"Smack~"
"Smack, smack."
Before Tang Qi, an octopus-tentacle-like thing was twitching. It looked exceptionally "fresh." Beside it, Professor Rick Cassel was temporarily reduced to howls of agony, utterly incapable of caring about anything else.
It was easy to understand. Anyone who did what he had done would end up in such a state.
He had injected the knowledge he possessed into a small piece of his body, then forcibly severed it as a bargaining chip in the trade.
Such a thing would only happen under very special circumstances.
For instance, here. Because of the Shadow Caged Mushroom's special Activated State, coupled with Cassell's soul inhabitation, he had managed to do it.
To prevent Professor Cassel, who was in a state of frenzied agony, from doing anything irrational, Tang Qi ignored the strange feeling in his heart and reached out to grab the wildly flailing "octopus tentacle."
Perhaps because it contained Mystic Side knowledge, or perhaps due to the influence of soul power, this tentacle differed from the other pitch-black ones. It was bright red, looking very much like it had already been cooked.
Though it was the shortest one, it was still longer than half of Tang Qi's palm.
Its underside was indeed covered in tiny suction cups.
Tang Qi pinched it and looked over it carefully. The Special Interface that had flashed past before slowly emerged.
Curio: Essos Fragment. Status: Incomplete. Information Fragment: A fragment severed from Erthos Ghost Grass in an Activated State. It has been infused with some soul power and memory information related to Secret Medicine Studies. The memories can be obtained. Methods of obtaining: consume it or prepare the corresponding secret medicine.
"Just as I thought!"
Tang Qi now knew what that strange premonition had been. Ever since Professor Cassel began separating his