Chapter 118: Chapter 118: The End of a Chapter
Sandora had always been intrigued by the spiritual aspect of Earthlings.
In her words, she had never seen anything so fragile and yet so difficult to manipulate.
For Sandora, a superpower user who could twist reality with just a thought, the spiritual power of Earthlings was extremely weak, weaker than any other carbon-based life form she had encountered—specifically referring to ordinary people who possessed no abilities and had undergone no training. For Sandora, destroying the souls of ordinary humans was as simple as breathing. However, it was precisely because their spiritual power was so fragile that it irritated Sandora.
Because other than destructing and performing some superficial hypnosis lacking any technical depth, she couldn’t find any other way to manipulate the human spirit world. It felt to her like carving the Qingming River Painting on a piece of soap with a silver-engraved cleaver—no matter how careful you were, you’d end up with nothing but soap powder. This made many of her personal hobbies difficult to realize, like reading memories, for example… and reading memories.
If possible, Sandora would have loved to capture thousands of people and detain them in a concentration camp, conducting human experiments daily. In less than a month, she would find a way to precisely control the human spirit world. Sadly, her idea could never be realized as a benevolent, compassionate being like me existed—any inhumane and antisocial behavior was all but ethereal…
A few days ago, I had advised her to try learning from our human scientists, to capture some animals and experiment with mind reading techniques. However, when Qianqian explained to me in simple terms how disgusting the thoughts of a street dog scavenging in the trash could be, even I felt that this suggestion was too immoral…
But now it seemed like even God was favoring Sandora, granting her Gu Fei, someone naturally adept at mind reading, and this guy’s disposition just wiped out our last bit of guilt. I suspected that God might just be a pet kept by Sandora’s family.
By now, Gu Fei had finally completed prowling around us. A trace of confusion and surprise showed on his face. He probably had never encountered opponents with such powerful spiritual energy before—his usually proud mind reading technique had absolutely no effect on any of us. Even the spiritual powers of those two soundly sleeping little girls were incredibly strong, which was unbelievable because usually, the spiritual power of superpower users significantly weakens while asleep, as inherently determined by the human brain structure. Could these two little girls actually be spiritual monsters?
After hearing Ding Ling’s introduction of us, Gu Fei was even more surprised. These average-looking folks in front of him were leaders of another superpower organization? Except for the golden-haired girl with a noble demeanor, none of the others looked the slightest bit like superiors. Being a superpower user was supposed to be a race superior to ordinary humans, but their appearance, looking like they were just out for a trip with kids, was simply a disgrace to superpower users!
Clearly, he was jealous.
Since his ability had no effect on other superpower users, he harbored significant hostility towards them, especially Lin Xue, whose observation ability often spoiled his schemes. It had made most of the girls in the organization avoid him like they would a fly. Seeing another group of superpower users, and leaders at that, and given his current everyday restrictions, Gu Fei was obviously burning with jealousy.
I distinctly saw an impatient expression cross that kid’s face, and his eyes carried that intentionally feigned disdain. With my back molars, I could guess what he was thinking, but I didn’t care in the slightest. He was just a test animal. Why bother about his thoughts? A lab rat is a lab rat, no matter if it dyes its fur yellow—it’s not Pikachu!
“Fine, fine,” Gu Fei waved his hand impatiently. “Is it just a small organization? Is it worth arranging a meeting with the old man? Just hand over the crystals and research materials to us; we’ve dealt with plenty of these minor issues.”
“I want to kill him,” Lin Xue said over the public channel.
“From the top floor,” Sandora said matter-of-factly.
“Kill him, and what then would you study?” I said, then told Sandora about Gu Fei’s capabilities.
Gu Fei, still there pretentiously acting like a big shot, suddenly realized that the golden-haired girl’s gaze had changed.
It was as if she was looking at… a toy?!
Although he couldn’t read her thoughts, Gu Fei was quite familiar with what different expressions on people’s faces usually implied about their thoughts. The way Sandora was looking at him was completely like she was seeing an intriguing new toy!
If it had been anyone else looking at him with that gaze, Gu Fei would have flipped the table a long time ago—he was someone who retaliated at the slightest provocation. But facing Sandora, he vaguely felt that he absolutely shouldn’t act that way—man’s intuition?”
“Of course you can,” Sandora said cheerfully, “We’d be happy to share the crystals and some data with you. After all, we can’t figure out much by ourselves, but there’s one condition!”
At that moment, Gu Fei was annoyed by Sandora’s gaze and said without thinking, “Go ahead, your condition won’t be too much for us.”
“I need someone from your side to help us with our research, as you’ve already been studying these crystals for a long time. With your help, our research process would speed up significantly.”
“Fake.” I evaluated with a single word.
“Too fake.” Lin Xue expressed agreement.
“Extremely fake.” Qianqian also nodded.
“Stop padding the word count.” My sister smacked each of our heads…
Sandora secretly gestured for us to be quiet, then her eyes sparkled as she said to Gu Fei, “I wonder if you’d be willing to take on this responsibility?”
“Me?” Gu Fei never expected to be chosen, “I’m not a researcher, and as a high-level cadre in the organization, how could I condescend to work for you?”
“Because you are a high-level cadre in the Superpower Team,” Sandora complimented, hiding her disgust, “After all, it’s an exchange between two organizations. You’re not just here to assist us with the research; you’re also the intermediary and external representative. Who else but a high-level cadre could bear such responsibility?”
Although it was a ridiculous reason, Gu Fei immediately showed a pleased expression. It was easy to guess that his status within the organization wasn’t that great, seeing how such a small bit of flattery could please someone who thought so highly of himself…
“Since that’s the case, I’ll go back and apply with the organization’s top leader. But I also carry significant responsibilities, so don’t hold too high hopes.”
That’s what Gu Fei said, but he was actually quite curious about our suddenly emerging organization. He was fed up with the restrictions in the Superpower Team and didn’t want to pass up this opportunity to carry out a task on his own.
Sandora gave a satisfied smile and secretly gestured a victory sign at me.
Eventually, I politely declined Ding Ling’s offer to arrange a meeting with the Superpower Team’s top leader. Although I was a bit curious about their so-called “old man,” upon reflection, it seemed too troublesome…
Moreover, our rare vacation was about to be completely ruined!
It’s quite ironic, thinking about it—high-profile figures like leaders of the Imperial Leader’s legions grappling with the petty issues of winter break being too short and having too much homework… It’s kind of aggravating…
Finally, we settled the Superpower Team’s issue. Gu Fei and Ding Ling took some crystals and several other damaged Ghost Energy Control Rods back with them, telling us to wait for their research progress. Gu Fei even pompously promised to take time out of his busy schedule to help us “resolve the research issues,” little did he know he was actually the subject of the research…
Hopefully, the Superpower Team really did have a lot of information, because the continuous appearance of Xyrin Relics on Earth was really making us anxious…
With the remaining time, we could finally relax a bit…