High-tech invasion, I can see the future

Chapter 12 The Uses of Money, New Mission - Intelligence Fragments

Inside the apartment building.

After calming down, Bai Yu took out six golden pages.

After a brief examination, he discovered that only one gold page was responding.

The page was smooth as a mirror, without any trace of writing.

Upon closer inspection, a different scene was discovered: lightning flashed, and figures moved about, as if they were practicing some kind of ancient martial art.

The imagery was like a phantom, sometimes clear, sometimes blurry, with an elusive sense of mystery. After it disappeared, it felt like a hallucination after eating a rare herb.

Suddenly, he saw a diagram of the human body's meridians, with lightning flowing along the meridians, as if divine power was circulating within the body, performing extraordinary magic.

Bai Yu could feel the surging power within her body, which was calling for some kind of release.

He tried to guide these forces, directing them to specific acupoints, but dared not act rashly.

The path of cultivation is fraught with danger; a slight misstep could result in severed meridians.

So he simply learned and tried to channel his divine power into his acupoints, cautiously exploring the boundaries of his power.

After practicing for a while, I was covered in sweat.

"Phew~" Bai Yu let out a long breath and muttered to himself, "Without anyone to guide me, I have to figure everything out on my own. It's really difficult."

He thought of the Investigation Bureau, where perhaps they had complete cultivation methods and knowledge.

However, he also knew that the divine power he had suddenly gained was difficult to explain to others, and rashly touching it might cause unnecessary trouble.

"Let's see what insights tomorrow's intelligence can bring," Bai Yu thought to himself, and carefully put the golden pages away again.

After finishing his cultivation, Bai Yu picked up his phone and found that the "Jiangnan District No. 3 Exchange Group" had 99+ messages.

"What are you talking about?"

I clicked on it and took a look.

Brother Long: "Brothers, look at the photo! ***.jpg"

The person in the photo has a bright red wound on their arm.

The other picture shows a giant wave, ten meters high, surging on the river surface.

"What happened?"

"The fish-man involved in last night's Yongcheng Street car accident attacked people by the river and was later destroyed by the Investigation Bureau using an underwater monitoring device. It was equivalent to tens of kilograms of TNT; he was probably reduced to ashes."

"My goodness! It was resolved so quickly?"

"Who is injured?"

"Fellow anglers. Besides Zhou Gang and me, there are six other anglers who are currently at the Investigation Bureau."

"Six new recruits at once, and no one has died yet. They're really lucky."

Brother Long: "You have to thank me for that. Not only did I give you a timely reminder, but I also managed to slash that little fishman later."

"??? As expected of Brother Long! So brave!"

"That's right! Brother Long is a gangster."

Brother Long: "Don't talk nonsense! Are you trying to kill me? I just look fierce, but I haven't done anything wrong. I've lost contact with all my old cronies."

"Brother Long and Brother Gang are both very capable. I heard they even killed a vampire a while ago! The Investigation Bureau rewarded them with contribution points."

"That's amazing! That's incredible! I'm too scared to go out now."

"This is nothing compared to what's to come. I heard that when Brother Gang was in the army, he participated in a large-scale operation, fighting against thousands of dragon people!"

Brother Long: "This is a good opportunity to promote our gym. Brothers who want to improve their strength, you can come to my and Zhou Gang's gym. Brother Zhou Gang is a retired soldier and can also teach some combat techniques. In this world, learning some skills is definitely a good idea."

The conversation gradually veered off course.

However, it's also clear that this Brother Long is a celebrity in the group, and quite a few people have already started working out with him.

Later, as we continued chatting, the topic of making money came up again.

When Bai Yu scrolled to the latest chat history

"Sigh, I can't make any money! I wish I could become an awakened self."

"Stop dreaming! Those who awaken to self-awareness are one in a billion!"

"It would be good to pick up an ancient god item by the roadside."

"Forget about it. Even if we got it, we wouldn't know how to use it, and it might even attract the attention of supernatural beings."

"This heavy rain might have been caused by an artifact from an ancient god. I hope I can find one while I'm walking my dog."

"Are you still half asleep? Dreaming again."

"Can't I even think about it? But really, does nobody in our group know what's going on with this torrential rain?"

"Those who know about this are definitely secretly contacting the Investigation Bureau, trying to curry favor!"

Bai Yu glanced through the messages and thought to himself, "These people have a strong desire to make money, but they haven't revealed what they're going to do with it."

After thinking for a moment, Bai Yu still chimed in the group chat: "Um, I just joined the group today and wanted to ask, everyone seems to care a lot about making money. Speaking of which, the world is different now, with supernatural beings around, where is the appropriate place to spend money?"

"Dude, new here? We've talked about so many things, and you're just curious about what money is for? Is it because you're rich? *winking emoji*"

"Just out of pure curiosity."

The people in the group were quite enthusiastic, and someone immediately sent a long message, which was probably copied.

"Money has many uses."

"First, purchase jade, spirit wood, and farmland to establish a spiritual energy planting base. Buy seeds from the official sources; there's a chance of cultivating spiritual herbs. Note: Jade can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, which is why its price has been rising year after year. Some tree species have the effect of gathering spiritual energy and are very valuable. In an environment rich in spiritual energy, normal crops have a certain probability of growing into spiritual plants. Therefore, these days, more people are farming and stockpiling food for future disasters."

"Second, hire researchers to study cultivation techniques, spiritual plant cultivation, and spiritual land development. Once they have achieved results, they can submit them to the Federation and receive contribution points. Contribution points can be exchanged for valuable resources."

"Third, the simplest way is to donate money to the Bureau of Investigation and gain the right to purchase internal resources."

"Fourth, go to an administrative region where it is legal to keep weapons. Hehehe, I won't go into details about this one."

"Five, six"

"Currently, the policy from above is to maintain stability and preserve the existing social order, so money still plays a significant role."

"There are a few wealthy people in the group who bought land in the countryside and have already set up spiritual energy cultivation bases. They've reportedly grown several spiritual herbs already. I'm so envious!"

"These are not all the points I've listed. Once you have real money, you'll see many more paths."

Bai Yu: "Thank you so much! I never imagined the extraordinary world would be so well-developed."

"By the way, bro, are you rich?"

"I'm just a student."

Which school?

"Tianhai City University".

Wow! A top student!

Immediately, quite a few people came out to chat.

"If you're capable enough, you could consider finding a mentor specializing in extraordinary research and doing scientific research. That path has a pretty high chance of success!"

Brother Long: "@Yi (Baiyu), come to my gym, and the fee will be halved."

Seeing everyone's enthusiasm, Bai Yu thanked them repeatedly and then quietly left the chat.

I get excited just thinking about the soybean futures I hold.

"Money seems to be quite useful; we'll have to keep making money."

He's also considering the gym thing.

The key point is that this Brother Long has already been involved in extraordinary events. Knowing that there are fish-men in Qingyun River, he still dared to go there; he's a ruthless person. The group also mentioned that the two of them had killed vampires, and that Zhou Gang was in the army and had even participated in battles against thousands of alien creatures.

I don't know if there's any exaggeration involved.

Even though Bai Yu now possesses extraordinary power, he admits he doesn't have the guts.

"Isn't this a bit too cautious? But my cheat ability should develop in this way."

Afterwards, he continued to look at the golden page, but soon became mentally exhausted and fell into a deep sleep.

The first rays of morning sunlight shone through the gap in the curtains and fell on Bai Yu's bedside.

The first thing I do every morning is check my cheat code.

Intelligence 1 (White)

Keywords: Investigator

Required intelligence points: 5

Intelligence 2 (White)

Keywords: archives

Required intelligence points: 5

Intelligence 3 (White)

Keywords: Body Refinement

Required intelligence points: 5

Intelligence 4 (Green)

Keywords: Basic cultivation method

Required intelligence points: 20

35 intelligence points are needed!

"It looks like I'll have to buy the basic cultivation method."

"Sigh~"

Bai Yu sighed.

But when I saw the task, I found that it had changed!

The number of tasks, including push-ups, has doubled, and each task rewards ten intelligence points, a 100% increase.

There's an extra task.

Task 5: Circulating the Great Heavenly Cycle 0/10

Reward: 1 random intelligence fragment (purple: 90%, gold: 9%, red: 1%)

Ten fragments can be combined to form one intelligence scroll.

After using an intelligence scroll, intelligence of the corresponding quality will appear, but it still requires intelligence points to purchase.

Purple: 200, Gold: 500, Red: 1000

Seeing that the price had tripled, Bai Yu couldn't help but feel a little restless.

"Thirty kilometers, my legs are killing me!"

In addition, there's the intelligence fragment model and the high cost of intelligence.

This... intelligence points are even less than enough.

"Judging from the price, there should be another color between purple and green."

He calculated that, based on the intelligence points he was currently acquiring each day, a purple mission would take five days, a gold mission twelve and a half days, and a red mission a full twenty-five days.

One intelligence report every ten days.

"It looks like we'll need to accumulate intelligence points to get better information later."

He glanced at the four intelligence reports for today again; he wanted to read them all! There was simply not enough time to save them all up.

(End of this chapter)