"General, look at this!"
Over by the V-shaped pit, another Skyfire Army soldier had made a new discovery.
Fang Er looked at what he was handed: a pale blue, almond-sized crystal. It was translucent, with a shimmering light flowing within.
This thing...
Was it the third eye of the blue-skinned creature?
He remembered that when the blue-skinned creature had faced them, its third eye on its brow had looked just like this.
[Damn it! This is definitely a good treasure!]
Just as Fang Er was guessing if this was the blue-skinned creature's eye, the system's voice suddenly rang out in his mind.
"What treasure?"
[If my senses are correct, this can amplify your brainwaves!]
[Try sticking it to your forehead!]
Fang Er: ???
Although the system's explanation sounded a bit fantastical, he followed its instructions.
Carefully, he placed the crystal on his forehead and attempted to project his brainwaves outward. Instantly, he felt a difference!
Previously, his brainwaves could only spread about two hundred meters. Now, they could reach three hundred meters with no blind spots!
Wait!
The corpse of the Xuan Gui was clearly within the feedback of his brainwaves!
Before, his brainwaves couldn't sense the Di Jiang and Qiong Qi.
Why could he sense the Xuan Gui?
Fang Er turned around, looking questioningly at the Xuan Gui's corpse, trying to find the reason.
"Hahaha, Dean, look! What do you think of my armor!"
"A full set, including the helmet!"
Just then, Li Tai stood by the lake, shouting excitedly at him.
At some point, he had poured the Tai Jin liquid from the lake onto himself. Under the effect of his body heat, the liquid solidified, encasing his entire body and forming a form-fitting set of armor.
Li Tai?
Fang Er was astonished to discover that in the feedback from his brainwaves, Li Tai's figure had disappeared!
Tai Jin!
It could actually block brainwaves?!
This explained why the Di Jiang and Qiong Qi couldn't be sensed, but the Xuan Gui could be!
It was simply because the Xuan Gui was naked...
This was quite unexpected...
Li Tai swaggered over, wearing the dark Tai Jin armor.
"Dean??"
Fang Er glanced back at him, then casually tapped him a few times.
"So, the armor on those Di Jiang creatures was all picked up from this lake..."
This completely confirmed Shen Kuo's earlier speculation!
Li Tai Zong and the others also walked over. They didn't show much interest in the Xuan Gui's corpse, but they were unusually excited about the armor on Li Tai.
Hou Jing Hao's large hands fumbled around Li Tai's sides, looking like a lecher from a pleasure house.
"Kid, is this thing comfortable to wear? Let me try it?"
"Hey, keep your hands clean, what are you groping for down there!"
Li Tai was made uncomfortable by him and quickly stepped back a few paces, staring at him warily.
"Let me tell you, my orientation is perfectly normal!"
"I'm not interested in you old fogies!"
Hou Jing Hao:.........
Fang Er directly kicked him. "Stop clowning around, we're talking about serious matters!"
Li Tai grinned and instinctively scratched his head.
The only sound that came back was the creaking of Tai Jin rubbing against itself; he couldn't feel his scalp at all.
Serious matters...
He paused for a moment, then suddenly realized something.
"Damn, I can't take it off!"
He had immersed himself in the lake, covered himself in the Tai Jin liquid, and then came out to solidify the armor with his body heat.
This thing was a single piece, how could he remove it...
The only way was to freeze himself in a refrigerator for a while?
Speaking of which, how many steps does it take to put Li Tai in a refrigerator?
"Doesn't this hinder your movement?"
Seeing his silence, Fang Er noticed something was amiss and pointed at his arms and legs.
Li Tai looked bewildered. "It doesn't hinder it..."
"Don't move, let me poke it a couple of times and see!" Hou Jing Hao drew his dagger, looking eager to try.
Li Tai immediately bolted upon seeing this. "Don't come near me! You said you're fine, and now you're trying to poke me..."
"Bang!"
He had only taken two steps before Fang Er grabbed him and pinned him to the ground.
"Don't run! Be a good lab rat. Afterwards, I'll have Commander Hou find a couple of influencers to accompany you for a drink."
Li Tai:..........
Li Cheng Zong and Fang Er jointly held him down tightly. Hou Jing Hao took his small dagger and made a cut on him here and there.
Hearing the grating sound behind him, Li Tai looked utterly defeated.
I shouldn't have jumped into that lake!
Damn it!
"Dean, you've changed..."
"You're not the dean who treated Qing Que like a baby anymore..."
"Wuwuwu..."
"Cousin, save me..."
"Your man is trying to kill me..."
"Just shut up!"
Fang Er, somewhat impatiently, slapped the back of his head. However, his palm turned red from the impact.
The sound was crisp, but Li Tai didn't feel the slightest discomfort, which instead made him bolder.
"Hehe, it doesn't hurt!"
"It doesn't hurt me, are you angry?"
"Hahaha.........."
Fang Er:......
Confirmed!
This guy was heading further and further down the path of being obnoxious!
Hou Jing Hao reinserted the dagger into his waist and pointed at Li Tai's elbow joint.
"I can't cut it, but based on the feel, the joints are much thinner."
"It's likely due to the increased fluidity of the Tai Jin at the joints because he was moving back and forth before the Tai Jin liquid solidified."
"Of course, this is just a preliminary guess, and we'll need to try a few more times to confirm the exact reason."
This was easy. Fang Er called over Hao Da Niu and some others and sent a few more soldiers into the lake.
To verify Hou Jing Hao's guess, they specifically chose two of them to go down naked.
When they got ashore and their bodies were covered in solidified Tai Jin, everyone's attention was drawn to the two unclothed soldiers.
"Buddy, if it's no good, I'll help you find a hospital to get an implant??"
Li Cheng Zong teased him with a wicked grin.
The soldier being teased immediately retorted with a roll of his eyes. "What are you talking about? We're just cold and it's shrunk. It's so cold down there, you'd shrink too if you went..."
"Biu... biu..."
Hao Da Niu curiously walked over and flicked the soldier's "little bird" a few times.
"How does that feel?"
Soldier:............
If you weren't the company commander, I'd beat you to death, you know?