Calamity of Tomorrow-Chapter 506 - 505 Experiment

Zhou Bai gnawed on a big chunk of meat and bone, looking at the three stunned people, and said, "Eh? Why aren't you eating? Doesn't it taste good?"

"Are you too tired? Somebody, give the young lady and young master some steamed buns!"

Qiu Xingze waved his hand and said, "No need." With that, he reached for a steamed bun himself.

But after just one bite, he froze. This damned thing has no filling, it's just plain white bread, not a steamed bun at all.

Yan Shan and Meng Ruocun didn't even take a bite, their faces full of dissatisfaction, as this was indeed the first time they were treated to plain white bread.

Yan Shan thought to himself, 'What does this Zhou Bai mean by this? A dragon stoops to play with shrimps in shallow water?' He shook his head with a sigh.

Next to him, Meng Ruocun directly addressed Zhou Bai and asked, "Zhou Bai, what are you doing? Is this how Dao School teaches you to treat guests?" She emphatically reminded him, "This Mr. Yan Shan is from the Plague Department of Heaven, the son of Lord Yan Zhen."

Looking at the white bread in their hands and then at Zhou Bai guzzling food, they felt both angry and very hungry.

Zhou Bai was devouring a big bone with an exaggerated expression of enjoyment on his face.

But seeing the three's lack of appetite, he thought to himself, 'To take something from someone, one must first give… Maybe they need to eat a bit more before they'll crave more?'

At the same time, he thought, "Speaking of which, if these three are here to investigate me, and since I'm a victim of Gu Letian, then..."

Zhou Bai turned to them and said, "Oh! Do you want to have what I'm having? No problem at all, let's eat together."

He sighed and said, "Ah, but don't blame me, I've been in a bad mental state lately.

Ever since the incident with Gu Letian, I've had this knot in my heart, and I've been thinking about it night after night, just can't figure it out. How could all those credits, all those elixirs, just disappear like that?"

Zhou Bai patted his head and continued, "I just can't figure it out, I really can't."

Sometimes I get so anxious I can't get excited about anything, sometimes I suddenly want to hit someone for no reason, sometimes I even hit myself."

Seeing the puzzled look on their faces, Qiu Xingze and the others exchanged glances and communicated telepathically, "This Zhou Bai, could it be that he has a mental issue?"

Yan Shan's eyes flickered slightly, "All those who had deep interactions with Gu Letian and faced his malevolent power have experienced varying degrees of mental trauma. Perhaps Zhou Bai is the same."

After pondering, Qiu Xingze asked, "Zhou Bai, have you had a mental evaluation recently?"

Zhou Bai nodded, "Right after I got back, they made me do one, but they didn't tell me the results."

They didn't tell Zhou Bai the results? Could it be they're intentionally keeping him in the dark?

Hearing this, the three of them grew more suspicious about the state of Zhou Bai's mind.

Zhou Bai said, "Well, stop staring, eat, eat, let's all eat." While speaking, he pushed his food towards them.

Yan Shan was the first to reach with his chopsticks, it had been too long since he'd had such a lavish meal.

But no sooner had they had a few bites, just getting a taste of the deliciousness, Zhou Bai pulled the food back again.

Yan Shan telepathically asked, "What's this guy trying to do?" Touching his stomach, he thought, 'Seeing him eat made me so hungry.'

Qiu Xingze said, "He might have a mental problem, let's not take it too seriously."

Meng Ruocun angrily said, "Is he feigning illness? Should we try to check it out?"

Zhou Bai looked at the sudden thick black lines that appeared on them and laughed internally, while aloud he said, "We've all eaten enough, let's talk about serious matters."

But Yan Shan wasn't full at all, and Qiu Xingze and Meng Ruocun wanted to keep eating.

Yet before they could speak, a wave of confusion swept over their minds.

"I'm so hungry..." Yan Shan opened his mouth, sighing to himself, "No, actually, I seem to have had enough."

Beside him, Meng Ruocun and Qiu Xingze suddenly lost their appetites too.

Meng Ruocun, 'Compared to big fish and meat, what difference does white steamed bread make?'

Qiu Xingze, 'Suddenly, I just don't feel like eating.'

They looked at the dishes on the table as if they were looking at mud, unable to muster any interest.

Zhou Bai observed the expressions and movements of the three and knew what was happening, "Just like Zheng Wentian before, has the desire for gluttony been completely eradicated? And with different levels of gluttony, the extent to which the desire is eradicated varies too."

"Let's try the next one." Zhou Bai thought to himself, "Let me properly explore the limits of this ability."

Thinking this, Zhou Bai suddenly extended his hand, and amidst the upheaval of his Primordial Spirit's power and to the astonishment of Yan Shan and the others, he violently chopped off his own left hand with a swift hand-knife motion.

"Take that for your roving hands!"

"Take that for your investing games!"

Qiu Xingze was shocked, "Has he really gone mad? Or is this something Gu Letian did?"

Meng Ruocun was stunned, "He's gone mad, Zhou Bai has truly gone mad."

Observing Zhou Bai's agitated demeanor, Yan Shan was reminded of his own brother, Yan Hai, who also suffered severe mental trauma and was unlikely to ever return to his normal state.

Yan Shan hurried over and tried to console him, "Zhou Bai! Don't do this, it's not your fault."

Zhou Bai turned around and with a tranquil face said to the astonished crowd, "Don't worry, I'm just venting, recently every time I think of the points I was cheated out of, I cannot help wanting to chop someone, so to avoid killing someone else, I can only chop myself." After saying this, he placed his severed hand back at the stump of his wrist.

Yan Shan communicated telepathically, "This Zhou Bai has gone mad."

Qiu Xingze, "To even chop off his own hand, it looks like his mental trauma is severe."

Meng Ruocun sighed deeply, "He's finished."

But in the next moment, the expressions of the three shifted from confusion to surprise, to astonishment.

Spatial rifts continuously opened and closed around Zhou Bai, and soon his left hand regenerated, reformed, and restored to its original state.

Qiu Xingze and Yan Shan both wore looks of surprise as they witnessed this scene.

Qiu Xingze, "What kind of Taoist skill is this? It has such great healing effects that it can immediately reattach a severed hand?"

Meng Ruocun, filled with astonishment and coming from the Dao School's special class, naturally cultivated the five Divine Skills of the Twilight Taoist Skill. She understood that there was a Supreme Divine Power known as the Time Rebirth Technique.

At this moment, seeing Zhou Bai regenerate his hand, she said in astonishment, "This is... could it be the Time Rebirth Technique? No, impossible, you just recently mastered the Tianhe Star Explosion, how could you so quickly achieve a second Supreme Divine Power?"

"Indeed, it's the Time Rebirth Technique," Zhou Bai said with a casual tone, "I just mastered it recently. I've been in seclusion cultivating it these past few days."

Meng Ruocun's expression was complex as she said, "It's really the Time Rebirth Technique? You've already learned two Supreme Divine Powers."

Cultivating one Supreme Divine Power was already a sign of genius; mastering two was akin to a genius among geniuses. The strength of the talent was almost unimaginable.

Any cultivator would want to have such exceptional talent; anyone would desire to master Divine Skills that others could not.

Hearing this, Yan Shan and Qiu Xingze couldn't stop the envy and jealousy from appearing in their eyes as they looked at Zhou Bai. They harbored the wishful desire and greed to be like him.

Zhou Bai, watching the state of the three, smiled inwardly, "Done."

In the next moment, as the desire for power on the three of them was eradicated, an overwhelming sense of sloth emanated from them, and the air in the entire room seemed to become slack and listless.