Chapter 30: Changes in the Normal World

Suinan City was a wealthy city located along the coast of the Line’s Federation.

One of the busiest ports in the world was located here. The city here had no scenery to speak of. Skyscrapers and busy crowds were everywhere.

At this moment, in a high-rise building near the harbor, a slightly sickly-looking middle-aged man was standing in the office, looking at the sea through the ceiling-to-floor glass pane.

Knock, knock, knock!

“Please enter!”

Zhang Yao turned around and slowly walked back to his desk to look at the approaching man.

“Mr. Zhang, we’ve already investigated the matter that you wanted us to investigate.”

“Very good.” A smile finally appeared on Zhang Yao’s face.

“Tell me about the matter.”

“Okay.” The pompous man sat down without prompting and handed a few photos to Zhang Yao.

“This was taken by one of our colleagues at Armarica National Nature Park over two days. You can take a look.”

Zhang Yao nodded his head and began to flip through the pictures in front of him.

In the photo, there was an oak tree.

The entire oak tree was about 50 meters tall, and there was nothing magical about its appearance.

However, upon closer inspection, one would discover that this oak tree was very different from the other oak trees around it.

For example, the emerald green luster on the leaves was extremely conspicuous.

There were several pictures, some taken from the sky, some from the ground, and from every other conceivable angle as well.

The most eye-catching thing was the oak tree flowers blooming on it.

The flowers of the oak tree were white with a tinge of red. They looked soft and were especially eye-catching under the caress of sunlight.

Scanning through the pictures of the oak trees, Zhang Yao’s expression remained impassive.

Putting down the photos, Zhang Yao spoke again.

“You should know that this is not all I wanted to know. Take out everything you have. Money is of no concern to me.”

Hearing that, the man smiled and took out another USB from his briefcase.

“Mr. Zhang, all that you want to know is here. However, the price for the information will be increased tenfold.”

“Tenfold?” Zhang Yao frowned.

However, looking at the man in front of him and the USB drive in his hand, Zhang Yao finally nodded.

“Alright! However, I hope that the information you offer is worth the price.”

“Of course. Don’t you know the power and reputation of the United Ocean Information Corporation?”

The man smiled confidently. Then, he continued, “But Mr. Zhang, I hope that you can fulfill one request of ours. This information is not as simple as just money.”

“Request?”

Zhang Yao looked at the man deeply before he continued plainly, “Speak. What do you want?”

The man knew that Zhang Yao mistook his intention, so he immediately smiled and said,

“Mr. Zhang, I think you might have misunderstood me. Our company emphasizes integrity when doing business. All our businesses are set according to actual market prices.”

“Our request is actually very simple. We hope that Mr. Zhang can delete all the information in front of me and destroy the USB drive on the spot after reading it.”

“At the same time, for Mr. Zhang’s safety, I would like to remind you. It would be better for you to keep this information a secret from others.”

The man’s words piqued Zhang Yao’s interest.

“Interesting. Looks like this information won’t disappoint me.”

“Alright, I will agree to your request.”

As he spoke, Zhang Yao took the USB drive from the man and inserted it into the USB port of his computer.

Soon, a video appeared on Zhang Yao’s office computer.

The video was almost two hours long.

The video started with a scene of a tropical rainforest.

Looking at this familiar scene, Zhang Yao could not help but recall the news and videos released by the various media outlets in West York.

However, the video released by West York was only three minutes long, while this video lasted for two hours.

One could imagine how confidential this information was.

Currently, what ordinary people in the world knew was probably the so-called black domain created by the oak tree, its terrifying height, the divine revelation, and the divine object that descended upon Lady Vanni Campbell from the Druid Church Group.

As for what the divine object was, the contamination of the Purple Moon, as well as the mutation of crocodiles, they were all omitted.

The reason why Zhang Yao paid such a high price to verify this matter was actually very simple.

Within Line’s Federation, all major media outlets were commenting that the mysterious incident with the oak trees was most likely another plot by West York.

Or rather, it was a trick by this small and unknown Druid Church Group to deliberately increase their number of followers.

Who was Zhang Yao?

He was a newly promoted tycoon whose assets had just exceeded one billion.

He lacked information and protection from the officials, but that did not mean that he was ignorant.

At the very least, he had a good grasp of how strict media control was in the Line’s Federation.

Hence, he had quite a lot of trust in West York’s big move.

Because the person who released the news this time was not just Vanni Campbell from the so-called Druid Church Group.

It also involved another 20 people who had extremely high statuses in the 12 countries.

In less than a day after Vanni Campbell released the news, these people had spared no efforts in verifying and spreading it.

Initially, Zhang Yao didn’t care when the news was released and spread like wildfire. He had the same thoughts as many mainstream media outlets in the country.

However, after taking a closer look at the relevant videos, he began to pay attention and search for information related to this so-called Druid Church Group, as well as information about the supporters that appeared one after another after the news was released.

If he didn’t check, he wouldn’t have known. But once he checked, he was shocked by what he found.

He realized that all these people had one common point — they all held positions in medical schools of various countries, which meant that their positions were all very high. Naturally, this included the so-called priest from the Druid Church Group, Vanni Campbell.

A medical professor? She went to the tropical rainforest for a survey and found this amazing oak tree?

How could there be such a coincidence in the world?

Zhang Yao would never believe that there was no other story behind this.

As a result, with a doubtful stance, Zhang Yao began to investigate deeper.

Unfortunately, he discovered a piece of news that appeared in a small newspaper in Armarica two months ago.

The news was small but the content was shocking.

A member of parliament had miraculously recovered from a late-stage lung cancer at Armarica National Hospital.

The entire article mostly called it a miracle and cited the person’s good luck. But today, when he connected it to the so-called mysterious oak tree in the rainforest, Zhang Yao was naturally pleasantly surprised.

All of this was because Zhang Yao had been suffering from liver cancer for more than two years.