Mystery Journey (12)
It is rare for the kids to eat so much like this.
Especially after their potential level and combat level became higher and higher, each cub consumed a huge amount of insect crystals every day. Even if Shi Jianxia had a large reserve of insect crystals, he could not withstand them eating without restraint.
Between having a full meal and not being hungry every meal, Shi Jianxia chose the latter for the kids.
When they arrived in the Zerg universe, they found that energy crystals were of higher quality and more filling than Zerg crystals. Shi Jianxia tried his best to feed the cubs energy crystals.
But they were afraid of being discovered by higher-level Zerg, so except for the first stealing operation, everyone tried to keep a low profile, which led to a bit of deficit. In recent days, the cubs had been eating energy crystals mixed with Zerg crystals.
The tree house was filled with energy crystals, all of which were S-level and SS-level. Shi Jianxia naturally would not miss the opportunity to get some for free, and stuffed them all into the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".
Whether she could finish the food or not was one thing, and whether she could take it away was another. Anyway, she could not escape from the king's palm. Instead of being timid and fearful, she might as well take all the benefits she could get while the other party could use her, and then act according to the circumstances.
The little bee also enjoyed the food. It sat on a pile of energy crystals, picked up one and started to gnaw on it. Although it was only half the size of a palm, it seemed to have something else in its stomach. It ate a large piece of the energy crystal that was sticking out of the pile.
Seeing that the little bee can eat so much, Shi Jianxia couldn't help but feel curious about its current level and combat effectiveness.
But the little bee's breath was very restrained. Apart from its pair of golden compound eyes that were different from those of other bees outside, there was nothing special about it.
If Shi Jianxia encountered it in the forest outside, he would definitely not recognize it as a high-level Zerg.
It's strange to say that the higher Zerg have human bodies, and so do the little bees, but why do they still maintain their bee form? Or does it need to grow to a certain stage before it can transform into a human bee head?
The little bee seemed to notice her gaze on it, stopped eating the energy crystal, raised its head, and its two short antennae moved, curling inward to form a heart shape.
To be honest, Shi Jianxia felt that the three drops of blood she had shed before were not in vain. This little bee seemed to treat her as a relative, and it was so naive and cute.
If only all Zerg were this cute.
Shi Jianxia sighed in his heart and was about to continue moving the energy crystals when he heard the sound of the bead curtains colliding. He quickly looked up.
Zhou glanced at the tree house which was one-third empty, and his expression paused noticeably, probably because he didn't expect Shi Jianxia to be such a big eater.
Shi Jianxia silently clenched the two energy crystals in his hands, wondering if it was too late to put them back.
Zhou noticed her little movement and turned his gaze to look at the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" floating in the air.
Shi Jianxia's heart trembled, and he moved his feet slightly, hiding the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" behind him. He showed a well-behaved and quiet smile and asked, "Is there anything you need?"
Zhou did not answer her question immediately. Instead, he lifted up his white-gold robe that was shimmering with light and sat down on the rattan chair next to him.
The little bee was almost full. Seeing this, it flapped its little wings and flew over happily. It landed on Zhou's knees. The antennae on its forehead moved back and forth, probably conveying information to him.
Because the sound waves emitted by the antennae were directed towards the daytime, Shi Jianxia could not hear what the little bee said.
Zhou leaned back naturally on the rattan chair, a smile gradually appeared on his face, and he looked up at Shi Jianxia who was standing there quietly.
Just as Xia was trying to guess what the little bee had said, Zhou said, "I won't kill you. You don't have to be so restrained."
He raised his hand, and the rattan chair next to him was controlled by his power and flew towards Shi Jianxia and landed behind her.
Shi Jianxia sat down as he asked, and the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" that was originally blocked behind her had quietly returned to the spiritual power spring.
Zhou seemed oblivious to her thoughts. He occasionally teased the little bee with his fingers and asked nonchalantly, "How did you get here from the human universe?"
If the Nine-tailed Fox had not released the power of the star core when it devoured the butterfly-faced man's insect vortex, he would not have discovered that the owner of "Classic of Mountains and Seas" had come to the Zerg Universe.
Shi Jianxia’s first thought was the deep-sea trench, but she knew very well that she couldn’t tell Zhou about this.
Just because he doesn't allow the Zerg under his command to invade the human universe now doesn't mean he won't have such thoughts in the future.
The deep-sea trench allows her to reach the Zerg universe safely, and also allows the Zerg to reach the human universe at no cost, so this secret passage must not be controlled by the Zerg, otherwise humans will be completely put in a passive situation.
Shi Jianxia replied calmly, "Of course I came through the passage you opened."
She didn't specifically mention the insect vortex, so she didn't consider what Zhou would imagine.
Zhou smiled and said directly, "Is it the spatial crack under the deep sea?"
Shi Jianxia's obedient expression froze for a moment. She never thought that Zhou would know the existence of that passage.
"I heard that you were clearing the sea area of Nan Teng Star, and I knew that you would find that passage sooner or later." Zhou held his chin with one hand and said casually.
Shi Jianxia once again refreshed his understanding of this king. It turned out that he was not oblivious to what was happening outside and only wanted to resurrect the queen, but was paying attention to the situation in the human universe.
She suddenly felt that things were becoming very difficult.
If all human actions are under the control of the Zerg, and she, the greatest weapon against the Zerg, is imprisoned and trapped in the Zerg base, given the current situation of the Zerg and humans confronting each other, there is no way she can leave the planet safely.
Seeing her pursed her lips, Zhu blinked and said, "You are very nervous."
Shi Jianxia drooped her brows and said pitifully, "You are too strong. I am afraid."
Zhou Mo probably didn't expect her to react like this. He paused teasing the little bee and when he looked up at her, his golden compound eyes were filled with indescribable emotions.
He thought for a moment and said, "I told you, I won't kill you, so you don't have to be so nervous."
Shi Jianxia just listened to this, but if he really took it to heart, his body might have become cold in a few days.
Seeing that she was still dejected, Zhu didn't know what to say. After a long silence, he said, "Do you want to go back?"
Shi Jianxia immediately raised his head, suspecting that he had heard it wrong.
Zhou said, "I can send you back, but you need to leave the star core behind. You can't take any with you."
Shi Jianxia frowned slightly. There was no way she could agree to this condition.
The Classic of Mountains and Seas is the foundation of her existence, and it has been integrated with the star core and cannot be separated. She will not and cannot hand over the star core.
Most superiors don't like to hear rejection. With Zhou's strength, he can definitely take it by force. Shi Jianxia changed his perspective and said, "Don't you need me to help you wake up your queen?"
Zhou stared at her, as if he was looking at someone through her eyes and eyebrows, which made Xia feel uncomfortable all over.
Finally, he answered the question irrelevantly: "Is your father still alive?"
Shi Jianxia suddenly widened his eyes and stood up from the rattan chair, almost unable to control his emotions.
She stared at Zhou, "What do you know?"
She had heard the name Lu before; Zhou had said it when she was dragged into the river.
Lu is another king of the Zerg, who rules the forest on the other side of the river and allows his Zerg to invade the human world and plunder resources.
Even though he only heard Lu say one sentence, Shi Jianxia could feel that he was an arrogant and violent ruler. If Zhou's strength was not comparable to his, he would never have been able to stay safely in the other forest.
Zhou said slowly, "He is too weak. If he, as weak as he is, steps into Lu's territory, he will die."
He paused at this point, "But Lu seemed to have other ideas. In his dying moments, he sent him back to your universe."
Shi Jianxia clenched his fists.
The doctor once said that he picked up his father when his mimicry was broken and his life was almost gone.
He firmly believed that humans could reach the Zerg universe and even return safely.
He even merged with the power of the Zerg and possessed the Zerg Vortex...
Everything that happened in the past, one by one, flashed through Shi Jianxia's mind rapidly, and an invisible thread connected them all.
Shi Jianxia's throat was dry. He pointed at the little bee and said hoarsely, "How did this little guy end up in the human universe?"
When the little bee saw her pointing at itself, it shook its wings happily to show its presence.
Zhu answered truthfully, "It was stolen."
A simple sentence explains a lot.
The little bee's mother is a powerful person in the Holy Land and has a close relationship with Zhou. With two such powerful backers, who dares to touch it easily?
With its potential, it will definitely become a high-level Zerg with the holy realm in the future.
But it was stolen and fell into the hands of the doctor.
The Zerg were divided into two groups and each submitted to Lu and Zhou, but neither of them could be sure that they did not have the other's undercover agents under their command.
Assuming that the Doctor was in collusion with the Zerg, he got his father from Lu, and for some purpose, he used the power of the star core to revive him and let him reawaken his mimicry. He also got the little bee from the Zerg and wanted to study it. It makes sense that the little bee appeared on Tianchen Star.
The doctor is dead, but Shi Jianxia still doesn't understand the words he left before his death.
She looked at Zhou again, "How do you know who my father is?"
Before this, she had never seen Zhou, so it was hard to say whether her father knew him or not. But from Zhou's attitude, it could be seen that the two were enemies rather than friends, and it was even more impossible for her father to let Zhou know of her existence.
Zhou seemed to be stumped by her question. His expression paused for a moment, then he snorted coldly, "I don't care to know who he is."
From the moment Shi Jianxia met the king, his mood was calm and gentle, and he exuded a temperament that was easy to get along with from the inside out. His sudden anger at this moment created a sharp contrast with his elegant and decent appearance.
Zhou narrowed his eyes slightly and angrily said, "Your name is really bad."
Shi Jianxia: "..."
If I remember correctly, I once praised her for having a good name.
What a fickle bee...it should be a bee, right?
He was the one who brought up his father, so why was he so angry now? Did his father dig up his ancestors' graves, or steal his wife?
No, she is a pure-blooded human, her mother is not a Zerg, and she is certainly not the wife of this bee.
Shi Jianxia Youyou sighed, and the urgency of wanting to know what happened that year suddenly subsided a lot.
Zhuo looked at her again and said, "But you are not bad looking. If you are willing to change your name, I can protect you."
Shi Jianxia: “?”
She didn't refuse immediately, but asked tentatively: "How do you say it?"
Zhou actually thought about it very seriously, and after a while he said, "How about Xiao? Xiao in dawn sounds a thousand times better than your current name."
Shi Jianxia: "..."
Are you serious?
It sounds good, but I just feel like something is weird about it.
Could it be that this guy wants to snatch her away and make her his daughter because he has a personal grudge against her father?
What's going on with the powerful Saint Realm masters these days? They all want to be her elders?
After waiting for a long time without receiving a response, Zhou asked unhappily, "Why? You don't like it?"
Shi Jianxia: "..."
How could she politely reject his attempt to be her father without offending the king?
To avoid being killed on the spot, Shi Jianxia smiled and said, "As long as you like it."
As a person, you must learn to bend and stretch. Anyway, once she runs away, who will care about the name that is stuck on her forehead halfway?
"You're much cuter," Zhou commented with satisfaction.
Shi Jianxia suddenly couldn't bear to look at this elegant and noble king. Where was the imposing manner he had when they first met?
Zhou was about to speak when a light purple energy suddenly spread out from the tree house inside, shaking the entire giant tree. The branches and leaves outside the tree house collided with each other, making a dense and noisy rustling sound.
Zhou, who usually didn't show any expression even when angry, suddenly changed his expression. He stood up from the rattan chair and slipped into the house.
The little bee was startled by his actions and quickly flapped its wings and flew to Shi Jianxia.
Shi Jianxia raised his hand to protect it, letting it fall on his shoulder. At the same time, he sensed that the power spreading from the inside out was emitted by the core of the star.
Could the last star core be here?
Before she could think about it, a familiar and powerful force enveloped the inside and outside of the tree house. The giant tree stopped shaking, and the sound of leaves rubbing against each other disappeared. The slightly tense atmosphere gradually became peaceful and tranquil under the soothing power.
But the power of the star core still continued to spread out from the tree house inside. Shi Jianxia was hesitating whether to go in to see the situation, when his waist was suddenly grabbed by an invisible big hand. The whole person and the little bee flew through the swaying bead curtain and into the tree house.
This tree house has more energy crystals accumulated, and they are all emerald green, exuding vitality.
All their strength was extracted, like tiny streams, winding and converging to the center of the tree house.
Shi Jianxia's aching body was greatly relieved by the touch of these emerald green streams of power, and his energy and spirit were also greatly improved.
She looked towards the place where the power gathered. Zhou was standing in front of a bed. He raised his hand to control the tremendous vitality force and inject it into the dark purple diamond crystal placed on the bed.
The long golden hair fluttered in the power that continuously spread outward from the core of the star, and the hem of the platinum robe was also lifted. He bathed in the golden power and the green power, and looked more and more like a god from mythology.
Shi Jianxia looked at the dark purple diamond-shaped crystal in front of him and was certain that this was the seventh star core recorded in the history of the Federation.
No wonder even the old marshal couldn't find any information about this star core. It turned out that it had drifted to the Zerg universe and was in the hands of Zhou.
The energy inside the core of the star gathered together, and Shi Jianxia could only vaguely see that there was a person trapped inside, but he could not see the other person's face clearly. From the flowing black hair, it could be seen that it was a woman.
For some reason, she felt her heartbeat quicken, and her mood became inexplicably uneasy, returning to the state she was in before being brought here by Zhou.
Shi Jianxia moved cautiously, trying to see the appearance of the woman sealed in the diamond-shaped crystal, but the invisible big hand holding her waist took her to the rattan bed first.
Zhou's tense voice came over, "Use your mimicry immediately to channel the power of this star core."
Shi Jianxia was almost half lying on the bed, her sight was only one foot away from the star core, but she still couldn't see what the woman in the star core looked like, because the power inside the star core was too mixed, almost all gathered together, causing the surface to be foggy, like covered by a layer of gauze.
The state of this star core is obviously different from other star cores. Is it because a person is stored in it?
Shi Jianxia bit her lower lip lightly and summoned the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".
The black and gold book floated in the air, exuding an ancient and mysterious aura. Ancient patterns flew out from the unfolded pages, surrounding the star core and emitting black and gold starlight.
The originally restless deep purple star core seemed to sense something, and the chaotic and chaotic power no longer rushed around like before, but gradually stabilized.
Zhou took a deep look at the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", and when he glanced at Xia Wei again, he saw his face tense and his lips pressed into a straight line, revealing a nervousness and uneasiness that should not have existed in him.
The little bee probably sensed his emotions, flew to the side of his face, and rubbed him gently with its head.
Zhou was still extracting the vitality of the energy crystals and injecting it into the core of the star, and had no time to pay attention to it.
The little bee did not feel sad about being ignored, but slightly trembled its antennae towards the woman sealed in the star core.
"Ting... Ting... you... be good... oh..."
Shi Jianxia read the sound waves it emitted and his eyebrows moved slightly.
Tingting?
Is that this woman's name?
Without time to think, Shi Jianxia felt that the power of "Classic of Mountains and Seas" was like being thrown into a bottomless vortex, being continuously drawn out. The power released by the star core no longer spread outward, but all gathered in "Classic of Mountains and Seas", gradually forming a stable cycle.
But as the owner of "Classic of Mountains and Seas", Shi Jianxia became a medium-like existence. The output of those powers must go through her spiritual power fountain, and the gathering also has to go through her spiritual power fountain.
She simply couldn't withstand such a huge energy cycle. In just two or three minutes, fine beads of sweat appeared on her forehead, and her mental power fountain also felt a little painful.
The restless star core was gradually calmed down, but it was unknown how long this power cycle would last. The foggy appearance on the surface of the star core had not subsided much. If he had to wait for it to completely recover its clarity, Shi Jianxia felt that he might have to experience the shattering of his mental power spring again.
No wonder Zhou said she was too weak and couldn’t control the power of the star core at all.
what to do?
She was not sure that the spiritual power spring could be repaired if it shattered again, and now the energy cycle between "Classic of Mountains and Seas" and the star core had been formed and could not be interrupted easily, otherwise both sides would suffer backlash.
When Shi Jianxiashan was at her wit's end, Zhou's voice suddenly rang in her ears, "Release the other star cores."
Shi Jianxia glanced at him out of the corner of his eye. This elegant and noble king had lost his previous calmness and composure. A bead of sweat rolled down his forehead and hung on his eyelashes, precariously falling.
Obviously, extracting the vitality of energy crystals from such a large area is also a considerable burden for him.
After a brief hesitation, Shi Jianxia released the other star cores from the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" as he said.
One, two... until the sixth one.
At first, "Classic of Mountains and Seas" was too weak, and Shi Jianxia was unable to control the power of the star core at all. "Classic of Mountains and Seas" was upgraded many times, and she thought it was a fusion of the power of the star core.
But after she got the two star cores from the doctor and put them into the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", she unexpectedly discovered that the star cores resonated with each other. The first and second star cores did not disappear, but they consumed a lot of energy, so they fell asleep in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", quietly absorbing energy from the outside.
A total of six star cores of different colors were flying in the air, with bits of starlight escaping and rotating around the star core at high speed. The power of the deep purple star core was attracted, and a large part of it was separated to form a power cycle with the other six.
Colorful light enveloped the entire tree house. Zhou held his breath slightly, unable to hide the surprise in his compound eyes.
Because the nine-tailed fox devoured the insect vortex, he sensed that there were star cores on Xia's body, and more than one, but he did not expect that there were six.
With the addition of this last one, the seven star cores are complete!
There was obvious joy in his eyes, and he looked at the woman sleeping in the deep purple star core almost reflexively.
The seven star cores formed a stable energy cycle, and Shi Jianxia's pressure suddenly dropped. He finally freed his hands to wipe the fine beads of sweat from his forehead.
Above the vine bed, the energy tangled together by the deep purple diamond-shaped crystals was channeled and began to turn into a stable energy flow flowing clockwise inside the star core. Bright purple starlight escaped and began to rotate around it at high speed.
Gradually, the foggy energy on the surface of the star core disappeared, revealing the clear face of the woman.
She closed her eyes, her slender willow-shaped eyebrows were curved, her expression was calm and peaceful, with a slight smile at the corners of her lips, as if she was having a beautiful dream.
Shi Jianxia was completely stunned when he saw her appearance.
The vague shadows in her memory gradually became clear. The woman hugged her, touching her cheek intimately, and said in a gentle and loving tone, "Xia Xia, why do you keep holding on to Daddy's belt? Are you missing him?"
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