The artist pulls out a weeping willow tree

Chapter 54: Auspicious, Mutation, and Prosperity

Old man Ji's eyes were shining, as if he had discovered a treasure.

Under the gaze of Old Man Ji, Jixiang slowly calmed down and was stunned. This situation seemed to be... Was she really worrying in vain?

"Am I okay?" Jixiang asked anxiously. She seemed to be overreacting...

"Something happened." Old Man Ji said with a smile. Seeing that Jixiang's face turned pale again, he immediately added, "It has nothing to do with the Zerg."

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"I'm scared to death!" Ji·Artist·Xiang is not afraid of snakes, but he is afraid of insects. But, "Are you sure?" Don't let anything slip!

Old Man Ji said firmly, "Of course it is certain. The Zerg's mental power has color because their mental power has a higher degree of evolution. The so-called marking theory..." Old Man Ji frowned, "In fact, it is the parasitism of the Zerg's mental power."

What the hell?! "Parasitism?!" Jixiang's expression and voice were distorted, and his whole body was numb. The interstellar worldview he had just established was shaky...

Old Man Ji looked at Jixiang's startled expression and could not help shaking his head. He comforted him, "Parasitism is not that easy. Mental power relies on the spiritual sea to exist, and parasitism requires the spiritual sea and the host to merge. Only a strong enough spiritual sea can leave the body, and a strong enough spiritual sea...even the strongest human body cannot compare with the body of the Zerg." That is the source of materials for S-level and above mechas.

Jixiang muttered angrily, "No one has refuted the rumor!" She was reading a popular science post on Xingwang! As expected, there are fake popular science posts on every website, and all popular science posts are the same, just misleading people.

"It sounds like parasitism is almost impossible to achieve. Then why are there still people talking nonsense on StarNet?"

"That's because the parasitism failed, so everyone knows about it."

"It's actually true..." Jixiang couldn't help but touch his hairy arm, "What happened next?" Being parasitized by insects was disgusting.

"The victim's spiritual sea was no match for the Zerg and was devoured. His body was blown up by the power of the Zerg's spiritual sea. Later, the military found the victim's spiritual power from a small part of the body that was recovered. It was the same color as the Zerg's spiritual power."

"That's probably because they were swallowed and assimilated by the Zerg's spiritual sea." Jixiang guessed, "Then, what about that Zerg?"

"Disappeared."

Uh, "Actually... you never looked for it later?" Jixiang couldn't help but asked in surprise.

"We've looked for it. Judging from the results of the mental power tests that remained on the battlefield at that time, the greatest possibility is that the spiritual sea has dissipated." Old Man Ji said in a deep voice.

"Ah, then, were there any other parasitic incidents afterwards?"

"There have been some, but none of them were as powerful as this Zerg. They all exploded the moment they failed. Moreover, after the first parasitic incident, the four major star alliances increased their research on the defense of the sea of ​​​​mind. The Zerg are not that stupid. Parasites may exist within the Zerg, but they have become extinct on the battlefield."

After saying that, Old Man Ji narrowed his eyes and looked at Jixiang carefully, then decided to bring the topic back and asked again: "Do you know what it means that mental power is infinite?"

Jixiang shook his head honestly.

"You are infinite now." Old man Ji said slowly.

"So my spiritual sea has not mutated?"

"...You can also say it's a mutation." Old Man Ji couldn't help but choke when he heard this. He thought for a moment and said, "I can feel that your mental power is normal. There is no negative mental power energy. Even if it is a mutation, it is a positive mutation."

"…Isn't that still a mutation?" Jixiang was speechless.

"Release your mental power for me to see."

Jixiang did as he was told, and Old Man Ji also released his mental power.

"Now try to change its color."

After waiting for a long time, the two of them looked at the mental power that had not changed at all.

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Old Man Ji: ...

"...Do you still remember what you were doing or thinking before the color changed?" Old Man Ji asked with a headache.

Jixiang asked uncertainly, "Be a gem miner?"

Old Man Ji: “…”

"Think about it carefully!" Old man Ji endured it and finally said expressionlessly.

"...I remember it very clearly. I just wanted a gem mine. I could just go and mine it when I had nothing to do. It would save me a lot of money," Jixiang said regretfully.

"What else?" Old Man Ji guided Jixiang calmly.

"And... oh, that gem is too hard to grind. If I didn't want that pale white and slightly green sky blue color, I wouldn't have wasted it..." Jixiang stared blankly at the gradually emerging blue color, and it took him a long while to find his voice, "So that's how it is."

Old Man Ji felt the subtle changes in his mental power for a long time, and finally retracted his mental power. "Congratulations, although I don't know what this change does, but you have indeed proved that mental power is infinite."

Jixiang, who was still trying to change it into other colors, remained silent.

"Is this the end?"

"Well... many people have more or less mental power mutations. Before determining the final direction of the mental power mutation, don't show any signs to the outside world." Old Man Ji said very seriously.

Jixiang is not a real child. If she hadn't been deceived by popular science and was too afraid of insects, and if old man Ji was not trustworthy, she would not have exposed this matter so easily.

So seeing that Old Man Ji was so serious, he also said seriously: "Of course."

The matter was temporarily over here, and neither of them mentioned it again tacitly.

However, although he did not mention it, Old Man Ji gave Jixiang a lot of notes on the cultivation of mental power mutation.

Jixiang looked at the familiar handwriting, and then at the plain but money-hungry old man Ji, and was torn between testing and playing dumb.

However, it had been so long since the exhibition match ended, but Jixiang still didn't ask.

Jixiang was bored and changed the color of the mental power thread in his hand. The mental power was like flowing water, entwined around Jixiang's fingertips. Like a color spectrum, all kinds of colors were changed one by one.

Finally, Jixiang withdrew her mental power in frustration. She could only change the color of her mental power now, and it required her to continuously project her consciousness and output her mental power to maintain the color. She also wanted to use her mental power to simulate her eyes and catch up on sleep during class! Although this purpose was not very noble, she just wanted to be lazy once in a while...

After experimenting for a long time without any clues, Jixiang decided to go find Old Man Ji. They haven't had a good chat since that misunderstanding. Jixiang thought that Old Man Ji might give her some inspiration!

Do it as soon as you think of it. Jixiang quickly got up from the bed.