The next shot switches to a scene where Masha is meditating with a serious expression, staring at a wooden target placed not far in front of him. There is a light spot on the target with smoke rising from it. The next moment, the wood bursts into flames.
Then there is the interview shot: "This is not my ability. My ability does not have the function of igniting fire. I just manipulate the nearby spiritual energy to form a laser to achieve this effect."
Narrator: "Every day, Masha would light hundreds of wooden targets like this to train his abilities."
Masha: "Those of us who have awakened are equivalent to cultivators in the foundation-building stage. My disciples who have not awakened are all in the Qi-refining stage. Awakening is just a beginning. We still need to practice to make further progress."
……
This program uses the narrative rhythm of the "Approaching Science" series to tell the lives of Masha and others.
Although it is relatively plain, each set of shots actually seems to contain a lot of information.
With the help of various marketing accounts, the program immediately topped the on-demand charts of various smart TV terminals, and the number of online views quickly exceeded 100 million, and is rushing towards 1 billion at an astonishing speed.
People on social networks are enthusiastically analyzing every shot and interpreting the information in it.
There were also people arguing heatedly about who was the legal wife between Xiao Shi and Qian Xun.
Of course, it is also inevitable to seize some so-called "suspicious points" and accuse people of video fraud.
In short, this program immediately sparked a lot of discussion.
Just because Xiao Shi and Qianxun in the show could only light up paper targets, a bunch of parents suddenly gave their children a piece of paper and made them stare at it, as if as long as the paper was lit up, their children would become SSS grade.
The unprecedented attention has made everyone start to care about one thing: Now that we have figured out a way to cultivate immortality, when will we open schools to allow our children to learn how to cultivate immortality in a serious manner?
All sorts of rumors spread all of a sudden, some saying "rich people's children have already started to learn from Master Ma", some saying "only good-looking girls can enter Master Ma's school", and some even saying "the key is actually Master Ma's **, which is equivalent to passing on skills".
This is truly national attention.
The day after the incident attracted nationwide attention, when Masha and Secretary Zhuo were on the phone, Secretary Zhuo joked: "I think you should just take this opportunity to debut and record an album or something. Soon, a large number of people will believe that your album contains a secret manual on cultivating immortals and will flock to buy the electronic version. Maybe your sales will surpass Jay Chou in an instant."
"Forget it. I'm also a fan of Jay Chou. I don't want to surpass my idol. I mean, you guys are behind this show, right?"
"Of course. There are more and more awakenings in Youzhou, which is actually quite troublesome. Now create this hot spot to attract attention. Maybe those little brats who suddenly awaken will want to practice with you and make further progress..."
"Then take the initiative to cooperate with the office." said Masha.
"Yes, that's right. I got some gossip that someone suggested sending some difficult troublemakers over there. There are mountains all around 802, so at least there won't be any civilian casualties if a fight breaks out."
Masha frowned: "No, this is a research institute, not a nursery. If I am being messed around by those troublemakers all day, how can I still do research?"
"Don't worry, it's just someone making a suggestion, the higher-ups probably won't allow it. However, once the school is established, it may not be certain, someone will try every means to insert troublemakers on our side."
Masha sighed: "We'll talk about it when the time comes."
"Yes. We are currently analyzing the ingredients in Ma Yinglong's prescription. After all the ingredients are extracted and classified, they will be sent to you. It will probably take about a week."
"No problem. How's the high-speed rail project going?"
"We are still studying the geological data. This matter will take at least half a year or a year to complete. Construction can only start after the geological data is thoroughly studied and the design is completed. In the near future, you should rely more on the airport and the highway."
Masha shrugged. "Okay. Wang Jian said that the road will be completed in another week. At least five-ton trucks can be used to transport supplies by then. But it seems that if it rains, the road may be blocked due to landslides."
"Master Ma, can't you control the weather?" Secretary Zhuo teased.
Masha shrugged: "Maybe in the future."
In fact, Masha was not sure either, but he did not use an affirmative tone, so it was not considered bragging.
"I'll hang up if there's nothing else," Masha said. "I'm still busy with my research."
The main purpose is to further test the effectiveness of Mayinglong.
Secretary Zhuo said, "Wait a minute, the publicity department has set up several Douyin and Kuaishou accounts. Please cooperate and shoot some content."
"I am a otaku. I am naturally incompatible with TikTok and Kuaishou."
"But they have a large user base. The awakeners are more likely to be users of TikTok or Kuaishou than users of Bilibili, so please. Of course, Bilibili also needs to promote it. The publicity department is formulating a plan to gradually turn you into Dumbledore and the academy you are about to establish into Hogwarts."
Masha scratched the back of his head and jokingly said, "You want to turn me into Dumbledore through TikTok and Kuaishou? I think that's a bit difficult, right?"
He imagined Dumbledore saying "吾里GIAOGIAO" and found it too punk and unacceptable.
"Don't worry about it. Leave it to the professionals. We each have our own specialties, and only by cooperating with each other can we achieve great things, 803."
Secretary Zhuo finally revealed Masha's code name.
Masha sighed: "Okay, I'll cooperate."
"Finally, there's something that will make you happy," said Secretary Zhuo.
"What happy thing?"
"The Japanese side has proposed to send a few girls to your place. I took a look and they seem to be quite famous little stars. One is called Saito Chidori and the other is Hashimoto China..."
"Oh, okay, send it over here!"
"But they are both over 20 years old, which means they are old women. We plan to have them join the news center and be responsible for shooting propaganda videos for Japan."
Masha smacked his lips: "Why do I feel like you are the head of this organization?"
"How is that possible? I am recommending the best way to deal with it. You 803 are the leader of our 800 agency."
Masha scratched his head and thought, forget it, I am still the boss of Shadow and the boss of the vigilante anyway, it doesn’t matter if the boss of the 800 agency is sidelined, it might as well be used as a decoy.
——Anyway, by the time my harem of superpowers is established, my words will carry weight, and I will still have the final say in this 800-unit agency.
——Now, I will let Secretary Zhuo be the shadow leader for a while.
Just as Masha was about to speak, Secretary Zhuo said, "By the way, that Fu Runner has already arrived in the town near 800 with the title of Chief of the Land Management Section of the 802 Agency. As soon as he arrived, he desperately applied for a budget to buy real estate in the town."
Masha: "Okay, just let him handle these, you won't lose money."
"Then I'll ask the finance department to approve the budget." Secretary Zhuo said, "Nothing else. I wish you a smooth day of research and cultivation."
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Chapter 623: The National Dad
For the next week, Mashadu became obsessed with practicing with Mayinglong.
Don’t worry about whether it helps or not, just practice it first.
Masha left all other matters to Secretary Zhuo, Wang Jian and others.
This is in line with Masha's idea for his own academy: inner disciples only need to practice, while outer disciples are responsible for logistics.
Now looking down from the edge of the floating island, the nearby hills are already filled with simple houses, and you can also see air defense radars and air defense missile vehicles covered with camouflage nets.
The number of security forces has increased significantly. From the island, one can see that a quarantine zone has been quickly cut out of the woods in the distance, and then a watchtower has been built.
There should be a fence made of barbed wire, but it cannot be seen from the island.
Wang Jian reported that there were already more than 30,000 troops on the island, mainly engineers.
Masha was too lazy to interfere in the command and dispatch of so many troops, and left it all to Wang Jian and the others. Anyway, these people would not go to the island, so anything was fine.
This island is his, Masha's "direct territory". Once on the island, he is in charge of it, and no one can interfere.
A week passed peacefully, during which time Director Hu from the News Center brought two Japanese idols over and shot a promotional video targeting Japan.
Apart from this, no one came to the island to disturb the Masha family's practice.
Masha discovered that after using Mayinglong to speed up his practice, it began to produce results. He lit up wooden targets faster and faster, and the girls burned paper targets even faster - maybe it was because the girls were at a low level so they upgraded quickly?
In addition to Mayinglong, other Chinese medicines also began to react with spiritual energy.
Masha observed the reactions of various Chinese medicines to spiritual energy and summed up a rule, that is, those Chinese patent medicines with direct and obvious effects have better compatibility with spiritual energy.
For example, Jiangzhong brand's stomach-strengthening and digestion-promoting tablets. The Masha family always chews a few tablets of this medicine before going to a buffet. The effect is obvious and can even make the buffet owner cry.
Now that this thing has reacted with spiritual energy, not only will eating it increase the efficiency of guiding spiritual energy, it can also doubly effectively clear the intestines.
Another example is Yinqiao tablets. Ma Sha often takes this to treat fever, and the effect is significant.
Now this thing has been placed in the spiritual environment for a long time, and it has reacted with the spiritual energy. When people eat it, they will feel slightly cold, and then there will be wind surrounding them.
Yes, if you eat this, there will be wind around you.
Masha saw in the instructions for Yinqiao tablets that it has the effects of dispelling wind and relieving exterior symptoms, clearing away heat and detoxifying, and concluded that this thing might be beneficial to the interaction between the human soul and the wood-attributed spiritual energy.
Masha even suspected that the human soul was actually absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy, and taking medicine would speed up the absorption, but he had no evidence to support this conjecture.
But no matter what, since the medicine seems to be effective, just take it first.
This is the way mortals cultivate immortality. If your spiritual roots are not enough, you can make up for it with medicines. If your spiritual roots are sufficient, you can rely on medicines to reach a higher level.
As for those Chinese patent medicines that have not yet reacted with spiritual energy, or whose reaction with spiritual energy is very weak, they basically have one characteristic: they have a wide range of effects.
The instructions for these medicines often list a lot of indications, and it seems like they can cure anything.
Masha speculated that it was because the ingredients of these medicines were too mixed, resulting in a low affinity with spiritual energy.
He further speculated that modern Chinese patent medicines, because they have been refined and purified by modern science, may be more powerful than what ancient superpowers made from herbs.
In order to verify Masha's hypothesis, he asked Chihiro to fly dozens of kilometers to a Chinese medicine store in a nearby town and bought a lot of Chinese medicinal materials, and placed them on the island to see the effect.
The hypothesis can be verified by comparing the aura affinity between Chinese medicinal materials and Chinese patent medicines.
If Masha's conjecture is correct, using Chinese patent medicine is equivalent to using modern science to increase the efficiency of cultivating immortals.
That day, Masha was immersed in cultivating immortals when Wang Jian suddenly called her.
"Mr. Fu from the marketing department... What kind of name is that... Mr. Fu wants to see you."
"He's coming here? Let's get him to the island, using the new sling we pulled."
This sling was specially built to facilitate the transportation of small items of goods between the island and nearby hills, and of course it can also be used to transport people.
The disadvantage is that you will experience strong winds when going to the island, which is quite thrilling. People with little courage may be scared to the point of shitting in their pants.
Wang Jian: "Is this really okay? If something happens to the sling, it will affect our work progress. Mr. Fu is the head of our marketing department after all."
The strong wind that the sling has to withstand in the middle is indeed a bit too strong. From time to time, one or two pieces of goods transported by the sling will be blown away. It is indeed a bit dangerous when people are transported by the sling.
In addition, although this floating island is now stationary relative to the ground, no one knows whether it will suddenly "move with the wind". If the island really starts to move, the suspension cable may be torn off.
That's why Wang Jian has such worries.
"I'll send a flying psychic to take him up."
Wang Jian suggested so.
Masha readily agreed: "Okay, send someone to bring him up."
A moment later, Masha saw Fu Paotui, who was carried up on the island by the young super-powered person sent by Wang Jian.
"Mr. Fu, how are you?" Masha stretched out his hand and greeted with a smile.
Fu Paotui smiled and said, "Long time no see, Master Ma. You are really amazing. You even canceled Mr. Ma Yu's dinner party without giving him a reason and even without calling him."
Masha slapped his head and then remembered that he and Ma Yu had an appointment to have dinner together.
This is about stealing King Arthur's sword and building a floating island, but Marsa completely forgot about this and stood up the national dad.
Fu Pao Tui looked at Ma Sha's expression and said with a smile, "But your forgetting this matter has created a lot of opportunities for me. Mr. Ma Yu's secretary looked for people everywhere to ask about the situation, and finally came to me. I told him that Master Ma, you must be obsessed with spiritual energy research and forgot the agreement.
"After all, you don't have a secretary to manage your schedule. Mr. Ma Yu accepted my statement.
"The next step is the main event."
Fu Paotui paused, and after keeping everyone in suspense, he said, "Mr. Ma Yu wants to buy a hilltop near here that can see the floating island and build his private villa. Of course, since our country's laws do not allow the construction of villas now, this should be built in the name of a 'holiday villa.'"
Masha shrugged: "Then let him build it. You don't need to come to me specifically about this kind of thing."
"I know, but the problem is that there are too many people who want to buy the hill. The location of 802 has been leaked from somewhere, and now the land management department in the area is annoyed to death, with hundreds of calls every day from people wanting to buy the hill."
Masha looked at Fu running errands: "Did you come here specifically to complain to me about this?"
"Why should I complain? The fact that many people come to ask us shows that we have great potential. No one would complain if they didn't come to ask me. I came to you to remind you that the scope of our base is a bit too small. Now the land management department of the jurisdiction is preparing to sell some hills within the sight of the floating island.
“I think that the scope of the 800 Agency’s headquarters should be expanded to all surrounding areas that can directly see the floating island, and these areas should be completely monitored.
"Even if we don't build anything on these barren hills, we can't just sell these lands. At least we shouldn't sell them easily."
