Chapter 216 - Suspicious
If it weren't for the fact that they were in the middle of a convoy, Ye Sheng would have suspected that Gu Luoyu was making suggestive remarks.
A new move learned last night?
On her?
Therefore, upon hearing this highly suggestive statement, Ye Sheng's cheeks instinctively reddened. She gave Gu Luoyu a coquettish glare, her expression clearly said, “How can you be like this, you're so naughty!”
When Gu Luoyu received Ye Sheng's glare, she also realized.
Knowing that Ye Sheng had misunderstood, Gu Luoyu couldn't help but smile and curl her lips, then reached out to gently pinch Ye Sheng's soft cheeks, kneading them like dough, causing Ye Sheng to struggle in frustration.
However, when facing a powerful Esper, even with the bonus of her lottery golden finger, Ye Sheng's struggles were futile, only adding a bit of playful fun.
Fortunately, Gu Luoyu had no intention of making Ye Sheng angry, and after expressing her affection, she continued to explain, “After last night's psychic surge, I understood a new psychic ability.”
Unlike Ye Sheng, who gains abilities through lottery, espers usually comprehend their abilities on their own... meaning, besides awakening psychic powers, they also need to study moves.
And not every esper is a genius; Although stronger than ordinary people, there are still levels within each region, much like the survival of the fittest in the animal kingdom.
However, apart from some esper who awakened early and hid it from the base, the rest only recently awakened their psychic powers based on the method officially announced by the base.
Therefore, there is still a long way to go in researching psychic abilities.
While others are walking forward on foot, Gu Luoyu is already flying on a rocket... As now, telling Ye Sheng about her newly comprehended psychic move, and then starting to demonstrate.
Gu Luoyu raised her left hand, clenched it into a fist, and then...
Nothing happened!
Ye Sheng was confused, looking at Gu Luoyu with a question mark over her head, not knowing where this new move was.
Then, the next moment, she saw a super large lizard appear, its eyes like big red lanterns staring straight at their car, as if ready to stick out its tongue and flip the vehicle over.
Ye Sheng frowned, already preparing to condense a space bullet in her hand, ready to kill the creature.
The others in the convoy didn't even bother to help, just standing there dumbfounded... or maybe because the strongest fighter in the convoy was right beside her, they felt no need to come over and assist.
However, before Ye Sheng could act, the lizard suddenly stuck out its tongue, twisting it into the shape of a heart.
Ye Sheng: ...
Was she seeing things???
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She actually encountered a polluted creature confessing its love to her.
Not only was Ye Sheng surprised, but others in the convoy watching were also dumbfounded, having never seen such a polluted creature before, it was too strange!
The lizard's tongue was very flexible, sometimes forming a heart, sometimes twisting into a bouquet.
It was astonishing.
And, it wasn't just one lizard; as the convoy continued forward, several more lizards appeared, with no intention of attacking the convoy, just focusing on stacking and forming various strange shapes.
If Ye Sheng hadn't realized the anomaly at first, she definitely did now.
Immediately guessing that this was Gu Luoyu's new psychic move!
Commanding polluted creatures.
She could always use her psychic abilities to control other creatures, but this was ordering polluted creatures to complete tasks, like a tribe leader giving commands, and others faithfully executing them.
Probably the difference between coercion and sincerity.
As for how Ye Sheng figured it out?
Because someone in the convoy couldn't sit still, curious about the lizards' strange actions, and went over to take a closer look, only to be swallowed whole by a lizard... proving that they hadn't lost their minds, but still retained their own thoughts.
Then, Gu Luoyu's own explanation also proved Ye Sheng's guess correct: “I comprehended intimidation, which can suppress polluted creatures weaker than me, making them submit and carry out my commands.”
“Won't they disobey you because you're human?”
Upon hearing Gu Luoyu's words, Ye Sheng became curious, quickly leaning in, her round eyes stared intently, sparkling like ripples on a lake, with shimmering light.
Gu Luoyu enjoyed Ye Sheng's closeness, explaining: “No, because of the influence of psychic abilities, they will consider me the most powerful polluted creature, hence submitting to me.”
Moreover, unlike forcibly controlling polluted creatures, intimidation doesn't consume much psychic power.
It only requires additional psychic power when issuing commands, which isn't much of a problem.
With this new ability, the next time they encounter a group of attacking polluted creatures, Gu Luoyu can completely use her psychic abilities to turn them against each other, without having to personally deal with them.
“It seems quite powerful, but, Ah Yu, please stop using your ability for now, I think these lizards are a bit too much for the eyes.”
Ye Sheng thoughtfully nodded, then immediately asked Gu Luoyu to stop!
The lizards following their vehicle were making bizarre movements, their tongues twisting like paintbrushes, always managing to twist into various patterns beyond imagination.
...
Since Gu Luoyu demonstrated her strength, no one dared to provoke them.
Even those Espers kept their tails between their legs and behaved themselves.
Therefore, the rest of the journey was very smooth, with no one disturbing Ye Sheng and Gu Luoyu's couple time, allowing them to be all lovey-dovey, the air around their open-top four-wheeled vehicle seemed to be filled with pink bubbles.
It was sickeningly sweet.
However, besides fearing Gu Luoyu, the mysterious psychic, the convoy also gained confidence because of her.
Especially the leader assigned by the base officials, who was most reassured, originally planning to take a detour, now chose to go straight ahead because of Gu Luoyu's strength, not avoiding those dangerous places.
Every time they encountered danger, they always managed to get through safely, and after seeing those S-class polluted creatures that were dead beyond dead, the convoy members gradually became calm from their initial shock.
Now, when they see S-class polluted creatures blocking the road, they're not afraid at all, since they'll all be taken care of by Boss Gu in the end, so why fear!
S-class polluted creatures are full of treasures, but unfortunately, this time they had a mission, and even though Gu Luoyu allowed them to take freely, they could only pick some durable hard armor and such.
As for other precious organs and viscera, there was no way to preserve them for long.
They had to reluctantly give them up.
However, every dead polluted creature had its heart removed, making the convoy members couldn't help but murmur, Boss always has these strange hobbies, like crushing polluted creatures' hearts.
Fortunately, after a smooth journey, the convoy finally reached its destination!