The conversation here, everyone basically understood the intentions of Weng Quan and the others.
"So do you have any other questions? If not, you can depart tomorrow."
"So soon?" Zhou Qian asked in surprise.
The remaining few people also looked at each other, all feeling that it was too rushed.
Weng Quan shook his head, "It's not too soon. Tomorrow is the day the lighthouse descends, and at that time, you will be acting with the official main force."
"By the way, a reminder, this operation is a joint operation for the entire Huaxia country, going to the South China Sea to extract underground resources, and your target mission is in a laboratory along the way through the South China Sea."
"Joint operation?" everyone questioned, "What does that mean?"
At this moment, Tang Xiuwei, who had been silent, stepped forward and slowly said, "This is a joint mission of two lighthouses, so you will also encounter people from other lighthouses. What you need to do is that all actions must be kept confidential. Besides these ten people, no eleventh person should know."
As soon as his voice fell, Zhou Haimei whispered next to Xu An, "It seems our side is planning to cause trouble on their own."
Xu An did not respond, but nodded in agreement.
Everyone had always known that there were four lighthouses in Huaxia country, but they had never seen people from other lighthouses. Now they were going to carry out a joint mission with them.
"Is it just as simple as obtaining resources?" Xu An asked after thinking for a long time, still voicing her doubts.
If it was just a simple search for resources, why would such a grand effort be made, requiring the strength of two lighthouses?
She turned her head and looked at the giant heart that was still beating non-stop, "Do the other lighthouses also have this heart?"
Weng Quan smiled, "For your first question, the sea area there has a special magnetic field, and the lighthouse cannot reach that sea area. For your second question, that is not something you should know."
After Weng Quan answered, Xia Jin shifted his gaze from Chu Yu and then looked at Xu An.
She was a beautiful woman, but she asked too many questions.
They could have actually kept the matter of the heart from being exposed, but Xia Jin was impatient.
Qin Chuan's defenses were too tight. Almost immediately, he knew that Xia Jin and the others had sent people to track him from behind.
In the months since boarding the lighthouse, Qin Chuan had not interacted with anyone except Zhou Zhe and some people from the official side.
This was why Xia Jin took the risk. If the origin of consciousness saw the heart, it would not be without a reaction.
From the moment these ten people saw the heart, Xia Jin's gaze had been firmly locked onto their movements.
However, apart from shock, there was no extra expression on the faces of these ten people. The only one worth suspecting was this man named Chu Yu.
He behaved too calmly. Not only that, but this man's presence was too weak.
Strong individuals naturally possessed an aura, unless they deliberately disguised themselves, it was impossible to be like a transparent person.
Yet, after observing, Xia Jin felt that his actions were too risky.
He preemptively assumed that the other party must have known about the origin of consciousness, which was why he had intercepted Qin Chuan's every action in advance.
He hadn't expected it to be a stroke of luck.
Xu An didn't hear anything that Weng Quan and the others were saying later. She just quietly looked at the heart in front of her, her head lowered, lost in thought.
It wasn't until their group was invited out of the great hall and passed through the rose garden again.
This rose garden was the back facing the direction of the gate. In the front, there was a white, simply decorated small house.
Zhou Qian looked at the building ahead and asked curiously, "Where is that house at the end of the rose garden?"
Tang Xiuwei, walking in front, heard this and smiled gently, "That's where I live."
Everyone seemed to disbelieve that Tang Xiuwei would live in such a place.
Tang Xiuwei ignored everyone's gaze, looking nostalgically at the roses in front of him, gently stroking the petals of a rose with his fingers.
"I planted all these roses myself. Let's go, you go back and pack up properly, and then prepare to set off tomorrow."
Saying this, Tang Xiuwei walked in the opposite direction from everyone else, but his slightly hunched back looked a little lonely.
Xu An left the small white building with the others.
The synthetic receptionist from before appeared again, with a standard smile on his face.
"The competition rewards will be sent to everyone's accounts shortly, a total of 200,000 trading coins, which will be distributed according to the allocation ratio. Also, this is a trading card with a credit of 1000, and you can spend it freely on the second floor." [PS: The currency on the first and second floors is different. 10 trading coins = 1 gold]
After hearing the receptionist's acceptance, Xu An took the gold card that belonged to her. She felt a bit abrupt about departing tomorrow. She wanted to rush home and tell Xu Yan about this matter.
But Zhou Haimei and the others decided to browse on the second floor, so they pulled Xu An along to shop.
Xu An thought about it again. She didn't know when she would be able to board the second floor again. It might as well be now to spend all this thousand gold so she wouldn't have to think about it anymore.
So she agreed to everyone's proposal.
The synthetic person, seeing their intention to go shopping, transmitted a map to Zhou Qiang's communicator, telling him that this was the map of the second floor.
"Finally, I wish you all a pleasant time."
After saying this, the synthetic person seemed to have lost power. His eyes were closed, his hands hung down by his thighs, and he stood motionlessly at the bottom of the small white building.
One person stepped forward and poked the synthetic person, but there was still no reaction.
"This is really a fake person. This skin looks like plastic."
Hearing this person's words, many people curiously stepped forward to touch the person's skin and marveled.
Xu An and Zhou Haimei did not move. As women, even though the other party was a fake synthetic person, they couldn't bring themselves to touch them.
Xu An glanced sideways and saw that Zhou Qian and Chu Yu were also standing still.
After actually exploring the second floor, Xu An understood why people were scrambling to get onto the second floor.
Zhou Qiang and the others bought a lot of newly developed nutritional supplements on the second floor. These things were like liquid black sesame paste, mixing dozens of ingredients together, which could be used in various extreme weather conditions.
"The weather outside is foggy everywhere now, and it's impossible to make a fire to cook. Buying some of this is convenient and cost-effective. Xiao An, aren't you buying some?" Zhou Haimei strongly recommended these unmentionable nutritional supplements to Xu An.
Xu An shook her head in resistance. She would rather grope blindly to make a fire than eat something that looked unappetizing at first glance.
"You guys buy it, I'll pass." She had a lot of instant food in her spatial storage, so she didn't want to go through this trouble.