Controlling the Five Thunders and the Two Worlds

Chapter 250: A High-Tech Protective Shield with a Classified Security Level?
Everyone saw the van hit Chen Zhixing.

Four deformed bullets were found in the car, clearly indicating that they had struck an extremely hard object but failed to penetrate it, resulting in the deformation of the bullet itself.

But Chen Zhixing and Zhang Yuan's work clothes weren't even damaged!
Everyone looked at the two with disbelief, and even a little fear—a natural human reaction to the unknown.

Only the checkpoint chief's eyes were shining!

"Stop being paranoid, I know what's going on," the checkpoint chief said.

"Huh?" Everyone turned around in shock.

The station manager continued, "I'll tell everyone about this later. Everyone, please get back to work and handle the current matters. Old Chen and Old Zhang, go check it out, just in case."

"Yes!" the crowd replied solemnly.

There's still a lot to do afterward: collecting evidence from the van and the goods inside, taking the driver and passenger into custody, handling the accident scene, and inspecting the convoy behind them...

By the time everything was finished, two hours had passed.

But no one seemed tired at all. Even Chen Zhixing skipped picking up his daughter. After finishing the check-up with Zhang Yuan, he joined the others in their work and waited for the station chief's explanation.

Facing everyone's intense gaze, the stationmaster felt helpless, but at the same time, his heart was burning with passion.

"Meeting!"

"Yes!"

Everyone sat neatly in the conference room.

"Old Chen, Old Zhang, touch your new employee badges," the station manager said.

Chen Zhixing and Zhang Yuan were a little confused. They reached out and touched their new employee badges. Chen Zhixing looked up and said, "They're fine. They're not broken."

Zhang Yuan noticed the change, "It looks flattened?"

The station manager nodded. "It's flattened, which means it worked, but its function was also depleted."

Everyone wasn't stupid; they immediately understood the intricacies of the situation, and everyone went to touch their new employee badges.

"This thing can save your life?"

"To stop bullets?"

"You were hit by a car and you're still okay?"

"Oh no, it's not 'nothing,' it's 'enough to stop a car by crashing into it'?"

"I'm so stupid!"

"Energy shield?"

"Still a plasma electromagnetic shield?"

"So sci-fi?"

"Does a puffed-up shape mean there's plenty of energy, and a flattened shape mean energy is wasted?"

"Then we need to replace the battery, or charge it?"

"Will a phone charger work? Or are there special charging devices?"

Everyone chimed in with their own comments, and a few particularly curious individuals even wanted to open the employee badges to take a look. "They're sealed pretty well, so will they automatically become invalid if we open them?"

"There must have been a need for confidentiality. Did they keep it from us before we even saw it?"

"The technology is too advanced to be shown."

"But for our safety, they still issued them. We're still being taken seriously, hahaha!"

"Things are getting better for us; we're even using top-secret high-tech!" Not top-secret high-tech, but religious mysticism that has been passed down for hundreds or even thousands of years…

The station manager rubbed his forehead, thinking that if they knew that inside the employee ID was a folded Taoist talisman, they would probably be shocked to the point of having their worldviews shattered.

When the higher-ups told me this, my worldview collapsed, and I thought they had gone mad.

Everyone saw the stationmaster facepalm, so they reminded each other to be quiet and wait for him to continue.

"Don't ask about the specifics," the stationmaster sighed.

There have been instructions from above, but the specifics may be a bit hard to accept, so they are being kept secret for now. If I weren't in charge of a checkpoint, I wouldn't be qualified to know the truth.

Why bother? Even if you tell the truth, not many people would believe you, right?
Of course, this is all on the premise that the yellow talisman doesn't work!
"This yellow... protective shield is a disposable item. It will be ineffective after one use. Lao Zhang and Lao Chen, give me your old work badges, and I'll go and get you new ones. It will probably take three to five days. Be careful during the replacement period," the station manager said.

"Okay, okay!" Chen Zhixing and Zhang Yuan nodded repeatedly and hurriedly handed over their work badges.

Having survived a near-death experience, they are still filled with lingering fear. Perhaps they would make the same choice again if given the chance, but that doesn't mean they wouldn't be afraid.

But seeing their somewhat flustered behavior, no one in the room looked down on them; instead, their eyes were full of respect.

One shielded his comrade from a bullet, the other from a car – that's true friendship forged in life-or-death situations.

After putting away the employee badge, the station manager reminded him, "Don't go around talking about the employee badge."

"Yes Yes Yes!"

"understand!"

"We understand things that are classified!"

"If your work badge is bulging, it means you have plenty of energy; if it's flat, it means it's not working," the station manager reminded him again. "Sometimes, you might activate the protective shield without knowing it, so when you find that your work badge's energy is depleted, come to me to replace it."

The employee badge was flattened, meaning the stacked yellow badge had turned to ash.

"Yes!" Everyone nodded.

"And there's another function of this protective shield," the stationmaster said after thinking for a moment. "You've already seen its main function: it can withstand deadly physical attacks, such as gunshots, explosions, car crashes, and so on."

"Besides that, it can also withstand fire and drowning for a period of time, and it's also fine if you fall from a height." The stationmaster thought for a moment and then told a joke, "You can try jumping off a cliff and see if you can find any martial arts manuals."

Everyone burst into laughter, "Do you think reality is a martial arts novel where the protagonist jumps off a cliff and survives, even finding a divine martial arts manual?"

The stationmaster smiled without saying a word. Reality is indeed not a martial arts novel; it's quickly evolving into a fantasy novel.

"In short, this is to save your lives, but you also need to be careful. Don't take advantage of having this and act recklessly. After all, it's a one-time consumable, and it only lasts for about a minute."

The stationmaster became serious, looked around, and looked at everyone. "If you haven't escaped the dangerous environment by the time the effect takes effect, that's still very dangerous, do you understand?"

Everyone stood up and replied, "Understood!"

"Alright, now that everyone understands..." The stationmaster clapped his hands, "Let's adjourn the meeting."

After the stationmaster finished speaking, he said to Chen Zhixing, "Go and pick up your daughter quickly."

Then he said to Zhang Yuandao, "I'll give you a holiday too. Take your son to Old Chen's house for dinner and arrange a marriage between our children."

Everyone burst into laughter, then, while teasing Chen Zhixing and Zhang Yuan, left the meeting room to continue their work.

Chen Zhixing glanced at the grinning Zhang Yuan and warned, "Make it clear to your son that dating is fine, but he's not allowed to mess around before he graduates from university!"

Zhang Yuan nodded decisively, "I'll talk to him!"

Whether saying it is useful or not is another matter.

After watching everyone leave, the station manager put away his two employee badges, made a phone call using the internal landline, and then went out to get into his car to report the situation.

(End of this chapter)