The Interstellar Queen of Scavengers

Chapter 104: Chapter 104: Oh No... A Genius Becomes a Loser!

The screen of the detector showed 6 silk threads active like little snakes, constantly moving, bouncing, and flipping...

They were lively and mischievous to the extreme, even forming a heart shape together.

However—

Principal Hong and Teacher Luo both looked quite displeased.

After a while, just as Ji You was about to create countless patterns with the Spiritual Silk, Principal Hong, with a dark face, said: ”Stop playing. Proud? Honored?”

Ji You chuckled: ”Of course! I’m a genius!”

She played with heart shapes, triangles, squares, pentagrams... At the beginning, it was a bit difficult to command these 6 giant pythons, but after a few tries, Ji You realized they could follow her Heart and Mind Move...

It was so much fun.

Hearing her say that, Principal Hong showed a meaningful smile, saying: ”Yes, indeed a genius. A natural-born waste!”

Ji You: ”...”

Suppressing a bad premonition, Ji You raised her hand to clear her ears and asked: ”Teacher Luo, are you there? I don’t want to listen to Principal Hong; I feel he’s attacking my belief in survival...”

Teacher Luo sneakily glanced at Principal Hong, and seeing that his expression was surprisingly okay, she turned her head to look at Ji You lying in the detector, showing deep sympathy in her eyes, and said: ”Student Ji You...”

Ji You cautiously asked: ”Teacher Luo, am I not a genius? You just said so!”

Principal Hong unkindly enlightened Ji You, saying: ”A genius naturally very useless, abbreviation: genius.”

Ji You covered her face: ”I’m not listening! I’m not listening! I’m not listening...”

”I was only a genius for less than 3 seconds ah ah ah...”

”How could this be?”

Teacher Luo frowned and sighed: ”Silly child, wake up and face the reality.”

In fact, both Teacher Luo and Principal Hong were very uncomfortable and shocked by the results.

Only 6 threads!

Just 6!

But they knew that the hardest to accept this was actually Ji You.

Heaven and Hell were merely a thin line apart.

It was difficult for anyone to accept. In their view, Ji You’s performance was still very good; she at least didn’t break down on the spot.

On the detection screen, the 6 little snakes had already stopped moving. In the Spiritual World, the 6 giant pythons lay askew, motionless...

Ji You found her voice and asked weakly: ”Teacher, what’s actually going on?”

With a sympathetic and kind look in her eyes, Teacher Luo said to Ji You: ”Let’s put it this way, take me for example, my Spiritual Level is A, and my total Spiritual Silk is 69.99 million, having completed 14% of the cleanup, which means my available amount of Spiritual Silk is 10 million threads! With so many, they can perform many tasks simultaneously, including complex research, designing, even operating Mecha Battles... all achieved through them. Moreover, my total is 69.99 million, with potential for increase in the future!”

Ji You’s face darkened.

Teacher Luo continued: ”Even people with Spiritual Level E, after cleaning out their spiritual power, have at least hundreds to thousands of threads!”

”The more Spiritual Silk, the more complex and demanding tasks that can be operated...”

Ji You stammered: ”So, you mean, I...”

Teacher Luo said: ”Correct! Your Spiritual Silk naturally only has 6 threads, too simple, so you almost don’t need to spend as much effort as others to actively clear those messy silk balls, they’re already 100% available for you, this is your advantage! But... it is also your disadvantage! Because—you only have 6 threads, with no potential for growth or increase!”

Ji You: ”...”

Teacher Luo muttered, ”Six threads, what can you do with that?”

Spiritual Silk, the more the merrier. Six threads? High-star Mecha require strong and numerous Spiritual Silks to operate, Ji You is probably only capable of piloting the lowest-grade antique mech...

Ji You grimaced, wailing, ”Teacher Luo, is there really no possibility of growth? No way at all?”

Teacher Luo looked at her with some sympathy and said, ”There is! Soul Device!”

Ji You’s face lit up, ”Soul Device?”

She could make those!

When it came to other things, she might find it difficult, might even lose sleep over worry, but Soul Devices?

Hehehe...

Teacher Luo said, ”But I don’t think Soul Devices are suitable for you. Because your Spiritual Silk has already reached 100% saturation, I don’t know if a Soul Device would be useful for you.”

”Normally, a person with Level E spiritual power has a total of 10,000 silk threads. They have managed to clean about 5%, leaving 95% still uncleaned. After using a Soul Device, those chaotic Spiritual Silk Balls are stimulated by the Soul Device to sprout new shoots, meaning if you are lucky, you might grow 100, 1000 threads, and if unlucky, maybe it’ll just be 2 or 3 threads...”

”The reason people are able to keep causing threads to sprout via Soul Devices, breaking through from Level E to Level D, or from Level A to Level S, is because the total volume surpasses the limit, reaching another Level.”

”At the moment, we know that only those unkempt threads can be stimulated by Soul Device to sprout!”

”There has never been an example of cleaned ones growing new threads.”

Ji You: ”...”

Teacher Luo: ”So... Ji You, your six threads of Spiritual Silk have been cleaned by you. Whether they can sprout or not is unknown.”

”...” Ji You: ”Yingyingying~ You guys are bullying me~”

Teacher Luo: ”...”

Principal Hong: ”What are you crying for? Don’t embarrass yourself!”

Ji You in despair, took a deep breath and said, ”The water on Lanyue Star are my tears...”

”How could you people, with millions of Spiritual Silk threads, understand the sorrow of someone with only six?”

”This child is really pitiable...” Teacher Luo said softly.

”Hurry up and get out of the device!” Principal Hong, with no sympathy whatsoever, said, ”Hold back your tears! Don’t damage the equipment!”

Panicking, Teacher Luo added, ”Hey! Ji You, don’t wipe your tears on the device, it’s very expensive! This alone costs tens of millions of credit points, it’s something Principal Hong got by throwing away his shame and selling himself.”

Principal Hong glared at her, ”Nonsense!”

Ji You: ”...”

The sorrowful atmosphere disappeared in an instant.

Ji You climbed out, curiously looking at Teacher Luo and whispering, ”Is it really obtained by selling himself?”

Teacher Luo revealed a meaningful smile, unspoken and deep.

Principal Hong’s facial color darkened even more, ”Nonsense! That was earned by me working at the research institute!”

”Working?” Ji You: ”That’s pretty much the same as selling yourself, no problem there.”

Principal Hong clenched his teeth, ”Are you looking for death?”

Ji You hurriedly stepped back, shaking her head vigorously: ”No...”

”...” Principal Hong huffed heavily, ”Don’t be overdramatic, it’s unseemly! Others have a lot of threads, to use them smoothly is hard! Although you have only six threads, you can use them 100% flexibly without any hindrance! There are many things you can do! That’s your biggest strength!”

Ji You rubbed her sore nose, unsure whether to feel comforted or not.