Hu Ya Leaves Seclusion

This patriarch had no little brother. He cultivated along a mysterious route of true qi, and hey—his little brother grew back!

Lin Xiaosu already had a little brother. True qi circled around it a few times, forming a special field. And guess what? His little brother stood tall and proud, utterly full of itself!

Fuck, this was the divine ability of a duck!

At this stage, this divine ability had no practical use. Calm down!

Lin Xiaosu patted his little brother on the head, making it settle down, then turned his attention to a special route in his right hand.

Guided by the Silver Fish, this route rapidly took shape. Wind faintly stirred around his middle finger. When he looked with the Heavenly Insight Eye, it seemed to gleam with a trace of light. Lin Xiaosu's gaze flickered, and he pointed his middle finger at the wall. Dust showered down from the wall, and he abruptly withdrew his hand!

He stared at the little hole, then at his completely unremarkable middle finger, his heart pounding.

If this skill were placed in a martial arts world, what would it be called?

One-Finger Spirit Link?

This was the power of the Rejuvenation Technique.

It could develop countless divine abilities.

Ordinary people might find it difficult to open a route formed from Micro-Meridians even in an entire lifetime, but he could accomplish it in an instant. That was because he possessed a Silver Fish. In those ethereal places of consciousness that were difficult to sense, the Silver Fish could turn emptiness into substance and do as it pleased.

The next day, fine rain still veiled the air.

Summer had actually arrived, but spring seemed reluctant to leave, so it created rain shower after rain shower, keeping padded jackets in circulation.

In mist-shrouded Phoenix City, the Phoenix City Detective Agency took on a few trivial cases. Life seemed calm and uneventful...

Yet in the distant south, the sea was churning with waves.

On an island, dense jungle spread everywhere.

Beneath the jungle lay a modern base.

Machines beeped, and electric currents hummed.

Inside a massive alloy pod, a woman slowly opened her eyes, her gaze carrying a trace of confusion...

Where was this?

Why was she here?

She was Li Diandian, the Hu Ya Lin Xiaosu had spoken of.

She had slept for an entire month. Now, she was awake.

The moment she woke, she felt endless energy coursing through her body, a sensation utterly unlike anything before.

Inside the alloy pod, a screen appeared out of nowhere and lit up. On it was a white-haired woman with hair flowing around her, like some immortal maiden.

Hu Ya frowned. "Where is this?"

"This is Qianlong Base 32!" the white-robed immortal maiden said. "A boat is waiting for you when you leave the island!"

"Fine. Open the box."

"Leaving the island naturally includes leaving the confinement chamber. If you can't even get out of the confinement chamber, what are you talking about leaving the island for?" The white-robed immortal maiden's voice was full of contempt.

Hu Ya stared at the metal wall before her. "A confinement chamber? I have to open it from inside?"

"Obviously!"

"There are no restrictions on the method?"

"None!"

"If I break it, I won't have to compensate you, right..."

"If you have the ability to break it, I'll eat every last scrap of this wreckage."

Hu Ya kicked out. The confinement chamber shook violently with a boom, but it was not damaged in the slightest.

The white-robed immortal maiden sneered. "You want to open the confinement chamber with physical strength alone? Who do you think you are? Honestly look for the pattern. Though from what I can see, the brains in that head of yours probably don't even weigh two taels!"

Amid her laughter, Hu Ya slowly raised her hand. Her fist seemed to weigh a thousand jin, while her hair floated without wind.

BOOM!

The white-robed immortal maiden's laughter cut off abruptly.

A fist mark appeared on the alloy confinement chamber.

The white-robed immortal maiden's eyes flew wide...

BOOM!

With the second punch, every circuit connected to the confinement chamber shattered into pieces.

The confinement chamber fell into darkness.

The white-robed immortal maiden's expression changed. "This is bad! Prepare an external forced breach! We only have five minutes!"

Once the circuits were broken, there would be no oxygen inside the confinement chamber. If they did not force it open within five minutes, the person inside would surely die.

Yet with another earth-shaking boom, the confinement chamber exploded directly. Hu Ya stood in the laboratory, while the white-robed immortal maiden and a white-robed old man beside her stared at one another, neither daring to believe their eyes.

The white-robed immortal maiden closed her eyes. "Arrange the external holographic battlefield. Let us see how many stages she can clear!"

The enormous plaza outside suddenly changed, transforming into a jungle.

Hu Ya took one step forward, and a Tiger charged straight at her...

Hu Ya cried out, "That's a protected animal! I can't kill a Tiger! I don't want to go to prison and sew clothes..."

The white-robed immortal maiden's face was twisted with conflict. "What kind of person is this? She's still hung up on that..."

She grabbed the communicator before her. "This is a holographic projection. This is an assessment! Whether they're protected animals or humans, as long as they enter your field of vision, you can kill them all! If they kill you, the assessment fails, and you'll have to return to the confinement chamber for another year!"

Hu Ya sprang into the air. "You should've said so earlier..."

THUD!

With one kick, she sent the Tiger flying deep into the jungle...

The jungle descended into complete chaos. Massive pythons, prehistoric dinosaurs, bizarre creatures long extinct, even every kind of species recorded in ancient books...

These species were holographic projections. In theory, Hu Ya should not have been able to feel their threat. Yet at that moment, it was as if she had entered the system as well. She could use strength, and her senses were linked, because a sensor was attached to the back of her neck, one capable of simulating every sensation...

In a short while, she slaughtered her way through a stretch of jungle and experienced thrills and exhilaration she could never have felt at Tashan.

But the jungle ahead was endless, without beginning or end...

Compared with Hu Ya's boundless tension and excitement, Lin Xiaosu's days in Phoenix City were utterly uneventful.

The detective agency had been open for half a month.

Last night, Miao Ruolan had done a small accounting. They had actually earned seventy-three thousand yuan.

After rent and taxes, their net profit was still sixty thousand.

If divided equally, she and Lin Xiaosu could each receive thirty thousand.

What did thirty thousand mean?

It was what she had once needed an entire year to earn.

The girl was thrilled and accelerated her studies in investigative science. She felt this field held immense promise.

What about Lin Xiaosu?

He seemed very leisurely. He got up in the morning, turned left when he went out to eat breakfast, then returned to the agency, crossed his left leg over his right balls as he drank tea, and finally sauntered off to the library.

In half a month, he had read far too many books.

Astronomy and geography, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, miscellaneous knowledge and encyclopedias, literary classics—he had read nearly one-tenth of the library's physical books, and he had chosen them selectively. As for the fake literati writing sentimental drivel about sorrowing for spring and grieving for autumn, forget it. Even if merely flipping through the books allowed the contents to enter his brain, he could not be bothered. He did not want such trash crowding his mental space.

A pen stood upright on the desk before him as Lin Xiaosu observed the direction of the sunlight.

The super database in his mind activated. He accurately obtained the geographical coordinates of his current location: ** degrees ** minutes east longitude, ** degrees ** minutes north latitude. He took out his phone to compare them, and hey, the difference was negligible!

Lin Xiaosu grinned. Changye, did you still dare say that geographical coordinates could not be determined without modern equipment?

Under normal circumstances, they really could not. But was this handsome guy an ordinary person?

The phone rang. It was Miao Ruolan...

Business had arrived...

Lin Xiaosu raised a hand, about to toss the book on the desk onto the shelf, when he suddenly noticed a pair of eyes looking his way. His fingers quickly curled inward. The book that had been about to fly from his grasp spun once and returned to his hand. He placed it on the shelf in the most ordinary manner, gave a gentle smile to the little beauty quietly reading over there, then strode out of the library.

This beauty had been coming for several days.

She was quite stunning, with an oval face and clearly defined features. Her red lips were obviously unpainted, yet they displayed a strikingly sensual contrast of color.

What left the deepest impression on him were her eyes. There was the fragrance of books in them.

Ordinary beauties who could make a living off their faces would absolutely not rely on talent.

With her face, she could have attracted countless rich patrons fighting to top the rankings in a livestream room, yet she preferred sitting in the library reading books.

And Lin Xiaosu had noticed that the books she read were mostly philosophy.

Philosophy and beauty—those two words did not seem to belong together...