There was silence for a few seconds on the other end of the call.
Then Xie Nanjun's voice rose again: "Didn't I give it to you half a year ago?!"
"That's six in total. You can use them for a whole year! Even at the beginning, one a year was enough for you!"
Shen Tingyu looked down at the medicine in his palm.
Golden yellow with some gilded spots.
Xie Nanjun didn't get a response, so he continued, "You said you were really crazy in the evil tower back then. There were other gentler ways to end it earlier, but you insisted on being so crazy that you ended up with this disease today."
"They've taken me to Tower 1, and you still want me to calm down?" Shen Tingyu smiled without any emotion, "Or do you want to go in and experience it for yourself?"
Tower 1 in the Evil Tower is the smallest of the five towers.
Basically, only the heinous criminals who were extremely hateful to both humans and gods, and some extremely difficult E-types were taken there. Inside, they were waiting for all kinds of harsh punishments, especially electric shocks that could cause great pain and shock to their mental pools.
Shen Tingyu was only 12 years old when he was sent in.
There was a famous E-type massacre in the history of the Empire. The E-type at that time was also formed at his age. Therefore, when a similar E-type with similar talent appeared, the Empire was worried and wanted to dampen his spirit before he did something crazy.
He spent three dark years in there and experienced almost all the punishments in the tower.
Later, he left Tower 1 early by hurting the enemy by 1,000 but losing 800 of his own money.
The suicidal energy burst of the E-type's mental power was enough to cause serious damage to people in the same space, and even injured one of the eyes of the empire's great prince.
The eldest prince always liked to use his status and power to torture him personally.
So he did it on purpose, deliberately choosing the day he came over to take action.
After that incident, he asked to meet with the spokesperson of the imperial family and calmly and rationally sat down to negotiate with the other party. The condition was simple: he would join the military and use his power for the empire in exchange for freedom.
The result was relatively smooth, and he was then sent to the Outer Tower, where he received psychological counseling and the establishment of correct values and other teachings provided by the Evil Tower. After passing all the tests and assessments, he successfully graduated from the Evil Tower and became what the Evil Tower staff called an 'excellent student'.
Xie Nanjun refused and said, "No, no, I take back what I said before."
"Alas, I thought the inhibitor could help you control it well, but I didn't expect you to become immune to it."
That outburst left a serious trauma to Shen Tingyu's mental pool. Although it did not affect the normal use of mental power, mental disorder symptoms would appear every once in a while. When the symptoms occurred, he needed to spend more energy to suppress the E-type's irritable nature and prevent his mental power from getting out of control. At the same time, the pain in his mental pool would double.
In the past records of the Empire, all those who were injured in the Spirit Pool became crazy and were thrown into the evil tower. His case was still a special case. He could only rely on the special medicine that Xie Nanjun's sister and their father had researched for him to suppress it.
But as Xie Nanjun said, the inhibitory effect of the drug on him is getting smaller and smaller. This is something they spent more than a year to research. The materials are hard to come by, and the dosage they can prepare for him in a year is very limited.
Xie Nanjun on the other side hesitated for a long time and asked tentatively: "So, you really don't consider finding a high-level D-type to conclude a soul contract?"
Although there is no method in the medical field that can completely repair a damaged mental pool, as long as a Type D person above S level enters a partnership, there is a chance that they can slowly repair the trauma to their partner's mental pool through the interaction of mental power.
There have been several such miracles in medical history, so type D is also doctors' favorite soul and spirit type.
Shen Tingyu replied: "No one matches."
Xie Nanjun said anxiously: "Why are you still concerned about compatibility at this time? Of course, curing the disease is more important! With your conditions, there must be someone willing to be with you even if the compatibility is not high."
Shen Tingyu laughed and said, "What I mean is that there is nothing that suits my taste."
Xie Nanjun: "… You E-type people are really annoying. It's not easy to find a partner, and you're still so picky."
Shen Tingyu's physical discomfort reached a peak during the short chat. The splitting headache made him not want to say more. After telling Xie Nanjun to ask his sister to prepare a new batch of medicine, he hung up the call.
After being injected with a special inhibitor, he leaned against the desk to relax for a while, and the discomfort symptoms gradually subsided.
On the table, the balls collided again and again due to the law of conservation of momentum.
Shen Tingyu stared at them, slightly distracted.
Although everyone said that Type D was the most suitable partner for Type E and was the object of many people's dreams, he didn't particularly like it. Type D's personality was too weak, and the Empire had arranged matches for him over the years, but it turned out that his soul was indeed repelled, and the highest compatibility among them was only 10%.
While thinking, the scene of Xu Qingran at the Grantis Middle School branch a few days ago flashed through his mind.
He suddenly chuckled.
If there is a D type like that, it is not impossible to consider it.
Shen Tingyu had just disposed of the used medicine shells when someone suddenly knocked on the bedroom door connected to the study.
He pinched his brows and walked over to open the door.
The man outside the door was wearing a set of off-white pajamas, which hung loosely on his thin body, revealing a large area of skin under his neck. His hair was a little messy, and his eyes were slightly misty and red, obviously he had just crawled out of bed.
Shen Tingyu found it hard to imagine why Xu Qingran appeared at his door at this time, so he took the initiative to ask: "What do you want from me?"
Then the limp person, with a cold and indifferent expression, replied in a revengeful tone: "Climb, onto the bed."
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Xu Qingran sat at the end of the big bed in the bedroom, his body slightly bent, his hands clasped against his mouth, lost in thought.
Xu Qingran didn't expect that he would be let in so easily.
After hearing this, Shen Tingyu was stunned for a second, then he smiled and invited him into the room in a casual manner. However, he hesitated for a few seconds because he was afraid of some conspiracy.
Shen Tingyu in the study noticed his gaze from afar, raised his eyes and gently reminded him: "Go to sleep, I just don't plan to sleep today, you can climb into that bed as you like."
"… "
Xu Qingran thought, so this is what bed climbing means, he misunderstood the system.
system:"… "
You two are the ones who misunderstood!!
After doing this, Xu Qingran temporarily no longer felt sleepy.
Mainly, he noticed that there were many interesting things in Shen Tingyu's room, especially near the study. The first thing that caught his attention was the pile of red irregular models, which looked very similar to the strange creatures he had seen on TV news before.
"If you're interested, you can look at it or play with it."
Shen Tingyu is a careful person, even if his movements are very subtle, he can still notice them.
Xu Qingran was not a coy person, and after getting the master's permission, he stood up and walked towards the location of the models. As a result, when he approached the display stand, a faint light suddenly lit up under the stand, and a system male voice without any emotion sounded.
[The Devil is an alien race that has been active in the territories surrounding the empire since the middle of the last century.]
[Mr. Xie Wencai, a famous alien biological researcher in the Empire, simulated and calculated their main habitat through data from various sources, which is distributed in the Pegasus Galaxy 30 million light years away. Two centuries ago, the Empire's physics and aviation team had already predicted in advance that a supernova explosion would occur in this galaxy in the near future. Although the activity images have not yet been captured by the Empire's Observatory, the migration of the devil group seems to have verified this prediction in disguise.]
Xu Qingran reached out and touched the familiar reddish-brown model, and found that it was actually made up of many tiny fragments. Not only could he rotate it at will, enlarge it and reduce it, but he could even shape its flexible and changeable bodies into various shapes.
[Type I devils are the first type of devils observed in my country. They are group-forming creatures, with a single size between 0.5 and 1 cm and a body thickness of no more than 2 mm.]
The huge reddish-brown creatures that we usually see are actually countless Type I devils moving together, and they look like very fine scales from a distance. Their skin is smooth and dry, but underneath they have a circle of sharp teeth, which devour their captured prey by gnawing in groups.
Before swallowing, a long, thin needle-like object will extend from their mouths, which they use to absorb the prey's mental strength and energy.
The flat, chimeric shape is the perfect fit for both resting and moving situations.
When the prey is trapped and ready to attack or eat, the connected "scales" will begin to stand up.
These creatures have a very special schedule, and they can only become active after the sun goes down. In the daytime, they will turn into rusty appearance and cling to various dead objects. They cannot be peeled off directly, but no matter how you do it, they will be dormant and harmless.
Once night falls, it will begin to expand, and can grow to a height of several hundred stories.
Next to Class I, Xu Qingran saw another small blue-black model.
It was the same color he saw at the sewer entrance after he came out of Xu's house that day.
The name given by the display stand system is Type IV Demon, which is the fourth group of demons discovered by the Empire.
The basic structure is similar to that of Type I, and they are also composite organisms. However, the individual organisms are more slender and also only active after the sun sets. Their bodies are much more flexible and elastic than Type I, and they can also melt into water and enter towns through turbid water sources, making them difficult to guard against.
Fortunately, people have discovered that the lethality, mobility and defense of Class IV devils on the shore are not as good as those of Class I devils. They are so weak that they dare not approach places with electricity. They can only grow in the safe darkness of the city and feed on rain and dew.
However, in order to avoid accidents, the Empire will still strictly control areas invaded by such demons, and people are strictly prohibited from going out after dark, otherwise they will bear the consequences.
Xu Qingran put the Class IV model back and asked Shen Tingyu, "Are these the things your military is fighting against all the time?"
"Well, demons are the most threatening invasive species currently threatening the Kaian Empire."
As Shen Tingyu spoke, he picked up another ornament embedded in a small stone on the desk and turned to Xu Qingran who turned around after hearing the voice.
"Whether it's a single devil or a group of devils, they all have this thing called source crystal in their bodies. It's the source of all their energy. If they lose the source crystal, their bodies will die within an hour and they won't be able to revive or regenerate."
Xu Qingran walked over and took the small ornament, leaned against the desk with one hand, and looked at it carefully.
The source crystal inside the stone is very beautiful, like a star fused into a transparent crystal.
"So, is this thing easy to lock?" Xu Qingran asked curiously.
"It's not easy to lock on." Shen Tingyu replied, his eyes subconsciously moving to Xu Qingran's left hand on his table.
Maybe because he was preparing to rest, he did not cover himself when he came to find him, and the blue seductive soul mark was exposed in front of him. But the owner of the mark did not seem to realize that there was anything wrong with it, and his attention was all on the source crystal, his eyes full of interest.
Shen Tingyu suppressed the aggressive thoughts that surged up in his mind the moment he saw the mark, and silently looked away.
Finally, I couldn't help but interrupt their serious conversation: "Xu Qingran, you can sleep in my bed, but can you put on your gloves first?"
When Xu Qingran heard this, he remembered that he had also been laughed at at school that day, and he became angry again.
He didn't notice that Shen Tingyu was avoiding his gaze, and he directly put the back of his hand in front of him, saying in a cold tone: "I've been wanting to ask for a long time, what's so shameful about this thing?"
(End of this chapter)