Wow! The item-dropping rate is really high!-Chapter 466 - 398 Hammering

The world of Spiritual Energy made it difficult to have a precise sense of time, and Bai E, immersed in honing his spiritual energy attributes, utterly failed to notice the passage of time outside. Your journey continues at novelbuddy

It seemed as though only a moment later, the "beep beep beep" of the buzzer sounded again not far away.

An assistant’s exclamation came along with it, "It’s happening again!"

Almost simultaneously, Bai E and Pansen arrived by the assistant’s side, with Pansen asking first, "Where is it?"

After a moment of pinpointing, the assistant reported the specific location, "F4."

"Let’s go!"

"Aye, aye, aye~" Dangling mid-air, held by the collar of her neck, the assistant flailed her limbs feebly, "Could you use a better position next time..."

Her voice steadily faded into the distance as Bai E quickly followed, vaulting over the railing with a flip.

Same 4*4 formation as before, but Bai E had smartened up this time, refraining from activating his spiritual senses at the first opportunity.

The spreading "search" Spiritual Energy left no detailed location unchecked, the "virtual world" that seemed to have been startled last time and was now sneakily absorbing Computing Power Resources in the corners was naturally unable to hide.

"Found it!"

Once again locking onto the target, Pansen proceeded with considerably more caution.

Watching from afar with his spiritual senses, Bai E could clearly see that Pansen’s speed of "casting the net" had slowed down significantly, his use of Spiritual Energy to "capture" the virtual world was more meticulous, thus the extension of those tentacles slowed to a speed almost imperceptible to the naked eye.

He would rather expend more thought and Spiritual Energy, but he had to ensure that there were absolutely no mistakes.

Bai E easily guessed his thoughts.

At this moment, he didn’t know whether to wish for success or to pray for failure.

If Pansen managed to capture the virtual world and subsume it under his control, Bai E couldn’t find any possible way to snatch the virtual world other than taking huge risks to attack covertly and forcefully.

Winning a one-on-one fight was another question; moreover, the feasibility of a "covert" attack was doubtful. Once exposed, he would be making an enemy of the entire city.

The risks involved in pursuing an object of unknown utility were too great, Bai E was almost certain he wouldn’t take that step.

And if Pansen failed... Could Bai E touch something even a third-order Spiritual Energy user couldn’t capture?

The chaotic future was unclear before his eyes, even hope was indeterminate.

However, reality wouldn’t change due to Bai E’s thoughts, and Pansen failed once more...

In just a brief moment, the all-absorbing black mirror once again slipped into the void, vanishing without a trace.

Bai E immediately withdrew his spiritual senses, but the real-life Pansen had frozen in place, seemingly struck by some misfortune.

Only when Bai E walked up to Pansen following Minister Eric did he hear a soft murmur from his lips, "I didn’t make a mistake..."

"I didn’t make a mistake..."

"What went wrong?"

"Why did it run away again..."

"Sir, it... ran away?" Minister Eric didn’t dare anger Pansen and was moreover unable to see what had happened in the Spiritual Power World; hesitantly, he inquired softly.

Pansen expelled a single word from his throat, "Hmm."

The atmosphere grew slightly tense, as the failure was undoubtedly a blow to everyone.

"Sir..." Bai E glanced at the time and cautiously spoke, "Perhaps it’s because... it’s had its fill?"

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According to the previous logs, the virtual world that came close to "feed" every once in a while only needed two or three minutes each time.

And the total time of Pansen’s last two capture attempts had already exceeded four minutes, which meant the virtual world had likely replenished enough "food" to sustain itself and retreat successfully.

"Had its fill..." The assistant’s eyes lit up, "Right! It’s had its fill."

"We’ve seen the logs, even if we can’t detect it against it, it will leave after two or three minutes of appearing as it requires only that much Computing Power Resources, beyond that time, it will depart."

"Had its fill..." Pansen muttered the phrase with a hollow gaze.

Failure is not scary; what matters is finding the reason.

Now that it was settled the problem wasn’t with him, the solution was to address the issues that had arisen.

The question was... does the virtual world "feed" itself in a short time after appearing?

Therefore, the entire net needed to be in place before the "feeding" was complete.

What would undoubtedly be tested was his fine control over the weaving of Spiritual Energy.

Their regular training as Spiritual Energy users encompassed such elements, including the intensity, resilience, enlargement, and reduction of Spiritual Energy and more.

But all training has a standard... or a matter of precision.

The precision required during training is entirely different compared to capturing the virtual world; to cast the net both quickly and effectively will inevitably need a lot of intensive practice.

’Troublesome...’ Pansen mentally sighed.

But... weren’t those capable of becoming strong ones who have waded through countless tedious and repetitive trainings, as well as extensive real combat?

His only worry was that his repeated attempts would scare away that "virtual world."

The question of whether the "virtual world" possessed a will similar to a human’s was still up for debate— if it did think like a human, after experiencing two capturing attempts, it would naturally look for another escape route.