The Shadow Priest could not agree on Shi Sheng's behalf, so he looked at Shi Sheng instead.
Shi Sheng said the same thing again. Grandpa Yu was so angry that he wanted to jump up and hit her.
His Yu Family only had this one child. If something were to happen to this only child because of what he had done in the past, how could he face his ancestors?
"Why do I have such a disobedient granddaughter like you?!" Grandpa Yu slapped his thigh and gritted his teeth as if he wanted to strangle Shi Sheng to death, but in the end, he could not bear to do so.
Shi Sheng shrugged. "What else can I do? Shove me back in? "
Grandpa Yu was speechless. This unfilial granddaughter was really infuriating.
Shi Sheng smiled innocently. Grandpa Yu scoffed and said, "We'll go to the nearest base tomorrow."
Rongguang Base was gone overnight. He really did not know if the other bases could withstand Xiaye's attack …
Grandpa Yu took a deep breath. If it really came to the last step, he had to find a way to protect this unfilial granddaughter.
After a quiet night, they set off on the Iron Sword the next day.
Only then did Grandpa Yu react and ask Shi Sheng what the hell was this flying thing.
Shi Sheng vaguely made up a few sentences, unwilling to explain too much. For this kind of old man, the more you explained, the more he liked to get to the bottom of it.
Grandpa Yu was furious, but he could not do anything to Shi Sheng, so he could only sulk alone.
They arrived at the nearest base very quickly, but it was already abandoned. There was no one inside, and only dried bloodstains could be seen on the ground. This place had long been destroyed.
"Xiaye …" Grandpa Yu stood outside the base with a sorrowful expression as he muttered Xiaye's name.
This base had obviously been attacked earlier than Rongguang Base, but they did not receive any news at all. Instead, they would receive signals from the base every day, proving that they were operating normally here.
But in reality, the base had long ceased to exist.
Grandpa Yu did not know how many bases had been attacked. If Xiaye could make one base look intact, she could naturally make the other bases look like they had not been attacked.
"Shadow Priest, look at this." Shadow Priest came out of the base and held a strange picture.
Shadow Priest glanced at the piece of paper and his expression suddenly changed.
"Where did you find it?"
Ying Sheng pointed inside and answered obediently, "There's a laboratory on the second floor. I saw it in your room before, so I took it out."
"What's this?" Shi Sheng leaned over to take a look at the paper.
Shadow Sacrifice kept the paper and led Shi Sheng into the base.
"Stay here and accompany Grandpa Yu, I'll be back soon." Ying Ji said to Ying Sheng.
"Oh …" Ying Sheng was a little disappointed.
There was no light in the base, and his feet were sticky. He didn't know what he had stepped on, but after walking for a while, the road ahead leveled out.
The Shadow Sacrifice continued forward and finally stopped in front of a door. The door was open, and there was a weak emergency light inside. They could barely see the situation inside.
This was a laboratory. There was an ice-cold operating table and some strange transparent jars. In the corner of the room, there were many corpses. Some had already dried up, and some had just started to rot, emitting a rotten stench.
Shadow Sacrifice let go of the Shi Sheng and went inside, rummaging through the test bench.
"What happened?"
Ying Ji spread out the papers. "Didn't you ask me what I gave Ying Sheng?"
"Huh?" What did that have to do with this?
Shadow Sacrifice tilted his head and looked into the depths of Shi Sheng's eyes. "Mental strength. I gave him mental strength."
He pointed at the papers on the table. "At that time, I thought I didn't succeed. These are the theories I wrote down."
Mental strength …
This thing was equivalent to a soul.
Shi Sheng looked at the papers. "Then why are they here?"
"I don't know." Shadow Sacrifice supported himself on the table. "At that time, I thought I failed, so I kept these things and haven't touched them since."
Shi Sheng flipped through the papers and looked at the rotting corpses in the corner. He had a bold idea.
Shi Sheng arranged the papers on the table and picked out the useful information.
"Are there other metahumans in this world?" Xiaye's ability was equivalent to a special ability. Since Xiaye had it, other people might have it too.
If only the main character had it, then the main character would be invincible. In order to balance and make things more difficult for the main character, there would definitely be other metahumans.
"Yes." Shadow Sacrifice nodded. "But it's very rare. Those with the ability wouldn't appear rashly because it would cost them their lives."
This was normal. No matter what kind of world it was, if someone with the ability didn't have the ability to protect themselves, they would usually end up in a miserable state.
Therefore, the most important thing wasn't to have the ability, but to have the strength and brains to control the ability.
Even if you were weak, as long as you were smart enough, you could still stand at the top and look down on the world.
"If this was done by Xiaye, then Xiaye has at least two metahumans helping him," Shi Sheng concluded. "He's using this to rob some people of their mental strength for his own use."
… Buttface, are you sure this is the main character?
Why do I feel like he's a villain?
[Can't the evil main character be the main character?] Only you can be evil, but the main character can't be evil?
Why are you so agitated? I didn't say he couldn't be evil. I'm just a little agitated to meet such a main character.
[…] Agitated?!
What's there to be agitated about?!
Shi Sheng's smile was a little eerie. He could now confirm that Xiaye was the mastermind behind all this.
[…] I don't know if I should curse.
The host is trying to trick the system again!
# The host's brain is always wired differently from us mortals #
"I thought this theory wouldn't work, but who would've thought …" The Shadow Priest scoffed coldly. The results of his research had been used by someone else. No matter how he thought about it, he felt unhappy.
Shi Sheng waved a piece of paper, and the whole room was filled with the sound of rustling. "You really don't remember how these things ended up in Xiaye's hands?"
The Shadow Priest tried his best to recall, but he couldn't remember. The place he lived in had been invaded by the desert creatures, so it was impossible for him to go back and check where he had placed the things.
He wasn't even sure if those things were still there.
"Forget it. We'll deal with it when the time comes." Shi Sheng threw the paper aside. "The most important thing now is how to get the mental strength back from Ying Sheng's body."
If it had been a different setting, like a fantasy immortal cultivation, it would have been easy to get it back.
However, in this setting, the words' mental strength 'were new. It was easier said than done to get it back.
Ying Sheng's situation was different from the others. He was clearly the weaker party, but now he could affect the Shadow Priest. There was no guarantee that he would really replace the Shadow Priest later on.
*
[This is a fake group.]
Little Fairy: In the end, we're leaving behind the old days and ushering in a new life.
Cherub: Speak like a human.
Little Fairy: A new month has begun. Let's vote!
System: You might as well not speak like a human.
Little Fairy: Deduct my scenes!
System: I don't have many scenes anyway. Deduct them if you want.
Little Fairy: Heh, even you, Buttface, dare to oppose me.
System: (Smile) Bite me.
Little Fairy: …
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