Li Qiuzhi looked at the palm-sized, pale blue spider on his hand, whose color resembled the Phase Spirit Fire. Clearly, this was Siskal, the twenty-ninth member of the Genius Society.
"A heroic spirit? Did you summon me back after my death?" After taking in the information, Siskal bounced her pale blue body around and turned her four pairs of red eyes toward Li Qiuzhi.
Her voice was gentle, transmitted directly through Psychic Power. After all, spiders did not have human vocal anatomy.
"Yes, Miss Siskal. For one of the universe's foremost scholars, your life was far too short."
Li Qiuzhi spoke with a hint of regret.
"By my species' measure of time, my life was quite long," Siskal replied, disagreeing. "Still, it is a shame that some of my projects remained unfinished."
For instance, the Phase Spirit Fire she had just successfully created through experimentation, and her soul experiments using the Imaginary Domain.
The latter had also been her method of transcending her body's limitations and extending her lifespan, but she had reached the end of her life before it succeeded.
During her twenty-nine days of life, helping her species develop had taken up far too much of her time. Of course, she had no regrets.
"If you need to restart any experiments, I'll help."
Hearing Siskal's words, Li Qiuzhi nodded as he spoke.
"Thank you," Siskal said.
"Don't listen to this guy brag. Selling him wouldn't even cover the funding a genius's experimental projects require."
Herta gave Li Qiuzhi a mocking glance.
"Oh, sure, sure. Someone who lives off Asta actually has the nerve to mock other people so self-righteously."
Li Qiuzhi looked at Herta with disdain.
He had overheard people chatting at the Space Station and heard that Herta made some of her purchases on the Interastral Peace