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Cut off contact!
Gu Shi subconsciously wanted to shout like that, but fortunately he stopped his irrational behavior in time and just waved his hand pretending to be uninterested.
"I know. It's just a school. As a freshman, he can only meet ordinary people who can't even be called the gods of death. What's there to worry about?"
First, pouring a bucket of cold water on Lilinette's enthusiasm, Gu Shi sat down cross-legged, stretched his body, and changed the subject without waiting for Lilinette to complain.
"I want to rest early today, so the story time will start early. Let me think about it. This time I will tell you the story of Kayako. If you want to listen, come quickly."
As soon as these words came out, Lilinette jumped onto his shoulder, took out a few spiritual crystals from her arms, and pretended to eat snacks while listening to a story.
Who cares if Hayato goes to the Maou Spiritual Academy?
Anyway, he still has to live there for six years. If he wants to hear stories from there, he can just find time to ask later. If he missed Gu Shi’s story, he can only ask Tian Peng for second-hand information.
On the other end of the soul link, after Hayato reported the news, he did not receive any new instructions from Lilinette, and he did not feel strange.
After all, as an undercover agent, his main task is to provide intelligence to the Hollows. Now he has no intelligence at all, and the novelty of the Hollows placing undercover agents has worn off, so it is understandable that they are too lazy to waste time on him.
As a fellow Hollow, Hayato knows very well how self-centered they are.
Hayato curled his lips in disapproval, not imagining enough to suspect that the young man next to him had scared away the Hollow with his name. He continued to play his role and patted the other person's shoulder vigorously.
"I didn't expect that you, Aizen, have already understood the school situation so clearly even though you arrived at the school two or three days earlier than me. I recognize you as my friend. If anyone causes trouble for you in the future, just come to me and I will help you beat his head into a butt!"
As he said this, Hayato bent his arms, tensed his muscles, and made a very powerful movement.
Aizen on the side seemed to be a little nearsighted, his eyes narrowed into slits, his face full of a gentle smile, he looked like a good-tempered and honest man.
Even though he was shaken a few times by Hayato's slap, Aizen didn't get angry. He just smiled and rubbed his shoulder which seemed to be hurt.
"Hayato-kun is a genius. I heard from the teacher that you are born with the spiritual power of a senior officer. You will probably receive an invitation from a combat squad before graduation. I hope Hayato-kun will take care of you in your future life at school."
After saying that, Aizen pointed to a large building not far away and continued to introduce it to him.
"That's the dojo, open to all students all day long. You can practice Kidō, Kenjutsu, Hakutachi, or Shunpo. However, if you want to practice Tozen and try to communicate with your Zanpakutō, it's better to find a quiet place with no one around."
Hayato nodded in understanding, a hint of heat in his eyes. Creatures like Hollows naturally have serious violent tendencies in their nature. Even when they don't need to hunt, when they are in the mood, they don't mind having a life-and-death fight with any of their own kind they happen to meet.
Seeing this place specially used for fighting, Hayato couldn't help but feel an urge to rush into the dojo and fight someone. Fortunately, the Arrancar seemed to be able to weaken the influence of the Hollow's instincts on reason to a certain extent. Hayato shook his head vigorously and suppressed his impulse.
Before systematically learning the fighting methods of the God of Death, he must maintain the appearance of an ordinary person. Even if he rushes into the dojo, he can only fight with others using the force of "caressing", so it is better not to fight.
Aizen on the side saw Hayato's reaction clearly, and still maintained a comfortable smile on his face. He turned his foot calmly and walked to the other side with Hayato.
"Look, Hayato-kun, this is the library of the Shinō Academy of Spiritual Arts. It contains a large number of books that our students can use, including Kidō spells, tricks, Hakuba moves, techniques, and the extended application of Shunpo.
"Even obscure knowledge such as setting up barriers, hiding whereabouts, and studying virtual ecology can be found in the corresponding books here. The library is also open to students all day long. Because there are rules about not making loud noises and not damaging books, many students also come here to practice sword Zen."
Hayato stared at the equally large library in silence for a long time before slowly nodding his head. One of his main missions in sneaking into Soul Society was to steal the unique techniques of the Shinigami, such as Kidō, Hakutō, and Kūkai. He had never expected that these things could be obtained so easily.
Even if the library open to students only contains basic knowledge, it is enough for him to get started.
[It seems that the difficulty of completing the task is much easier than I expected. I will come here directly after class tomorrow.]
Thinking of this, the corners of Hayato's mouth curled up unconsciously. He felt that the solemn and lifeless building in front of him was as tempting as a huge and unguarded treasure house.
Aizen looked at the greed in Hayato's eyes, still without any expression, and took him to identify the bathhouse, classroom and other buildings one by one. They had dinner together in the cafeteria, and then the two walked back to the dormitory together.
Coincidentally, among so many freshmen, their dormitories happened to be door to door. After agreeing to go to class together early the next morning, they each returned to their own dormitories.
As the door closed, Hayato smiled and couldn't wait to try to contact Lilinette, telling her that he would go to the library tomorrow and read the contents of the book to her one by one through the soul link, hoping that Lilinette could relay it to Gu Shi and the others.
In the dormitory opposite, as the door closed, Aizen still kept smiling, and his eyes, which were narrowed into slits, opened with a thoughtful look in his eyes.
He originally didn't care about the freshman named Hayato. The reason he took the initiative to take over the task of helping the freshman get familiar with the campus was just to create his own image.
After what happened today, when others ask him about it in the future, he can say, "Senior Taogu took good care of me and dispelled my anxiety when I first arrived in an unfamiliar environment. I also want to pass on the kindness I received from Senior Taogu so that more students like me can integrate into the campus faster. I'm sorry, am I too selfish?", adding a layer of insurance to his harmless image.
And, this way, even if he graduates in the future, he will have a good reason to return to school to care about the lives of freshmen and pick out idiots who are easy to control.
However, Hayato's performance along the way made Aizen, who had originally not paid attention to him, feel a little curious.
A muscular man with muscles all over his body, whose muscles seem to have grown into his brain, is clearly full of desire for violence. He can even feel murderous intent when looking at the dojo from afar. There is a kind of primitive stupidity in his words, but he is full of greed for knowledge and is even more interested in the library than the dojo. What a wonderful combination is this?
Among the gods of death, there are actually quite a few guys with muscles growing into their brains and who are always eager to fight, but those who are interested in knowledge and books are very rare.
Now, these two characteristics appear in the same person.
...quite interesting.
Chapter 135 Asking Questions
“…In summary, ordinary souls are very fragile. Once they are in an environment with high spiritual power concentration for a long time, such as the Jingling Court, the soul structure will collapse and fall into a weak state. In serious cases, it may even endanger life.
"That's all for this book, Master Gu Shi. I'll go find the next book now. Please let me know when you can start."
Lilinette's eyes were empty, like a soulless telephone, repeating the message coming from the other end of the soul link. Gu Shi on the side, however, listened carefully, thinking constantly as he listened.
It turns out that Soul Society has long been aware that an environment with high concentrations of spiritual energy can kill ordinary souls?
Well, it's not surprising. The Gotei 13 have been established for more than 700 years. It would be really strange if they couldn't even discover such an obvious thing.
Then why, about a hundred years later, did Byakuya Kuchiki's ordinary wife still move into the Seireitei, and eventually died after only five years?
Didn't Byakuya Kuchiki know about this? Even if he didn't have time to learn these "miscellaneous things" in order to inherit the family and improve his strength, there must be someone in the Kuchiki family who knew about it? Didn't anyone tell the head of the family?
Or is it because the so-called clan elders and other old guys believe that the four great noble families should maintain their dignity and nobility, and cannot tolerate the wife of the head of the family living in Rukongai, a "place where untouchables live", so even though they know that Kuchiki Hime will die, they still let her live in the Kuchiki family?
If one thinks more darkly, perhaps those old hands in the Kuchiki family, who were originally dissatisfied with the patriarch's marriage to Ryukon and brought "shame" to the Kuchiki name, arranged it this way on purpose?
Did they want that "untouchable" who was unworthy of bearing the four noble surnames to die before leaving behind offspring and completely defiled the blood of the rotten wood?
Considering the nature of that group of nobles, they might even use the excuse of a "test" to deceive the head of the family to whom they should be loyal, while telling Kuchiki Hime the ending in advance, letting her choose whether to break up with Kuchiki Byakuya in order to survive, or to insist on being with Kuchiki Byakuya for the sake of the "love" that would bring shame to Kuchiki's name even though she knew she would die.
It is said that soon after Kuchiki Hime got married, she ignored her weak body and "could not wait" to start looking for her sister...
Could it be that on the day of her wedding, which should have been the happiest day of her life, Kuchiki Hime had already started counting down the rest of her life in her heart...?
No, no, I can’t think about it anymore!
Gu Shi shook his head vigorously and quickly pulled himself out of his thoughts.
Ever since he became virtual, his thoughts would unconsciously drift towards the dark and cruel end from time to time. Many things that he had never thought of before would automatically pop up without him having to think deeply about them, just like a terminally ill conspiracy theorist.
After reorganizing his thoughts, Gu Shi began to rethink. The soul cannot live in an environment where the spiritual power density is too high. If an environment is artificially created where the spiritual power concentration is too high even for the Great Hollow and the God of Death, will the Great Hollow and the God of Death become weak as a result?
Probably... no.
Ordinary souls cannot adapt to an environment with high concentrations of spiritual energy. The biggest problem is probably that they do not need to eat and do not have the ability to "digest" spiritual energy.
When excessively high concentrations of spiritual power from the outside world actively enter their bodies due to factors such as "concentration gradient", they are unable to digest the spiritual power, causing it to accumulate in the body and form an embolism similar to a blood clot, and the body will naturally become weaker.
Ok?
If you think about it this way, the person who can treat Kuchiki Hime might be Bavent, who can extract the spiritual power of the soul?
By the way, the Bavent is a race created in the anime, right? Do the Bavent really exist in this world?
Just when Gu Shi's thoughts began to go astray again, Lilinette, who was dozing off next to him, was startled for a moment, and spoke again with a strange expression, relaying the news from the other end of the soul link.
"Master Gu Shi, I'm sorry to bother you. I know you just finished listening to a whole book and need some time to sort out your thoughts, but I've been in the library reading books these days. Other students seem to think that I'm a good student and come to me to ask questions.
"You know, I just read the book to you. I don't understand it myself, and I can't answer their questions. I think if I read books in the library every day and don't understand anything, it will appear suspicious and will not be conducive to my undercover work. So can you help answer them? If you don't have time, forget it. I will find a way to deal with him myself."
After repeating Hayato's words, Lilinette finally couldn't help laughing. She couldn't help but imagine Hayato's embarrassed expression when he was treated as a good student and asked questions even though he had no idea what he had read for several days.
The corners of Gu Shi's mouth couldn't help but twitch a few times. Although he found it a little funny, he still nodded.
"Let him ask. I can't guarantee that I can answer them."
Soon, Lilinette conveyed Hayato's thanks and questions.
"Will artificially increasing the concentration of spiritual energy in the environment cause harm to the God of Death?"
[It seems that the student came to ask Hayato questions because Hayato was reading a book on this subject just now? ]
It happened that he was just thinking about this question, so Gu Shi simply pretended to be organizing his thoughts and explained his ideas in detail.
The student who came to Hayato was obviously a child who was good at thinking. After a while, Gu Shi heard a new question.
"If the spiritual energy from the outside world can actively enter the soul, then if the god of death stays in Hueco Mundo for a long time and passively absorbs the spiritual energy in the air of Hueco Mundo, will he be injured or become hollow?"
Gu Shi could answer this question without even thinking about it. In the original plot, Asido lived in the Great Void Forest for more than two hundred years without any signs of weakness or emptiness. This showed that the body of the god of death was enough to completely digest the virtual spiritual power in the air.
Although Asido's future situation could not be used as an example, the process of deriving the answer was known and the difficulty was not high. Gu Shi quickly gave the answer and a reasonable explanation.
With Lilinette and Hayato as the intermediary, Gu Shi answered several questions from that student in succession. During this period, he was inspired by the other party's questions more than once. The experience of constantly broadening his thinking made Gu Shi regain the feeling of discussing problems with Urahara Kisuke.
Gu Shi, feeling somewhat cheerful, simply told Hayato that if the student came to him for questions again, he could come to him for help at any time. If he was not there, he could make the excuse that he needed to think about it and would help him when he returned.
Hayato agreed repeatedly in his mind and gave a proud smile to the student next to him.
"Your questions are really tricky. They almost stumped me."
"Hayato-kun, you are too modest. You obviously helped me solve the problem easily. You may not know that I have been thinking about these problems recently and have not been able to sleep well at night. Thanks to your help, Hayato-kun, I can finally have a good dream today."
Aizen smiled and praised him for a few words, then stood up as if he suddenly remembered something.
"Sorry, Hayato-kun, I suddenly remembered that Sakura-sensei asked me to go find him after school. I'll be leaving now."
"It's okay, it's okay. I need to read some more. We can talk when we get home tonight."
After saying goodbye politely, Aizen smiled and turned to leave.
Chapter 136 Flowers
A simple-minded person whose eyes go blank when he hears a question, obviously not even understanding what is being asked, but who can give a well-organized, clear and reliable answer after just "thinking" for a while.
When answering, when talking about undetermined assumptions or controversial issues, the rhetoric may become excited, but the tone of voice is as flat as that of a person reciting a passage.
Such people are really interesting, aren't they?
Aizen sat at the desk with a gentle smile on his lips. In front of him were neatly written notes, but his attention was not on the words at all.
What was taught in the first-year curriculum was too basic, so basic that one had to start from the very beginning of learning to read and write. As a good student, Aizen would of course take every note carefully, but there was no need to review after class.
Instead of how to write and pronounce the word "Red Fire Cannon", Aizen now has more ideas about the classmate who lives across from him:
Could it be two souls in one? They are souls. If a soul can reside in another soul, what is the relationship between the two? Parasitism? Possession? Split consciousness?
Or was it some kind of long-distance communication? Where was the other end of the communication? A noble's courtyard? A group that harbored ill will towards the Seireitei? The real world? Hueco Mundo?
What is Hayato's purpose in entering the Maou Spiritual Academy? To plant spies in the Shinigami team? To sabotage the Seireitei? To rescue a prisoner? To steal confidential information?