"It's nothing major, I came out after a bath," Si said—Li Changzhou really wanted to use a black hand to cover her mouth, "He just happened to teleport into my hall, thankfully, I was wrapped in a bath towel."
Thankfully!
Si had only lost her emotions, not her intelligence!
"What!" Li Qianxia leaned back on the sofa, very disappointed with Li Changzhou.
She thought there would be another Divine Race sister-in-law, and in the "Honey Pot World," they could play women's mahjong.
Yang Qinglan's eyes, clear as water, stared at Li Changzhou for a second before saying: "In the future, when you go to someone else's house, use 'Teleportation' to inform them first. Be polite, understand?"
"Understood."
"If you understand, scratch your eye corner, it's hard to bear, but scratch less, your eyes will get infected."
"...Actually, I'm scratching outside the corner of my eye."
"I'm telling you to scratch less."
"...."
Li Qianxia feared Li Changzhou wouldn't understand and translated for him: "Lanlan means to do less of those things that make you scratch your eye corner, why can't you get it?"
"Lanlan, actually, this isn't my brother's fault, he went to the spacious hall, blame Si for not wearing clothes after a bath, wandering around wrapped in a towel!"
After finishing, she quickly turned her head to Si and asked: "You won't be mad, will you?"
"I can't get mad." Si replied.
"All right, all right," Turquoise Pool clapped her hands gently, "though it's safe now, we're still on a mission, less idle chatter."
Li Qianxia raised her hand: "One last thing."
"Say it." Turquoise Pool allowed.
"Actually, we only have time for chatter during missions; usually, it's either cultivating or cultivating. If I don't cultivate for an hour, I feel guilty, like dropping a packed spicy hotpot in front of a cleaning lady."
"Hmm—" Turquoise Pool pondered for a moment and then smiled charmingly at Li Changzhou, "Shall we continue? I also have something to say about what just happened."
Li Changzhou pretended not to hear: "The side effects of butterflies and little radishes?"
The smile on Turquoise Pool's face deepened as she said: "The butterfly can splice objects and must splice once a day; the little radish can alleviate or accelerate the side effects of 'Great Power,' as much as it alleviates, it must accelerate the same amount."
Yang Qinglan thought for a moment and asked: "How does the little radish's ability affect you?"
"Alleviating has no use." Turquoise Pool replied.
Alleviating, allowing her to be hurt, would be judged as harm by Turquoise Pool's "Obstacles."
But acceleration was enough, this way, the little radish could use 'alleviation' on others as much as it liked.
"I have someone here." Li Changzhou mentioned 'the Blind Man.'
After listening, Turquoise Pool said immediately: "With such character, how can you entrust him with abilities? Si, use a duplicate to employ 'seeing the future,' usually it's you who carry the little radish, 'Black Flame Dragon' goes to Qianxia."
The Blind Man indeed had a history of betraying teammates.
They were about to enter the Abyss, assuming they'd encounter an undefeatable enemy, the Blind Man might betray them with the same method.
As an upper-echelon, Turquoise Pool, accustomed to her position, was more suspicious than ordinary people, she wouldn't let such an important power as 'seeing the future' be entrusted to a person untrustworthy.
Li Changzhou also agreed; it was just that there was no way before, he couldn't let himself or Yang Qinglan get a gold eye transplant.
"But he must be left alive, I promised him I would bring him back above the Abyss, later we will find him, if he hasn't escaped or resisted, I can take him to Earth, transplant new eyes, and arrange a job for him."
This sentence was said for the future.
They immediately set off for Black Flame Dragon's small manor, in the living room, the Blind Man awaited them calmly with his eyes closed.
But everyone was on guard, all the previous maids were gone.
"I don't want to lose power," the Blind Man said, "I considered joining the 'Cutter,' joining the 'Angel,' joining the 'Void,' but..."
He didn't continue, pointing at a block of hard ice on the table: "The future is here, take it."
"I will do as I've said." Li Changzhou stated.
Sunlight pressed in from outside, and his shadow extended forward to the table, a black hand arose from the shadow, grasping the hard ice box.
Crack!
The black hand used slight force, crushing the hard ice box, with the golden eyes lying intact in the black hand's palm.
A shadow projected out from Si, becoming solid after three steps.
The black hand presented the golden eyes before the second Si.
"How do you use it?" asked the second Si to the Blind Man.
"Pluck out your own eyeball, and put the future in." the Blind Man answered calmly.
"Give me a hand." The second Si glanced at Li Changzhou.
The black hand holding the golden eyes extended a black line with its middle finger, which spread into a very small black hand.
This small black hand's middle and index fingers were hooked at the top of the second Si's left eye, with its thumb at the lower edge of the eye socket.
"I'll count to three." Li Changzhou said.
"...Begin." the second Si responded.
Li Qianxia slightly squinted her eyes, showing a bit of reluctance.
"One..."
"Ugh!" the second Si let out a grunt of pain.
The excruciating pain exploded outwards.
With a whoosh, a black hand rose from behind her, securing her body and limbs. At the same time, another black hand inserted a golden eye into her left eye.
"Ugh!!!" Doppelganger Si fell to her knees, clutching her eyes, struggling to hold on.
Sweat and blood dripped onto the ground.
"I forgot to ask," Li Changzhou suddenly remembered something, "What are the side effects of Si?"
"After a double dies, the feelings synchronize." Si replied expressionlessly.
"If both doubles disappear simultaneously, having experienced intense pain before, will you die?"
"In theory, yes."
"And in practice?" Li Qianxia hurriedly asked.
"With Little Carrot around, there won't be any problem."
Li Qianxia nodded, letting out a sigh of relief.
Luckily, Little Carrot secretly ate the Flat Peach, otherwise, with the former 'Ability', it might not have become this 'Great Power', and their combat strength would be significantly weakened.
Similarly, the reason Little Carrot could come in was that the Turquoise Pool completed the 'Favored Concubine'.
However, the task difficulty in the value game is always evenly matched. The stronger they are now, the more dangerous the Abyss becomes.
"...Continue." Doppelganger Si gasped.
A black hand pinched her chin, lifting her powerless head, while another black hand's fingers pressed into her right eye, and a third black hand held the golden eye ready for insertion.
"I'll count to three."
Si and Doppelganger Si simultaneously bit their lips.
They wouldn't have a sense of helplessness, so... were they afraid?
'Afraid of what? What do I have to be afraid of?' Li Changzhou thought as he began to count: "One."
Doppelganger Si tensed her whole body.
"Two."
Time and space seemed to be 'frozen' by the 'Extreme Cold Ice Sword'.
After a long while.
"Three."
Swoosh!
The three fingers of the black hand sank into the eye socket, with the fingertips turning into blades clinging to the eyeball, severing nerves, muscles, and blood vessels, extracting the intact eyeball.
Doppelganger Si tensed her body again, clenching her teeth tightly.
Her eyelids broke through willpower, instinctively closing, but two extremely small black hands forcibly pulled her eyelids apart, and another black hand stuffed the golden eye into the blood-soaked eye socket.
Doppelganger Si's face was still lifted by a black hand, and everyone saw the pupils of the golden double eyes within her eye sockets slowly contracting as if breathing.
"Ha... ha..." Doppelganger Si panted heavily.
"Gulp." She swallowed hard, struggling to say, "It worked."
Li Qianxia quickly stepped forward to support her, wiping the blood off her face with her hand.
"Thank you." Doppelganger Si looked at her, then paused.
Li Changzhou was the first to notice and immediately stepped forward: "What did you see?"
"Qian Xia..."
Slash!
Doppelganger Si's side abdomen tore apart, and two arms burst out. She fell to the ground, transforming into a creature walking with four arms and two legs.
Everyone's lines of sight skewed, the surroundings began to twist, whispers filled their ears, their brains buzzed with pain from the side abdomen, as if something was trying to burrow out.
The various black hands arranged around Doppelganger Si quickly merged, becoming a black box that imprisoned her.
The lines gradually stabilized, like rippling water returning to calm.
The strange sensation on the side abdomen also disappeared accordingly.
Except for the blind, everyone was a bit panicked, including the Turquoise Pool, whose Ability could not even stop the power of the monster!
Why?
Does her Ability have a limit? Or does the monster restrain her Ability? Or is it just that visual harm cannot be prevented?
Or is becoming a monster not considered harm?
What is the standard for judging harm?
Si was even paler, the doppelganger turned into a monster, if the double died and the feelings synchronized, what would happen to her?
Thump thump~
The sound of knocking came from inside the black box.
Everyone held their breath.
The box carefully thinned.
"...My face is fine, let my head out." Doppelganger Si's voice came through.
Everyone exhaled softly in relief.
Li Changzhou sneered: "A monster that can see the future."
The black box instantly contracted!