Everything Was Going According to Plan

Liu Shiling knew, of course, that the magic robe she wore, the magic wand in her hand, and the dark demon that appeared in the living room were all creations of the old fairy sister, and were not Quanzhen School.

But when she put on the gorgeous and majestic robes, held the cat-headed magic staff she had always dreamed of, and saw the dark, shadowy monster demon for the first time in a conscious state, Liu Shiling got a little too into character, too excited, and too thrilled. Before she knew it, she had fully activated the five "Super-Linked Object" Coin, and they actually started to generate electricity.

Fortunately, she was startled and stopped in time; otherwise, the electronic equipment in the entire building might have been damaged.

Of course, there was a brief power outage for the entire building just a moment ago, and all wireless signals were interfered with. Fortunately, it was afternoon, and there weren't many people in the building. Power was restored quickly, and it didn't cause too much of an impact or attract much attention.

However, the appliances in Liu Shiling's house suffered, especially along the line from the living room to the kitchen. From the TV, router, water dispenser, refrigerator, microwave, rice cooker, to the tablet on the sofa, everything was damaged.

Yang Zhen'er checked on the Little Chubby Girl and, after confirming she was alright, breathed a sigh of relief. She then patted the head of the boy next to her, Egg Pie, and said, "It's good you're both alright. It's all my fault. Ugh, I always thought the electricity on my holy sword was fake, I never expected it to suddenly become real..."

Looking at the situation in the room, she finally realized what had happened. The "illusion" wasn't an "illusion" at all; it had actually had an effect—her electricity had become real electricity!

Although she was a little scared, Yang Zhen'er still felt a little smug.

Little Bell is truly a lucky charm!

Looking at the smoking, obviously broken television and the various foods that had "flew" out of the refrigerator after the door was flung open, Liu Shiling gripped her chopsticks, her face full of worry. "I'm doomed, Mom's definitely going to spank me when she gets back."

Yang Zhen'er immediately waved her hand generously. "It's okay, it's okay! This is my fault, it has nothing to do with you, Little Bell! Don't worry, I'll talk to your mother, and I'll take care of these appliances and stuff in a bit!"

Liu Shiling was taken aback, looking up at Yang Zhen'er's expression, realizing that her "Old Fairy Sister" was going to take the blame for her. If her "Old Fairy Sister" was going to take the blame, then she could indeed escape a disaster and wouldn't be scolded or beaten, which really relieved her—she hadn't made her mother angry in a very, very long time, and she hadn't been spanked in a very, very long time. Now that she was in elementary school, being spanked again would indeed be quite miserable.

However, Liu Shiling realized that the "Old Fairy Sister" seemed to genuinely believe that she was the one who broke all the appliances in the house? Did she really consider it her fault?

This discovery caused the "two little devils" inside Liu Shiling's heart to start fighting.

A voice whispered, "If Sister Fairy thinks she did it, that's fine. We won't say anything, and it won't be considered lying. Mom definitely won't spank Sister Fairy."

Another objected. "That's wrong. Old Fairy Sister really thinks it was her fault. If we know and don't tell her, we're lying to her, and doing so just to avoid getting a spanking. That's not something a good child should do!"

The first voice whispered again, "Anyway, nobody knows. Old Fairy Sister doesn't know, Mom doesn't know, only Egg Pie knows, but it definitely won't tell anyone. Bald Uncle... I wonder if he knows?"

Another voice sighed, "We're supposed to be 'Great Mage' saving the world, fighting alongside Uncle Baldy! How can we be afraid of even a spanking?"

The first voice said, "But we have to keep our magic a secret, Uncle Baldy will definitely understand."

Another voice said, "Old Fairy Sister also knows magic. We just used magic together. Uncle Baldy allowed us to teach Old Fairy Sister magic last time, which proves she's one of us. So we can't bully Old Fairy Sister like this."

"Little Bell, what are you muttering? I can't hear you," Yang Zhen'er asked curiously.

After an internal struggle, Liu Shiling finally made a decision, looked up at Yang Zhen'er and said, "Old Fairy Sister, you didn't break the TV and the refrigerator, I did."

"Huh?" Yang Zhen'er was taken aback.

"Don't worry, Sister Fairy, I'll take responsibility for my actions. Even if Mom spanks me and beats me badly, I won't implicate you!" Liu Shiling said earnestly.

Then Yang Zhen'er suddenly felt that her erasers scattered throughout the room were connected to the Little Chubby Girl by an extremely thin thread. Although she couldn't see it directly, she inexplicably knew that the five named Coin were connected to the Little Chubby Girl by these thin threads.

In that instant, Yang Zhen'er understood that the crackling electric shocks she had just experienced were not illusions that had come to life and become real, but rather the result of the five Coin controlled by the Little Bell.

This little guy can generate electricity!

Yang Zhen'er couldn't help but get excited. She picked up the Little Chubby Girl and said, "Little Bell, we can cast spells together in the future! I'll use illusions to confuse people, and then you can secretly release electricity. At first, they'll be startled, and then when they realize that the electricity I released is fake, they'll lower their guard, and then you can suddenly release real electricity to ambush them and make them run away in terror!"

Liu Shiling asked in a daze, "Who does the old fairy sister want to electrocute?"

Yang Zhen'er was also taken aback. "Ah... well, uh... let's talk about it later."

So, by evening, Shiling's Mother, who hadn't waited for Yang Zhen'er and Liu Shiling to come to the company to have lunch with her, returned home. As soon as she opened the door, she noticed some changes. The living room TV seemed to have been replaced? A much bigger TV? And it seemed not only the TV, but the refrigerator had also been replaced? A single-door refrigerator had become a double-door one?

Yang Zhen'er and Liu Shiling were putting some ingredients into the refrigerator when they saw her return, and they both grinned at her.

"What's going on here?" Shiling's Mother was a little confused. What was going on? Their house was rented, and the TV and refrigerator belonged to the landlord. Ms. Yang wanted to replace the TV and refrigerator, shouldn't she be replacing them in the apartment they rented downstairs?

Yang Zhen'er quickly pointed to the Egg Pie lying on the ground eating a high-end canned food and explained, "This afternoon, when Little Bell and I were playing with the Egg Pie accidentally broke the TV and refrigerator. We called the local electronics store, and they happened to be having a promotion, so we replaced the TV and refrigerator with higher-end products from the same brand. The landlord shouldn't have any objections."

Liu Shiling didn't offer any opinion, but quietly opened another can of the premium canned food they had just bought for the Egg Pie.

"Oh? This... it can be fixed, right? This TV and refrigerator must be expensive. I'll transfer the money to you." Shiling's Mother quickly said, "It must have been Liu Shiling playing wildly with the Egg Pie that caused this trouble. How can I let you spend the money?"

Liu Shiling, squatting next to the Egg Pie, shrank her neck slightly but still didn't dare to say a word. She had mustered up the courage to confess to the old fairy sister before, and the old fairy sister had assured her that she didn't need to worry. But now she didn't have the courage to confess to her mother, after all... it might involve the leakage of magic secrets.

She wasn't just afraid of getting a spanking from her mother.

Yang Zhen'er said, "Oh, Sister Lin, it's not Little Bell's fault, it was me! I wanted to eat some Egg Pie, but it wouldn't let me, so it ran away. I chased after it, and then I stumbled and smashed the TV. If it were Little Bell, she could have eaten the Egg Pie with a simple wave of her hand, she wouldn't have needed to chase it at all. Sister Lin, let's not talk about this anymore, let me let it go, otherwise I'm really embarrassed."

"Oh? Is that so... Ms. Yang, are you alright? This... this is all because Egg Pie was being naughty." Since Yang Zhen'er had already said this much, Shiling's Mother naturally couldn't say anything more. Although she was still a little puzzled, how could chasing Egg Pie have damaged the TV and refrigerator, which were so far away? And while the TV was one thing, the refrigerator shouldn't be that easy to break, right? But of course, she was too embarrassed to say these things aloud.

A few hours ago.

Inside the completed first phase of the Research Base in Chongyun Village.

In a certain experiment.

Xia Libing was resting her chin on Zhengyi School and supporting her elbow with the other, looking at the screen in front of her.

That's Liu Shiling's living room. From the angle of the video, it's the camera on a tablet placed on the sofa in the living room.

The tablet originally had its camera facing downwards, but under Alice's control, it was moved and manipulated little by little, flipped over, placed against the sofa for support, and the angle was adjusted to open the wide-angle lens so that the entire living room could be captured in the shot.

Since most of the components in this tablet are already "Super-Linked Object," and the room is also filled with a large number of "Super-Linked Object," Alice didn't find it too difficult to achieve this.

Knowing that Yang Zhen'er and Liu Shiling were coming home, she had already adjusted the camera angle on her tablet.

All of this was naturally to demonstrate to Lao Xia, since she herself could directly understand the situation through extrasensory information.

Seeing Yang Zhen'er smugly clasping her hands together and Liu Shiling Alice, who had moved a chair over, cheerfully explained, "Third Brother probably created an illusion of a giant sword, but I don't know exactly what it looks like. Little Bell should be able to see all illusions. Lao Xia, Lao Xia, do you want to know what the illusion looks like? If you want to know, I can try to reconstruct the extrasensory information and simulate it!"

"No need," Xia Libing said.

No sooner had she finished speaking than Yang Zhen'er on the screen, in an incredibly childish tone, shouted, "With me, the Silver Armor Fairy, here! You can forget about coming over!" Wearing slippers and with her hands clenched, she rushed towards the kitchen. Behind her, Liu Shiling, in a childish yet serious tone, and with a cute voice, called out the names of Coin such as "Chocolate" and "Ice Cream."

This slightly awkward and cringeworthy scene is fortunate that it's Xia Libing watching; if it were Tang Baona, who has a low threshold for laughter, she would probably be laughing so hard she'd cry.

However, as Yang Zhen'er waved her hands down, Liu Shiling finished calling out the names, and several real bolts of lightning appeared on the wall. With a loud bang, the scene went dark.

Xia Libing sat up straight and turned to look at Alice: "Is she alright?" She naturally knew what had happened; it was obvious that the Little Chubby Girl had accidentally activated her "Super-Linked Object," triggering an arc flash.

Now, the Little Chubby Girl's control over electricity is getting stronger and stronger. Especially with the implementation of Xiang Kun's global "Super-Linked Object" deployment plan, the areas where Peng City, Liu Shiling, and Yang Zhen'er live, work, and study are all key areas under special care. Therefore, the surrounding area can be said to be densely populated with all kinds of "Super-Linked Object," which makes it easier for Liu Shiling to call upon all her abilities and apply them on a larger scale and with greater power.

For this reason, Xiang Kun also instructed Alice to keep a close eye on the Little Chubby Girl to prevent her from misusing her abilities and hurting herself or others.

So, upon hearing Xia Libing's question, Alice instinctively stuck out her tongue, scratched her head, and said, "It's nothing, it's nothing, Little Bell is fine, and Third Brother is fine too." She had been a little negligent. Logically, after judging that Little Chubby Girl was too immersed in the illusion and plot created by Yang Zhen'er, she should have deduced the possibility that Little Chubby Girl might accidentally unleash her real abilities, and then promptly took measures to counteract the effects and reduce the impact.

Knowing that her cousin and the Little Chubby Girl were both alright, Xia Libing nodded without saying much. She knew Alice would reflect on her actions and didn't need further reminders, so she simply said, "Check where Lu Qinliang is now."

"Okay!" Alice replied immediately.

Then the screen on the black monitor suddenly changed, displaying an infrared thermal image seen from above.

In the image, a tall figure can be seen moving on the ground. Judging from the shape of the thermal image, its body structure is significantly different from that of humans, and its temperature is also very different from that of the humans around it.

This is naturally Lu Qinliang, known as "Mr. Liang," the number one figure in the secret department of "Shenxing Technology."

His current location is outside the rented house where Xiang Kun first mutated, and he is in a state of invisibility. The images that Alice sent back to Lao Xia were transmitted through a miniature drone that Lu Qinliang had arranged to monitor the surrounding area from a high altitude nearby.

Clearly, Mr. Liang is currently investigating Xiang Kun.

Previously, Fang Pingfang and Zhao Feng's eight-person investigation team had been conducting investigations under the guidance of Xiang Kun and Alice.

At that time, with Alice's assistance, Xia Libing would occasionally keep an eye on their investigation and, based on the actual situation and her psychological assessments of the individuals, slightly revise the guidance plan formulated by Xiang Kun, so that they could more accurately move towards the goals that Xiang Kun had set for them.

Now that Mr. Liang has entered, Xia Libing and Alice are still monitoring the situation in real time, making various adjustments to details, and disseminating and modifying various information.

If their plan were a home renovation, Xiang Kun would be the chief designer, Xia Libing the on-site supervisor, and Alice the plumber, bricklayer, painter, carpenter, and mover...

Xiang Kun is currently focused on other matters, so the two of them are responsible for the execution of the "on-site" operations to ensure that the plan progresses towards its intended goals.

So far, everything seems to be going according to plan.