Chapter 69: Loving Fathers Often Spoil Their Children

The black ball jumped from Jiufangyu's shoulder to Qi Huan's shoulder, holding its front two paws together, and tilted its head in a serious manner to read the report with Qi Huan.

The first sheet is brief and clear:

【Category: Wizard

Physical level: A+

Mental strength level: A+

Potential judgment: A+

Mental attribute: S+ special type, growth type, large energy potential, abnormal fluctuations, the database has failed to match in the past, and has not been fully interpreted yet.]

Further down the page, there was a stack of complex peak-line and spiral charts. Qi Huan glanced at them for a few times and felt his eyes turning into spirals. He couldn't understand them at all, so he simply turned back to the first page.

The mental power level is A+, which means he is a second-level guide. Judging from his qualifications alone, he is even one level higher than Wen Liang, which should be considered good, but he doesn’t quite understand the meaning of the last two.

"What does potential represent?" Qi Huan turned the report to Jiufang Yu, pointed at that line and asked.

"Spiritual power generally reaches its upper limit only after adulthood. You are still in the growth stage, and it is very likely that your level is not displayed accurately due to insufficient growth or insufficient energy absorption. Judging from the current situation, the possibility that your spiritual power level will change and increase in the future is more than 80%, so the system's assessment is potential A+."

In short, there is still room for improvement in my mental power level. "Does this mean that I also need to absorb beast cores to replenish energy? If I absorb enough, my mental power level will most likely reach S level?"

Qi Huan suddenly thought of the A-grade stone beast core that the shop owner gave him two days ago and warned him not to sell. It turned out that the owner knew his approximate level of mental power at that time?

"If it's due to lack of energy, you can use the method of absorbing energy to solve it. If it's due to insufficient growth, you have to focus on training and cultivating mental strength. The specific direction should be determined by letting the research team follow up and test for a few days." Jiufang Yu explained patiently.

"What does the attribute at the bottom mean?" Qi Huan continued to ask.

"The attributes of spiritual power generally refer to the characteristics of spiritual power, which are usually divided into six types: offensive, defensive, artistic, actuarial, commercial, and scientific. If there is a spiritual body, it can be roughly judged based on the shape of the spiritual body. For example, beast-shaped spiritual bodies are all offensive.

After this classification, it is convenient for subsequent auxiliary judgment on the training methods and work direction of sentinels or guides. For example, if some sentinels have actuarial spiritual attributes, they may not be suitable for being a vanguard piloting mechas, but more suitable for being a starship commander. If they are artistic, such as a peacock spiritual body, it is not appropriate for them to develop new medical technologies. Of course, this classification is not completely absolute. Kong Hu's spiritual body is in the form of a python. According to his attributes, he is actually a business profit type and more suitable for business, but his interest is not there, so he chose the path of scientific research and technology. "

"Diwu Yuan is also a sentinel, right? Is it because he is young that his spirit body has not yet been activated?" Qi Huan interrupted Jiu Fangyu's introduction curiously. The young master is obviously a technical master at a young age, but if you think about it carefully, it seems that I have never seen his spirit body?

"He should be the guide." Jiufang Yu coughed lightly, his frosty eyelashes drooped slightly, and his eyes were a little evasive. "You should have seen his spiritual body, but you didn't pay attention."

"What is it?"

"When the soul has not materialized, the edges of the body will appear transparent and fuzzy. You will know if you take a closer look next time we meet." Jiufang Yu cleared his throat again, revealing a somewhat embarrassed look.

"Then go on." Qi Huan nodded. Jiu Fangyu's hesitant look aroused his curiosity. What exactly is Diwuyuan's spirit? It looks very special. He planned to keep an eye on the young master when they met in the next two days. He would always see the little guy's spirit appear.

"In addition to the six common attributes I just mentioned, spiritual power also has some more complex and special rare attributes, which are also extremely rare. If attributes are understood as the tendencies of spiritual power, then these rare attributes can basically refer to some special tendencies that jump out of the six common tendencies, or special abilities. From the perspective of the form of spiritual bodies, they are divine beasts and the like. For example, the bird of the shop owner can spit out gold, the nine-tailed fox that you used as a reference for making nine-tailed pastries can spit out earth fire, and my spiritual body Taotie can devour everything."

"Wait," Qi Huan interrupted Jiu Fangyu again, and turned his head in disbelief to look at the black ball squatting on his shoulder with its two front legs folded and a well-behaved face, "Is it a Taotie?"

Seeing Qi Huan looking over, the black ball hummed softly, looking so cute and adorable. Two golden lines appeared on the middle of its back in the past two days, symmetrically, looking like two small wings, so cute. Apart from being a little greedy, it didn't look like the four evil beasts in the legend.

"Have you forgotten what it looked like when it swallowed the star beast and the stone beast?" Jiu Fangyu looked away, not wanting to see his own spirit body's stupid look of acting cute when it saw Qi Huan. He continued to remind him, "It also swallowed a mecha, which was about the same size as the blue one used by No. 7."

Qi Huan: ...

Yes, this kind of black hole-like stomach capacity is very reasonable if it is a glutton.

"Your spiritual body is also in a special form, and it is an extremely rare human form. Judging from its status, it should still be growing, but there is no previous data in the database and the information is too little, so there is no way to determine what its special abilities are for the time being." Jiufang Yu half lowered his eyes and silently glanced at the golden lines on Xingqi's back. He actually had some guesses, but he still needed to make some confirmation.

"In addition..." Jiufang Yu said halfway when his brows suddenly tightened and he looked in the direction of Xingqi in astonishment.

At this moment, the black ball's two front legs were stretched straight, its head was frozen, it dared not move, only its eyes were looking upwards cautiously and hard, it looked both cute and funny.

There suddenly appeared a small white figure on top of its head.

The little white ball was sitting on Xingqiba's head with a smile on his face, rubbing his smooth and soft black fur, and touching his yellow crystal-like transparent curved horns, looking extremely curious about it.

Zhou Ba's whole body was stiff and he didn't dare to breathe, for fear of scaring away the little creature on top of his head.

Qi Huan followed Jiufang Yu's gaze and saw that his own spirit body was sitting on top of Xingqi Ba's head so impolitely. He was about to scold him to get down, but Jiufang Yu raised his finger to signal him to be quiet.

Qi Huan: ...

It's all over my head, don't you mind?

The little white ball looked around, then slid down along the back of Zhouqiba's neck to its back, staring at the two wing-like golden patterns on Zhouqiba's back with wide open light blue eyes. It looked left and right, and finally reached out and grabbed it.

As soon as it exerted force, the black ball trembled in pain and cried out.

"You little rascal!" Qi Huan was so angry that he reached out to hit Xiao Baituanzi, but Jiufang Yu grabbed his wrist.

"It's still young and doesn't understand." Jiufang Yu said softly.

This is not a small matter. He did not take any light measures. What will happen in the future if he does not take care of it now? Isn't Tangtang an example of being spoiled? Qi Huan was about to break free from Jiufang Yu's hand and argue, but his eyes fell on the slender fingers that were tightly clasped around his wrist. He felt the warmth of his palm, and his head buzzed, and his ears immediately became hot.

As soon as he got nervous, the little white ball on Monday's back suddenly disappeared without a trace.

Where are the people? Hei Tuanzi turned his head and spun around anxiously on Qi Huan's shoulder.

Jiufang Yu also noticed that something was wrong with Qi Huan, and quickly let go of his hand and apologized, "I'm sorry, did I hurt you?"

"No." Qi Huan rubbed his wrist uncomfortably, his eyelids drooping and not daring to look into Jiu Fangyu's eyes. "I should be the one to apologize. My spirit body was too naughty and hurt Xiao Ba."

"That little bit of pain is nothing to it. It doesn't mind at all." Jiufang Yu said gently.

The black ball immediately agreed and made two soft "嘤" sounds.

"It said it's not afraid of pain and asked you not to blame Xiaobai." Jiufang Yu translated for Heituanzi.

"You will spoil it by doing this." Qi Huan was speechless. If the behavior was wrong, he must tell it and correct it. Otherwise, wouldn't it go further and further down the path of willfulness?

He finally understood why Tangtang was so weak yet so domineering. It was 100% because the sentinels and spirits at Base 99 doted on her and spoiled her like that.

"It will understand when it grows up. Besides, that little pain is nothing to Xiao Ba, it can bear it." As a sentinel, the basic principle is to put the guide first. Jiufang Yu does not think there is anything wrong with it.

"What did you say 'otherwise'?" Qi Huan silently decided to avoid Jiufang Yu when educating Xiaobai Tuanzi in the future.

After being reminded by Qi Huan, Jiu Fangyu remembered the topic that was interrupted earlier. "The medical team hopes to put a monitor on you to record the changes in your mental power values ​​in detail for specific analysis. Although there will be no side effects, mental power data also belongs to the scope of personal privacy. You don't have a guardian, so I want to ask your own opinion first."

After saying that, Jiufang Yu took out a few more sheets of paper, which were reports on the relevant data of the monitor, including its operating principles, various side effect detections, etc.

Qi Huan's eyes were dazzled by reading this. Once this kind of brain-demanding stuff was more than half a page, he would feel dizzy.

"It's okay, wear it." Qi Huan felt that since there were no side effects, there was no need to worry. The more detailed the data, the better. "From now on, I'll ask you to be my guardian and help me make decisions for things like this."

If Jiufang Yu wanted to deceive him, he could have tampered with the data. No matter whether the data was true or false, it would be impossible to find any problems. Trust people when you employ them, and don't employ people if you don't trust them. He believed in Jiufang Yu's character, so there was no need to dwell on this matter.

"Me?" Jiufang Yu's eyebrows moved slightly, his eyes showing some surprise.

"I believe you." Qi Huan raised his eyes and punched Jiu Fangyu's arm lightly. "Didn't we agree last time that I would cooperate with the laboratory's research and you would protect me. Isn't it the guardian's responsibility to protect me? Isn't this the same goal?"

"Okay." Jiufang Yu agreed softly, but his expression was extremely serious and solemn. The black ball next to him also straightened his chest with a serious face, as if he had taken on a huge responsibility.

"Is there someone waiting outside? Let them in quickly." Qi Huan said again.

Jiufang Yu pressed a call button next to him and whispered a few words to the outside. Half a minute later, two men in green coats came in and gently installed a thin metal piece the size of a button battery behind Qi Huan's ear bone.

Qi Huan moved his head left and right and felt that the thing had almost no presence.

"Within a three-kilometer range, data will be automatically and instantly transmitted to the main computer in the medical room. Beyond this distance, data acquisition may fail." One of the green coats gently reminded, "Under normal circumstances, there will not be any discomfort. If you feel any pain or discomfort, you can take it off first and then notify us. The young master has instructed that your acceptance level is the first priority."

Qi Huan nodded to show that he understood.

After the two men in green coats left, Qi Huan looked to the side and found that the little white ball had come out again at some point and was sitting on Taotie's head, holding its two beautiful curved horns with both hands, as if it was sitting on a throne. The black ball was running around the room with it, having a lot of fun.

Jiufang Yu just watched from the side, without any intention of stopping it. His eyes were as warm as water, and the doting feeling was almost overflowing.

"A loving father often has a spoiled son." Qi Huan gritted his teeth as he spoke each word.

Jiufang Yu: ?????

Not long after, the starship landed at the first target location they were going to inspect.

It was also an abandoned city.

The white sand has buried most of the former infrastructure, with only half of the high-rise buildings still visible.

Almost all the houses are gray and black, with the unique cold and hard tone of metal. The shapes are mostly basic triangle cones, cylinders, and spheres. There are no overly complicated structures and decorative designs. It seems that only functionality and practicality were considered when they were first built. It is a veritable steel forest.

Due to the erosion of wind and sand, most of the buildings have become dilapidated, with their exterior walls corroded and mottled, revealing their rusty metal frames, like decaying tombstones in the city.

The strong wind blew past, and the broken iron sheets creaked, the sound was desolate and sharp.

Not long after the starship came to a steady stop, Jiufang Yu grabbed Diwu Yuan and went out to do basic testing of the protective shield. The people in the medical laboratory also moved out a bunch of instruments and drove the airship out to do data testing of the surrounding energy field. In a blink of an eye, only Qi Huan, the shop owner, A Luan and several guards were left.

Qi Huan had nothing to do for the time being, so he started to do mental exercises, doing them for two or three hours at a time.

"I'm hungry." The shop owner walked around idly for a few rounds. Seeing that Qi Huan had finished his exercise, he walked straight up to him and told him clearly.

"What do you want to eat, senior?" Qi Huan couldn't help laughing. Sometimes it seemed that the senior really had a childish temper.

"The clay pot rice at the banquet the day before yesterday." the owner said immediately.

Qi Huan looked at the food storeroom and found no matsutake or chestnuts. On the one hand, he was in a hurry to leave this time, and on the other hand, since Jiufang Yu told him about borrowing money, he subconsciously felt that the base was short of money and should be frugal, so most of the ingredients he brought were convenient and inexpensive.

"Senior, can I make some rice with animal oil and fried bacon for you and Senior A'luan to fill your stomach?" Qi Huan calculated the existing ingredients and gave an alternative plan.

"Sure." The shop owner, who had never eaten rice with animal fat, nodded with interest. Senior A-Luan was quietly wiping his knife nearby, and as always, he did not express any opinions, leaving it entirely to the shop owner to decide.

The so-called animal oil mixed rice is actually lard mixed rice, but the lard is replaced by spotted animal oil. There were also spotted animals in the beast tide a few days ago, and Qi Huan only made time to refine a lot of spotted animal oil yesterday.

When the steaming rice is cooked, scoop a large spoonful of snow-white lard oil on it. The paste-like lard oil quickly melts in the rice, turning into a layer of warm and soft oily sheen. The tender white rice grains are as white as fat and jade. Pour a circle of soy sauce on it, stir it vigorously a few times, and a plate of greasy, bright red lard rice with a rich aroma of oil is ready.

The owner took a deep breath and was immediately attracted by the wonderful aroma. He couldn't wait to take a bite.

"How can these two simple things be so delicious?" The shop owner was very surprised after tasting it. Senior A Luan beside him also nodded frequently, saying it was simple, but very delicious.

"As long as it tastes good, it's fine. We're short of money right now and this is an extraordinary period, so please bear with us." Qi Huan pushed the plate of fried vegetables with bacon in front of the two of them.

"Long money? What kind of money?" The owner asked with a puzzled look while eating.

"The base needs to be rebuilt now. Buying equipment and materials will definitely cost a lot of money. We also have to compensate the losses of the original residents. How can we not need that?" Qi Huan sighed as he mixed his portion of lard rice.

"There may be a little cash shortfall, but it's not a big problem." The shopkeeper scooped another mouthful of lard and squinted his eyes in satisfaction. "After all, there is a fat sheep to be slaughtered."

"Fat sheep?"

"Jiufang Kuang has caused such a big mess, doesn't the Jiufang family need to take responsibility? Jiufang Yu will definitely skin them raw this time."

"Are you sure it's Jiufang Kuang?"

"Nine out of ten, the thing you found under the stone beast's ear and the tampering with the protective shield are all evidence. Why do you think Jiufang Yu invited Diwuyuan to come?"

"Because he's been here before, is familiar with the conditions of the waste planet, and is more technically proficient?"

"It's only half right." The shopkeeper picked up another piece of bacon. "Diwuyuan is an authority in technology, and the Diwu family is on good terms with the Jiufang family. If his final judgment is Jiufang Kuang, then that would be ironclad evidence to nail him down. At that time, the Jiufang family would have no room for rebuttal."

Qi Huan nodded suddenly, realizing that there was another meaning behind this.

"The Jiufang family has to pay for the losses of the residents of the base and the reconstruction costs of the base. Moreover, when the No. 3 base was built, they cut corners, and Jiufang Kuang must have pocketed a lot of money. The price reported to the Jiufang family cannot be low. If the Jiufang family wants to compensate now, they must at least pay the original cost. If they want to save face, they may even have to pinch their noses and give more subsidies to show their generosity.

The money would be enough to rebuild the base. Besides, the equipment was bought from the fifth company. Although Jiufang Kuang deliberately deceived them about the problem of the protective shield, the fifth company was more or less responsible for the negligence and poor maintenance. This time, they would definitely do their best and make some concessions on the price.

In short, everyone's living environment and quality of life can be improved, and the hidden stakes left by Jiufang Kuang can be eliminated in one fell swoop, and everything will be settled once and for all. Jiufang Yu is so smart, after mediation by several parties, he may be able to make a fortune from this, which is really killing two birds with one stone."

After hearing this, Qi Huan felt relieved. "What punishment will Jiu Fang Kuang receive?"

"He's dead for sure." The shop owner sneered. "The elders of the noble families are not pushovers. After suffering this loss, how can they not seek revenge on the man behind Jiufang Kuang? He will definitely be stripped of his skin and bones by others. It would be fine if that man didn't share the money at the beginning. If he did, he would definitely know the actual cost, and he can only swallow his anger.

The person behind Jiufang Kuang suffered such a huge loss, how angry would he be? How could he still enjoy the good fruit of Jiufang Kuang's life?

Jiufang Kuang should be thankful that he can stand trial alive. He would have been killed before he got there, and his skin would have been peeled off, his tendons would have been pulled out, and his bones would have been crushed and his ashes would have been scattered. The best part is that by then he will be infamous for eternity, and the people behind him will have suffered losses. But Jiufang Yu is innocent and stands on the moral high ground, and he has saved the people of the entire Waste Star from danger. No one in the entire alliance can find fault with him. "

"Senior, what do you want to eat tonight?" Qi Huan was overjoyed when he heard this. It was really gratifying that Jiufang Kuang was punished. He had to make something delicious tonight to reward the young master, this key figure.

It was not until the evening that Jiufang Yu and Diwuyuan returned.

As soon as they met, the young master dragged Qi Huan back to his room angrily, saying that he didn't want to see Jiufang Yu, and asked Qi Huan to eat with him in the room.

Qi Huan didn't know what he was upset about, but thinking that he had to help ease the relationship between the two, he informed Jiufang Yu and the store owner and others, then brought in two dinners.

"Huanhuan, Jiufang Yu is such a jerk!" The young master complained to Qi Huan while eating, "This afternoon, he dragged me to measure more than fifty points, more than fifty! I was so tired that I could hardly lift my hands!"

"He also wants to ensure the safety of the new base. How about going to the medical room to use the relaxation cabin after dinner?" Qi Huan smiled gently and rubbed his wrist twice.

"That's not necessary, I have my own." Diwuyuan sighed and lowered his tone. He actually knew the importance of the safety of the new base.

But I always felt that Jiufang Yu was doing it on purpose, just because he insisted on coming with me, he wanted to make him suffer. That bad guy was so bad!

The young master thought about it, and felt that his feeling should be right. The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. He clenched his fist angrily and said, "I have decided that I will go on strike tonight. I will not accompany Kong Hu to study the signal device. I will play games instead."

Qi Huan was stunned when he heard this, and his eyes suddenly brightened, "You want to play the Library of Death?"

"Yeah." Diwuyuan nodded. "I recently found a partner that I like. He's quite interesting. It's really fun to play games with him."

"What partner?" Qi Huan still remembered the perspective of the player who used to sit on the city wall and swing his feet boredly.

"That's him." Diwuyuan logged into his personal terminal, opened his own game interface, and called up his partner's data.

Qi Huan walked over with a smile on his face, and when he saw the figure on the screen, he was stunned for a moment.

None in summer.