Cyber Era Witch
Chapter 567 - 485: The True Knower

Chapter 567: Chapter 485: The True Knower

Lu Jing was polite, bowing to the Daoist and listening intently to their directions.

"...Miss Lu’s words are true, this girl has a good foundation, and is naturally intelligent..." Liu Tianshi spoke slowly. As a cultivator of virtue and ability, every syllable from his mouth struck Lu Jing’s heart fiercely, shaking her concentration.

"According to Miss Lu’s wishes," Shi Qing explained, "Liu Tianshi will use his immortality arts to adjust the parts of your heart that are out of tune."

"I love the company," Lu Jing emphasized weakly.

"You didn’t pass the test, you have opinions about the company, just talk, it’s fine," Shi Qing said.

Lu Jing shuddered.

"The Digital Mind?" she asked.

"Here." Shi Qing patted the pale golden case next to him, its sturdy shell carved with ornate patterns, clouds and mythical beasts adorned it, signifying its extreme preciousness.

Lu Jing observed carefully and found it to be much larger than she had imagined, at least as wide as a person’s whole chest. The Digital Mind was a valuable item, needing constant protection.

Liu Tianshi wouldn’t do anything inappropriate. Lu Jing comforted herself. As long as she could get the Digital Mind, everything else was negotiable. Rinne would become a super hacker, entering the Helis Sea with ease, even saving or taking away the Cyber Specter would be a piece of cake, how cool that would be.

"I will follow Miss Lu’s arrangements," Lu Jing said softly, "Heaven’s gifts not taken result in one’s own misfortune."

"...This girl understands the greater good..." Liu Tianshi turned and wandered on the rocky floor.

Lu Jing noticed that he walked with such swiftness that he could easily cross the entire corridor. The cultivators in the Mysterious Cave Abode had been in seclusion for hundreds of years, their powers beyond normal measure.

Under Shi Qing’s command, Lu Jing was despondently led away by four armored guards. They stood guard silently as statues, with strict discipline surpassing other companies, and sometimes Lu Jing felt they were not humans.

Her phone vibrated, and Lu Jing picked it up.

"Lu Jing?" Rinne sent a message.

"." Lu Jing replied with a period.

"Good kid, come out and play."

"Busy," Lu Jing replied, frustrated, and turned off her phone. She thought about everything up to the present moment, and it seemed she indeed fell short in her mindset, not very resolute, not as decisive in killing as the outstanding Battle Witches in the company, and certainly not as shrewd and strong as Miss Lu Sizhou.

In fact, Lu Jing didn’t like Rinne always calling her a good kid. Lu Jing was pure and principled, discerning in matters, respectful of company laws, and conducted her business according to the teachings of the employee handbook. Where was she wrong?

"...Using thunder magic to strip away the evil qi in one’s chest, to stop greed and falsehoods..." Liu Tianshi led Lu Jing to the underground dojo, which was already arranged with a magic formula using mysterious materials, complete with incense burners and Smoke Candles ready.

Lu Jing had always liked such settings since she was young, feeling tranquil and solemn. Liu Tianshi sat in a high seat, waiting to impart lessons to the children below.

"Miss Lu expects you to become Xia’s most powerful Witch," Shi Qing stood at the entrance to the room, urging Lu Jing forward to sit in the center of the magic formula, which was filled with ancient magic formulas.

Lu Jing felt the atmosphere in the entire room changing constantly, sometimes enshrouded in a mystical mist, calming the mind, sometimes swept by chilling winds, shrouded in gloom. Or perhaps it was said that both sides were one and the same, inscrutable to the average person.

This was her opportunity. Lu Jing silently thought.

Lu Jing took a half-step forward, Liu Tianshi patiently waited in his chair.

"What are you hesitating for?" Shi Qing urged, "Have you forgotten this is Miss Lu’s wish?"

"I know—but..."

"But what?" Shi Qing pressed.

"It feels... strange," Lu Jing admitted frankly, "Why, why must I obey orders? Since when... Because I am a Witch? So I don’t have the right to say no?"

Even as the words left her mouth, she felt uncomfortable. Lu Jing quietly cursed herself.

Shi Qing had not heard a subordinate Witch dare to challenge with such a tone for a long time, completely disregarding heavenly might and treating regulations as nothing.

Its expression underwent an intelligent change, looking towards Liu Tianshi for help, while Liu Tianshi, a very civilized and polite practitioner, also maintained his silence, devoting every second to meditation and reluctant to involve himself in mundane affairs.

Bang!

The whole Heavenly Cardinal Manufacturing Administrative Office plunged into darkness; the massive power supply device had been shut down, and the entire building instantly fell into darkness, but in just a few seconds, everything was bright again.

"Hacker!" Shi Qing immediately heightened the strength of his own firewall.

"...Evil spirits..." Liu Tianshi looked around. Lu Jing guessed he was using his supercomputing power to hunt for the enemy.

Was it Rinne?

Lu Jing now only felt astonishment, not liking Rinne taking the initiative to interrupt everything.

But she also feared what she might face next; Lu Jing’s heart thumped wildly, then she quickly walked outside.

"The Administrative Office is under attack!" as Lu Jing walked out, "I need to protect Liu Tianshi’s safety! The attacker might be armed!"

Shi Qing, ultimately but a Jade Automaton, couldn’t immediately discern anything odd about Lu Jing’s words. It looked towards the center of the room at Liu Tianshi, who was now fully powered up, his robes billowing as fans whirred loudly, his eyes shining like colored glazes, already locating the attacker’s position, tapping into the boundless data battlefield.

Run! Lu Jing thought to herself. She ran into the office she was in before, opened the case containing the Digital Mind, and inside there was an entire set of precision-packaged kit, including a brain processor, subdermal data chips, high-grade neural circuits, and biomimetic nerve bundles, allowing a person to more easily enter the Digital Signal Space.