Chapter 279 Return Gift to Miao Xue
After thinking for a while and finding no result, Yu Cang stopped thinking about it.
Closing his eyes gently, he had arrived in the starry sky vision.
Instead of going to the Jieying campus, Yu Cang stood alone under the starry sky, releasing his perception.
The campus must be very lively now. The guardians of the country have not left yet and are talking to Ren Zheng. He had just managed to escape from the summit, so why would he break back in at this time?
After sensing for a moment, Yu Cang opened his eyes, feeling a little disappointed.
He still remembered that on the day of the duel with Duan Feng, he had a fleeting glimpse of his possible destiny star behind him.
After talking with the princess in the capital, Yu Cang realized that his destiny star was most likely the emperor star that had fallen long ago... Therefore, he has been trying to find his original state again, trying to summon his own destiny star.
Putting aside whether I can gain benefits from the Emperor Star, I will always feel weird without the Destiny Star.
It seemed as if he was an alien in the starry sky.
But there was no way. His life star seemed to be completely hidden. No matter how hard he looked, he could not find any trace of it.
The Emperor Star is very important to the entire universe. If it can be found, perhaps some problems can be solved.
Now that he couldn't find it for the time being, he didn't get discouraged. He cheered himself up, and with a thought, he appeared in the Ice City.
This frozen city is now very depressed.
Yu Cang once asked the princess what conditions were needed to raise insects, and she simply said that Ice City was indeed very suitable.
The walls here are frozen, and insects cannot gnaw on them, making it the perfect place for insect breeding.
Stardust still remembered the more efficient farms that the empire had built, but the blueprints for such things were very complicated. Although Stardust was knowledgeable, he certainly couldn't remember all of them at once, so he could only deduce the complete blueprint first.
Secondly... they don’t have that many industrial spirits to build farms now.
The number of spirit particles is extremely scarce, and they are needed everywhere. To describe the country as penniless is an understatement.
Therefore, we can only use the Ice City as an emergency measure now, and Yu Cang has to come to reinforce the rhythm once a month.
Yu Cang came to Xingchen's location.
Now, her spiritual body was floating above the ground, her eyes staring straight ahead.
On the ground in front of her, several insects were staggering back and forth, their movements looking very stiff, as if their limbs were not their own.
In fact, their limbs are no longer their own.
Yu Cang came to the princess.
"Stardust, what's going on?"
"Yu Cang, you're here!" Xingchen turned around and smiled. "I feel like we're almost there... To be honest, I only have a rough idea of this technique. I didn't expect it to be replicated in such a short time."
"Really?" Yu Cang looked at the insects in front of him, "Are they harmless now?"
"Not really harmless." Stardust waved his hand, and the spirit particles gathered around him to form a screen. A lot of data flashed on it, all written in the language of Yan Country.
She pushed the floating screen to Yu Cang's side, and then said:
"I used spirit particles to create new limbs for these insects. I've programmed these limbs with certain action patterns and nineteen safety instructions to ensure they won't attack the rhythm or memory of any living being. They can also stop the insects from developing an appetite."
"Sounds good."
"Hmm... it's a little worse than I expected." Xingchen rubbed his face. "Once I add another thirty safety protection instructions, it should be ready for use."
"...Do you really need to add so much?"
“Safety is essential!”
Stardust emphasized.
"Okay...indeed." Yu Cang nodded.
It is not a waste of time to provide prosthetic limbs for insect identification.
The insects are very sensitive to people with scholarly talents and can smell them from a long distance... They like to eat the memories of such people, which are the best food for them.
Especially the young scholars that do not require much effort to eat are their favorite.
Putting aside the second half, this ability to identify insects is very suitable for finding good seedlings to learn Starry Sky Vision... as long as the problem of their feeding instinct is solved.
Therefore, replacing "prosthetic limbs" with spirit particles is a good method.
In this case, the brains of these insects will subconsciously look for people with academic talents, but after finding them, when they want to eat them, their limbs will begin to generate their own ideas.
Not only will they not eat it, they will also mark and protect it on the spot, and send a signal to Yu Cang or the association, waiting for someone to come and take the scholar away for intensive cultivation.
Although this may sound a bit cruel to Shi Chong himself... the food is clearly placed in front of him, and the thought of eating is clearly in his mind, but his hands and feet are determined to play with Inch Stop.
Therefore, as long as he had this "spiritual prosthesis", the insect judge could finally devote himself to the work of screening talents... In fact, this was also the idea that the princess had in the beginning to attract the insect judge.
On a separate note, there's nothing "inhumane" about this practice. Unlike normal creatures, the Idioms, a race composed of pure rhythm, have detachable limbs. Once a limb is removed, new ones can be easily grown by eating rhythm.
However, there is a special rhythm in the spirit particle prosthesis, which can make the insect's brain mistakenly think that it is the original limb, thus preventing the body from regenerating.
The princess would feed them afterwards, so there was no question of abuse.
"Then, when can these insect recognition devices be put into use?" Yu Cang asked.
This knowledge of insects is very important for promoting the Starry Sky Vision.
"It will be done soon, within a week at most."
Nodding, Yu Cang looked back.
There, some little bugs were locked in an ice house.
Those... were born from these intelligent insects.
After the princess took over the Ice City, she produced spirit particles while also intentionally stimulating them to give birth... However, the spirit particles were consumed too quickly, and the number of insects was still not enough to cover the cost.
As for the larvae you see before your eyes... they were all born by these intelligent insects during this period of peace, so there are only a few of them.
The reproduction speed of the Identifiers is not slow, especially the intelligent Identifiers, which have a reproduction efficiency several times that of ordinary Identifiers. However, their wisdom is usually not passed on easily.
For example, these larvae in front of us are all ordinary insects without exception.
"Princess, I'll take these larvae and use them."
"Hmm?" The princess turned her head, a little confused. "What are you going to do?"
"Verify some conjectures."
"Okay... But be careful not to consume too much. The insects have a lifespan, and these intelligent insects can't reproduce indefinitely."
"rest assured."
Yu Cang walked into the ice house.
Although Yu Cang had a harmless smile on his face, faced with such an exaggerated rhythmic body, these inexperienced insects instinctively lay on the ground and trembled.
Yu Cang squatted down and observed carefully.
Sure enough, no matter what creature it is, it seems to be quite cute when it is young.
Those adult insects are all strange in appearance, with crooked shapes, sharp teeth and beaks, which makes them look more noble.
This is mainly because the rhythms that the insects eat are too diverse, and the various rhythms affect the growth of their bodies, and sometimes cause terrible mutations.
Compared to those insect-savvy ones, Sora and Xu, who rarely speak, are simply the symbols of handsomeness in the race.
The rhythm of time and space, which is essentially at the mythical level, has created a perfect body for Sora and Sequence. It is incredibly handsome whether in battle or for viewing.
These cubs in front of them naturally do not have the same conditions as Kong and Xu, but they have not eaten much yet, and at most they have eaten some industrial spirit particles, so they can indeed be called cute.
Even his eyes revealed a clear stupidity that had not been polluted by knowledge.
Yu Cang stretched out his hand and lightly touched one of the larvae.
The body is soft and filled with gelatin and solidified starlight.
Yu Cang gently stroked the insect. It seemed to realize that there was no danger. The insect's body relaxed a little and stopped shaking. It even rubbed Yu Cang's palm tactfully.
However, it is difficult to change one's nature after all. As the Insect Knowledge looked at the "Rhythmic Body" so close to him, his mouthparts trembled slightly, as if he would not be able to hold back and bite it hard at any time... But his instinct told him that the person in front of him was very dangerous, so he fell into a struggle.
Instinct and desire are pulling at each other, but there is no wisdom.
Looking at the little bug, Yu Cang's eyes showed a thoughtful look.
At this moment, his eyes were on the entry recorder.
It is true that Starry Sky Vision can directly inject entries, and the success rate is almost 100%, but that is under the premise that Yu Cang's purpose is to fight.
His goal at this moment was to transform this insect...but his success rate dropped suddenly.
However, it is still not low!
Before coming in, Yu Cang had checked the success rate of implanting entries in those intelligent insects. It was ridiculously low. Even for an ordinary entry, the success rate was only a few tenths of a percent.
In fact, this is not easy.
Yu Cang had tried it in the present world, and it would never succeed to implant entries into living things. No matter what formula was used, the success rate was always zero.
Here, it should be just because of the special nature of the Starry Sky Vision.
Before identifying the insect, Yu Cang also found the success rate in Jieying's body, but he didn't dare to try it.
After all, Jieying only has this one, and he is his own partner. If he implants it rashly, it will not be good, whether it succeeds or fails.
Failure may cause irreversible damage to the boundary shadow, and success cannot guarantee that the boundary shadow will remain the same.
As for implanting it into the consciousness bug... I have tried it before, but it failed.
However, when it comes to identifying insect cubs, the success rate has increased significantly, and many formulas have a high success rate.
Yu Cang guessed that this was probably because the body of the insect was now very pure, just like a blank soul card.
That's good.
Try it first.
Thinking of this, Yu Cang's mind moved and he started the entry implantation.
Bang!
The next moment, the insect in his palm seemed to sense something, its body suddenly stiffened, and then it slowly raised its head and let out a painful hiss towards Yu Cang.
Then, with a squeak, he fell to the ground and was silent.
"...Failed." Yu Cang took a deep breath.
Sure enough, it was the right decision not to try it on Jieying.
The cost of implant failure is too irreversible.
Faced with these unintelligent insects, Yu Cang naturally did not feel sorry for them. After calming down, he began to think.
At this moment, the cubs who had just relaxed because of Yu Cang's "caress" became frightened in an instant, lying on the ground again, trembling.
"...Continue." Yu Cang looked at the next insect.
His knowledge of insects was limited, so he had to find some reliable formulas.
In fact, he started studying these things now in order to prepare a "return gift" for Miao Xue.
Space and order are definitely not something that can be reproduced. The power of time is too advanced. Even if Yu Cang successfully implants the [Time and Space] entry, Miao Xue probably won't be able to use it.
So, as a second best option, let’s see if we can make other “sense-eating insects”.
…
Outside the house, Xingchen glanced at Yu Cang out of the corner of his eye, hissed, but still said nothing.
She feels heartbroken.
A bug is gone in an instant!
What is this for? Why is it so wasteful?
To be honest, she definitely wouldn't care about the consumption of these little bugs, but times have changed.
God have mercy on her, the princess has never been so poor. The poor days in the past few days have completely aroused the princess's pettiness. She wishes that every insect she raises can give birth to 108 babies, but unfortunately it is impossible.
Judging from Yu Cang's expression, it was clear that he wouldn't give up easily today. He might even kill all the larvae in this room...
Yu Cang hadn't come for a few days, and when he came, he looked like he was going to kill everyone, which really made her feel uneasy.
However, this is someone else's Ice City after all, and the insects were caught by someone else, so the princess could only hold back the tears in her heart and focus on the work at hand.
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Unexpectedly, before she could debug a security program.
Suddenly, she heard a strange noise coming from the ice house, and then an unfamiliar rhythm suddenly appeared in her perception, making her stunned on the spot.
Wait...what did Yu Cang do? !
A terrible guess arose in the princess's mind. She quickly turned her head away, and then her mouth slowly opened and could not be closed.
I saw that the insect-recognizing cub in Yu Cang's hand...had grown up.
Yes, grown up!
The princess rubbed her eyes and looked carefully many times before she was finally sure that what she saw was not an illusion.
No way, what kind of performance is this...
Artificially ripen insects?
Can you please obey the law of spirit particles?
Moreover, the most outrageous thing was that she clearly felt that the adult insect in Yu Cang's hand had some additional abilities, as if...
It's like those ancient methods of insect breeding, where the insect is fed with only one single rhythm from a young age until it grows up. This way, there is a high probability that the insect will have the ability that the breeder wants.
In the era before the invention of spirit particles, those insects used for combat came into being in this way.
But to put it bluntly, it is a process that depends on luck. The probability of raising a bug from childhood to adulthood and developing useful abilities is not much different from that of simply drawing an SSR. It also requires a long time and a lot of energy.
How is it possible that Yu Cang can grow up just by wiping his hand?
Jin Ke La is not that powerful!
Directly tampering with the life process, and it's so easy, Yu Cang you...
Looking at Yu Cang's back, the princess inexplicably felt a trace of fear in her heart.
It is precisely because she stands on the shoulders of the empire that she knows how terrifying it is to achieve this. Even in the empire, this technology is worthy of being called a "taboo."
Can this really be explained by "talent"...
After a moment of silence, Stardust shook his head.
Forget it, it doesn’t matter. The universe is already like this, what’s the point of worrying about it.
Yu Cang has become stronger, which is a good thing!
Thinking of this, Xingchen breathed a sigh of relief, and then came to the ice house.
"...Yu Cang, what are you doing?"
Hearing this, Yu Cang turned his gaze away from the insect consciousness in front of him: "My experiment was successful... I was lucky that I didn't consume too much insect consciousness."
“…”
"Then you are busy, I will leave first."
After saying that, Yu Cang turned around and disappeared into the Ice City.
Only the princess was left standing there, lost in thought.
…
After some effort, Yu Cang prepared a soul connection card for this insect:
Soul Card Name: Consciousness Devouring Worm - Wandering
Category: Summon Card
Number of anchor points: 1
Quality: Connection
Attributes: Empty
Race: Insect Hunter
ability:
Empty attribute summoned beast*1
[Mind Devouring]: This lingering attack deals additional mental damage. When the attack takes effect, it also deals mental damage to the target's operator.
[Time Shift]: If the Soul Card's material is currently channeling an ability when it becomes an anchor point, the channeling will end immediately and the ability will be considered activated successfully. If this is done, the Soul Card's Death Cooldown will be increased by the channeling time.
[Return]: When this Soul Card is successfully summoned, the Soul Card Master's location is recorded. If this ability is activated, the Soul Card Master and the target connected to the Soul Card return to that location.
…
Yu Cang nodded with satisfaction.
A very practical soul card.
Although they don't seem to be as strong as Kong and Xu, both of their abilities are very useful, especially the ability to work with the Mustard Flying Gu to produce a very exciting synergy!
The [Far Sky] of the Mustard Seed Flying Gu allows the Mustard Seed Flying Gu to still be controlled after it flies out of the Soul Card Master's control range, but at this time, no matter what ability is activated, it will take extra guidance time.
Although the Mustard Seed Flying Gu itself has a strong concealment ability, it will inevitably leak some air-attribute energy during the guidance process, and it will be easily discovered at this time.
But it’s different with this hesitation!
[Time Shift] can directly clear the channeling time. As long as you use it as the material for a Link Summon right after the Mustard Seed Flying Gu starts channeling, you can trigger the ability and teleport here directly.
At the same time, [Return] will be activated before teleporting to mark your current location. When you activate this ability again, you can come back directly.
The combination of the two soul cards can instantly return to the city and come back from a long distance, which is a perfect combination!
However, the Mustard Seed Flying Gu is only a rare card after all, and has its limitations. The ability of [Far Sky] has an upper limit, and it is not like Kong that can be controlled infinitely... But even so, this soul card will be a qualitative change for the Mustard Seed Flying Gu.
The formula this time is.
[Spatial coordinates] + [Time coordinates] + [Channel]!
Yu Cang nodded.
Yes... This soul card should be enough as a return gift to Miao Xue.
Thanks to Weihuohu nv for the reward!
(End of this chapter)
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