Capítulo 1666: Chapter 1666: Super Evolver Squad
Once again reaching out to grasp the elusive chaotic lines in the air, like before, except for feeling a breeze-like force, there was no sense of truly grabbing anything, and in the process, he accidentally overturned a pot of freshly cooked soup by grabbing onto a spatial ray.
Yu Qingqing and the others had been watching Xu Huo. Seeing him not speaking, with his eyes closed and face calm, suddenly reaching out to overturn the pot, they were immediately startled:
“Is it poisoned!”
Xu Huo then snapped out of his world and signaled them to calm down, “I just got a bit distracted.”
“What you’re talking about is too profound. How can space and time exist in the form of lines?” Yu Qingqing said, “The idea is strange.”
“It’s just a symbol for controlling power. If you have other insights, you can imagine them in different forms.” Like different people have different spiritual worlds, but imagining them as lines is a bit easier to control.
“So according to you, can spiritual power be expressed as lines as well?” Yu Qingqing continued, “I attended a lecture by the Special Defense Department before, and the old professor they invited, along with the materials derived from the game, all endorsed that spiritual power is mass-like.”
“A mass of power can be large or small, thick or thin, thicker can shrink the range, thinner can expand it.”
“That explanation also makes sense.” Xu Huo nodded. He wasn’t sure whether the country had qualified psychic Super Evolvers yet, and even if they did, it probably progressed too slowly for them to use the spiritual world to influence others.
Yu Qingqing shook her head, “Your way of understanding things is different from ordinary people, so your experience isn’t applicable to us.”
“It will be useful when you undergo Secondary Evolution.” Xu Huo had already set the pot again and poured water and ingredients in.
“You’re still cooking, just have some dry food.” Yu Qingqing suggested.
“Didn’t you have enough dry food in the game?” Xu Huo took out a pack of mushrooms from the luggage compartment, “Local specialty brought back from another zone, it’s very fresh.”
Nearby, Heavy Rain noticed abnormal blue liquid seeping from the bent part of the mushrooms and uncertainly said, “These are poisonous, aren’t they?”
“Poisonous, but it won’t kill you.” Xu Huo simply rinsed and threw all the mushrooms in.
Everyone present, including Yu Qingqing, frowned and stared at the pot of soup.
It’s normal for mushrooms to take a bit longer to cook, and once they were about done, Xu Huo served a bowl of soup to drink.
“Quite fragrant.” Yu Qingqing sniffed, then courageously scooped a ladle-full, “I treat you as my brother, if I really get poisoned and am on the brink of death, please don’t give up on me lightly.”
“You speak quite a lot.” After Xu Huo finished his soup, Nie Xuan arrived.
Only two players accompanied him. All three wore black trench coats, exuding quite an aura.
“Having a meal? Just right, we didn’t get a chance to eat dinner.” Nie Xuan casually sat beside Xu Huo, served himself a big bowl of mushrooms, didn’t say much, ate some, then told the two accompanying him to inject the antitoxin before eating.
This made the two who were planning to fill their stomachs quietly put their bowls down: no wonder so much was left, it’s tough just for a bite to eat.
“You arrived pretty fast, how many people?” Xu Huo casually asked.
“My team has ten people, plus the logistics unit. The equipment transport is slower, so we’ll need to wait a bit.” Nie Xuan, seeming genuinely hungry, spoke while stuffing mushrooms into his mouth.
Xu Huo didn’t ask more about the Special Defense Department’s arrangements. The two of them finished the mushrooms in the pot, and after putting down their chopsticks, Nie Xuan, whose expression was slightly changed, injected himself with the antitoxin.
“The game ingredients are delicious, but too many are poisonous.” After saying this, he paused, “Was this fungus brought back from the zone where your cultivation base is located?”
“It’s not that I don’t want the country to go further, it’s just that the number of times a fungus can divide after cultivation is limited. Even if the Special Defense Department finds that place, there’s not enough Antidote Fungus to cultivate, and the effect of the Bacterial Liquid Medicine diminishes over time.” Xu Huo explained further.
Nie Xuan smiled, “Even if you openly say you’re unwilling to share this secret, the Special Defense Department can’t do anything to you.”
“That’s not good,” Xu Huo laughed along, “After all, it’s a hometown bond, there’s no deep-seated animosity, so why create such misunderstandings?”
Nie Xuan had things going smoothly lately and verbally thanked him on behalf of the Special Defense Department, adding that the matter regarding Ting City had been settled, with a document personally signed by the country’s top leader to be delivered to his home soon.
“Ting City is your territory now.” He said.
“Ting City isn’t of much use to me,” Xu Huo said lightly, since the city was claimed for the Girl in the painting.
“It’s all the same.” Nie Xuan implied.
“Legs all healed?” Xu Huo glanced down. Nie Xuan was the only person he knew who began Super Evolution through being struck by a spatial ray.
“I suppose so.” Nie Xuan looked at him, “Interested?”
Xu Huo politely nodded, although they had already sparred in a simple push-and-block manner during their last meeting at his house.
However, he was still very interested in Nie Xuan’s legs. From the spatial ray manifestation, Nie Xuan’s halves were divided distinctly, with different ray densities in his lower and upper bodies.
People naturally also have spatial rays, but unlike ordinary objects, there’s a difference in density and arrangement. Human complexity surpasses relatively uniform mass objects, yet at this moment Nie Xuan’s legs seemed to have become some object, with densely packed yet neatly arranged rays, somewhat resembling Lawrence Lee’s spatial rays, in a more concrete form.
“Too bad I can’t tell you.” Nie Xuan deliberately teased, “After all, it’s the foundation of my standing in the Special Defense Department.”
“Just kidding.” Xu Huo shifted his gaze to the two beside him, aside from these two, there were also eight people outside, all with high evolution rates, wearing more than one space-time class prop.
“The military is quite generous this time, daring to dispatch Super Evolvers.”
“014 Zone’s Super Evolvers are not much to us. The military’s research only scratched the surface, if these people can’t make breakthroughs in the upcoming actions, they’re not as valuable as imagined.” Nie Xuan ruthlessly said.
The group seemed to have good mental stability, as even the eight outside showed no emotional response to this.
At this point, Nie Xuan received a call, and after hanging up, he asked: “After talking for so long, where is the entrance to the Chaotic Space?”
Yu Qingqing immediately stood up, “I’ll lead the way for you.”