Zhang Heng returned to school, took a shower, and went to a nearby barber shop to get his hair cut. After that, he found that he had received a WeChat friend request.
Zhang Heng initially thought it would be a waitress or a badger game, and he intended to reject it directly. However, after seeing the name, he changed his mind and accepted it.
It didn't take long for the other party to greet him.
[Hi.]
Zhang Heng politely replied with a hi.
[I hope I didn't disturb you. I calculated the time, and it should be afternoon on your side. Last time, you said you would come around July, and now it's almost time. Do you have a specific itinerary?]
The person who added Zhang Heng's WeChat was none other than Song Jia, the female student translator he found on the travel website. The latter had reached a preliminary employment agreement with him, and she would be responsible for providing translation and guidance for Zhang Heng's trip to Greenland.
Zhang Heng typed.
[Do you use WeChat too? Well, I'm already preparing to leave. The itinerary can't be completely determined for the time being, but I plan to hire you for a month. I'll decide where to go during this month. Even if it's not a month, I'll still pay you.]
[Is that so?]
Song Jia replied with three words. Zhang Heng could feel that Song Jia was hesitating. Although Greenland was her hometown, she was just a female student after all. She had to spend a month with another man, and she didn't even know his itinerary. Naturally, she couldn't help but feel hesitant.
Zhang Heng did not rush her, quietly waiting for her to make a decision.
After about half a minute, Song Jia's mental struggle finally came to an end. It was difficult for her to refuse Zhang Heng's generous offer, so she replied.
[My previous employer recommended WeChat to me. I also want to communicate with my employer more conveniently. It's also a window to learn about your country. If it's not convenient for you to tell me the specific itinerary, can you tell me the general purpose of coming to Greenland? Is it a business trip, a personal trip, or buying a property or something?]
[Scientific expedition.]
Zhang Heng replied.
[Oh, you're here to study glaciers, right? How many people are in the team? There are also some research teams from other countries here. Do you want me to introduce you to them?]
Song Jia seemed to have misunderstood something. After hearing Zhang Heng's answer, she not only breathed a sigh of relief, but also became enthusiastic. After all, scientific researchers were a relatively high-quality group, and it would be safer and less worrisome to receive them.
[I don't have a team, and I'm not here to study glaciers. But my expedition this time does have something to do with glaciers.]
[Climate?]
— No.
Song Jia could tell that Zhang Heng didn't want to talk about this topic too much, so she didn't ask anymore.
— A scientific expedition? Alright, I understand. I'll make some preparations for this. Let's talk about the specifics when we meet.
— Okay.
After Zhang Heng ended the conversation with Song Jia, he went to look through Song Jia's WeChat Moments.
Song Jia should have started using WeChat a year and a half ago. Other than communicating with her employer in advance, she should still be in contact with many people. From time to time, she would post some scenery photos or selfies on her WeChat Moments. They all looked quite normal and matched her identity as a student.
Every photo had a date displayed on WeChat, ruling out the possibility that he was working in a hurry. However, Zhang Heng still did not completely let down his guard. There were many people who had their eyes on him now. Needless to say, Kronos, Justitia, the bartender lady, and even Loki seemed to have shown great interest in him.
None of these people were easy to deal with, and when it came to opponents of this level, many conventional judgment standards were no longer applicable. Zhang Heng had to raise his vigilance again and again. Song Jia was the translator he chose, and so far, she hadn't shown any abnormalities. However, Zhang Heng would not trust her just because of this.
But this matter could wait until he arrived in Greenland. Right now, he had to solve the problem of paying Fu Lou the first sum of money.
Zhang Heng glanced at Starfish. There was still some time before dinner, so he decided to go to the library for a while. He found a book related to glacier exploration and sorted out his gains from the previous quest.
There were no items or points to obtain from the proxy war quest itself. For ordinary players, it was basically impossible to learn new skills. However, because of Zhang Heng's dungeon time extension effect, he still had time to continue improving himself after completing the main quest.
However, as he continued to clear rounds after rounds of the game, his skill system became more and more complete. In this world, there was probably no one who had more skills than him. From language to driving various mechanical equipment, combat skills, makeup, reasoning, and even art appreciation, he had dabbled in them all.
Compared to the vast science and human civilization, the knowledge he had now was only a small part of it. There were still infinite fields waiting for him to explore, but the improvement of his strength had indeed become less and less obvious.
This was also the inevitable law of the development of everything. In layman's terms, Zhang Heng had now reached a bottleneck. Although he could still continue to improve himself in the future, the marginal returns he could obtain were indeed constantly decreasing.
Therefore, Zhang Heng spent a lot of time in the bodyguard quest to think about his next development direction.
Feng Zi was bored, so she gave him some suggestions from the perspective of a bystander.
She counted on her fingers and said, "You are the strongest person I have ever seen. You have almost no weaknesses. Even the Shengtang Morgan Emergency Response Team's memory-coded clone soldiers are no match for you. Your reaction, judgment, combat skills, and analytical ability are the best in the world. However, limited by your human body, you are basically reaching the limit of combat power."
"So, are you going to suggest that I undergo human transformation next?" Zhang Heng opened a can of beer and took a sip.
"No," Feng Zi took the can of beer from Zhang Heng's hand and sat next to him. "I suggest you … consider training your spirit."
"I'm training my spirit," Zhang Heng said.
In the Bakumatsu Kyoto quest, if it weren't for the spirit training and the epiphany he had during the last battle with Okita Soki, his swordsmanship wouldn't have broken through to Lv 4. In fact, when any combat skill was trained to the extreme, it was basically the unification of the spirit and the body. This was probably what the ancients called 'all skills return to one'.
However, Zhang Heng did not pay as much attention to mental training as he did to his skills. After all, this kind of thing sounded very mysterious, and it was far less intuitive and practical than the change of skill level. Besides, Zhang Heng was different from ordinary people. He had almost lost all his emotions, so he was naturally resistant to all kinds of negative emotions. He did not need to deliberately train and study, and he could remain calm in a critical moment.
As a result, mental training did not have much effect on him.
However, Feng Zi seemed to be particularly persistent about this matter. She took a sip of beer and said, "Have you never thought that one day you will find those lost feelings? Have you ever thought about how to fight in that state?"
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