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Chapter 104 Black Chamber
It had not been long since they left the surface desert, but when the endless white sand appeared before their eyes again, Gu Shi actually had the illusion of seeing each other again after a long separation and that everything and everyone had changed.
Looking at the vast desert filled with loneliness and desolation before him, Gu Shi's literary heart suddenly came online. He closed his eyes, intending to quietly savor his current mood, feel the long-lost sadness of spring and autumn, and brew a line or two of poetry that fits the occasion.
At this moment, all kinds of small virtual beings, who suddenly felt the spiritual pressure of the big virtual being, emerged from the sand dunes under the feet and beside the people like wild dogs that had broken free from their reins. They fled in all directions, as if they were a step slower they would be robbed by hyenas, raising a cloud of white sand.
Suddenly, the pale desert filled with desolation turned into a renovation site in the afternoon, and Gu Shi was the unlucky guy who was woken up by the sound of an electric drill during his nap. He was so angry that he subconsciously spat out a mouthful of anger.
The literary youth's heart that had just come online was pressed back by the cruel reality. Gu Shi shook his head helplessly, smiled brightly at the stunned people, and threw the pot away without hesitation.
"Xiao Xu from the surface desert is too rude. We are not demon kings. Is it necessary to flee in such a hurry?"
Gu Shi felt guilty about trying to shift the blame, but Erlang responded with confidence and nodded vigorously in agreement.
"That's right! Can't they learn from their counterparts in the Great Hollow Forest? They turn their backs to us and run away. Isn't this deliberately stimulating our hunting instinct? You are walking on the road and suddenly a rabbit jumps up and runs away in front of you. Who can resist chasing it and biting it?"
As a dog, Erlang does have such a pursuit instinct, and he said this without any guilt. While speaking, his sharp eyes swept over his companions one by one, and his eyes were full of "seeking approval".
The big rabbit, frightened by Erlang's stare, could only nod pitifully. In his heart, he secretly listed "turning his back to Erlang" as one of the dangerous things he must not do in his life.
After a brief episode, Gu Shi and others found a small sand dune and set up camp.
Gu Shi picked up a handful of sand and tried to use his own spiritual power to keep the sand floating steadily. This was a method he had come up with recently to train his ability to control his spiritual power.
The appearance of Stark reminded him that the spiritual power of the Hollow was too violent and difficult to control, and the stronger the Hollow was, the more violent the spiritual power became. Even for the most advanced Hollow, spiritual power control was still an indisputable weakness.
Gu Shi doesn't want to be like a traditional great hollow in the future, unable to control his own spiritual power, and surrounded by a circle of unconsciously leaking spiritual pressure wherever he goes.
How many living souls can be stronger than those fleeing little virtuals? The little virtuals were scared away by his spiritual pressure. If he went to the real world, wouldn't all the living people around him be scared to faint or even die?
If that were the case, how could he go into the world and make friends with living people?
Besides, there is not much entertainment in the current world, so there is no loss if you don’t go. It would be a big loss to be trapped in Hueco Mundo after the Internet appears.
Therefore, you must practice your control.
Since Gu Shi was training like this, Tianpeng and Erlang naturally followed suit.
No need to ask for reasons for whatever Zhenjun/Gu Shi does, just follow him and you won’t go wrong.
Although the big rabbit did not have this awareness, when he saw everyone doing it, he also started to practice blindly. Only Asido looked at the surrounding environment with sharp eyes, thinking about which direction it would be better for him to start killing.
The danger of the surface desert is much lower than that of the Great Hollow Forest. Even though he is currently reorganizing his combat system and fighting is feeling awkward and inconvenient, he does not have to worry about encountering any danger here. He can just fight with the Little Hollow while exploring new combat methods that suit him.
Everyone had their own things to do, and soon returned to their previous rhythm of life. During the day, everyone was busy with their own things, and at night they gathered together to listen to Gu Shi's stories, then rested and waited until the next day to continue their regular life.
Only Tianpeng's life rhythm was slightly disrupted.
The surface desert did not have the necessary materials for alchemy like Killian, and the terrain was all gravel, so it was impossible to dig a hole to make an alchemy furnace. The small alchemy furnace made by Gu Shi was also lost when she escaped before, so she naturally could not continue her alchemy practice.
However, after hearing Erlang casually mention that the white sands on the surface of the desert were all fragments of the dead Xu's mask, and Gu Shi also confirmed this statement, she began to think of a new pill recipe, trying to use this inexhaustible white sand to make pills.
Anyway, all the materials are taken from Xu. It doesn't make sense that a complete Xu can be used to make pills, but the mask fragments cannot.
In this way, the peaceful and regular life continued. After a few days, the taciturn Asido expressed his needs to Gu Shi for the first time and suggested moving the camp slightly.
The nearby Hollows were either scared away by the spiritual pressure of Gu Shi and the others, or killed by Asido. Asido hoped to move his position slightly and find a place with more Hollows.
This time, as there was no inconvenient earth pit furnace to move, Gu Shi and others had no objection to the move. Since they didn't have much luggage, they could just leave at any time.
The group randomly picked a direction and started moving, but after a while, they stopped.
In front of them, a dark crack slowly opened.
"Haha, you stupid god of death, if you have the guts, come and chase me! Do you dare to chase me into Hueco Mundo? Just wait, I will eat up the soul of this little devil soon, and then I might even show mercy and give you one or two arms, so that you can build a grave for this little devil or something!"
Mad and malicious words came out from the opened black cavity. A lizard-like creature, about three and a half meters long, with a small virtual tail pierced through the shoulder of a little girl and rushed out of the black cavity with wild laughter.
"You little brat, keep crying! I like to listen to people crying while I eat!"
The moment he rushed out of the black cavity, Xiao Xu, who thought he was safe, turned his head and gave a ferocious smile to the little girl on his tail. Then he turned his head again and saw four big Xus wearing black robes, who were over 30 meters tall and seemed to be standing tall. They were staring at him with terrifying blood-red eyes.
A short sound came from his throat, like the cry of a duck before its death. Xiao Xu rushed back into the black cavity without thinking. The next moment, a tiny flash of light pierced through his head and turned his entire upper body into ashes.
Then another cold knife light flashed, splitting his remaining lower body into two halves.
Asido held his Zanpakutō in one hand and stepped on the Shunpo technique, and quickly used his other hand to catch the little girl who had slipped off the tip of the Kyonori.
Chapter 105: Fullbring
As a Shinigami who has been in the 11th Division, Asido, like all the Shinigami in the 11th Division, has the sentiment that "only those who kill people with real swords and guns are real men, and those who play ghost tricks are sissies."
Therefore, although he has graduated for more than two hundred years and is considered an experienced old god of death, his level of ghost skills has not improved compared to when he just graduated. On the contrary, he is much more unfamiliar with it. Now he is holding the girl whose shoulder was pierced and has no idea how to save her.
With his limited attainments in the art of healing, it would take him a long time to heal a knife wound, let alone a penetrating wound as big as a fist, which had no positive effect at all.
What's more, the Kaido developed by the God of Death was originally prepared for the treatment of the God of Death. The treatment effect is concentrated on repairing the "soul". If it is used to repair the flesh and blood damage of the living, the effect will be greatly reduced. The level of Kaido that can heal the living must be at least in the top ten of the Fourth Division.
Therefore, after Asido rescued the person subconsciously, he was dumbfounded. He hugged the girl he rescued, at a loss, and couldn't say the words "It's okay, I'm safe now".
"Ashido, send it back to the real world quickly before the black chamber is closed."
Seeing Asido standing there in a daze, Gu Shi sighed helplessly and reminded him in a bad mood.
Only then did Asido come to his senses and nodded vigorously.
"Yes, yes, yes. There must be a way to save a living person. I'll send her out right away!"
While speaking excitedly, Asido rushed into the black cavity at the fastest speed. Just now, when Xiaoxu provoked him, he said that he was chased into the black cavity by the god of death. As long as he sent the girl out and handed her over to the god of death over there, the other party would definitely find a way for the girl to survive.
Watching Asido rushing into the black cavity with hope, Tianpeng hesitated for a moment before telling him the cruel truth.
"That girl, is there no hope for her?"
"...Well, it seems that he can't be saved."
Although he was unwilling to admit it in his heart, Gu Shi knew that Tianpeng was right, so he could only nod slowly.
The current medical level in the world is still at a very backward stage. Various life-saving medicines have not been developed, and there are not even antibiotics. An infection can take a person's life, and treatment is often a matter of luck.
And judging from the girl's clothes, it is obvious that she does not come from a wealthy family. It is unknown whether she can get medical treatment after being sent back.
Gu Shi asked Asido to send the girl back to the human world, not because he believed the girl could be saved in the human world, but just to avoid the worst outcome.
If that girl died in Hueco Mundo, in this environment filled with the violent spiritual energy of Hollows, her soul would be decomposed into Hollow without the protection of the body, and she would not be able to hold on for long.
If you are sent back to the human world, at least you can be buried by the god of death after death, and sent to the Soul Society to continue living a normal life. If you are lucky, you can become a god of death and maybe live a better life.
Asido, with his muscular head, obviously didn't think that much, but Gu Shi didn't intend to explain to him, so he let him think that the girl would be saved in the end.
"...Ashido was gone for quite a while. Could it be that the Grim Reaper opposite was an acquaintance of his and they were catching up?"
Seeing that the atmosphere was becoming a little heavy, Erlang made a small joke in an attempt to liven up the atmosphere.
After Erlang said this, Gu Shi and Tian Peng also reacted. With Asido's instant step speed, it would take him four trips back and forth in such a long time, but he hasn't come back yet. Even if he wanted to instruct the Grim Reaper on the opposite side to treat the girl with all his heart, this time was a bit too long.
After all, Asido's behavior of staying in Hueco Mundo can only be defined as "defection" in Soul Society. If he does not want to be hunted down by the executioner army, he should avoid contact with other Shinigami as much as possible.
If he were to be in contact with the opposing Shinigami for too long, leaving a clear and deep impression on him, and when the other party returned to Soul Society to report on his work, he described his appearance to his superiors, wouldn't he be exposed?
"...Tianpeng, reinforce the black cavity."
A channel like the black cavity can't exist stably for long, and there is a risk of being destroyed by a powerful attack. Gu Shi couldn't figure out what happened on Asido's side, and as a great void he couldn't go and check it out in person, so he could only ask Tianpeng to maintain this retreat channel, so that Asido wouldn't find that the retreat was gone when he wanted to come back.
They waited for a while, and there was finally movement in the black cavity. Asido rushed out in a somewhat embarrassed manner with a flash step, and carried the girl back.
However, at this time, not only did the injury on the girl's shoulder disappear, but she also became more energetic. She continued to wave her fist on Asido's shoulder and roared loudly at the other end of the black cavity.
"Come here if you can, I'll beat your head into your stomach! Uncle, put me down, I'm going to beat him to death!"
Such a wonderful scene made a question mark slowly appear in Gu Shi’s head. Tianpeng was also a little confused. He didn’t know how the little white rabbit that was dying just now turned into a grumpy little wild cat.
Asido, who rushed out of the black cavity, gasped violently for a few times. Just when he was about to put the girl on his shoulder down and give her a lecture, the girl on his shoulder had already opened her mouth in anger. A bloody and manic spiritual power ball condensed in her mouth step by step, and then suddenly burst, and a dazzling red light instantly shot into the black cavity.
...Flash!
...living people?
Now, even Erlang and Big Rabbit were dumbfounded. Since when did the exclusive moves of the Hollow become so worthless that even living people could be used to play with them?
Asido was obviously also frightened. He quickly took the girl off his shoulders and stared at her face without a mask in disbelief. He almost thought he had saved the wrong person and carried a big hollow back.
Only Gu Shi was surprised at first, but then he realized that the girl was using the "Fullbring Technique".
As the plot of "Bleach" prolonged in the later period, some settings became weird. Among the original companions of the protagonist Ichigo Kurosaki, both Chad Yasutora and Inoue Orihime, as living people, mastered some special abilities. In the early settings, their abilities were granted by the Hogyoku.
In the later period, with the expansion of the "Bleach" system, the concept of "Fullbring" was introduced, and the abilities of these two people were also classified into the category of Fullbring.
Originally, the setting of Fullbring was that after a pregnant woman came into contact with a Hollow, if she did not die, the Hollow's spiritual power would invade the fetus in her body. If the fetus did not die, it would naturally possess a power of the same nature as the Hollow after birth. Once activated, it would be able to draw out the spiritual power from the objects that she "deeply loved", using the objects as a medium to form various unique abilities.
Orihime Inoue's medium is her hairpin, while Yasutora Chad's medium is his own strong arms (? ).
After this, the concept of Fullbring was further supplemented and linked to the biggest bug, Soul King. It seems that only those who have fragments of Soul King in their souls can awaken Fullbring.
The constantly added settings make the pit of "Fullbring" bigger and bigger. Gu Shi also doesn't know why it is obviously a variant of the power of the Hollow, so it can be related to the Spirit King who is strictly opposed to the Hollow.
But no matter what, if a living person can use a power similar to that of a Hollow, it should be Fullbring for sure.
Therefore, this child should be a living Fullbringer.
This is really rare.
Chapter 106 Trust
"Okay, little guy, calm down."
Seeing that the girl was put down by Asido, and was about to rush into the black cavity again with a loud roar, to fight with the god of death on the opposite side, Gu Shi grabbed her directly with his claws.
The huge difference in body size made Gu Shi's clenched claws look like a huge cage to the girl, trapping her inside.
In Gu Shi's clenched fist, the girl paced back and forth several times and knocked on Gu Shi's claws hard, leaving several clear blood marks on the pale and sharp bone claws. Seeing that she could not find a gap to escape, she finally covered her torn fist, gasped and fell silent.
At the same time, Tianpeng also closed the black cavity in time, cutting off the girl's chance to rush back to the world and fight.
"I know I was wrong! Please let me out! It's too dark here!"
The girl, who had a somewhat explosive personality, quickly gave in and shouted at Gu Shi, apologizing and begging for mercy.
"Shut up and be quiet for a moment, Ashido, and explain what's going on."
Gu Shi had no intention of letting him go directly. He looked at Asido who was confused and helpless. Erlang and the others nodded repeatedly. Things were changing too fast. They were all very curious about what had happened, so they all stared at Asido and waited for him to give an answer.