Master of Ten Thousand Foxes
Chapter 426 - 243: The Only Green Vote and the Rebirth of the Timid Daisy_2
As for the human level of technology, across various industries and fields, he understands it more than the average person.
Therefore, he roughly knows the gap between humanity’s top technology and the Ancient Immortal Dynasty’s top immortal techniques.
With human technology, attempting to develop Primordial Immortal Qi, to catch up with the ancient immortals’ techniques and pose a threat to them... this hope is like a flickering candle in the midst of a blizzard, far too weak, far too distant, far too easy to extinguish.
He covered the voting device, extended his fingers, and reached for it.
...
Chairman Chen Shu was also pondering.
Lately, Sequence Nine’s and even Sequence Eight’s dark side Immortal Mages have emerged like bamboo shoots after rain, one after another, causing repeated incidents and terrorist attacks.
Fortunately, countless committee members, relying on the advantage of numbers and equipment, have pacified situations, suppressed disturbances, stabilizing the social situation, ensuring the public remains in a safe environment.
This stability is hard-won.
Yet if resources are further allocated to the struggle for Primordial Immortal Qi, can the social situation remain stable?
Would it be negligent, losing stability amidst the pursuit of a fleeting hope?
He sighed, covered the voting device, touched the button, then lifted his hand, glanced at which side was green, which side was red, ensuring he didn’t press the wrong one.
...
The attendants quietly replaced the tea for the participants with a cart.
Bai Mo embraced his apprentice, took a sip of the freshly replaced warm tea.
"It’s indeed good tea leaves, quite sweet. Perhaps some could be planted back at Fox Mountain."
The meeting room was silent.
On the big screen, Wu Jianxian was quietly awaiting the voting results.
Bai Mo could roughly guess the outcome... After all, human nature is quite predictable.
Humans always yearn for stability, for safety.
They choose brighter, familiar paths at crossroads.
They prefer securing what they already possess, only venturing for more when resources are abundant.
Perhaps among humans, there are a few fools, adventurers, and gamblers... but such individuals won’t appear in today’s meeting room.
Bai Mo sipped his hot tea, smacked his lips, suddenly recalling an odd Immortal Grass at Fox Mountain... Timid Daisy.
This was also the Super Immortal Grass of Sequence Six, unearthed from the plains, already dead, awaiting resurrection.
He had researched its resurrection conditions and mechanisms thoroughly, completed much of the preparatory work, only lacking the final step, which was rather special... It needed to absorb emotions, particularly a lot of, extraordinarily huge, exceptionally sincere courage.
Bai Mo, driven by a whimsical thought, gave an order to Fox Mountain.
...
In the depths of Professor Zhang’s eyes appeared a heap of campfire and the Qing Lu Ancient Immortal behind it.
The Qing Lu Ancient Immortal looked at the present world with interest, also awaiting the voting outcome.
"Very interesting."
Not just the Qing Lu Ancient Immortal, but also Chairman Chen Shu, Wu Qingyun in the back rows, Committee Member Gu Lin, and every Immortal Technique Master was captivated by this meeting, each gazing through their apprentices’ eyes at the current realm, awaiting the voting result.
The voice of Black Sparrow Ancient Immortal echoed mockingly in Tian Xinghuo’s mind.
"Ha, ants having a meeting, making it look so formal."
...
In front of Bai Mo’s desk, the White Bracelet, dressed in an Invisibility Cloak, quietly appeared.
It carried a Bronze Flower Pot, within it lay the Timid Daisy entrusted by his master.
This thing was merely a root of yellow-brown dried grass, already limp, its roots embedded in the pot soil, its bare stem lying flat on the soil surface, droopy.
Through the Invisibility Cloak, it glanced at its master, then at Moon Tail, its fox face filled with excitement! 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺
Not because of anything else, just seeing its master made it happy!
...
The meeting had a high specification, but its level of confidentiality wasn’t very high.
The Dark World’s meeting room had already connected the video signal.
The King of Darkness and several Sequence Seven members sat, slanted and awkward, by the conference table, with peculiar expressions, awaiting the voting results.
"What’s there to see?"
"You don’t need to look to know the result."
"Hahaha, if they really would disperse their strength to pursue Primordial Immortal Qi, wouldn’t it make our days easier?"
"Not likely. They aren’t dumbasses."
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Dongguo City.
White Peach Medical Beauty Director’s office.
Su Baitao used a mirror pasted with a Celestial Eye Talisman, spying on the venue, seeing her husband sitting in the front row, the Chairman of Dongguo City.
"This vote... How will he cast it?
"How will they cast it?"
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Sichun City.
The Immortal Technique Committee’s large conference room.
The attendees were also troubled by the voting.
Nobody noticed a fly slipping soundlessly from a ceiling seam, its compound eyes directed at the big screen.
...
Chunshan City.
Immortal Committee meeting room.
Men and women nurtured by White Mountain and Black Water were more fiery and direct, biting their teeth, already pressing the voting device.
Nobody noticed a yellow-skinned creature poking its head outside the window, its black eyes peering inside.
...
Gradually, more people matured in thought, more voting devices were pressed down.
Voting signals accumulated from machines into computers, and from various cities aggregated to Shangjing, into Wu Jianxian’s office, into Wu Jianxian’s computer screen.
Under the gaze of all, Wu Jianxian on the big screen paused, then suddenly laughed.
"Our voting has concluded.
"I believe many are paying attention, waiting for the outcome.
"This voting result is quite interesting.
"The red votes in favor of striving for Immortal Qi total, one thousand and thirty-four.
"The green votes in favor of abandoning the Immortal Qi are, one."
As these words spread, each city, each conference room, scrutinized by the ancient immortals present, each backstage boss spying, the Dark World spying, fell into silence.
The only one who cast the green vote, Bai Mo, sat in the conference room, amazed.
All red votes?
They’re not afraid of overtime?
They’re not afraid of the ancient immortal?
They’re not afraid of assassination?
They’re not afraid of the battlefield?
They’re not afraid all their efforts will be in vain?
They’re not concerned about neglect causing societal decay?
Did they assume others would cast green votes, that they wanted to revel in casting a red vote, feeling blood-brave?
Or, when they cast the red votes, had they already prepared mentally? Already knew what lay ahead? Already thought through how to face it?
...
In Professor Zhang’s mind, the Qing Lu Ancient Immortal smiled and applauded lightly.
"Hahaha, hahaha, excellent, very interesting!"
...
In Tian Xinghuo’s mind, the Black Sparrow Ancient Immortal frowned.
"Have they all completely lost it?
"If one person’s foolish, a few half fools, several mostly foolish, that’s normal.
"But all of them completely foolish?
"That’s got to be a flaw!"
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In the Dark World’s office.
The King of Darkness and others furrowed brows at the big screen, silent for a long time.
"Did they tamper with the votes?
"Was the voting device meddled with?"
...
On the big screen, Wu Jianxian continued.
"Our voting this time has a clear result.
"Hahaha, everyone has no room to regret.
"From now on, work overtime when required, strive when needed.
"As for the sole green voter... I truly don’t know who they are as our votes are anonymous.
"But I think this vote, in their heart, it must be filled with compassion for all of us and pity for this world.
"While everyone fights on the battlefield, works tirelessly, faces strong foes, and when engulfed in darkness, let this softness remain in the heart."
The meeting room erupted in noise.
Some frowned, some laughed and cursed, some showed helplessness, some realized they had briefly lost their minds.
Bai Mo sat in the front row, secretly suspecting if the voting system was tampered with?
Anyway, it’s anonymous voting, each person only knows their own vote.
As long as no one verifies the votes, nobody can say anything about a single green vote.
But the next moment, he knew the voting system was genuine.
Because on the desk, beneath the Invisibility Cloak, the White Bracelet’s eyes widened!
The Timid Daisy in the pot it carried, with its limp stem, surprisingly stood up, shedding its yellow-brown, sprouting new green, even budding a small, tiny, fresh green bud.
Its gentle sprouting sounds were covered by the conference room’s hubbub.
But it indeed absorbed all the courage in the room, massive, sincere, awakened from a dormant thousand-year sleep, resurrected in this conference room, the dead grass reborn!