"Should we discuss with Old Li? The Qinling Spirit Plants outbreak might have follow-up issues, and I don't want my assets to be severely injured..."
Ansheng brought over a section of a tree stump, sat on it, and looked at Wang Qiqi, asking.
"No, the city defense system is to test reaction and capture capabilities. Even if implemented, it's still based on conciliation for Spirit Beasts invading the city."
Wang Qiqi explained to Master Fulili: "As far as I know, the city defense system is already very complete, the only thing missing is a biological radar that can accurately detect the existence of Spirit Beasts."
"Previously, the Imperial Capital invited the Golden Leopard to participate in the test, but the Leopard didn't want to go..."
The new city defense system is already very complete, lacking only the radar, but the Spirit Beasts in the Security Bureau are no fools.
Forget those concerns, just tell me if it hurts when that thing hits you!
If it hurts, I'm not going.
If it doesn't hurt, you better rethink it, start from scratch!
An aversion to meaningless injury and pain is nearly etched in biological genes, the most basic code; the Spirit Beasts in the Security Bureau are downright uninterested in the invitation.
For those wanting to hang out for the food, there's basically no way to test the defense system's limits, only extraordinarily fast Spirit Beasts with specialized abilities like the Golden Leopard qualify for weapon testing.
"No..."
"Harder...stronger...devastating."
The conversation between Master Fulili and Wang Qiqi reached the ears of the Ba Mountain Mosquito preparing to take off. It turned to Master Fulili and earnestly proposed an invitation.
Injury = Tree Lord's Treasure Grass.
More severe injury = Increased amount of Tree Lord's Treasure Grass.
The Ba Mountain Mosquito deeply desires the liquid Spirit Particle Potion, and wants to approach instead of being chased away now.
It's been a very long time since it encountered the Tree Lord, with a yearning for the sap within its heart, and now that a substitute has been found, the Ba Mountain Mosquito doesn't want to miss this opportunity.
In the eyes of the Security Bureau.
The Qinling Spiritual Particle Plant outbreak was caused by the Crested Ibis eating plants in the Ba Mountain Sky Pit and planting plants containing weak Spiritual Particles through its feces across Qingling, leading to the outbreak.
The culprit is the Ba Mountain Mosquito and its nest's blood pool home in the Ba Mountain Sky Pit.
But the actual situation is.
Two years ago, the Ba Mountain Mosquito was merely an ordinary flower mosquito. It only transformed rapidly into a Spirit Beast by mistakenly consuming sap on a giant tree's bark at the pit's bottom.
Otherwise, not even with a mosquito's lifespan would it have lived to complete its own Spiritualization.
However...
Half a year ago, the Tree Lord suddenly disappeared.
Without any warning, the Tree Lord vanished overnight from the bottom of the Ba Mountain Sky Pit.
The location of the blood pool is now where the Tree Lord once rooted. The Ba Mountain Mosquito and its swarm collect the blood of Spirit Beasts and wild animals from the forest, mix it with mountain spring water, and pour it into that tree pit to dissolve the sap left by the Tree Lord.
The Ba Mountain Mosquito searched the entire Qinling but never saw a trace of the Tree Lord again.
But the Spirit Particle Potion's ingredients are strikingly similar to the sap and resin secreted by the Tree Lord.
The Ba Mountain Mosquito, having gone six months without enjoyment, wants to drink two liters of the Spirit Particle Potion orally.
For this, it would pay any price.
Because the Ba Mountain Mosquito knows its life is tough, and though Master Fulili could kill it, there are still two forms before it can be completely finished off.
The salamander form is the severely injured form.
After death, it can turn into a jellyfish; if not replenished with energy during this time, it will enter a microorganism-level insect form, dehydrated and dormant until it revives to the jellyfish form, salamander form, true form, and current manifest human female form.
And these forms all stem from certain substances extracted from the blood after feeding.
Normally, these substances are extremely precious.
But in the Hanzhong Zoo and Chang'an Zoo, there are ample raw materials it can access at night by sneaking in, catching the materials, and draining their blood to prepare special material raw material.
"...Are you some kind of pervert? When I hit you before, you kept shouting, 'it hurts, it hurts, it hurts.'
Hearing the Ba Mountain Mosquito's masochistic remarks, both Master Fulili and Wang Qiqi's eyes twitched lightly.
"It's different, I can't beat them, I lose, you're all my dad."
"Struggling is hopeless, I leap, dad hits me." The Ba Mountain Mosquito seriously said: "I hurt, but with others it's different, I charge for pain, the more it hurts, the more I charge. I won't cooperate without pay..."
When talking in human speech, it stumbles over words, but when it comes to fees, its human speech flows smoothly.
It clearly has a history in human society, but hasn't systematically learned language and common knowledge.
Wang Qiqi: "..."
You're surprisingly honest.
Even in stealing, you're open about it.
However...the Security Bureau actually appreciates your straightforwardness and non-obstinate nature.
"I'm going to earn money, dad don't worry."
With full conviction, the Ba Mountain Mosquito said, and then under Master Fulili's gaze.
The skin at its scapula moved, and delicate fur grew from its skin surface, a pair of mosquito membranous wings extended, gradually covered in fur, and migrated to the sides of its slender waist, beginning to flap.
Those were like hummingbird wings, and the Ba Mountain Mosquito's body and bones underwent some changes, but outward appearance didn't change much, only gaining a thin layer of fur for warmth.
"Buzz——"
The buzzing sound emerged, and the Ba Mountain Mosquito accelerated rapidly to break through two hundred within moments, a second pair of more robust wings sprouted from its scapula, its face gradually transformed into a certain hawk-like form, with a beak breaking through air resistance.
From the ground to the outside of the Sky Pit, a distance of four hundred meters, excluding the one second for the Ba Mountain Mosquito's form transition.
It took only two seconds to leap out from inside the Sky Pit and escape outside.
Sensing a breakthrough was imminent.
In the third second of the Ba Mountain Mosquito's escape.
A crimson light lit up in the sky, with the whole Ba Mountain Sky Pit surrounded by glaring light.
"Wow wow wow——flashbang!"
Master Fulili, who was originally expecting to see what Old Li's so-called new equipment was, suddenly got hit by the flashbang of the city defense system.
The Ba Mountain Mosquito was so fast that even the defense system couldn't complete a cold start.
Upon confirming it couldn't intercept it in time, the system switched to intercept mode to impede it.
The red flash emitted high temperatures, directly hitting the Ba Mountain Mosquito's path, blocking its vision.
And within the red glow's lock-in.
In just two seconds, the defense system had completed its start-up charge and started suppression.
Flying in the sky, the Ba Mountain Mosquito's body suddenly paused unnaturally as if hit by something, its left side tilted extensively backward, receiving a bowl-sized burn wound that burned away part of the fur on its left side.
But there wasn't only one such wound.
Before the Ba Mountain Mosquito could respond, over twenty burn wounds had already appeared on it, nearly burning off most of the front bird feathers. The Ba Mountain Mosquito quickly descended, opting out of remaining in the open sky, attempting to evade attacks of unknown origin by using the forest terrain.
"You didn't...happen to dismantle the large rangefinder from ships and place it on the ground, did you?"
"To be accurate, yes. The rangefinder networks to form the defense system's vanguard interception system, the electromagnetic railgun is already in the charging stage, but we're just verifying system reliability; we won't fire it..."
"Otherwise...covering it up becomes difficult, and the red light can be completely disguised as a high-power mosquito lamp." Wang Qiqi said with a matter-of-fact expression.
"...You guys really did use a nuke against a Spirit Beast." Master Fulili quipped, utterly convinced of what Old Lady Hedgehog previously said.
"Uh...did we? Doesn't seem like it, right?" Wang Qiqi was stunned by Master Fulili's quip, not recalling the Security Bureau ever undertaking such a deranged action.
Anyway...the internal training manual and Security Bureau files don't record it, at most missiles have been used.