Delicate slug (5)
Shi Jianxia's bug didn't work in the end, and Buzhou Mountain successfully escaped the disaster.
After observation, Shi Jianxia determined that Buzhou Mountain's rampage state would last for half an hour. When she summoned Gonggong again, Buzhou Mountain would still enter the rampage state, but [Buzhou's Fury] would not be refreshed.
She guessed that [Buzhou's Fury] should need a normal cooldown before it would refresh after Buzhou Mountain entered a rampage state.
And as long as Buzhou Mountain and Gonggong are in the same area, Buzhou Mountain will always be in a state of rampage.
I haven't tested Gonggong's rampage state yet, but I can roughly understand its effect from the talent introduction.
Shi Jianxia was afraid of causing problems with Mount Buzhou, so after its second rampage ended, he stopped conducting the bug experiment.
Buzhou Mountain knew that it was being treated as a guinea pig, and floated in front of her pitifully, controlling the small trees and rocks on the mountain to change, making a vivid crying face.
Shi Jianxia automatically imagined the tearful expression of Xixi after being wronged, and felt a little uneasy. He coughed unconsciously, then pretended to be calm and touched the thorny top of Buzhou Mountain, practicing a strategy of praising.
Buzhou Mountain immediately became happy, and flew to its friends, leaning against a small tree on the top of the mountain, shaking it to show off its enlarged body.
Zhaoyao Mountain nudged it, Tiandi Mountain quietly poked it with the tip of its mountain foot, and Changliu Mountain, Kunlun Mountain and other minions were not to be outdone. They squeezed over and nudged and poked Buzhou Mountain, poking it so hard that it dared not show off anymore and went to smash the Zerg honestly.
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Some water fish, including holla fish, went to the sea to look for the female insects and found a total of four in two hours.
After two of them died, a Class B insect vortex was formed, and after two of them died, a Class C insect vortex was formed.
The levels are not very high, but that's to be expected.
A considerable part of this sea area is shallow sea, and the marine creatures that swim here are not large in size. After the Zerg parasites the creatures, they will continue to devour other creatures to strengthen themselves, and their size will become larger and larger.
Any high-level parasite that can survive in the ocean must be a huge monster and rarely appears in shallow waters.
Shi Jianxia divided the four insect vortexes. The Phoenix and the Three-legged Crow swallowed the B-level insect vortexes and successfully upgraded. Bifang and Zhu Yan swallowed the C-level insect vortexes.
Before the effect of [Changxi Bathing in the Moon] wore off, Shi Jianxia put all the cubs into the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" to prevent anyone from seeing them and associating them with her, causing unnecessary trouble.
She had tried it before, and she could use the mimicry talents of the cubs without summoning them out of the Classic of Mountains and Seas. The Classic of Mountains and Seas could enter a virtual state, meaning that others could not see the images of the Classic of Mountains and Seas with the naked eye, making it even more unexpected when she used her mimicry talents.
In order to ensure work efficiency, Shi Jianxia summoned Gonggong and asked him to go into the sea to continue searching for the queen insect.
Like Changxi, she has no plans to let the mythological mimicry appear in front of people for the time being, so as to keep her trump card in hand.
More than 800 cubs are already eye-catching enough. If she can summon more mimics, she will sooner or later be taken to the federal laboratory to be a guinea pig.
Gonggong had already understood that Jianxia was using him to stimulate Buzhou Mountain into a rampage state. He felt a little funny for a moment, but he was not angry.
When he received the order, he simply swam into the sea.
Scientists have not yet fully understood the principle of mimicry, but they can be sure that mimicry is an aggregate of energy and is related to the will of the person with the ability. After being defeated, it can reappear as long as it recuperates, and the Zerg will not be able to parasitize it.
Gonggong is worthy of being the water god. He can control the water flow for his own use and sense the position of the queen insect through the changes in the water flow.
After a while, Gonggong found a female insect and tied it up tightly with a water column.
When he was about to bring the queen insect to the shore, he was stopped by Shi Jianxia.
The fact that her mimicry can devour insect vortexes must not be known to others.
The domain of [Changxi Bathing in the Moon] has disappeared, and there are a large number of surveillance cameras installed on the isolation wall behind. If Gonggong is filmed devouring the insect vortex and is discovered, it will definitely cause an uproar.
If it is done in the sea, no one will know.
Shi Jianxia saw through Gonggong's perspective that it was a light brown octopus with a head as big as a basket, and it had mutated to grow several eyes. Fist-sized gray-brown tumors were all over its head and tentacles, and there seemed to be something swimming rapidly in the suction cups on the tentacles, forming obvious bulges.
It happened that some larvae reached maturity, and the tumor automatically broke open. The larvae flowed out along with the yellowish tissue fluid and were washed away by the surging sea water.
Shi Jianxia felt a churning in his stomach when he thought about the sea water evaporating and turning into rain and falling from the sky.
However, the Federation's drinking water undergoes very strict disinfection, so people are not allowed to drink water containing Zerg tissue fluid.
The octopus was a little dazed when it was tied up by the water column controlled by Gonggong. It swam its tumorous tentacles to try to escape, but it struggled hard but was still stuck in the same place.
When Gonggong received the order from Shi Jianxia to kill it, he immediately controlled the water flow to form a trident and accurately inserted it into the octopus's forehead, piercing it through.
The seven or eight eyes on the octopus's head were bulging, and dark yellow blood gushed out from the wound and was washed away by the sea water. The small fish parasites nearby seemed to be stimulated by something, and they swam over quickly, swallowing the mother insect's blood in big gulps.
The Zerg that parasitize these small fish are very weak and are washed ashore by the tide every day. After being stranded, it is difficult for them to return to the sea. Because their level is too low, the patrol teams sent by the coastal quarantine station will not waste their time on them.
Therefore, these small fish parasites are basically killed by the sun during the day, and then the staff use robots to remove the insect crystals in their bodies and transport or store them as energy.
The octopus was not dead even though its head was pierced. It struggled violently, waving its tentacles, trying to escape from the water column. Gonggong did not give it a chance to escape. He continued to control the water flow to form a small trident, which pierced the octopus into a sieve.
Not long after, the octopus stopped struggling, and a gray-black turbine was formed. This time, there was a faint red thread on the outermost edge of the turbine.
It's an A-level insect vortex!
Shi Jianxia was overjoyed and let Gonggong swallow it directly.
Gonggong closed his eyes slightly.
The vortex that was spinning to transport more Zergs seemed to have been paused, and then turned into a white airflow that sank into his brow.
As the queen octopus died, its body shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the blood that flowed out was eaten up by the small fish that rushed over nearby after smelling the blood.
Shi Jianxia had an idea and asked Gonggong to catch all the small fish parasites that had gathered together in a net and put them into an empty storage box on the shore.
Without the seawater on which it depended for survival, the parasite in the small fish seemed to have foreseen its impending death and began to struggle hard.
Shi Jianxia used Xianxian's mimicry talent [World Drought] on the storage box.
The Xianxian is a member of the fox family. It has a nimble body and a cute appearance. Unlike the nine-tailed fox with white fur, its fur is crimson, like a beautiful flame. It also has a pair of very thin wings on its back, but it cannot use them to fly.
Secondary mimicry name: 獙獙
[Mimicry Level: C-level (0/10 C-level vortex required for upgrade)]
[Mimicry Potential: Currently in cub state, can be upgraded to 3S level]
[Mimetic Talent: Severe Drought]
[Talent Introduction: The Mimicry owner can cause water vapor in a designated area to evaporate rapidly, causing a severe drought. Living and non-living things within the area will suffer a dehydration effect of 10% of their current health. The talent lasts for 1 hour and has a cooldown of 240 hours (after the cooldown is complete).]
[Battle Level: Level 1 (Level 1 Insect Crystals 6377/10000 required for upgrading)]
[Fusion Combat Bonus: Increases the physical function of the mimic owner by 100%]
[World Drought] took effect. The small fish parasites in the storage box sensed that the moisture was disappearing quickly and struggled even more violently. However, the box opening was covered by an invisible force and they could not escape at all.
In just a few seconds, the struggles of the small fish parasite became weaker and weaker, and the scales on the surface of its body gradually dried up and even turned outward, as if it had been roasted and was completely dehydrated.
All dead.
Shi Jianxiajian was effective. He took out all the storage boxes in the space bracelet and asked Gonggong to continue searching for the mother insect in the sea, killing it and using its blood to attract other parasites.
The insect vortex was absorbed by Gonggong, and the parasites that came to snatch the "food" were all caught in one fell swoop and thrown into the storage box. Shi Jianxia used the mimicry talent of Xianxian to dehydrate these parasites to death.
Chang Xi no longer had to hunt down the parasites washed ashore one by one. She could simply use her Silver Moon Scimitar to cut open the heads of the parasites' corpses and dig out the insect crystals.
In this way, the efficiency of hunting the Zerg increased dramatically. Unfortunately, except for the A-level vortex formed after the death of the first queen, the vortexes formed by the death of other queens were all B-level and C-level, which made it impossible for Gonggong to be promoted to S-level at once.
After the usage time of Xianxian's mimicry talent expired, Shi Jianxia continued to use Bo Yu's mimicry talent [Rivers Dried Up and Seas Dry Up], which had a similar effect to Xianxian's mimicry talent.
It was four o'clock in the morning, the half moon was setting in the west, and the effect of [Active - Divine Puppet Changxi] was about to disappear. Shi Jianxia summoned Gonggong back from the sea and asked him to control the water flow to clean the collected insect crystals.
Gonggong not only helped her wash the insect crystals, but also counted the specific number.
There are 367 third-level insect crystals, 47,121 second-level insect crystals, and 121,463 first-level insect crystals, which are comparable to the number of insect crystals supplied to the red spider lily by the Linhai Quarantine Station every month.
The hunting teams on other beaches have already finished their work. Shi Jianxia sent Changxi and Gonggong back to "Classic of Mountains and Seas" and quietly slipped away with tonight's harvest.
After using the cubs' mimicry talents, she spent about an hour on the road. When she returned to the Mimicry Association dormitory, the cubs who stayed at home came to her affectionately.
The space bracelet that Shi Jianxia had placed on the table before she left was missing. After sensing Zuo Wu's memory, she saw Number Nine wearing a white sweatshirt jumping into the balcony, looking for trouble with her. When he didn't see anyone, he even scolded her a few words.
Things like "Hei Xiaoqi" sounded like the quarrel of elementary school kids, and Shi Jianxia was speechless.
Only after Zou Wu handed him the space bracelet did Number Nine stop mumbling. He looked left and right, and while the other cubs were not paying attention, he rubbed the soft fur on Zou Wu's body.
Why on earth could this guy become a core member of Higanbana?
Shi Jianxia couldn't understand it, he couldn't understand it at all.
After being snored by him, Zouwu was not angry, and even circled around him twice.
Then, Shi Jianxia heard Number Nine mutter, "If you weren't a mimic of Hei Xiaoqi, I would have taken you away."
Zou Wu seemed to understand, and stopped circling around him. He then quickly rushed into Shi Jianxia's room, buried his head in the quilt, and exposed his long tail, which was shaking wildly from side to side. From the tip to the base of the tail, it was full of rejection.
Number Nine was so angry that he fell backwards.
The other kids were lying in a row on the sofa, obviously just there to watch the fun and enjoy the fun.
Number Nine was furious and left.
Shi Jianxia laughed out loud without hesitation, picked up Zou Wu, and kissed the soft fur on its forehead vigorously, expressing his affection without reservation: "Good boy!"
Zuo Wu was so happy that he threw himself into her arms and rubbed against her, acting like a spoiled child and making her hard to let go.
Shi Jianxia played with the cubs for a while, counted the insect crystals needed for all the first-level cubs to upgrade to the second level, mixed the first and second-level insect crystals together and distributed them all, allowing them to upgrade to the second level, and planned to distribute a fourth-level insect crystal to all the second-level cubs so that they could upgrade to the third level.
She did not let the second-level cubs absorb the fourth-level insect crystals at the same time, otherwise it would easily cause all the cubs to fall into a deep sleep due to the need to absorb the energy of the insect crystals and could not be summoned to use their mimicry talents.
The insect crystals were distributed, and this luxurious feast made the kids so happy that they were flying with joy. They walked around Jian Xia and nudged her, almost squeezing her flat.
Shi Jianxia grabbed a cub and stuffed it into the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", asking them to upgrade quickly.
Once all the cubs are upgraded to level two, the energy provided by the level one insect crystals during their upgrade process will be negligible. Next time we go to the Linhai Quarantine Station, we must focus on hunting level two and three Zergs.
Seeing the sky getting brighter, Shi Jianxia released a few cubs to keep watch, while he took a bath and slept until noon.
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Monday came quickly. Shi Jianxia finished the theoretical class in the morning and prepared to borrow the school's weapon-making room for Zhu Yan to use, so that she could make an invisibility cloak as soon as possible, giving her an extra layer of protection for her actions at night.
Coincidentally, at this moment, her intelligent brain received a message from the academic affairs system. It was sent by the principal, informing her to go to the principal's office.
Jun Xiaoyi also received the same message.
Shi Jianxia muttered, "Are you taking us to the weapons vault to choose weapons?"
Jun Xiaoyi was immediately excited when he heard this, but then he quickly grabbed his hair in distress. "Xia Xia, what weapon are you going to pick? I'm not very good at fighting, so I don't know what to choose."
As a weakling in combat, he really didn't know what weapon to use.
Shi Jianxia was also a little conflicted. If there were no star cores in the weapons treasury, she would have to consider choosing weapons.
While training in the Xuan Tower, she used Zhu Yan's mimicry talent and practiced various weapons, but she was not particularly proficient in any of them and only had a basic understanding of them.
Maybe it was because she had played shooting games before traveling through time, but her accuracy was pretty good. However, after fighting with the mimic fusion, she found that cold weapons were more suitable for her.
"Let's take a look first. If that doesn't work, just pick the most expensive one." Shi Jianxia said mischievously.
Jun Xiaoyi immediately laughed out loud, thinking that the stingy principal must be in great pain.
However, 'Brave Popo, Not Afraid of Difficulties' won the freshman camp competition. With only three members, they saved the principal 1,800 weapons.
With this calculation, the principal still makes a profit.
The two of them chatted back and forth and soon arrived at the principal's office. As soon as they entered the door, they found that the atmosphere was a little bit off. There was a faint smell of gunpowder in the air.
The chief instructor of the combat department sat on the sofa on the left, Bai Chi, the instructor of the Zerg anatomy department, sat on the sofa on the right, and the principal sat alone on the sofa in the middle with a headache on his face.
Xia Hejun and Xiaoyi glanced at each other quietly. Before they could understand what was happening, the principal said with a smile, "Oh, Xiaoxia and Xiaoyi are here. Come on, come on, sit down and talk."
The chief instructor and instructor Bai Chi looked at him at the same time. One had a serious and rigid square face, and the other was a smiling old man. Although they didn't say anything, they both felt very stressed.
The two of them sat down stiffly on the sofa opposite the principal.
The head instructor got straight to the point: "Xiao Xia, Xiao Yi, based on your performance in the freshman competition, I think you're underemphasizing your talents by majoring in Zerg anatomy. Are you interested in switching to the combat and tactics departments?"
Shi Jianxia & Jun Xiaoyi: "!!!"
Shi Jianxia raised his hand silently, "We signed an agreement, and if we breach the agreement, we will have to pay compensation."
Several million!
She can't afford to pay for it!
Qiongbijun Xiaoyi nodded in agreement. After joining the student union, he had asked Nan Chiqing for the full set of courses in the Department of Tactics. The difference between changing majors and not changing majors would probably be the difference in the content of the graduation certificate.
The head instructor tried to sound amiable. "Whether or not this agreement takes effect is up to the principal. You don't have to worry about that, right, principal?"
He looked at Nanyuan, whose face was full of the thought, "Is it easy for me to be the principal?", and raised his sword-like eyebrows slightly, as if to say, "If you shake your head, I will stay in the principal's office until you agree."
Nan Yuan twitched his lips, ready to smooth things over. Professor Bai Chi sighed and said, "Well, our Zerg Anatomy major is just not well-received. We finally got two promising students, and now you, a killer, are trying to snatch them away."
In fact, Instructor Bai Chi also knew that students graduating from the Combat Department and the Tactics Department had better prospects than those graduating from the Zerg Anatomy major. However, he had seen Jun Xiaoyi dissecting Zerg corpses with ease, and he had also seen Shi Jianxia's well-trained students. It was a pity that he could not interfere with their choices with a clear conscience.
Jun Xiaoyi also raised his hand silently, "Can I study two majors at the same time?"
Teacher Bai Chi's eyes lit up instantly.
What a good idea!
This time it was Nanyuan who frowned. "Human energy is limited. Tactics courses are extremely demanding, and you also need to participate in training matches frequently. Can you balance that?"
Nanteng Military Academy does not object to students taking a second major, but it does not recommend that students in the Operations Department, Tactics Department, and Weapons Department do so. The courses in these three majors are very heavy, and most people cannot even do well in one of them, let alone taking a second major.
The Zerg anatomy major has quite a few theoretical and practical courses combined, and requires frequent field work. It is a notoriously hard and tiring major. If you add tactical courses to the mix, it's easy to fail both.
Jun Xiaoyi smiled shyly, "It should be no problem. I've only been studying Zerg anatomy for half a year, but it shouldn't be a problem for me to take the graduation exam now."
Shi Jianxia: "..."
Is this the legendary academic genius?
Nanyuan: ...very good. I haven’t met such a confident student in a long time. I talked to her about graduation as soon as she enrolled.
Who was the last person so arrogant?
Oh, it seems to be the current head of the federation, Ji Yang.
Instructor Bai Chi smiled, his face wrinkled. "No problem! No problem! I can consider reducing the number of your practical courses and field missions."
The pressure was on Shi Jianxia.
She whispered, "Can I let my child get a diploma in Zerg anatomy?"
headmaster:"?"
Chief Instructor: “?”
Jun Xiaoyi: "..."
Shi Jianxia puffed out his cheeks and fished out the adorable nine-tailed fox, "This is it! Super professional! He wields a knife and paws without any hesitation!"
The nine-tailed fox blinked blankly. Seeing that everyone was looking at it, it embarrassedly burrowed into Shi Jianxia's palm, while its nine furry little tails wagged happily.
Nanyuan and the chief instructor fell silent at the same time.
Among the five major military academies in the Federation, has any military academy ever issued a diploma to a mimic?
Seeing that they were silent, Shi Jianxia felt a little guilty, so he fished out the Heluo fish from the Classic of Mountains and Seas and said in a salesmanlike manner, "This cub will do too. It has ten tentacles, so if we can use all ten together, we can easily complete the dissection."
Before Nanyuan could even think it through, Instructor Bai Chi excitedly declared, "No problem!"
The chief instructor and Nanyuan looked at him at the same time.
Teacher Bai Chi said confidently, "I'm the one teaching the students, not you. If I think there's no problem, then there's no question!"
Nanyuan: "...Okay then."
I always feel that I will become famous in the five major federal military academies.
Shi Jianxia almost wanted to laugh out loud.
Finally, I don’t have to deal with those disgusting Zerg corpses!
Wonderful! Absolutely wonderful!
She tried hard to control the upturned corners of her mouth, stuffed the two cubs back into the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", and stretched out a tentative hand, "Principal, when can we go to the weapons vault to choose weapons?"
Nanyuan looked at her sparkling eyes and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.
Why does it feel like I'm being stared at by a hungry wolf?
Nanyuan maintained the demeanor of a principal and said, "Since you guys are here, come with me. I'll send a notice to Yuan Huai."
The Chief Instructor and Instructor Bai Chi exchanged a smile. There was no trace of the previous tit-for-tat confrontation. They both suggested going together to take a look.
So, a group of five people went to the weapons treasury of Nan Teng Military Academy. When they got downstairs, they happened to meet Yuan Huai who came over after class.
The weapons vault is in the basement of the principal's office building. It has five gates and there are two ways to open it. One is to enter a thirty-digit numeric and alphabetical password, and the other is to verify the principal's mental power. It can be said to be very safe.
The three of them followed the principal obediently and waited for the last gate to open. The place inside was not as magnificent as Shi Jianxia had imagined. It was even a bit ordinary, somewhat similar to the furnishings of a library, but quite spacious.
Rows of shelves are filled with all kinds of weapons, with weapons of the same type placed together. There is also a weapons catalog on the display stand in the front.
Nanyuan waved his hand and said, "Whichever weapons do you three want, go pick them out and take them away if you like them."
It's a bit unlike her to be so generous.
Some of the weapons here were collected by the previous principal, and the others were made by him. Some are very valuable, while others are ordinary.
Others once shone brightly in the Federation, but with the passing of their owners, they became ownerless and were purchased and collected by weapon enthusiasts.
The chief instructor and instructor Bai Chi rarely came in, so they also went to the various storage racks to broaden their horizons.
Shi Jianxia’s purpose is very clear, to find the core of the star.
The first star core was a red diamond-shaped crystal, and the second star core should be similar. She recalled the appearance of the first star core in her memory and released her mental power to quickly browse between the various shelves.
Unfortunately, she searched nearly two-thirds of the shelves and did not find anything similar to the star core. When she was about to continue searching, she suddenly noticed that there was a knife handle on the shelf in front of her right with a thumb-sized blue diamond crystal embedded in it.
Shi Jianxia's heart skipped a beat, and he walked towards the shelf over there, trying not to show any clues.
Ten meters, eight meters, five meters, one meter, I’m going to get it!
Suddenly, a white and slender hand stretched out and grasped the hilt of the knife.
Shi Jianxia's heartbeat almost stopped. She glanced sideways and saw Jun Xiaoyi holding a foot-long pig-killing knife, turning it over and over with great interest, and gently pressing the blade with his index finger.
He seemed to notice someone was looking at him, looked up, and said happily, "Xia Xia! This butcher knife is amazing! I'm going to choose it! Have you made your choice?"
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