"Good news, bad news..."

Gu Shen said, "Whatever the news, Mr. Qi, please speak plainly."

Qi Mo quickly said, "The good news is that Miss Xiaoman's extraordinary talent is indeed very high... Although I haven't found a corresponding 'supernatural gene' in the pedigree chart yet, her ability definitely exceeds 'A-level'!"

"What's the bad news?"

"..." Qi Mo hesitated.

He looked towards the basket not far away, and the infant sleeping inside.

"That child..."

Qi Mo deliberated for a long time, and slowly said, "Seems... to have no brain."

"No brain?" Gu Shen frowned.

"His body is normal, his heart beats normally, his blood circulates normally, everything is normal, everything maintains 'homeostasis' and 'activity'... It's just his spirit..." Qi Mo thought for a long time before finding a relatively appropriate explanation: "It's just that his spirit is empty. No matter how we test, we can't detect the existence of a 'spiritual sea'..."

Gu Shen quickly walked towards the basket.

The infant still calmly looked at him, and their eyes met.

Gu Shen did not integrate the Blazing Fire into this child's spiritual sea... The spiritual sea of a newborn is very fragile, and "he" has not officially awakened. Integrating the Blazing Fire under these circumstances is highly likely to cause harm.

"No spiritual sea?"

Gu Shen said, "That's impossible... his eyes don't look like..."

"Mr. Gu, if I may be frank..."

Qi Mo said helplessly, "Although he looks very smart, he is likely to be a complete 'idiot.' This child's spiritual sea is much smaller than others. It can be said that he doesn't have 'wisdom' at all. As for his calm gaze, and the fact that he doesn't cry or fuss... it might just be a coincidence of an 'aberration.'"

Not because he is smart.

But because...

He's too stupid.

Gu Shen looked at the infant in the basket and didn't know what to say for a moment.

"This is why I wanted to talk to you alone..." Qi Mo sighed. "This news is a bit cruel for Xiaoman."

An infant who will never grow up.

That's nothing.

An infant without a "soul"...

If Gu Xiaoman knew this news, her faith from living in the E0 district for three years might collapse. She regarded him as family, and desperately protected this infant in the backstreets, like a diligent child watering the soil, hoping that one day a seedling would sprout.

But the land she watered would never bloom or bear fruit.

Nothing at all.

"Don't tell her this news."

Gu Shen stood up, his voice hoarse, "I will take this child back to Dongzhou later... If Sangzhou Cave can't figure out the doubts, Dongzhou will re-examine it again. Perhaps there will be other turning points."

Qi Mo didn't say anything more, just looked at the infant with pity and sympathy.

He also hoped that this child was a "gifted" transcendent... When Xiaoman came back with the basket, Qi Mo even wondered if there could be a real "child of destiny," not the little girl, but this seemingly calm infant.

But.

Now that the test results are out...

He believes in the "science" he has adhered to for more than twenty years.

"This child may never learn to speak... no... it's even more serious than that..."

Qi Mo whispered, "He simply doesn't understand what you're saying, he doesn't have the 'consciousness' to move his ears... Everything that happens in this world is irrelevant to him. He's like a fragile container. Perhaps if given enough nourishment, he can grow up, but from this perspective, he's actually the same as those children in the 'Bronze Pillars'."

Qi Mo's voice was very soft, very sad, "He looks alive... but he's actually dead."

A shell without a soul.

What difference is there from being dead?

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"Faster, faster..."

Chen Li was in the testing room, watching the black-clothed girl's test.

On the adaptive treadmill, Gu Xiaoman ran with her head down. Her speed had already been increased to the fastest, but Chen Li, who was on the side, frowned constantly as he watched. The various tests of her body data had basically ended.

Gu Xiaoman was nothing special...

She was a little stronger than those peers who had not awakened their abilities, but only a little.

"Could it be mental?"

Chen Li picked up the communicator, "Mr. Qi, have you seen these data?"

Over at the control room.

Qi Mo and Gu Shen looked at the data on the screen... These data were all very "normal."

"The element detection has also ended... she doesn't have any affinity for natural elements..."

Qi Mo whispered, "Judging from the data, she might be a 'mental transcendent,' like you."

Gu Shen narrowed his eyes. When he awakened his powers back then, his data was also very average.

Mental type?

Qi Mo didn't know that the Blazing Fire actually belonged to the "special type." In addition to having an extremely powerful guiding effect on the spiritual aspect, it also possessed the additional attribute of "devouring source matter"!

"Uncle Chen... Brother Chen, is it over?"

The adaptive treadmill gradually stopped.

Gu Xiaoman wiped the sweat from her forehead. She didn't know what her results meant. The little fellow's face was full of seriousness. "If you need, I can run all day."

The reason she came here to do the supernatural test wasn't to find out what her ability was.

Gu Xiaoman didn't care.

Just...

She had just eaten two of Gu Shen's apples.

She still understood the principle of not biting the hand that feeds you, so she came here to test the data, in fact, she only regarded herself as coming to "pay the reward."

"Wait..."

Chen Li said, "There is still a mental assessment. You need to sit on the instrument over there."

When the Transcendents from True Heart Society rushed over from the capital, they brought a complete set of mental link equipment. They knew that one of the tasks of this southward journey was to find excellent young Transcendents in the local area, which required the Safety Committee's "mental assessment process."

This process was not complicated, but the tester needed to sit in the instrument cabin.

"Tsk..."

Gu Xiaoman sat in the cabin seat. She looked at the helmet that slowly descended to the position of her head, which was also connected to dozens of strange alloy chains.

"Just put it on."

Chen Li thoughtfully helped her put it on and softly told her, "Next, you will hear some prompts, don't pay attention to them, just relax..."

"Yeah!"

Gu Xiaoman put on the helmet and closed her eyes.

The cabin slowly closed.

Accompanied by gentle prompts, her spirit began to fall. This time, the feeling... was somewhat similar to Gu Shen's finger point earlier, but it was not quite the same. Earlier, in the small courtyard, she seemed to have come to a real world.

And this time.

Countless seawater wrapped her.

She clearly knew that this was a place of nothingness...

The moment she closed her eyes, countless seawater submerged her, pulling her bit by bit to the end of the endless depths of the sea. And when Gu Xiaoman "opened her eyes," she saw herself in a soul state, as well as an entire dark and boundless deep sea.

In the control room.

Gu Xiaoman's "mental image" was projected in real-time under the effect of the helmet instrument.

This was the "mental assessment page" formulated by the Safety Committee.

Logically speaking... next, there should be some simple "assessment tests"...

But there was nothing in front of Gu Xiaoman, a blank space.

"Is the program malfunctioning?"

Chen Li was a little surprised.

He didn't know that the expressions of the two people in the control room were even more wonderful.

Gu Shen and Qi Mo looked at the screen. They were still waiting for the mental assessment test to begin, but they never expected that after a short load, the [Deep Sea] would directly give the final result!

"Auditor: Gu Xiaoman."

"Audit result: Passed."

"Mental assessment score: 100 points."

One hundred points?!

Qi Mo opened his mouth wide, not knowing what to say.

Even Gu Shen was stunned!

The "Blazing Fire" he awakened should be the most powerful "mental ability" within the scope of the five continents... Such a top-level ability, the safety assessment score given to him, was 99 points!

"Buzz..."

In Gu Xiaoman's spiritual sea, there seemed to be an invisible wave emanating.

In the boundless dark deep sea, a dim flame appeared!

"What is this?"

Qi Mo widened his eyes, he stared at the flame in the deep sea... [Deep Sea] did not give Gu Xiaoman a question test, but directly gave the result of passing the audit, and then the program sent a wisp of fire?

Gu Shen reacted first.

He whispered, "This is a spark!"

"Buzz buzz buzz!"

The moment the flame appeared, the mental link picture provided by the deep sea disappeared instantly.

"Spark?!"

Chen Li was completely dumbfounded. After the wisp of fire appeared in Gu Xiaoman's spiritual sea, he suddenly felt that the floor under his feet had changed. It seemed that an invisible suction force was born out of thin air, and countless wisps of breeze were born in the entire test room in an instant.

All the wind was blowing towards the "cabin" where Gu Xiaoman was.

Chen Li did not resist this suction, but subconsciously wanted to approach the cabin, he wanted to see what was going on!

Was this Gu Xiaoman's awakened supernatural ability?!

"Don't get close!"

A figure suddenly appeared.

The moment Gu Shen saw the flame, he moved. He arrived at the test room at an extremely fast speed, grabbed Chen Li, and threw him backward. The little iron man fell to the ground on his buttocks, his expression blank. A corner of his sleeve was torn by Gu Shen, tumbling in the air, and under the attraction of countless flowing winds, it swept into the "instrument cabin."

"Tear!"

It was as if an invisible field was spreading!

That corner of the sleeve was instantly torn apart—

Along with the entire instrument!

Crackling, countless electric arcs sputtered, and the mental assessment cabin directly disintegrated!

At this moment, Gu Xiaoman, wearing the helmet, still looked blank. She was still immersed in the "dream," unaware that her supernatural ability had been released and was rapidly radiating to the surroundings!

Gu Shen stretched out his palm, the Blazing Fire rolled out, and he forcibly pressed his palm into the "void field."

"Shua—"

The Netherworld Authority was used.

Gu Xiaoman instantly arrived from a world of a wisp of fire to a world where another wisp of fire was located.

She came to the Pure Land, the branches of the Susu Tree falling down, blowing on her face... Her suppressed spirit in the deep sea was greatly comforted at this moment.

She stared blankly at Gu Shen.

The surrounding scenery gradually returned to reality. Gu Xiaoman realized that she was no longer sitting, but standing. The cabin, the floor, and some instruments where she was standing... had disappeared.

It was as if they had been erased from this world.

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