Chapter 221 Choice
Zhou Xu, who was struggling to decide on whom to focus resources on, suddenly came to his senses after hearing his subordinates’ shouts. He subconsciously looked towards the saber-tooth tiger’s corpse.
At this moment, the sunlight was shining down, making people wonder if it was the reaction of the sunlight shining on the saber-toothed tiger.
This was also the main reason why the subordinates at that time looked up and down, and confirmed back and forth several times.
【Eye of Insight! 】
In order to be completely sure, Zhou Xu directly activated the "Eye of Insight".
At first glance, I saw that the saber-toothed tiger was indeed emitting a faint fluorescence, and that glow was a warm yellow color, almost blending in with the winter sunlight. If you didn't look carefully, you couldn't tell the difference at all.
When Zhou Xu caught this glimmer of light, his heartbeat quickened.
"My goodness, could this be..."
Muttering to himself, Zhou Xu quickly stepped forward and stretched out his hand towards the glowing corpse.
The next second, the faint light seemed to be pulled by some invisible force and turned into a stream of energy, directly penetrating into Zhou Xu's body.
[System reminder: Congratulations to 'Zhou Xu' for obtaining the mantra 'Beast']
Zhou Xu never imagined that there was a mantra character contained in the body of this saber-toothed tiger.
Compared to this, he was not surprised at all that he did not notice the existence of this mantra last night.
As an important force hidden in this world, Zhou Xu has undoubtedly done sufficient research on the 'truth'. While collecting intelligence from his subordinates, he also combined the intelligence and made many reasonable speculations and analyses.
At present, he already has a certain degree of understanding of the 'truth'.
Whether this light, which symbolizes the power of truth, will appear depends on two aspects.
One is the strength of this 'mantra'.
Simply put, the higher the intensity, the brighter the light.
To give a simple example, when the "Eye of Insight" was attached to the eye sockets of the skull, it was just two swaying fireflies that anyone could see clearly.
In contrast, some of the mantra characters he encountered later were dim in light, some so dim that he would not have noticed them if he had not activated the 'Eye of Insight' to enhance his insight ability.
The other aspect is time! This is especially true for creatures that have absorbed the power of the mantra.
Once the power of mantra is absorbed, it will merge with the host. The higher the degree of compatibility, the more thorough the fusion.
Under this premise, if the host dies, the completely integrated mantra will not separate immediately, but will slowly gather over time and then separate.
As long as the time is long enough, even a faint mantra character can form a ball of light that everyone can see.
The mantra on the saber-toothed tiger is clearly highly compatible, but the time has not been long enough and it is still basically integrated into the saber-toothed tiger's body. At this moment, it has not reached the point where it can gather into a ball of light and then break away.
However, the power of truth itself will attract each other. When the original host is dead, Zhou Xu, who possesses stronger power of truth, is like a huge magnet. As long as he gets close, the little power of truth in the saber-toothed tiger's body will be sucked over by him.
Of course, this incident was still a bit unexpected for Zhou Xu.
He didn't expect that extraordinary creatures could also carry the truth.
In any case, Zhou Xu already had some ideas in his mind about this newly acquired mantra.
But at this moment, his main attention was still focused on the saber-toothed tiger's blood essence.
"Go on."
After absorbing the power of the mantra, Zhou Xu raised his hand and signaled his subordinates to continue working.
With the previous experience, the person in charge of the autopsy was very skillful. He directly cut open the belly of the saber-toothed tiger, took out all the internal organs, and then took out the heart that was still somewhat alive! This heart looked unusual, which made Zhou Xu more convinced that there was something inside!
As this thought flashed through his mind, he quickly glanced at Qiansui beside him. Sure enough, at this moment, Qiansui stopped licking his paws and stared at the heart that was held out with his eyes.
"Chitose?"
Zhou Xu tried calling its name.
Qiansui was very smart and could understand his name. He moved his ears, opened his eyes like bells, tilted his head and looked at Zhou Xu, as if asking, "What do you want me to do?"
Zhou Xu didn't say anything, but just reached out and touched its head.
In response, Chitose rubbed him habitually, and then his attention quickly shifted back to the saber-tooth tiger's heart.
During the autopsy, the autopsy staff cast a questioning look at Zhou Xu.
After all, they also knew that the previous drop of essence and blood was eaten by Qiansui, and now Qiansui was sitting beside them with a covetous look in his eyes, and they couldn't decide whether to take action or not.
Seeing what the dissectors were thinking, Zhou Xu nodded and signaled them to start.
The dissector who had obtained permission did not hesitate any longer. After having someone hold a ceramic bowl and prepare it, he cut open the saber-toothed tiger's heart with swift movements.
At that moment, along with the overflowing blood, Zhou Xu clearly saw a drop of blood that looked like a ruby slowly sliding down.
At the same time, he also clearly felt that Qiansui's body quickly tensed up, as if he was about to rush out at any time.
"Chitose?"
Zhou Xu called it again, interrupting Qiansui's actions. Qiansui turned around again and focused his attention on him.
During this process, the drop of essence and blood was also steadily collected in the pottery bowl.
Qiansui turned around, looked at the blood and essence that had fallen into the pottery bowl, and then looked at Zhou Xu who was standing next to him.
I don’t know if this clever little ghost realized that the key lies with Zhou Xu, so it just rubbed against Zhou Xu and started to act coquettishly.
This situation made Zhou Xu feel both amused and helpless.
He had imagined that Qiansui would suddenly rush out and swallow that drop of essence and blood, but he did not expect things to turn out like this.
This little guy really has no moral principles.
I took the ceramic bowl filled with blood and essence from the autopsy staff. The blood and essence of the saber-toothed tiger was like a liquid ruby the size of a soybean. It flowed slowly at the bottom of the bowl as the ceramic bowl shook.
Looking at this drop of essence blood, then looking down at Qiansui who was acting coquettishly, Zhou Xu sighed.
"Forget it, I'll give it to you."
While speaking, Zhou Xu squatted down and placed the bowl in front of Qiansui.
At that moment, Qiansui's state could be described as his eyes shining, and he couldn't wait to lick that drop of blood into his mouth.
Zhou Xu actually thought about it carefully before making this decision.
Under the circumstances at that time, if Qiansui ignored his wishes and tried to snatch it directly, he would definitely not give it to him.
But the fact is that under the circumstances at that time, as soon as I called it, Qiansui would still turn around and check on his situation first, which shows that my position in Qiansui's heart is higher than that drop of essence blood.
This is the most core reason.
As for other additional reasons, of course there are those too.
For example, Qiansui has already swallowed a drop of essence and blood. Instead of dispersing resources, it is better to concentrate resources to cultivate Qiansui.
For example, compared to Zhou Chongshan who is a human, Qiansui should have a higher affinity with this drop of blood essence, and perhaps the effect will be better...
(End of this chapter)
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