133: Chapter 133: Mimicry, Bone Fish

Xia Luoluo stopped abruptly when she was talking about the Braised Star Beast Tendons at the Third Cafeteria.

She rubbed her flat lower abdomen and smacked her lips, still craving more: "Oh my, talking about it has made me hungry. Lin Yuan, do you want to eat something?"

Lin Yuan moved his gaze away from the "Starry Sky Recipe Compendium" and looked at the girl opposite him, whose eyes were shining.

"No need."

"Don't be like that! I promised to treat you. There's no time like the present; we don't need to wait for tomorrow or the day after, let's go now!"

Xia Luoluo slapped the table and stood up directly, filled with the motivation of a foodie.

Lin Yuan's eyelid twitched.

He was a bit speechless.

As a demigod of the fifth rank, his life level had long since transcended the category of a Mortal.

During the stage of Breakthrough into a divine creature, his body structure had already completed its energy transformation.

Eating? Drinking water?

Completely unnecessary.

Daily consumption only required absorbing the free Universe energy in the air or the Origin fed back by his Divine Domain.

This girl, on the other hand, was also a Prodigy admitted via special recruitment, yet she still retained such down-to-earth lifestyle habits.

"I really won't eat." Lin Yuan refused decisively.

His previous agreement to let her treat him was purely perfunctory.

If he really went to the cafeteria with this girl, heaven knows how many shocking things she would say during a meal.

He didn't want to be watched like a monkey by hundreds of people in the Third Cafeteria.

However, Xia Luoluo's brain circuitry was clearly not on the same channel as a normal person.

Looking at Lin Yuan's expressionless face, countless thoughts flashed through her mind.

He refused so decisively.

He didn't even glance at me.

Is he shy?

Yes! That must be it! A civilian Prodigy from Tianhai City.

Arriving at a place like Starry Sky University, where children of wealthy families were everywhere, it was inevitable that he would be a bit reserved.

He must not want me to spend money, fearing to trouble me, so he deliberately put on a cold and aloof appearance!

The more Xia Luoluo thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed, and her gaze towards Lin Yuan was suddenly filled with more affection.

"Oh my, you're a grown man, why are you being shy!"

Xia Luoluo leaned in a bit closer, reached out, and patted her not-so-prominent chest vigorously, making a thumping sound.

"Don't worry! You just sit here and read; you don't need to run errands. I'll go directly to the Third Cafeteria to pack it up and bring it to you! Don't be afraid to trouble your Sister Xia!"

Sister Xia?

Hearing this, Lin Yuan couldn't help but raise his head.

His gaze toward Xia Luoluo was filled with a bit of helplessness.

No, this girl clearly looks younger than me, so how did she suddenly become a generation higher and call herself Sister Xia?

Xia Luoluo didn't give Lin Yuan any chance to refute.

She had now treated Lin Yuan as her confidant.

You know, from childhood to adulthood, even her father who doted on her the most, the commander of the Beiqiong Defense Line, could never last more than half an hour chatting with her, and would always make excuses about busy military affairs to slip away.

As for those Prodigies of the same age, they would take a detour whenever they saw her.

Today, she met Lin Yuan, who listened to her for a full two hours and even responded from time to time.

"Coming to Starry Sky University was truly worth it; the people I've met are so nice!" Xia Luoluo thought happily to herself.

"You wait here, Braised Star Beast Tendons with spiritual rice, I'll be right back!"

Whoosh.

A short-range Law fluctuation flashed by.

Xia Luoluo directly cast a displacement divine art and rushed out of the reading room.

The door of the reading room closed automatically, isolating the sounds from outside once again.

Lin Yuan raised his hand and rubbed his brow.

The movement was too fast.

He didn't even have time to finish saying "no" before she was gone.

"This girl's brain is not something a normal person can understand."

Lin Yuan shook his head, giving up on the idea of chasing her out to pull her back.

Let her be.

Lin Yuan refocused his attention on the book in his hand.

"Starry Sky Wanderers", "Abyss Species Illustrated Handbook", ...

He turned the pages faster and faster.

The more he read, the more Lin Yuan discovered his own shortcomings.

Although the educational resources of Tianhai City were good, they were ultimately limited to the conventional knowledge of the Human Federation.

The Universe was too vast, with ten thousand races standing tall, and all kinds of strange Laws and bizarre creatures emerging one after another.

"My knowledge reserves are still too scarce."

Lin Yuan calmed his heart and quickly entered a reading state.

Wasteland Divine Domain.

On the bank of the pitch-black River of the Underworld.

On the purple-red soil, Ren was panting heavily.

The piece of pale Bone Fish spine that his right arm had transformed into released an intense wave of Death Qi.

Five Diamond-rank team members surrounded him, their eyes filled with shock.

"Captain... you this..."

The Body Cultivator Gangku widened his eyes, extended a finger, wanting to touch the bone spine, but retracted it as if electrocuted.

"This is too awesome!"

Li Xuan retracted his life-bound Flying Sword into his Dantian, exhaled a long breath of stale air, and gave Ren a thumbs up.

"As expected of the Captain! I knew it; in that situation just now, how could you possibly go to your death."

"So you were deliberately using the moment you were getting hit to analyze the genetic sequence of that strange fish!"

Mechanic K's electronic eye flickered with blue light, his voice filled with undisguised admiration: "Precise tactical calculation! Perfect information exchange for injury!"

"Not only did you use the reaction force to quickly disengage from the battlefield, but you also successfully mimicked the core characteristics of the opponent."

"Captain, for this operation, I, K, am impressed!"

"Yeah, yeah, if it were us, we probably would have been worn out by those skeletons underwater just now." Elemental Mage Aila also chimed in.

Although the Starry Sky Wanderers were a group of outlaws, the hierarchy and worship of strength within the team were severe.

Ren's move of courting death to find a way to survive successfully subdued these unruly elites.

Listening to the flattery of his team members, Ren felt secretly pleased.

Who doesn't like to hear good things?

Especially in this ghost place where the pressure was extreme and one could lose their life at any moment.

These few compliments made him feel more comfortable than an Advanced healing potion.

But on the surface, he still kept a straight face.

"Alright."

Ren coughed, interrupting their flattery.

"Now is not the time to be happy. This place is eerie everywhere; a fish in a river can force out our trump cards, and who knows what's behind it."

He restored the Bone Fish spine back to his original arm.

"I will share the genetic sequence and Death Qi circulation route of the Bone Fish with you all."

"Hurry up, heal your wounds, and adjust your aura."

"Our time out here is limited, and there are brothers in the camp waiting for the antidote to save their lives."

Hearing this, the expressions of the five became solemn.

Ren closed his eyes, and a gray light of the Time Demon Race Origin lit up between his brows.

Five rays of light shot out from between his brows, entering the minds of Li Xuan and the other four respectively.

Massive genetic data and energy circuits unfolded in the minds of the five.

"Morgan, do it." Ren looked at the Necromancer.

Morgan nodded and lifted the gray-black cloak on his head.

He walked up to Ren and raised the bone staff in his hand.

"It will hurt a bit, bear with it."

The bottom of the bone staff pressed against the sunken wound on Ren's chest.

"Undead Extraction."

Morgan whispered, and the crystal core on the bone staff burst into a ghostly green light.

Ren groaned, the veins on his forehead bulging.

He saw wisps of pitch-black Death Qi being extracted from his flesh and bones, sucked into the crystal core along the bone staff.

These Death Qi were extremely stubborn, as if they had life, biting onto Ren's flesh and refusing to let go.

The extraction process was no different from cutting flesh with a dull knife.

After removing the Death Qi from Ren's body, Morgan turned and walked towards Li Xuan and Gangku.

These two had been in close combat underwater just now and had multiple wounds bitten by the Bone Fish.

A few minutes later, the River of the Underworld Death Qi on everyone's wounds was cleaned up.

"Aila, heal."

Elemental Mage Aila formed seals with both hands, and the rich Water-element healing energy turned into a fine rain, falling on everyone.

Li Xuan took out several Medicinal Pills and distributed them to everyone.

K opened the armor plate on his chest and injected a tube of blue high-energy repair fluid into the power furnace.

Various recovery methods from different systems were used.

In just a quarter of an hour, the external injuries of the six were basically healed, and the energy in their bodies had recovered to over ninety percent.

"Have you all digested the genetic sequence?" Ren stood up, moved his shoulders, and his bones made a clicking sound.

"No problem." A flash of sharp light passed through Li Xuan's eyes.

"Bone density, Soul fire frequency, Death Qi circulation, I have remembered them all." K's electronic eye locked onto the River of the Underworld ahead.

"Then let's start."

Ren took a deep breath, and the Time Demon Race Origin within him circulated.

Crack! Crack!

The sound of bone restructuring echoed on the bank.

The bodies of the six began to deform.

The gray-white skin faded, and the flesh melted away.

Their spines elongated, growing rows of sharp bone spurs.

Their skulls deformed, their lower jaws protruded, and they were filled with interlocking fangs.

In their eye sockets, two clusters of ghostly blue Soul fire ignited with a "whoosh".

In just ten seconds.

Six Diamond-rank elites of the Time Demon Race disappeared from the wasteland.

What remained were six Bone Fish, each over six meters long, exuding the pure aura of the River of the Underworld Death Qi.

Ren flicked his tailbone, feeling the wonderful changes brought about by this new body.

This mimicry was extremely perfect, even the Origin aura deep within their Souls was disguised as a Bone Fish.

He turned his head, the Soul fire in his eye sockets flickering twice, looking at the other five Bone Fish.

The six Bone Fish looked at each other.

They swung their tailbones simultaneously, their figures like arrows leaving the bow, rushing towards the pitch-black River of the Underworld.

Splash! Splash! Splash!

The six Bone Fish dove into the high-density dead water.

This time, the River of the Underworld did not repel them.

The surrounding dead water flowed along the gaps in their bones, and the originally terrifying water pressure and corrosiveness now became a protective layer.

Underwater, several native Bone Fish wandering nearby noticed the movement.

Their empty eye sockets turned towards Ren and the others, the ghostly blue Soul fire flickering.

No hostility.

No attack.

The native Bone Fish treated these six outsiders as their own kind, merely taking a glance before wagging their tails and swimming towards the deep water area.

Ren felt relieved.

It worked.