Chapter 1900 - 1904: Trouble
Lu Xiaobu didn’t speak immediately but walked a few steps to the side of a cell.
After a careful look, he found that the iron bars were actually unlocked, just closed like this.
Only then did he understand why Bu Bai could come and go so freely.
He then carefully observed the guard with closed eyes and even tested with his hand.
Indeed, as Bu Bai said, they were practically in a state of living dead.
"Bu Bai, come and kill one for me to see."
Lu Xiaobu spoke again.
"Alright."
Bu Bai stepped forward, and that eerie green light appeared again, entering straight into the living dead guard’s body.
Afterward, Lu Xiaobu could clearly feel that this eerie green light, upon entering the guard’s body, seemed to trigger some mechanism, and instantly a deeper light emerged from the guard’s body.
Eventually, the guard’s entire body began to disintegrate gradually until it disappeared without a trace.
"According to my experiments, these guards resemble a kind of intelligent robot existence. Besides each being activated to share spiritual wisdom with me post-naturally, there’s also a core-like command originating from their instincts, controlling their life and the switch of their wisdom." Bu Bai explained, looking like a scientist.
"It reminds me of the directive-like element Xiaobu mentioned in his mind; I believe these two features are the same. Before the spiritual wisdom is activated, it’s a directive. After spiritual wisdom activates and consumes entities like myself, that same element becomes the core controlling their life."
"And I am Bu Bai, not Xiaobu, so after arriving here, I wasn’t affected and didn’t become a living dead like them."
"Lin Feng’s use of virus-like elements last time was more of triggering conditions. Once it enters the guards’ bodies, it triggers corresponding measures, leading to respective outcomes."
"Last time, he used a condition that momentarily lost command acceptance. After my refinement, now there’s a trigger condition that ensures death."
Bu Bai elaborated excitedly.
Lu Xiaobu nodded repeatedly, indicating agreement.
Unexpectedly, Bu Bai is so gifted in this aspect.
After listening to Bu Bai, Lu Xiaobu pondered and asked, "So, apart from the core, these guards are essentially in the same state as you and me here?"
"Yes, exactly." Bu Bai confirmed with a nod, "Host, what do you want to do?"
"I want to try simulating."
Light flickered in Lu Xiaobu’s eyes.
He decided to act immediately.
Soon, a faint shadow emerged from within Lu Xiaobu’s body, gradually solidifying, ultimately taking the exact form as the guard who just collapsed.
This surprised Bu Bai immensely, "It can be split? I remember it shouldn’t be possible! It seems maintaining the domain in the Spirit Realm requires presence!"
"Yes, in the first layer of the Spirit Realm, that’s the case. If I’m right, it’s because it’s a public area."
"But things are different here; this belongs to the layer of the Spirit Realm on Gourd Island, and as someone who took part of Gourd Island’s control, I naturally have some privileges!"
"And not only that, a certain deity has done a good thing in some sense."
Lu Xiaobu squinted, revealing his conjecture.
Bu Bai froze, "He did a good thing?"
Lu Xiaobu laughed, "Certainly, it’s a good thing."
Lu Xiaobu glanced again at the densely packed cells, "This is the good deed he did!"
"As long as no one finds out, the deity can indeed hold the Spirit Realm of these layers tightly in hand!"
"But now that you’ve appeared and I’ve come, we can actually leverage the deity’s efforts!"
"The deity’s division of so many cells was naturally to suppress the control core, but correspondingly, it has reduced the difficulty of my core control plunder!"
"The original desire to plunder more control typically requires inch-by-inch tug-of-war with the core, but now it’s different; I just need to occupy a cell, and I’m merely competing with the power of the core control of this cell!"
"It’s no longer about contesting the core’s entirety each time like before!"
Bu Bai’s eyes also lit up upon hearing this, "So, originally the deity aimed to suppress the entire core, but now, due to our discovery, this suppression is actually helping you swiftly refine the core?!"
"Smart!" Lu Xiaobu praised contentedly.
"Let’s do it then! I’ll take them all down, and you occupy the place!" Bu Bai was thrilled!
"What’s going on?" Lu Xiaobu rolled his eyes, "Didn’t you already understand? Why are you saying that again?!"
"Oh! Oh! Right! Host, you still need to compete in reality bit by bit! I forgot!" Bu Bai suddenly realized, somewhat embarrassed.
He was so eager to showcase himself!
Especially since only he could accomplish these things now!
"Besides plundering in reality, I’m also preparing to enter the game!" Lu Xiaobu squinted his eyes, "Hasn’t the deity been waiting for us to enter? Well, I’ll show him!"
"Feigning advancement while sneaking behind the scenes?!" Bu Bai chuckled.
Even at this stage, he understood clearly!
Openly entering the struggle of the first layer of Spirit Realm to divert the deity’s attention entirely to the first layer.
Meanwhile, secretly, seamlessly competing for this layer of Spirit Realm and gradually increasing control over the core.
By the time the host captures this layer of Spirit Realm, even the deity would be frustrated!
"Very clever!" Lu Xiaobu nodded again with satisfaction, "Not only enter the game, but stir things up until it’s unstoppable! We must ensure the deity cannot focus here!"
"However, there’s another issue, and that’s Lin Feng!"
"If Lin Feng doesn’t cooperate, it won’t stir up issues enough, and the deity will surely notice my deliberate actions. At that point, the plan will fail!"
"If it’s too obvious, wanting Lin Feng’s cooperation will likely have him spot the flaw. Given his disposition, he’ll undoubtedly investigate deeply!"
"This is a bit troublesome! Do I need to inform Lin Feng about this?"
Lu Xiaobu murmured while rubbing his temples.𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎