"You seem pretty happy."
Ma Xiaotao followed behind him. She seemed to catch a hint of the boy's mood.
"Just an unexpected surprise. I've formed a new hypothesis about soul ring add-ons and need to test it. It's quite different from my original goal, but research is about exploring the unknown. It's rare to have something perfectly aligned."
"Besides, I've found some leads on my original objective too. If nothing goes wrong, I should be able to complete the theory and start testing within half a year."
On the unknown path ahead, no one can predict what they'll encounter after their next turn,whether it's a troublesome squatter in life or a demolition crew here to tear things apart. Everything is uncertain.
Perhaps it is precisely because of this that life's width and height contain so many variables.
And so life gains the resilience to rise from dust to brilliance.
"Yuhua… are we really going to look for Ning Tian?"
Standing outside the teaching building, Wang Dong frowned, his face twisted with hesitation.
"But we need Teacher Ning Tian to answer many of our questions."
Huo Yuhao looked at Wang Dong with confusion. Shouldn't you be the one who used your charm to extract information from her before? Why do you look like you're terrified to see her now?
"Fine! I'll risk my life today for you!"
"Oh? Since when did I become a gentleman?"
Ning Tian's voice suddenly came from behind Wang Dong, startling him so much that he quickly jumped back to avoid being groped.
"You two as well. Look if you want, but being too curious will get you in trouble."
She walked past them with a tone of mild helplessness. She already knew the details from Blueghost.
All she could say was: newborn calves aren't afraid of tigers.
Why does that sound familiar? Oh right,my teacher said the same thing about me back then…
At that time, Chen Fu had planned to custom-make a special spiritual-battle device for Ning Tian to improve her work efficiency,though not her work hours.
But Ning Tian felt she had already mastered enough skills and insisted on making her own device, saying her teacher should not trouble himself.
In response, Chen Fu said: "Newborn calf…"
To avoid discouraging her enthusiasm and to show his support for her dream, he had Blueghost compile a full theoretical package on device chips as a gift to her.
"Ahhh! I finally have a successor! My hair is almost gone!"
Ning Tian authorized the second-generation spiritual-battle device that held the learning package and handed it to Huo Yuhao. To her, the simple transfer of this small soul tool felt like the start of a beautiful, easier life as a support-type soul master.
She now deeply missed the days when she was still a support-type soul master who didn't swing a pagoda to beat people. She was foolish, maybe, but at least her hair didn't fall out!
[Hair loss is a normal physiological phenomenon.]
Ah! Even Blueghost bullies me now?
Blueghost was the core hub and main system of the spiritual-battle network and had authority over every connected device.
One of Blueghost's long-term tasks,assigned by who knows who,was to supervise that Ning Tian never slacked off during work hours.
So every time she tried to slack off, Blueghost would warn her and threaten overtime equal to however long she slacked.
Ning Tian: (▼皿▼#)
Blueghost: (σ′▽‵)σ Have a productive day!
As for why Wang Dong knew Ning Tian: during freshman admission, among the fangirling girls and boys who disliked her because of gender, Ning Tian,who showed neither fangirling nor hostility and instead looked genuinely interested,left him with a surprisingly good first impression.
As for Ning Tian, non-core files in Blueghost's database were open to her, and Chen Fu had force-fed her tons of knowledge. So when she saw Wang Dong…
A Bright Goddess Butterfly! Super rare! Wow, is she maybe a 1?! Oh hoho, this is… so cool!
Sometimes Chen Fu wondered whether her physical mutation affected her brain, or if having fewer tasks made her think about increasingly strange things. Unlike him,working 24 hours a day, 365 days a year… and after Blueghost was completed, he didn't even need to sleep.
"Blueghost, did I overlook something?"
Chen Fu frowned while testing soul power nodes one by one. He felt he had missed something.
[Specify the range?]
"About Ning Tian."
[Family, friends, behavior…]
Blueghost listed Ning Tian's data sets.
After skimming through them, Chen Fu fell silent.
Then he pulled up information about the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and its predecessor, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, archived by Shrek Academy.
"Build a Wu Feng personality model."
[Model constructed.]
"???"
Even Chen Fu,used to storms and entirely unreadable emotions,felt his face stiffen.
The Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's dependence on strong, individual soul masters had become irrelevant thanks to ring fusion technology.
In other words, Ning Tian's standards for choosing a partner would no longer be restricted by sect rules.
Understandable, but…
Did I run into something unlucky the moment I stepped outside today? Why am I suffering like this??
"Blueghost, send Ning Tian a value-system learning package. With an assessment!"
[Task list updated.]
Just as Ning Tian was happily dreaming of her bright future, she suddenly felt a chill down her back and immediately straightened her posture.
"Why are you always so jumpy?"
Left alone with her, Wang Dong flinched, thinking this "disrespectful master" with brute strength was about to grope him again.
If she didn't have dirt on him, he would never be alone with her!
"It's nothing. Blueghost sometimes assigns tasks. You get used to it."
As she watched the slow download progress on her device, Ning Tian began to sense the seriousness of the situation.
"Hurry up and tell me why you kept me?"
Seeing her expression freeze, Wang Dong grew impatient. He still wanted to go ask Huo Yuhao to let him play with the second-generation spiritual-battle device. It wasn't even on the market yet.
"Forget it. I'm not keeping you. My teacher won't let me hang out with you anymore."
Bang!
The wooden door closed, the gust nearly making Wang Dong's eyes shut.
If confusion had levels, Wang Dong felt he had maxed out.
…
"What? You finally have results?"
Chen Fu, who had pushed Project Ascension to 89% completion, looked at the green-haired hamster girl who seemed to have disappeared for quite some time.
Mo Ling's martial soul had undergone a positive mutation with his intervention. From a Fortune Golden Fur Bear, it had evolved into a Jade-Scaled Fortune Golden Fur Bear,since she had perfectly inherited both toxin and fortune traits.
"See for yourself. Data from Seed Experiment No. 52."
[Data received.]
Chen Fu skimmed through it and then looked at the now much thinner Mo Ling with suspicion.
"Twenty-seven consecutive positive mutations?"
And every time you got the exact result you wanted?
"Yeah. If the early rapid-growth trait had appeared, I wouldn't have continued hybrid breeding for so long. What's wrong with that?"
Her round double-bun hairstyle and chubby cheeks seemed to say: Isn't that normal?
This was absurd…
"Blueghost!"
"She finished all planned stages in one year. Is that normal?"
"So doesn't someone like her make probability theory a joke?"
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