Crossing to the Future, it's Not Easy to Be a Man Chapter 1294

“I didn't plan to have you guess. I just said one sentence and you began to make your own conclusions,” said Number Three with a wronged look on his face. He was already cooperating with Number Eight so well, but why wasn't Number Eight satisfied? Was it this difficult to be a nice older brother?

“You…” Number Eight readied up his pale white fist again and was about to hit Number Three. Number Three thought about fighting back but he looked at his own iron fist, that was twice as large as Number Eight's fist, and he decided not to hurt Number Eight again so he quickly replied before Number Eight could start punching him, “Alright, alright, I'll tell you.”

“In reality, after taking in one spiritual power core, Majesty Four discovered there was a second core. He didn't even think and tried to take in the second one,” said Number Three after putting his words together slowly.

“Majesty Four has gone f*cking insane.” After hearing those words, Number Eight couldn't hold it in and swore.

“Not insane, just at that time, Majesty Four's only thought was to save Ling Xiao. He didn't think about the end result or the consequences.” Number Three was clearly more lenient towards Little Four.

“So he failed to absorb the second core, then reacted by spitting it out?” Number Eight guessed.

“If that was the case, then Majesty Four wouldn't have been injured so severely, and Little Blossom wouldn't have been dragged into this mess and almost lose his life as well.”

“What does this have anything to do with Little Blossom?” Number Eight felt this situation was becoming more and more complicated.

“That's because the second core was ‘Devour',” Number One suddenly said.

“Devour? Devour!” This time, not only was Number Eight shocked, Number Six and Seven both screamed in shock with looks of surprise on their faces.

All the other instructors looked at each other in unplanned unison. When they had found out the second core was Devour, they were also similarly shocked. If they get caught by Devour, none of them would be able to get out alive, turning into nutrients for Devour.

“You know about the natural state of Devour's energy. Once you touch it, you basically won't be able to escape it. You would instantly become devoured and become its nutrients,” said Number Three with a look of fear on his face. “If Majesty Four had absorbed the Devour core, he wouldn't have been able to escape from its clutches. The s.p.a.ce collapsing is actually the result of that core sucking in the energy of the learning s.p.a.ce.”

“So Little Blossom made a move.” Number Eight had an epiphany.

“If anything, only Little Blossom, who has a similar power, can go against that core. However, Little Blossom's devouring power wasn't as strong as the Devour core. Luckily, Little Four took the core into this s.p.a.ce, giving Little Blossom a home field advantage.” Number Three smiled bitterly. “However, even so, Little Blossom only pushed the Devour core outside of the learning s.p.a.ce. He was also injured from the backlash of the Devour core. If Number One hadn't come to his aid and held onto Little Blossom's last bit of spiritual power, Little Blossom might have completely vanished from this world. However, even so, whether the part of Little Blossom that is left can recover and reawaken is a different story.”

“Little Four was lucky that Little Blossom had saved him. Although a large amount of his energy was devoured, he still retained his main body. As long as he's given enough time, he should wake up,” said Number One calmly. This was the reason why they could save the learning s.p.a.ce from collapsing. If Little Four was injured to the same level as Little Blossom, the dimension they were in wouldn't be intact. Only the core part of the learning s.p.a.ce would have been able to stay intact.

“That's good.” Even though Number Six, Seven and Eight knew everything was fine after their compatriots told them about it, they still had cold sweat after hearing about it. It turns out, they had actually just managed to escape death.

“However, the real problem isn't Little Four or Little Blossom,” Number One frowned once again. “Come with me.”

Number One used his hand and cut the s.p.a.ce in front of him. He walked inside and the others followed him.

They arrived at another room. This room had two light orb. One, although bright, still felt somewhat odd. It was as though something was missing. The other fixture was dim and it looked as though it could be easily extinguished from a small draft of wind.

“Why are there two of them?” Number Six asked in surprise.

He closed his eyes and felt the two light sources before pointing at the bright but odd light orb, “That is General Ling Xiao's? Then what about the dim energy core?”

“Yeah, although General Ling Xiao's core has a lot of life inside of it, it clearly has a part of it missing. It would even affect his awakening, causing him to never be able to reawaken in this lifetime.” Instructor Number One knew better than anyone about Little Four's saddened call of the term ‘father', along with his resolve to not give up on the Devour core even if it meant losing his life and having the entire learning s.p.a.ce collapsing. The direction Majesty Four was evolving towards wasn't a mechanical intelligent mainframe, but rather it was more towards a human being.

Number One didn't know whether his path of evolution was good or bad. What was annoying to him was that Little Four preferred being an artificial intelligent human that could have emotions, make mistakes and become impulsive, rather than becoming a super mainframe that only knew right and wrong.

“As for the other one, it's probably Xie Yi's core,” replied Number One. “It's possible when Majesty Four took in Ling Xiao's spiritual power core, he got his while returning.”

“Majesty Four….” He didn't know when to stop. General Ling Xiao's core was already enough to destroy Little Four. Yet, he still didn't care about his life and took in another spiritual core. Did he think he was an animal that could put everything into his pouch? Wasn't he afraid he would explode? Number Seven felt helpless. If Majesty Four kept doing this kind of stuff everyday, wouldn't they have to fight with the G.o.d of death everyday as well. Couldn't Little Four just let them live in peace?

“Unfortunately, Xie Yi's death was written in the stars. He couldn't escape from it. Majesty Four saved him, but the Devour core devoured all of his spiritual power… In the end, there is only a soul fragment of him left.” Number One didn't think Xie Yi was going to survive this predicament. In reality, Xie Yi's spiritual power was already on the brink of completely disappearing. If Little Blossom had pushed out the Devour core any slower, Xie Yi's spiritual power would be completely devoured without a single drop left.

“Although Little Blossom only has a part of him left, his main body is still devour based. Although the damage dealt to him was as great as Xie Yi's, he could just devour the energy around him to repair himself. It can be said that Little Blossom still had a chance to wake up, while Xie Yi… Not only was his soul fragment a problem, there is still leftover Devour energy inside his spiritual core… That small amount of Devour energy won't give him any chance to repair himself. Right now, I can only use my energy to hold back the Devour energy, stopping it from hurting Xie Yi's soul fragment any further.”