Witch Wind

Chapter 33 Agent Amy (Part )

He entered the bathroom and left his wet purple-ribbon Taoist robe and underwear outside as requested by the two Dongyun girls.

I don't know what kind of equipment it is, but when you twist the handle of the shower pipe, hot water will spray out from the shower head. The water flow is very strong and the temperature is very hot. Compared with Xiaolongqiu Town, if you want to take a hot bath, you have to boil water on the stove and use a wooden bucket to wash in the open air in the yard. The life here in Oger is already quite "modern".

Xing Tianli took a full quarter of an hour to take a bath.

When he came out wrapped in a towel, his purple-sash Taoist robe, the lining clothes, and his wet Taoist shoes had all been washed and dried, and exuded a faint fragrance.

Xing Tianli deliberately left a pistol, three magazines, a few banknotes, some small pieces of silver and copper coins in the sleeve of his Taoist robe, and placed them neatly next to the folded clothes, without even a copper coin left behind.

After putting on his clothes again, Xing Tianli touched his purple-ribbon Taoist robe - it took Xing Tianli a lot of effort to get the robe wet.

After stuffing all the odds and ends into his sleeves in front of the two Dongyun girls, Xing Tianli picked up the Tongtian Magic Bamboo and followed them up from the third floor to the fourth floor, where they arrived at a huge study room that took up almost half of the floor and was filled with bookshelves with at least tens of thousands of books.

In the middle of the circular bookshelf, behind a heavy desk, Og was writing and drawing something.

In front of him, there were two telephones!

Xing Tianli's pupils narrowed. Yes, he was not mistaken. There were indeed two telephones. One was made of red rubber, and the other was made of exquisite cloisonné.

Next to the two telephones, there is a "globe".

The globe, which was about two feet in diameter, seemed to be powered by electricity. The huge sphere was rotating slowly. Soon, Xing Tianli found a land mass on it that was similar to the "World Geomancy Map" officially issued by the Dayu Dynasty.

Looking closely, the current territory of the Dayu Dynasty, among the dozens of large and small land masses marked on this "globe", probably only accounts for one or two thousandths of the total area?
Next to this globe, there is a strange display.

It was a blue crystal ball with a diameter of about three feet. An extremely thin black metal stick, about as thick as a mung bean, pierced through the crystal ball and extended more than three feet from both sides of the crystal ball.

At the left and right ends of the metal stick, there is a small crystal ball about an inch in diameter.

One is light blue and the other is light purple.

This huge blue crystal ball is fixed on a bracket similar to a 'armillary sphere'. The crystal ball rotates slowly, and the thin metal rod, together with the small crystal balls at both ends, also rotates with the blue crystal ball in the middle.

When Xing Tianli saw the blue crystal ball for the first time, under the light, this crystal clear, translucent blue crystal ball reflected bright and dazzling light. Its spectral color inexplicably reminded Xing Tianli of the bright sun he saw every day, which illuminated the world!

Well, that's right.

The light reflected by this blue crystal ball is almost the same color and dazzling as the sunlight in this world.

"This is my mascot!" Oger raised his head, put down the pen in his hand, and gently stroked the huge blue crystal ball. His eyes naturally swept across the black metal stick and the two small crystal balls at both ends.

Obviously, when Oger's eyes swept across the lavender crystal ball, his eyes were filled with indescribable admiration, like a child seeing his mother.

When his eyes fell on the light blue crystal ball, his facial expressions became extremely strange. Disgust, jealousy, and even a trace of indescribable hatred. Within these superficial emotions, in the deepest part of his emotions, Xing Tianli felt extreme envy and fanaticism!
Oger's eyes flashed, and his facial expression changed extremely slightly. It was impossible for ordinary people to catch such a drastic fluctuation of his emotions in such a short time.

However, Xing Tianli's soul was completely a dimensionality reduction attack.

Not only did he see the change in Oger's expression, he also clearly felt the strong mental fluctuations that erupted from Oger's soul at that moment.

As if he hadn't noticed anything, Xing Tianli sat on a heavy chair opposite Oger. He smiled at Oger and chuckled, "Dear Mr. Oger, it is extremely rude to come to your house on a rainy night without prior notice. But I think you won't mind this little problem."

Oger smiled and clapped his hands gently. Then a girl from Dongyun, wearing a white 'Wuzhi' gown dotted with crimson peach petals, walked in slowly, holding a silver tray, dragging a teapot, teacups, snacks, dried fruits, etc.

Xing Tianli noticed that the dried fruits on the tray were the same fruits that he had ordered in the cafe of the Ingish Naval Club that morning, which were extremely similar to pistachios.

"You are so thoughtful!" Xing Tianli bowed to Oger.

"You're welcome, please." Oger waited for the Dongyun girl to put down the tray and poured a cup of tea for himself and Xing Tianli respectively. He picked up the teacup, drank a sip of the strong tea comfortably, and said with a smile: "Mr. Li Li, you must have something very important to tell me."

Xing Tianli shrugged his shoulders: "I think this may require a large sum of money as a reward!"

Oger laughed.

He smiled happily and pointed around casually. The bookshelves made of rare wood were filled with books, all of which were lambskin covers and gold-stamped classics. There was no doubt that each of these beautifully bound books was worth a lot of money, and it was extremely difficult to collect them.

In the corners of those bookshelves, there are a lot of bronze, jade, porcelain and other items from the East, and each of them is colorful and has been baptized by the years. If placed outside, in the eyes of some "knowledgeable people", each of these antiques may be worth a fortune!
All of this inadvertently highlights Oger's amazing financial strength.

"Mr. Li Li, do you know that the Aimee Federation has a United Reserve Bureau that is independent of all government departments?" Oger smiled at Xing Tianli: "The Aimee Federation is a new, powerful country with growing national strength. It is even comparable to the Kingdom of Yingjishi, or even stronger than it."

"The United Reserve Bureau controls the economy of the Aimee Federation. The entire country's financial operations, including the issuance of banknotes, the storage and exchange of precious metals, and even most of the tax management, are all under the responsibility of the United Reserve Bureau."

Oger said softly, "Such a powerful Federal Reserve is a private institution, or more precisely, a family business. And my family owns 51% of the shares of the Amy Federal Reserve. Do you understand?"

Shaking his head slightly, Oger took another sip of strong tea. "Money is just a number to me. Money has no meaning to me. I am an ordinary reporter in the East Country, in this ancient and interesting country, in Pinghai City, in the International Concession, just because I like it, I am willing to do it, and I want to do it."

"I did it because I wanted to do it. It's not like I can only be a reporter!"

Xing Tianli's scalp tingled when he heard this.

He had no idea how powerful the Aimee Federation was. Neither the official gazette of the Dayu Dynasty nor the newspapers sent to Xiaolongqiu Town from the Pinghai City Concession had any specific information about the national strength of the Aimee Federation.

However, the Aimee Federation is indeed one of the most powerful countries in the International Concession of Pinghai City.

And in such a powerful country, more than half of the shares of the United Reserve Bureau, which is responsible for financial management, are controlled by the family behind Oger? Rich enough to rival a country, but that's all, right?
Xing Tianli nodded slightly. Oger, this guy, possessed such a strong mental power, and the people around him had superhuman combat power. It would not be easy for such a family to control a secular country built by mortals.

Instead, he felt surprised that Oger and the family behind him only controlled half of the country's finances, but did not make himself the king or emperor of the country. This made Xing Tianli a little bit unable to understand.

He picked up the teacup and drank the tea in one gulp.

Xing Tianli gently exerted force with his right hand, and with a 'hissing' sound, he crushed the rather exquisite white porcelain teacup into a ball of crumbs.

Oger's eyes widened, his pupils slightly contracted, and he looked at Xing Tianli with interest: "Oh, sorry, I didn't realize this morning that you actually possessed such power. It's really amazing!"

Xing Tianli loosened his hand and let the teacup crumbs fall onto the desk.

He said in a deep voice: "I am not intentionally showing off my power, but I think that if you know the power I possess, it will be more convenient for me to describe it next."

Oger propped his elbows on the desk, his chin in his hands, and looked at Xing Tianli with interest: "Please start your story, I'm all ears! If the information you bring is valuable enough, I will definitely not be stingy with the reward that should belong to you."

Xing Tianli nodded slowly.

He began to narrate some events with the manners of a storyteller, modifying them slightly.

In Xiaolongqiu Town, he had a conflict with the missionaries. He assisted the Yingji people and took ruthless action against the missionaries.

When he arrived in Pinghai City, he was discovered by the police station controlled by the Kingdom of Saint Norman. However, the top leaders of the Holy Mother Church showed extraordinary "interest" in him.

When the people of the Holy Mother Church found that they could not "hunt" Xing Tianli using conventional means, they directly used unconventional means - they turned Shan De Fang into a hell on earth, and they turned tens of thousands of civilians into fighting tools against Xing Tianli.

Xing Tianli didn't tell much.

He described in detail what the white-robed charlatan had said to him, and described in detail the mutated werewolves, bearmen, and the minotaur who was killed in public.

Oger's eyes flickered, and he looked at Xing Tianli with great interest.

When Xing Tianli finished his story, Oger tapped the table lightly: "Supreme... God..."

Oger mumbled something vaguely, and even with Xing Tianli's hearing ability, he couldn't hear clearly what he mumbled about the "Supreme".

"Well, it's obvious." Oger smiled and said, "When you came out of the Ingish Royal Bank, the missionaries you met were still using 'conventional' means, trying to interact with you in a relatively peaceful way."

Xing Tianli nodded slowly.

That's right, when he came out of the Royal Bank of England, there were indeed a few missionaries with a group of patrolmen from the police station. Although they were also aggressive, they did not use any extraordinary means.

"But when you returned to Shan De Fang, things were different."

"Their methods have become radical, extremely radical; cruel, extremely cruel; tyrannical, unscrupulous in their tyranny." Oger stood up, took out his pipe, and puffed smoke excitedly: "The white-robed priest, or the archdeacon, told you that a golden-robed figure from the Virgin Mary Church has come to Pinghai City?"

Xing Tianli nodded: "That's what he said."

Og murmured, "This world has really become interesting. I originally thought that the old and rigid Yingjishi, the conservative and more contrived Falushi, the hedonistic and decadent Yidoli, the self-trapped Saint Norman, the ambitious but weak Saint Ross... these countries in the Far West are just weak old men who can be knocked down with a light punch."

"But I didn't expect, I really didn't expect, that they would actually have such a change!"

"What kind of thing can turn an ordinary, weak, civilian into a mutant life form with terrifying power?"

Xing Tianli spread his hands, indicating that he did not know the inside story.

He came to Og just to tell Og the news, to tell this reporter who obviously had another identity.

On his way here, he did not expect Oger to be able to do anything. The most he hoped was that Oger would spread the methods of the Holy Mother Church and let more people know about it.

After all, it is a very influential official newspaper of a big country. Oger's humming in the newspaper is a thousand times more credible and spreadable than Xing Tianli standing on the street and yelling wildly!
Even if he was an immortal in his previous life, in this Dharma Ending World, Xing Tianli is still far behind Oger and the Emmy Daily Mail behind him in terms of the spread of information!
But now it seems, listening to Oger's mumbling, this guy, and the people behind him, they might give Xing Tianli an unexpected surprise!
After talking to himself for a while, Oger suddenly opened the desk drawer, took out a folder, pulled out one thousand gold coin bill after another, and neatly stacked them in front of him.

He placed ten thousand-gold-coin bills in front of him and looked up at Xing Tianli.

"Mr. Li Li, the information you provided is of strategic level."

"Do you understand what 'strategic level' means? The intelligence you provided me today may very likely determine the rise and fall of a country. Therefore, this is definitely strategic level intelligence."

"You and I just met today. This is our second meeting."

"If you are just an 'outsider' who provided news clues, then you can take these ten thousand gold coins and leave now. As long as you leave my house, I will no longer guarantee your safety. I will even refuse to admit that you have ever been here."

Xing Tianli stood up and looked at Oger across the desk.

Behind a row of bookshelves, two waves of mental power locked onto Xing Tianli. He knew that there were two sturdy young men standing behind the bookshelves. If Xing Tianli showed any aggression towards Oger, the other party would fire the strange-shaped large-caliber guns in their hands without hesitation.

Xing Tianli even saw something very interesting on the display cabinet of a row of bookshelves behind the two young men.

They were two sets of lavender armor that looked like they were made of crystal, with smooth and gorgeous lines, and decorated with star and crescent patterns.

The two sets of armor seemed to be purely decorative works of art, but when Xing Tianli's spiritual power quietly seeped into them, he discovered that these were two sets of armor with exquisite workmanship, extremely complex internal structures, and extremely precise "energy circuits". In the words of the ascetics, they were armor with extremely precise "array patterns".

This armor is hollow inside and is clearly wearable armor.

And judging from the details obtained by Xing Tianli's soul, these two sets of armor are much more powerful than the big, black and thick heavy armor worn by Joseph's English armored soldiers.

Xing Tianli smiled: "Mr. Oger, are you trying to say that I can go from being an 'outsider' to being an 'insider'?"

Oger's pupils shrank slightly, and he looked at Xing Tianli with great approval: "Oh, oh, oh, you are different from those Dongguo people I know who are introverted, reserved, always hesitant in speaking, and like to make people guess. You are so direct and straightforward, and so smart. I like you, really, Mr. Li Li, I like people like you!"

Oger took out a thick stack of thousand-dollar bills from the folder and gently placed it in front of Xing Tianli.

He then pulled out a certificate with a lavender leather cover and a crescent moon printed on it from the desk drawer.

"The Aimee Federation Secret Investigation Bureau, our internal code name is 'Amit'." Oger said softly: "This is the Aimee Federation, a completely independent organization with unlimited power. Whether at home or abroad, we have unlimited money and unlimited power. We can do whatever we want to benefit the Aimee Federation."

“There are no rules, we go beyond the rules.”

"There are no constraints, we are above them!"

"Let me introduce myself. I am the chief reporter of the Amy Daily Mail stationed in the International Concession in Pinghai City. I am also the deputy director of the Amité Investigation Bureau, in charge of all Amité's affairs in the East Country's Dayu Dynasty."

"Because Mr. Li Li provided us with important strategic intelligence, which is enough to affect the outcome of one, two, or even more battles in the future, the lives and deaths of millions of soldiers, and the investment of hundreds of millions of dollars... Therefore, I will give you a generous reward of 50,000 gold coins, and specially recruit you as a second lieutenant intelligence officer of the Amit Investigation Bureau!"

Oger gently pushed a thick stack of banknotes and the ID card in front of Xing Tianli.

He smiled at Xing Tianli: "Now, tell me your answer!"

Behind Xing Tianli, behind a row of bookshelves, two spiritual waves appeared and quietly locked onto Xing Tianli. Obviously, Oger had revealed his identity. If Xing Tianli refused his special move, then Oger would definitely kill him to silence him.

This guy with a smile on his face is really a piece of shit!
Xing Tianli looked at Oger with a smile, gently put the banknotes into his sleeve, and picked up the ID: "Do I need to go through any procedures?"

"Oh, by the way, I was going to go to the Consulate General of England and tell Mr. Joems about my experience today!"

Oger's smile became even brighter. His eyes suddenly burst into dazzling light as he stared straight into Xing Tianli's eyes.

"That's great."

"Now, look at me!"

(End of this chapter)