Chapter 1774
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Chapter 1774 Sword Hut
Great Summer.
Lin Qiye pushed open the office door and stepped inside.
Shen Qingzhu was leaning by the window smoking. Seeing Lin Qiye arrive, he lightly flicked his cigarette, turning it to powder that scattered outside the window.
“Everything ready?”
“Yes, it’s been printed,” Lin Qiye said as he sat down in the office chair with a smile. “But those Olympian gods will probably take a couple more days to understand what it actually means…”
“True, they don’t understand Chinese.”
“How was the battle on your end?”
“Killed one, the other escaped.”
“Just bad luck… We stationed most people at the northern border, but only one deity showed up there, while two came to the southern border at once. Being able to take down one is already quite good,” Lin Qiye nodded in approval.
Shen Qingzhu didn’t seem to share this sentiment, his brows remained furrowed, clearly displeased about letting one foreign god escape.
“By the way, Xia Simeng came by earlier.”
“Her? What for?”
“At first she sneaked in, opening the door cautiously, but when she saw me inside, she just smiled awkwardly for a while, then left a document on your desk and left.”
Hearing this, Lin Qiye’s mouth twitched slightly. He didn’t even need to look at the document to know what it was.
“This girl has requested leave four times in half a year. Once claiming she had tuberculosis, once hemorrhoids, once saying she needed to go home for a blind date, and another time saying her mother gave birth to a brother… If I remember correctly, isn’t her mother almost sixty?”
Despite his complaints, after a moment, Lin Qiye sighed and reached for the document:
“Let’s see what excuse she’s come up with this time.”
”
Leave Request:
Respected Commander Lin, I am pregnant…
”
“Pfft!!”
Lin Qiye sprayed out the water he had just taken a sip of.
He coughed several times before regaining his composure, then continued reading in astonishment:
“…Please don’t ask who the father is. Perhaps it’s my wild and free spirit…”
“Recently, I feel my pregnancy is a bit unstable, so I’ve decided to take my baby to spend time in nature. Perhaps when I find my wild and free spirit again, the baby’s condition will improve…”
“This trip might take three or four days. Oh, and for the safety of my pregnancy, the other members of the Phoenix Squad may need to accompany me… During this time, we may not be able to serve the handsome and generous Commander Lin (crossed out)… Please understand, Commander Lin!”
“Phoenix Squad Leader Xia Simeng, ~(￣▽￣)~*”
Lin Qiye: …
He held his forehead with one hand and let out a long sigh.
“What’s her excuse this time?”
“She says she’s pregnant…”
Shen Qingzhu’s ears perked up, and he lowered his voice: “Whose?”
“What do you mean whose? She’s just making it up as an excuse. Even wrote about her ‘wild and free spirit’…” Lin Qiye crumpled the leave request into a ball, about to throw it in the trash, but then seemed to think of something and hesitated.
He finally unfolded the request and signed his name at the bottom right.
“You’re approving this?” Shen Qingzhu asked in surprise.
“Why not?” Lin Qiye smiled coldly. “The Night Watchers have rules too. Procedurally speaking, maternity leave must be approved… However, if she comes back after her leave and tells me she couldn’t give birth… hehehe…”
Shen Qingzhu understood Lin Qiye’s meaning and nodded. “That method is indeed ruthless…”
Lin Qiye had his secretary send out the approved request, then looked at the clock on the wall. “It’s about time, let’s go visit Teacher.”
…
The helicopter slowly descended over a wasteland, the whirlwind from its rotors pressing the withered grass flat against the ground.
Two figures in deep red cloaks jumped down from the cabin. Lin Qiye patted the cabin door, signaling the helicopter to leave. As the humming sound rose again, only he and Shen Qingzhu remained in the entire wasteland.
This was an uninhabited area at the edge of the desert, nearly a hundred kilometers from the nearest city. Under the gray sky, fierce winds blew, making their cloaks flutter loudly.
Lin Qiye determined their direction and began walking deeper into the uninhabited zone.
After walking about two or three kilometers, the ground beneath their feet was covered with a layer of yellow sand. Looking carefully, one could see that beneath the sand, the ground was covered with fine cracks. As far as the eye could see, there was no vegetation on the land, and not even a single bird could be seen along the way.
Going deeper, even the presence of wind became blurred. In this deathly silent world, a faint sword intent seemed to hover above the two at all times. The further they went, the more intense the pressure became.
Of course, this pressure was not directed at the two of them, but rather an indiscriminate release, as if somewhere deeper in the wasteland, there was a supreme sword unconsciously emitting its sharpness.
Lin Qiye and Shen Qingzhu showed no intention of stopping. They traveled through this sword intent, continuing forward until finally, a black dot appeared on the distant horizon…
It was a thatched hut.
The terrifying sword intent and pressure were all emanating from inside this hut. Under this sword intent, there was no wind within a five-mile radius, and even the occasional raindrops falling from the sky would be torn apart in midair by the sword intent before they could touch the ground.
Lin Qiye slowly stopped when he was less than a hundred meters from the thatched hut.
His gaze swept the surroundings, where white, fine needles were suspended in the air around the hut. Looking closely, one would realize these weren’t needles at all, but miniature sword shadows hanging upside down in the air.
“Teacher’s aura has become even more terrifying,” Lin Qiye touched one of the sword shadows in front of him with his finger, which immediately cut his fingertip, drawing blood, and he couldn’t help but sigh.
“Yes… it’s been three years since he went into seclusion, right?”
“Yes, it’s almost three full years. Back then, when he carried his sword in one hand and dragged a suitcase full of books in the other, saying he wanted to break through to the ‘Supreme’ realm, I was shocked,” Lin Qiye’s eyes showed a reminiscent look.
“Three years have passed in a flash, and Teacher’s aura is truly about to break through that barrier…”
“If he succeeds, Teacher will not only be the first human to become a god, but also the first to reach the Supreme realm… a Supreme Sword Immortal.”
Shen Qingzhu let out a long sigh, “Teacher is truly worthy of being our teacher. I thought our progress was fast enough, but we still can’t keep up with Teacher’s pace. To think he could come this far with just a [Glazed Child’s Heart].”
Lin Qiye smiled, his gaze sweeping over the miniature sword shadows around them, and asked softly:
“Teacher, how much longer until you come out of seclusion?”
After a moment, the miniature sword shadows floating in the air suddenly began to move, weaving together in front of the two to form a white character:
—Nine.
