Chapter 311 Ghost Mushroom
Returning to Xin'an Beast Control Academy again, Zhou Lu couldn't help but sigh when looking at the familiar scenery in front of him.
Although he has been busy cultivating and evolving fireworks, so that he has not stayed in the academy for a long time, and has not even had a good look at these scenery, Zhou Lu still can't help but feel some nostalgia in his heart.
It happens to be the time for freshman class, and there are basically no people in the college.
With the official opening of a batch of new secret realms recently, all beastmasters are exploring new secret realms in search of new opportunities, especially those in school.
Zhou Lu originally wanted to get together with his old classmates before going to his senior's lab.
After asking about it, I found out that Xu Wuhu had gone to the Development Army for an internship, and Li Yize had gone home to inherit the family property, but he couldn't touch it either.
Fortunately, Zhou Lu didn't feel too much. After all, he had more important things to do now.
Walking into the senior sister's office, she was sorting things.
Looking at the various sundries piled up in front of him, Zhou Lu looked at Xiao Xi aside with confusion: "What is Sister Xiaoqing doing?"
Xiao Xi yawned and looked like she hadn't woken up.
Yesterday, her mother used her body to "fight" with Wu Xiaoqing until the wall was completely worn away.
The result was naturally that Qiudao Mu won - even if it borrowed the body of its own fruit, it was still a divine beast.
So Wu Xiaoqing, who was the defeated general, got up early this morning and started sorting out various results.
Wu Xiaoqing's research is very casual.
Even if a lot of research that she was not interested in produced results, she would often throw it aside and then completely forget about it.
She usually only thinks of these forgotten achievements when someone asks her about related needs.
In her opinion, these results have not yet gone through a standard research process, and naturally do not meet the standards for publication.
There are too many similar results on Wu Xiaoqing's side.
Of course, many of these results are indeed useless from the perspective of the time, but as time changes, they can often produce miraculous results.
"Is Xiao Lu here?" Wu Xiaoqing heard Zhou Lu's voice in the pile of documents, poked her head out and asked.
Then she saw the Qiudao wood on Zhou Lu's shoulder at a glance.
"Isn't it? Come back. I promised you to sort out these things." Wu Xiaoqing complained.
Zhou Lu looked at Qiudaomu with some surprise: "What did you do to her?"
"I didn't do anything." Qiudao Mu then explained, "I just gave her a small task."
As the founder of the universal fairy system, Qiudao Mu still has a little bit of power in his hands.
For example, depriving someone of the authority to use the Universal Fairy or something.
Of course, Qiudao Mu is not an arbitrary tyrant.
Wu Xiaoqing will also be rewarded for sorting out these unfinished research materials and then informing the knowledge fairies.
According to Qiudaomu, it will increase Wu Xiaoqing's query authority in the future.
Because the senior sister has never had a high professional title, the information she can access from Xiao Xi is actually limited.
This is not that Qiudaomu intentionally restricts human access to the information in its knowledge base. It is the research institution that actually establishes the authority system.
But Qiudao Mu has the power to adjust authority.
"So, Senior Sister, do you really have a way to solve the problem of Qiudao Mu?" Zhou Lu remembered the main purpose of this trip and asked quickly.
Hearing Zhou Lu's question, Wu Xiaoqing temporarily put down her work: "No."
"Then you..."
"I'm just ensuring that it won't die. It's not a solution to the problem." As a scientist, Wu Xiaoqing is very rigorous.
Solving a problem and staying alive are two completely different things.
Qiudao Mu was already seriously ill.
The backlash caused by the wrong knowledge left his body like a candle in the wind.
If it continues to be allowed to spread, Qiudaomu's body may not even be qualified as a soul container.
While Wu Xiaoqing was speaking, she took out a small jar from the corner.
Unlike other jars containing spores, this jar contains a complete mushroom.
There is a hint of ghostliness in the purple and white colors.
There seems to be a mist surrounding the mushroom.
No, not a weapon.
It seems to be some kind of soul.
Hanabi, who was already very curious about all kinds of mushrooms, ran over and held the jar with a vine when she saw this.
"Huh? They look so familiar." Hanabi said doubtfully as she looked at the mist surrounding the mushrooms.
"It was originally cultivated using the remnant soul of the immortal that you captured." Wu Xiaoqing looked very proud, "I spent a lot of effort to cultivate this guy."
Hanabi actually captured a lot of immortal souls in the ancient city of Immortal Realm.
After these remnant souls have absorbed their energy, some ghostly mist will still remain.
Out of curiosity, Hua Huo collected these things, packed them all and gave them to Wu Xiaoqing as research materials.
Unexpectedly, Wu Xiaoqing turned around and took these things to cultivate a mushroom that looked very underworld but was inexplicably beautiful.
Hanabi seemed to find this mushroom very novel and looked eager to try it.
How could Wu Xiaoqing, who already knew Huahuo very well, not know what Huahuo's state meant? She almost immediately took out another jar and handed it to Hanabi's vine: "You can't move this one, you might as well play with it."
There is also a mushroom in the new jar, but the difference is that it is pure white.
After taking away the fireworks, Wu Xiaoqing began to introduce the mushrooms in her hand.
According to Wu Xiaoqing, the main purpose of her research at the time was actually to develop a mushroom that could regularly produce harmless ghosts.
"Wait! Are you planning to make a ghost?" Zhou Lu couldn't help interrupting Wu Xiaoqing.
Just hearing this beginning, Zhou Lu felt that the senior sister's research was a bit outrageous.
Now, academic circles have generally recognized that ghosts are an independent attribute, and spiritual beasts with ghost attributes often show similar characteristics.
However, there is still a lot of controversy in the academic community as to how the ghost beasts were born.
"Oh, no." Wu Xiaoqing scratched her head, "A haunted house placed an order for me, saying that they wanted to make a prop that can produce harmless ghosts... This is the failure of this order."
"Don't create such a supermodel species for such an outrageous reason, damn!" Zhou Lu's mouth twitched slightly, and he didn't know how to evaluate the unreliability of his senior sister.
Wu Xiaoqing wondered: "Why is this tool so outrageous?"
"All kinds of outrageous, it simply overturns the perception."
Many ghost spirit beasts have the ability to devour other ghosts and become stronger, but because the number of ghost spirit beasts is too small, they have never been able to perform well.
Hanabi has learned such skills. At the time, he thought it was another Immortal skill, but he found that this bonus was not as outrageous as [Immortal], and it did not have the same palpitating feeling as [Immortal].
Of course, this kind of devouring enhancement ability cannot come without a price.
This kind of skill that swallows ghosts to strengthen oneself often absorbs the other party's memories and emotions in the process of swallowing ghosts. Fear, anger, mania, sadness...
If the ghost is the unwilling soul of a dead beast, then these negative emotions are almost certain to exist. If you use this skill to strengthen your own existence for a long time, you will inevitably become a schizophrenic madman.
"Stop saying that, you didn't succeed anyway." Zhou Lu came back to his senses and said.
Wu Xiaoqing's voice came again: "Who said there was no success."
"Ah?" Zhou Lu was stunned.
Then he saw Wu Xiaoqing raising his hand and pointing not far away: "This is what Hanabi is holding."
I saw Hanabi holding the jar.
The lid of the jar has been opened.
From the pure white mushrooms, tiny white ghosts flew out.
Hanabi was like an anteater squatting at the entrance of an anthill, eating happily one by one, like a child holding popcorn and having fun.
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"..."
Zhou Lu was silent for a moment.
He still looked down on his senior sister too much.
When Wu Xiaoqing saw Hanabi being so greedy, she immediately reminded: "Don't eat so fast. The culture medium in the jar cannot sustain such consumption."
At the same time, Zhou Lu had also sensed the changes in Hua Huo.
The ghost's skills are indeed taking effect.
However, these ghosts produced by mushrooms are indeed completely harmless creatures as Wu Xiaoqing said, so that Hua Huo basically has no change in strength after eating them, and can only satisfy her appetite.
Zhou Lu suddenly thought for no reason: If the senior sister develops a ghost-produced mushroom that can replace the feeling of devouring the same kind, will it be possible for those immortals to no longer need to surrender to the desires brought about by the [Immortal] skill?
However, Zhou Lu immediately rejected this idea.
[Immortal] is not satisfied with such simplicity.
Both sugar and drugs are addictive, but the latter is far more harmful than the former.
Judging from Hanabi's feedback, it didn't feel that the food was delicious, it just thought it was fun.
Zhou Lu didn't dwell too much on this matter. He turned his attention back to the purple-white mushroom in Wu Xiaoqing's hand.
"Can this thing make Qiudaomu immortal?"
"It can turn fast creatures into ghosts." Wu Xiaoqing's words immediately silenced Zhou Luqian.
Become a ghost...
In a sense, it did save Qiudaomu's life.
But at what cost?
Qiudao Mu will lose his body and the strength of the divine beast, just like the remnant souls of the immortals in the ancient city of the immortal world.
"Wow, doesn't that mean that as long as you have it, all the people who are about to die can become ghosts?" Qiu Daomu didn't care at all, but looked at the mushroom in Wu Xiaoqing's hand with interest.
It looked like it was thinking about the pros and cons of this matter.
If the results of this research are made public, those powerful people will definitely go crazy to grab it. After the wise men in the family gain long life through this, the family will also be able to continue for a long time.
Such a result will inevitably lead to further tearing of society.
Moreover, if this kind of mushroom is completely popularized, a large number of ghosts will occupy the world and consume a lot of energy.
"I know what you are thinking." Wu Xiaoqing is just unreliable, not unintelligent.
She could guess what Qiudao Mu was struggling with from his expression.
"It is the product of the mutation of the white mushroom just now in a high-concentration soul energy environment." Wu Xiaoqing introduced, "I put almost all the soul matter that Hanabi brought back into it to mutate such a mushroom."
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"In other words, there won't be a second mushroom of this kind?" Zhou Lu asked.
Wu Xiaoqing shook her head and replied with the rigor of a scientist: "I can only say that the environment where it was born can no longer be found, but that may not be the case in the future. You also know that a high-concentration soul energy environment is still theoretically possible. Recurring.”
When Wu Xiaoqing said "theoretically", it was really just theory.
"However, a ghost that has inherited memories will consume a lot of energy to maintain its own existence." Qiu Daomu was actually very moved by Wu Xiaoqing's plan.
It actually doesn't care whether its own strength is preserved.
It doesn't even care much about whether it can survive.
But it is always worried that without it, the era created by its master will run wildly on the road of one position.
This is actually a very normal mentality.
After being parents for a long time, when their children go out to live independently, they will inevitably worry about their bad learning.
The Qiudao tree is a mythical beast.
If you want it to remain conscious and have complete memories after it transforms into a ghost, the amount of energy it needs to consume is not something that can be easily explained.
At least the kind of ghost produced by the white mushroom just now is absolutely unable to bear this kind of consumption.
"Master! Master!" At this moment, Zhou Lu heard Hanabi's shouts of joy.
Looking in the direction of Hanabi, he saw that the jar just now had been knocked over at some point.
The mushroom inside was chewed by something.
Looking at Hanabi's tail, Zhou Lu still didn't know who the culprit was.
Eating the experimental product secretly again...
Zhou Lu was about to reprimand when he saw a pure white bubble suddenly appear on Hanabi's vines.
As the bubble grew larger, it began to break away from Hanabi's vines.
Poof~!
A small voice came, and then a cute little ghost appeared in front of everyone.
"Master! Look! I can blow bubbles!" Hanabi said excitedly.
It followed the same pattern and soon created a circle of ghosts around itself.
Looking at the fireworks surrounded by ghosts, Zhou Lu had an idea in his mind.
Obviously, several other people actually had similar ideas.
They looked at each other and soon smiled in unison.
Hanabi is a mythical beast.
Even if it still produces ordinary ghosts that are harmless and without combat power, the energy contained in them is not comparable to that of the white mushrooms.
In other words, a stable source of energy to maintain the continued existence of the soul of the seeking wood has been found.
"Speaking of which, I have an unkind request." Wu Xiaoqing broke the tacit silence.
She looked at Qiudaomu, rubbed her fingers, grinned attentively and said:
"You're going to die anyway. Can you give me your body? I'll use it as rootstock for mushroom cultivation."
(End of chapter)