Above the gray fog

Lin Shan returned to his room and continued to take the elixir.

Time flies, and only the last six of the forty-eight elixirs remain. From taking one elixir a month at the beginning, it only takes twenty days later. The stronger the strength, the faster the heart will recover after being broken.

In the sixth month of the sixth year of the human calendar, a knock on the door interrupted Lin Shan who was resting with his eyes closed.

"Lin Xianfeng, the director wants to see you."

"Okay, I'll be there in a while."

In three years, forty-two elixirs allowed his heart to break through to the peak of the ninth stage. He already felt some kind of shackles and could not break through further.

The total amount of spirituality, recovery speed, and spiritual control ability have all been greatly improved.

Unfortunately, Blood Wing has only entered the third stage in these three years. Compared with the three years and four stages of the heart, Blood Wing has only improved one stage in three years. The elixir is of no help to Blood Wing.

Walking out of the room, he went straight to Si Zhennan's office. Three years is enough to change many people. Si Zhennan has been in a high position for a long time. There is a kind of "oppression" on him. Ordinary people will feel pressure when they see him. This "oppression" is most obvious in Zhang Zhonghua.

Lin Shan found a place to sit down casually. Before he opened his mouth to speak, he heard someone knocking on the door.

"Dong, Dongdong."

Si Zhennan glanced at Lin Shan with a questioning look in his eyes.

Lin Shan made a "please" gesture.

Si Zhennan nodded and said, "Come in."

A beautiful woman in Hanfu walked in.

A lot of big changes have taken place in the past three years. Lin Shan sighs almost every year.

Since the fifth year of the human calendar, the tribe's textile industry has made a great breakthrough under the promotion of Huang Ying and Xia Xuan. Under Xia Xuan's cultivation, the original less than ten green silkworms have now grown to hundreds. Not only green silk, but also various animal hairs, plant fibers, etc. are all sufficient. The tribe's meat has also been improved. Although they cannot eat every day, they can eat at least one meal a week.

On October 1st of the fifth year of the human calendar, Lin Shan attended a council meeting to re-draft the New Year, a day that the human race needs to celebrate together. In the end, in order to commemorate the earth, the tribe calendar will set December 30th of each year as "New Year's Eve".

The new tribe calendar does not distinguish between the lunar calendar and the solar calendar. Now each month is set to 30 days and a year is set to 12 months. Subsequent adjustments will be made according to the changes of the four seasons. Everything here is very similar to the earth, but there are still subtle changes.

Huang Ying developed a new type of textile technology. It is said that the inspiration of "spiritual silk" comes from the skill of "spiritual mark". The fastest speed is to manually weave a piece of clothing in ten minutes. If anyone in the tribe has the strongest control over spirituality, it is definitely Huang Ying. She can control dozens of spiritual silk threads to interweave back and forth at the same time. Not only that, she also opened a workshop called "Weaving Heaven Pavilion" to produce more than 80% of the textiles of the whole tribe.

Along with the rise of the textile industry, there are also Chinese ancient costumes. Now if you go to the street casually, at least 70% of people wear Hanfu. Even many people's etiquette of meeting has changed from shaking hands to clasping fists. Handsome men become young men, and beautiful women become young ladies...

Some people say that this is a regression of civilization, and some people say that they are not wearing Hanfu but national sentiment.

"Minister, the area of ​​the tribe has expanded again. This is the new division map for you to review." The woman came in and handed a drawing to Si Zhennan.

Lin Shan sat next to him and took a look. It was a circular map with a diameter of 50 kilometers. The urban area in the middle was 10 square kilometers. The urban population was 100,000. The outer areas were farming areas, breeding areas, and mining areas. The population of these areas added up to 110,000, and the total population reached 210,000!

Si Zhennan took a look and said, "The area is not important, the output is the first. How is the new seedling cultivation plan going?"

"It is progressing steadily, but the results so far are not ideal." The woman replied.

"No hurry." Si Zhennan said seriously: "Tell them to take steady steps and don't rush for success. I will go to the new base for inspection in a few days."

"Yes." The woman nodded.

"Anything else?" Si Zhennan asked, and then said, "If you have nothing else, go out first."

After the woman walked out of the door and closed it, Lin Shan asked, "You called me here, do you have any clues?"

"Three more human grasses were found in the farmland No. 39 in the northern suburbs yesterday, which is the 257th in the past three years."

"Unlike before, we found this this time."

Si Zhennan took out a piece of rag from the table and gave it to Lin Shan.

The rag seemed to have been torn off forcefully. In the past, the victims who turned into human grass would not leave anything behind. Why was there an extra piece of rag this time...

"Has the identity of the victim been found out?" Lin Shan asked.

Si Zhennan took a sip of water from the water cup and said, "Two of them are siblings who make a living by herding. The other one also makes a living by herding, but he is alone. All his relatives died in the war between the human and cat tribes. He is the last one."

Lin Shan took the rag in his hand and looked at it carefully for a while, saying, "If I remember correctly, most of the previous victims made a living by herding, and a few were people from the city."

Si Zhennan nodded and replied, "That's right."

"Oh." Lin Shan sighed and said, "It's really troublesome. I hope it's different from what I thought."

"I'll go to Jiang Xi to ask." Lin Shan waved his hand, opened the door and walked out directly.

Seeing Lin Shan leave, Si Zhennan returned to his seat to continue reviewing documents. Now the tribe has a vast area and a population of 210,000. Correspondingly, the affairs to be handled every day are also piled up.

Lin Shan walked along the corridor to the north. The office at the northernmost end was the police department. The current director Jiang Xi was originally a senior military official. After the reform of the seven departments, he was elected as the first police department director to manage the security of the tribe.

He walked to the door.

"Knock, knock, knock."

Lin Shan knocked on the door lightly.

"Come in."

A voice came from the room.

Jiang Xi in the room was lying on a chair with his legs crossed, his hands behind his head, holding a pen in his mouth and looking at the ceiling.

"Just put it on the table."

Jiang Xi said casually without even looking at the person who came in.

Lin Shan walked to the table, sat on it, and asked, "Then what?"

"Then? I don't have anything to do here. Go and do your thing. Don't disturb me from...working."

"Hehe." Lin Shan chuckled.

"Huh?" Jiang Xi frowned and looked in the direction of Lin Shan. She wanted to see who was so blind.

When she saw the person coming, she hurriedly stood up and sat upright.

"Lin...Lin Xianfeng, long time no see. What's up with you?"

"It's still about the human flower. You guys are so slow. We haven't found the source in three years. I may have to go to the depths of the gray fog in a while. You can handle it by yourselves then." Lin Shan said indifferently.

Jiang Xi smiled awkwardly and said, "As the saying goes, there are all kinds of birds in a big forest. It's the same whether it's on Earth or in the gray fog world. Recently, the number of criminals has increased to the point where the police department can't hold them all. There are still more criminals still at large. We can't allocate police force to investigate the human flower incident."

"It's not like modern society where there are cameras everywhere. In addition, this is a world dominated by the extraordinary. It's normal to have such a situation. If there are not enough people, just recruit people." Lin Shan said.

After thinking for a while, he continued:

"I'm free now. I'll keep an eye on the human flower incident these days. Tell me if you have any clues."

Jiang Xi was delighted and quickly responded, "No problem. I'll notify you as soon as I have any clues."