Chapter 174

"Hmm... but it doesn't seem to have changed when you eat it?"

Another quarter of an hour later.

The originally empty coffee shop was already filled with a table full of people. The girls who were called by Kuai Le to watch the fun... and discuss the situation moved their small chairs to the table. On the table was the "blueberry cake" that Kuai Le had taken out of the paper bag not long ago.

Strictly speaking, the only person she wanted to call at that time was Guo Shuyi. After all, at that time, there was no way to be sure that the change in the cake was definitely related to Xu Ming. Maybe this weird thing itself has some special mechanism that can turn strawberry cake into blueberry? So Kuai Le and Xu Ming thought about it at that time, and quickly called Guo Shuyi over to ask.

It just happened that when they called people, the others were with Guo Shuyi. They were all very interested in the "Strawberry Cake Evolution", so they called their friends to come.

The result was that now there was a huge crowd around. On the contrary, Guo Shuyi, the domain master, took the initiative to take Xu Ming away after understanding the situation, saying that they would find another place to conduct related ability tests.

The remaining group of people, each with a small spoon, tasted the cake seriously.

At this moment, Lu Yueling was trying to scoop a little with a small spoon and put it into her mouth. After tasting it carefully for a long time, she said firmly: "It just looks like blueberry, but it tastes like strawberry."

"Really?" Bonnie, who had also tasted the cake, was a little surprised, "But it tastes like blueberry! It's exactly the same as before..."

"It tastes like strawberry to me too." Da Guo bit the spoon and raised his hand, "But I can taste a little bit of blueberry aroma."

Well, it's getting more and more outrageous.

How can a piece of cake taste so many different flavors?

Happy sat in the middle seat, frowning and holding his forehead in confusion. Lu Yueling smacked her lips twice, then raised her spoon again, not giving up:

"Maybe I made a wrong judgment just now, let me try another bite--"

"Stop it."

Just as the words fell, Gu Yunshu, who was standing by the table, spoke in a deep voice, accurately slapping Lu Yueling's hand holding the spoon away: "Don't take the opportunity to eat secretly."

"Oh, it's okay." Seeing this, Kuai Le quickly spoke, "It's nothing, I asked you to come here because I wanted you to help try this cake... It's okay, eat it if you want."

After speaking, he picked up a spoon that had not been used and handed it to Gu Yunshu: "Come to think of it, you haven't tried it yet, right? Come and try it too."

"..." Gu Yunshu seemed stunned when he heard that. He lowered his eyes and looked at the spoon she handed over, but did not reach out to take it immediately.

"?" Kuai Le thought she was being polite, and passed the spoon a little further, "It's okay, you eat it. If there is more next time, just save a portion for me. This time, just consider it as collecting samples for Ming Ming."

"..." Gu Yunshu's eyelashes trembled slightly, and he seemed to be in a dilemma. Bonnie, who was standing next to him, took the initiative to say, "Well, teacher, Sister Yun usually doesn't..."

"It's okay." Before she finished speaking, Gu Yunshu suddenly spoke. Then she heard her whisper a thank you, reached out to take the spoon, carefully scooped up a little cake, but did not put it into her mouth immediately, but turned her back, walked a few steps away, and then slightly lifted the mask and put the cake into her mouth.

Her movements were light and fast, and she turned back in a few moments, with the mask back on her face.

"It tastes like strawberry to me, too." She placed the spoon on the plate and said firmly, "But I can smell a very obvious blueberry aroma."

Happy: "..."

Great, there is another answer.

She muttered in her heart, and belatedly glanced at Gu Yunshu's masked face. After a moment of silence, she apologized and said, "Well, I'm sorry."

"......?" Gu Yunshu looked at her in confusion, "Why?"

Happy coughed awkwardly, "I don't know you, um..."

Glancing at the other person's mask again, Happy hesitated again, not knowing whether to apologize explicitly. Before she could make up her mind, the wind chime at the door of the store was struck again - two figures, one tall and one short, walked into the coffee shop one after another.

It was Xu Ming and Guo Shuyi who had left to take the "ability test" earlier.

Xu Ming walked in front, holding a notebook in his hand; Guo Shuyi followed closely behind, holding a large bamboo basket in his hand.

As soon as the two entered the door, Kuai Le smelled the strong stench from the bamboo basket, and subconsciously held his breath, and the words that had not yet been finished were left unfinished. However, Lu Yueling acted as if she couldn't smell it at all. She walked over quickly and took the basket from Guo Shuyi's hand curiously: "What is this? Such a big basket!"

"It's ingredients." Guo Shuyi handed the basket to her with both hands and said frankly, "These are the things that dropped during the experiment just now. I thought I could use them for hot pot, so I brought them back..."

"Really? You can even do that?" Lu Yueling said in surprise. She opened the lid of the bamboo basket, took a look, and cheered, "Wow! It's quite amazing. They are all my favorite foods!"

Guo Shuyi smiled warmly and sat at the table with Xu Ming. Happy glanced at the two people and got straight to the point: "So, what are the results of the experiment?"

"My 'idiot' has indeed been upgraded." Xu Ming exhaled, "The effect is not bad."

"?" Happy and a group of people around him pricked up their ears, "The so-called 'good' specifically means..."

"Originally, 'idiot', as long as I can't see it, it can be regarded as non-existent." Xu Ming considered the words and said as briefly as possible, "But now, it's almost what I 'think' will exist..."

To be more precise, she can "redefine" the things in the strange story.

Whatever you think, it will be reflected on the things you see and change their nature. At the same time, this kind of reflection will also directly affect other people who are also in the strange story, allowing them to see the same things as themselves.

"..." Happy was silent, and paused for a few seconds before saying, "You call this 'not bad'?"

If she were a domain master, she would probably be so angry that she would quit her job after hearing this ability - you call this "not bad"?

"It's... okay." Xu Ming looked really calm, even a little confused and distressed, as if he still hadn't reacted to his sudden evolution. "After all, it's not 100% effective... There are still conditions and restrictions."

First of all, like the original "idiot", this ability can only affect things that have not yet officially appeared in her sight, just like the cake in Happy's paper bag.

Once she has seen something with her own eyes, her ability will no longer work on that item, but this restriction will be refreshed as she enters and exits the strange story - in other words, something that she was unable to affect when she first entered the strange story may still be affected and changed when she enters the strange story for the second time.

Secondly, the scope of this ability seems to be limited.

From the current test situation, living people or objects brought in from reality cannot be affected. The rule book is also included. As for dead objects without life, they can basically be redefined, but only the appearance can be modified 100%, and the rest of the characteristics cannot be guaranteed, and may or may not be effective.

As for spirits with independent consciousness, they are even more limited. Xu Ming can only affect their external characteristics, but cannot change their internal characteristics at all.

For example, character, ability, thoughts... such as temper.

"So you guys are still looking for spirits to test?" Kuai Le was a little surprised, and then he noticed that Xu Ming seemed to have some fishy smell on his body. He leaned back subconsciously, "Oh my God, this smell... Where on earth have you been?"

"Key Prison." Xu Ming didn't hesitate.

Kuai Le: "......?"

"It's the place used to 'place keys'." Guo Shuyi took the initiative to add, "Some door keys have nowhere to be placed after use, so they are stored in my ghost stories first."

Of course, most of these keys exist in the form of mutant roots; and in order to ensure the safety of his own ghost stories, Guo Shuyi will definitely impose strict restrictions on their activities...

Rounding it off, the place where they are is a "prison."

Because of the inherent risks of this type of mutant root, the number of "keys" imprisoned in Guo Shuyi's ghost story is actually very small. When conditions permit, the demolition office is often more inclined to kill the "keys" who refuse to cooperate; or try to strip the roots and hand them over to the local Hu Yang for custody; and because Xu Ming himself was basically not present when these "keys" were captured, he knew almost nothing about them. Guo Shuyi chose the cell as the test site for this time because of this point.

The so-called "test" is actually very simple. Find a monster that is in a state of change at any time, and under the premise of controlling Xu Ming's vision, guide her to guess the state of the monster, and then infer the current ability level of the "idiot" based on the results. After making a rough guess, control the variables and find another monster to test...

"...Wait a minute." Lu Yueling, who had been listening quietly, suddenly realized something was wrong. To be honest, she didn't understand most of what Xu Ming said just now, but she still understood that "she and Guo Shuyi had been in prison for a long time" -

"But didn't you say before that the things in this basket were the ingredients you brought back along the way?" Lu Yueling looked down at the basket in her arms, and for some reason, her eyebrows suddenly jumped.

"Yes." Guo Shuyi nodded without hesitation, "Isn't there a flower on the second floor of the prison... You should remember it? It's the one made purely of meat, and when stimulated, it will continuously spray out body parts from the center of the flower."

"...I know." Lu Yueling frowned even tighter, "I remember that in addition to body parts, it also sprays out internal dirt..."

"Yes, it's scary. So I hate it the most." Guo Shuyi tilted his head and suddenly smiled, "Luckily, Sister Mingming is here. Sister Mingming's new ability is really powerful. When I look at it now, I'm not afraid at all."

"..." Lu Yueling's mouth twitched, and her gaze involuntarily fell back into the basket in her arms.

I saw a few small plates neatly placed in a small bamboo basket. On the plates were pig brains, lamb scorpions, beef tripe, beef bone marrow...

"..." Lu Yueling knew that her brain worked slowly. But at this moment, she felt that her brain was working at an unprecedented speed.

After a short silence, she decisively covered the basket in her hand.

Then she put the basket on another table next to her. Pushed it farther away. Pushed it farther away.

Refusing to look at it again.

Monster: When you are scared, you call me dirty, and when you are not scared anymore, you call me a slave.

Monster: Ha, human.

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