Chapter 288: The t.i.tle Is Gone
When the old specialist saw the dignified Yama Ghost King with a fluttering robe and a crown on its head, his eyes widened. He had thought that there was nothing left to appraise and was already prepared to take the items back for research. He leaned forward, unable to contain the surprise on his face.
The plain and ugly young man’s thoughts were still stuck at figuring out when Su Hao was going to take the aforementioned things out.
He was stuck at this first level of thought, while the old specialist was focused on the second level. “This is a ghost-element sprite I’ve never seen before. And it doesn’t look ordinary at all!”
“Eh, isn’t that sprite…?”
Sprite Trainers nearby looked over, not just one or two.
Lan Qing also looked over. She was probably curious despite her expressionless eyes.
Su Hao could already guess that there must be an additional message sent to his wristband chat box. “Why do you have an additional sprite? And it looks exactly like that stone sculpture. Curious Baby.jpg.”
The old specialist was puzzled.
Clearly, it was because a knowledgeable and experienced specialist like himself was unable to identify a sprite that even ordinary Sprite Trainers could recognize.
Ridiculous!
“What kind of sprite is it?”
“Old Geng, we don’t know either, but we’ve seen similar sculptures under Ghost City.”
“Yes, that’s right. I contracted it in Ghost City,” Su Hao said. “But that’s not important… Ah Yan, pour out everything.”
“That’s very important!” Just as Geng Lao was about to shout, he saw that the extraordinary-looking sprite actually shook out… a pile of items.
Some were stored in storage light b.a.l.l.s, while others were ordinary. In an instant, the long table in front of the old specialist for appraising items was filled to the brim.
Old Geng, who wanted to yell out, but didn’t manage to, had his breath stuck in his throat. His eyes widened even more. The other old specialists immediately left the items they were evaluating and rushed forward one by one with agility that didn’t match their age.
“s.p.a.ce? Shadow?!”
“Come, come, let this old man take a look.”
Yama Ghost King drifted back, raised its palm, and then let it down. With a flash, its figure turned into invisible black smoke, integrating into Su Hao’s shadow at once and disappeared.
Immediately, old specialists in their sixties or seventies cast their burning gazes at Su Hao.
It won’t be possible for them to let Su Hao research all this himself. They needed to research too!
Su Hao coughed dryly. “Sir, let’s finish our work first.”
The old specialists recovered from their shock.
It was only when they turned their heads that they realized that apart from the sprite, there were also quite a lot of treasures on the table. They were of a type that they had never seen before.
Instantly, their gaze intensified again.
And at this moment, the plain and ugly young man and the crowd of Sprite Trainers were still stuck in the shock of the first level of thought and wondered where he had found so many treasures. What the f*ck!
Su Hao… no, Ah Yan, who was in the shadow, finally let out a sigh of relief when it saw the old specialists s.h.i.+fting their attention away from Ah Yan and returning to their seats to continue appraising the items.
It wasn’t easy for Su Hao either..
Su Hao had expected Yama Ghost King to attract attention.
The old specialists were research specialists after all. Although they had not seen the same details Su Hao saw in the interface, their eyesight and experience were enough for them to recognize the specialness of Yama Ghost King.
But Su Hao still didn’t avoid calling Ah Yan out.
Firstly, when he escaped from the four-armed Gargoyle Dragon, the Yama Ghost King had already been seen. It had even used its ability to transport people and had also used Shadow Traversal several times.
There were many people who saw it, so it wasn’t smart to intentionally hide it.
Secondly, Su Hao didn’t have anything to fear. Su Hao was the strongest student at Whale Island University, the young owner of a personal laboratory, the discoverer of several evolution forms, the double champion of the High School League as well as the High School Sprite Cultivator Cup. He also had a Crown-level teacher, a few Heavenly King-level seniors, and he was even buddies… cough, acquaintances with a few Sprite Cultivators.
He was a rising star and had a promising future.
It was reasonable and wasn’t weird at all for him to have one, two, three, four, or even five special sprites!
“Besides, the specialists are very likely to judge the Yama Ghost King to be awesome, but they definitely wouldn’t expect the Yama Ghost King to actually be more awesome than awesome.”
With just “Ghost Sprite Commandeering” and “Gan Kun in the Shadow” alone, Su Hao could already develop countless tactics.
Even if Ah Yan was targeted by the Hunter organization, Su Hao still wouldn’t be afraid. He was no longer weak like he had been in the past!
Besides…
As long as he was able to improve fast enough, the enemy’s intelligence gathering will never catch up!
While he was thinking, he also leaned closer and continued to listen to the experts’ evaluation and appraisal.
There were many things inside that he wasn’t too sure about either—after all, with little knowledge, the data given by the interface was limited—some “archaeological items” were also very valuable, but they wouldn’t appear on the interface map.
By now, the remaining items of the other Sprite Trainers had already been evaluated quickly. The specialists now had the time to scrutinize the items in front of Su Hao, with a magnifying gla.s.s in their left hand and the detector in their right hand. What serious focus.
“This is…” Geng Lao looked at the few broken stone slabs. The simple detector didn’t scan any residual energy from them, but…
Its rich experience and sharp intuition told him that… this thing wasn’t simple!
“Where did these stone slabs come from?”
When Old Geng asked about the stone slab, Su Hao remembered… the information recorded on the stone slab back then.
He didn’t tell them everything about the “Sprite Summoning Continent”, “Self-Preservation”, “Project Ghostly Yan”, and so on. He only mentioned that the stone slab had a special symbol recorded.
“It’s best not to give out detailed information in front of so many people… And I also don’t know if the information is true or false.”
He thought, and pointed at the few old specialists. In fact, he was only able to get back half of the black stone that gave birth to the Yama Ghost King. Ah Yan was only willing to spit it out after he counseled it for a long time.
“Speaking of which, when contracting Ah Yan, the soul power consumed wasn’t that much. Maybe it was because the contract had taken form before it was really born?”
This question could only be explored in the future.
The few old specialists touched the broken black stones, stone platforms, and stone slabs repeatedly, their faces full of regret.
“Why is it broken?!”
“I knew it, we should have gone to the site ourselves!”
“If we had, we’d probably have ended up dead and buried by now!”
Half an hour later, the approximate value of the item was evaluated.
To describe it in one word, it was high. It was very valuable.
Not only that, during the battle, Su Hao had also lured away a Tribe Heavenly King and made a huge contribution… According to Senior Wu, there would be rewards from Dragon Nation waiting for him tomorrow.
Mr. Su Hao, who had gotten rich again, was calm and unperturbed in his heart. He only took away a few finished products and prepared to return to the laboratory to study them. Who knows, he might be able to come up with special products… Even though his jade powder set meal hadn’t been listed on the market yet.
But that didn’t matter.
Research was an att.i.tude.
After the evaluation was done, as expected, the old specialists asked for information about Yama Ghost King again.
Su Hao only hid a little key information. He told them everything else that he knew.
He would also be glad if it helped them with their research.
Before leaving, Old Geng pulled him back. “Young man, come to my research inst.i.tute when you have time. It’s not that I want your Yama Ghost King, I just want to help you develop it.”
As Old Geng spoke, he handed over a silver-edged name card.
Su Hao took it with both hands and glanced at it. Old Geng was in charge of a large-scale laboratory, but that wasn’t important. What was important was that Old Geng’s laboratory was in collaboration with a ghost-element dojo!
“That dojo was one of the only two places in Dragon Nation where people know the most about ghost-element sprites. If I have the chance, I really should go. With Elder Geng’s recommendation, I should be able to learn some core skills from that ghost-element dojo… At most, I will probably just have to get Ah Yan to sell out… Cough, how can contributing your body for science be called selling out?” He thought.
After the evaluation was done, Su Hao and the other Sprite Trainers were arranged to stay in the reception area of the headquarters.
After was.h.i.+ng up, Su Hao dragged his tired mind and laid on the bed. When he woke up, it was already morning.