Chapter 00214: Blood Pressure Rising
# Blood Pressure Rising
Chapter 214
Novel: AFK Game: Portal to Another World
Chapter 214 Blood Pressure Rising
For this trip to Golden Bull Mountain, there was actually no need for Li Chengxi to come, nor was there any need for Qian Sen to set the location here.
But one of them was thinking he could not miss an opportunity for a company-paid trip, while the other was thinking that he had finally caught a chance to slack off, and so this trip came to be.
But to be honest, they quickly fell into a problem that many tourists experience.
You are at the scenic area, have not done anything fun, are tired to death, and just want to go home.
The Golden Bull Mountain area was still under construction.
It was said that recreational activities like rafting, cable cars, and rock climbing were originally planned, but they were clearly not open during the trial operation.
This meant Li Chengxi and the others did not get to do anything; they just wandered around the mountain for a bit, took some pictures, and then went back down.
When they returned to the viewing platform, they saw Teacher Lin Qiaoya and Teacher Wang Degui's group.
Including Xue Wenshu, there were five boys and three girls, a total of eight students, plus the two teachers, making it ten people in all.
When Li Chengxi was going up the mountain, Xue Wenshu and the others were at the farmhouse inn listening to their teachers explain difficult practice problems in a cram session.
By the time Li Chengxi came down, they had just arrived.
Incidentally, Li Chengxi also saw the little girlfriend Xue Wenshu had been constantly thinking about.
Her name was Yu Qian.
The young lady looked even more delicate and pretty in person than in her photos.
She was the type that you could tell was especially gentle and considerate at a single glance.
It seems Xue Wenshu really did have a thing for this type.
After greeting them, Li Chengxi chose to go back down the mountain to the farmhouse inn to lie down.
Just going up and down the mountain had taken two hours, and his feet could not take it anymore.
Although Golden Bull Village had many facilities that were either incomplete or not yet open, there was one thing that received very high praise.
They had a super large public bath.
It was said that this thing was built at the request of the local villagers, because they felt that having a unique feature would attract tourists.
For example, if there were hot springs, many more tourists would come.
But Golden Bull Mountain was not a volcano, so there was no magma to heat it.
The villagers discussed it and figured, we do not have hot springs, but we have springwater.
Can we not just use a boiler to heat it up?
With this simple idea in mind, they built a super large public bathhouse.
In fact, this was also a necessity.
After all, tourists come here to eat, drink, and have fun.
If they were to stay the night, it would be miserable without a place to bathe.
Li Chengxi did not have a bathtub at home and usually just took showers.
He had not soaked in a bath for a long time since graduating from university.
After a full sauna session, he felt extremely pleased.
However, while waiting for the others at the entrance after his bath, he saw Audel come out of the women's bathroom with a dark expression on her face, looking as if she felt a very strong sense of defeat.
Although she did not say why, from the small actions of her looking down and being able to see her own feet, then glancing at Lei Lei and Gan Xiaoyan who were drying their hair beside her, Li Chengxi could roughly understand what had happened…
This was truly a sorrowful tale.
After his bath, he wandered around for a while, had an early dinner, and then around six in the afternoon, another large group of black minivans drove up to the farmhouse inn.
The main party had arrived.
Everyone moved to a large room specially prepared for company team-building events.
Qian Sen introduced Li Chengxi to a young man who looked to be in his early twenties.
This is Lin Tuyuan.
Back when we were in the army, I was his squad leader.
Lin Tuyuan had an endearing round face and shook Li Chengxi's hand very enthusiastically.
It was just that his name had a bit of a wuxia vibe to it.
Hello, Mr. Li.
I am the regional head for the neighboring T City.
If you need anything in the future, you can come find me anytime.
Qian Sen said in surprise:
You have actually managed to become a regional head?
Lin Tuyuan scratched his head in embarrassment and said:
Brother Ren and Brother Dong are both busy.
I heard they are being transferred to the provincial level, so I am temporarily in charge of the jurisdiction.
In other words, the number one and number two in charge were both getting promoted, so the number three was promoted to take their place.
To be honest, it did not inspire much confidence.
This Lin Tuyuan was a few years younger than Li Chengxi; did he really have enough experience to be the head of a city-level Section Nine?
But that was none of Li Chengxi's business.
He was just letting his mind wander.
He pointed to Audel and Lei Lei:
The two of them are the main event today.
I just came along to join the fun.
I have read the files.
It is a great help to us that you could come, Mr. Li.
For transmigrators, the members of their host family are the most familiar people they have in this strange world.
Having them around helps stabilize their emotions.
While Li Chengxi was being polite, Lei Lei spoke bluntly:
Hurry up and bring the things in.
I do not want to sleep too late, it is bad for my skin.
Of course, no problem.
Lin Tuyuan waved his hand, and a group of people walked into the room carrying several large boxes, followed by a few guys who seemed to be technicians.
As for how he could tell they were technicians?
Look at their glasses.
The circles in the lenses were too numerous to count.
One look and you could tell they were technicians.
There were a total of three types of things in the boxes.
One was a machine similar to a camera, complete with a tripod.
Another was a disc-shaped object whose purpose was hard to guess just by looking.
The last type was the one Qian Sen had used, a handheld detector similar to those used for security checks at high-speed rail stations.
There were two of each type.
They were manufactured based on magitech and immortal arts respectively.
Their external appearance was basically the same, only the principles behind them were different.
These devices were all for the frontline, grassroots staff of Section Nine.
They were currently in the small-scale experimental deployment phase, so they had not brought out any large-scale equipment.
Never mind whether the large-scale equipment could be transported here, that stuff was top secret and they obviously would not just casually ask for opinions on it.
Now that it involved her area of expertise, Audel immediately became interested.
She walked straight over, picked up the disc-shaped instrument, and examined it from top to bottom.
Can I take it apart?
That sounded a bit unreliable again…
However, disassembly and maintenance had been considered in the initial design of this device.
A technician used a special screwdriver to remove a few screws, revealing a dense array of circuit boards and a metal object the size of a ping-pong ball inside.
Audel could not understand the circuit boards, but she could say a thing or two about the core.
The manufacturing process is very exquisite, but your level of rune-crafting is simply terrible.
You actually wrote ‘la’ crookedly, now it looks more like ‘ho’.
What? You did it on purpose? To make it more stable? Are you kidding me? The stability you speak of sacrificed over 60% of its performance.
There are clearly better solutions.
If you were my students, you could forget about me ever signing your graduation certificates in this lifetime.
In academic matters, Audel would absolutely not compromise.
The technicians took notes in their small notebooks while getting a merciless tongue-lashing from Audel.
It was more or less the same on Lei Lei's side.
She first dismantled the camera-like device and then loudly complained:
Your talisman seals are so crooked they are a mess.
With modern machine tools, you should not lack this level of precision, right? And what is with adding a Mountain Suppressing Seal next to the Heavenly Eye Sigil? For stability? You must have hired someone from the Shen Family of Cangzhou as a consultant, right? How do I know? Of course I know.
The founder of that Shen Family learned his craft from my Lei Family.
Back then his skills were lacking, and it is still the same now.
Just look at this talisman seal, I am starting to suspect you are doing this on purpose just to provoke me.
The two of them tore into the instruments Section Nine had brought, and it was not even that they were deliberately trying to find fault.
You could clearly feel their blood pressure rising; they were genuinely, thoroughly angered.
Then the topic started to move in a direction Li Chengxi could not understand, with talk like ‘the exponential release of magical power needs to be stabilized using the runes mentioned in the Kasmaier Theory,’ and for example, ‘mana release should primarily use the adjustable Dazzling Light Sigil, toss that Mountain Suppressing Seal aside for me,’ and so on.
It looked like this process would continue for a long time.
Li Chengxi said goodbye to Qian Sen and Lin Tuyuan, planning to head out to the massage room to enjoy the electric massage chair.
But not long after leaving the room, he saw Teacher Lin Qiaoya pacing back and forth in the farmhouse inn's courtyard.
When she saw Li Chengxi appear, she rushed over in a hurry.
Mr. Li, have you seen Xue Wenshu and the others?
Her tone of voice did not sound too good…
(End of this chapter)