I Am Extraordinary Alone
Chapter 329 - 327: Undercurrents

Chapter 329: Chapter 327: Undercurrents

Wei Tianyang stood within the shadows, waiting a little longer to see what they would do next.

He watched as these people took out some mysterious objects and laid out a circle on the ground. A female servant then took out a little wooden doll and placed it inside the circle.

Several people around were each holding a small tile-shaped object, talking as they whipped the little doll.

"Tell you to go home, hear me?"

"Eihei~"

"Commit all sorts of evil and you won’t have a good end!"

"Eihei!"

"This isn’t your home!"

"Eihei!"

"Try to snatch my wealth and you won’t die a good death!"

"Eihei!"

"Granny He is not pleased, ei~"

"Eihei..."

...

Wei Tianyang watched the group muttering strange phrases, feeling both angry and amused for a moment.

It was clear they didn’t welcome him and wanted him to leave Yin Country as soon as possible, but such a thing was neither something they could complain about nor had the power to drive someone away forcefully. So, as if possessed, they even resorted to such feudal superstitious practices...

But they were just servants after all. Wei Tianyang figured he had no vested interest with these people, so what reason did they have to act this way?

While he pondered this, the group seemed to have completed their bizarre ritual and all sat down on the ground, whispering among themselves.

"Damn it, does this actually do any good?" a male servant wondered aloud.

"Less nonsense. Whatever the master wants, we do. You dare to defy the master?" a female servant said sternly.

"I just feel... this method is too... forget it, I’ll say no more." The male servant shook his head.

"Whether it works or not isn’t our responsibility. We only need to implement the orders completely. If it’s useless, we won’t be blamed. But with your chattering, maybe we’ll be held accountable. If the Emperor or Wei Tianyang find out, our heads might roll!" the female servant said.

"I think... being assigned here, we should be out of their jurisdiction, right? We should now be directly under the Emperor. Could our masters still pull us back?" the male servant asked.

"Don’t worry about where you’re assigned, we were promoted by our master. You think just because you’re close to the Emperor, the Emperor sees you as one of her own? Naive! She wouldn’t consider us her private soldiers!" the female servant replied.

"Ah! What a pity! How could I possibly get the Emperor to notice me? Serving here is much better than being back in that small county town," the male servant sighed, shaking his head.

"We’re all transferred from a small county town, seemingly by the Emperor’s special arrangement. She thinks county civil servants have no strong backing and serve masters of low status, little knowing that Venerable Qin already had his network in place... Damn... I’ve said too much..." the female servant paused, holding back more words.

"That Wei Tianyang is living the life, just over 20, did you see the news? He managed to swoon the Emperor!" another male servant said, looking around at his companions with a laugh.

"Jealous? You might as well give yourself a shot. Get tough and take down Wei Tianyang, and the Emperor would sleep with you just the same," another male servant laughed.

"You all fantasize too beautifully... Why don’t you take a good hard look at yourselves? Do you have Wei Tianyang’s physique and looks?" the female servant scoffed.

"His appearance, from a male perspective, isn’t really outstanding, not even the ’little fresh meat’ type. Wasn’t the whole ’domineering CEO’ persona popular before? He doesn’t even have that kind of charm, and his skin is a bit dark, at most a 4 out of 10 in looks. I don’t understand what you women see in him," the male servant shook his head.

"You don’t understand, he’s the type of wolf cub with a mute killer instinct. Look at those well-developed muscles, bulging everywhere~ Oh, and the silent, dark expression, the eyes that glow red at night... I really want to see him strung up and whipped hard by someone stronger..." The maid lost herself in fantasy.

Wei Tianyang chose to retreat.

In an instant, he was by the lakeside.

After hearing their master’s words, these people used some very foolish methods to counter him, which frankly, were futile efforts.

At the same time, he extracted some useful information from the maid’s mind by probing her thoughts.

Those so-called masters were nothing more than the mayors and governors from various provinces. They were answering directly to Venerable Qin, who was in charge of domestic affairs. Since these mayors and governors were rather old, they were pressured by Venerable Qin to secretly create obstacles for him, so they turned to the ancient rituals of their ancestors...

The Five Old Gods, five mythical beasts from the ancient legends of Yin Country: the dragon, crane, turtle, snake, and pig.

These five deities governed ancient Yin Country and had corresponding rituals of worship, which included blessings but also methods for casting spells and curses.

Of course, it was all just stories, no different from the holy scriptures of Yixu.

The internal power struggle within the upper echelons of Yin Country was more urgent than he thought. These people disgusted him, but they hadn’t made any substantive attacks against him. Their nightly rituals, in his view, were at most equivalent to cursing him a few times.

It’s not like you can slaughter everyone just because they cursed you a few times...

Wei Tianyang took out his phone and sent Zhao Ling a message. It was better for her to handle this situation.

The next day at noon, Fanicara Democratic Republic.

Located in the eastern part of West Soil, this nation had a population of 6.4 million. In the past, it was a member of the West Soil Seven Nations Space Alliance, but 20 years ago, due to internal division, what had been the 13.9 million-strong Fanicara split into the Fanicara Democratic Republic and Fanjicala Federation.

The Fanjicala Federation government, which held core space and military technologies, sold all of these to the Sethiyan Federation. They also encouraged the dismantling of state-owned enterprises to bring in foreign investment. Utilities like hydroelectricity and other state-owned resources such as mines and farmland were all seized by foreign conglomerates.

The Fanicara Democratic Republic, however, had lost these technologies, and within its borders, only the remnants of the once grand rocket launch sites, munitions factories, and shipyards remained, leaving it a destitute agricultural nation.

Zhao Ling, wearing sunglasses and a dark purple business suit, stood in front of a black SUV.

Before her lay the largest rocket launch site remains of the Fanicara Democratic Republic.

The massive rocket launch frame had rusted, standing isolated in the wasteland like a monument, with cracked cement on the launch pads and runways and weeds filling the gaps. The launch command center was left as nothing but a ruin.

"This place used to launch over twenty rockets, including components for the International Space Station. Sadly, the last launch happened when I was a child," said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Fanicara Democratic Republic, quite forlorn.

Zhao Ling gave a light smile and said, "I remember, as a child, watching news about the assembly of new laboratory modules for the International Space Station. Surely, that module was launched into space with the help of your country, right?"

"What a pity... If you had come a few decades earlier, we would be discussing cooperation on aerospace technology. But now, we can only work together in agricultural trade..." The Minister of Foreign Affairs said self-deprecatingly.

Zhao Ling took off her sunglasses and turned back to gaze at him with a smile.

The Minister got lost in her pleasant smile.

"Indeed. Let’s head back," said Zhao Ling.

The two of them got into the car and slowly drove away. A few minutes later, a male and female member of Yin Country’s Superpower Special Department appeared on the spot.

They were dressed in optical camouflage and used their superpowers to mask their presence from others, having been hidden in the vehicle and transported here.

"The Emperor said a rocket was launched here a month ago, presumably to supply the Lingxian Sect’s space station with maintenance parts," the man said gravely.

"Can it really launch in this condition?" the woman asked, looking towards the distant ruins of the launch site, her brows furrowed.

"The satellite captured traces of the launch, we don’t have much time, let’s go in and take a look," the man replied.

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