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Chapter 690 I'd rather you did these things yourself

Yu Xia grasped Floch's hand.

“We need to establish a mental link,” Flock said.

"A mental portal?" Yu Xia found it intriguing. "Like creating an illusion? Built by multiple people?"

Previously, Charles and his group had created an illusion using multiple guides to trap her and alter her memories and thoughts.

"Different."

Floch looked down at the two clasped hands, which emitted a faint golden light, and even his pale eyelashes were tinged with gold.

"If we compare a vehicle to human consciousness, then opening up the spiritual channel is like a highway, through which anyone's consciousness can pass and linger."

“Don’t you want to see him?” Floch said awkwardly, “I can open this passage, but the rest depends on whether he responds.”

The mental channel is merely a medium; a response from the other side requires a significant amount of mental energy. If Selius is unwilling to reply, Yu Xia cannot blame him.

Yu Xia said, "Isn't what you're talking about the spiritual sea domain of the sea race?"

The spiritual landscape of the sea creatures is shared, but each person's consciousness is independent, and they can choose to open or close the link. This spiritual sea is what Floch called the "highway".

"It's somewhat similar, but there are still significant differences in the details." Floch scratched his head, his movements and expression still bearing a resemblance to his previous transformation.

"As you know, the sea race has a vast spiritual network. Although they are currently embroiled in internal strife and are normally closed, they will open it to each other at crucial moments, like now."

"Not to mention me, even those Ivi from the Holy City wouldn't dare to casually enter their mental network. This is their domain, and once you enter, there's nowhere to hide."

Yu Xia nodded, "That's right."

Floch looked at her. “What I mean is, I can’t capture a sea creature for you. I can hide you because your mental landscape is special. You can hide yourself even while being mentally linked to their group.”

Yu Xia asked in confusion, "Why did you capture a sea creature?"

Floch flicked her forehead with his finger and said with an air of maturity, "Because the sea creatures, as the carriers of Selius's consciousness, have a higher success rate than I do as the carriers of his consciousness."

Most importantly, the consumption will be lower.

Floch didn't explain, fearing that Selius wouldn't be able to weigh the pros and cons and would be disappointed.

He wasn't lying to her; he did have a way to help her make the contact. But considering that, it would be more accurate to say he was lying to her.

Yu Xia rubbed her forehead. "So that's how it is. You're letting Selius's consciousness temporarily borrow your body?"

She immediately thought of Harrison taking over the Sentinels' bodies and turning them into mere shells.

She simply said what she was thinking.

Floch: "How can that be the same? Harrison completely took over the Sentinel's body."

“Without this as a medium, I have no way to open the mental channel.” Floch pointed to the gem pendant around her neck.

This bears the spiritual imprint of Serius.

Actually, it was thanks to the spiritual network of the surrounding sea creatures that Serius was able to reach them from such a great distance; otherwise, unless Serius was a god, he wouldn't be able to descend to their side.

The two connected easily in spirit, and under Flock's guidance, they created a temporary space that could accommodate the simultaneous existence of the three consciousnesses.

Yu Xia patiently waited for Selius to arrive.

While waiting, Yu Xia recalled something Floch had just said and asked, "By the way, what did you mean when you said my mental landscape is special and can hide itself?"

She avoided the sea creatures by activating a mental barrier, but she didn't think that would be enough to keep them away. As long as she remained within their mental network, it was only a matter of time before they found her.

So when she first came to the mercenary district, she just wanted to find Floch and go back, until she discovered that it seemed like she could make them unable to find her.

She vaguely sensed a force helping her; she thought it was Floch, but now that he said it, it didn't seem to be.

Floch's gaze lingered on her face with a strange look. "You don't know?"

Yu Xia shook her head.

Floch opened his mouth, about to speak, when a gentle, water-like spiritual force rippled through their temporary space.

Yu Xia's eyes lit up, "There's a response!"

Seeing how happy she was, Flock felt a surge of frustration and propped his head up with his hand, saying, "Don't be too happy yet. It's only a temporary connection. It's still uncertain whether he can come over."

As soon as he finished speaking, the spiritual energy disappeared.

"Huh? He disappeared so quickly?" Yu Xia tried to find Selius's spiritual energy aura in this space.

After searching around twice, all that was found was her and Floch's mental energy.

“He can’t come.” Floch decisively dismantled the temporary space; the mental energy he had just received was Selius’s response.

Yu Xia didn't insist; she knew Flock had done his best.

All she wanted to know was that Serius was alright; the actions and attitudes of the sea tribe's royal family made her somewhat uneasy.

Floch glanced at her expression and said, "He is the Lord of the Ocean, and there are polluted areas in the ocean that need his presence."

Fearing she might be upset, he reassured her, "It's normal for those members of the royal family to have some ulterior motives while he's not here. You're safe with me; don't bother with them. With me here, they'll definitely..."

Before he could finish speaking, a blue object flew into Yu Xia's arms.

Yu Xia looked down at the soft, slightly damp thing in her arms.
A baby octopus?!

Yu Xia's pupils trembled!

Floch: "."

Neither of them could see where it came from.

Kraken's familiar listless eyes met Yu Xia's for a moment, then it stretched out its tentacles, wrapped them around Yu Xia's neck, and flew over to Yu Xia's face, licking her wildly.

The cool touch on her face brought Yu Xia back to her senses. She pulled him off her face forcefully and said happily:
"Selius! You really came?"

Kraken moved its eyes and raised one of its tentacles, bending its tip as if nodding.

Yu Xia picked it up and spun it around. "I thought you couldn't come. How did you get here?"

Kraken performed a familiar hoop-diving motion.

Yu Xia smiled. "Where did this portal come from? You must have come from some other dimension."

“What other dimension?” Floch quickly realized how he had appeared and muttered under his breath, “It’s clearly…”

Kraken glanced at him sideways.

Floch didn't continue, saying to it, "Let me make this clear first, this is my territory, and I'm in charge."

Kraken raised one of its tentacles and shook it.

Floch frowned. "What do you mean?"

Yu Xia smiled broadly and said, "It says yes."

"..." Flock: "How do you understand what it means?"

Yu Xia: "You'll understand once you spend time with it; it's very easy to understand."

Flock asked suspiciously, "You didn't know that through a mental link with it?"

“No.” Yu Xia sat down, holding Kraken. “If I link with Selius, the other sea creatures will know where we are.”

Floch: "Not necessarily."

"Hmm?" Yu Xia turned to look at him.

Flock paused, then pointed to the nasty, smelly octopus curled up in her arms. "It's here. Even if they know, they'll pretend they don't."

"Oh right." Yu Xia then realized that the little octopus was Selius's clone. So, did the sea creatures know that he was coming?
Kraken patted her head reassuringly with its tentacle:
They don't know, don't worry.
The Knicks and Marge's team didn't return until the early hours of the next morning.

Yu Xia and Floch studied the containment artifacts until midnight last night, and they still haven't gotten up at this hour.

As soon as the mercenary group returned, Floch went to their resting place to learn about the details of their mission and, incidentally, to help them purify themselves.

He wanted to sleep a little longer, but that damn Kraken was clinging to Yu Xia all day and was extremely insidious.

When he and Yu Xia were awake, it would quietly pretend to be well-behaved, but once he fell asleep next to her, it would push him out of the nest.

Last night, Flock was pushed out several times by it. He got angry and tried to get it out, but it immediately shrunk into Yu Xia's arms.

hateful!

We can only settle accounts with it after Yu Xia wakes up.

"hiss--"

Maggie rubbed her head, which felt like it had been hit by a heavy hammer, and looked at Flock, who had a stern face, with one eye closed. "You're in a bad mood today. Did Little Flower beat you up again?"

Floch propped his head up, withdrew his mental energy, and said listlessly, "Didn't sleep well."

Maki noticed the faint dark circles under his eyes and understood. She reached out and patted his shoulder, saying, "I understand."

Floch lifted his eyelids and said coldly, "What can you understand?"

“I can’t understand it,” Maggie said with a sigh. “You’ve grown up, that’s normal.”

Floch: "?"

“Young man.” Maki patted his shoulder again, stood up and said, “I’m not going to say anything more. I’m going to check on Sura. I got a new gadget. I’ll see if I can use it on her to make her behave.”

Floch stared at her retreating figure, bewildered. "Young man?"

What does this have to do with his insomnia?
Yu Xia was awakened by something.

The warm, soft object crawled all over her body. Yu Xia couldn't open her eyes yet. She pulled out a mischievous tentacle from her pajamas and said, "Stop messing around, let me sleep a little longer."

Yu Xia quickly fell asleep again, dreaming hazily, feeling as if her body was being pulled down by something.

Kraken failed to wake her, retracted his tentacles, and crawled towards the bathroom.

After filling the tub with cold water, Kraken tentacles touched Yu Xia's forehead to check the temperature, then rolled up the little dolphin spirit that was sleeping on its back, similar to Yu Xia's, and placed it in the bathtub filled with water.

The baby dolphin sank into the icy water, blowing bubbles.

Kraken stared at the baby dolphin, his usually listless eyes now showing a hint of ferocity, and his gaze was filled with worry.

After waiting for half a minute, the baby dolphin shuddered and opened its eyes.

Yu Xia also came to her senses. She felt as if her brain had been soaked in cold water, a strange and indescribable soreness.

“Selius, little octopus.” Yu Xia pressed the back of her hand to her forehead and called out helplessly, “Don’t play like this.”

The baby dolphin nudged the Kraken with its head, not too hard, not too soft.

Kraken tentacles wrapped around it, keeping it submerged in the cold water.

Yu Xia couldn't sleep because of its noise, so she had to get up and wash up.

Her steps were somewhat heavy, and she listlessly picked up a towel and toothbrush.

Kraken crawled to her side and checked the temperature of her skin; it was a little lower than before.

Yu Xia looked down at it, assuming it just wanted to play with her.

"Little octopus, can't you turn into a human?" Yu Xia asked it while brushing her teeth.

While on Flock's ship, it transformed into a teenage version of Selius—Kraken Seli.

Although the little octopus is a spiritual clone of Selius, Yu Xia still can't quite regard it as Selius completely; at most, it carries a part of his consciousness.

Kraken jumped onto the sink, shook his tentacles, and took a towel to wipe her face.

With her face covered by a towel, Yu Xia asked in a muffled voice, "Can't I?"

After carefully wiping Yu Xia's face, Kraken swept his tentacles across her face, smeared them on her lips, and then placed them on Yu Xia's shoulder.

Yu Xia stared at it in silence for a few seconds, then said, "Little octopus, which tentacle did you use to touch me just now?"

A glint of light flashed in the little octopus's listless eyes, and it shifted a tentacle to rest on her shoulder.

"You," Yu Xia took a deep breath, suppressing its previous behavior, and said slowly and deliberately, "You are not allowed to touch my face with your wrist in the future."

Why not?
Kraken waved its tentacles to express its meaning:
We've had in-depth discussions.

Yu Xia pressed down on its tentacle, her face slightly flushed. "No means no, that's not the same thing."

Kraken glanced at him, thought for a moment, and then understood:

You cannot touch your face with your wrist crossed, but you can touch other places.

Yu Xia blushed even more when she saw its matter-of-fact expression.

“That’s not how it is.” Yu Xia cleared her throat and cradled its round head, saying, “I would prefer you to do these things yourself.”

Kraken glanced at itself again, showing its disdain for "itself".

Yu Xia chuckled and said, "What's with that expression? Do you hate your original form?"

She had witnessed how Celius and Kraken Selye disliked each other.

Kraken gestured as if he agreed with her.

It truly disliked its host. Had he not intervened, it would have already taken the baby dolphin back to the ocean, preventing her from being in such a dangerous situation.

Seeing the disdain in Kraken's eyes, Yu Xia asked, "Where is your main body? Are you alright? Can you communicate?"

Kraken: At sea, don't worry, everything's fine. Signal's bad, can't connect for now.

"I see." Yu Xia: "I'm glad you're safe."

She stroked Kraken's head and said, "I have so many things I want to ask you, so many things I want to tell you."

Kraken wrapped his arms around her wrist:
I'm listening, you can say whatever you want.

After saying that, Kraken silently changed one of its tentacles.

I subconsciously switched wrists again.

It hadn't seen the little dolphin for so long, and it missed her terribly.

Yu Xia pretended not to see it changing its tentacles and said, "I saw you when you were a child in Farrell's memories, and your personality is quite similar to yours now."

Kraken tentacles made a question mark.

Yu Xia: "I'm wondering, are those clones of you from different periods?"

Kraken didn't respond immediately, but instead fell into thought.

It is just one of the main body's avatars. Just as Yu Xia guessed, it is not the complete Selius consciousness. The main body wants to hide its thoughts, and it is unaware of this.

Seeing its thoughtful expression, Yu Xia guessed what was going on.

She picked it up, intending to go downstairs to find something to eat, but when she turned her head and caught a glimpse of her own face in the mirror, she immediately stopped.

Yu Xia thought she was seeing things, so she leaned close to the mirror and rubbed her eyes hard.

Her blue eyes turned gold.