Chapter 70: In Rabbit Talk

Lei Ke Dun's first reaction was that the rabbit shouting so loudly wouldn't be heard by anyone else in the house, right?

But soon Lei Ke Dun discovered a spiritual wall surrounding his room, isolating it from the outside world.

"The Hidden Sage gets the job done reliably!" Lei Ke Dun mentally gave the Hidden Sage a thumbs‑up.

After a moment, Lei Ke Dun saw that Tu Ba Ge, rolling and struggling on the desk, was subtly out of control; its fur was rapidly sprouting and spreading, and its body was irregularly swelling.

Fortunately the phenomenon didn't last long; Tu Ba Ge's painful expression gradually subsided, the abnormal bulges faded, and the vine‑like hair began to retract. Tu Ba Ge's form reverted to the chubby rabbit it had been.

"Is it because the Hidden Sage deliberately cared for me, or because my reading path adapts better to injected knowledge?" Lei Ke Dun speculated in his mind.

As Tu Ba Ge's condition eased, Lei Ke Dun noticed something new in his field of vision.

A hard‑to‑describe "radiance" at the overlap of the room and the spirit realm gradually receded; the light had no substance, seeming composed of wave after wave of tangled information, moving in an illusory, torrent‑like flow.

"Hidden Sage!" was the first title that sprang to Lei Ke Dun's mind.

It was followed by another stabbing pain in his head, far worse than the earlier pain from the Hidden Sage's knowledge infusion; Lei Ke Dun felt his skull was being torn apart, and two streams of blood‑red tears streamed from his eyes.

The only thought left in Lei Ke Dun's mind was: "I'm such a damn fool for staring directly at a near‑divine being."

Even though the Hidden Sage harbored no malice toward Lei Ke Dun, the disparity in stature still made him feel the agony of gazing at a deity, as if his soul were being ripped apart.

Lei Ke Dun suspected that if he didn't possess an angel‑level sage trait as a safeguard, he would have already lost control and died.

After a long time the pain from staring at the Hidden Sage faded, and Lei Ke Dun's mind also retrieved the information he had obtained: a Sequence Four demon elixir formula and a special spell.

The Sequence Four demon elixir formula was useless to Lei Ke Dun; he didn't need it at all, and even if he did, he could simply ask the Hidden Sage for it, so there was no reason to endure the pain.

The only somewhat useful thing was that spell, which resembled the Hidden Sage's knowledge infusion: it could transmit the images or information in one's mind directly into another's mind through eye contact. However, the spell requires at least a Sequence Seven wizard to cast.

Lei Ke Dun felt he had been badly shortchanged; what he gained was of little use, while the suffering he endured was huge.

"Boss, what's wrong? A flood of knowledge just popped into my mind, my head hurts like I'm dying!" Tu Ba Ge clutched his head with a paw and said, his head throbbing.

"I looked at something I shouldn't have and got a bit shocked," Lei Ke Dun said weakly.

Without waiting to see if Tu Ba Ge understood, he added, "The Hidden Sage was just feeding you knowledge; you now grasp most common characters and can read most books and documents."

"Guh~" Tu Ba Ge swallowed.

"Knowledge infusion is terrifying; I never want it again," Tu Ba Ge said miserably.

"As long as you study those materials seriously, you won't need any more knowledge infusion," Lei Ke Dun seized the chance to threaten the reluctant rabbit.

The one forced to study can't be only me; my happiness must be experienced by the rabbit I raise as well.

"I'll definitely read carefully!" Tu Ba Ge said plaintively, too shy to argue.

Tu Ba Ge felt his rabbit life had become bleak from this moment on.

"Start studying hard from tomorrow; today you get a holiday," Lei Ke Dun comforted him.

Tu Ba Ge gave no reply, lying on his back on the desk, peaceful as a deceased rabbit.

During dinner that night, mother Yi Sha Bei Er noticed Tu Ba Ge was unusually downcast; she placed his favorite fruit on a small plate before him, but it didn't cheer him up.

Yi Sha Bei Er asked Lei Ke Dun, a bit puzzled, "What did you do to the little rabbit? Why does it look so down? It was fine this afternoon."

"It's nothing; it just underwent a baptism of knowledge, became a cultured rabbit, and hasn't adjusted yet. It'll be fine in a couple of days," Lei Ke Dun waved dismissively.

"I can't figure out what you're actually saying," Yi Sha Bei Er shook her head, feeling a generation gap with her son.

"You don't need to understand; you just need to know the little rabbit is fine and doesn't need to worry," Lei Ke Dun said, sipping juice.

After dinner, Lei Ke Dun took Tu Ba Ge back to his room.

"Meditation can relieve mental fatigue," Lei Ke Dun reminded Tu Ba Ge.

He then lay on the bed, entered meditation, easing his mental fatigue. Tu Ba Ge likewise began meditating, the plump rabbit curling in his little nest, eyes closed, entering meditation.

A huge rabbit image formed in Tu Ba Ge's mind; he chose the rabbit he knew best as his visualization object.

Not long into the meditation, Tu Ba Ge and Lei Ke Dun both slipped into deep sleep.

They slept until the next day; morning sunlight streamed into the room, waking the sleeping man and rabbit from their dreams.

"Start familiarizing yourself today with the materials the Earth Church sent over; read as much as you can," Lei Ke Dun said offhand.

Tu Ba Ge, having just crawled out of his little nest, scurried back in, pulling the blanket to wrap himself inside.

"Ha ha!" Lei Ke Dun laughed at the rabbit's ostrich‑like behavior.

"If you don't read them, you'll have to let the Hidden Sage pour the information straight into your rabbit brain like yesterday; with so much material, your head will end up a braised rabbit head!" Lei Ke Dun threatened the rabbit tucked in the blanket.

Tu Ba Ge reluctantly poked his head out of the blanket: "Fine, I'll read! Even a rabbit gets threatened; you're really over the line!"

Unbothered by Tu Ba Ge's rabbit talk, Lei Ke Dun went about washing up, changing clothes, then went downstairs for breakfast.

Tu Ba Ge, feeling responsible, clutched a stack of Earth Church documents and followed Lei Ke Dun downstairs.

"Little Lei Ke Dun is getting lazier; now you even let the little rabbit fetch your things?" mother Yi Sha Bei Er muttered at Lei Ke Dun.

"How so? It's only picking up its own stuff," Lei Ke Dun defended himself.

"Isn't what he's holding the batch of documents the Earth Church sent you yesterday?" Yi Sha Bei Er said with a look that he was trying to make excuses.

"Yeah, that batch was huge, so I decided to have Tu Ba Ge help me read it," Lei Ke Dun said resolutely.

Trailing Lei Ke Dun, Tu Ba Ge thought his boss was becoming increasingly shameless, since only he the rabbit was actually reading those documents.

"Little Lei Ke Dun, you really know how to joke; can a tiny rabbit even understand all this text?" Yi Sha Bei Er said with a helpless expression, shaking her head.

Lei Ke Dun didn't explain that this was a literate, cultured rabbit capable of reading the materials. He thought his mother wouldn't believe him anyway, and it would only upset the poor rabbit.

(End of Chapter)