"I remember, what's up? I saw him once when we were at the branch in Longzhou."
Li Xingkong took a sip of tea. Those guys from Longzhou had Li Xingkong.
"Oh dear, he ran away."
Tang Cheng also sat to one side, holding a cup of tea and blowing on it to cool it down.
"Huh? He doesn't seem like the type to run away, so where did he go?"
Li Xingkong recalled that although Ji Nanzhi was very enthusiastic when conducting experiments, he didn't care much about other matters. How could someone like that run away?
"Hey, a few years ago there was a personnel reshuffle, and a high-ranking official was parachuted in from Longzhou. Since you've been there before, Brother Li, you must know the atmosphere there. The whole branch is full of clowns. This guy, who'd been flattered for so long, found out nobody paid him any attention when he got there, so he started throwing his weight around. The new broom sweeps clean."
Speaking of this, Tang Cheng also felt a hint of disdain; there will always be people like this, no matter the time.
"His first act was to target Ji Nanzhi's project. Ji Nanzhi's project had a cow that developed human-like intelligence, what was it called..."
" Ji Bei, that cow is quite interesting, it always thinks it's a human."
Li Xingkong remembered this Old Ox quite clearly, after all, it was the first animal to develop human-like intelligence.
"Yes, that's what it's called. That person felt that there hadn't been any significant results with Ji Nanzhi, so he planned to organize another team to study it. Originally Ji Nanzhi and the others were all researchers, so they didn't have any objections and just followed his arrangements."
"But this guy who was parachuted in wasn't happy. 'If you just do whatever I tell you to do, how am I supposed to get back at him?' He was hoping for a troublemaker to step forward and give him room to assert his authority. So when that plan failed, he came up with another: he decided to dissect the bull directly."
"This action immediately angered Ji Nanzhi and his group, who stormed the door that very day and ran away with the cattle."
Tang Cheng was somewhat speechless as he recounted this. What was originally a peaceful branch had been turned into a chaotic mess by the inexplicable arrival of a high-ranking official.
"Is this guy brainless? What's the point of him doing all this?"
Li Xingkong didn't understand what this was all about. Ji Nanzhi and the others were doing a good job, why did they have to interfere?
"Hey, isn't this just to show off his importance? If it makes no difference whether he's here or not, then what's the point of him coming?"
Tang Cheng understood this kind of person's thinking perfectly well: whether the project produced results or not was not important; what mattered most was whether he could gain power.
"And then what? Where did Ji Nanzhi and the others go?"
"At that time, the nationwide cultivation movement was still underway, and most people had not yet begun cultivating. These few individuals already possessed cultivation abilities and were incredibly fast; there was no way to stop them."
" Ji Nanzhi, Ge Baoqi, and that Ji Qiu, the three of them led the ox and ran westward. After they had been running for almost a week, the guy who was parachuted in saw that these people had really run away and were not playing games with him. So he secretly organized a manpower to chase after them. How could ordinary people catch up with cultivators? After chasing for almost two weeks without any clues, and seeing that he was about to lose control, he finally reported the matter to his superiors."
"Although this guy was dismissed, it took them a long time for people from Divine Land to find out that these three guys had already run off to India."
It can only be said that the speed of cultivators is truly unimaginable for ordinary people. In just two weeks, they walked all the way from Longzhou to India. Judging from their route, they basically retraced the Journey to the West.
"Why are you running over there? The India doesn't have any Spiritual Qi."
These few rascals are really good at jumping around; Li Xingkong never expected them to run so far.
"Sigh, besides being a branch, Longzhou is located in the inland part of Divine Land, almost at the center of the Divine Land, so many cultivation resources are stored there. When they fled, they stole a Earth Vein along the way. This Earth Vein was originally reserved for Liuqiu, to be used to set up Spiritual Qi on the island after it was conquered."
"Because these guys are usually very well-behaved, and don't care much about anything other than their own projects, they were afraid of being arrested after causing such a big incident. Especially since they had a smart cow with them. If the guys went back, they would only get a disciplinary action, but the cow's fate would be unknown. So they didn't contact anyone and went straight to the India."
Speaking of this, Tang Cheng shook his head. If Ji Nanzhi had contacted him back then, the matter would have been resolved very easily, and it wouldn't have developed into what it is now.
It can only be said that because I had never done anything unconventional since I was a child, once I did, the fear and anxiety I felt were far deeper than that of others.
"And then what? Did you never go looking for them again?"
While they were wrong in this matter, the main problem lies with the high-ranking officials who were parachuted in.
"Of course we contacted them, but they've already established themselves in India. For strategic reasons, we didn't let them come back, but we still provided them with the necessary resources."
"Huh? How did those few manage to gain a foothold in India? Aren't they quite hostile towards us Divine Land People?"
Li Xingkong somewhat surprised. Among these people, Ji Nanzhi was a pure biologist, Ji Qiu was a mechanic, and only Ge Baoqi was somewhat capable. But with their abilities, he couldn't figure it out no matter how he thought about it.
"While the India may indeed have prejudices against us Divine Land People, don't forget, they brought a cow with them."
Tang Cheng gave him a hint.
"In India, cows are sacred symbols, and their worship of cows is ingrained in their very bones. As soon as the three of them arrived with the cows, the miraculous powers of the Ji Bei were just beginning to manifest, and they were immediately treated as divine messengers and worshipped."
"Oh, this..."
Divine Land People today obviously cannot imagine the fervor for religion in other countries, especially in India, where the illiteracy rate is still 10%, and about half of the population has not completed junior high school.
Even in such places, religion still occupies a high position in thought.
"So, just because of Ji Bei, they've settled down here?"
Li Xingkong was dumbfounded. Could this really be done?
"Because the three of them brought a sacred cow, the locals considered them messengers of the gods, and they immediately issued them new identity documents. A few days later, local government officials also met with them and subsequently approved their request to establish a place of religious activity."
"We also cleared a mountain for them, specifically for the sacred ox to roam."
"No, is this official uncultured? He's an official, and he believes in this stuff?"
Li Xingkong's stereotypes about the India deepened even further.
"Think back to the pandemic, India's top officials were even deceived by religious figures. What's this compared to that..."
"When we finally contacted them, they had already set up ley Earth Vein. There was nothing we could do; we couldn't abandon areas with Earth Vein for the time being. So, a few of them acted as the vanguard and stayed behind to guard the area."