Chapter 14 Li Jun Arrives
in the laboratory,

Wang Xiaoming calmed down and looked at the small golden box in front of him. Inside was a pile of orange-yellow translucent irregular crystals. This was the supernatural material he had just identified that could be used to make explosive items.

If it is really possible to use it to make supernatural gunpowder, then the output of supernatural materials will be very critical. If the output is insufficient, only a small number of supernatural weapons can be made and used by a few people.

Mobilize memory,

Wang Xiaoming instantly went through all the information about this supernatural material, and the results were both good and bad. The good news was that the output of this supernatural material was very high, but the bad news was that it was produced in a supernatural place.

Different from other supernatural materials, this thing is not extracted from evil spirits, but is found in a special supernatural place.

In reality, the place where they intersected was a jungle with few people. It was later discovered by the headquarters and was blocked after a brief exploration.

There is a small volcano in the mysterious place, where many evil spirits live. However, most of them are dormant in the volcano and only appear when the volcano erupts.

These orange-yellow crystals were brought out by volcanic eruptions. No one knows how long this volcano has existed or how many times it has erupted. Anyway, there are a lot of these things, and they are everywhere at the foot of the volcano.

Seeing the astonishing reserves of orange-yellow crystals, Wang Xiaoming felt relieved. Compared to the dangers of the supernatural place, he was more worried about not having the materials to make supernatural gunpowder.

After identifying all the supernatural materials,

Wang Xiaoming took out the orange-yellow crystals and the turbid sewage separately. In the following days, he planned to study these two supernatural materials in addition to learning the supernatural runes.

Among them, the orange-yellow crystals can be used to make supernatural gunpowder, and the turbid sewage can be used to make items to suppress supernatural revival.

The former can enhance the ghost rider's attack power, while the latter can enhance the ghost rider's survivability.

"By the way, there is still one thing that has not been identified." Wang Xiaoming thought of the yellow paper of fake death, which is a supernatural item with thirty-seven runes.

Take out the yellow paper of fake death and activate the identification spell.

'A supernatural item that contains the power of suspended animation. If you stick it on your head, you will fall into suspended animation and cannot be discovered by evil spirits, and you cannot wake up on your own.'

After writing down the identification results, Wang Xiaoming, while he still had some strength left, conducted an identification on Cao Yang, who was sitting in the rest area playing with his mobile phone.

"A human being who possesses the power of a demon."

There was only a simple description and no other information. Unlike the last psychic observation, Cao Yang did not discover his spying this time.

"The plan to obtain detailed information about the ghost rider through identification has failed. It seems that the ability to identify living things is limited."

After the appraisal was completed, Wang Xiaoming summarized the results of these appraisals. He found that his appraisal was not like the appraisal technique in the game, which had fixed descriptive vocabulary.

The information provided by his identification ability will change with his view of things. If he believes that the essence of the supernatural is God, then when he identifies the supernatural in the future, it will become a weapon of God that has fallen into silence.

The results of the appraisal were always given to him in a way that he could understand.

After so many appraisals, although his spiritual energy was not depleted a lot, he still felt a little tired. He guessed that it might be because the appraisals consumed his energy.

However, Wang Xiaoming did not take this fatigue to heart. He called Chen Wei and Pang Dong and gave them the preliminary experiments on the two supernatural materials.

As for the previous experimental projects, they were handed over to Cui Chongshi, who was asked to take charge and continue to kill time.

The research on supernatural items is not all smooth sailing. He got the research direction by identifying the talisman, but if he wants to produce satisfactory results, he still needs continuous practice.

After handing over the experiment of the two supernatural materials to the two people, Wang Xiaoming did not just let it go. He would give them guidance on direction and ideas from time to time.

that's it,
Life at the experimental base became peaceful and orderly, and Wang Xiaoming would bring Cao Yang to the laboratory every day.

I started observing runes and conducting research experiments. In my spare time, I would also read some professional books on mechanics and chemistry to enrich my knowledge base.

Three days passed in a flash.

In the evening, in the dormitory,

Wang Xiaoming sensed the digestion of the magic potion in his body. As he was distracted by the experiments on two kinds of supernatural materials, he had only finished observing the runes contained in the fifteen kinds of supernatural materials today. At this time, half of the magic potion had been digested.

The credit was not only from learning the supernatural runes. Since realizing the importance of general knowledge three days ago, Wang Xiaoming would get subtle feedback from the magic potions when learning new knowledge and doing experiments.

After three days of non-stop study and experimentation, little by little, I had digested a lot of magic potions.

After digesting half of the potion, Wang Xiaoming's total spiritual power increased, and his talent in mechanics and chemistry also improved to a certain extent.

For some reason, the gift of the Secret Peeper was also improved synchronously. Compared with the Universal Insighter, it was equivalent to digesting half of the magic potion.

Wang Xiaoming had no idea about the situation. He was only a half-baked Extraordinary Person, and all he knew were those mentioned in the mysterious novels, so he was seriously unbalanced in his studies.

Just like some commonly used mystical knowledge, he had no place to learn it and could only use the mysterious knowledge that came with the potion. This was also the reason why he, a secret peeker, could only use pendulum divination.

There is a real lack of sources of mystical knowledge.

Without the spiritual world and the star world, his divinations would often fail, and he would often need to perform divinations multiple times.

The Secret Peeper also possessed some knowledge of magic and witchcraft, but due to the differences in the world and his low sequence, he was unable to use it at all.

Wang Xiaoming could only guess that it might be a change caused by time travel and rebirth.

The digestion of the potion was progressing rapidly, but the experiments on the supernatural materials were a bit more difficult. No method had been found to trigger an explosion of the orange-yellow crystals, and there were no signs of explosion whether by fire or impact.

The research on turbid sewage was not so bad. This was a newly discovered supernatural material extracted from a fierce ghost. The suppressing power of turbid sewage on the supernatural was soon discovered, but there were many problems waiting to be solved in its use.

Wang Xiaoming didn't have a good solution for these things for the time being, so he could only propose ideas for Chen Wei and the others to experiment with. Because of the existence of awakening memory, whether it was the mysterious knowledge that came with the potion or the newly discovered supernatural runes, he didn't need to remember them frequently.

This freed him up with a lot of time to meditate and practice the control of spiritual power. At the same time, he increased his investment in acquiring general knowledge and purchased a lot of professional materials.

Sitting at the desk, Wang Xiaoming opened the "Mechanics" which he had not finished reading. This was the latest book he bought.

A book that specifically details the historical development of machinery was a great help to him in sorting out his memory.

As time passed, the night gradually deepened, the temperature began to drop, it was quiet outside the window, the moonlight was hazy, it was time to rest.

This place is in the suburbs of Dajing City, far away from the bustling city. There are no colorful lights and no city noise.

Wang Xiaoming also ended a busy day and turned off the lights to go to bed.

the next morning,

When Wang Xiaoming and Cao Yang arrived at the cafeteria, they met Zhao Jianguo who was eating.

"How do you have time to come to the experimental base?" Wang Xiaoming sat down opposite Zhao Jianguo, carrying some white porridge and pickles.

A captain from the headquarters did not stay at the headquarters but went to their experimental base to have breakfast. Something must have happened.

Sitting next to Zhao Jianguo was a man in his thirties, wearing a green windbreaker and eating with his head down. It was Li Jun.

After seeing Wang Xiaoming, Li Jun forced a smile and said, "Professor Wang, long time no see."

Wang Xiaoming nodded politely to the other party. At this time, he and Li Jun were not familiar with each other and had only met a few times.

"Li Jun," Cao Yang, who was following behind, also saw Li Jun and interrupted, "I heard that you got promoted again?"

Facing Cao Yang's teasing, Li Jun did not answer, but just looked at Cao Yang coldly.

"Ahem." Zhao Jianguo coughed twice, wiped his mouth with a free tissue, and said to Wang Xiaoming, "This time the headquarters is planning to transfer Li Jun here to be responsible for your safety."

Wang Xiaoming didn't react, but Cao Yang was very dissatisfied. He quickly swallowed the food in his mouth and asked, "Ah...what should I do?"

"You will be transferred back to the headquarters first, and we will discuss the specific arrangements later." Zhao Jianguo explained.

"Can you please not transfer me back? I feel like I'm quite suitable for this job."

Cao Yang was naturally unwilling to be transferred back to the headquarters. The few days he spent with Wang Xiaoming could be said to be the calmest days for him since he became a ghost rider. He even gained several pounds.

"No, this is an order." Zhao Jianguo flatly refused. "You just come with me today."

Wang Xiaoming did not comment on this, but just said he understood and started eating breakfast.

Just as Zhao Jianguo was about to leave, Wang Xiaoming suddenly remembered something and quickly said:
"By the way, I need some blood from ghost riders for my latest experiment. Can you help me collect some? It doesn't need to be too much, just some from different ghost riders."

"Okay, leave this matter to me." Zhao Jianguo waved goodbye.

Finally, Cao Yang was reluctantly pulled away by Zhao Jianguo. After eating, Li Jun sat quietly opposite him, looking around from time to time.

Li Jun's arrival and Cao Yang's departure did not surprise Wang Xiaoming. It can only be said that this is the inertia of the world.

He had no objection because Li Jun, who owned the ghost domain, could better protect his safety.

After going to the headquarters for a meeting, Wang Xiaoming already knew the detailed information about Li Jun and controlled two evil spirits. The first evil spirit was codenamed Ghost Wood, and its abilities were woodification and powerful regeneration ability. Even if an arm was cut off, it could grow back thanks to the Ghost Wood's regeneration ability.

Woodization is the ghost tree's attack method, and it is also the corrosive force that Li Jun faces when controlling a fierce ghost.

The second evil ghost is the will-o'-the-wisp. This evil ghost has appeared many times in the original novel. It is also a very powerful evil ghost that can burn supernatural powers.

What I didn’t expect was that this will-o’-the-wisp was only one-third of a complete will-o’-the-wisp.

"Just think about the fact that the lantern skin of the will-o'-the-wisp lantern can be made into a pocket to imprison evil spirits, and you can imagine how complicated the will-o'-the-wisp is." Wang Xiaoming inferred this based on some plots in the novel.

The lantern skin can imprison evil spirits, but it cannot completely suppress the ghost domain of will-o'-the-wisp. Of course, there are some reasons that he does not understand, but it is enough to prove how terrifying will-o'-the-wisp is.

It is a pity that Li Jun did not make full use of the power of the will-o'-the-wisp later. It is a bit ironic that a powerful ghost rider who controls the will-o'-the-wisp eventually became the captain of the headquarters responsible for firefighting in various places.

However, it is these ghost riders who demonstrate the brilliance of humanity in the era of spiritual revival. Even when attacked by evil spirits and their bodies corrupted, their humanity still suppresses their ghostly nature.

But just like the plots in many cheesy TV dramas, good guys cannot defeat bad guys. In this supernatural age where people’s hearts are like ghosts, good guys are often the first to be eliminated.

Li Jun is also a tragic character in the original work.

"But I just love these guys, they're the best teammates."

Wang Xiaoming began to plan to form a powerful team of ghost hunters to end the supernatural era.

The warm white porridge went into his stomach, like a warm current that dispelled the coldness in his body. Wang Xiaoming touched his belly with satisfaction.

"Let's go."

"Yes."

The two walked towards the experimental building, one in front and one behind, and the morning sun shone on their faces like holy light.

(End of this chapter)