Witch Special

After learning about the situation of the Alien Tribe and the specific content of the mission, Lin Zhenxi was sent out of the resettlement center by Yan Qing with a heavy heart.

The academy outside the resettlement center was actually a place full of novelties, and if you had some free time, it was well worth a stroll. However, Lin Zhenxi had seen too many foreigners in the company and had long lost her curiosity about them, so she left the academy without stopping.

After returning to the office, Lin Zhenxi first placed the glass cube containing the hair extracted from each Alien on the table. This was the "element" needed to find Aliens. To find Aliens scattered around the world, Lin Zhenxi needed to find the common features of these "elements" and use them to locate undiscovered Aliens.

As for how Lin Zhenxi could find those hidden aliens, she would have to resort to magic. Lin Zhenxi's power system was diverse, encompassing wizard magic, elemental magic, even root magic, and the shimmering magic circles of the magical girl Bling Bling. Diversity often meant comprehensiveness and breadth. Among Lin Zhenxi's magic, there happened to be one that could locate objects from a distance.

However, this time, Lin Zhenxi needed to not locate a specific target, but rather expand the scope of his positioning magic, searching for specific targets within a large area and marking them all. Therefore, simple positioning magic was no longer sufficient. Lin Zhenxi needed to combine this positioning magic with a carrier, creating a magic prop that could carry this positioning magic.

Lin Zhenxi's next job is to create a magic map that can update the locations of the surrounding alien tribes in real time.

It sounds fantastical, like something straight out of a fairy tale, right? How could something so magical possibly exist?

But coincidentally, when Lin Zhenxi traveled to other worlds to complete commissions, he actually encountered something similar. It was a very magical map that could display the real-time location of everyone in a huge classical magic academy.

The name of that magic map is "Marauding Map".

Lin Zhenxi was deeply intrigued by the Marauder's Map's workings, so he spent some of his own money to borrow the Marauder's Map for a few days from its then-owners, a pair of cheerful, red-haired twins full of quirky ideas. By analyzing the Marauder's Map, Lin Zhenxi learned the technique for crafting similar magic props. Upon his return, he submitted this technology to the company, receiving a substantial contribution point reward.

As long as one's proficiency in the Tracking Spell is high enough, creating a radar map specifically designed to locate the Alien Tribe is feasible. Coincidentally, the Tracking Spell and the Flying Spell share a commonality, and the Flying Spell is the spell most proficient in by the lazy-living Hayashi Maki. By analogy, Hayashi Maki's Tracking Spell proficiency has also reached a masterful level.

At least, it is definitely higher than the four senior magic apprentices who created the Marauder's Map.

The method of making the magic map is in Lin Zhenxi's mind, and the raw materials are also ready. What Lin Zhenxi needs now is to extract "elements" from the hair of those alien-faced people to complete the magic map's tracking and positioning of the alien-faced people.

To extract the "elements," Lin Zhenxi needed to use some complex magic circles. So, she spent the rest of her time carving out the magic circles needed to extract the "elements." Finally, before leaving get off work, she finished extracting the "elements" and created the first magic map specifically for locating the Alien Tribe.

Of course, while it's called a map, it's actually just a piece of yellowed parchment. If there are no Aliens nearby, the parchment will be blank. If there are Aliens nearby, a small black dot will appear on the parchment. Simply find the right direction and approach the small black dot to close the distance between you and the Aliens. Once you're close, things like thermal imaging cameras come in handy. Aliens have hair that insulates them, making them as hot as little stoves, making them impossible to miss with a thermal imaging camera.

Lin Zhenxi had considered using normal paper, but parchment was the second most adaptable to wand magic. The rougher and older the better, second only to the most primitive but easily damaged papyrus. As for modern, snow-white, acid-free paper, it simply had no magical capacity at all.

The root cause is still the "mystery" at work. There's a fundamental difference between magic and technology in terms of accessibility. The more mysterious and ancient classical magic is, the less known it becomes, and the greater its power. Technology, on the other hand, is the exact opposite: collective effort fuels the flame, and its brilliance is forged through collective strength. While there are instances of science and magic blending together to create a world of scientific magic, the wand magic used by Lin Zhenxi to create the magic map is a classic example of classical magic, profoundly incompatible with purely industrial products like acid-free paper. It's no surprise that acid-free paper cannot serve as a carrier for wand magic.

Because it only provided positioning and lacked other fancy but impractical features, this map had a vast effective range. Lin Zhenxi conservatively estimated that it could cover one-third of New Blue City. Simply carrying this map around would allow him to quickly complete a search of the entire city.

Of course, this range was still insignificant compared to the entire world. But that wasn't something Lin Zhenxi needed to worry about. The map had been created, and how to use it to find the alien tribes scattered around the world was the company's responsibility.

His white fingers slid lightly across the parchment, feeling the roughness of the parchment under his fingertips. After finally checking the integrity of the magic circuit embedded in the parchment, Lin Zhenxi rolled up the parchment.

"Yanyan, red ribbon."

"Here." The black cat flew over with a roll of red ribbon, wrapped it around the parchment a few times, and then Lin Zhenxi tied the red ribbon into a bow.

Thus, a magic map specifically used to search for the alien tribe and to hand in the task was completed.

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After handing over the magic map to the company, Lin Zhenxi received a considerable contribution value as a reward.

Literally, contribution points are like KPIs for internal company assessments; a high contribution value can boost both company benefits and influence. Although Lin Zhenxi's job category is a special commissioner, and her only path to advancement is through completing commissions, unrelated to contribution points, her contribution points do influence the extent to which she can leverage the company's resources, so Lin Zhenxi values ​​them highly.

However, the company's commissions for special commissioners were too few. In her ten years at the company, Lin Zhenxi had only received six commissions. Therefore, every opportunity to earn contribution points outside of commissions was invaluable and deserved to be taken seriously.

After turning in the magic map, Lin Zhenxi's search for the Alien-Faced Tribe was over. She had never doubted the company's execution. With a magic map specifically designed to find Alien-Faced Tribes, the company would surely be able to locate all of them worldwide, and Lin Zhenxi wouldn't have to do anything in the process. Given that, Lin Zhenxi was happy to have some free time. It was undoubtedly a daunting task requiring extensive travel, so avoiding it would be the best option.

Compared to running around outside in the wind and sun, isn’t it better to stay in an air-conditioned office, drink coffee, play with cats, and do other things.

Just like that, Lin Zhenxi completely put the matter of the Alien Tribe behind her and returned to her original daily life. Every day she worked hard to fill in her own magic circle diagram, hoping to complete this miracle that belonged to her as soon as possible.

Then, several days later, perhaps half a month later, Lin Zhenxi suddenly received an internal company text message from Yan Qing on her personal terminal, informing her that the capture of the Alien-Face Tribe... well, the capture progress was almost complete. The company had successfully extracted enough otherworldly aura from the Alien-Face Tribes held in the resettlement center to piece together the coordinates of the Alien World. At the same time, Lin Zhenxi also received the total number of Alien-Face Tribes that had crossed over from Yan Qing.

If the company had already taken in half of the aliens who had crossed over, the total number of aliens who had crossed over would reach a staggering 300. This was the first time humanity had encountered a mass crossing event of this scale. If this incident were to become public, it would undoubtedly become a milestone in the contact between Earth civilization and otherworldly civilizations.

Of course, before confirming what the situation is in the other world, the affairs of the Alien Clan are still highly confidential, and Lin Zhenxi does not want to be punished by the company for leaking the information.

Yan Qing mainly reminded Lin Zhenxi that after the coordinates of the alien world were calculated, Lin Zhenxi, as a participant in the alien tribe incident, would most likely be selected into the advance team, so she asked her to make some preparations in advance.

Before Lin Zhenxi left that day, Yan Qing took the initiative to exchange contact information with Lin Zhenxi. Through the other party's limited-time public circle of friends, Lin Zhenxi learned that the other party was actually a popular internet celebrity, who had attracted many fans with his specialty of recommending treasure shops in Xinlan City.

After all, she is a real cat-eared girl, she is cute and has a nice figure. She can attract a lot of attention and rewards from lsps just by acting cute and having a little bit of uniqueness. It seems that it is really easy to become famous.

Her strange and deliberate speaking habits are probably meant to highlight her own characteristics.

Lin Zhenxi didn't pay much attention to Yan Qing's identity as an internet celebrity, but she didn't expect that Yan Qing was also a master at exploring restaurants. Although the two people have different focuses, Lin Zhenxi focuses on finding delicious food while Yan Qing focuses mainly on "discovering interesting souls", but both of them have a hobby of walking around the streets and alleys, and they have a lot in common in this regard. After a few visits, they became familiar with each other.

Although fate came quite suddenly, Yan Qing has indeed become one of Lin Zhenxi's few friends. This time, Yan Qing sent a text message to Lin Zhenxi, also as a friend to remind her and care about her.