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The moment the bindings were removed, the pale liquid that had been impatiently rushing up immediately, trying to wrap around the head of the unfortunate Grim Reaper, but the moment it came into contact, it discovered that there was already a hollow mask on his face.

The pale liquid stopped moving, as if it was in some kind of confusion. After a long while, it bypassed the mask and wrapped around the back of the unlucky Grim Reaper's head, filling the gap between the mask and the unlucky Grim Reaper's face, firmly connecting the unlucky Grim Reaper and the mask.

[Heh, the principle is simple. The reason why the mask of the void is special is because the lock knot of the void is integrated into it. ]

[In the newly peeled mask, the knot has not yet dissipated. The virtual instinctively senses the aura of the knot in the mask and changes its action logic. It no longer tries to form a new mask, but stabilizes the knot in the mask that is about to dissipate.]

[In this way, the Hollow Death God can retain both its own lock knot and the lock knot in the mask. I don't know how the bat Hollow was born, but it naturally has two lock knots, which perfectly fits my experimental idea. ]

[Unfortunately, when I caught him, he didn't show any intention of escaping by using the black cavity, so I naturally assumed that he didn't have such ability, and he ended up escaping with the big guy.]

The more the Death Girl thought about it, the worse her mood became. She felt that the mask and the unlucky Death Girl had completely become one. She then let go of the hand that was pressing down on the mask, frowned, stepped aside, and casually pushed the corpse of the Hollow that had lost its mask and was beginning to dissipate to the ground, then sat on the experimental table to look at her work.

The unfortunate Grim Reaper had completely changed his appearance at this time. No matter how you looked at him, he was truly weak. Moreover, his chopped-off left leg was now wriggling rapidly in an attempt to regenerate.

High-speed regeneration, this talent is not very common among large hollows, and it is even rarer among ordinary small hollows. Only some extremely lucky people can awaken this talent.

Xu, who died after his mask was stripped off at the feet of the Death Girl, was once such a lucky man. It was precisely because of this luck that he was chosen and became one of the experimental subjects locked in a cage.

Now, he is dead, and this luck has been transferred to the unlucky god of death.

After carefully observing the unfortunate Grim Reaper who had transformed into a Hollow and confirming that the transformation process was as smooth as before and that it had indeed inherited the talent of another Hollow, the Grim Reaper girl picked it up, stuffed it back into the cage, and turned around and walked out of the underground laboratory.

Shortly after the Death Girl left, a shadow in the corner suddenly squirmed, and a Death wrapped in black clothes walked out. He looked in surprise at the Hollow whose left leg had regenerated and fully recovered, and quietly left the underground laboratory from the secret passage on the other side.

"So, Ye Ming's purpose in doing this is to allow the God of Death to obtain the talent of Hollow?"

After listening to the report from the black-clad Grim Reaper, the old patriarch still had a gentle and kind smile on his face, but the Grim Reaper who was asked the question instantly straightened his body and lowered his head even more.

"I dare not speculate on Lord Ye Ming's intentions, but Lord Ye Ming is kind and innocent. I think he will not really plot treason."

The old patriarch seemed satisfied with the answer of the black-clad Grim Reaper and nodded with a smile.

"That's right. Your name is Kawase, right? A Zanpakutō that can blend into shadows is indeed a good at gathering intelligence. It was the right decision to recruit you. Come with me to the Xing Army and tell the commander everything you saw and heard."

After saying that, the old patriarch stood up, put on his coat, and walked slowly towards the Xing army headquarters as if he was taking a stroll. The black-clad Grim Reaper followed behind him respectfully, keeping his head down the whole time, not daring to overstep his authority in the slightest.

On the roof behind the two of them, the Death Girl was lazily basking in the sun, with a slightly sarcastic smile on the corner of her mouth.

[The old man is still smart, but it's a pity that he would never have thought that there is a talent in the world that can "retain past memories after becoming virtual." ]

[Heh, it's not his fault. Such talent is of no help to the Hollow's battle. Instead, it will cause the Hollow to fail to awaken its fighting instinct due to the conflict between its memory and cannibalism instinct, and die quickly before it grows up. People who only focus on the power of dangerous big Hollows will certainly not pay attention to those small Hollows who died early.]

[This is my chance. I must capture the big guy. As long as I take away his talent, I can become a Hollow while retaining my memory, and completely get rid of the weakness of the Death God's power coming from the Soul King! ]

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Chapter 41: Ring? Tattoo?

"Ha, ha ha, I finally escaped. Bat, are you still alive?"

Gu Shi panted heavily and threw the bat on his shoulder to the ground. He finally couldn't stand anymore and lay down.

Unfortunately, lying down did not make him feel much better. The ribs on the left side were almost all broken, and the bones of the upper arm and forearm of the right forelimb were all shattered. When lying down, no matter which side the weight was on, it was extremely uncomfortable.

The bat that was thrown on the ground was not in much better condition. Its most important wings were twisted into a knot, and there was a fresh bloody hole on its chest, which already had a hole. It was having difficulty breathing and had no energy to answer Gu Shi's questions.

However, no matter how difficult it was, as long as he could still breathe, it meant he was not dead. Gu Shi felt a lot more relieved and couldn't help laughing out loud.

"Ha, haha, how should I put it, it really is worthy of being Hueco Mundo. I thought that the two of us were already very powerful, but on the second day, we were almost beaten and almost wiped out."

The lack of a rib made it difficult for Gu Shi to speak, but at this moment he had a strong sense of being "alive". Although he knew that keeping quiet and recuperating was the best option, he couldn't control his mouth and just wanted to laugh and talk.

Although Xu's essence is a dead soul, his battle of risking everything and his successful escape at the risk of his life made Gu Shi feel the pulse of his own life more clearly than when he was alive.

In fact, Gu Shi had vaguely had this experience when he fought against the Glyptodon for the first time. However, at that time, there was the Grim Reaper Girl by his side to support him. If he was seriously injured, Huidao would help heal him. Gu Shi knew that he would never die, so the experience was far less real and intense than this time.

"Haha, it's decided! When I get stronger, I will definitely go fight that guy again! This feeling is really great!"

It must be said that the recovery ability of the Hollow is strong, not to mention in a place like the Hueco Mundo where the concentration of spiritual energy is extremely high.

After Gu Shi was out of the battle and no longer consuming spiritual energy, he just lay down for a while and his wounds showed signs of healing. His left ribs and right arm didn't hurt as much, and he could speak fluently again.

The bat Xu next to him recovered even faster than Gu Shi. In such a short while, not only did the blood hole on his chest shrink several times, but even his twisted wings had slowly and automatically twisted back to their normal shape. He only needed to wait for the bones and flesh to grow fully before he could fly back into the sky.

Bat Xu struggled to turn over, moving closer to Gu Shi, and in the process exposed Erlang who was pressed under him.

When they were escaping before, Gu Shi was responsible for carrying him, while he was responsible for helping to hold the seriously injured and unconscious Erlang. When Gu Shi dropped him down, Erlang was unlucky enough to be completely pinned under him.

After pushing Erlang and making sure that the big dog was not crushed to death by him, Bat Xu stopped paying attention to it and turned to look at Gu Shi who was still laughing intermittently.

"Why? That rabbit is dangerous, why are you fighting it?"

Bat Xu couldn't understand Gu Shi's thoughts. When he was captured by the Grim Reaper, Gu Shi was very actively planning to escape. When he was attacked by the Rabbit Xu just now, Gu Shi also tried his best to escape. He should value his life very much. Why did he have to go back and fight with such a dangerous enemy after finally escaping?

"Of course it's for revenge. How can I not fight back after getting beaten up?"

Gu Shi answered without hesitation, but his answer was so quick that even a simple person like Bat Xu could see his perfunctory response and silently protested to him with his eyes.

Gu Shigan laughed a few times, then shyly turned sideways to scratch the wound on his buttocks, scraping out the broken bones and sand stuck inside. Seeing that Bat Xu was still staring at him, he had to explain with his eyes squinted.

"Ahem, I just think there's a good saying, 'The closer you are to death, the more you can feel the reality of life.' Fighting desperately with a powerful opponent makes me feel the joy of being alive."

Seeing that Bat Xu was still listening attentively and didn't laugh at himself for this somewhat childish reason, Gu Shi explained again.

"You see, this kind of thought is very exciting when I think about it in my mind, but when I really describe it in words, it becomes a bit shameful and embarrassing, so I don't want to say it."

Bat Xu had recovered most of his strength at this time. He turned over and got up from the ground, walked in front of Gu Shi, looked at Gu Shi seriously, and his attitude was unexpectedly serious.

"There's nothing to be ashamed of, and you should be happier and more proud to find something that makes you happy."

Perhaps Bat Xu just wanted to use body language to show his seriousness, but he came too close, almost face to face. Gu Shi looked at his exposed fangs when he spoke, and always felt that he would suddenly bite him and eat him alive.

Restraining the urge to slap the bat away, Gu Shi quickly raised his hand and pushed him away. "Okay, okay, I get it. Don't get so close to me next time. It feels weird."

"But wasn't this the same distance when we first talked?" Batman tilted his head in confusion.

When he was first captured by the Grim Reaper, and Gu Shi was holding him and chatting with him, the two of them were almost face to face. Why did Gu Shi feel strange again this time?

Gu Shi felt a little embarrassed when his double standards were pointed out without any sarcasm, and he quickly explained.

"You misunderstood. I was trying to quietly ask you if you knew how to say dirty words, and to avoid being discovered by that crazy Grim Reaper, so I purposely got so close to you. This is not a normal social distance. Bat, you'd better be more careful next time."

The bat nodded in confusion, accepting the explanation. Seeing that he wanted to continue discussing the previous topic, Gu Shi quickly ran to Erlang, reached out and grabbed a small lizard that was lying on Erlang's belly and licking blood, taking the opportunity to change the subject.

"This little guy is quite greedy. With its soul strength, it is enough to survive by breathing the spirit particles in the air, but it actually came here to secretly lick blood..."

Gu Shi couldn't help but stop talking halfway.

In Hueco Mundo, little lizards are everywhere, just like ants in the real world. You can find a few of them by just digging up a piece of sand. Since coming to Hueco Mundo, Gu Shi has seen many of them and no longer finds them new.

He caught the little lizard Xu just to use it as an excuse to distract the bat Xu's attention. The wounds on Erlang's body had healed long ago, and what the little lizard could lick was just the remaining blood on Erlang's body, which would not have any effect on Erlang at all.

But after catching it, Gu Shi discovered that this little lizard seemed different from its kind.

The other little lizards were incomplete in soul and had no spirituality at all. They were just like ordinary lizards and would only struggle randomly after being caught.

But the little lizard that licked Erlang's blood turned around after being caught, coiled itself into a circle, and put it on one of Gu Shi's nails like a ring.

After finishing the hair, the little guy adjusted his posture, tilting his head so that one of his eyes faced upwards. His blood-red eye looked like a ruby ​​embedded in a ring.

Such an excellent operation made Gu Shi forget what he was going to say next for a moment.

After a little thought, Gu Shi temporarily gave up the idea of ​​crushing the little thing to death. He took some blood from his body that had not yet dried and smeared it on the little lizard's empty mouth.

"Come on, try another shape."

The first time, the little lizard didn't seem to understand what Gu Shi meant and was just busy licking the blood on its mouth. After it finished licking, Gu Shi repeated it again.

This time, the little thing was stunned for a moment, then crawled along Gu Shi's arm all the way to the middle of his arm. Its four little claws firmly grasped the corners of Gu Shi's arm bone armor, and it put its slender body into an S shape and stuck to it.

After posing, the little lizard's thin spiritual power flowed, and soon its originally pure white body turned black. From a distance, it looked like a simple black tattoo on Gu Shi's arm.

[… Could it be that this little fellow was a chameleon in his previous life? After becoming a Hollow, changing color became his talent, and he can decide what color to turn into on his own? ]

Gu Shi dipped some more blood and fed it to the little guy. He waited patiently for it to finish licking before adding another request, "Come on, turn it red, the color of blood."

The little lizard obviously didn't quite understand what "red" was. It turned green, blue, and yellow in succession before finally turning red, leaving Gu Shi with a blood-red snake-shaped "tattoo".

"Interesting, very interesting! This little guy is smarter than Erlang. I have decided that from today on, he will be my decorative pet!"

After Gu Shi finished speaking excitedly, he looked down and saw that Erlang had woken up at some point and was staring at him in disbelief with his eyes wide open.

Chapter 42: The technique? Vertical technique!

"Ahem, Jiro, you're awake."

After coughing a few times in awkwardness, Gu Shi suddenly frowned and glared at the aggrieved big dog seriously.

"Jiro! Are you reflecting on yourself? You were knocked unconscious the first time you encountered the enemy this time. If it weren't for me and the bat trying to save you, you would have become part of that old rabbit! Aren't you ashamed of being so weak? "

The sudden harsh criticism made Erlang subconsciously shrink into a small ball, with his ears drooping. He looked guilty and pitiful, and completely forgot the fact that this person had slandered him before.

Having successfully diverted Erlang's attention and eliminated his own embarrassment, Gu Shi breathed a sigh of relief, but his face was still serious. He continued speaking in a slightly slower tone.

“I know you’ve only been in the Aether for a short time, so it’s understandable that you’re weak, but I can sympathize with you. The enemies who want to eat us won’t.

"When your injury is completely healed, Erlang, don't run around anymore. Follow me and learn combat techniques. In a fight between two Hollows, the methods you used to hunt are no longer applicable."

Erlang nodded pitifully and looked down at the ground guiltily. He didn't dare to look Gu Shi in the eye and could only squeeze out a guilty voice from his throat.

"A pile, yes. Not even. Sorry."

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"Jiro, you can talk! You've only been in Hollow for one day and you've learned to talk!?"

Gu Shi's eyes widened, and he felt an inexplicable surge of ecstasy in his heart. He didn't know how happy ordinary parents would be to see their children speak for the first time. Anyway, the joy that suddenly emerged in his heart was so strong that he couldn't suppress it at all.

He picked up Erlang with one claw and held him in the air in front of him. Gu Shi was so excited that his breathing became heavy.

"Say a few more words, Jilang, just say anything?"

The huge difference in Gu Shi's attitude before and after caused Erlang's poor brain, which was not very smart to begin with, to short-circuit. He started wagging his tail out of habit, and after wagging a few times, he finally reacted and opened his mouth again awkwardly.

"Say, woof, what? Yeah, sorry?"

"No need to say sorry anymore, say something else. By the way, call me by my name. My name is Gu Shi. Follow my example, Gu~Shi~"

"Gu... Shi? Gu Shi, Gu Shi!"

"Yes, yes, it's Gu Shi. Oh, and your name is Erlang, Er~lang~"