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#347 - Chapter 347 Interrogation - Part 1

Ugh, this novel's author is such a tease, dragging things out for so long. The climax finally arrives, and they just cut it off right there.

Son of a...!

Just as Qi Jing was about to switch to another novel, he noticed out of the corner of his eye that the ape-man on the other side of the transparent wall twitched a finger.

He immediately put his phone back into his space, gripped his umbrella-sword, and vigilantly stared at the other party with Observation Haki.

At this moment, Aunt Cui opened her eyes and slowly said:

"It's sensible. We can have someone come and give it some lessons."

Give it lessons?

Good!

Qi Jing immediately took out the Sky Piercing Sword, raised it levelly, and aimed it at the ape-man.

This was a beam weapon. Although its weakness was that it could be reflected by mirrors, its advantage was that it could penetrate transparent objects.

Aunt Cui, seeing Qi Jing's action, hurriedly pushed his arm away:

"Hey, hey, hey, stop, stop! Not that kind of lesson! I mean, really teach it some knowledge."

"Ah?" Qi Jing stopped his movements.

"I've already come to an agreement with it. After I told it about the current situation, it confessed its origins and expressed its willingness to put aside its racial sentiments and become our subordinate."

Aunt Cui pointed to the ape-man opposite and continued:

"They have vocal organs, so they can learn our language. Therefore, giving it lessons means teaching it Chinese, not hitting it."

After all, not everyone can directly communicate with it across language systems. If it wants to integrate into human society, it can only learn the local language first.

Hearing this, Qi Jing nodded and put down the Sky Piercing Sword he had been holding up.

This guy is quite sensible.

Almost blasted a good citizen.

Martial Uncle Xiao Xin put down his phone and said to Aunt Cui:

"I've already contacted the Alien Management Department. You can ask it about its origins and get some intelligence."

This might be the last time they meet this ape-man, so they should ask as much as possible.

Such as what treasures are still underground, how they achieved resurrection, and various important information such as the crafting of the Cyan Crystal.

"I'll ask again."

Aunt Cui closed her eyes again and began her second telepathic communication.

Although the ape-man still couldn't open its eyes, most of its senses had recovered, and communication wouldn't be as difficult as before.

Qi Jing had only looked at his phone for a few minutes, and she had already completed the intelligence gathering.

"It says its name is Guto'er Linshan Balengchuihuo..."

Before Aunt Cui could finish speaking, Xiao Xin interrupted her:

"Don't say useless things!"

"How can a name be useless?"

Aunt Cui turned her head to look at Xiao Xin, and found that she was staring at herself with wide eyes and a fierce expression, and quickly changed her words:

"The name is not very useful, ha. It says its race is called Cyan Guto'erba... cough cough, let's just call them the Cyan Clan. Really, why is the name so long? It's such a waste of time."

"The Cyan Clan is a race that lives underground. Most of their food and daily necessities rely on the symbiotic mineral, Cyan Crystal."

"Using Cyan Crystal, they can create oxygen and food underground, provide low-light illumination, and manufacture weapons and equipment to defend against attacks from natural enemies."

"Their natural enemies are eight-legged creatures that also live underground, probably spiders. Although they rarely dig tunnels, their combat power is much stronger than that of the Cyan Clan, and they can use highly toxic venom."

Aunt Cui said intermittently, relaying the information she had obtained:

"It has lived in the underground tunnels since it was born and has never gone out for a single day."

"Their social structure is a strict distribution system. Every clansman is allocated an equal amount of food and equipment, as well as necessary tasks. However, because there are few entertainment facilities and the work underground doesn't require much labor, their free time is spent researching Cyan Crystal or sleeping."

"I asked it why they don't dig tunnels. It said that if they dig too much, it might attract creatures from the surface and the sea to find and attack them."

"Also, because they can't expand their territory by digging tunnels, the number of their clansmen has been strictly controlled. They don't dare to have too many children, so they can only survive in a precarious state, with no hope of advancement."

"This kind of life has lasted for who knows how many years, because they can't see the sun in the sky, they have lost most of their sense of time."

Xiao Xin looked at the recording on her phone and said:

"This information doesn't seem very useful. Let it say something useful, like about the resurrection, and how they went extinct."

"I asked about those things."

Xiao Xin rolled her eyes at her: "You asked, but you didn't say it earlier, and you kept talking about useless things here."

"The exciting things always have to be put at the end, right?" Aunt Cui said aggrievedly, "Then I'll tell you now."

"Tell me quickly, stop dawdling."

"After a long period of research, they discovered many uses for Cyan Crystal, one of which was that it could be used to draw formations, thereby using the power inside in different ways."

"To make the soil firm, to make the shields light."

"Resurrection is also one of the effects, but it requires very delicate craftsmanship and a large amount of Cyan Crystal that exceeds the budget, and it also needs vitality, so it hasn't been used many times."

Speaking to this point, Xiao Xin anxiously asked: "And then? How did they go extinct? And how did it use the resurrection formation?"

Aunt Cui continued unhurriedly: "Later, they all died."

"How did they die?"

"I don't know, it doesn't know either. It only knows that from some unknown day, a clansman would disappear every once in a while, causing everyone else to fall into panic."

"The last news it received was that their leader was going to gather everyone together, saying that he had found the root of the problem."

"Just as it wanted to respond to the leader's call, its mother stopped it and told it that the leader was not to be trusted."

"As the most talented formation technique research specialist in the clan, its mother carved many, many formation patterns on its body and told it to live well in the future. Then, its consciousness fell into a deep sleep and never woke up again."

"Then can it use the resurrection formation?"

Xiao Xin didn't care about the truth of their extinction, she just wanted to know if this guy could replicate that magical resurrection technique.

Aunt Cui said:

"No, its talent for formation technique research is far inferior to its mother's, only a little stronger than the average Cyan clansman."

"However, it says that as long as it's given time, it can learn it."

"What? It needs time? Are you sure it's not lying? Isn't it just trying to fight for the right to live?"

The most fearful thing for a prisoner is that they have no value. Once they hand over all the value they possess, or can't hand it over at all, their only end is death.

Only by saying "it needs time to hand it over" can they fight for the maximum amount of survival time.

Therefore, Xiao Xin had reason to suspect that this guy was hiding the fact that he knew the resurrection formation.