Chapter 373: I Am the One Who Controls the Big Picture

Su Ping's Transformation-Spirit clone had originally thought he would be able to enjoy a comfortable moment of leisure as Kalosis.

Yet unexpectedly, he heard tragic news the moment he returned to his hometown.

The reason his physical body had signed up to participate in the expedition.

His only immediate family member had already passed away due to sudden organ failure.

After Kalosis returned to his hometown, he was greeted only by two cold-faced staff members and a wooden box filled with ashes.

Su Ping could only express his regrets regarding this.

Just like Water Blue Star, the Blue Star where the Kalo Civilization is located is also an environment without Spirit Qi.

In such a general environment, after a sentient being dies, their soul will dissipate in the spiritless environment before long.

Even if some people possess all the necessary conditions of favorable timing, geographical advantages, and human support.

They would merely persist for two more days in this spiritless environment.

The soul dregs would likely have already dissipated throughout the entire airspace.

"Tsk tsk tsk, compared to the Immortals of Xianmiao Pavilion, they are truly far too inferior."

Su Ping shook his head slightly, and after locking the door, he carried the green-haired girl and threw her onto the bed.

"Although this Kalo Civilization Commoner also has equipment like the internet, information is subject to extreme restrictions."

Bang!

Under the green-haired girl's incredulous gaze.

Su Ping returned home with the wooden box, carrying some regrets.

Afterwards, looking at the green-haired girl who had fainted on the floor.

Passing by downstairs, it looked as if both parties were meeting each other too late.

Or was it more like a kidnapper with a clear objective?

Su Ping could not figure it out, so he simply decided to use a simpler method.

"Too deliberate, too artificial, the traces are too heavy."

So much so that by noon, the green-haired girl was already planning to cook a table of good dishes for Kalosis personally at Kalosis's home.

Su Ping suspected that in the universe of his hometown, the price required to interfere with the Time River of this starry sky would be even more terrifying.

"But that makes sense; after all, the opponent is just a Commoner who has just come of age."

Su Ping discovered that the peaceful life he wanted seemed to be unattainable.

"Yet these entertainment works are almost all limited to Commoner men marrying Elite rich and beautiful women, or ugly ducklings meeting overbearing Noble men..."

Although in the current environment, such reading would very likely turn the other party into an idiot.

Therefore, this green-haired girl does not look simple!

She is not a swindler who found out Kalosis had money and came to set a trap to defraud him.

She was knocked unconscious on the floor by Su Ping with a hand-blade strike.

Su Ping did not eat the little dessert.

On this green-haired girl's person, there were actually a dagger, various sprays suspected to be anesthetics, and a small pistol the size of a keychain.

Then, he discovered that a new neighbor had arrived across the way.

Even if his true self were to come in person, it would be impossible to bring someone back to life when their soul no longer exists.

That was a girl with short green hair who looked like a girl from a modest family, and at first glance, made one feel the need to cherish her.

On the very night he returned home, his door was knocked upon.

"Aside from the common sense of this world, most of Kalosis's understanding of the outside world comes from various entertainment works."

And considering the differences between universes.

As for pulling the other party's dissipated soul back together from the Time River.

The whole process looked very beautiful.

Just got up and went out in the morning, and he encountered the other party again.

However, weapons are very expensive; in the Dungeon Civilian District, even those violent social gangs rarely have weapons like pistols.

"With a Xiaobai like this, if a swindler worked hard, wouldn't they feel it was a waste of their hard training afterward?"

The Kalo Civilization does not ban individual weapons.

"Hmm?"

Su Ping began to search her, but discovered that things were not as simple as he had thought.

Su Ping had already learned from the staff that Kalosis's immediate family had been dead for a week and had already been burned into ashes.

Su Ping felt that this great power would likely require an existence at the Ninth Stage or above to possibly succeed.

Just returned to the strange yet familiar home of Kalosis, an old building in a Dungeon Civilian District.

Until the green-haired girl walked near Kalosis's doghouse carrying a bag of ingredients.

As soon as she saw Kalosis, she greeted him enthusiastically and offered a little dessert she claimed to have made herself.

It seemed their interests and hobbies were quite compatible.

That is to directly use Divine Sense to perform a reading.

But since he was being targeted, not retaliating is not Su Ping's style.

Since his true self had already said to act as one pleases.

Then why should he hold back and let his thoughts remain obstructed?

Anyway, the most important task of confirming what exactly is behind the Space Anomaly Point had already been completed.

Whatever he becomes afterward, for his true self.

And even for the future destiny of this Kalo Civilization.

All... are of no consequence to the overall situation!

Or rather, having one's own thoughts flow unimpeded is the true overall situation!

As Su Ping's divine sense forcibly entered the depths of the green-haired girl's mind.

Image after image emerged.

Su Ping saw the green-haired girl's background.

This was a girl who also came from the Dungeon Civilian District.

It was just that, being fair-faced and having strived for self-improvement from a young age, she first relied on the unified examination to enter a school in the Surface City Area.

Then she met a benefactor, and after undergoing training and passing tests, she helped complete a few missions and successfully promoted to a Citizen of the Kaluo Federation.

Her coming to approach Kalosis this time was naturally not for money.

That bit of remuneration from Kalosis counted for a lot in the Dungeon, but in the Ground World, it was just so-so.

The green-haired girl coming over was entirely under the orders of her benefactor to have Kalosis commit suicide in his own home.

To forge a scene of his expedition sequelae erupting.

As for the reason, this girl did not know.

She only knew the target was not just Kalosis.

She alone was responsible for as many as five people, so even though she was in a rush, she acted desperately just to enter Kalosis's room without leaving traces of a forced entry.

To facilitate the subsequent forging of traces.

After reading the memories, Su Ping frowned slightly.

Is this an organization that should have superiors participating, dealing with lucky survivors like them who returned from expeditions?

"The list..."

Su Ping glanced at it and understood.

Those on the list were all crew members who had certain sequelae appear after entering the Other-dimensional Space.

These crew members had various sequelae appear, yet they had not awakened.

After undergoing testing at the Spaceport, they were released back.

It was just that, clearly, these were the dregs that the Spaceport did not care for.

Yet others had taken a fancy to them and were dealing with them.

Su Ping suspected their corpses would very likely be swapped and taken away.

And this kind of thing had been happening for quite some time.

Su Ping did not believe the higher-ups of the Kaluo Federation would not have discovered it.

Clearly, regarding this kind of matter, the higher-ups of the Kaluo Federation were tacitly approving.

They might even feel that this was a powerful supplement to their previous plan to explore the Other-dimensional Space.

The exploration plan they set at the time was too grand and righteous because it was a scheme made public on the surface.

Having such a supplement now was undoubtedly quite good.

If one could really extract something in advance from those who were not going to live long anyway, wouldn't that be a profit?

As for promoting role models.

Every once in a while, just select a few lucky ones whose bodies were still fine.

Su Ping sighed and looked at the green-haired girl who was already drooling.

He stopped paying attention to her and headed to the kitchen.

One hour later.

Su Ping prepared a sumptuous feast for himself.

A large amount of nutrient-rich meat unique to the Kalo Civilization was prepared into dishes by Su Ping.

Afterwards, Su Ping began to wolf it down.

In one meal, he ate a week's worth of stock.

And after smacking his lips, he looked at his still-flat lower abdomen.

Su Ping smiled faintly and slowly stood up.

He discovered that as he used his divine sense to help his physical body digest the nutrients, he had reached Body Tempering Great Success in a short time.

His height changed from one meter seven to one meter nine.

And his entire body was filled with solid muscle, giving one a sense of power and beauty akin to a work of art sculpture.

"The Surface City Area has takeout, but the Dungeon does not."

"However, there are benefits, which are that the Dungeon is more chaotic and management is more lax."

"My physical body has changed significantly from Kalosis's."

"I can completely go out and search for resources to strengthen myself."

"And then... follow the vine to find the melon, and send everyone who won't let me lie flat properly to lie flat!"

Su Ping grinned, changed into a long garment, shouldered his pack, and left the doghole he had only stayed in for one night.

His target was the various distinctive dining shops throughout the Dungeon.

Su Ping planned to set a small goal first.

To eat as much of the distinctive food in the Dungeon as possible!

Three hours later.

The work group that could not contact the green-haired girl sensed something abnormal.

Soon, two people wearing security officer uniforms knocked on the door of Kalosis's home.

After no one answered, the two looked at each other and immediately used lock-picking tools to open the door.

Then, they saw the green-haired girl on the bed, her eyes rolled back, drooling with a crooked smile.

Their scalps went numb, and they immediately contacted their superior.

The superior was an Elite.

He had not been very concerned about the work at hand.

The scraps discarded by the Spaceport had already proven countless times that they were truly just a pile of scraps.

If it weren't for the fact that this kind of supplementary work had itself become a gambling game for some Nobles.

Perhaps it should have been stopped long ago; at the very least, there was no need to invest so much manpower and resources.

However, after this Elite heard the subordinate's report.

His expression was visibly stunned for a moment.

Then he muttered to himself:

"No way, can you really find a gem in a pile of scraps?"

"To be able to drive a D-rank staff member insane, is the other party a psychic anomaly?"

"But how is this possible? How did he evade the Spaceport's detection?"

"This is just too unscientific!"

After the whisper, this Elite's eyes lit up:

"Three minutes, I want all the data on the target!"

"Also, mobilize our forces and capture the other party!"

"I will request my superior to exert influence to buy us time and prevent other departments of the Federation from intervening."

After speaking.

The Elite tidied his appearance, his expression became humble, and he began a video call with his patron.

In the Underground City, in a private room of a restaurant that was the highest grade in the nearby area.

The waiters were nervous as they kept bringing in dishes and taking away empty plates.

The manager at the door had also long been stunned.

He only felt that everything he saw today had overturned his worldview.

Even those big eaters in entertainment works who were explicitly stated to be purely fictional.

Could not compare at all to the big man before his eyes!

Since he threw down a large stack of money and called for food.

In just half an hour, he had already eaten more than fifty people's worth of food.

It made the manager and the waiters suspect that this person might have a pocket dimension in his stomach!

But in fact, Su Ping was relying on purifying and breaking down this food to refine it into Essence.

Then he used this Essence to strengthen his physical body, constantly undergoing Body Tempering.

In addition, by using a portion of the Essence to coordinate with the transformation of Void Power.

Su Ping had finally managed to accumulate drops of liquid Dharma Power in his dantian.

This kept him from being unable to perform even a single supernatural feat.

Although once used, he would have to slowly accumulate it again to recover.

At least he had prepared a trump card for himself.

So he wouldn't accidentally end the game.

Crunch, crunch.

Su Ping chewed up and swallowed a sea fish, which was so stiff it was said only its skin could be eaten, bones and all.

The next second, Su Ping's gaze flickered slightly.

He felt that the nutrition of this sea fish was the best among all the dishes.

Furthermore, after eating it, he could feel that the Essence he purified was also a bit more abundant.

"This kind of sea fish is not simple. If there were a Spirit Qi recovery, this kind of sea fish should evolve into a type of Spirit Fish that everyone would want to catch!"

"Hmm?"

"They've found me?"

Su Ping discovered that there were no more waiters bringing food outside the door.

Replacing them were a group of big men wearing security uniforms, holding capture guns and Anesthetic Guns, closing in.

"Kalosis!"

"Your business is exposed!"

The leading black-faced man walked out, staring at the drastically changed Kalosis; even though he forcibly suppressed his emotions, the corner of his mouth still twitched.

Was this the effect of taking some kind of Strengthening Potion?

To be able to produce such a huge change in a person in just one day.

This weight had at least doubled, no matter how you looked at it!

Su Ping looked at the black-faced man and smiled faintly:

"You aren't from the security department, are you."

"Hmph, whether we are or not, you'll know once you come with us."

The black-faced man did not want to delay.

He waved his hand, and his subordinates rushed into the private room to prepare to arrest Kalosis.

At the same time, an Anesthetic Needle was also aimed at Su Ping.

The next second.

The restaurant manager and waiters who had been driven downstairs originally thought they would see that abnormal big man dragged out.

Yet suddenly, they only heard a loud boom!

Immediately after, they saw more than ten black shadows flying backward out of the private room upstairs.

Some smashed into the wall, turning into wall hangings.

Some crashed directly through the door and rolled onto the street.

At this, the customers who had originally wanted to watch the spectacle also changed color one after another and hurriedly ran out of the restaurant.

And in the private room that looked as if it had been swept through by a hurricane.

Only Su Ping and that big man with the black face and hair standing on end remained in place.

"You! You...!"

The black-faced big man widened his eyes, looking at the person before him with a face full of shock.

He had not seen clearly at all what had just happened.

By the time he came to his senses.

All of his subordinates had already flown out.

Su Ping smiled faintly; having deliberately left one person behind, he naturally had his own purpose.

After directly extending his right hand to choke the black-faced big man by the neck and lifting his entire person up like a little chick.

Divine sense intrusion!

Instantly, the other party's memories were displayed to Su Ping like a series of comic strips.