Chapter 84
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Chapter 84: Your Level is Not High Enough
A sudden alertness stirred within Ji Yongxing.
He leaned back against the door, scanning the room based on his training memories.
Although the probability was low, the chance of someone infiltrating his home to kill him was not zero.
The quiet room held no sound aside from his heartbeat. Ji Yongxing, having activated his abilities, surveyed all the items in the room, trying to find any hidden enemy.
But he found nothing.
Just as Ji Yongxing began to relax, planning to examine the contents of the briefcase, he suddenly noticed something off about it.
In his enhanced vision, a layer of chaotic substance surrounded the briefcase, as if obscuring his sight.
Though he couldn’t see clearly, the feedback from his abilities held no malice.
Ji Yongxing swallowed hard and walked over to his desk, opening the briefcase.
Just as he was about to take out the items within, a slightly arrogant yet melodious female voice suddenly echoed:
“Are we that familiar? Why are you touching it?”
Ji Yongxing froze, sensing that the source of the voice originated from the briefcase.
“Excuse me, who are you?”
Ji Yongxing steadied himself, maintaining his composure. Just as he intended to place the briefcase back on the desk, a mass of chaos suddenly began to spread in his vision.
Even without activating the knowledge path, he could see that indecipherable color swirling within it.
His hands instinctively loosened, but the briefcase did not fall.
The briefcase, transformed into chaos, twisted rapidly in mid-air, and soon a slender figure leaped out from within.
Ji Yongxing focused, and to his surprise, it was a multicolored kitten.
The kitten appeared to be only a few months old, with its fur resembling something spilled on its back.
A pair of emerald green eyes looked remarkably similar to his own when activating the knowledge path ability.
And within those eyes, there seemed to glimmer a spark of intelligence.
The kitten extended its paw to tidy up the nutritional paste that had scattered during its transformation.
Then it sat upright in a corner of the desk, nonchalantly licking its paws as if no one else were around.
“Are you the one speaking?”
Ji Yongxing was too intrigued to check the items on the table; clearly, a talking cat held more research value than those seemingly unimportant things.
“Yeah, why are you staring?”
The kitten had a look of someone who found the unusual strange.
Just as Ji Yongxing planned to ask more questions, the kitten lowered its paw and pointed to the envelope that had fallen out:
“First, look at this. If you have any questions, you can ask Miss Fulan.”
Ji Yongxing didn’t know who Miss Fulan was, but he followed the talking cat’s instructions and unfolded the letter to begin reading.
His initially relaxed and excited expression slowly faded away, replaced by a seriousness that felt as if it were solidifying into something tangible.
【The Pioneer:
It’s been a while since the last incident; how have you been?
There’s no time for pleasantries; the matter below is very important.
Recently, the nutritional paste produced in the outer city contains something that wasn’t there before, a substance similar to mycelium.
It can merge with the nervous system of extraordinary beasts, influencing and manipulating them to a certain degree.
At the same time, its life force is incredibly strong, and common methods of hot and cold processing cannot fully deactivate it.
My resources are limited, so I can only conduct the most basic research.
This batch of nutritional paste continues to be produced without stopping, and we do not yet know what effects it will have on the human body.
Three samples of the nutritional paste are included with this letter, and I hope they will help you advance your research.
Miss Fulan is a devout believer in the divine and also a wise companion; she will assist you in your research and serve as a bridge for our communication at the right moment.
– The Paster】
After reading the letter twice, Ji Yongxing set it down and began to examine the nutritional paste that had been sent along with it.
The three samples came from three days ago, four months ago, and two years ago.
Lin Qingliu kindly marked them.
Ji Yongxing observed the three samples of nutritional paste repeatedly under his enhanced vision for several minutes, and finally noticed a faint glow in the sample from three days ago that most people would miss.
That substance carried a natural hint of danger; although it seemed to be in a slumber now, he still needed to stay alert.
After studying it closely for a moment, Ji Yongxing put down the nutritional paste and looked at the cat that was observing him with vertical pupils:
“Excuse me, are you…?”
“Fulan.”
The multicolored cat elegantly replied.
Ji Yongxing was momentarily surprised; he realized that the earlier statement “If there’s something you don’t understand, you can ask Miss Fulan” was referring to her.
He extended his hand to pet the cat’s head to show his goodwill, but she swatted it away with a paw.
“What are you doing? How rude.”
Fulan bared her teeth at Ji Yongxing,
“Only the master can pet Miss Fulan.”
“Then who is your master?”
“Of course, it is the great divine being.”
Fulan huffed, as if to say she was closer to the divine than he was.
Ji Yongxing found himself at a loss for words; after all, he didn’t know how to communicate normally with a cat.
Moreover, this was a cat of a god.
The one who bestowed him his abilities, did they really have such a preference?
No, it’s better to think that a god who randomly bestows humanity with infinite potential can do anything.
Recalling Fulan’s earlier chaotic form, Ji Yongxing began to understand that she was also a bestower and had a closer connection to the divine than he did.
But he didn’t care much about that, as a researcher, Ji Yongxing always viewed the existence of the divine dialectically.
If given the chance, he would love to use the eyes blessed by the divine to analyze that supreme existence.
But that time was not now.
He picked up the nutritional paste again, looking seriously at the marvelous creature in front of him:
“Miss Fulan, there’s no time to waste; I’m heading to the laboratory now, please share the known information with me.”
As Ji Yongxing stood up, Fulan leaped from the edge of the desk to perch on his shoulder:
“Take me with you; I can tell you on the way.”
Ji Yongxing hesitated for two seconds and said:
“Animals are not allowed in the laboratory.”
“Ugh, who made that rule? It doesn’t make any sense at all.”
Fulan didn’t mind that she was the one being unreasonable; she bit down on the collar of Ji Yongxing’s white coat that he didn’t have time to remove.
Ji Yongxing felt a gentle mass of chaos moving around him.
Then, a brand new white coat appeared on the back of the chair.
He looked down; the freshly wrinkled clothing had almost invisible kitten’s paw marks on the left and right collar.
