novelraw Chapter 22 : Awakening
Chapter 22 : Awakening
Spiritual bodies detaching from their owners' resonance was more terrifying than an energy field descending.
Xie Chunshi quickly regrouped with the others.
"Commander Xie, what's happening? Is it a special energy field?"
The spiritual bodies all rushed to the door, those in front crashed into it, those behind crashed into those in front, frantically trying to escape the sealed space, as if something extremely attractive was outside.
"I've lost resonance with my spiritual body, you guys..."
Gu Qinxue tried to contact her spiritual body, but the usually reliable resonance was like an unanswered call, with no response.
"My resonance has disappeared too."
Thick energy fluctuations spread, and the blaring alarm announced the tense atmosphere.
Xie Chunshi looked through the window directly facing the seed market, seeing the opposite side.
His pupils contracted, a flash of blue light flickered in his eyes as he sensed the source of the energy fluctuation, and suddenly calmed down.
"No, it's an awakening precursor."
The wood attribute wave had such strong affinity it could even bewitch spiritual bodies.
After he finished speaking, a white light radiated from the central column toward the surroundings.
"Energy point located, target has been locked."
In the seed market, a special energy-isolating light shield dropped from above Chen Sui's head, completely enveloping her.
From the ceiling, giant growing plants bent their branches.
The small pots of the potted plants could no longer contain the massive root systems, and the nutrient soil and glass fragments fell all over the ground.
Chen Sui walked through the long shelves, standing at the specialty counter for vine-type seeds.
Just now, she was about to pick out a seed from so many, but as soon as she stood still, rich scents surged into her body, and a corner in her brain seemed to be activated.
Almost instantly.
A tearing force shook her brain fluid, flashing countless scene images before her eyes.
A sky-inverted forest, tree branches connecting with red vines on the ground, thus creating a vine path leading to floating islands.
A wooden cabin on the largest tree in a forest shrouded in green mist, surrounded like the moon among stars, where the top of the giant tree couldn't be seen.
Giant carnivorous flowers growing from the ground, opening their mouths to form a spiraling upward staircase, a tender branch slowly wandering upward from below.
"Please descend..."
That aged voice, as if crossing time and space, once again sounded beside her ear.
Chen Sui's vision was filled with darkness.
In front of and behind her, countless plants rooted in palm-sized nutrient soil, sensing the spread of green waves, instantly expanded like balloons, beginning to grow vigorously.
Their display cases were burst open, with shattering sounds erupting one after another.
The seed market manager had just pressed the sealing device.
In an instant, the plants grew to towering heights, rushing toward the ceiling and the door.
People inside crowded together, avoiding the wandering branches.
Countless vines crawled toward Chen Sui's direction.
Her knees were climbed by plants, then her waist, back, arms, and slender neck.
The vines before and behind surrounded her in a huge cocoon.
As Chen Sui saw a crack of light shining down in the black space before her.
The layer of plants clinging tightly to her quickly withered, the defeated branches slid off powerlessly, and new green branches wrapped around again, withered again, sacrificing like this, all the plants in the space headed toward her direction.
Until the locating broadcast sounded.
The light shield came down, sharp laser lines cut off the plant vines, isolating the half-kneeling person from the surroundings.
The absorption of energy was cut off, the progress of darkness expanding stopped, and white light began rendering from one corner.
As her eyes opened, green pupils seemed to flash, and the clear light illuminated everything in front.
The moment the light shield enveloped Chen Sui, the cut plants began to wither violently, visibly decaying.
Cheng Wei, mixed in the crowd, squeezed over from the other side, saw Chen Sui's condition, and immediately blurted out "holy shit." He stepped forward but was stopped by the seed market manager.
"You know each other, right?"
The manager looked at the withering plants, breathed a sigh of relief. The remaining mess, all in all, wasn't too serious.
Cheng Wei nodded, still in a state of excessive shock. The manager saw his dazed appearance and immediately felt he wasn't reliable.
But looking at the frail girl in the light shield, who carefully reached out to explore, she sighed even more helplessly.
"It's like this, your friend showed severe awakening precursors, excessive energy spillover caused elements of the same attribute to riot. You must go for a mental awakening examination; her current state is very dangerous."
The manager said with a serious face, "Are you an awakened one?"
Cheng Wei nodded, belatedly understanding: "I am."
"Then you should know the consequences of energy spillover. In a moment, I'll remove the shielding light shield and put a restraint ring on her. You need to go to the nearest medical center immediately."
The manager looked at Chen Sui's age with regret in her heart.
Pre-awakening energy spillover, in the common knowledge of mental awakening, was a sign of failure.
The mental threshold's stored energy was limited, needed to both expand the mental threshold value and condense into a core crystal, which was already insufficient. Now with spillover, it meant...
The mental threshold's formation was incomplete, insufficient to store energy.
Not to mention the mental threshold value and core crystal.
Cheng Wei's heart skipped a beat.
Looking at Chen Sui struggling to rise from a pile of cut, withered branches and leaves.
Just waking from confusing scenes and annoying, harassment-like mumblings.
Chen Sui felt her body filled with a force.
Rough ropes were wrapped around her wrists and body, the cold sensation making her skin shiver. Looking down, she found herself firmly bound by withered vines.
Her mind first flashed a question mark, and just as she tore off all the vines, she found herself isolated in a screen, separated by a honeycomb-like light screen, staring at the people opposite.
"Huh?"
She opened her mouth in confusion.
The crowd's gazes were vigilant and appraising.
At the front, Cheng Wei waved to her, his lips moving.
Chen Sui's ears filled with a tremendous noise, unable to hear any surrounding sounds, as if blocked, with only the echo of intracranial sounds.
But through his lip movements, Chen Sui understood; he was calling her name.
The light shield continually scanned layers of white light, scanning her body from top to bottom.
Chen Sui couldn't hear its broadcast, now resounding throughout the ring-shaped building.
"Alert has been lifted. Due to this situation, as a customer in the seed market is in an awakening period with wood attribute energy spillover, we deeply apologize for any tension and fright caused to you."
This voice also reached the nourishing agent shop.
In the gathered crowd from Star Academy Seven, Tong Wei carefully shrunk behind Puluo, hearing this with some surprise and called out: "Awakening period, energy spillover, doesn't that mean awakening failure?"
"With such energy fluctuations spilling out so terrifyingly, if they had really awakened, it would definitely be powerful," Tong Wei was an analyst, she clearly knew what energy spillover meant. The energy fluctuations just now were enough to form an S-class or higher core crystal. "What a pity."
Xie Chunshi nodded, sitting behind the spiritual bodies at the door which had all stopped moving, reminding them: "First reconnect the resonance, recall the spiritual bodies."
Reminded by him, the others suddenly remembered and hurriedly rebuilt the resonance.
As soon as they connected, the energy-depleted spiritual bodies instantly disappeared back into the core crystals.
"Cheng Wei and Suisui are opposite, shall we go find them?"
Tong Wei instinctively looked to Xie Chunshi, following his command's arrangement.
On the other side, Zhou Chen and Gu Qinxue put away their spiritual bodies. The blue-haired boy looked out the window and vaguely saw the mess in the seed market:
"Their side seems even more chaotic than here."
He simply marveled, then his eyes turned, the desire to watch the excitement rising, "Commander Xie, why don't we go over and take a look?"
"Looks like that unlucky person who failed to awaken must be over there. Wood attribute, tsk, what a pity."
Hearing his uninvolved, just-wanting-to-watch tone, Gu Qinxue felt something oddly uncomfortable inside.
Wood attribute?
Her frost-flowered eyebrows frowned.
Xie Chunshi nodded in approval, and several people followed the crowd flow, leaving the nourishing agent shop. Among the customers came many discussions.
They didn't know who the awakened person was, but through such a riot, they could glimpse a corner of the splendor after awakening.
Unfortunately, having experienced such strong spillover, successful awakening was almost impossible.
Regret and sighs spread through the crowd, some deeply lamenting the irony of fate.
Gu Qinxue's heart sank.
When the seed market's door opened, cleaning robots orderly tidied the floor. All glass and branch remnants were cleaned away, the floor restored to pristine condition.
The manager coldly reprimanded the seed market merchants.
"All materials must be energy-isolating types. Why aren't some display cases for plants?"
"Yes, it was tacitly approved! But not checking or correcting, now that this has happened, do you think the Energy Management Office and Commerce Department won't investigate?"
"This is the loss of an awakened one!"
The manager understood that the seed market had used glass display cases for years, as energy-isolating materials were expensive. Being able to afford them for seeds was already satisfactory; cutting corners on display case materials wasn't something anyone particularly scrutinized.
But now the situation was different.
A wood attribute awakened one with extremely high affinity had been triggered into energy riot by elements, causing energy spillover, even possibly failing to awaken.
The manager could already imagine how competitors would criticize her.
The enraged manager noticed a group of students coming in, hastily stopped her lecture, and lowered her voice to instruct others: "Quickly resolve this matter appropriately, compensate if needed, treat if needed."
Her female assistant glanced at her superior's expression, quietly asking: "Manager Ju, what if the examination results..."
The manager glanced at Chen Sui from the corner of her eye, "Go put a shielding bracelet on her, accompany her to the medical center, and promptly send me the examination results. Communications from the Commerce Department and Energy Management Office have come in; I'm going to the Central Tower Building now for a meeting."
The assistant watched her superior scan her light brain, efficiently arranging the aftermath, and hurriedly used authorization to open a shielding bracelet.
Xie Chunshi and the others walked away, watching the scene of the manager's lecture. Zhou Chen quietly shook his head:
"This manager is really unlucky. With such a riot, she'd better pray that the awakened one doesn't fail, otherwise the seed market will face rectification again."
"But it's strange, a wood attribute energy awakening in such an element-converging environment, didn't she notice anything unusual?"
Xie Chunshi, upon entering, smelled the air freshener scent covered by earthy smells, and hearing his words, had a rough guess in his heart.
Born as an interstellar nomad, lacking common sense.
Strong light and scent-covered environment, concealing abnormal signs.
When they walked to the other side of the display case, they saw Cheng Wei kneeling on the ground, and in front of him was a light shield enclosure.
The few who had just been discussing this matter suddenly felt their brains violently struck, buzzing, and looked at each other, "Let's go see."
Stepping forward quickly, before calling out to Cheng Wei, they saw Chen Sui lying tiredly in the light shield, still with some confusion on her face.
Gu Qinxue's heart completely sank, feeling her worries had come true.
"The person with energy awakening... is Chen Sui?"
Gu Qinxue frowned, her emotions complex.
Did Chen Sui know what kind of situation she was facing now?
No one understood better than Gu Qinxue what awakening meant, the treatment difference was simply heaven and earth.
"Please make way."
A female employee came forward with a shielding bracelet, closing the light shield and quickly locking the bracelet on Chen Sui.
"Do you feel any discomfort now?"
Chen Sui was helped up by her, instinctively shaking her head.
She didn't know about these conditions on her body, but seeing the mess and chaos in the seed market, she knew the disturbance was big.
However, what Chen Sui was most concerned about was: "Um, in this situation, do I need to be responsible for compensation?"
The assistant choked a bit, feeling this awakened one was not only a bit slow but also naively sweet.
"What the hell are you compensating for? You were about to awaken, but the things here weren't installed with energy-isolating materials, and energy elements stimulated, causing your awakening period to be prematurely induced!"
"If something happened to you, they would have to compensate you!"
Chen Sui heard her explanation and roughly understood. She was originally at the success or failure threshold of awakening, still needing to store energy.
But because the seed market used special energy potions to accelerate plant maturity without protection, these energy potions and plant elemental energy induced her prepared energy to prematurely riot.
In other words, the energy she had prepared for awakening was induced to spill over, and if this process was severe, Chen Sui's awakening would point toward failure.
Having learned the whole process, Chen Sui sat down in the rest area, her trembling hands holding a warm teacup, taking a sip.
"Suisui, you..."
Tong Wei took a breath, with some worry on her face.
Even Zhou Chen, who usually had no good face for Chen Sui, was now scowling.
"F*ck, these misers, even cutting corners on this, they really deserve to die!"
Hard to imagine he was coldly evaluating the awakened one just now.
Among the group, only Chen Sui herself was relatively calm.
"The situation is what it is."
Chen Sui's mind was filled with various information. She didn't understand what awakening failure meant, but in the confusion and bewilderment, she instinctively reached out, wanting to grip something around her neck, touched her collar to find nothing, then remembered that the necklace Chen Jia had given her had disappeared after transmigration, so she could only clench her fist tightly.
"Actually, I had scheduled an examination, at three o'clock this afternoon."
Hearing this news, everyone was shocked.
"The 'something to do' you mentioned was going for an awakening examination?"
"When did you notice something was wrong?"
Chen Sui then explained her examination results from Talo Star and the abnormalities she had noticed. "Previously I didn't have money, but after earning some from buying materials, I made an appointment."
"This is mental awakening! Why didn't you make an urgent appointment!?"
Tong Wei's eyes were red with anger.
Chen Sui's smooth appointment would take a month, but an urgent one would charge 20% more and could be arranged within a week.
Chen Sui lowered her head.
She hadn't expected things to develop like this.
Chen Sui reflected that her plans had never included anything related to mental awakening; it had such a low presence in her mind.
Unlike the interstellar emphasis on mental awakening, Chen Sui wasn't an interstellar person; she was accustomed to a life without mental awakening.
After coming here, in the infantry system, what she did most was combat, with little opportunity to contact spiritual bodies, knowing little about mental awakening common sense.
"I'm sorry."
Seeing friends anxious and worried for her, Chen Sui felt apologetic.
"You don't need to say sorry, it's all the seed market's fault. If they hadn't cut corners, you would have smoothly completed the examination, and might have successfully awakened."
Tong Wei said, her mouth drooping, unable to help but fall onto Chen Sui, her pink ponytail tickling her chin, burying her head in her neck, softly sobbing.
"Why don't you wait until my examination is done before crying?"
Chen Sui really didn't know how to handle such an atmosphere, first comforting Tong Wei, then feeling it wasn't that serious, blurting out an insensitive remark.
Even Zhou Chen couldn't bear to watch, shaking his head, not understanding: "How did you bear to wait a month, really incredible."
He had seen people who just showed awakening precursors and prematurely boasted to the skies, those who hadn't awakened but took loans to become geniuses. Chen Sui's indifference toward awakening was a first.
Could this be the happiness of the ignorant?
Zhou Chen didn't know what to say, and his mouth couldn't utter many kind words.
So he simply pressed his lips together, following the crowd in complete silence.
The medical center Chen Sui had booked was nearby, originally part of her planned route. The manager's assistant nervously accompanied her.
Entering the interstellar medical center, a special guidance robot led the way. Chen Sui showed her appointment number, walked through the corridor between two medical buildings, and entered a closed silver-white room.
The doctor in white protective gear called her number, seeing so many people come in, was slightly surprised: "Just one person come in, others please wait outside."
Chen Sui nodded to them, pushing the door open to enter.
The doctor sitting at the instrument wiped her hands with a medicinal agent, asking Chen Sui to lie on the metal bed in front: "Lie down, attach all the sensors to your body."
"This bracelet on your hand," the silver light flashing from Chen Sui's sleeve caught her eye, and the doctor clicked her tongue impatiently, connecting to the outside through voice: "Take off the shielding bracelet for her."
The assistant knocked on the door, came in to help Chen Sui remove the bracelet. Seeing her action, the doctor looked at them with some curiosity, then glanced outside: "What's your situation for coming to the examination?"
The assistant's hands paused, somewhat embarrassed as she explained the seed market incident.
Hearing this, the doctor's face, which had shown some interest, darkened again.
Her cold gaze made the assistant's heart tremble.
After the assistant left with the bracelet, the doctor looked at the thin girl lying on the bed.
"In a moment, energy waves will scan your body. If you feel dizzy, hallucinate, hear things, etc., it's normal. You might also experience temporary unconsciousness, after which I'll wake you with electrical stimulation. Close your eyes now."
Chen Sui complied, and just as she closed her eyes, she heard the doctor ask: "How long have the awakening precursors appeared? Your medical record shows you've had similar symptoms before?"
"Mm-hmm."
"Didn't the doctor who received you last time remind you to get an awakening examination as soon as possible?"
The doctor didn't wait for Chen Sui's answer, looking down at her basic information, stopping at the interstellar nomad column.
Seeming to sigh.
"We're going to start."
As she finished speaking, the barrier above the metal bed slowly descended, surrounding Chen Sui in a small space.
A gentle wind blew from around.
Chen Sui felt warmth and heat rising on her body, her mind wandered, and when she opened her eyes again, she found herself lying under sunlight, surrounded by wildly growing grass, with grass leaves weaving a net at her head, blocking most of the sunlight.
Lifting the obstacle before her eyes, Chen Sui saw the full view of the sky.
Above, a red sun burned fiercely, and on the other side of the sky, a similar fiery star burst with intense, dazzling light.
She saw floating islands in mid-air, those islands and the trees on the ground intertwined, seemingly connected as one, but looking closely, she found they were very far apart.
So far apart, they seemed like another world.
Chen Sui heard the rustling of grass leaves crossing, green light points floating up from the plants on the ground.
Slowly rising, gathering, merging, growing larger, but as they ascended, they seemed smaller.
A green light cluster also floated down from above the floating island.
Chen Sui stood up following the movement of the light cluster, seeing the boundless grassland covered with staggered forests. In the most luxuriant forest, a giant tree rose from the ground, reaching toward the sky, its branches and leaves spreading across the entire grassland.
The light cluster approached the giant tree, then merged into it.
Chen Sui saw its branches and leaves extend, instantly blocking the sky, covering both giant suns.
One tree shading the sky.
The grassland immediately darkened, and in the darkness, flower buds bloomed, releasing fragrance.
"Descend."
That familiar mumbling voice sounded by Chen Sui's ear again.
Chen Sui tentatively asked: "Who are you?"
The mumbling still repeated its content.
"Land abandoned by the gods, beyond salvation."
"Wood gives birth to flowers, the supreme deity bestows life on all things, please descend."
Chen Sui narrowed her eyes, thinking this mumbling's owner had gone mad.
Where did gods come from in the interstellar world? What brainwashing culture.
She inwardly mocked.
The giant tree finally showed its outline in her eyes.
In the vast night, plants began to grow crazily, quickly submerging Chen Sui's figure in gigantic vegetation.
A strong current passed through her body, and the doctor's voice reached her ears.
A hand pressed on her shoulder, shaking her.
"Hey, student? Wake up, don't sleep!"
The doctor pressed the electric button again.
Just as she opened her eyes, Chen Sui's entire body jerked from the electricity.
The doctor's finger pressed the power off: "You were sleeping quite soundly."
"By the way, did you experience any hallucinations, auditory hallucinations, etc.?"
Chen Sui sat up, recalling the previous scene, nodded, and briefly described the environment.
The doctor showed understanding.
"Normal. You're very lucky. Before the energy spillover, your spiritual domain successfully expanded. If you can form a core crystal later, you'll have successfully awakened."
"During the awakening process, seeing unfamiliar environments and hearing unfamiliar voices are all normal imaginings."
The doctor remembered she was an interstellar nomad, who might not understand these concepts, so patiently explained.
"Core crystal, or the awakened one's spiritual body, is essentially similar to an energy body. However, this type of energy body is formed in the person's spiritual domain as an energy field, and their prototypes are the same as energy bodies."
"Your thinking and your spiritual body's awakening environment will determine which type of energy body your spiritual body's prototype resembles, so there will be frequency matching with energy bodies, causing hallucinations of scenes around energy bodies."
The doctor recalled what Chen Sui had described, thinking: "There aren't many wood attribute energy fields. From your description, S-class [Ancient Nest], SS [Humid Red Forest], 3S-class [Fallen Forest], [Flower Cloud Dream], [Ghost Island], [Heavenly Marsh City], etc., are all possibilities."
"Take your examination report," the doctor handed the printed paper document to Chen Sui, then tapped the pattern on the screen, "Scan your light brain here to upload your information to the StarNet medical section."
"The awakening period can be as short as a week or as long as a month. This bracelet helps monitor your energy level. When the energy level peaks, it means a core crystal is about to form or is forming. When the energy fluctuation disappears, it indicates the awakening is complete."
"If it disappears without a core crystal forming, come back to the medical center for another examination. This time don't make an appointment, just click re-examination after your current medical record."
"The same applies if you awaken a core crystal; direct re-examination can do a mental awakening value check."
"Alright, you can go now."
The doctor handed over the examination report and bracelet to Chen Sui, then pressed open the medical room's door.
Tong Wei and Gu Qinxue immediately came forward: "How is it?"
The assistant hurriedly took the examination report from Chen Sui's hand: "I'm sorry, we need to keep a copy of your awakening situation on our side."
Chen Sui handed her the report, "Seems fine. The doctor said the spiritual domain is expanding, currently still in the awakening period."
Hearing this conclusion, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"That's good, that's good. The spiritual domain has expanded, there's still a possibility of awakening."
The assistant also breathed a sigh of relief. Although Chen Sui's energy spillover was very unfavorable for her awakening, at least there was still a chance to awaken, and the seed market wouldn't bear too serious a responsibility.
After receiving the news, the assistant parted from them.
Chen Sui followed the school team, preparing to return to Zhu Jing Fu.
"Today really scared me enough," Tong Wei patted her chest on the intercity bus, then stared at Chen Sui, "Suisui, this time you must be careful, wear the bracelet well, can't be careless."
Chen Sui nodded: "Definitely, sorry for making you all worry."
Xie Chunshi nodded, sitting right behind Chen Sui, able to see her black hair whorl from above, sensing the almost disappearing fluctuations on her, he frowned.
After the awakening storm had barely passed, returning to the dormitory, Chen Sui came out from her room to get nutrient solution, seeing Gu Qinxue sitting by the window, somewhat absent-mindedly looking outside.
The cold wind from the window blew her white long hair dancing, her light expression in the heavy night had even more of a cold feeling.
"Ah Xue?"
Chen Sui called out.
Gu Qinxue turned her head, tugged at her lips, seemingly wanting to smile, but obviously failed, so she retracted her smile.
"What are you doing?"
Chen Sui tore open the nutrient solution, helping her close the window.
The carrot seedlings were about to be blown limp.
Gu Qinxue looked at the carrot seedlings, remembering something: "So it wasn't my imagination before. I wondered why when you grew it, it was so good and green, but as soon as I took over, it became withered and yellow."
"If we had discovered something was wrong then, would it have been better?"
Chen Sui's movements paused, her green pupils contracting, not expecting her to still be dwelling on today's incident, looking at her with some confusion: "Why would you think that?"
"Even if this is just an event full of coincidences, I didn't pay attention to it myself."
Chen Sui recalled the times she had overlooked the awakening signs, also mentioning the incident of the changing fruit in the biology department's experimental garden.
"To be honest, if we're going to say that, shouldn't it all be because I didn't pay attention?" Chen Sui chuckled, "This way, I'm a bit embarrassed by how guilty you all look."
"Mental awakening is really important."
Gu Qinxue looked at her very seriously, her expression carrying a heaviness that Chen Sui didn't understand, "Important enough to determine a person's entire life, whether they're carefully nurtured or discarded like trash."
"In the Star Alliance, one awakening can allow people from remote star rings to enter the main star, or can turn a praised heir of the main star into an exiled castaway, instantly changing a person's fate."
On Talo Star, Chen Sui had hardly seen awakened ones, and no one talked about information regarding them. Talo Star was a barren planet, backward even among the remote star rings.
On Yuguang Star, she finally saw what awakened ones were like, what power spiritual bodies and energy crystals truly had.
Chen Sui didn't care about awakening or not, because her encounters with energy bodies made her realize they weren't invincible; mechas could also break through their powerful regenerative abilities and deliver fatal blows.
But Gu Qinxue's words made Chen Sui recall more details.
If she hadn't seen the location of the energy crystal in the Ocean Boulevard energy field.
If she hadn't known the location of the energy crystal during holographic training.
Could she have resolved energy bodies so easily?
Energy bodies were different from variants.
Chen Sui realized this point.
The power variants possessed was physical; even the most dangerous variants couldn't continue living if their heads were twisted off.
But energy bodies, as long as the energy crystal remained, could always regenerate.
Fighting them required different perceptions, and before she had thoroughly trained her instincts for dealing with energy bodies, awakening was a shortcut, also a key to training combat awareness.
"The world of awakened ones is very different from ordinary people?"
Chen Sui had seen many awakened ones at Star Academy Seven, or rather, few weren't awakened ones.
But she never felt she was any different from these people; she could even confidently say she could defeat many in mecha combat.
"Of course, although the Star Alliance's mainstream combat configuration is still mecha, but in energy fields, when facing energy bodies, only awakened ones have a fighting chance. Energy bodies can manipulate attribute elements; you don't know from which direction their flames will pierce you, or whether these flames will melt the mecha's shell. Only spiritual bodies, being energy bodies themselves, can counter them."
"The Star Alliance is no longer in the era of defeating star beasts with mechas. Star beasts have evolved specially into energy bodies, able to control part of the natural creation's power, and we have also evolved into awakened ones."
Deep into the night, the dormitory hovering above the scenic lake in Zhu Jing Fu still had lights on, with the life stewards of both rooms issuing health warnings one after another.
Gu Qinxue irritably turned off her life steward, continuing to sit on the sofa, watching Chen Sui's expression.
If you've never truly possessed something, loss is insignificant, but having truly possessed something and then losing it is too cruel.
In the future, if one day Chen Sui found herself trapped in an energy field, would she regret not awakening back then, leading to being at others' mercy now?
That scene, just imagining it, would frighten Chen Sui.
"What you say makes sense. I'll take mental awakening seriously."
Gu Qinxue hooked the corner of her mouth, feeling that her serious and earnest look on that somewhat silly face was quite adorable.
After the material market incident, Chen Sui still attended classes routinely, accepting assignment orders.
Because of awakening, she went to learn more about energy bodies, then was surprised to find that analysts were practically the chosen ones for dealing with energy bodies. But after learning about the current analyst situation in the Star Alliance.
Chen Sui instantly felt the lag in education.
She strangely agreed with Xia Wuyou's viewpoint from the first basic infantry course.
—What were the Star Alliance's analysts doing?
The people who best understood energy bodies' weaknesses had become the furthest from energy bodies.
Was this reasonable?
Among the unfamiliar terms in the analyst assignments, Chen Sui learned about a special person.
—Weina.
Student of the former Analyst Association Chairman Song Xingzhang, analyst for Border Army Zone Eleven's main output Song Baining.
During the Border Army Zone's ten major energy field cleanup operation with Song Baining, she died first due to a wrong decision.
Her death triggered a domino effect.
Without an analyst, the team could no longer target energy bodies' weaknesses, leading to the total annihilation of Song Baining's team in one of the ten energy fields, the Queyou Valley.
She was an indisputably offensive analyst.
The aggressive analyst situation created by Song Xingzhang was completely opened up by Weina.
But also completely ended.
Chen Sui could find some of Weina's teaching information in Zhu Jing Fu, but the basic courses were too few, only allowing her to understand some superficial aspects of analyst combat.
After watching, she still wanted more.
Chen Sui's mind recalled every time the red-haired woman swung her knife decisively.
"When I see through the energy crystal, the energy body's fate has only one possibility, which is, inevitable death."
Killing and destruction were a stimulant.
Chen Sui's heart raced wildly, she couldn't help but open a dry theoretical book to read, otherwise it was hard not to want to fight an energy body.
She was still in the protected awakening period; she needed to stay calm.
Chen Sui constantly persuaded herself.
Just as her emotions were subsiding, a buzz-cut black tank top looked from behind the bookshelf, seeing the black short-haired girl buried in books, and couldn't help but feel troubled.
"Are analyst things that interesting to read, or do you want to learn about your future partnering analyst first?"
"Infantry should just fight, don't read these boring things, come on, let's go combat?"
Hemo'er's daily routine of challenging, before Chen Sui went to the seed market, she would agree once a week, but since she came back, he hadn't succeeded for ten days.
Hemo'er was getting anxious.
Chen Sui wouldn't fight with him anymore? That wouldn't do.
Could it be she had another punching bag, no, partner outside?
Hemo'er looked suspiciously at Chen Sui, feeling quite indignant inside. Who could take hits better than him?
In the entire Zhu Jing Fu, not to brag, apart from his cousin Puluo, he was now the infantry who could take the most hits.
Hemo'er thought with some pride, besides him, who else could withstand three moves under Chen Sui?
Regaining his confidence, seeing Chen Sui focused on reading analyst books, he felt even more displeased.
Analysts were simply misleading people; couldn't they burn down the analyst section?
Chen Sui was annoyed by his muttering, raised her eyes to see the wounds on his face had healed by half, and also felt some battle fire rising: "Medical pod for how many days?"
Hemo'er proudly showed three fingers: "All healed completely! I also went to learn new fighting techniques from Instructor Di Qian, let's go!"
Chen Sui gently closed the book, her gaze calm, yet with a strong sense of pressure that made Hemo'er's back tense.
"Fine, let's have a fight then."
Hemo'er was overjoyed, completely unable to imagine in what state he would leave the fighting platform half an hour later.