Chapter 1297: Verification Complete, Enhanced Boss (6k)_2

His power, along the edges of the Stone Gate, following the patterns, spread slowly along a specific route.

It spread all the way to the columns on both sides of the gate, then from the columns, to the middle, completely wrapping around the outer layer before starting to spread towards the center.

When it touched the two relief sculptures of the Huang Pi Zi standing on the gate, the two reliefs moved slightly, disrupting Wen Yan’s power.

Wen Yan grunted, and the things visualized in his mind disappeared along with it.

He stood still, rubbing his head, which felt as if someone had hit it with a punch, a little dazed, but not significantly affected.

After checking again, he could feel that originally, only a starting point had been opened on his head, just a brief surface route. But now, on the power route on the back of his neck, it was as if branches, levels one, two, and three, had grown from the main trunk, covering the entire back of his neck.

And in one place, there was even a more refined fourth-level branch.

The complexity far surpassed his previous training. The most complex route in his previous training was just inside his hands and torso. In other places, there really wasn’t much difficulty, relying purely on persistence.

According to Wen Yan’s estimate, if the training on his head were completely opened up like before, apart from the main trunk, there would be at least a fourth-level branch.

He wasn’t surprised, he expected this place to be the most complex originally.

The book that Doctor Wei gave him, the parts concerning the head were the least, and it even stated that everything recorded was just on the surface.

If it weren’t for that book, guiding him along the surface route, Wen Yan wouldn’t have dared to try it lightly before.

After finishing the training and proving that the route was indeed walkable, Wen Yan felt at ease. The remaining matter was how to operate it.

Wen Yan rubbed his head, returned home, and started eating, seeing Er Jingong holding a bowl, sitting far away, Wen Yan waved to him.

“Why sit so far away? Come over and eat some dishes, don’t waste them.”

Er Jingong awkwardly laughed, couldn’t refuse, so he sat and ate together. Then he truly experienced why Wen Yan said, there are only four dishes on the table, yet they would be wasted.

Because the whole family, more than half, doesn’t eat the dishes…

When they almost finished eating and it was time to leave the table, only Wen Yan and Sparrow Cat were still eating, Wen Yan picked up a plate, split half of the dish into his own bowl, and gave the other half to Er Jingong.

“Eat up, there’s work tonight.”

“This…”

“No more buts, just eat. In my house, you’re not allowed to waste food.”

Wen Yan holding the bowl, scooping rice, while Sparrow Cat was beside him eating voraciously without raising its head, and even the Dao Ge in the courtyard outside was holding a dried centipede as a post-dinner snack after finishing his meal.

After eating, Wen Yan received a call from the General Director.

“The intelligence you’ve provided is very important and already sufficient, you shouldn’t take any more risks.”

“No, I think it’s not enough, far from enough.”

“We’ve already made progress, tonight we’re going to start arresting people.”

“So soon?” Wen Yan was a bit surprised, it’s only been a day, hasn’t it?

“There’s one more thing I need to remind you of. When you go out in the future, like going to other places, don’t bring your personal cell phone. Your personal phone’s protection, security, and confidentiality levels are much lower than the phone Scorching Sun Department gave you. We have always overlooked this little detail. Yesterday, someone from the telecom company checked if your personal phone was online. You should understand that just checking this can determine quite a bit.”

“Uh… can they really do that? Won’t it trigger an alarm?”

“It won’t, even people in the confidentiality department of Scorching Sun Department have personal spaces. Also, strictly speaking, they aren’t checking your phone. The other party just counted the number of phones that could connect to the base station and their list. Then, using other methods, they just filtered to see if your personal phone was connected to a base station nearby.”

“Did you catch anyone?”

“We have them locked in, but haven’t made a move yet.”

“How did you detect it? Oh, never mind.”

“The Black Box detected it.”

“Oh, remarkable.”

The General Director indeed didn’t expect that someone would use such a convoluted way to determine if Wen Yan was still in the present world.

He temporarily authorized the Black Box, raised its permissions, and the Black Box somehow latched onto this little thread.

But the current investigation results suggest this small pawn shouldn’t know anything, just greedy, taking money to do these things; after all, there’s no need for direct cellphone number tracking, the risk is indeed low.

So, the General Director did not move this small pawn; on one hand, they wanted to see if they could catch the people behind it, on the other hand, naturally, to use this small pawn at an appropriate time to transmit some false information to the other side.

“You understand what to do, right?”

“I understand this, don’t worry, so I definitely need to go again, Minister, are you all ready?”

“…” The General Director was somewhat speechless; he meant for Wen Yan not to risk it. Now not taking a phone is too obvious, taking it would be equivalent to telling the other side that you’re not in the present world anymore. Who would have thought that Wen Yan meant they should be ready for tracking?

Wen Yan rubbed his hands in anticipation, after stalling the training progress for so long, seeing the dawn of victory, and verifying everything, how could he give up?

He was already impatient to know what to do after completing the Third Stage, what the Fourth Stage would bring.

At this time, he was even worried that someone would find Yellow Immortal Child and eliminate them.