Lin Tantan was completely shocked.
Is this still her Ye Xiao?
This tone and the content of the words... are so cute!
Lin Tantan's eyes quickly turned starry, touched by the cuteness.
Lu Xin came over: "Did he get upset?"
Lin Tantan glanced at him and said, "What's wrong with you? He's just so cute!"
What else could Lu Xin say? He could only drift away again. Lin Tantan, on the other hand, grew increasingly displeased with him. Thinking back to when he and Ye Xiao were together, this guy had probably been hovering over them, spying on them just like he was doing now. The suffocating feeling was about to return. He hurriedly shooed away the flies, "Go away! Don't bother us."
Lu Xin wanted to say, I guess I can’t disturb them even if I want to, because there is nothing to disturb them, and the two of them don’t interact, but he still floated further away obediently.
After all, Ye Xiao couldn't talk to a tree for a long time. After saying these words of encouragement, he didn't know what to say for a moment. At this time, someone entered the garden. Ye Xiao and Lin Tan turned around at the same time and saw that it was Bai Cheng.
Seeing Ye Xiao here, fine and not depressed or frantic due to worry, nor having tormented himself into a terrible state, Bai Cheng felt a little relieved: "Are you okay?"
Ye Xiao sat down under the tree and motioned for Bai Cheng to do the same. He smiled easily, "I understand what we discussed. You don't have to worry about it anymore, and you don't have to worry about me either. I'm fine now. But the base will still be handed over to you. I have other things to do."
Since Lin Tantan's accident, this was the first time Bai Cheng saw him so relaxed and calm. Bai Cheng guessed that he had either come out of it or found some solution and his direction was clearer.
Based on his understanding of Ye Xiao, it must be the latter.
He said, “If there’s anything we can help you with, just let me know.”
Ye Xiao said, "There is one thing I want to do. I want to improve the treatment of mutant beasts. From now on, the mutant beasts in the base will have the same status and rights as humans. Harming or killing them is prohibited. Lin Yuan... will not be moved. I will open up a piece of land next to it for them to play and study."
Bai Cheng didn't catch up with the jumping topic for a moment: "Study?"
"Yes, just an early childhood education." In this world, the more spirited flowers, plants, and trees, the better. Those mutant beasts couldn't be neglected either; ideally, each one had great fortune. He couldn't treat every one like a child like Tan Tan did, so he'd have to approach it from another angle.
This matter was a bit strange, so he talked to Bai Cheng about it first.
Bai Cheng was silent for a moment, unable to understand Ye Xiao's intention. Did he think that Lin Tantan liked these animals and gave them the best treatment?
But it’s not a big deal, he just said he would make it happen.
Seeing that Ye Xiao had nothing to say, he mentioned that Xu Tianjin's memory inexplicably went back to February of last year.
Ye Xiao said, "I know about this. Just assume that the Xu Tianjin from the past and the Xu Tianjin from now are not the same person."
Bai Cheng narrowed his eyes and said, "I understand. Then it will be difficult for him to continue working in the Ministry of Science and Technology."
Then he talked about Jin Liangyu's suicide.
Ye Xiao didn't show any surprise, he just said calmly: "He committed suicide."
Jin Liangyu's suicide was naturally related to Lin Tantan's words. When he was told by the original victim himself that the villain he thought was not that evil, he found out that he had not done anything so-called just. The hundreds of people who died indirectly at his hands also changed from necessary sacrifices to unwarranted killings. Naturally, he could no longer carry the banner of justice.
Whether he is truly righteous or pretending to be righteous, he has no place to put this face. He will fall into self-doubt, and his physical health has not been well taken care of. He can't even get enough food to eat. Under the double torture, he will have a mental breakdown, and suicide is also expected.
Ye Xiao knew very well how to target people's weaknesses and cause them the greatest harm.
He let Jin Liangyu and others live, which was more like cutting meat with a blunt knife.
But now that the mastermind is dead, he doesn't have that strong murderous intent towards the remaining people.
He thought about it and felt that those Taoists were indeed quite capable. He had almost learned the theory, and all that was left was practice. Why not let them preach to the mutant beasts? He heard that it would also help in awakening their spiritual intelligence.
He glanced at the big tree beside him and thought, well, this place must also be arranged.
Lin Tan Tan was listening to them talking when he suddenly felt a little scared by the look and had a bad premonition.
Early the next morning, she saw an old man slowly coming under the tree. He was dressed neatly but had a confused expression. She wondered what he was doing there, but the moment he opened his mouth, he started muttering something indistinct.
Lin Tan Tan: "..."
Lin Tantan has earache.
She looked at the old man blankly. Lu Xin came over and said, "It seems Ye Xiao asked him to come here to preach."
Lin Tan ignored him.
"Do you still think Ye Xiao is cute?"
Lin Tan gritted his teeth, crawled into the big tree, and continued to try to control the branches.
Lu Xin shared with her his experience of possessing a little white mouse.
It turns out that his experience was quite useful. In just a few days, Lin Tantan was able to shake many branches. So when Ye Xiao came under the tree again, she tried hard to shake the branches, and the tree seemed to have epilepsy.
Ye Xiao was surprised at first, then he was delighted when he found out that it wasn't caused by the wind. He touched the cramped branch and asked, "Can you move on your own?"
It should be strange to see a tree shaking like this, but there are not too many mutant plants that actively attack living things, let alone being able to shake. There are many that actively entangle and tie knots. The performance of this tree is not outstanding, and its mother can even speak.
Therefore, Ye Xiao did not think that the sudden shaking of the tree was strange, or that it was expressing something or protesting something to him. Instead, he thought that the Taoist priest had been chanting for a few days, and the tree had become enlightened, and the effect was significant. So he asked the old Taoist priest to come more frequently and extend the time of preaching.
Lin Tan Tan: “…” So angry!
She worked harder to learn how to control the branches, and then part of the branches shaking became half of the tree shaking, and then became the whole tree shaking. Whenever Ye Xiao came, the tree would shake as if it was having a seizure.
Bai Cheng saw this once and was surprised: "This tree... has it really become intelligent? But why is it shaking so violently?"
Ye Xiao took a look and said, "Probably to express welcome and happiness."
Bai Cheng said: "It seems that it likes you very much."
Lin Tan Tan: "..." I got even angrier! I couldn't shake anymore, and I didn't want to shake anymore.
There was another situation. Lin Tan Tan found that the more she could control the tree, the faster the tree's vitality was lost, as if it was about to die. After all, it was a tree she had planted with her own hands, and she didn't want it to be dragged to death by her, so she started to think about how to get away from the tree.
Meanwhile, Ye Xiao's secret research group had already been established. Their research was diverse, encompassing theories of parallel universes, the study of the soul, and time travel—all profoundly profound. Before the apocalypse, many people had studied these subjects, and afterward, Ye Xiao had gathered a number of them. These individuals, ranging in age and profession, made up the group, numbering around thirty. Each possessed avant-garde ideas and unconventional thinking, some even majoring in philosophy.
The Soul Team had the most bizarre composition. On one side were those involved in occult arts, including Taoist priests, monks, and witches. On the other side were pure technical talent, selected by Ye Xiao from the Ministry of Science and Technology. The foremost among them was Jiang Xiaotian, the only one of his acquaintances whom Ye Xiao had brought into the research group. No one else knew what he was doing.
The soul team also has props, which is Lin Tantan.
Lin Tantan's plastic surgery was very successful. Under the treatment of a wood-type mutant, the wound healed completely in two days. At this moment, her face had completely changed, and her voice became hoarse, as if it had been rubbed with sandpaper. Because her body had died before, her figure became thin, and her skin was very dry and dull. People who didn't know the truth could not associate her with the original Lin Tantan at all.
Ye Xiao looked at her trapped in a formation, as if he was looking at a lifeless thing. Lin Tantan was also extremely terrified, her teeth chattering, and her voice was hoarse and unpleasant: "What do you want to do?"
Her hands and feet were tied, and her plastic surgery face had a stiff expression, which looked very strange.
Ye Xiao smiled and said, "I just want to ask you for a favor."
The people around him were busy, and finally, Jiang Xiaotian said, "Okay, we can start."
Ye Xiao nodded slightly. The formation where Lin Tantan was located was actually the same formation that Jin Liangyu used to deal with Lin Tantan. It was used to expel souls. It had been slightly improved and was not as brutal. It did not require human sacrifices. It only required some jade stones and complicated runes as the foundation of the formation. Of course, the power would be greatly reduced.
However, Lin Tantan was once on the verge of death, and her soul was summoned out of her body. Then her body returned to this body a day after her death, so her body and soul were very unstable. This formation with greatly reduced power was still very effective on her.
Ye Xiao also activated the formation according to the steps he had learned. Lin Tantan's expression became uncomfortable, and then he hugged his head and fainted. Unseen by the naked eye, a soul overflowed from his body.
At the same time, the Taoist priests, monks and witches guarded every corner of the formation to prevent the soul from escaping.
At the same time, several strange-looking instruments around began to beep with alarms, and certain values on the computer screen continued to soar.
Jiang Xiaotian shouted excitedly: "I've captured the energy fluctuations!" His ten fingers kept tapping on the keys. Ye Xiao came to his side and saw on the screen that a vague thing gradually appeared in the center of the formation. That was where the soul was. Jiang Xiaotian expressed it in a very concrete way.
After collecting enough data, Ye Xiao and others spent some effort to get Lin Tantan's soul back into her body.
These are the secret methods contributed by Jin Liangyu.
A few days later, Jiang Xiaotian made an instrument based on the data obtained from Lin Tantan's soul. He excitedly told Ye Xiao that this thing could capture the existence of the soul.
Ye Xiao stroked the small box-like thing with several antennas. Although Jin Liangyu had a method to make souls appear, that method required the soul to be in front of him. If he was looking for a soul, this kind of thing would be more useful.
At this time, Lin Tantan finally learned how to get out of the tree. What she was struggling with was choosing what to possess.
"Let's choose a mouse too. I have experience with this," Lu Xin suggested.
Lin Tan Tan said, "What if he's like you, and can't leave once he's possessed?"
"I was inexperienced then, wasn't I? Now I can get away with it."
Lin Tantan was still hesitant, but mice seemed like her best option. She couldn't possess any larger animals. The strength of an animal's soul was directly proportional to its size and combat effectiveness. Her current abilities could only suppress a mouse's soul. Weaker insects wouldn't work either; they'd die if she wasn't careful. Possessing a plant wasn't a good option either. Plants were too restrictive; they couldn't walk, shout, or write. It was too stifling.
After making the decision, she still had to wait for the mouse to come closer. She waited and waited until midnight, when finally a little pink mutant mouse ran to the tree and started digging a hole. She thought it was quite pleasing to her eyes, so she climbed out of the tree and pounced on the little pink mouse.
Ye Xiao was practicing his supernatural powers in a small hut not far away. The instrument beside him suddenly started beeping, and his supernatural powers froze. He felt as if a stone had hit his chest, but he didn't care at all and stood up suddenly.
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