# Chapter 1012: It Must Be a System Error, Right?
Seeing Jiangnan's embarrassed expression, Mountain Cat burst out laughing!
"Alright, I'll stop teasing you. Did you get any useful information?"
Jiangnan rolled his eyes, pulled over a nearby cushion, and covered his legs with it.
"By the way, Xingyao Wei mentioned vine marrow. What is that thing? The reason Pepper went through all this trouble is for that stuff!"
Mountain Cat looked thoughtful: "Remember, plant-type spirit beasts are different from other spirit beasts!"
"When breaking through a major rank, a kind of spirit marrow is produced inside the roots to assist the breakthrough, used to break through their own limitations!"
"But this thing is useless to humans; it's already been studied!"
Jiangnan rubbed his hands together, grinning slyly: "This mother vine has mutated though. Who knows if it's really useful?"
And from the looks of it, the mother vine should have been obtained by Vivian from the Holy Star!
Who cares if it's useful? If there's a chance, just pocket it and take it away!
For the next period of time, Jiangnan kept a close eye on the Chen family's movements!
Thinking about the next step to take!
But there was no breakthrough progress. After Chen Daoyi and his daughter were arranged by Ma Weiwei into a guest room in the Bill Building!
Pepper hadn't seen them at all, so Jiangnan had no idea what the cooperation between the two sides entailed!
Twenty-four hours passed like this, and even the spatial mark on Zhang San and the coin had dissipated!
For this reason, he specially had Zhang San come back once to re-imprint spatial marks on Zhang San and the coin!
Time ticked by second by second, and Jiangnan's heart grew anxious!
The time he had to set things up was running out!
Just then, Liu Mang in the room suddenly perked up!
"Chen Daoyi is angry! Look!"
As he spoke, a colorful cloud projection appeared, showing the scene he had detected!
In the Bill Building guest room, Chen Daoyi was furious!
"Wait? You want me to wait some more? It's your Brahma Society that came to me to discuss business!"
"I traveled thousands of miles from Hua Xia to get here, condescending to enter your broken pigsty! And you leave me hanging here all day?"
"What does that dead fat pig mean by this? Doesn't he take me, Chen Daoyi, seriously?"
As he spoke, he flipped the table, sending it straight toward the woman in the beige windbreaker!
The woman was at Star Glory Level Two, face pale, lips blackish-purple!
A purple mist immediately rose around her, a faint fragrance filling the entire room!
The instant the table touched the purple mist, it corroded away to nothing!
This person was Pepper's trusted subordinate!
Xiangzhi! International Codename: Deathly Stillness!
Xiangzhi had an awkward expression on her face, smiling apologetically.
(٥･᷄ㅂ･᷅) "Old Chen, please calm down. The chairman really is tied up with something and can't get away. I'll go call him for you right now!"
Chen Daoyi said impatiently, "Go call him! My patience has limits!"
Xiangzhi respectfully withdrew from the room, looked helpless, then turned and walked toward the steel tower!
Mountain Cat's expression turned serious: "Xiao Nan, you need to be careful with this woman. Deathly Stillness — wherever she goes, she brings death!"
"Her ability is deadly poison. She's from Hongguo, and she poisoned many people there. Extremely cruel methods! She was deported, wandered through various countries, and eventually was taken under Pepper's wing!"
"When we evacuate, this woman will be a formidable enemy!"
Jiangnan propped his chin on his hand, his big eyes rolling around nonstop.
(꒪ͦก꒪ͦ) "Hmm~ Got it."
...
It took Chen Daoyi a long time to calm down.
"Who does he think he is? Making me wait this long? If it weren't for getting the Spirit Gauze, would I indulge his bad habits?"
Chen An said worriedly, "Dad, do we really have to do this? Once we do, there's no turning back!"
Chen Daoyi sneered, "That fat pig just wants to drag our Chen family into the water. Of course we'll do it, but not the Chen family itself!"
"Just have someone else do it. As long as we don't leave evidence, how will the higher-ups know who did it?"
"Besides, if we openly kill Jiangnan to take the Spirit Gauze, the higher-ups will definitely put pressure on us!"
"This way, by having the Brahma Society kill Jiangnan, our Chen family won't be implicated!"
Jiangnan's expression turned cold. I really want to see what game the Chen family and the Brahma Society are playing.
...
On the other side, Xiangzhi headed straight for the steel tower!
Because the blood vine was close to breaking through, Pepper spent most of his time in the Brahma Palace watching it!
Waiting for the vine marrow to mature!
But if they waited any longer, Chen Daoyi might really lose his temper!
Meanwhile, Zhang San was sitting cross-legged at the elevator entrance, leaning against the wall, fast asleep, drool stretching from the corner of his mouth.
(⁼̴̤̆﹃⁼̴̤̆) Zzz~
He had been waiting for so long, and no one had come yet!
Xiangzhi walked over to the shaft elevator and stepped inside.
But as soon as she lifted her foot, she tripped and stumbled, nearly falling!
She turned back with a confused look!
What the hell tripped me?
The plant-men guarding the steel tower saw Xiangzhi almost fall and started whispering among themselves, with snickers coming from them!
Xiangzhi's face darkened, and she cursed under her breath as she entered the elevator!
Zhang San was jolted awake by Xiangzhi's kick, startled!
"Who kicked me?"
Seeing someone in the elevator going down? He immediately perked up, wiped his mouth, and followed her in!
He'd been waiting so long, finally something was happening!
He quickly pulled out his phone, opened the recording mode, and started filming right in her face!
Xiangzhi entered the password and pressed her palm print.
The elevator started descending. The shaft was deep. They'd been standing in the elevator for a while.
Xiangzhi used the reflection of the elevator wall as a mirror, fixing her hair.
Zhang San moved closer.
"Sister, you've got some serious dark circles. Haven't been sleeping well, have you?"
"Hey, that scent on you is pretty nice. What brand of perfume do you use?"
"Your lips are black? Is that even a lipstick shade? Hmm~"
But Xiangzhi didn't notice a thing, continuing to fix her hair.
Zhang San: (≖～≖) Tch~
The elevator traveled over seven thousand meters deep before stopping.
Zhang San followed right behind Xiangzhi as she walked out!
He immediately felt his spiritual energy and ability sealed, and couldn't help clicking his tongue.
"Pretty impressive. Hiding it this deep and using spirit-binding material on top of that?"
"Good thing Nan Shen didn't come barging in. Even a space-type wouldn't be useful here!"
Zhang San followed Xiangzhi all the way, using his phone to record the guard deployment in the corridor.
They reached another gate. Xiangzhi went up and scanned her iris, and the gate opened.
It was a long, narrow white corridor filled with cameras everywhere.
Xiangzhi stepped in as usual, but after just two steps —
A piercing alarm sounded. Spirit-binding machine gun muzzles extended from both sides of the corridor, all aimed at Xiangzhi!
Xiangzhi: ???
In the Brahma Palace surveillance room, the monitors showed the scene in the white corridor.
In the picture, both Xiangzhi and Zhang San were standing there, and Zhang San even made a peace sign at the camera.
(｡•ˇ～ˇ•)(σ´ꇴ`)σ Peace~
The guard captain's eyes widened as he stared at the surveillance footage: "What's going on? Why would the alarm go off when Sister Xiangzhi passes?"
The surveillance operator exclaimed, "The system shows two people entered the corridor!"
"This is the gait analysis chart, infrared thermal imaging, bioelectric signal analyzer, and heart tremor detector!"
The guard captain pulled up the image and looked. It clearly showed two figures!
One was Xiangzhi, and the other was Zhang San!
But the guard captain's gaze was locked firmly on Xiangzhi!
"You're talking bullshit! It's obviously just one person! Where's the second one?"
The other guards all crowded around!
"That's right, that's right! The equipment must be malfunctioning! Or maybe it's an invisibility ability?"
"Nonsense! This place is spirit-bound, okay? It must be a system error! What's the damn alarm for?"
Xiangzhi helplessly raised her hands and said impatiently, "What's going on? What are you guys doing?"
The guard captain quickly called out through the microphone, "S-Sorry, Sister Xiangzhi. The system showed two people entering the corridor, so..."
Xiangzhi said angrily, "Are you blind? There's only me here! Open the door and let me through!"
Zhang San glared: "Are you blind? There's only the two of us here! Open the door and let us through!"
The guard captain said apologetically, "I'll open the door right away. Sorry for startling you, Sister Xiangzhi!"
So he deactivated the alarm and opened the door!
Xiangzhi continued downward. But as soon as she passed through the door, the alarm went off again!
Xiangzhi: !!!
The guard captain was shocked. How does it show two people again?
Is it haunted?
One error is possible, but not every time, right?
He quickly sent someone to search the corridor, but they found nothing wrong!
Xiangzhi fumed, "Are you done? Do I need to be searched too? I urgently need to see the chairman!"
"Can you take responsibility if you delay important business?"
The guard captain didn't dare hold her up and quickly let her through. But the corridor alarm went off all the way!
It kept showing two people!
The surveillance room was so annoyed they just turned off the alarm!
Cursing, "Stupid system!"
System: (;´༎ຶ﹏༎ຶ`)
The final steel gate opened, and Zhang San finally followed Xiangzhi inside!
Looking at the mother vine that was over five hundred meters tall, glowing with brilliant red light, Zhang San was genuinely stunned!
He swallowed hard: "We're really going to draw from this thing's vine and take its spirit bead?"
Can Nan Shen really handle this thing?
It's... it's way too big, isn't it?
And Pepper is just sitting right under the vine? How are they supposed to do this?
At that moment, Pepper was sitting beneath the mother vine, eyes bloodshot, staring at it with manic excitement, as if possessed!
"Break through soon! I've been working so hard for this moment!"
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