseas. He was probably bribed. He's one of yours; you can handle him now."

[Chen Dyson snorted coldly, walked over, and raised his palm strike.]

[Little Liu was so scared that he wet his pants.]

["Boss, please don't kill me, please don't kill me... I didn't know you were superhumans! If I had known, I definitely wouldn't have gotten involved... Please spare me! I have elderly parents and young children to support, I just made a mistake..."]

[Smack!]

[Chen Dyson knocked him unconscious and tied him up.]

You look at him with some surprise.

"I thought you were going to kill him."

"In a society governed by the rule of law, how can one commit murder?"

"You're Cultivator; there are things that can't restrain you, right?"

"Cultivator must also abide by the law. We are all registered and on file with the government; at least that's how it is in our country."

"There's this layer too. It seems I still have a lot to learn."

Having said all that, Chen Dyson had guessed something.

"Did you cultivate in a secluded place and only recently come down from the mountain?"

"Let your imagination run wild."

[Chen Dyson paused for a moment.]

"You come from the universe."

You nodded gently.

[Chen Dyson gasped.]

["The space agency discovered an unidentified flying object that suddenly disappeared near the Earth last month. Was it yours?"]

"If no other aliens visit recently, then it can only be mine."

[Chen Dyson suddenly laughed.]

["why are you laughing?"]

"I didn't expect the Kuafu Program to succeed so quickly!"

"Strictly speaking, I'm not an extraterrestrial being; I'm human, just like you."

["No, the Kuafu Program is ostensibly about finding extraterrestrial intelligent life, but its true purpose is... to find extraterrestrial Cultivator!"]

[You can sense that although the Cultivator community on Earth is constrained by environmental factors and its overall cultivation level is not high, it seems to be quite complex.]

Why did these Cultivator from the Sakura Country want to kill you?

"Although I am also a Cultivator, I mainly focus my energy on business, so I am not very clear about some things in the Cultivator world."

"From what I've observed, the Law Artifact and Talisman they're using are of very low quality, except for this tooth, which seems to possess high spiritual power. Do you recognize it?"

[You open your palm, revealing a snake fang, which you just snatched from one of the "ninjas".]