Chapter 198 Time Gap
This was the first time that the Epiphyllum tasted chili, and it was incredibly spicy. It didn't even bother with the stones and fell onto the experimental bed with a "thump". It rolled around in pain and its color was like a cooked crab.
Chu Xichi watched coldly for a while before he was surprised: "Oh, it seems that plants are different from us humans. They can't eat spicy food. Then drink something sweet to slow down the process?"
As she spoke, she took an empty bowl, exchanged it for some strong liquor from the mall, poured a full bowl of it and brought it next to the Epiphyllum.
The struggling Epiphyllum stretched out its petals, which had been reddened by the spiciness, to take a look and confirmed that the liquid in the bowl was not red. It was a bit like the sweet soup it had just drunk. It was fooled by Chu Xi again and a petal was put in, and then there was another spicy taste, which made it feel like dying.
"Oh no, could it be that your sense of taste is blocked by the spiciness? This is very sweet, why are you still in so much pain after drinking it?" In order to prove that white wine is sweet soup, Chu Xishi calmly took a sip.
When Epiphyllum saw that she was fine after drinking it, she felt even worse.
Chu Xixi was like an older sister, and she gently comforted him, "It's okay. If the soup doesn't taste good, we can eat something else. There are so many delicious foods here. Try this one. The green one looks very healthy. Try it, this one is also sweet."
Chu Xichi brought a plate of mustard to Tanhua.
Although the Epiphyllum is white and appears to have no roots, stems or leaves, these are actually hidden by the plant after evolution, so it will indeed relax its vigilance when it sees green.
Its current state is sometimes red and sometimes white, which looks like a program error.
Still tormented by the spicy taste, it urgently needed something sweet to suppress the taste, so it once again believed Chu Xi's words.
After swallowing a mouthful of mustard, the pure white Epiphyllum turned vegetable green and kept shaking. It was almost dying from the spicy taste.
Seeing it like this, Chu Xichi said with regret: "It's over. There must be something wrong with your sense of taste. You can't even taste sweetness."
This time Chu Xichi really found something sweet for the Epiphyllum, but it didn't dare to eat anything. It shrunk itself to the size of a fingernail and hid under the stone egg. It became terrified of this terrible world.
Chu Xiqi's lips curled slightly, but he said to the psychic guarding outside the door in a very reluctant tone: "It seems that the little Epiphyllum doesn't want to eat anymore, you guys should leave!"
The night-blooming cereus was about to wither, but after hearing Chu Xixi's words, it still stretched out a small petal and made a gesture to ask people to quickly take away this pile of horrible things.
On the other side, in Xie Ling's laboratory.
"Mr. Chu, do you know what I detected in this stone?" Xie Ling asked Chu Xihen excitedly.
Xiao Yan had almost never seen Xie Ling so emotional. He was like a little kid who had waited for a long time and finally got his favorite toy, his eyes shining.
"Energy." Chu Xihen gave the answer.
Xie Ling nodded quickly, "Yes, endless energy, but just such a small piece. If we can extract its energy, it can instantly make all the superpowers in the world reach the maximum level. Isn't this method very similar to when you use your superpowers?"
However, the energy in the stone is harmless to psychics. When Chu Xihen uses his superpowers, the superpowers of other psychics will instantly reach the maximum level, but their mental strength cannot keep up.
"Can it be extracted?" Xiao Yan asked.
Xie Ling's excited expression froze for a moment, "No."
Xiao Yan: “…”
"I'm afraid only Mr. Chu and that little ugly guy can control the energy in this stone?" Xie Ling asked Chu Xihen.
As he spoke, he handed the tiny piece to Chu Xihen.
"Yes, I now have an extra skill, which is to control this stone. It is called the Stone of Hope, and it can block all energy. What do you think of this, Dr. Xie?" Chu Xihen took the fragment, and then with a thought, the fragment disappeared in his white palm and returned to the stone egg in Laboratory No. 1.
After being prompted by Chu Xihen, Xie Ling immediately thought of "Isolate your supernatural powers!"
"Yes, I can control the stones to isolate my superpowers, so that I can use my superpowers at will without affecting other people." Chu Xihen said.
Currently, Xiao Yan and his companions who have the highest level of supernatural powers are all stuck at level nine. Chu Xihen thinks that Xiao Chou did this on purpose.
As long as the superpowers are not at the full level, they will be affected by Chu Xihen's superpowers. When humans fight Xiao Chou, either Chu Xihen will not take action and other superpowers will deal with Xiao Chou, or other superpowers will not move and Chu Xihen will fight it one-on-one.
All of humanity may not have a chance of winning against Xiao Chou, let alone having their strength dispersed like this?
Now with this stone, at least Chu Xihen and other psychics can fight together.
"It's early morning now, the psychics should all be resting. Can we try it now?" Xie Ling asked Chu Xihen.
Chu Xihen did not object to his proposal, but before that, he had a question to discuss with Xie Ling.
After understanding the structure of the stone clearly, the three of them walked out while talking, intending to go to Laboratory No. 1 to get the stone egg.
"According to the evidence we have found so far, Xiao Chou, me, and the stone were originally in the HBP Research Institute. But now only a part of the stone is in this world, while Xiao Chou and the rest of the stone are in that void. Does Dr. Xie have any guesses about this?" Chu Xihen had some ideas in his mind, but he just wanted to see if Xie Ling thought the same as he did.
When Xie Ling was analyzing the stone just now, he was also thinking about this question in his heart. He finally came to the conclusion, "Because of Mr. Lou's [Time Reversal], right? You said before that after Mr. Bai was knocked unconscious by your ability, he saw several world lines that were different from the present. My little clown was squeezed into the gap in time by Mr. Lou's ability, so it hates Mr. Lou so much?"
"Time gap?" Chu Xihen felt that Xie Ling's description was more accurate than the "void" he had said. Xiao Chou seemed to be stuck outside this world, but it could still absorb the despair generated by this world. Even at the end of the world, he still wanted to pull people into the copy, just to create more despair.
The more despair it has, the greater its power becomes, and only then can it break out of the stone egg and return to this world through the cracks.
"If that's the case, when it was in this world before, it was able to pull people directly into the despair game it created. That's because it itself was in this world. But now it's stuck in a gap, and at most it can only transfer each of our consciousness into the copy, just like before, we spent forty-eight hours in the copy, but in reality it was only a blink of an eye, because we only experienced the copy in consciousness. Then how did it pull Lou Su and Bai Jinli's bodies into the copy this time?" Xiao Yan questioned the two.
Chu Xihen and Xie Ling looked at each other, and then said in unison: "So they also just entered the copy with their consciousness!"
"Then where are their bodies? They are definitely not in Base 117. Could it be that Xiao Chou got them into that time gap?" Xiao Yan asked again.