Chapter 487 NW Foundation (7200, First Update)

The changes in the world situation may seem ethereal and distant to ordinary people, difficult to understand and touch. To intuitively experience the changes, perhaps we have to wait until several years later, when everything has settled, before we can perceive them.

But for the high-level officials of various forces who know most of the intelligence, the upcoming changes are extremely rapid, clear, and obvious.

Since the information about Qingqiu Star was made public, and all mankind knew that Su Zhou had advanced to Earth Immortal, basically all official forces have changed many of their decisions and plans accordingly. They always cautiously observe this powerful young man, guessing what his intentions are.

What if Su Zhou really wanted to become the Emperor of Earth?

Various strategic weapons, high-tech weapons, weapons that combine technology and Taoism, and divine weapons hidden as trump cards... These forces can certainly pose a threat to Su Zhou, but it is best not to go this far. That would be an internal war between humans, a meaningless sacrifice, and whether it would be useful is another question.

Fortunately, Su Zhou has never expressed such an attitude. He lives as usual, and if other forces don't invite him, he won't even leave the southeastern part of World Island. This mode of operation undoubtedly reassures many high-level officials.

But now.

This young immortal, who has always only operated around Southeast Asia, has recently confirmed a diplomatic plan to travel around the world.

A continuous visit to all important countries in the world.

This is a change that is enough to be alarming.

It looks like just an ordinary diplomatic visit. In fact, Su Zhou has almost set foot in every corner of the world in his activities and actions, and there is nothing unusual.

But the meaning represented by this action is very different.

In the past, Su Zhou traveled around the world as a judge of competitions, a leader in exploring relics, a food connoisseur, and a helper invited by various countries' officials to deal with major crises... But this time it is different.

He is coming as an immortal, the Minister of the New World Exploration Department of Zheng Country, and a future Holy Seat.

American Federation, Coast Mountains.

Located under the mountain, 1.8 kilometers underground, in a semi-natural underground cavity with a diameter of more than 2.2 kilometers, there is a small underground town.

NW Foundation Headquarters.

The NW Foundation was founded 129 years ago. Its initial origin was the 'American Geological Hazard Emergency Response Department' of the American Federation. It was a department where the authorities gathered the power of transcendents to predict and respond to natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, mountain movements, floods, and blizzards. It was under the jurisdiction of the Federal Ministry of Internal Affairs.

But after that, a series of high-intensity earthquakes struck the West Coast, and the coastal states suffered heavy losses. The federal government never actively provided disaster relief. Therefore, most of the transcendent inheritance families in the western region of the American Federation spontaneously contributed a part of their power to dredge the earth veins and alleviate the intensity of the earthquakes.

This large-scale joint action also allowed Scott Gachetti, the third Minister of the Emergency Response Department, to obtain a large amount of contacts and resources, and after retiring, he established the prototype of the 'NW Foundation', dedicated to creating a better new world through various methods.

The initial NW Foundation was an elite club that only accepted direct members of traditional transcendent families in the western region. But as time went by, the NW Foundation gradually became the top transcendent organization in the American Federation. All independent or inherited transcendents were proud to join the foundation.

Now, the NW Foundation has become the most powerful and representative transcendent organization in the entire American Federation, with the support of many large financial groups, and there are also supporters in both houses of Congress. Even the current Chairman of the Foundation's Board of Directors, Noelmu Mueller, the chairman of the Senate's Special Committee for Recovery Plans, has been presiding over relevant response plans before the recovery of spiritual energy for the past twenty years, which is enough to show the weight of the NW Foundation within the federal government.

And now, at the West Coast headquarters of the NW Foundation, a simple but authoritative four-person meeting is underway.

Targeting the young man who is about to visit from across the ocean.

"What exactly is his purpose?"

An old man with old-fashioned wooden-framed glasses and a rather refined face sat at the head of the conference table. He was rubbing his temples at this time, asking about the situation with a helpless expression.

And beside him was a ruddy-faced, spirited old man wearing a black leather coat, who was quite in line with the traditional image of a Western man in the American Federation. He was drinking wine, and the wine bottles beside him had filled two boxes. The hand of this old man holding the wine was shaking a little. For a transcendent, this proved that his heart was very uneasy, and the randomly placed wine bottles further proved this point.

The Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the NW Foundation, Noelmu Mueller and George Charlemagne, rarely gathered in one place at the same time, plus the strongest on the West Coast, Iwatani Estner, and the master craftsman Old Elderman. This basically represents the entire high-level of the NW Foundation.

They are the real decision-makers on the American Federation's agenda related to transcendents.

Noelmu's question was directed to Old Elderman, and his tone was a bit worried: "According to our intelligence, the high-level officials of Zheng Country have not arbitrarily instructed him with authority. This visit is definitely his own intention, and we still don't know the reason for his actions."

The person represented by 'he' is self-evident, naturally Su Zhou. Before Old Elderman opened his mouth to answer, Vice-Chairman George put down the wine bottle in his hand. He clicked his tongue and sneered: "Old fool, do you still need to ask this kind of question? It's very clear in the diplomatic documents."

"Su Zhou, is coming 'for the future of mankind'... Oh, what, that's what it says in the documents, don't you believe it?"

Noelmu and George didn't have any conflicts. In fact, their cooperation for decades has been very harmonious. This is actually their normal way of communication.

A little bit of gunpowder can promote thinking.

"Su Zhou's change of action pattern is obviously unrelated to Zheng Country. According to our intelligence network in Zheng Country, more than half a month ago, they launched a large-scale conference covering all fields across the country, and then the entire national policy suddenly turned, from 'maintaining civil stability' to 'actively promoting civil cultivator activities'."

Because he knew the habits of these two people, Old Elderman didn't bother to care about these things. This old man, who is considered outstanding in the world's skills, and also the leader of the Foundation's related confidential parts, reported the intelligence methodically: "And not long after this shift, Su Zhou, who had been in seclusion for a month, came out again... And the group 'Zhuzhao Group', which was formed by his friends and centered on him, also began to cooperate with official actions, planning a large number of competitive activities to promote civilian activity."

"My grandson, Crosaire, is one of the many hidden investors in this group. I have reliable channels to guarantee that it was Su Zhou's actions that prompted the overall policy shift in Zheng Country, and this visit of his may also be for this purpose."

"He was originally silent, and began to act after achieving hegemony. I didn't expect him to look a little frivolous on the surface, but his mind is actually very steady."

Noelmu fell into contemplation. The Chairman took off his wooden-framed glasses, which were just decorations, but he had gotten used to them after wearing them for decades. He murmured to himself with a solemn tone: "The worst situation we deduced at the beginning was that a powerful transcendent far surpassing other cultivators appeared on Earth. He is extremely powerful and eager to return to the age of gods, thousands of years ago, when power was respected."

"This strong man has ambition and determination, does not support, does not agree with, and does not miss today's human society... Now, most of the conditions are met. Do you think Su Zhou is such a strong man?"

"I don't think so. At least, based on the few times I've worked with Su Zhou, he doesn't seem like that kind of person."

This time it was Estner of the NW Foundation's Special Operations Department who spoke. This middle-aged man with a solemn expression and a neat beard had performed several tasks with Su Zhou, and he calmly analyzed: "Su Zhou has family, friendship, and a certain dependence on our current human society. His humanity is very full, and there are no signs of any transcendent disease."

"I think this visit doesn't need too much worry. This time Su Zhou is here, perhaps only as an envoy of Zheng Country, to cooperate with us and open up many public sea secret realm passages located in the Pacific Ocean."

"That's easy to say, but what if he represents the United International and comes to 'coordinate' the contradictions between the Federation and the South American states?" George suddenly opened his mouth, and his question made Estner stunned for a moment before slowly answering.

"This belongs to the internal affairs of the Federation."

And the Vice-Chairman sneered again, he took a sip of wine: "This reason is not easy to use, we must try to think in the worst way — the Federation's actions against South America are imminent, and we cannot allow any accidents."

George and Estner continued to talk, while Noelmu fell into contemplation.

He is the most powerful cultivator in the United States, holding the inheritance of the former saint who crossed the ocean. To be honest, sometimes he really can't wait to get off the hot seat of the Chairman of the NW Foundation as soon as possible, practice quietly, and reach the peak of leadership as soon as possible, instead of being disturbed by such annoying matters all day long.

The old man glanced at the holographic display screens around the conference room. The images and documents inside were all about Su Zhou. This person's experience and record were enough to make everyone stunned. Especially considering his performance in dealing with the Talin people and the Cro people some time ago, and his record on Qingqiu Star, the American Federation may not be able to cope with it even if it tries its best.

In the past, in the Beast God Realm, during the multinational joint operation, the American Federation secretly obtained a portion of Su Zhou's blood and residual tissue that flowed out.

Under the microscope, professional researchers at the NW Foundation discovered that it was not an ordinary human being, and not even a living structure that ordinary divine beasts could possess.

Su Zhou's tissue cell structure — if those ring-shaped, long-shaped, triangular, and even various strange geometric organic machines are cells — is very strange, and the organelles in the cells are extremely complex, but there is an unusual perfect harmony.

Because it was separated from the main body, lost the support of special spiritual power and soul fluctuations, Su Zhou's cell tissue completely lost its activity, did not react to any external stimuli, and could not carry out relevant follow-up research. But according to the known intelligence analysis, the NW Foundation can confirm that if necessary, Su Zhou's cells can immediately recover under certain conditions and undergo rapid division.

And because Su Zhou's cells can be deformed at will, and implement various functional and structural transformations, his regeneration ability and efficiency are more than ten times that of ordinary regenerators. If these cells are activated, they can even spontaneously carry out independent survival in single-cell and multi-cell tissue structures, just like flagellates and sponges. Su Zhou's cells have a certain strange immortality.

And the energy source of these cells is almost all-encompassing. It can use almost all organic matter as a nutrient source, and can even capture some bacteria, disassemble the cell structure inside, and self-modify it, performing anaerobic and heat-resistant metamorphosis, so as to adapt to extreme living environments like hydrothermal vents.

Unless it is a cosmic ray attack of the level of a gamma-ray burst, natural radiation and even radiation residues after a nuclear explosion cannot affect the activity of Su Zhou's cells.

This is just Su Zhou's physical body, which is already extremely棘手 (jíshǒu - troublesome, thorny). How can such a creature be killed? Even if a large-yield nuclear bomb is used to bombard it, as long as it is not at the core explosion point, the nuclear radiation will become the energy source of his body. But everyone knows how small the core explosion point of a nuclear bomb is.

Even if phase transition missiles, gravitational wave weapons, and even various artifacts inherited from the age of gods are used, how effective will they be for a true contemporary immortal god?

"In short, Su Zhou cannot be regarded as an ordinary human being, an individual."

At the end of the discussion, Old Elderman emphasized: "Treat him as a humanoid antimatter bomb, a humanoid national force."

"Then what is the purpose of this national force?" George asked, "Any country has demands, but we simply cannot understand Su Zhou's demands. This is the biggest difficulty."

"He claims it is for the future of mankind. If we understand it literally, he may hope to unite and cooperate with the world to deal with some kind of disaster."

Old Elderman shook his head: "The official Zheng Country rarely gives such vague diplomatic announcements. We have reason to believe that this announcement was written by Su Zhou himself. And according to the various changes on the Tifun Realm, Beast God Realm, and Qingqiu Star, we have reason to believe that Su Zhou, or the official Zheng Country, has discovered some kind of dangerous seal left over from the age of gods."

Saying so, this master craftsman even made a joke: "Three consecutive times have been related to powerful gods of the 'Creator' level. I don't know if this time is the same. If so, the 'legacy' left by the gods who left in the past is really enough."

"As for Su Zhou himself, I think, maybe it's just because it's interesting?"

"If they want to cooperate, then we will cooperate. Regarding the Earth, the NW Foundation and the Federation are willing to contribute." Finally, Chairman Noelmu made a final conclusion. He put his glasses back on, his eyes solemn: "Su Zhou should be a person who can communicate rationally. Prepare for prevention measures and reception."

The meeting is over.

Old Elderman packed up his files and things and returned to his office at the Foundation's headquarters.

He is not going home, because in another half a year, if there are no accidents, his grandson, Crosaire Elderman, will be able to advance to the Commander level. At that time, Old Elderman will be able to pass on the position of head of the family, as well as the contacts and positions within the NW Foundation, to the other party. So now, he needs to finalize and summarize his related work for the future of the family. This is a big project.

What Old Elderman didn't notice was that a unique hair that did not belong to him but had the same bloodline origin and was extremely difficult to be detected by various detection spells was mixed into his neatly arranged hair.

A 'snake hair'.

"...The general situation of the meeting is like this, Lord."

【Very good, Crosaire, you did a good job.】

Elderman Family Castle, Crosaire closed his eyes tightly, communicating with Su Zhou on the other side of the world.

Through the broadcast of the snake hair, Crosaire knew all the contents of the NW Foundation's confidential meeting — and then Su Zhou also knew the attitude of the Foundation and even the American Federation towards him.

Theoretically, even if Crosaire and Old Elderman are direct relatives, his snake hair will be considered a part of Old Elderman himself, and it is basically impossible to be detected. But how can the NW Foundation's detection agencies be child's play? It is normal for Crosaire to be discovered before he reaches the Commander level.

But unfortunately, the secret method of the Holy Serpent Litany is good at confusing the judgment mechanism of various detection spells. Just like last time in the Beast God Realm, if it wasn't for Su Zhou, the top Chaos Covenant Keeper holding Yala's immortal blood, who detected the Litany's spies with his own positional suppression, the official authorities of various countries would not have discovered that there were still members of mysterious organizations mixed in their teams. This time is no exception.

In terms of espionage and lurking ability alone, the Litany is first-class.

After ending the communication with Crosaire, promising to give the other party a part of the various 'dragon' blood he collected, Su Zhou couldn't help but laugh: "I guessed part of my purpose, but it's still limited to the Earth."

"It seems that this visit will not be too smooth, but that's fine. If it is too smooth here in the American Federation, it will not be smooth in other places — it's better to show strength there than to show it in some small places."

"It's time to prepare to set off."

Generally speaking, diplomats represent the will of the Thirty-Six Saints Collective Conference, but people are generally sent by the Saint of Rituals.

This visit, however, was mainly led by Su Zhou, with diplomats from the Saint of Rituals faction as assistants.

Diplomacy between the four permanent members of the Security Council is always eye-catching, and as the strongest person on Earth, Su Zhou's official visit is also big news for some people within Zheng Country who are not clear about the contents of the confidential meeting.

In response, some censored CCTV stations conducted a special interview with Su Zhou before his departure.

【Professor Su, this is the first time you have gone abroad for a diplomatic visit in an official capacity. May I ask what is the purpose of your trip?】

"Of course, it is for world peace." Su Zhou's answer was quite relaxed.

Most people think this is a joke. After all, the youth's external image is indeed not a serious guy — although he is powerful but exceptionally approachable, and although he always says he wants to enforce the law across the internet cable, he basically only attacks heavily online. This is the Zheng Country public's perception of Su Zhou, a refined, amiable, and reliable new era good youth.

After all, a hegemon-level Earth Immortal has nothing to do, so he cruises in near-Earth orbit at hypersonic speed, catching criminals and doing good deeds everywhere... This kind of thing would not even happen in the era of the Central Divine Court.

Only Su Zhou's relatives, friends, and acquaintances, as well as some haters, such as Shao Qiming and Jin Qiong, knew that Su Zhou in the interview was not joking.

Su Zhou was very serious when he said this. Although his tone was relaxed, there was no element of playfulness. This made them a little worried, because Su Zhou's political level is indeed not high. No one knows whether the peace he speaks of is real peace... But since the Thirty-Six Saints have agreed to let him out, maybe this is also a signal?

In short, within Zheng Country, whether it is a Nidao cultivator or an ordinary normal cultivator, they vaguely feel the unease within the entire world. Whether it is the disputes that occur next to the spiritual energy source points on the borders of various countries, or the fear and vigilance against the existence of aliens, they are making the order quite turbulent.

To fight against external threats, one must first secure the home front. This is the logic of some people. In the comments on various online forums and news platforms, there are online politicians analyzing: Since there are already aliens, then the Earth must naturally need peaceful cooperation. This time, Su Zhou may be a signal.

Thinking this way, the logic becomes much smoother. Everyone as online keyboard politicians said, 'I understand!' 'So that's it!' 'A big game of chess!' and so on.

They did guess a part of it correctly.

On the other hand, inside the American Federation.

Although the American Federation officials have been working hard to arrange a series of reception plans, and the two Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the NW Foundation are waiting at the West Coast headquarters for Su Zhou to arrive for a federal visit, it has caused widespread confusion and unease among the people.

The energy war that occurred in 1972, before the United International appeared, the four major forces on Earth launched an extremely intense proxy war in the central region of World Island. Although it was said to be a proxy, in the later stages of the war, elite troops from various countries, and even transcendent troops, were not uncommon on the battlefield. A series of chain reactions almost destroyed the world and caused global unrest.

The American Federation, which originally wanted to take advantage of its isolated overseas geographical advantage to fish in troubled waters, had its powder keg in its backyard, South America, ignited — the contradictions between North and South America have existed since the American Federation unified the Americas. During the energy war, a series of large-scale armed anti-federal actions in South America suddenly made the American Federation, which intended to sit back and enjoy the benefits, unable to take care of itself. In the end, it almost lost substantive control over the South American states because of opening up multiple battlefields and making errors in decision-making.

Since then, there has been no substantive mutual contact in their respective fields, until after the recovery of spiritual energy, a series of large-scale crises prompted various forces to cooperate.

Undoubtedly, this was an unplanned action, causing panic in the relevant departments of the American Federation — fortunately, they had studied Su Zhou's personality and were quite prepared for this kind of sudden situation. But Su Zhou's speed still caused concern in the relevant departments of the Federation, because this sudden attack proved that Su Zhou has the ability to accelerate to a hundred times the speed of sound in a few seconds and easily maintain long-term cruising.

This speed has completely exceeded the full strength he showed when fighting against the Talin people and the Cro people, and Su Zhou obviously still has spare strength. It is difficult to imagine how fast his full speed would be in a vacuum environment.

"At this speed, it would only take him less than twenty minutes to circle the Earth."

"If he flies at this speed in the atmosphere, it would only take half an hour to run back and forth between several cities in the Federation a few times, and the West Coast would be completely beaten back to the Stone Age... Within a day, human society would collapse except for transcendents."

"Inconceivable! He only used his commonly used wind-based supernatural power. If he explodes with all his strength, I am afraid that it would be easy for him to reach the fourth cosmic velocity in a vacuum in a few seconds!"

The fourth cosmic velocity refers to the initial velocity required for objects launched from Earth to escape the gravitational bondage of the Milky Way and fly out of the Milky Way, which is more than 110 kilometers per second. This is basic for spacecraft, but spacecraft need a long time, or even more than half a month of continuous acceleration, plus a series of transcendent magic arrays to assist in order to accelerate to this speed. Su Zhou's acceleration will not exceed five seconds at most, which means that if ordinary transcendents want to guard against Su Zhou's full-strength surprise attack, they must maintain a distance of more than sixty kilometers from him.

Sixty to one hundred kilometers, which is actually equivalent to dancing close to each other for a hegemon-level cultivator. If they want to confront each other, they probably need to maintain a distance of more than two thousand five hundred kilometers to be considered safe.

"Can you intercept him?"

Noelmu stared solemnly at the light spot on the screen that was crossing the map at almost flying speed. Estner, who could transform into light in a short time using some kind of holy light secret method, twitched his beard. He stared at the cyan-purple humanoid figure speeding in outer space orbit and had to sigh: "No... my speed can be faster than him in a short time, but not to mention that I will fall apart if he hits me, my reaction speed simply cannot support combat above thirty times the speed of sound."

Speaking of this, this strong man of the American Federation couldn't help but shake his head with some disappointment.

"Sorry, I can't see his actions at all."

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