Chapter 3089 - 102: Her Number

Chapter 3089: Chapter 102: Her Number

Hearing the word ’gatekeeper’.

The Shadow Cat’s face immediately drooped.

"Security adviser! It’s security adviser, not gatekeeper!"

It grumbled correcting the witch’s wording, the tip of its tail hanging behind swaying with displeasure, pausing for a moment, then adding: "——As for why... today when I was checking at the entrance, I encountered your Great Elf leading an observation mission from a remote Star Domain. So I paid a little more attention. Then I smelled a strong scent of, hmm, reincarnators on those guys..."

"The scent of reincarnators?"

"It’s the non-human sensation produced after cognition and existence have been repeatedly reconstructed... neither like puppets nor like wizards, like living people, yet like dead ones. Others may not know, but I’m too familiar with it. Although off by some dimensions... they emit a distinct blood scent differing from that of Black Wizards, yet deeper and purer than blood... and the too intense temporal sediment surrounding them, this kind of magic isn’t something registered wizards from some remote area can casually come into contact with, let alone a group of White Dings. Do you know what I thought when I saw that group of White Dings? A bunch of veterans taking newcomers on a mission in a task world!"

The Shadow Cat tilted its head, through the tall floor-to-ceiling glass walls, looking towards the endless ’Light Ball Field’ below, slightly emphasizing: "——Besides, there’s that sense of alienation from an unknown world..."

"Wizards from remote Star Domains who haven’t seen much of the world, wouldn’t they all feel alienation when they first come to Buji Island?" The witch tried to find another explanation.

The Shadow Cat shook its head: "I can still distinguish between restraint and alienation. Wizards from the remotest Star Domain are still wizards of this world. But those people give me the feeling they are not of this world... Of course, it could be that I’m being overly sensitive. At least the school’s Protect Legal Formation or the other Big Wizards present didn’t raise any anomaly feedback."

"If they really were a bunch of high-dimensional reincarnators, deceiving the school’s formations or Big Wizards would be inevitable." The witch took a deep breath, choosing to stand on the Shadow Cat’s side: "——Comparatively, I’m more willing to trust your intuition."

This touched the cat greatly.

Then the witch changed the subject: "——Did you tell him about this?"

She didn’t name names, but the Shadow Cat knew who she was talking about, and the little bit of feeling that just arose disappeared without a trace.

"I’m not familiar with him!"

It flicked its tail, answered gruffly, and was about to walk away — some time ago, it just threw a fit because Zheng Qing casually took on cases shoved at him by others, and now it was ’finding trouble for itself’, it felt a bit embarrassed to speak up. This was also why it took a roundabout route to find Su Shijun.

The witch saw it was about to leave and quickly stretched out her hand to grab its thick tail.

"——Don’t hurry away!"

She quickly took off her glasses, revealing a charming smile: "Since you’re here, don’t rush off... you’ve been an old hand in the laboratory, doing a few small tests isn’t too much, right? Consider it compensation for me helping you ’turn fiction into reality’!"

...

...

The Ancient Ones sensed the birth of a ’new star’, a celestial change.

The Big Black Cat and Fox smelled a scent not belonging to this world.

Whereas Zheng Qing, caught in between the two, was entirely oblivious to these anomalies, he had been engulfing himself in work these days, to numb himself from the sorrow of getting beaten.

With the Gri?ffith Palace reconstructions approaching completion under the magic empowerment, the books and containment objects sent by Babel Tower increased, necessitating sorting and entry.

"——Those rough organizing tasks do not require your handling, we have plenty of sufficiently nimble puppets to assist. And you don’t need to stay in the palace all the time because besides me, no one else is currently qualified to borrow the library’s materials."

Zheng Qing stood with Jiang Yu at the entrance of Xuanhuang Palace, briefly describing her everyday duties: "But one thing must be remembered, everything within the Xuanhuang Palace must remain inside, absolutely no taking things out... This rule is protected by the Legendary Contract."

In other words, he was just as bound by it.

The witch nodded silently, having already prepared for a more tedious job before accepting this position from the relevant department. By comparison, the tasks and flexibility currently arranged had already surpassed expectations.

Yet she wasn’t being overly sentimental.

She naturally accepted these kindnesses from the owner of Xuanhuang Palace.

"——Do I have a number?"

She turned to look at the warlock, blinking her eyes.

Officially hired wizards by relevant departments receive a numerical ID number, one of the systemic confidentiality measures. Out of interest in mysticism, she was actually quite curious about her number.

Looking into the witch’s eyes, Zheng Qing, for the first time in a long while, blushed. He gently cleared his throat, carefully and quickly explained, pulling out a wooden sign from his sleeve: "——This is the token for entering and exiting the Xuanhuang Palace. I’ve given you ample permissions, including investigative rights across the entire Alliance outside the library and the authority to deploy Trident Sword, Registered Hunting Team, etc... This way, even Absolution can go out under the ’relevant department’ banner... Of course, you still can’t enter those two labs."

The ’Order’ lab projects are all related to Forbidden Curses, strictly controlled by the school, accessing without reaching certain rank is not advantageous. Even with her relative familiarity with the ’Giant God Soldier’, it has been divided into many different project groups. For instance, the ’Giant God Soldier Management Laboratory’ under Edge Academy managed by Lin Guo mainly handles monitoring and operational maintenance, with a lower confidentiality class; whereas the Giant God Soldier Project Team transferred from ’Buzhou’, deals with ’Primordial’ and ’Taiyi’ internal Forbidden Curse placements.

Jiang Yu was aware of this, needing no such detailed explanation.

Similarly, she understood why he suddenly became verbose.

Because the number on her hand consisted of four digits.

1314.

She stared at this string of digits on the token, stunned for a moment.

"——Master Baoyangzi’s office has a roster where each newly hired key personnel automatically generates a corresponding ID number. No one can interfere. Your number is quite large... probably because you joined relatively late. It’s said all those hired in the past two years have four-digit numbers..."

The warlock clumsily yet earnestly explained, only to have his voice abruptly cut off halfway.

Because the witch hugged him and naturally kissed him.

Which directly blocked all his remaining words.

"I really like this number... If it wasn’t arranged by you, then I like it even more."

She hid her hands behind her back, smiling with eyes crescent-shaped, then turned her gaze to the newly restored grand gate of Xuanhuang Palace, lifting the token in her hand: "——So, now I just swipe this token to enter, right?"

Face covered, the boy nodded dumbly.