I Can Reap Qi Fortune from Players-Chapter 541 - 31: City Defense and Interrogation of the Pseudo-human (Part 2)
"Materials that can’t create benefits for us are all like this!"
A group of ironworkers revealed sinister, malicious smiles.
They put on the look of a bandit villain, scaring the residents into trembling with fear.
Beside them, the mudworker led a team to dig soil, loosen the ground, and plant seaweed, watching speechless: "Are they addicted to acting?"
"Being a good person is too hard, being a bandit is more liberating!" Daojiu also stood at the door of the newly built blacksmith shop watching everything.
"Exactly, exactly, without the idol baggage, we can go crazy anywhere anytime!" Lin Meimei also organized people to build the new Hairpin Lady Tower, poking her head out of the second-floor window and saying.
The various natives in Fish Wine City were arranged in various ways.
The entire Fish Wine City was empty, desolate with a hint of eeriness.
And the little Qing, who had already awakened as a pseudo-human, was quickly brought over and locked in the interrogation room.
"Pseudo-human, right?" Su Yuniang said.
"What do you mean?" Qing looked bewildered.
"Bring on the torture." Su Yuniang was too lazy to say more.
A group of little ironworkers came running, letting out strange laughs.
Various cheap tricks were used wildly.
Qing had never seen such a group of devils; these damn bandits were so perverse.
In no time, he was limp all over, panting heavily, completely unable to resist, and quickly confessed, "I confess..."
"Tell us, little fry!"
Su Yuniang silently picked up a pen and wrote down a line: Pseudo-humans, like humans, have various personalities and fear death.
It’s likely influenced by the mother body’s memory, forming the initial personality.
Qing’s character was collected from White Flower.
Cowardly, timid, somewhat insecure.
That can be said to be most of the student assistants’ character in the schoolyard.
After all, this schoolyard was essentially an orphanage, oppressed by wealthy gentlemen.
The Qing in front of her also showed similar cowardice and timidity.
"Where are you from? Gender? Age? What are you planning to do? Who’s your contact? What’s the secret signal?" Su Yuniang asked directly.
Qing, dizzy from the questions, said, "I don’t know where I came from, I just have instincts."
"Instincts? Are you just a Three Flower with low intelligence?" Su Yuniang picked up the pen to record.
"Yes, I just instinctively burrow into the human body and take root."
He was somewhat scared:
"Inside the human body, I’m like an embryo, immobile, waiting for them to open the Three Flowers, to truly hatch and be born."
It turned out to be just as everyone inferred.
Opening the Three Flowers is the hatching; before that, it’s an embryo without much self-awareness.
Su Yuniang nodded, "Then how do you reproduce? Spread?"
"I’m now in the growth phase, soon to enter the mature phase, able to reproduce." Qing dared not hide, saying: "I can reproduce new seeds, taking root in other people’s bodies."
"I see."
Su Yuniang understood completely.
The description in "Ancestral Human Biography" is:
The Human Ancestor found that every few days, a pseudo-human would secretly meet with a human, beguiling them into becoming a pseudo-human.
The actual truth is, pseudo-humans were sowing.
But just sowing isn’t enough, they also had to trick them into opening the Three Flowers and cultivating.
Hence, at the time, pseudo-humans used various benefits to lure the human, like wealth and power... deceiving them into cultivating, teaching them cultivation, opening the Three Flowers!
This was the truth of the scene witnessed by the Human Ancestor back then.
"So when will you be able to produce the next generation?" Su Yuniang asked.
"Well, in a few days." Qing replied cautiously.
"Can’t it be faster?"
Su Yuniang frowned, "You little short fish, can you give birth faster? How about eight hundred embryos at once?"
Qing shrank his head, "If there are resources, if there’s Spirit Plant Liquid, I can grow quickly."
Spirit Plant Liquid is a liquid medicine used exclusively for cultivating Spiritual Roots and various Heavenly and Earthly Treasures.
Are these pseudo-humans really Three Flower Spiritual Roots?
If so, wouldn’t they be able to use all kinds of resources meant for plants?
Su Yuniang thought for a while, and after locking him up, discussed with the little ironworkers outside.
They prepared to see how this pseudo-human’s reproductive mechanism works.
So they prepared some Spirit Plant Liquid for him, and then captured him and locked him in the special prison in Fish Wine City.
Until they figure it out, they won’t easily let these guys into the villa.
...
...
Ning Zheng also frowned slightly, "Such troubled times!"
He thought for a moment and went to Xinyi Continent City through the Teleportation Array.
+2
+2
+2
...
Only the praise from the scholars in the city of Ximen could barely soothe his wounded heart.
He casually wandered around a restaurant.
Found that no one in the entire restaurant was discussing the pseudo-human issue.
"Hasn’t it spread to the Nine-State side?"
"Is it only breaking out on the Sea Race side?"
Xinyi Continent City is one of the most well-informed places in the Nine-State.
With the communication capabilities of humans, if a pseudo-human appeared and was detected, it would’ve spread throughout the state city by now.
It seems, for now, it’s only breaking out in the sea.
The Human Race has a buffering period.
Ning Zheng was somewhat puzzled: "Does the mastermind want to target the Sea Race so badly? Starting with their oceans, being so friendly to our Human Race?"
However, Xinyi Continent itself is near the sea. If the pseudo-human calamity in the sea spreads to the Nine-State, Xinyi Continent would inevitably bear the brunt.
Last time, the first target to be hit was the Rose Continent.
The result was the Rose Continent being heavily damaged, with many casualties, even their Rose King fell.
Now it’s Xinyi Continent’s turn to take the hit...
Ning Zheng didn’t look so good.
Xinyi Continent is his stronghold!
He wandered around here, then instead of going back, stayed overnight in the state city just to enjoy that +2.
But he suddenly had a whim, "Can my Dharma Aspect stay here and absorb Qi Fortune Value?"
He tried using his Dharma Aspect on a whim.
Surprisingly it didn’t work!
It still requires the body.
"Then I’ll reverse it, have the body here, manage the ironworkers in the villa using the Dharma Aspect."
He felt he was a master planner.
This way, he could +2 here 24 hours a day, but looking at it this way, buying a house was a must.
Ning Zheng still decided to spend the money, he went to the "sales office" for a look.
The sales office had a giant model of the city, miniature of the entire Ximen City, and there were various sales ladies speaking so eloquently.
No wonder the house prices were driven so high by them.
In the end, Ning Zheng spent 800,000 Magic Coins to buy an old broken small house and greeted the neighbors.
"From now on, I’ll live here."
He set up the bed and furniture properly.
Bought a batch of books to put on the shelf to look decent, somewhat like a scholar who studied hard.
"The little ironworkers in Fish Wine City have been preparing for battle all day, should be offline now, right?"
He took another look at the forum to see what the situation was now.
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At night.
While Ning Zheng was in Xinyi Continent City gathering intelligence on pseudo-humans.
The entire Fish Wine City held a bonfire party, and afterward, a group of little ironworkers just rested on the spot.
They collapsed in front of the bonfire, scattered all around, looking drunk.
Then they logged off, using their bodies to lure pseudo-humans, parasitizing their brains.
As soon as they logged off, they seamlessly went to the forum to brag.
Night Mad Cultivator: "I wonder how many pseudo-humans will parasitize among the brothers doing outdoor play by tomorrow?"
Food God: "Haha! This reminds me of the scene where I used my head to fish for the elders in the realm."
Shao Chaikun: "Is there any free Spiritual Roots!"
Immortal Aunt: "The quality of this batch of Spiritual Roots is very high, it looks like they’re all Middle Grade or Upper Grade Spiritual Roots, aren’t we getting free Spirit Roots?"
Jiucai Rong: "Big profit, a bunch of free Upper Grade Spiritual Roots, just think how many weapons we can make with that! (*^▽^*)"
Su Yuniang: "Big news! Inspired by White Flower, I secretly stuck a blade on my neck to prevent that thing from rooting into my brain, wonder if my neck will have a Conan’s little bow tie by tomorrow?"
Medical Fairy: "You guys are too bad, absolute human scum! My poor pseudo-humans!~"
...
This group of sand sculptures, prepared for battle all day with various comprehensive plans, had already started fishing.
Total war mode, activated.
They even set up various "cameras" in the dark to capture the pseudo-humans parasitizing them.
