Chapter 245: Moonstone
With a loud ‘bang’, Pei Zhao crashed into the door.
“Bang, bang, bang—”
Unable to get out, she frantically pounded on the door, her small palms covered in bloody marks. Li Yue, heartbroken, wanted to activate the mist in the room but was stopped by Lin Shao Qing, who held her hand.
“Don’t move, let’s observe a bit longer.”
Li Yue roared, “She’s still a child! If this continues, her body won’t be able to take it!”
But Lin Shao Qing completely ignored her sharp dissatisfaction, his eyes fixed on Pei Zhao, “Don’t you think this child is seeing a bit too clearly?”
Shi Feng nodded, “Indeed.”
Zuo Xue Feng, seeing Li Yue’s agitated state, explained from the side, “Doctor, this door is one-way transparent. We can see inside, but they can’t see outside.”
Li Yue, still angry, instantly calmed down. She shook off Lin Shao Qing’s hand and looked at Pei Zhao, who was glaring at her, “Her eyes seem to be able to look at me through the door?”
Lin Shao Qing: “This little ghost is a bit strange. Zuo Xue Feng, ask Sang Chu if her matters are settled and have her come over. Also, be wary of all mental supernatural ability users. I suspect there’s something wrong with their eyes and brains.”
Li Yue looked at Lin Shao Qing, confused, “What do you know?”
Lin Shao Qing said, uncharacteristically serious, “I don’t know. It’s just a wizard’s intuition. They give me a very bad feeling.”
Shi Feng: “Jian Xiu Ying is also in the hospital. Should we apprehend her too?”
“No, don’t alert them yet. How is the moonstone?”
Lin Shao Qing looked at Li Yue. When it came to important matters, Li Yue never faltered due to personal reasons, “It’s absorbing the moon’s energy. Do you want to see?”
“Okay.”
Lin Shao Qing gave Pei Zhao a deep look and said to Shi Feng, “You stay here and watch. This door probably won’t hold her for long. If she loses control, act directly.”
Li Yue glared at them angrily, “We can directly use a knockout agent!”
Shi Feng: “On this point, I side with Lin Shao Qing. We can’t rashly use anything on this child now. We need to understand all her changes. Activate the recording function, record all situations inside at all times for observation. Lin Shao Qing, you go check on the moonstone first. If you can obtain power from it, see if you can extract and use it.”
Lin Shao Qing’s lips curved slightly, and he turned to Shi Feng with a half-smile, “Are you ordering me around?”
Shi Feng froze. Working with Lin Shao Qing recently, their peaceful coexistence had made him forget what kind of person Lin Shao Qing was.
“No, then you watch here, I’ll go?”
Lin Shao Qing sneered, then turned to look at Pei Zhao. His gaze was very indifferent, as if he were looking at a dead person, “Hurry up and contact Sang Chu. If she can come, let her. This child won’t last much longer.”
Zuo Xue Feng nodded repeatedly, “Okay, I’ll contact A Chu right away.”
“Mm.”
Lin Shao Qing and Li Yue left the observation room and headed towards the hospital’s top floor.
“This way.”
On the top floor, there was an independent room. After Li Yue led Lin Shao Qing there, she closed the door.
After a series of operations, many strange devices suddenly appeared in the previously empty room.
“Look, this is the power of the moonstone that was detected.”
On the screen, pink moonstones were spread out on a flat surface above Hai Cheng. The lines of data next to them showed the real-time growth of power.
Lin Shao Qing spent some time listening to Li Yue explain the function of these lines and colors, then pointed to a stone that was somewhat abnormal.
“Isn’t the data for this moonstone a bit abnormal?”
Li Yue glanced at the various data for that stone and directly enlarged its data to fill the entire screen, “Indeed, look at this.”
She pointed to the white line representing mental power energy and said, “The data clearly shows a downward trend.”
Lin Shao Qing looked at the other data, “The power fluctuations are normal, but this one line is clearly going downhill and has never recovered.”
“I’m afraid that’s why its color is abnormally pale. What do you think?”
Lin Shao Qing was silent for a moment, “Take this stone down first.”
“Okay.”
Li Yue did not hesitate. After operating on the screen, a magic array lit up on the table beside her. In an instant, the pink moonstone appeared on the table from the flat surface above Hai Cheng.
This scene stunned Lin Shao Qing, “Not bad, Li Yue. Is this your idea?”
Li Yue closed the teleportation array on the magic array and smiled slightly, “A Chu gave me many things from the magic world. Since we can’t go out, we’ll just use formations. Technology and magic combined can complement each other.”
“Clever.”
Lin Shao Qing looked at Li Yue with admiration, then walked to the side and looked at the moonstone on the magic array, “Extract the thing.”
Li Yue put on gloves and held the thing in her hand, “Separating the energy and toxins will take some time, but we don’t have enough crystal cores at the base. I’ll go to the laboratory to extract the energy now. You can talk to A Chu about the crystal cores.”
“I know. Go ahead. By the way, put more of this type of stone on there. Perhaps you can get more stones containing mental power energy.”
Li Yue shook her head, “That might be difficult. All these moonstones were found by Grandma Yun Xiang and them. A Chu said they weren’t suitable for making spirit stones, so they were put aside. When I saw them, I noticed a special energy fluctuation on them. They are sensitive to moonlight and can capture and absorb the moon’s energy. That’s why I found a way to place these stones on the rooftop’s flat surface.”
Lin Shao Qing didn’t expect this. He had doubted Li Yue when he knew she was using moonstones to absorb moonlight for experiments, but he hadn’t expected that when she took out the moonstones, she actually extracted moonlight power from them.
“Are all the existing moonstones up there?”
Li Yue nodded, “Yes, but not all moonstones can do it. Those with slightly less special energy can’t absorb moonlight. Look here.”
She operated the machine to turn to another side. From the magic array on the top floor, hands instantly extended and threw all the moonstones that couldn’t be absorbed to the side.
“These are all moonstones that can’t absorb. I’ve had the strange beasts in the magic array move them aside, but I haven’t removed them, just in case they are just slow absorbers.”
The flat surface above Hai Cheng was covered with moonstones, densely packed. However, one area had moonstones that were dull and abandoned to the side.
Lin Shao Qing: “They look dim, but have you considered that even if they can’t absorb moonlight, they shouldn’t be this dim?”
Moonstones naturally had some luster, but these moonstones had no luster at all, their darkness being somewhat beyond ordinary.
Li Yue quickly aimed the machine at the discarded moonstones, “I’ll bring them down for testing immediately!”
