Chapter 118: Hearing Insect Language at Night, Spirituality Begins
The small attic in the middle of the night is dimly lit like a candle.
Zhou Yue didn't dare to blink and stared intently at the one-horned fairy spreading its elytra under the light.
He has experienced too many bizarre encounters, and has overcome four levels of mental weakness. It is difficult for ordinary things to leave an imprint on his heart, let alone create shock waves in his heart.
But just now, after he injected half a tube of telepathy liquid into Ercha, he habitually stretched out his finger and tapped the corner of Ercha's head.
Normally, Ercha would have struggled with him.
Males of the horned fairy often use their horns to test for mates, or to measure the size of their love rivals and wait for an opportunity to duel.
Zhou Yue didn't know what his finger was thought of by the one-horned fairy.
In short, it is nothing more than the nature of protozoa.
The moment Zhou Yue's fingertips touched the two forks, he felt an electric shock.
The fingers were numb and tightly sucked, as if there was an electric current gushing out from the two-pronged horns.
Zhou Yue was surprised and instinctively wanted to take it back.
At this time, my mood was rippled.
Amidst the darkness, there was a burst of noisy and tinny sounds, sometimes clear, sometimes delayed, like the whistling of the wind, and like the whispers of ghosts and gods in the ears.
"Hungry……"
"Hungry……"
"Hungry……"
This is Ercha talking to himself!
Zhou Yue felt a surge of excitement in his heart, and when the clouds cleared and the moon shone brightly, his efforts were not in vain.
He soon noticed that although Ercha's voice was the same as other miraculous creatures, it also came from the pet reception room.
But the difference is that no information flashes in the panel.
This has never happened before.
Even in the abandoned subway station, the remnant soul of the Dark Emperor's skull disguised himself as a black cat guardian and sneaked into the pet reception room.
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"Ignore all this for now...Ercha, are you hungry?"
Zhou Yue withdrew his fingers from the two-pronged horns.
The hoarse and tinny sounds in my ears gradually disappeared, and my turbulent mood gradually returned to calm.
Zhou Yue turned around and looked at Hei Wuchang, who had a horrified expression.
Heiwu Changding also heard the sound of "hungry", "hungry", "hungry" coming from Ercha.
It's not my own illusion.
Ercha has indeed become different!
Zhou Yue calmed down his excitement, released his mind power, went downstairs, turned into invisible hands, opened the refrigerator, took out the ribs and fish that he had not eaten tonight, and used his mind power to lift the crisper and carry it up to the attic.
The black cat jumped down from the window sill, quietly came to Zhou Yue, and paid close attention.
The food box is opened.
The sauce of braised pork ribs and the fresh soup of steamed seabass quietly wafted in the attic with a faint fragrance that was not very attractive.
After all, it is an overnight meal.
Hei Wuchang rubbed Zhou Yue: ...Yes, another difference between native species and miraculous creatures lies in eating.
...The cubs of miraculous creatures are in the omnivorous stage before level 10.
...Any nutritious food, whether fish, meat, fruits, vegetables, beans, dairy products, or artificial foods, can be digested and absorbed.
... However, native species can only follow the most primitive racial diet, cats eat mice, birds eat insects, insects eat plants... eat what they should eat.
...This is actually a way of testing.
Zhou Yue has no interface.
Under the gaze of one person and one cat, the unicorn flew down from the food box.
It curiously stirred the frozen sauce of the braised pork ribs in a small area with its horns.
Soon, it realized that the plate in front of it was no longer the usual beetle jelly with fresh juice as the main ingredient.
It hesitated for a moment, then turned around and flew away.
A finger fell from the sky.
Hold it against the horn that looks like a fork.
The two forces, both exceeding level 9, collided together!
The air waves rolled, and if the ripples spread, the black cat's cheeks would shake backwards.
Zhou Yue's wrist trembled slightly, and his fingertips felt pain that he had not felt for a long time.
Ercha was suppressed and pushed back. It spread its elytra and flapped its flying wings, demonstrating dissatisfaction.
This time the confrontation was as usual, Zhou Yue was victorious.
But Zhou Yue knew that Ercha's physical fitness had almost reached level 9.
Maybe it won't be long before Ercha's physical level will surpass his own.
The sense of electricity came again.
A noisy and fine rustling sound echoed in my ears.
Zhou Yue looked deeply at Ercha and said, "Eat."
...hungry...hungry...
……Hungry……
"Eat! Try it."
"It's delicious, Ercha."
The stalemate between one person and one insect lasted for five minutes, but the one-horned fairy finally couldn't resist and had to turn around.
It inserted its horns into the meat sauce again, stirred it for a while, and then tried to open its mouthparts.
call out!
After taking the first sip of the sauce, the horned fairy seemed to have discovered a new world, spread its elytra and let out a "loud" sound of joy, and swept away like a storm.
In less than five minutes, the sauce for the braised pork ribs, the lean meat, and the bones were all eaten up by the unicorn fairy.
Tasting the sweetness, the horned fairy turned its horns and crawled towards the plate of steamed sea bass.
Zhou Yue's clenched fists slowly unclenched, and an uncontrollable joy appeared on his face.
The black cat swallowed...it actually ate it! It crossed the barrier of native species! Incredible, really incredible! A level 2 native insect can actually evolve into a miraculous creature?
"Yes, I have finally evolved."
Zhou Yue resisted the urge to look up to the sky and tell the world with a smile.
Later, Shi Qing and the others will have a secret operation, but they can't wake up the sleeping parents downstairs at this time.
Unspeakable ecstasy overwhelmed Zhou Yue's state of mind.
He no longer guarded deliberately and allowed joy to sweep through every cell and pore in his body.
The panel I bought before showed that the two forks were still only level 2.
But so what?
His physical fitness is almost equal to his own.
You can also have simple communication through the pet reception room.
You can also absorb telekinesis liquid and eat big fish and meat... No matter what the two forks have evolved into, in short, it must have evolved.
It’s no longer the native insect it once was!
After finishing two plates of food, the two forks flew towards the remaining telepathy liquid, consciously grabbed the mouth of the bottle, and started sucking it up.
In the blink of an eye, the bottle was empty.
Two bottles, three bottles, four bottles...
When there was only the last bottle left, Zhou Yue suddenly came back to his senses, his eyes flashed, and he used his telekinesis to pull away the One-horned Fairy.
"It would be too exciting to drink my millions in one night! Ercha, can you save some?"
The two forks stepped on the six limbs, struggling desperately.
……Hungry.
……Hungry.
……Hungry.
Zhou Yue helplessly covered his forehead.
"Drink, drink, or you'll make me bankrupt. People with soft hearts shouldn't keep pets!"
The telekinesis was released, and the two forks happily flew towards the last bottle of telekinesis fluid.
It was empty in the blink of an eye.
……Hungry.
……Hungry.
……Hungry.
Zhou Yue smiled bitterly: "Aren't you full yet? You drank all ten pet shops in one go."
The black cat glanced at the eight empty bottles on the ground, and his face gradually returned to calm.
...Although it has barely escaped the category of native species, its spirituality is still very weak. It can only communicate with simple commands, and it may not listen to you. Zhou Yue, when do you plan to sign a contract with it?
Zhou Yue rolled his eyes at the black cat: "Are you kidding? With its little intelligence, how can it complete the signing of the contract?"
After calming down, Zhou Yue discovered that the two-pronged body had only skipped the first stage of "spiritual flash" and reached the second stage of "spiritual retention".
This second stage was actually expected by Zhou Yue and Ercha.
In ancient times, they conducted deductions on subsequent evolutionary stages more than once.
In the second stage, the Bifurcated body may be able to break away from the "intelligent" state of the native insect and retain a faint spirituality, but it still cannot reach the spiritual level of a normal cub of extraordinary species.
Now Zhou Yue has a clearer conclusion.
In the second stage of "spiritual retention", Ercha can only express the most basic demands and receive the simplest instructions.
For example, "hungry".
For example, "eat."
It's far from the level of mutual understanding and signing of a contract with Zhou Yue.
If you don't observe it carefully, even those who practice mindfulness may not be able to sense the extremely weak spirituality in it.
The current Ercha's IQ is equivalent to that of a low-level Extraordinary cub that is just one or two days old.
This is based on Zhou Yue's consumption of tens of millions worth of mental and physical fluids.
Even so, Zhou Yue was still very satisfied.
After all, it is a miracle that the two-pronged native insect can retain its weak spirituality and thus leave the category of native species.
Zhou Yue's gaze shifted to Hei Wuchang: "As an old man of the cat tribe, what do you think of its evolution?"
A wry smile appeared on Hei Wuchang's face, and two cat claws innocently spread out from both sides of his face.
...This cat is not a miracle spirit insect, so how could it possibly know.
...The insect clan is very closed in the spiritual world and forms its own kingdom. It has never had a good relationship with the cat clan. After all, the secret skill of our race is the big cat insecticidal palm.
...What's more, the Bifurcated Rhinoceros beetle is a native species, and no miraculous creature has been born in its clan. It is also destined to become one insect and one race like Huang Huihong.
...No, it is more difficult to evolve than Huang Huihong. Huang Huihong's original species was nearly level 5 at least, but the beetle was only level 2.
Zhou Yue was noncommittal about Hei Wuchang's words.
Ercha and Huang Huihong are very different in nature.
Although Huang Huihong's evolution is a very rare example, it still exists within the scope of understanding.
The situation of Ercha, just like Zhou Yue who has a magical panel, cannot be explained by the common sense of the mind cultivation world or the spiritual world.
Only Zhou Yue knew that Ercha not only could travel through time, but also had a clone with amazing wisdom.
It is not like Huang Huihong who ate the miracle fruit and reached heaven in one step.
But through Zhou Yue's efforts for more than a month, he persisted in recording the time points when the two-pronged spirituality flashed, explored and summed up the rules, and then injected safe doses of telekinesis fluid and physical energy fluid day after day from less to more, and then stabbed it.
Broken half of the window paper on the road of evolution.
Zhou Yue knew clearly that Ercha might need more telekinesis fluid and physical energy fluid next.
But if this continues, just relying on oneself to explore is not an option.
"Although Ercha has no template in the real world, it belongs to the Zerg family after all. Maybe there will be an answer among the Miracle Spirit Insect family."
"Ask the Wind Mantis clan? No, it's too purposeful."
"This situation of Ercha will cause an uproar even in the spiritual world. We should keep a low profile as much as possible."
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...You have asked the right person this question. In the city above where Zhonglu Academy is located, there is a lineage of mysterious insect spirits living in seclusion.
"Great. Dumb, do you have any contact with them?"
...Sorry, the Zerg tribe has very weird temperaments. They form their own kingdom in the spirit world, and there is a lack of contact between the tribes. Even the more extroverted Wind Mantis tribe has very little communication with the spirit world committee.
"You still have a committee? They are probably controlled by your four major races, and there are many shady things."
...Ahem, aren't you inquiring about the Miracle Spirit Insect? Don't fire off random shots.
"As a dog...can't I contact them?"
...Your identity is a big problem. It is said in the spiritual world that you single-handedly split the black cat clan in the capital and became the guardian of the black cats in the south. Some say you are destined to the cat clan, others say
You are a terrible ambition. You probably don’t know that, apart from the miraculous spiritual birds, the most annoying thing among insects is the black cat. Who told the lazy cat clan’s racial secret skill to be called the Big Cat Insect Killing Palm?
"Indeed, this name is too targeted. Am I an ambitious person? I was obviously forced by the black husband... Having said that, is there really no other way? You are a dumbass."
...Let me think about it. Hey, there is one, but you have to rely on yourself to enter the blue obelisk that represents the distance and the future.
"What? Dumb, can we stop being so poetic (pretending) to be (comparative) when we chat normally?"
...It’s terrible to have no common sense. That’s the Detective Association, which can receive striped clues released by the spirit world. The Insect Spirit Kingdom occasionally releases them, and may be able to help you contact them.
...However, ordinary mind cultivators cannot enter there, and there will be many cumbersome procedures and testing procedures.
...unless, become a detective.
"Okay. Now I suddenly want to know, how can you, a water ape, know so much?"
...Haha, because I am Dumb. Let’s go, the fat man downstairs can’t wait any longer.
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Zhou Yue put away his mental ape sense.
His gaze fell downstairs through the gap in the window lattice.
At the corner of the street, a red SUV was parked under the flickering dim street lights.
Shi Qing, Ah-Dai and Ming Xiaoyu, who felt uncomfortable all sat in the car.
Sensing Zhou Yue's gaze, Shi Qing leaned out of the car window and looked at his watch, signaling Zhou Yue to get down quickly.
Two women's figures came from the other side of the street, one behind the other.
Ming Xiaoyu took the opportunity to find an excuse to slip out of the car and pretend to greet the two girls.
"Xiaobai and Duolan are also here, everyone is here. Hei Wuchang, you stay at home to take care of Ercha."
After Zhou Yue finished speaking, he was about to go downstairs.
Hei Wuchang's expression froze: ...Why! I don't want this cat to be the nanny of this weird insect!
At this time, the two prongs suddenly flew up, spun twice in mid-air, and stopped on Zhou Yue's middle finger.
At first glance, it looks like a cherry-style ring.
Tiny whispers reached Zhou Yue's ears.
……go.
……go.
……go.
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"You want to go out with me?"
Zhou Yue lowered his head and stared at Ercha and said with a smile: "It's okay, but tonight's 'cutting off clues' operation is a temporary decision, so you have to bring your nanny."
When he heard the word "nanny", the black cat who had just jumped on the bed stiffened, and a deep resentment appeared on his face.
...It is a larvae, and this cat is also a kitten!
...This cat is still the new king of the southern cat tribe, meow!
...Zhou Yue, you have double standards!
"Noisy."
Zhou Yue casually stuffed Hei Wuchang, who was protesting loudly, into the space of the cat food tree.
He tried to put the two forks into the space, but failed. It seems that the cat food tree space can only accommodate cats and dead objects.
"Remember, don't run around for a while."
Zhou Yue put the two forks into his shirt pocket, and his body gradually turned into a shadow that was difficult to detect with the naked eye, quietly sliding down the stairs.
Behind the door hangs a calendar given by the pet food wholesale store.
There were still four days left before the date circled in red pen for the long-awaited Telepathy Selection Competition.
"After midnight, there are only three days left."
Zhou Yue's eyes flashed.
An invisible hand seemed to gather in the air, tearing off yesterday's calendar page, crushing it into a ball, and flying it accurately into the kitchen garbage basket.
Zhou Yue looked at his parents who were already sleeping soundly on the sofa bed in the narrow compartment.
Mom turned over.
If the snoring father realized something, he stretched out his arms to protect his mother.
A faint smile appeared at the corner of Zhou Yue's mouth, and his eyes were far deeper than a young man could possess, as if he could travel through time and space.
"Some of the remaining issues should indeed be 'solved'."
"Starting tomorrow morning, there will be no more gray areas in this city."
Zhou Yue's mind moved with his gaze and covered half of the thin quilt that had fallen off again.
When he opened the door gently, his body had already solidified, and then he walked towards his companions who were waiting for him on the street.
Through the crack of the door that is gradually closing behind me, I can still vaguely hear my mother's slightly inaudible murmurs in her sleep.