Chapter 309 : Chapter 309

Chapter 309: Cooperation and a Win-Win

“Big Sis Bai, what do you think of the City Lord we met earlier?”

While preparing to find the association’s president, I also leaned over to Big Sis Bai and asked.

“Hmm? Why did Little Han suddenly mention him?”

“Just curious.”

“Hmm… that City Lord is a very formidable person.”

In the end, Bai Yu gave such an answer.

“Very formidable? I only saw that he was very approachable and spoke very politely. Although there’s the reason that they don’t want to provoke us, he’s still quite good overall, right?”

“But you can’t deny that he is the City Lord who controls the entire Ninglan New City, can you? People like him usually have an air of superiority. This kind of temperament is very difficult to conceal, but he… I wouldn’t say he can retract it at will, but people who can hide themselves should not be underestimated,” Bai Yu explained simply.

“That does seem to be the case,” I nodded in agreement.

Of course, I mainly wanted to see what Big Sis Bai thought of that City Lord.

We want to learn basic transcendent knowledge here, and even form a transcendent learning circle to promote and learn from each other.

This might touch the bottom line of that City Lord.

After all, the extraordinary skills we want to study all belong to the category of offensive and restricted.

But… what does that have to do with me?

Do we have a deep friendship with Ninglan New City?

From a macro perspective, I am promoting the development of their transcendent field.

They should be grateful to me.

After we inquired about the president’s office, we also went to visit politely.

“Hmm?”

“Hello, is there something I can help you with?”

After pushing open the office door, that familiar figure appeared in front of us.

It was the man from the pair we had met earlier at the history museum.

“I’m looking for the president of the Extraordinary Technology Research Association,” I said.

“Is that so? What a coincidence, I am the president of the association. My apologies, I forgot to introduce myself earlier. My name is Wu Mali, and I am also the current president of the Extraordinary Technology Research Association. May I know the names of you two outsider ladies?”

“Yang Yuehan, Bai Yu,” I pointed briefly and stated our names.

“Oh, Miss Yang Yuehan, Miss Bai Yu. May I know what you are looking for me for?”

“Mm, I was originally thinking if we could have some cooperation. After all, we are very interested in the extraordinary power you currently master. Similarly, we also have transcendent power. I wonder if you are interested?”

“Oh? So you have also mastered extraordinary… transcendent power?”

Hearing my words, the other party’s interest was visibly piqued.

“Could you show me a little… oh, I’ll go prepare the materials… that doesn’t seem right either… my apologies…”

At this moment, when this young man named Wu Mali heard these words, he clearly knew what it represented.

It was an extraordinary skill beyond his cognition!

So much so that he almost forgot that we were not from the same world at this moment.

“It’s fine. For us, transcendent power doesn’t require too many external objects, because we call it… a spell.”

Immediately, I snapped my fingers.

Runes flashed and formed a spell ritual.

Then, with a bang, a fireball appeared out of thin air in front of me.

This fireball was purely conjured with a spell structure with bare hands, free from the dependence on a spellbook, and its power did not seem to be inferior to when it was cast with a Fireball spellbook in the Witch Academy.

That’s why I said this was a paradise for learning and studying spells!

Freed from the restrictions of the spellbook, the direct understanding of spells was now more intuitive.

I admit that the spellbook is a higher-level form of expression of the concept of a spell, but it was so high that I could only look up to it.

At this moment, this method was more suitable for me to understand the essence of spells.

“This… this!”

At this moment, Wu Mali’s eyes widened.

Looking at the fireball that suddenly appeared in front of me, he excitedly stepped forward and wanted to touch it.

I naturally didn’t stop him.

After all, how could something in the dream hurt reality?

“This… is too magical!”

At this moment, he could no longer describe the means he was seeing with words.

“Just now… that! The extraordinary inscription, can you let me see that combination again?”

“Of course, but you should understand that we are talking about more important things right now. Don’t lose the big picture for the small details,” I said after dispelling the fireball.

As for them calling the rune ritual an extraordinary inscription, there was actually no problem with it.

It was just a name.

I had noticed it when I was flipping through the introductory books they had organized earlier.

Driving extraordinary power, the characters with special power engraved on objects, being called extraordinary inscriptions did make a lot of sense.

And this was evolved by drawing on formed runes, an inscription unique to them.

Many of the inscriptions they mastered were even rare runes or combination runes that I had very little contact with.

They had also discovered that inscriptions had composite properties, or some inscriptions could be disassembled into two or more inscriptions, and had even become part of their system.

But compared to the rune system, it seemed very crude.

“Oh, my apologies, my apologies. I was too excited. I wonder… in what way do you two want to cooperate with us? Also, this matter seems to be too big. I also need to test the attitude of the City Lord.”

“I’m not concerned about these things. I only care about the result. What I want is naturally for everyone to study and explore our transcendent system, in the form of a research group, or whatever form is fine. I need to create an atmosphere of mutual communication and promotion of learning. I think your Extraordinary Technology Research Association is very suitable and has such a foundation, don’t you think?”

“This… you mean you want to share these things for free for us to learn and discuss?”

The other party asked tentatively.

“It’s not entirely free. After all, I need all the research materials on this aspect during this period to be fully shared with me.”

After all, I had the Memory Bookshelf spellbook.

It was easy to record these things.

Whether I could use them or not was another matter, but these materials would become my most precious wealth and become my foundation.

And this was basic knowledge related to runes, and also conclusions and results drawn by different people.

In a sense, wasn’t this getting it for free?

Anyway, instead of bothering to fight for those trivial benefits here, it was better to just make concessions and get the most important things.

“This… this is of course as it should be! Our research association naturally advocates for knowledge sharing. This is beneficial for our exploration of extraordinary power. Are there any other requests?”

“What I need are talents who truly love transcendent power and have a spirit of exploration and discovery, not slackers who just want to wait for others to fill the numbers. This requirement is not limited to the amount of extraordinary knowledge mastered. For the transcendent power system I am talking about, all of you are newcomers on the same starting line. I don’t want to see anyone relying on their seniority, or someone who opens their mouth and talks about past glory. Do you understand what I mean?”

“Understood. I will strictly control these aspects. Is this all for now?”

“Mm, that’s about it for now. Of course, after everything is ready, I will personally explain the transcendent system and runology we have mastered. This corresponds to your extraordinary system and inscriptionology. They are actually similar things, but you call it extraordinary inscriptions, and we call it rune rituals.”

“Transcendent system… rune rituals…”

Although Wu Mali couldn’t fully understand these new terms and concepts, he knew that this was a more systematic thing than what they had mastered.

Why not learn something good?

He definitely had to learn it!

“I understand. I will make arrangements as soon as possible. I will negotiate with the City Lord.”

“Mm.”

I nodded, which was considered to have initially reached a cooperation with the other party.

As for why I had to go to the trouble of teaching personally, it was naturally because teaching others was also a means of self-examination, a way to understand oneself more clearly.

Similarly, it was also to use others’ train of thought to let myself understand that these things could be understood in this way.

These were the key.

I might not have understood it before, but now, I finally understood how important the meaning of opening up one’s mind was.

Some things are really important, and cannot even be measured by value, just like the knowledge I valued before, the train of thought I value now, and the revelations the Academy Head values, etc.

This kind of cooperation is not about who took advantage, but should be said to be a win-win.

I can’t think of a reason not to do this.

Subsequently, after we talked with this president about some details, I also planned to go back.

After all, I didn’t want to stay here after things were done.

“By the way, I’m just curious, was there any purpose for you to go to the history museum today?”

After all, the other party only went there for a while, then talked to us for a few sentences and came back.

“Oh, it was mainly to visit the old curator. When I was young, the curator took good care of me. He was also the teacher who guided my interest in extraordinary skills. I usually go there to have a look when I feel my mind is in chaos. After all, there are few people there.”

“Oh, I see.”

There were indeed very few people there.

Looking at those exhibits, one would subconsciously think about life and so on.

“By the way, the young girl who was with you earlier…”

“Oh, you mean her? Her name is Ninglan Qiuyue. I believe you should know her identity just by hearing her name, right? She can also be considered the most important member of our research association. Qiuyue is also very interested in extraordinary power. You don’t mind her coming to learn your transcendent knowledge then, do you?”

“I don’t mind, as long as she is not a vase.”

“That’s good, that’s good. Qiuyue has many unique insights into the current extraordinary system. She is definitely not a vase.”

“Alright, then we will take our leave first. If everything is done, you can find us at the Ninglan Xiang Hotel, although it’s unlikely that I’ll be at the hotel during the day.”

“Understood. Take care, you two.”

“Mm.”

I also waved my hand to indicate that he didn’t need to see us off.

This conversation was also quite pleasant, and we didn’t encounter any problems, so there was no need for me to stay any longer.

Just as I stepped out of the door, I almost bumped into a figure.

A familiar figure, it was Ninglan Qiuyue, whom I had met earlier.

Not surprisingly, she was the daughter of that City Lord.

“My apologies, my apologies…”

Ninglan Qiuyue also said apologetically at this moment.

“It’s fine.”

Big Sis Bai and I made way for her to pass, and then she closed the door to the president’s office.

“That Ninglan Qiuyue has been listening outside for a while,” Big Sis Bai whispered in my ear at this moment.

“I know. It’s no big deal,” I said.

After all, with such a big person standing motionless outside the door, the information presented by my Spirit Vision was too conspicuous.

That’s why I only mentioned Ninglan Qiuyue at the end.

“Let’s go back first. I still have some more important things to do.”

“Oh? What important things does our talented Little Han have to do now?”

“Of course, to explore the boundary between the dream and reality. Just as Big Sis Bai said earlier, what we see is the real world, but our form of existence is a dream consciousness body. We cannot interact with real things, but… there seem to be many things in the dream that we can touch, such as… this solid ground, the thick walls, and the stones on the ground… aren’t you curious, Big Sis Bai?”

As I spoke, I stomped my foot and scraped my finger on the wall.

It seemed that these things also existed for real in the dream.

Actually, I also had a guess, for example, the dream invading reality was my guess.

The information of many objects in reality was invaded by the dream, thus generating a corresponding existence in the dream.

So, in principle, the dream and reality still have some kind of connection, such as the interaction of information?

“Indeed, but these…”

“How will we know if we don’t try? Big Sis Bai Please accompany me in an experiment. Don’t you want to know what you can achieve here?”

I hugged Big Sis Bai’s arm and shook it coquettishly.

I found that Big Sis Bai seemed to be very susceptible to this.

“Alright… alright, anyway, there’s nothing else to do.”

“Great! Let’s go back to the hotel first and try it in a place with no people. I don’t want to be a monkey for people to watch in a crowded place.”

Actually, I also had some ideas about testing this boundary between the dream and reality.

Similarly, there was another thing I was also very curious about, which was the relationship between my current self and my original body.

It was impossible for me to exist independently of my body.

Even a soul, without a body to carry it, wouldn’t it also have the possibility of dissipating?

And then there were the revelations that those Nightmare demons gave me.

Don’t they eat our essence, energy, and soul-substance?

But we were only consciousness bodies at this moment.

The things she needed to eat were all closely related to our original bodies.

So the Nightmare demon must have some means to achieve a certain connection between us and our bodies, but I just hadn’t discovered it yet.

Perhaps… I needed to catch a Nightmare demon and have her show me in front of me how she drained a person dry.

This most direct way of looking at the transmission of energy would allow me to feel most intuitively where the connection between different existences was.

Perhaps the secrets of the boundary between the dream and reality were in it.

However, when I thought that the problem of the boundary between the dream and reality had plagued the entire void for so long and had not been resolved yet, I naturally didn’t think I had the talent and luck to solve this problem.

I just needed to understand the boundary between the dream and reality in this special environment where the dream was invading reality.

After all, when we were in the dream and facing the Nightmare demon alone, we were still too passive.