The Interstellar Queen of Scavengers

Ji You thought of that terrifying scene, suddenly shivered all over, grabbed Chu Jiaojiao’s hand, and said, "No way! Jiaojiao... you have to help me!"

Chu Jiaojiao was startled by Ji You and quickly asked, "How can I help?"

She wanted to help, but the key issue was she was clueless, after all, she didn’t have experience with eating alien creatures.

Ji You looked at Chu Jiaojiao, her eyes fixed, and said, "Help me find a full-length mirror!"

Chu Jiaojiao: "..."

Is that it?

Chu Jiaojiao thought Ji You was joking, but Ji You asked her seriously, saying, "I probably can’t move, you help me bring the mirror over."

Chu Jiaojiao was a bit stunned, but seeing Ji You’s serious expression, she couldn’t bear to refuse. She quickly helped Ji You, placed her back on the sofa, then turned around immediately and found a mirror in the junk storage bay using the spaceship’s intelligent system.

When Chu Jiaojiao brought it over and placed it in front of Ji You, Ji You saw in the mirror that she still had her standard short stature and couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"I almost thought I really turned into a ball."

"This feeling is really terrifying."

"Becoming a ball is too scary, no need to walk with legs anymore, you could just roll." Ji You looked left and right, still feeling she was quite humorous at heart, and said, "Luckily, I’m not a ball."

"Survived the disaster." Ji You said with deep emotion.

Chu Jiaojiao saw her exaggerated tone and couldn’t help but chide her, saying, "You’ve just eaten, haven’t even digested it yet, maybe once you digest it, you’ll really become a ball?"

Ji You: "..."

Ji You glared at her, "Nonsense!"

Chu Jiaojiao straightened her face and said, "Shall we go for a check-up now?"

Ji You didn’t oppose going for a check-up. In fact, she also wanted to know what changes had happened to her body, why there was such an abnormality.

However—

Ji You looked a bit troubled at her heavy legs.

Chu Jiaojiao bent down, showed her back to Ji You, and said, "Get on, I’ll carry you."

As long as it wasn’t that skin-crawling princess carry, Ji You certainly didn’t oppose, so Ji You lay on Chu Jiaojiao’s back, and Chu Jiaojiao quickly took her into the examination room.

Ordinary spaceships certainly wouldn’t be equipped with a professional examination room, but this is the K-Q75, a carefully selected spaceship specifically used for exploring space rifts, and it’s equipped with very comprehensive facilities for treatment, body building, detection...

Ji You lay inside the examination cabin.

Beep!

Beep!

Beep!

The examination cabin kept reporting values and then suddenly went ’ding’, and got stuck.

Ji You: "???

Chu Jiaojiao: "???

Ji You: "Power outage?"

Chu Jiaojiao said, "No power outage, it’s connected normally."

Ji You looked inexplicably puzzled, "Then why did it suddenly stop?"

"I don’t know either." This question really stumped Chu Jiaojiao. She checked carefully, frowned instantly, and said, "It’s not a power outage; the machine’s broken."

Ji You raised her hand and scratched her head, "Could it be I’m so strong now that I caused the machine to explode?"

Chu Jiaojiao wasn’t in the mood for jokes, she said seriously, "Classmate Ji You, besides feeling like you’re a ball, are there any other abnormalities?"

Ji You shook her head and said, "No, nothing at all."

Chu Jiaojiao frowned and said, "During the test, I saw that your body’s various metrics were very active, especially the spiritual power threshold, which suddenly soared rapidly, but then plummeted in the blink of an eye."

Ji You: "?"

Chu Jiaojiao said, "It is very unstable."

Ji You fell silent.

Chu Jiaojiao asked, "Tell me, how did you eat this monster?"

Ji You recounted the thrilling scene at that time and said, "I didn’t know my Spiritual Silk would actively devour it. You weren’t around at the time, fortunately, you came out to block it for me. I was all prepared to fight to the death. If I’m not mistaken, that monster, its purpose was to devour my Spiritual Silk!"

Chu Jiaojiao opened her mouth: "This... this... can that really happen?"

Ji You asked, "Do you know why Spiritual Silk can devour each other?"

Chu Jiaojiao immediately shook her head and said, "I don’t know, I’ve never heard of it."

Ji You sighed, "Then what should I do?"

Hearing this, Chu Jiaojiao also sighed, "This is already a complex issue with no historical experience to draw from, just cool it."

Ji You: "..."

Chu Jiaojiao pushed Ji You out of the examination room and said, "You’ve broken the detector. We can’t check it now, and we can’t find any information about Shen Sheng’s departure. Staying here is just increasingly dangerous. Classmate Ji You, shall we return right away?"

This trip, they didn’t find Shen Sheng and others, nor did they find any other useful information, but rather it jeopardized Ji You’s health, which made Chu Jiaojiao a bit anxious. She was eager to take Ji You back, gather everyone’s strength, and solve Ji You’s physical problems.

Ji You didn’t oppose this either.

Ji You said, "At the speed we operate the Mecha, we should be able to regroup with everyone in about an hour, but I’m not sure if I can pilot the Mecha smoothly..."

After all, she’s currently a ’scrap’ who needs help walking.

Chu Jiaojiao thought for a moment and said, "Let’s take the K-Q75 over! The K-Q75 not only has ample energy but also rich material reserves inside. It would be a pity to just throw it away, if we bring it along, it could also alleviate our material anxiety."

"Okay."

"But—" Ji You frowned and said, "Our temporary permissions are only valid for less than an hour. And there’s a crucial problem—we can’t communicate in real-time with Senior He Bi and others."

This was the most troublesome issue.

Ji You’s problem immediately stumped Chu Jiaojiao.

Without a way to communicate with the main team, it would easily lead to communication barriers, which could be fatal at critical moments. For example, if they were heading east and the others were heading west, it could directly cut off contact.

And there are other communication issues...

Chu Jiaojiao’s brows knitted so tight they could pinch a fly. She pondered for a moment, then suddenly asked, "Classmate Ji You, is the monster completely eaten, with nothing left?"

Ji You was stunned and said, "Let me feel it."

At that time, the monster was grabbed in Boss’s mouth and sucked directly into the Spiritual World, Ji You didn’t even have time to look closely before it was gone.

Ji You didn’t see clearly how it disappeared. When feeding Candy Beans to the Six Spiritual Threads, she could hear a little splash. But such a big, strange thing, once it entered her Spiritual World, didn’t make a sound and just vanished.

Iron Plate?

Could it be the Iron Plate’s doing?

No.

It wasn’t the Iron Plate. This time, from the appearance to the disappearance of the monster, there was no reaction from the Iron Plate at all. Ji You had already asked Xiao You, and Xiao You didn’t feel anything unusual either.

Not the Iron Plate, then what’s the reason?