Chapter 1705: Stimulate It

Chapter 1705: Chapter 1705: Stimulate It

"Senior, you can’t be that absolute right now." Chu Jiaojiao had a different opinion about this. After thinking for a moment, she said, "Why does it have to be something some creature deliberately released? Isn’t it possible that Old Niu and his brother ate the bait, realized something was off, and immediately tried to run? And then, in the middle of escaping, they accidentally fell into this cubicle space?"

"Or even, Old Niu ate the bait, fought bravely with the other side for a bit, then ran off and accidentally fell in here afterwards. That’s totally possible too."

"So why are we insisting the other side intentionally dropped Old Niu down here?" Chu Jiaojiao just felt Old Yellow Bull falling in was an accident.

He Bi quietly watched her. After she finished, he said, "I said it’s basically confirmed—which means we don’t rule out what you’re saying. But we need to know: after the other side used bait to lure the Two-headed Bull to eat it, what exactly were they trying to do?"

"Look—" He Bi raised his hand and pointed at the mush of meat above their heads. "The Two-headed Bull ate the bait, and now its mind is all muddled. What we need to figure out is whether this state kicked in immediately after it ate the bait, or whether it took some time before it turned into this."

Chu Jiaojiao froze for a moment: "Senior, you’re saying—if it turned into this right after eating the bait, then it couldn’t have run away on its own, and wouldn’t have had the energy to fight the other side at all?"

"Mm." He Bi nodded. "As long as we can confirm that point, we’ll know whether it was thrown into the cubicle by someone."

A Two-headed Bull that’s lost all ability to resist is just meat on the chopping board, left for the other side to do whatever they want.

Hearing this, Ji You immediately caught on and said, "So I have to find a way to wake it up and figure out how exactly it ate that stuff, whether it lost the ability to resist right away."

He Bi gave a light nod. "Mm, try it now."

Ji You said, "I’ll try right now."

Then—

Ji You sent out Fourth, Old Five, and Boss, three strands of Spiritual Silk, setting off together toward Old Yellow Bull’s Spiritual World.

Old Yellow Bull was actually a Physical Talent-type Star Beast. Its spiritual power wasn’t all that strong to begin with, and after suffering a series of heavy blows, its Spiritual World was already on the brink of collapse...

At the moment, under Fourth’s command, the three strands of Spiritual Silk didn’t dare swagger right up to it. They carefully approached and stopped about ten meters away from the barrier of its Spiritual World.

Precisely because the Two-headed Bull’s Spiritual World was already extremely fragile, Ji You’s Spiritual Silk could easily get close to its spiritual barrier. If it were a healthy Level 12 Star Beast, this is something Ji You wouldn’t even dare to think about.

Forget Level 12—even with a Level 5 Star Beast, Ji You wouldn’t be able to get within a hundred meters of its spiritual barrier.

Star Beasts are like this, and so are humans.

A creature’s Spiritual World is a very mysterious world. It comes with a natural self-protection mechanism—disguise, concealment, shielding... The Spiritual World will do everything it can to protect itself from being discovered, approached, or attacked by enemies...

Some people who are spiritually dull might never feel any of this their whole lives.

Before eating that alien Monster, Ji You didn’t even know there were Monsters that could stand outside someone’s Spiritual World barrier and still launch attacks at them—and that one day, she herself would be able to run up to the barrier of someone else’s Spiritual World.

Even after spending so long with her classmates from Class 131, Ji You still hadn’t been able to make close contact with anyone else’s Spiritual World...

Ji You calmed herself. At the same time, she understood why she could now stand before the Two-headed Bull’s Spiritual World barrier—the main reason was simply that the Two-headed Bull was far too weak right now.

While carefully watching the movements of Boss, Fourth, and Old Five, Ji You was also observing the Two-headed Bull’s spiritual barrier.

It didn’t look like a wall in reality, and didn’t look particularly solid or sturdy. It was just a patch of gray mist.

The gray mist blocked everything. What was behind it, no one knew.

However, Ji You had no intention of forcibly breaking through that gray mist to see what was behind it, because if she really did that, Old Yellow Bull’s already feeble Spiritual World would definitely collapse in an instant.

If its Spiritual World collapses, Old Yellow Bull will be nothing but an empty shell and will die very soon.

[Pain pain pain~]

[It hurts it hurts~]

[Wuuu wuuu wuuu~]

...

The three strands of Spiritual Silk had only just gotten close and hadn’t even done anything yet, when they were already being shouted at, one cry after another, giving them a splitting headache.

The key point was, this bull had been yelling for so long and still hadn’t come up with any new vocabulary; just the same lines on repeat. Everyone’s ears were about to grow cocoons from listening to it.

Even with the three strands of Spiritual Silk arriving, the Two-headed Bull’s spiritual power seemed not to notice them at all; it just kept yelling about pain, exhaustion, wanting to sleep...

Fourth lifted its little head and listened for a while, then suddenly asked, [Tired, sleepy... then are you hungry?]

As soon as this question came out, the Two-headed Bull’s shouting paused for a split second.

There’s hope!

Boss and Old Five’s two strands immediately wagged their tails, waiting to talk to the Two-headed Bull.

But right then, the Two-headed Bull started screaming "hurt hurt hurt" again...

Boss heard that and instantly got pissed, head shooting up: [If you’re not active about eating, your ideology has a problem.]

Old Five: [Has a problem.]

Ji You’s mouth twitched as she watched, and she couldn’t help cursing, "Do you think everyone’s like you lot, reincarnated starving ghosts?"

"Fourth, think of another way." Ji You urged.

Fourth tilted its head, thought for a bit, then wagged its tail: [Master, should we maybe feed it something too?]

Ji You’s fingertip paused. "Feed it what?"

Fourth: [Soul Devices.]

Ji You: "I’m out."

Fourth: [Master, think about it. Sisi doesn’t believe there’s any creature who can resist the temptation of Soul Devices. Either it’s not hungry, or it just hasn’t seen anything it likes to eat.]

Old Five followed up, very honestly saying: [Master, Old Five could eat Soul Devices all his life and never get sick of them. However many Soul Devices you give Old Five, Old Five can finish them in one go.]

Ji You fought down the black lines climbing all over her face and said, "Our problem right now is: even if I give it Soul Devices, can it actually eat them?"

We’re separated by a cubicle space here—if they could really throw Soul Devices across, everyone wouldn’t be worrying about how to escape.

As for Ji You’s question, it was obvious her three strands of Spiritual Silk all had their own ideas. Boss thumped its chest and said loudly: [Master, if it can’t eat them, we can.]

Ji You: "..."

Old Five: [That’s right, Master. We’ll eat them on its behalf.]

Ji You was so mad she instantly snapped, "Why don’t you pee on its behalf too?"

Old Five chuckled: [Peeing is not doable~]

Fourth suddenly leapt onto Old Five’s head and shrank down to the size of a collar. [Master, we don’t necessarily mean really feeding Old Niu. We just want to stimulate it a bit.]

Ji You’s heart moved. "You mean we can use Soul Devices to stimulate it without passing through the cubicle space?"