"A Fog Corpse’s silhouette was sliced horizontally in half, but you know Fog Corpses—they won’t die unless their heads are destroyed. It’s crawling toward you along with the corpse horde." Caicai answered.
"By the way, out of a hundred Four-Star Fog Corpses, only six contain Star Stones."
"Out of ninety-seven and a half Five-Star Fog Corpses, only thirteen contain Star Stones."
"That’s so low." Xiao Jinsheng exclaid in surprise.
Speaking of which, she had just copied her Beast Husband’s five superpowers.
With wind power enhancent, she effortlessly controlled her flight in mid-air.
Xiao Jinsheng glanced at Que Zelian and the others, giving them a reminder: "Don’t interfere, let kite the Fog Corpses."
Her first ti in the Mist Continent’s west side.
To acquire Star Stones, Que Zelian had once carried her while kiting Fog Corpses, exploiting this bug to farm Star Stones.
Now it was her turn to fly freely by herself. Xiao Jinsheng used her Wood Elent superpower to sweep away obstructing tree branches and green vines. With Wind Elent enhancent, she lured a horde of Fog Corpses to chase her around in the forest.
"Co on, faster! Three kiloters—if you haven’t covered the distance, no resting allowed!" Xiao Jinsheng flew backward while cheering on the Fog Corpses ten ters away, their mouths open, growling hoarsely.
"Oh? Playing gas again?" Mo Jiao chuckled lightly.
Eight hundred ters—failed.
Three kiloters—easily done.
Xiao Jinsheng kited the Fog Corpses in circles like a pro.
Caicai stared at the data analyzed by its system, then at the Fog Corpses chasing Xiao Jinsheng, absorbing energy from underground and converting it into Star Stones. Its gaze froze blankly.
"Holy crap, what’s happening here?" Caicai was dumbfounded.
"Stop kiting them! Hurry up and kill them already!" Caicai urged.
It suspected there might be a problem with its system’s data analysis.
So it needed to verify if the killed Fog Corpses truly contained Star Stones.
Saying that, Caicai’s kelp-like figure transford again.
Seven rays of light—red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple—shone separately over the Fog Corpses.
Caicai shouted urgently: "Quick, kill them! Kill fast! Start with the red ones and leave the colorless ones for last."
"Your data analysis is pretty ticulous, huh." Xiao Jinsheng realized Caicai wanted samples gathered from multiple ti periods.
They were all Four-Star and Five-Star Fog Corpses. Everyone present was at least Six-Star.
Distributing by color, controlling the timing to kill the Fog Corpses, was an utterly effortless task.
"Dig out the Star Stones. Start with the red ones and leave the colorless for last." Once the Fog Corpses died, Caicai reminded them.
Soon, all the Star Stones from over a hundred Fog Corpses were excavated.
The crystal-clear white Star Stones were arranged according to the corpses’ varying colors.
Caicai abandoned its favoritism for the kelp-like form.
It imdiately morphed into a Matchman.
No lofty demands—having hands was good enough.
With its three-fingered claws, it picked up a Star Stone and said: "This is a Four-Star Star Stone from a red Fog Corpse. It contains only 30% Star Stone energy."
As it spoke, it proceeded to pick up Star Stones from other colored Fog Corpses and shared the data.
"Orange Fog Corpses—40%. Yellow—50%. Green—60%. Cyan—70%. Blue—80%. Purple—90%."
"All seven of these were detected as lacking Star Stones at first. But after pursuing Xiao Jinsheng, Star Stones ford in their bodies."
"And take a look at this." Caicai picked up another Four-Star Star Stone: "This belonged to a Fog Corpse I didn’t mark with any color. From the start of detection, it already contained a Star Stone, with 100% Four-Star Star Stone energy."
"While you were kiting the Fog Corpses, any within a hundred ters of you automatically absorbed underground Star Stone energy into their bodies." Caicai explained to Xiao Jinsheng: "The closer they were to you, the faster their absorption speed."
"So it’s truly because of that pursuing Fog Corpses can yield Star Stones with certainty." Xiao Jinsheng was both shocked and puzzled: "But...why is that?"
She realized her physique was indeed peculiar.
Caicai hadn’t granted her any cheat-like golden finger or opened any hacks.
Yet she could hear Bai Yan and Insect Brain’s inner dialogue.
The durability of the items she received from the terminal during Star Map tasks was always higher than others’.
Where others had a thousand durability points, she had ten thousand.
Now based on the data, Fog Corpses chasing her were absorbing Star Stone energy from the ground, converting it to form Star Stones in their bodies simply because of proximity to her.
At that mont, Caicai’s Matchman-style simplistic facial expression appeared highly grave.
It glanced at Li: "Set up a domain for safety—better not let more Fog Corpses swarm us."
Once the domain was established, Caicai, acting as a system, added another layer of shielding.
Now, it spoke freely without restraint.
It said: "Every world has energy to maintain its operation."
"In the Mist Continent, that energy is Star Stone energy."
"That’s why Mutant Beasts have Star Stones, females and Beastn have Star Stones, and Fog Corpses appear with Star Stones randomly."
"Beyond those sources, you can also find Star Stone Mines within the Mist Continent. These are locations where Star Stone energy is highly concentrated."
"Every world contains a core power that sustains its operation. For the Mist Continent, its core power is the Star Stone Origin."
"Therefore, in this world, all Star Stone energy instinctively gravitates toward the Star Stone Origin upon encountering it."
"You get my point, right?" Caicai looked at the group, who were visibly shaken by this revelation.
"Let process this." Xiao Jinsheng pinched her brow, hesitating as she said: "The way you’re describing it...my anomaly kind of feels like I might be the Star Stone Origin."
"And..." Xiao Jinsheng thought over a few key points.
Twice, she had encountered high-star Fog Corpses with self-awareness, and she had heard them muttering about the Star Stone Origin.
Xiao Jinsheng hesitated: "Previously, there were Fog Corpses that called the Star Stone Origin. Now there’s confirmation that Fog Corpses chasing could only form Star Stones due to proximity and duration near ."
"Could it be that my actual identity is the Mist Continent’s Star Stone Origin?" Xiao Jinsheng was startled by her own speculation.
But she started doubting herself again: "If I truly were the Star Stone Origin, Fog Corpses chasing shouldn’t have their internal Star Stone energy absorbed underground while I flee. Instead, it should flow directly into ."
"Why is it that I’m scrambling for my life, and they—just by getting near —end up drawing energy from below into themselves to form Star Stones?"
"That’s sothing for you to figure out." Caicai responded.
Xiao Jinsheng broke into a sarcastic laugh: "Shouldn’t I be asking you this?"
"After all, you’re the one who mistakenly bound from another world and dropped here."
"If I’m truly the Star Stone Origin, wouldn’t you know better?"
"Well...well...well, that’s because at the ti your data resemblance to my actual host was 99.99%. My system misidentified you."
Caicai mumbled weakly: "Besides, I didn’t have enough energy then—I had to assign you five bodyguards and find my host, so I couldn’t spare extra energy to thoroughly inspect your situation."
"99.99%, huh? Why didn’t it hit 100%?" Xiao Jinsheng sneered.
"Back when I mistook you for my host, I also wondered why you didn’t perfectly match the data I had."
Caicai replied: "But later, when I found my actual host, everything started to make sense."
Reviews
All reviews (0)