Chapter 214: Insect Identification and Ice City
Yu Cang's rhythmic body stood in the starry sky's field of vision. He looked at the huge ice ball in front of him that he had made with his own hands, with a thoughtful look in his eyes.
These insects are now completely under his control, and he can take their lives at any time, but... it feels a bit wasteful.
Yu Cang closed his eyes and silently asked in his heart: "Jieying, do these insects have any other uses?"
Since recognizing the body of an animal has so many wonderful uses, then recognizing insects... should have some as well.
"Um... well," Jieying said hesitantly. "There should be... but I don't know the specific method. Civilizations that have developed in the Starry Sky Vision for a long time may have recorded ways to utilize the bodies of insects, but I haven't encountered such civilizations, so I don't know for sure."
"I understand." Yu Cang nodded, not surprised at all.
However, although the body of the gnat could not be used, he did not intend to kill it directly.
Professor Guan Qingrui's words gave him some inspiration.
He certainly cannot stay in the Jieying campus all the time. If the Identification Bugs attack when he is not here, the people here must have their own combat capabilities.
He didn't let Professor Guan Qingrui take action just now. First, Professor Guan couldn't win, and second, the old man was just a scientific researcher after all, and knew nothing about combat. Even if he had summarized a set of combat memory models, Yu Cang would find it difficult to let him fight alone.
Combat is no joke and requires a lot of practice before one can be confident.
Therefore, he planned to imprison these insects and use them as a training ground to cultivate the combat capabilities of these researchers.
As for how to make this practice ground...it's actually quite simple.
"Boundary Shadow, separate another bubble world and envelop this ice ball."
"Yes, Master Scholar."
Jieying responded and turned his head. Dazzling starlight burst out from his huge body. Then there was a crisp "pop" sound. A bubble was thrown out by him and just wrapped up the ice ball.
While this new bubble world was still trembling, Yu Cang stretched out his hand:
"Entry implantation: [Creation], [Seal], [City]!"
Click!
Cracks suddenly spread across the layers of ice. These cracks became more and more numerous, and finally, more than half of the ice shattered on the spot, turning into ice chips that floated in the air, and then melted into rhythmic lines, and finally disappeared.
And those parts that have not collapsed directly turned into the appearance of a city!
This city was created based on the terms [Creation] and [City], and according to Yu Cang's partial memories, so the style of the city looks like a hodgepodge, but overall, it is very similar to the Yujiang that Yu Cang had visited.
However, every brick and tile here is made of solid ice. The sky is covered with clouds, and heavy snow is falling continuously, mixed with some hail from time to time.
The insects were thawing at this moment. They woke up on the icy ground, moved their limbs, and occasionally made rhythmic sounds.
After coming here, these insects looked very anxious and uneasy. Some of the irritable ones could not sit still and rushed around with their heads held high, but they could not cause any damage to the surrounding ice.
Some of the smarter ones danced their mouthparts, trying to bite off the rhythmic ice around them, but as soon as they put it in their mouths, they felt something was wrong.
Damn, why is it so hard!
It was completely impossible to bite them, and I almost bit off their mouthparts.
Yu Cang was floating above the Ice City. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the bubble world in front of him was indeed generated according to his wishes.
The reason why the insect can't bite it is naturally because of the [Seal] entry that he implanted.
In order to transform this bubble world, he directly implanted two legendary entries - anyway, he couldn't implant these legendary entries now, so he might as well use the implantation cooling time in the consciousness world.
Using entry implantation to influence the Starry Sky Vision is ultimately not as convenient as directly using one's own knowledge.
If you use your own knowledge, then the final result of this knowledge will be completely according to your own wishes. However, if you implant entries... your own ideas can only serve as a guide, and whether it will succeed in the end depends on luck.
Fortunately, as it seems now, I am lucky. This bubble world is no different from the creation I imagined and can be used.
From now on, this ice city will serve as a place for scholars to familiarize themselves with how to fight within the Starry Sky Vision Area.
“Squeak! Squeak!”
Yu Cang heard that among the insects below, there were a few guys who looked quite intelligent, chirping and calling out to him, as if... they wanted to communicate with him?
However, as soon as they arrived at this place, they were locked up in the Ice City by themselves, and they had no time to find the language of Yan Country from the rhythm, so Yu Cang could not understand what they wanted to express.
"Jieying." Yu Cang said, "Is Zhichong also born in the same way as you?"
"No, Mr. Scholar." Jieying's voice came from outside the bubble world, "The consciousness beasts are born in the Starry Sky Vision, but the consciousness insects are not. They can reproduce on their own and are very difficult to deal with..."
Upon hearing this news, Yu Cang's eyes lit up.
He said, "So... the insect can be cultivated?"
"Uh." Jieying swallowed and blinked, "It seems... that's indeed the case."
"Are these insects easy to keep alive?"
"I'm not sure... but as long as there's enough Cadence for them to consume, theoretically there should be no problem. Compared to Beast Sense, Insect Sense doesn't have such high requirements for Cadence quality."
"good."
A smile appeared on Yu Cang's face.
It’s a good thing to be able to raise it.
He doesn’t know how to use the insect’s body now, but that doesn’t mean he won’t know in the future.
If you can breed them... then you won’t have to worry when you need to identify insects in the future!
Ice City has another function - an insect identification and breeding base!
Yu Cang nodded with satisfaction.
"Jieying, keep Bingcheng near the Jieying campus and don't let it run around."
"Okay, Master Scholar."
"Oh, there's something else I want to know." Yu Cang looked at Jieying. "I don't seem to have found any records of large-scale invasions of the Immeasured Insects in Blue Star's history. I want to know, was my encounter with these Immeasured Insects this time just a coincidence, or is there something else going on?"
"This... shouldn't be a coincidence." Jieying lowered his head, his two long and narrow side fins touching each other in front of him, and his tone seemed a little guilty. "I'm sorry, Mr. Scholar, Jieying should have told you sooner..."
"Oh?" Yu Cang raised his brows slightly, "It's okay, tell me first."
"Okay." Jieying said quickly, "It's like this, although the Knowledge Bug can directly plunder knowledge, this ability sounds very domineering, but it has many limitations.
"We beasts can eat anything because we only copy, but insects... their way of eating is very domineering, but at the same time, it takes more effort to find food. If they want to eat some high-level rhythms, it will take an extremely long time.
"Even some weaker Sense Bugs simply don't have the ability to 'bite' through the shells of higher-level rhythms. Not to mention that many higher-level rhythms will 'resist'. So, even if a group of Sense Bugs passed through a world, without help, they could only consume some of the ordinary rhythms on the periphery and couldn't enter and feast on them.
"So, there are generally two ways for consciousness insects to consume higher rhythms. One is like when you first met me, parasitizing the body of a consciousness beast. It is very easy for consciousness beasts to absorb higher rhythms, and consciousness insects can directly obtain some pre-digested higher rhythms from the consciousness beast's body.
"Another way... is to seek cooperation with scholars. Especially a saint like you, the first in your world to enter the Starry Sky Vision Field, is the one they most want to cooperate with."
"Oh?" Yu Cang rubbed his chin, "So, these insect-savvy people might also be here to 'find a job'?"
"Well, you could say that."
"...You're not going to tell me that the news of a 'saint' appearing on Blue Star has spread throughout the Starry Sky Vision Domain, are you?"
"No!" Jieying explained, "The insects of knowledge have the ability to sense scholars who can enter the Starry Sky Vision. These insects of knowledge may have passed by here and happened to see you, so they came over!"
Yu Cang was a little amused and helpless.
"So what can these insects do for me?"
The raw material that Jieying uses to create the bubble world is his own body. These insect-like creatures with tiny arms and legs can't do this job no matter how hard you think about it.
"It's like this," Jieying explained. "The insects' ability to recognize is very powerful, and they hide in the Starry Sky Vision, making it difficult for the powerful in the world to detect them. If you have an enemy, you can just let these insects quietly parasitize their brains from the Starry Sky Vision... Although consuming some important memories will cause alertness, if you only want to erase some marginal memories when the powerful are not paying attention, it is still easy to do.
"Another point is that the Sense Worms are very sensitive to the presence of Scholars. They can help Scholars find others with scholar potential around the world and, by devouring their memories, eliminate the possibility of these people entering the Starry Sky Vision Domain... This is why they prefer to cooperate with Saints. Many 'Saints' hope to monopolize the use of the Starry Sky Vision Domain in the current world, and the Sense Worms can perfectly meet their needs."
“…A very powerful ability.”
What is Chiko?
A tech lock, right?
He finally understood that this insect identifier was not the one who would do good things.
Yu Cang turned his head and looked at the several insects that kept screaming in the Ice City and trying to communicate with him.
He certainly wouldn't do such a monopoly thing.
There was no normal world near Blue Star anymore, it was like a deserted island. No one knew what conspiracy the desolate beasts were hatching, and if they were still thinking about internal strife at this time, they were really wasting their lives.
Yu Cang would definitely promote Starry Sky Vision—of course, only after Yu Cang had sufficient power and influence. With the entry recorder, that day wouldn't be too far away.
However, putting that aside, the ability to identify insects is also very useful to him.
Identifying insects can help him find people with potential as scholars. This ability can be fully used to collect talents. It is really not a proper job to establish a monopoly.
Yu Cang set his gaze on the Ice City and thought for a moment.
If you want the insect recognizers to work for you, you have to provide them with some advanced rhythms.
Once these rhythms enter their mouths, they can't get out.
For Yu Cang now, this is a disadvantage.
Moreover, he didn't have a very good impression of the insects in Ice City. Some of them didn't even have basic intelligence, only knowing how to rush around recklessly. This beast-like behavior made Yu Cang hesitant to entrust them with the task of recruiting talents.
Yu Cang carefully looked at those intelligent insects, memorized their rhythmic breath, then turned around and left Ice City.
Let's lock them up for a while and suppress their arrogance first.
…
Inside the Jieying campus.
Guan Qingrui's eyes widened when he saw Yu Cang's squandering behavior.
Beside him, Ren Zheng's eyes were trembling, and he was obviously angry.
"Principal, Xiao Cang this, this, this..." Guan Qingrui couldn't utter a complete sentence for a long time.
At first, Yu Cang used [Frost Day] to freeze all the insects, which he could accept. However, he silently lamented in his heart how useless he was that he had to let young people make sacrifices on their behalf.
But then Yu Cang casually threw out a bunch of entries, and he really couldn't sit still anymore.
What a waste! Isn't this pure waste!
It's obvious that your first strike is enough to kill all these insects!
Ren Zheng was also very angry, but he still remained basically calm.
His intuition told him that Yu Cang should not be such a wasteful person... he should have his own ideas.
"Wait a minute... let's see how Xiao Cang will explain."
"……OK."
Behind them, Feng didn't dare to breathe.
Shit, what did he see!
In just such a short time, he hasn't even figured out what this Jieying Campus is, and you let him watch this?
Yu Cang's actions just now shocked him too much.
With just a snap of his fingers, he froze a piece of space, and with a wave of his hand, he created a world!
Although Jieying also took action, looking at his pitiful appearance next to Yu Cang, he was probably just a supporting role.
You're so modest... You're saying this Jieying Campus wasn't created by you. Back then, I'm afraid you just sculpted it with a wave of your hand...
Feng was greatly shocked.
At this moment, a flash of light appeared beside him, and Yu Cang's rhythmic body appeared beside him.
Before he could stand firm, Guan Qingrui's voice came from the side.
"Xiao Cang!" His voice trembled, "How about it... Can you still remember the rhythm you just used?"
Yu Cang shook his head: "I can't remember."
To be exact, he didn't remember it.
Several entries were provided by the recorder and never crossed his mind at all.
He is not yet qualified to learn the legendary rhythm.
"Ouch!" Guan Qingrui cried out, looking even more distressed than if he had forgotten it himself. "You're confused... Xiao Cang, just because you're so young and have mastered so many legendary rhythms, doesn't mean you'll always be able to learn them so quickly..."
Back then, there was a genius in Yan Country who created a legendary soul card at the age of fourteen. He was also famous in Yan Country at that time. However, since he became an adult at the age of eighteen, he seemed to have suddenly lost his spiritual energy. He could not learn anything and eventually became mediocre among the crowd... Speaking of which, this person seems to be about the same age as Yu Cang.
Ren Zheng frowned: "Xiao Cang, tell me what you think."
Yu Cang smiled lightly.
Professor Guan and Ren Zheng’s reactions were not beyond his expectations… It didn’t matter, as long as he used [Han Tian] again tomorrow, his concerns would naturally be dispelled.
So he was not in a hurry, but just opened his mouth and explained the existence of the insect recognition and the purpose of his establishment of the Ice City.
"...Xiao Cang, your idea is indeed good." Guan Qingrui sighed, "But you could have told us...why not just let me do this..."
Yu Cang didn't answer Guan Qingrui, but suddenly said, "Professor Guan, you said... you created a combat memory model, right? Can you tell me the principle behind it?"
"Oh, this..." Guan Qingrui had no intention of hiding anything. "It's very simple. Just preset a deduction model in your mind. If you forget a rhythm during battle, as long as you activate this model, you can quickly deduce what you forgot. It's very suitable for fighting in the Starry Sky Vision Area... Because I just perfected it, there are still many details to be processed, so I didn't tell you."
"Is that so?" Yu Cang nodded, then said, "Then Professor Guan, what if I told you that the rhythms I just used also used similar techniques to form a 'model'?"
"That can't be... what did you say?" Guan Qingrui was stunned and re-confirmed in disbelief, "Xiao Cang, the battle memory model I'm talking about refers to the one I can quickly deduce after using a certain rhythm..."
Yu Cang nodded affirmatively: "That's right, that's what I meant."
“…”
Guan Qingrui stopped talking.
He felt that Yu Cang was talking nonsense.
Can the legendary rhythm be derived?
If the legendary rhythm can be deduced, then why go to those dangerous places?
Just take a piece of paper to the laboratory.
But he was worried again: This recipient of the Flame Emperor Medal can't treat me like a fool just to make fun of me, right?
So he remained silent.
Yu Cang could tell at once that he didn't believe it, but he didn't explain. He simply said, "Professor Guan, Mr. Ren...Principal Ren, things have already come to this point, so there's no point in dwelling on it. How about this? Tomorrow I'll use the rhythm I just used again. I think you two will believe it, right?"
Ren Zheng blinked.
Wait a minute.
It's fine that you can deduce a legendary rhythm. There are many unreasonable things about you, and this one is not the worst... But you said it only takes one day?
this……
"Alright, alright." Yu Cang pushed the two gazes away and walked out. "You two should first think about how to raise and identify insects in the future. Don't worry about my side of things. You will know tomorrow."
Guan Qingrui wanted to refute, but he was just a sight here, and he couldn't withstand the push of Yu Cang's rhythmic body. He could only sigh helplessly and turned away.
After seeing the two off, Yu Cang breathed a sigh of relief.
The entry recorder must not be known to them, and although this combat memory model is a bit ridiculous, it can be used as an excuse.
At least, it makes sense in theory, doesn't it?
Turning around, Yu Cang looked at the person on the bench.
"I'm sorry to have kept you waiting for so long."
"Um...it's okay." Feng seemed a lot more restrained than before.
"Don't be nervous." Yu Cang sat down on the bench and stretched.
He felt somewhat helpless.
Originally, after he showed the strength of this place, this person would definitely come to him and beg him to let him study here.
But after what happened just now... Feng seemed to become timid, and now he even speaks cautiously.
Then you can only take the initiative yourself.
"Feng." Yu Cang said, "You are also a card maker, right? How about coming here to study for a while?"
Hearing this, Feng's eyes seemed to brighten a lot.
Yu Cang smiled lightly.
Are you moved?
But who knew that Feng hesitated for a long time and still shook his head.
"...I'm sorry. I'd better... forget it."
When he said this, Feng's eyes were a little dim, and no one knew what he was thinking.
Yu Cang was very surprised.
Judging from Feng’s expression, he was obviously very moved just now.
"Are there any concerns?"
"Well, actually I... well, nothing." Feng suddenly smiled, "Thank you for your kindness, but my situation is special, so forget it."
Yu Cang looked at Feng for a while, then looked away.
"Honestly, few people can see this. You have great talent, and you're a card maker, so it shouldn't be wasted. Are you having any trouble? I might be able to help you."
"You can't help me."
"I see you're really eager to study here... Could it be that someone disagrees with you becoming a card maker?"
Yu Cang could only think of this possibility.
"About the same."
"Is it a family member?"
"I guess so."
"Is that so... That's not easy to deal with." Yu Cang rubbed his hair.
He actually didn't understand why there were still family members who wouldn't allow him to be a card maker.
This profession can be said to be the most valuable profession... No matter how high or low your card-making skills are, you can always find a job after graduation.
Could it be that Feng's family has billions of assets to inherit, and his family wants him to study business?
There is no other way, you have to go to a technical college for this.
On Blue Star, except for the three major Soul Card colleges, all other majors are in technical colleges.
"It's true that we need to respect our family's advice." Yu Cang sighed, "But your own thoughts are equally important. Go back and have a good discussion with your family. I can say responsibly that you are very talented. If you don't pursue this career, it will be a loss for the entire Yan Nation. I can have Principal Ren Zheng personally tell your family this."
Hearing this, Feng smiled.
"Really? I'm that awesome."
"Maybe it's even more powerful than this." Yu Cang tutted his words, "In short, no matter what happens, face your own heart. It doesn't matter what others want you to become. What matters is what kind of person you want to be."
"……Thanks."
"Okay, let's stop here," Yu Cang said. "You can go back first... If you encounter any difficulties, you can always come to the Card Creator Academy to find me. By the way, my name is Yu Cang."
After saying that, Yu Cang waved his hand and sent Feng out of the Jieying campus.
(End of this chapter)
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