290 An Unexpected Visitor (1/2)
The news of Chen Mu being cured of his ”disease” quickly spread throughout the base. Even Jiao Si found out about it from start to finish. After the deliberate embellishments of Xi Ping and the others, his close relations with Sue Lochiro were vividly spread.
Jiao Si, who hadn't been very clear about it all, was stunned scared. He rushed to constrain the card artisans under him. To steal the woman of the boss on someone else's site wouldn't be tolerated, no matter who did it.
Maybe the base didn't amount to much in Jiao Si's eyes, but the demonstrated potential of that bunch, and especially its number-one, Chen Mu, was unfathomable in his eyes. The potential represented by someone who could break through the Van Sant System was something no one could doubt. Jiao Si had already warned the scholars under him with any information that they absolutely couldn't let the news out.
Perhaps Chen Mu didn't even realize his own value. Jiao Si believed once the news got out, his collaborators would certainly never come to the Origins Academy. That was why he was so determined to stand on the side of Chen Mu.
Beyond that, he was rather afraid of the power of the base—especially the glimpse he'd gotten of that indifferent man. That murderous aura, as though it were tangible, had surprised even Jiao Si, who had experienced hundreds of battles.
Up until then, the two sides had cooperated happily, which was what Jiao Si was most satisfied about. Ru Qiu had already learned how to make the folding Yanbo card, and the Origins Academy only needed to explore its technological system to get another true legacy from it.
He'd already notified the Origins Academy to go through various channels to collect the materials needed to make the folding Yanbo card. He was completely immersed those days in the world of that card. The more he explored it, the more he was stunned by the delicacy of its energy composition. It had an extremely resilient energy body composition, which included quite a few transformations.
For someone with Jiao Si's power, he would have already started to form some understanding of the origins of the energy composition. That was also the thing he was most confident about in his belief that he could explore the technological system of the folding Yanbo card.
But that card had brought him too many surprises. He had astonishingly found that the energy rules the card followed were completely different from any cards he had ever come in contact with before. The Origins Academy hadn't been established very long, but they had already accumulated quite a few kinds of legacies. That was especially true after he became its president, when he had to make contact with all sorts of cards in order to impart knowledge of them to the students.
But the principles he had previously accumulated were completely inapplicable to that card. Instead, the energy bodies he had altered according to his own interest had surprisingly strong power. He had already determined the card wasn't following the Van Sant System. If he was guessing correctly, it must have been a still more ancient system. That made him excited!
He had a deeper understanding of the history of the time of Heiner Van Sant than ordinary card artisans did. Heiner Van Sant was a great card master, but in Jiao Si's point of view, he was also the greatest thief, destroyer, and dictator in history!
He had set up the Van Sant System by himself, and in order to promote it, he destroyed all the other systems. Or, maybe they couldn't yet be called systems since they weren't as rigorous as the Van Sant System.
The most laughable part was that Heiner Van Sant established the Van Sant System and was then himself excluded from it. He was the last one who was a card artisan and a card master combined. In the ancient language, he was just a master of cards.
That conjecture made Jiao Si indescribably surprised. Although it increased the difficulty of his explorations, that was something he could overcome. A card artisan who could get to his ability level would have to be in a class with outstanding wisdom. By then, however, what everyone else mostly saw was him sitting dazed and alone in the training room.
Chen Mu's had returned to his track of being both nervous and bored. But he felt that his whole body was powerful after he returned to his original look, so he selflessly trained every day. He trained his perception, sparred with Wei-ah, and delved into tactics…
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A card artisan suddenly appeared in front of the base and drew the attention of the card artisans standing guard. The situation was immediately transmitted to Bogner, who was responsible for security.
Bogner could clearly see his counterpart on the glowing screen. The visitor was wearing a mask, and his entire body was enshrouded in a large robe, which made him look perfectly mysterious.
”May I ask what brings the good sir?” Bogner asked with a careful expression. The person was alone in front of the base's gate and didn't seem to harbor any ill intentions. Near every passageway were card appliances like communications cards, so one could communicate without having to open the gate.
The visitor smiled lightly, which Bogner could still detect even through the mask.
”I, Tang Hanpei, have taken the liberty to pay a visit, hoping to see your honored boss!” The clear voice seemed to carry a lot of weight, which intimidated everyone.
Chen Mu was quite surprised. He didn't know what Tang Hanpei was doing suddenly visiting him. Compared to Chen Mu's surprise, Bogner and Xi Ping were utterly dumbfounded.