Chapter 2615 - 2607: Return

Chapter 2615: Chapter 2607: Return

Feng Jun directly teleported to the sea near Hawaii and happened to arrive underwater during the daytime.

So he had to forcibly wait until nightfall before surfacing and releasing the Warship Combined Body from the Spirit Beast Bag.

When Feng Jun agreed to escort these people back to Earth, he clearly stated that during the operation, the warship must enter a dormant state, and everyone must enter the warship’s life-support pods, otherwise he would not go to Mars.

This life-support equipment is standard for warships, not only to deal with potential warship damage but also because when the warship transitions, fleet members must be inside this equipment.

Otherwise, the spatial distortion from the transition, while having little impact on the warship, can be deadly to organic life.

Regimental-level flagships have transition capability, but the main battleship cannot operate alone, as warships of all levels will form a Combined Body and transition together, so even lower-level warships have life-support pods.

These do not need detailed explanation, but when Feng Jun presented this condition, it met with strong opposition—these are Guojia’s assets, if everyone enters the life-support pods, where the fleet will arrive is at your discretion alone?

Feng Jun’s attitude was equally firm—you don’t have to agree; I don’t mind, but I won’t go along to Mars for the excitement.

Him not going is definitely not possible, the top carefully considered and felt that compared to causing global panic or attack, betting on Feng Jun’s character seemed more worthwhile.

To add, no one truly doubts Feng Jun’s character, but institution is institution; it must be strictly enforced regardless.

Therefore, they communicated through Beauty Lin with Feng Jun, saying the warship was brought back by you, everyone actually trusts you, but there are five hundred lives aboard; we must be responsible for their safety, this is protocol, we cannot compromise it due to trust in you.

In the end, Beauty Lin managed to secure three observer quotas for the fleet—these three personnel wouldn’t need to enter the life-support pods but would oversee the fleet and be responsible for awakening their comrades in the pods.

Feng Jun was also unwilling to haggle over details, says fine, just three people, how much can they actually observe?

Eventually, five hundred lives grew to over a thousand, and the three observer quotas became four—with an additional Director Lin.

Actually, many observation devices inside the warship were still operational, recording functionality included.

Feng Jun was indeed uncaring, "the rigid system" is not said in vain, and he did want to help with this task—sometimes appearances must be kept, and when necessary, keeping up appearances is still worthwhile.

As a common person, he always believed in the thrill of appearing righteous and confronting reality, scenes like these in novels always felt satisfying, especially when it’s your own country doing it, so he preferred to let some anomalies be discovered while still aiding the task.

However, upon releasing the Warship Combined Body, he immediately vanished to Luo Hua Manor—Luohua is his power center, and should Mirror Spirit have ill intentions, it would cause irreplaceable damage, though he bet it wouldn’t act.

In any case, he couldn’t return to Chaoyang, that’s where his biological parents reside.

The four observers had been cramped in the Spirit Beast Bag for nearly three days, apart from Beauty Lin, the other three took turns resting, resting two hours every four hours, ensuring at least eight hours of sleep in twenty-four hours, ensuring two alert persons at any time.

Such a schedule isn’t overly stressful, though fragmented, and during four awake hours, maintaining complete focus is certainly taxing, but fortunately the duration isn’t long.

Therefore, upon noticing weak light outside the porthole, they immediately began communication, awakening their dormant companions while Beauty Lin happened to be awake too.

The four briefly bumped heads, spending only ten seconds confirming the warship had returned to Earth, and someone suggested determining current location, with Beauty Lin immediately advising, "First execute the awakening procedure."

Life-support pods generally have automatic awakening, with condition settings suffice, yet active awakening functionality isn’t lacking.

Everyone awoke, observers began positioning, taking less than half a minute to identify their location—could have been faster, but due to secrecy, sacrificing some efficiency was expected.

Subsequently, clocks were corrected, discovering the journey from Mars to Earth took under three days, with someone murmuring, "Three days, eighty million kilometers, how did he do it?"

Yet, more noticed, considering location and timing, returning to Huaxia was really straightforward, first stealthily traveling some distance, then skimming sea surface at night, quickly reaching Qian Province’s main base.

Following this, someone busied with communicating headquarters, while another questioned, "Why isn’t he seen anywhere?"

Beauty Lin’s lips twitched yet declined to explain: if he wishes not to be seen, how could you possibly see him?

Feng Jun returned to Luohua in the afternoon, during a drizzle from the Rain Prayer Array, heading directly to the rear building of the villa.

The rear building was his and his women’s residence, though in recent years, he’d seldom stayed here, mostly residing south of the valley’s Bamboo Forest; conditions weren’t special, yet it had the unique Golden Core Gathering Spirit Array.

Even the activation channel of the bidirectional gate is in one of those prefab houses there.

The prefab houses and his Golden Core Gathering Spirit Array are less than two hundred meters apart, such a layout placed in Kunhao would surely invite ridicule — crossing the realm gate leads straight to the big boss’s Golden Core Gathering Spirit Array, isn’t that too unsafe?

But there’s no choice, the Huaxia of Earth Realm is like this, the land is too crowded — the west might be a bit more spacious, but moving at this time is unrealistic.

Although he temporarily resides here, the backyard of the villa remains crucial, the Mutton Fat White Jade Pavilion known as White Jade Capital is Luohua’s Book Collection Pavilion, all cultivation techniques and tomes are stored inside, not only does it have various access controls, but also a defensive formation powered by Spirit Stones.

Only four people have entered White Jade Capital so far: Feng Jun, the Zhang Family Sisters, and Good Scenery.

However, besides White Jade Capital, there’s another important place in the backyard: the warehouse.

The warehouse is in the basement of the rear building, only two people can enter — Feng Jun and Gazi.

Gazi is actually just a foil, the only one who can freely enter the warehouse is Feng Jun, Gazi can only enter the first warehouse room, as for the second and third... only if Feng Jun dies can he obtain access to the latter two rooms.

Feng Jun thinks he won’t easily drop dead, but he must consider all sorts of unanticipated events, Gazi only enters the latter warehouse rooms if he dies, indicating he considers Gazi to be a "trusted brother" for such matters.

Regardless, he’s entering the warehouse this time, specifically the second room, to take out the Yin-Yang Mirror he obtained from Kunlun.

Zhang Caixin once briefly used the Yin-Yang Mirror, but she felt this thing was not very meaningful, not even comparable to the magic artifact-level Mirage King Gloves, and with more Higher Realm cultivators popping up at White Pebble Beach, good magical treasures abound, so she returned the Yin-Yang Mirror.

Feng Jun took out the Yin-Yang Mirror, then brought it next to his Golden Core Gathering Spirit Array, "Got it."

Sun-Mirroring Glass was placed not far away, Jing Ling didn’t react, pretending to be dead inside.

It demanded Feng Jun not to reveal its whereabouts, although, in Feng Jun’s view, this request was ridiculous — was his relationship with the guardian better, or with it better?

However, as a person with a poor sense of security, he believed Jing Ling made such requests just to increase its sense of security — before experiencing a brainstorm, Jing Ling hadn’t even mentioned similar requirements.

This indicates Jing Ling somewhat trusts the guardian’s integrity but feels comfortable enough with him to add some extra requests — perhaps to test him, but no matter who, wanting better self-protection is not wrong.

Feng Jun didn’t agree to it but simply expressed he could bring it to Earth, not mentioning it proactively, but if discovered by the guardian, he wouldn’t help conceal... it’s all up to its luck.

He truly finds Jing Ling a bit troublesome, this guy gave him a rather bad feeling, but he isn’t willing to easily offend — the two did indeed get along well in the last couple of days, but who’s to say this isn’t part of its scheme?

However, after returning to Earth this time, the guardian didn’t immediately whisk him away, inquiring about the ancient artifact, upon his return to Luohua it still didn’t react, indicating Jing Ling’s feigned death was quite successful.

Feng Jun doesn’t wish to expose it either, this certainly relates to his promise, but he also truly doesn’t want to get entangled in the ancient circle — anyway, since the guardian hasn’t discovered, he has no obligation to report everything.

His relationship with the guardian is more like cooperation between two parties — as long as the other’s interests aren’t harmed, they can each do their own thing.

Feng Jun also likes this kind of cooperation, neither side should constrain the other too tightly.

Sun-Mirroring Glass transmitted a wave of Divine Sense, "Activate your defensive formation, how many Spirit Stones could it cost?"

"You’re speaking as if you have plenty of Spirit Stones," Feng Jun retorted, while activating the defensive formation.

After the defensive formation was activated, only then did Jing Ling remark, "This guy surely cares about you, you’ve just returned, and already had his Divine Sense sweep over you three times... seems your capability with extreme spirits is indeed strong."

"I obtained the extreme spirit by sheer luck, but my luck is indeed exceptionally good," Feng Jun would not promise lightly, but he felt a bit uneasy, "His Divine Sense swept over me three times?"

"I master Yin-Yang, control life and death, can I not perceive such minor matters?" Jing Ling expressed with disdain, yet deliberately or not, it remarked, "I somewhat doubt your strength, can’t even feel this — is your relationship with it really that good?"

"Really good," Feng Jun nodded and answered solemnly, "You don’t need to instigate further."

"Is it necessary for me to instigate between you two?" Jing Ling was very rampant on Mars, but became much more honest after coming to Earth, "Now should I start manipulating your Yin-Yang Mirror?"

"I’ve brought it over precisely for you to use, senior," Feng Jun laughed briefly and then offered his suggestion, "Let’s engage if compatible, part ways if not, let’s not force things too much."