The Interstellar Queen of Scavengers

Chapter 1671: Chapter 1671: Another Attempt

Everyone froze.

Liu Fufeng said, ”I feel like this is the best help you could give me.”

Everyone: ”...”

The next second, everyone present turned their backs in unison and said together, ”Goodbye!”

”See you never.”

”I don’t have a thing called sympathy.”

”My sympathy only lasts one second.”

”I think I was born cold‑blooded. Sympathy? What’s that? Can you eat it?”

...

In an instant, the overflowing sympathy on the entire spaceship vanished in the very next second.

This bunch of plastic friends—Liu Fufeng had long since seen through them and figured them out. Faced with this sudden sharp turn of events, he seemed to have expected it. On that handsome, finely‑cut face of his, there wasn’t the slightest hint of anger. On the contrary, in a corner where no one could see, the curve of his lips lifted slightly, and the pallor of his face gained a faint touch of color...

It was as if, just because everyone was treating him so unreservedly, he actually felt a tiny bit cheerful.

The next second.

Liu Fufeng’s expression returned to his usual look, but the light in his eyes still betrayed that he was in a good mood.

Then.

Liu Fufeng looked at everyone, deliberately putting on a stern face, and said, ”Seriously, no one’s willing to lend me a Soul Device? I... I have money.”

”Ahem...” He Bi kept a straight face, swung a fist at him and said, ”Whether you have money or not doesn’t matter. The main thing is you can’t show off in front of poor ghosts, got it? Especially—”

He Bi raised a hand, pointed at himself, then at Ji You, and said, ”You absolutely cannot show off in front of the two of us, the ultimate poor ghosts, understood?”

”...” Liu Fufeng opened his mouth, then nodded obediently. ”Got it.”

In the next instant, He Bi glared at the annoying little brothers and sisters present and said, ”Alright, stop laughing at him. He really is a bit miserable, but we can’t just forget the main business because he’s pitiful, right?”

Liu Fufeng: ”...”

Baring his wounds completely and letting everyone critique them didn’t seem that hard to talk about after all. These people in front of him were all heartless on the surface, yet still people you could entrust your back to.

Forget it.

Not going to fuss with them.

Liu Fufeng lifted his head and looked at Senior He Bi.

And then—

He Bi raised his hand and pointed toward where the ring was floating. There was still no movement there. His voice was extremely calm as he said, ”I didn’t misjudge. There has to be a space fissure nearby that leads into an unknown Plane. I’ll retrieve this High-level Soul Device first, and then we can all put our heads together and look for other methods.”

With that, He Bi bent his fingers, grabbed the rope, and pulled gently. As he pulled, he kept an eye on the surrounding reactions. Unfortunately—right up until He Bi had completely reeled in the rope and brought Liu Fufeng’s High-level Soul Device back, the entire starry sky remained as quiet as before.

He handed the ring back to Liu Fufeng, his expression serious.

After regrouping with everyone and standing back on the spaceship’s deck—if they hadn’t kept running into accidents, Ji You had actually been interested in studying whether the little crayfish meat was edible...

Right now, Ji You’s eyes couldn’t help but fix on the rings of little crayfish corpses floating outside the spaceship. She said softly, ”Senior, if it’s a compatibility issue, shouldn’t we be looking for Soul Devices that generally have a relatively high compatibility with users’ spiritual power?”

”Nonsense!” He Bi said. ”Where are you going to find Soul Devices like that?” Most of the Soul Devices circulating on the market are made by Soul Artifact Masters. The Soul Artifact Master draws out their own spiritual power and lets it form a circulation system inside the Array Diagram, which leads to compatibility issues. People whose spiritual power is more compatible with the Soul Artifact Master’s have higher compatibility; the more rejection there is, the lower the compatibility...

Of course, there’s one scenario that’s a bit different—custom Soul Devices. Because they’re tailored for the user, the soul artifact maker has to overcome the user’s spiritual rejection and design and manufacture a Soul Device that reaches a certain compatibility level, so the user can use it smoothly.

Among Soul Artifact Makers, there’s an unwritten standard: compatibility has to reach at least 80% to count as a successful custom Soul Device.

...

We’ll skip the details.

Ji You looked blank. ”So there really aren’t Soul Devices like that?”

He Bi raised a hand and rubbed his brow. ”The kind of Soul Device you’re talking about that works broadly for the masses... doesn’t not exist.”

Ji You asked, ”What is it?”

He Bi didn’t speak; Shen Changqing answered first, ”Natural Soul Artifacts.”

Ji You: ”...”

Ji You opened her mouth, swallowed, and said, ”Ahem... I don’t think anyone here has a Natural Soul Artifact, right?”

Shen Changqing shook his head, and the others all shook their heads as well.

Just then—

Sheng Qingyan, who’d been dozing with his eyes half‑closed, suddenly lifted his eyelids, covered the corner of his mouth, and said, ”Senior, oh, it’s not like that poor dead guy’s Soul Devices don’t exist, oh. Green Glaze Master’s Soul Devices have that effect, oh...”

Hm?

He Bi was stunned. ”They do?”

Ji You was slightly stunned too and smacked her head. ”Oh right, how did I forget?”

Shen Changqing, Yue Qiguang, Chu Jiaojiao and the others all said together, ”Exactly! Soul Devices made by Green Glaze Master have that effect!”

He Bi was a bit confused. He spent every day buried in training and didn’t mess around online with Ji You and this group of juniors, hardly ever having time to hang out on the web. So he really had zero idea who this newly popular Green Glaze Master was.

Shen Changqing took the initiative to step up and give He Bi a quick rundown of Qingyou’s exploits. He Bi immediately turned to Ji You, eyes blazing, tone ingratiating. ”Is Green Glaze Master still hiring sales clerks?”

Ji You: ”...”

He Bi said, ”Remember to keep an eye on that for me. Anyway, let’s move to the next question: who among you currently has Soul Devices made by Green Glaze Master?”

Sheng Qingyan shook his head, face full of heartache. ”I used to have four, oh. They all got scrapped last time, oh.”

He Bi ignored him and looked at the others.

Shen Changqing stepped forward and said, ”Senior, I have one.”

Chu Jiaojiao also stepped out, cheerfully saying, ”Senior, I have two.”

Zhou Qiyuan said, ”I’ve got one.”

Yue Qiguang said, ”Dad’s got two as well.”

Sitting in the corner, Liu Fufeng watched everyone. For a moment he seemed a bit hesitant, a bit torn... Just like Liu Fufeng, Ji You was also extremely conflicted. She had one Soul Device in her hand—only one—but that Soul Device was a ring, the same model as Senior Shi Ya’s, a best‑friend matching set...

Should she take it out or not?

Ji You wavered.

Just listening, He Bi’s eyes were about to pop out. ”Damn! Soul Devices can be mass‑produced? Don’t tell me you guys bought fake Soul Devices?”

That said, He Bi wasn’t worried anymore about not having any Soul Devices to use. He asked, ”So, who’s willing to bring out their Soul Device now?”

Chu Jiaojiao was the first to step forward and said, ”Senior, use mine.”

Shen Changqing and the others also chimed in, ”You can use mine too.”

Whether it would work was still unknown. He Bi said, ”We’ll use Chu Jiaojiao’s first.”

Then—

He Bi followed the same procedure as last time and flung Green Glaze Master’s Soul Device back into the starry sky. Then, as everyone looked on with anticipation, already braced for failure—