Chapter 149 143: Good News That's Not Really Good News

"The spiritual power in my body... is all gone."Perhaps fearing that Chang Qixiang didn't understand his point clearly,

Lin Ziming pointed to the storage pouch and added:

"To open this thing."

Chang Qixiang first assessed his complexion, confirmed he was just a bit exhausted, then handed over a bottle of mineral water. After a few seconds of contemplation, he asked:

"Colonel Lin, do you also find it this taxing to open a storage pouch in the Damo Realm?"

Lin Ziming took the bottle of mineral water, raised his neck, and gulped down more than half of it, then decisively shook his head:

"Opening a storage pouch in the Damo Realm is much easier than here in the homeland. I estimate the spiritual power consumption might be only... about one-twentieth? At most one-fifteenth."

Hearing this, Chang Qixiang's expression grew increasingly solemn:

"A difference of over tenfold? Why so much?

Could it be related to... the lack of spiritual energy in the air here at home?"

Lin Ziming shook his head again and replied:

"Director Chang, before returning to the homeland, we already tested in the Fire Camp's physics lab that the spiritual power consumption for opening a spatial bag remains unchanged under conditions of isolated spiritual energy."

Hearing this, Chang Qixiang frowned even more.

Subsequently, he invited Warriors Zhang Xin and Liu Ming to try—they were both newly awakened to spiritual energy and successfully guided it, making them quasi-cultivators, which was why they were arranged to return with us from the camp.

The results were the same as Lin Ziming's earlier situation.

After opening the storage pouches, both wore the fatigue of a sage's time, as if ready to star in a kidney tonic pill commercial.

The atmosphere in the room turned somewhat heavy for a while.

If what Lin Ziming said is true,

then the spiritual energy needed to open spatial bags at home is twenty times that in the Damo Realm, and previous plans by the rabbits may not proceed.

Such as trading between two worlds, or bulk transporting materials through medium to large spatial bags.

This is not good news.

While everyone was plunged into silence, Qin Zhendong's clear voice suddenly came from the ceiling:

"Colonel Lin, then if we manually load materials into the spatial bags on this side of the homeland and transfer them through the light gate to the Damo Realm, can we then open them using the low consumption environment there? Is this feasible?"

Qin Zhendong's meaning was clear:

Open the spatial bags in the Damo Realm first, bring them back home to load materials, and then send them back to the Damo Realm to open.

Since it's difficult to transport materials back to the homeland, try to increase the throughput from the homeland instead.

After all, every resource invested now is bound to yield returns tenfold or a hundredfold in the future, just that time may be longer.

However, after pondering for a while, Lin Ziming still shook his head:

"Boss Qin, this might be doable for storage pouches, but when it comes to medium-to-large spatial bags, you have to use spiritual sense to envelop items, not just toss things into the bag's opening.

According to Academician Zeng Gu Cheng,

it involves utilizing some kind of rule, so manually loading simply won't work. In fact, we've tried this in the Damo Realm, and the results... were not ideal."

Qin Zhendong was silent for a moment, then slowly said:

"I see, thank you, Colonel Lin, you can rest now."

Qin Zhendong's tone was very calm, with no visible emotion.

In essence,

the storage pouch experiment could be considered a failure yet a success.

Success in the sense that the experiment showed that the storage pouch—or rather, the spatial bag technology involved—is usable in the homeland.

This suggests that some cultivation rules from the Damo Realm are likely also effective here at home.

No matter the deeper reason, the manifested reality at least reflects this fact.

If subsequent experiments also succeed, it would prove that theoretically and rules-wise, cultivation is possible in the homeland.

On the other hand, failure refers to the spiritual power consumption of the storage bag far exceeding the rabbits' expectations.

This makes the whole experiment result somewhat delicate, or perhaps trivial.

If this situation is finally confirmed as true,

then at the very least, it would complicate interrealm material transfer, unable to do any glitch exploitation or increase light gate passage operations.

But if viewed from a broader perspective... it becomes quite complex.

It might even affect the efficiency of cultivation in the homeland—this is not contradictory to the above proof; the former proves cultivation is possible in the homeland, the latter discusses the rate of spiritual energy consumption.

After completing the spatial bag experiment, Lin Ziming and the other two were escorted by service personnel to the rest room to recover.

Chang Qixiang then proceeded to another room to meet three people from the Wei Mansion, who had been waiting there for some time.

As Chang Qixiang just arrived outside the door,

Wei Niandong was quietly sitting on a chair, curiously and intently reading a Huaxia geography magazine.

This was mentioned previously.

Wei Niandong and another Mandarin-speaking person, Wei Youqiu, both enjoyed reading, and their mastery of the Huaxia language was one outcome of their long-term reading of their family's obscure books.

Wei Niandong, while reading, had a habit of summarizing and annotating along the edges of the content.

At this moment, the page that was flipped just so happened to introduce the history of this nation, Bangzi.

Wei Niandong carefully read through the relevant introduction, lost in concentration he forgot whether it was appropriate or not, pondered for a while, and summarized in Huaxia at the side:

I am your father.

Chang Qixiang raised an eyebrow upon seeing this, his impression of the young man instantly improved.

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Meanwhile, Wei Tu and Wei Xiaotao, the two children, were happily eating candy while staring with big eyes at the indistinct sound of the "That Rabbit" animation.

Then Chang Qixiang lightly coughed, indicating that he had entered the room.

Only then did Wei Niandong come back to his senses, hurriedly putting down the book, and at the same time comforting the two little kids to stop playing around.

Chang Qixiang walked over quickly, wearing a gentle smile, extended his hand and said:

"So this is little brother Wei Niandong, I've heard Colonel Lin mention the title of 'language genius of Damo Realm' quite often.

Seeing you now, you are indeed young and promising.

Let me introduce myself, my name is Chang Qixiang, and I am the Director of the Modu Headquarters."

Wei Niandong, somewhat embarrassed, shook hands with Chang Qixiang.

Although over the past period, he had interacted numerous times with Lin Li, Shi Zehong and others, so he was not very unfamiliar with handshakes.

But as one of the peripheral figures of the Wei Mansion, the concept of hierarchy has been ingrained in his mind for some time,

so when facing important figures, he still felt somewhat nervous internally.

Especially when facing the 'maternal family' from the homeland.

Perhaps noticing Wei Niandong's unease, after greeting, he patted the young man's shoulder, gesturing for him to sit down while saying:

"Little brother Niandong, as per the plan, you will be staying on the homeland for two days this time.

During this period, you will mainly be responsible for the matters concerning Wei Tu and his siblings, as after all, coming to a new environment, your familiar assistance may be needed.

As for touring the homeland... due to certain special reasons, it might not be possible for now."

Typically, according to the hospitality customs of the rabbits, taking friends from afar to have a good time is standard practice, not even requiring formality.

Unfortunately, the current timing was not suitable for Wei Niandong to tour and visit Modu, as the Damo Realm still had a bunch of matters needing his translation.

Moreover, with the current experiments on cultivating in the homeland having many unknowns, it was somewhat inappropriate to hastily allow a cultivator to appear in the city.

Hence, out of cautious consideration, the headquarters did not arrange the tour segment.

Anyway, there will be plenty of chances in the future; there's no need to rush.

Wei Niandong still kept a stern face while nodding.

Although he was curious about the homeland, which was the hometown of Wei Siming Ancestor.

Due to the lack of perspective and experience, he did not have an intuitive understanding of the 'tall buildings and large mansions' recorded by Wei Siming.

He even to this day could not quite believe that the homeland had weapons capable of destroying cities larger than Ziqiong City in one strike.

So his longing for the homeland was not that strong— instead, he had a greater interest in some books from the homeland.

You couldn't say he was like a frog in a well, rather, his worldview was just different.

Thus, Wei Niandong hadn't realized the type of opportunity he might be missing, and now he was more concerned about the placement of the two children from his clan.

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But these conflicts of principals were associated with adults like Wei Fan and Wei Qiangsheng, having nothing to do with the naïve toddlers Wei Tu and Wei Xiaotao, and Wei Niandong himself wasn't a beneficiary of the main-branch conflict.

So, from the perspective of kin, he felt it was necessary to inquire about the arrangements in the homeland:

"Director Chang, I wonder how the homeland plans for little Tu and the others..."

Seeing Wei Niandong asking about the treatment of the two children, Chang Qixiang casually opened a projector on the desk.

Soon.

An aerial view of a rather exquisite building appeared on the screen, where you could clearly see some equipment like slides and kiddie cars.

"According to our arrangements, Wei Tu and Wei Xiaotao will be placed in this military-children kindergarten, attending classes with many local children of the same age, during which there will also be teachers specifically teaching them Huaxia."

As Chang Qixiang adjusted the viewing angles, he explained to Wei Niandong:

"Although at five or six years old, they've missed the optimal language learning period, their language repository is not yet fully established, so teaching them is relatively easy.

This military children's kindergarten consists of the children of staff from the Fire Camp, so there's no such issue as leaking confidentiality, making it a relatively suitable fit in all aspects."

Then Chang Qixiang seemed to think of something and added:

"Oh, and Lin Li's granddaughter is also in this kindergarten. We're planning to place her in the same class as Wei Tu and his siblings."

(So those fantasizing about Lin Li cultivating back to youth and having a teacher-student romance with Wang Qiang can pass on that idea. Very few can make me write a plot to clarify, but congratulations to someone, you achieved it.)

Upon hearing that even Lin Li's grandchild would be attending school with Wei Tu and his siblings, Wei Niandong's expression eased a bit.

After all, Lin Li was a very reliable senior, and having this familiar relation somewhat allowed him to be less worried.

Seeing this, Chang Qixiang quickly continued with a sort of follow-up interaction:

"Little brother Niandong, here are the teaching staff of our kindergarten; this teacher is..... and the accommodation conditions are..."

After a thorough introduction, Wei Niandong's initial worries were finally alleviated to a great extent.

He pondered for a moment and ultimately expressed on behalf of himself and the Wei Mansion:

"Then I entrust you entirely with the education and life of the Tu siblings on the homeland."