Chapter 314

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Protagonist:

Chen Yi

With the end of final exams, the enviable summer vacation began. A total of roughly 45 days off — for local Jiangning students it was 45 days; for out-of-province students it was a bit shorter. Some classmates would spend a whole week on the round trip, so they simply stayed at school instead of going home.

Chen Yi's time at school was already negligible, and he cared even less about whether there was a break or not.

He first cooperated with Yin Senyong, studying the footage they had shot back, then took his notebook computer to the Saint Qiao Kingdom and asked several Holy Knights to help examine it.

It was finally confirmed: if the Vatican truly possessed an altar, it would certainly be in the Sistine Chapel.

This answer was already enough to satisfy Chen Yi. As for the Holy Knight Grindel's statement that the ritual must be presided over by a reputable High Priest, he consciously ignored it.

The most traditional Catholic Church considering it a feat not to judge people by their chins — wanting a reputable figure among them to preside over a ritual in the Holy See's most important chapel? Who knows how many banknotes and little boys would have to be sent to make that happen.

Of course, a true faith ritual is not that simple. Whether in the Saint Qiao Kingdom or the city-state temples of the West Continent, temples capable of holding rituals would often summon 100,000 or more faithful, pray unceasingly for two or three months, and conduct the ceremony with the aid of celestial phenomena — even if everything went smoothly, a major temple would struggle to produce two Holy Knights simultaneously; the legendary scene of three or more achieving sainthood together had not been seen in many, many years, while the probability of not a single success had occurred more than a few times.

In this process, the faith rituals differ but are equally strict; the faithful differ but are equally devout; the celestial phenomena differ but are equally wondrous. The three are truly indispensable.

Chen Yi was certain that the dignified Catholic Church certainly possessed its own set of tedious rites, but whether they could hold a magic world faith ritual — or rather, whether they knew a magic world faith ritual — the answer was most likely negative on both counts.

Aside from that there were many other tedious matters, but Chen Yi was not anxious. Becoming a Holy Knight was originally an extremely difficult thing. In any world it was so.

He already held an advantage over most people: the vague status of Chen Clan Heir, wealth counted in tens of billions, private armed forces in the thousands. Even if he could not make the Vatican submit immediately, as long as he thought of a good method, he could always make them listen.

During this period, on one hand Chen Yi supervised the Chen Family Department Store's "dilapidated housing renovation," and kept an eye on Mitsubishi Group's reconstruction of Jiangbei Wharf; on the other hand, he secretly sent the Samothrace Column to several legendary experts for testing, wanting to see what was so special about it.

The subway is simply a pixiu — only in, never out. Regardless of whether the Samothrace Column could function, once sent in it could never come back.

In Chen Yi's view, since even the Pope looked favorably on the Samothrace Column, it certainly wasn't a simple trinket; it might even let him glimpse a trace of magic from it.

Unfortunately, no matter what instrument, none could discover any anomaly on the Samothrace Column. Details found by some minor institutions were not even as many as what Chen Yi had gained using a Perception Scroll.

On the weekend, Ya Wen called and said: "I'm going to fly international routes."

Chen Yi was standing on the Binjiang Road construction site; he didn't know how to answer, merely choked by the flying dust into incessant coughing.

Ya Wen laughed softly and said: "These past two weeks have been more fulfilling than the past several years of my time. Don't worry; once I've digested it properly, I'll come find you again."

That last sentence was in the familiar, cloyingly sweet tone Chen Yi knew.

"Already decided?"

"Yes, continuing my sky journey — just no longer fishing for a rich husband. Too heavy." Ya Wen paused a moment, then added: "Next time, I'll bring Ning Xueyan back with me."

"Hm?"

"If your current girlfriend isn't willing to accompany you, at least the two of us still aren't we?" Ya Wen giggled and said: "See you next time."

"See you next time." Chen Yi suddenly felt he should set a time, so he said: "I start school in September."

"If you miss me, come find me." Ya Wen finished speaking and quickly hung up the phone.

Chen Yi froze for a moment, his heart a jumble of mixed feelings.

The clanging hammer sounds from above disturbed his thoughts. Under the Municipal Government's intervention, a complex and effective elevated bridge was built — small vehicles passing through the lower level, large vehicles able to go straight from the Jiang Storage Area to Jiangbei and Jiangnan Wharves. Especially the roads capable of passing container trucks and oil tankers — their construction grade far exceeded national standards.

And beneath the Jiangjing Service Area, including under Chen Yi's feet, a dense spiderweb of underground passages was spread, the deepest reaching 100 meters, divided into 10 layers in total. Most of them had only undergone preliminary design, yet estimated costs already reached 1.5 billion. When the Jiangning Urban Construction Design Bureau brought this nearly impossible-to-approve project proposal to Chen Yi, they received a standard signature and a big seal.

Now, the most important road — from Jiangjing Storage Area to Binjiang Center Warehouse, the underground warehouse rebuilt on the site of the demolished Chen Family Department Store — had already been completed.

Although it took just over a month, Chen Yi could already drive a container truck from underground directly to the parking lot or warehouse near the original Binjiang Subway Station. The renovated floors were only two above ground and two below, but the middle two floors both exceeded 20 meters in height, plus they occupied a bit of the flower bed road space — fitting the Thirty-Section Water-Land Divine Carriage was no problem at all.

After the Binjiang Center Warehouse was built, the surrounding major stores quite liked having a warehouse at their doorstep, calling one after another hoping to sign contracts. The previous merchants also wanted to contract it, but Chen Yi refused them all. After waiting like this for two weeks, Chen Yi took the lead in restarting resource supply to the Saint Qiao Kingdom and the West Continent.

Actually, in the previous month he had averaged at least one trip to both places per week, merely carrying very few supplies on his person.

After all, he needed the psychological burden of both sides. Just as Chen Yi could not endure the predicament of the subway disappearing, Timothy Great Mage and the gentlemen of the West Continent likewise could not endure the situation of the subway disappearing.

The "Water-Land Divine Carriage" had been prepared early. The Martial Arts Hall staff responsible for loading and unloading goods at Jiangjing Storage Area only needed to transport materials to Zone 1 of the Central Storage Area according to standard steps, then the Hunter Villagers of the West Continent would transfer them into the Water-Land Divine Carriage, and the Yun Village people would cooperate with Chen Yi, using heavy trucks to send the Water-Land Divine Carriage section by section onto the Magic Subway, finally arriving together at the West Continent and unloading it.

Compared to before, the current cargo transport volume had increased nearly a hundredfold. Steel rebar, cement and other construction materials once again became the focus of freight.

Every vehicle Chen Yi sent to the West Continent was not recovered — this also meant their demand for roads grew stronger and stronger. Relying solely on volcanic ash to produce primitive cement obviously could not keep up with the pace of development.

And the Water-Land Divine Carriage could load 40,000 tons of materials at most in one go, fully sufficient to supply the construction of a hundred-plus-kilometer expressway.

After restoratively completing two transports, the start of school was also about to arrive.

The Samothrace Column made a round trip and ultimately yielded no discovery; Chen Yi could only drag it onto the Magic Subway.

This time, when he walked onto the subway, the Samothrace Column emitted a faint, weak glow — so faint it was almost invisible.

"What a pity." Chen Yi knew the meaning within, but still threw the Samothrace Column into the subway doors that kept devouring all kinds of items.

84% Gene Completion, difficult but firmly became 85%.

The Light Curtain's coverage range had not the slightest change — apparently more resources would be needed.

Chen Yi sighed, thinking that future completion would only get harder and harder to raise.

He shook his head and walked toward the second subway car; behind him, Yun Shisan said quietly: "My Lord, it lit up."

This group of young people from the West Continent were all carefully selected; Chen Yi had repeatedly instructed them that after boarding the subway, unless they received an order, they dared not move a step — but speaking was still fine.

Chen Yi looked up; sure enough, the second subway carriage was lit.

"You all come in and wait."

Chen Yi looked around: the subway door on the left representing Paris, France, the subway door representing Solnhofen, Germany, the subway door representing New York, USA — all were normally lit. Beside the subway door on the right representing the West Continent, another door newly lit up.

He immediately stood at the front, pointed his finger at the glowing light door, and what he saw was a three-dimensional globe.

Needless to say, still only able to choose regions on Earth.

Chen Yi was slightly disappointed, thought for a moment, and chose Reynosa, a city on the Mexico-US border. Every year many people sneak across from there to Houston; even without the subway's help he would have gone to take a look.

However, after Chen Yi selected the place, he did not go immediately. There were still over ten thousand tons of materials on the subway awaiting transport — this was also the largest batch of supplies since returning from the US; fuel alone exceeded 2,000 tons.

"Prepare for loading and unloading." The Yun Village people immediately busied themselves skillfully; they climbed onto the heavy trucks one after another, chaining steel cables onto the Water-Land Divine Carriage.

If this thing were made with modern technology, it might not necessarily be so outstanding. Extreme lightness and extreme quality are relatively hard to achieve simultaneously, and few people research the stress problems of train cars of such large volume. If Chen Yi had to buy it himself, what he'd get would mostly be normal train cars weighing ten or twenty tons.

Thirty seconds later, Chen Yi gently pushed open the Light Gate representing the West Continent.

He cleared space on the left side so that the heavy automobile could pass through.

Behind seven heavy vehicles was the ultra-heavy truck transformed by the small lizard, pulling ten carriages in one breath, so exhausted it couldn't even shout a slogan.

When Chen Yi's cultivation effect waned, the small lizard continued to improve, now at Pocket Skill Level 6; with its body condition claiming to be quasi-dragon, dragging over a thousand tons of supplies at once could only be called inching along, at least Chen Yi couldn't move three carriages.

"You're truly as strong as an ox." Chen Yi praised the "hardworking and uncomplaining" small lizard.

"I can eat as much metal as ten cows." The small lizard huffed and puffed, revealing two door-sized front teeth on its face.

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