When the mouse had grown to the size of an adult, it raised its left hand, bending its index and middle fingers, digging into its forehead.
On the forehead, two bloody holes appeared, which were its eyes.
"What is this?"
"These black rats, born to eat whoever bore them... The nourishnt of blood and flesh will cause them to continue growing until they can open their eyes themselves."
The engineer paused to calculate in his mind before continuing: "These complete black rats have combat power, which when converted to Jing Country’s battle power division, might be as high as seven sticks of incense,
However, Ah Xuan, you’ve seen many strange things and surely know that there is variability among biological individuals. For those black rats who’ve grown, having the occasional mutation reaching eight sticks isn’t unheard of."
Zhou Xuan frowned deeply; once the transformation is complete, those black rats have a combat power even higher than what Li Changxun ntioned.
If hundreds of such creatures appeared in Mingjiang Prefecture, the prefecture would be in grave danger.
Moreover, since these black rats are essentially part of the Earth Abyss evil rat consciousness, they possess high intelligence.
The black rat cannibalistic incident in the tent last night, Zhou Xuan suspected, was because those transford people feared the birth of black rats being discovered prematurely by him, so they resorted to cannibalism to temporarily eliminate the spread of the rat disease in Mingjiang Prefecture.
The engineer also agreed with Zhou Xuan’s view, saying, "Currently, a large number of transford patients are still far from the full rat transformation stage, so the Earth Abyss black rats need ti. If Mingjiang Prefecture remains oblivious for another day or two, then these black rats will be born in large numbers from the bellies of citizens,
At that ti, even if Mingjiang Prefecture gathers all the Tangkou, they still will have no resistance."
Zhou Xuan was aware of the urgency of the situation, so he asked, "Given that, does Teacher Gong have any thods to restrain the Earth Abyss evil rats?"
"Yes, the thod is within you."
The engineer pointed at Zhou Xuan’s abdon.
"? If I had a way, I’d have killed that black rat long ago, a miserable thing from the gutter." Zhou Xuan said indignantly.
"Indeed, it’s within you."
Engineer said, "I heard from the Blood Woman that your fifth stick of incense fire is the realm of the Colorful Play Master."
"You an—deceive the Earth Abyss evil rats?"
"That’s correct."
The engineer was pleased with Zhou Xuan’s quick comprehension, pointing out the core issue: "Desire cannot arise from nothing; it needs to be attached to a consciousness.
Yet, as long as there’s consciousness, deception can occur. The Tangkou of the Colorful Play Master is renowned for its deception throughout Jing Country..."
At this, the engineer bowed her head. Two thousand years ago, she had unintentionally fostered the "Colorful Play Hall" into the most prominent Tangkou in the entire Jing Country, a mory that was not entirely pleasant to her.
"Ah Xuan, you must promise not to use these deceptions to bring chaos to the human world. Everyone deceives at tis, but deception is not necessarily a sin—so lies are beautifully told."
The engineer said, "Those of the Wind Horse Sparrow ilk managed to extract thods of spiritual aggregation and spiritual control from because they promised to write the most beautiful lies in the world."
"Rest assured, Teacher Gong, I, Zhou Xuan, will only deceive those who deserve deception." Zhou Xuan vowed earnestly, almost swearing an oath.
With such a sincere guarantee, the engineer continued, "Consciousness can be deceived, and when the Colorful Play Master’s deception is paired with my spiritual control, even God-level beings can be deceived.
If the deception is well-conceived and the evil rats take the bait, they too can be fooled."
Zhou Xuan couldn’t help but cheer upon hearing this.
He and the Painter, along with Li Changxun, hadn’t opened their minds enough to think of using "deception" to fool the Earth Abyss evil rats.
Now with a clear idea, Zhou Xuan had a direction to exert his efforts.
However, to set up a grand deception to fool the Earth Abyss, the foremost task was for Zhou Xuan to learn the techniques of the "Colorful Play Hall"."
"The techniques, I can teach you, but Ah Xuan, I must clarify in advance; the Colorful Play Master’s thods require sharp eyes, a clever tongue, quick thinking, and high insight. To fully grasp them within a few days might be inadequate... You only need to understand the fifth layer, ’No Thieves in the World,’ to lay hidden tricks and fool the Earth Abyss evil rats, and I believe you have a good chance."
The engineer’s speech was slow and thodical, almost with a gentle, flowing warmth.
However, Zhou Xuan didn’t agree with the engineer and said, "Teacher Gong, you ntioned having sharp eyes, a clever tongue, quick thinking, and high insight—I believe I possess all of those. You can teach without worry, and what I grasp surely won’t stop at the layer ’No Thieves in the World’."
Zhou Xuan’s confidence brought a silent smile from the engineer; evidently, she didn’t take Zhou Xuan’s words seriously though she didn’t refute him. Learning with confidence is certainly better than despair. She didn’t argue further.
"By the way, Teacher Gong, why does one of the layers of deception have the na ’No Thieves in the World’?" Zhou Xuan was quite intrigued by the Colorful Play Master’s techniques.
The engineer explained, "’No Thieves in the World’ doesn’t an there are truly no thieves, but rather allows the person you’ve deceived to believe there are no thieves... Consider, when soone’s mind is convinced there are no thieves in the world, would they still be cautious?"
Being cautious is to prevent thieves; if there are no thieves, what is there to guard against?
"When a person lacks caution, who is happiest? Certainly those Wind Horse Sparrow tricksters."
The engineer said with a smile, Zhou Xuan listened with so fascination.
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