Chapter 494 - Spoken
Why is Jiang Yan so sure of being an enemy?
Because, according to Jiang Yan's somewhat superficial observation of this causal line, he found that the causal line actually extends from those "gluttonous factors" in Xiaobai's body, that is to say, if they meet in the future, the enemy must come for this gluttonous factor!
It's reminiscent of the previous gluttony factor consciousness body's name for Xiaobai, that is, 'host body' or something...... Jiang Yan can guess the truth of the matter.
Now Jiang Yan has two choices, one is to face the difficulties, actively prepare for war, accumulate strength, and in the future, either take the initiative to attack or wait for the enemy to come to the door automatically, anyway, don't cowardly, just go up and do it, and the other choice is to give up this gluttony factor, so as to avoid the entanglement of this causal line.
The causal line observed by Jiang Yan is essentially linked to the gluttony factor, not Xiaobai's body, although in the eyes of ordinary people, the gluttony factor has been integrated with Xiaobai and completely transformed into Xiaobai's ability, and the two are inseparable, but this is not the case for Jiang Yan.
Jiang Yan's ability has the ability to copy software from other creatures, and can also install a new software ability on other creatures, but there is also a way to apply software abilities that Jiang Yan rarely uses on weekdays.
That's how the software works called "delete". As the name suggests, you can delete the software on the target, whether it is knowledge, skills, exercises, secret arts, or even bloodline talents!
This ability is also quite powerful in some aspects, because it can forcibly delete the target regardless of the target's will, but in fact, it is also a bit of a chicken rib for Jiang Yan, because the ability to delete software can basically only be forced to take effect on those targets that are weaker than Jiang Yan, and it has no effect on those targets that are stronger than Jiang Yan, and the other party can resist. Of course, Jiang Yan can also forcibly suppress the target's resistance, and the competition here is the strength of the strength, so it is said that this kind of thing deletion operation can only be used to bully the guy who is weaker than him.
As Jiang Yan's contract elf and sub-machine, Xiao Bai will certainly not resist Jiang Yan's will, so if Jiang Yan wants to, he can completely delete the "gluttony factor" on Xiao Bai's body through his ability, so as to get rid of the inexplicable entanglement of cause and effect.
But after thinking about it for a few minutes, Jiang Yan finally chose to keep the "gluttony factor".
Because this "gluttony factor" helped him or Xiaobai too much, Jiang Yan was a little reluctant after all.
Through the analysis of the ability, Jiang Yan found that the reason why Xiaobai's "Devourer" innate ability can be abnormally strong is based on the existence of the "gluttony factor", and the "mimic" also corresponds to it, which constitutes the current Xiaobai's capital that continues to become stronger rapidly.
Think about it, Xiaobai has grown from a miscellaneous fish-level slime that was only worthy of the first-level rank, to the current level of breaking through to the second-level military-level elf, it only took less than two years in total, this kind of rapid to abnormal advanced speed, even a pure-blooded dragon high elf may be difficult to have such an exaggerated growth rate, right? Where can a slime have! Even if it is a mutant one, it is difficult to say that it is reasonable, otherwise the slime clan will not be recognized by the world as an inferior miscellaneous fish elf.
In the end, it is basically the ability of the "Devourer" that accounts for the vast majority of the credit, and of course, the massive resources that Jiang Yan poured into it are also indispensable. But without the ability to devour, even if Jiang Yan could still provide Xiaobai with sufficient rations, it would not be able to digest it so quickly.
If he loses the "gluttony factor", I'm afraid that Xiaobai's growth rate will have to be greatly discounted, and Jiang Yanke is still counting on relying on this little guy's rapid growth to feed him, the contract owner, to quickly heal his true spirit injury.
Now that the decision has been made, Jiang Yan has also begun to think about how to deal with the challenges in the future.
The causal line that rests on the "gluttony factor" is based on the results of previous failed attempts...... I can't seem to forcibly cut it off!' Jiang Yan recalled the scene where he tried to cut the causal line with the Blade of Ability before, but was instead counterattacked, and his brows furrowed bitterly: "Rash attempt, it is estimated that it will only lead to backlash...... Is it?'
If the entangled causal line could be cut off on the premise of retaining the gluttony factor, Jiang Yan wouldn't have to worry so much anymore, but it's a pity......
'Judging by the way the causal line was clearly touched earlier, my Blade of Ability should indeed have the ability to cut it open, as for the reason for the failure...... Maybe it's not enough strength?'
From the small amount of knowledge analyzed from the trace of causal information that he accidentally touched when he was countered by the causal line before, Jiang Yan understood a thing that must be paid attention to: the strength of cause and effect also varies from person to person, and the more powerful the existence is carrying, the more difficult it is to be interfered with by others.
The causal line that rests on the gluttony factor is obviously implicated in an unknown existence that is extremely dangerous to Jiang Yan now, and the strong sense of threat brought to him by the other party just now when he tried to spy on Jiang Yan along the induction in the dark has already shown that the strength of the other party must be far beyond that of him now.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yan wiped the non-existent cold sweat on his forehead: "I should be glad that I rashly touched the causal line that involved the other party just now, and I only suffered a slight backlash that made my mind ache for a while?"
Even with Jiang Yan's abnormal mental patience, the previous backlash had been strongly traumatized for a long time, and it was relieved after a while, and even at this moment, it still made Jiang Yan feel a little faintly painful.
This convinced Jiang Yan that if the strength of the backlash at that time was a few points stronger, it was estimated that it was very likely that his already injured true spirit would be dealt a heavy blow again.
It was this cognition that made Jiang Yan a little scared that made Jiang Yan dispel the idea of touching the causal line with the magical ability of the ability again.
Although it may be possible to analyze more knowledge of the way of cause and effect fate again, after all, the previous analysis of knowledge is likely to be just an accidental phenomenon, and it would be too stupid to suffer a more serious backlash in vain if you did it again.
Jiang Yan didn't want to take unnecessary risks.
Even if you have some thoughts of peeking into the mystery of 'cause and effect', you can wait until you are stronger in the future.
In this way, according to Jiang Yan, who resisted the impulse to take risks, he sat in the cave and silently waited for Xiaobai's cultivation in his body to continue to climb slowly.
'Have you already broken through to the second and fourth ranks...... The rate of growth had slowed down somewhat, but it was still asleep, and it seemed that it would take some time for it to stabilize completely...... and while he was a little bored, he simply delved into other, safer studies of the causal line.
"Data-based Perspective Lock...... Causal line confirmation ......
Jiang Yan, who concentrated on the central god to activate the ability, once again entered the vision of that strange data-based perception, and 'saw' the formless and qualitative 'line' of cause and effect.
Of course, this time he didn't intend to attack the 'line' to the death again, but to try to add some 'safety devices' to this 'causal line' that might cause trouble for him.
Now staying inside the isolation shield of the data firewall maintained by the intelligent brains, Jiang Yan is not worried about being easily caught by the mastermind behind the "gluttony factor", but he can't stay in this firewall all the time, right?
Not only Jiang Yan, but there is also a lot of work in the mobile network that needs to be done by the senior brains under his command, and there will be chaos if he leaves his post for too long.
So Jiang Yan turned his mind: "Although I can't cut it off forcibly, then I can at least try to cover it up...... I don't want to be completely blocked, but at least don't be directly sensed and located by the black hand behind the scenes!"
Following this thought, Jiang Yan concentrated his attention and carefully urged the ability, condensing data codes around the cause and effect line that only he could perceive.
"Weaving a Fenced Network ......"
Then, these data codes were compiled by Jiang Yan in the form of a data firewall, and slowly turned into an invisible interception web, which he gently set up on the port of the "gluttony factor" extended by the causal line like a spider casting a web on its prey.
Jiang Yan tried to be as careful as possible throughout the operation, for fear of accidentally touching the counterattack mechanism of the causal line, but fortunately, this level of behavior did not cause any major problems in the end.
"The weaving is complete. Perform firewall functions to start information isolation...... The effect was good, and no abnormal reactions occurred. 』
In this way, the invisible and qualitative isolation layer for information interaction was cleverly set up by Jiang Yan on this end of the causal line. With this layer of isolation, Jiang Yan doesn't have to worry too much about the snooping of the mastermind behind the scenes.
Although the effect of this protective shield is not estimated to be as good as that of him and the brains, it can at least serve as a buffer in case of emergency.
At least, after Jiang Yan set up such a fence, he inexplicably felt a sense of relief.
Judging by his keen intuition, it probably wasn't an illusion, right?
After observing the good operation of the isolation layer on this causal line for a while, and confirming that there should be no problem, Jiang Yan thought about it and made another move, dividing a small part of his consciousness separately.
"Split Consciousness Segmentation...... Done, set up the automation constant task...... Finish. 』
After devoting this small part of the split consciousness to the daily maintenance of the isolation network, Jiang Yan withdrew from the observation of the causal line.
Then Jiang Yan devoted his attention to the study of the mystery of karma and fate that he had just comprehended.
Through the attempt just now, Jiang Yan successfully achieved a small experiment of partial concealment of the causal line of Yu Xiaobai's "gluttony factor", so he began to explore his own causal fate again.
Although the current data firewall that completely isolates all information interaction is very effective, it is also a little inconvenient for Jiang Yan because it is too completely isolated and cannot be used in daily actions.
What Jiang Yan wants is to set up a more convenient layer of protection for himself that does not affect his daily actions and is more targeted in isolation like the isolation operation of the causal line just now.
But even after more than an hour of meditation, he didn't get much useful results.
The reason may also be that Jiang Yan's understanding of the way of cause and effect fate is still too superficial, but Jiang Yan feels that his innate life personality derived from abnormal souls seems to have a lot of back, making it difficult for Jiang Yan to observe himself.
Speaking of which, based on my previous experience, my personality seems to be an 'odd number', and it has a characteristic that is difficult for others to see......
The 'odd' personality that comes with it gives Jiang Yan an innate tenacious resistance when facing the prying eyes of foreign enemies involving the fate system, unless it is a powerful existence that far surpasses him, even if Jiang Yan does not take any precautions, it is difficult for ordinary enemies with the same strength as him to spy on his fate information.
This is certainly convenient, but it can also cause some trouble for Jiang Yan at some times, for example, when Jiang Yan wants to study information about his fate, he will encounter the same resistance.
This can be regarded as a gain and loss in a sense.
If he can't observe his own fate information in detail, Jiang Yan will naturally find it difficult to set up corresponding protection for the situation.
Shaking his head, Jiang Yan temporarily shelved this kind of research, which was difficult to make progress.
At this time, Xiao Bai seemed to have finally digested the resources accumulated in the past two years, and the promotion state that had jumped several levels in a row finally stopped, and without Jiang Yan shouting, its consciousness quickly woke up from its deep sleep.
A pure and flawless, snow-like clear spiritual light floated out of Jiang Yan's body, and with a brush, it gathered into a ball as soft as a marshmallow on the palm of Jiang Yan's raised hand.
"Mi~~"
Jiang Yan's palm directly pinched the little guy in his palm with a slightly soft body, and the touch even made people a little reluctant to let go, looked at the image of the other party and was basically the same as before he was promoted, and couldn't help grinning: "Obviously, your strength has improved greatly, but you look almost unchanged!"
Of course, Jiang Yan is not dissatisfied with the current image of Xiaobai, but he feels that this guy is a little lacking in authority.
"That'...... Do you want to modify it...... Master Mi~?" The snow-white meat ball opened a cartoon little mouth in a mimic manner, and said in a milky voice like a little girl, and said in a somewhat slurred voice.
Jiang Yan subconsciously shook his head: "Forget it, your cute appearance is at least quite deceptive to those enemies you see for the first time." ”
Then he was stunned.
"Huh?!wait...... Xiaobai, can you speak?!"You who love, how can you not pay attention to this or the hot online article, let's chat about the online article together~