The Interstellar Queen of Scavengers

Chapter 883: Chapter 883: Qing Zhu

Ji You had a blooming smile in her heart, but maintained an air of complete calm on her face, even with a hint of indifference, and said, ”This is just a small task worth 4 or 5 candy beans, hmm~ I think just 1 or 2 strands should be enough to handle it.”

The Six Strands all wagged their tails together, desperately trying to make their presence known.

Ji You furrowed her brows, adopting a look of serious thought, and said, ”Let me see who’s the most suitable?”

As she spoke, she looked at Boss, then at Second, then at Fourth, her gaze sweeping over Third, Sixth, and Old Five one by one...

”Hmm~”

”To be fair, I thought it over carefully...”

”Whomever I give this task to, the candy beans earned will be theirs.”

After saying this, Ji You hesitated for a moment, seeming to finally make a decision, and she opened her mouth and quickly spoke: ”... let...”

Crash~

Fourth jumped up, leaping over Boss, squeezing to the front, facing Ji You, urgently: [Master! Master! Master! We Six Strands are one whole, always of one heart, since there’s work to do, of course, we do it together. More strands, more strength, we will certainly complete it better and more efficiently... Master, please consider?]

Old Five, Sixth: [Yeah, yeah.]

Boss: [Sharing the load for Master is part of Boss’s responsibility.]

Second, Third: [Responsibility! Responsibility! We want to take on some responsibility!]

Hearing this, Ji You looked troubled.

second.

seconds.

seconds.

...

Under the anticipation of all the strands, Ji You finally nodded reluctantly and said, ”Since you’re all so willing, then let’s do it together.”

The Six Strands cheered together upon hearing this, then joyfully wagged their tails.

Ji You smiled, saying, ”Since everyone is putting in effort together, of course, the benefits will be shared together. You all have no objections to this, right?”

The Six Strands nodded in unison: [No objections!]

Seeing this, Ji You was very satisfied, and continued, ”However, all of you must listen to my commands, act according to my arrangements, and if anyone dares to disobey orders and mess things up, all the candy beans of all strands will be deducted together.”

The Six Strands: [...]

In the silence, Fourth stood upright, maintaining a posture of serious listening, while internally murmuring:

[Ugh~

How ruthless the master is.

If one makes a mistake, everyone is punished.

This—

It’s forcing us to supervise each other.]

Faced with the silence, Ji You raised her eyebrows and said, ”Is there a problem?”

Although the master’s demands are a bit strict, but... who would mind having more candy beans? The Six Strands thought seriously for a moment and all decided to take on this small task, then shook their heads collectively: [No problem!]

Ji You raised her hand and snapped her fingers: ”Then, let’s work together.”

The Six Strands immediately straightened up, looking like they were giving it their all.

In the real world.

In Ji You’s dorm room, under the warm yellow light projection, Ji You sat by the workbench and started to cut this piece of alloy steel, which was slightly different from what Ji You had encountered in her previous life, as its weight was very light, but the material was exceptionally strong, waterproof, rust-proof, poison-proof, and explosion-proof... It’s one of the materials commonly used on various mechanical product shells.

The small cutting machine Ji You was using needed to be manually operated, so it was quite a test of someone’s operational skill.

With both hands placed on the small cutting machine, Ji You lowered her head, just glanced at the alloy steel, and already had a draft in mind, then she reached out and placed the alloy steel into the cutting machine...

The cutting machine started, and Ji You squinted, controlling the cutting machine little by little, cutting it evenly into 10 pieces, then, using the edge grinder, smoothed out the slightly uneven areas.

She obtained 10 circular pieces, each about the size of a fingernail of alloy steel.

Next.

Ji You picked up a carving knife and began to engrave a pattern on this fingernail-sized piece of alloy steel. After pondering for a moment, she took the carving knife and slowly sketched out the shape of a bamboo leaf, stroke by stroke.

Bamboo, upright and unyielding, tough and indomitable, fearless of severe cold, evergreen through the ages...

And her little companions are just like the green bamboo growing robustly towards the sun!

Carving to this point, Ji You pursed her lips into a smile, thinking that her companions would all improve by using the Soul Device, Ji You felt very delighted. This feeling of being able to provide tangible help to the near and dear, based on one’s own ability, was really... much more delightful than simply earning money.

However, these little friends would criticize her while simultaneously having a crazy admiration for the Green Glaze Master... Imagining, if her disguise got exposed, this... would truly be an exhilarating moment.

The disguise must be tightly protected.

Ji You thought earnestly, then continued to pick up the knife and started creating the Array Diagram.

The key to whether a Soul Device takes shape lies in the Array Diagram, Ji You slightly closed her eyes and began sketching the blueprint of the Array Diagram she was about to carve, in her mind. It should be very stable, and it should match everyone’s spiritual power as closely as possible...

While Ji You sketched in her mind, in the spiritual world, the elusive Iron Plate suddenly emerged, glowing with a gentle light, complex lines appearing...

Ji You only saw a small corner of the Iron Plate, and when she wanted to see more, felt a headache, and in the blink of an eye, the Iron Plate disappeared without a trace.

Ji You knitted her brows, looked around, and felt for a moment, finding no trace of the Iron Plate, as if this thing had never appeared in the spiritual world at all.

Ji You’s face darkened, asking, ”Did you see Iron?”

The Six Strands nodded together: [Yes, we saw it.]

Ji You frowned, ”What on earth is this thing? It appears and disappears erratically, completely uncontrollable, if not for Xiao You still being in here, Ji You might have to perform a cranial surgery on herself to research it.”

Ji You asked, ”Do you know why Iron appeared?”

The Six Strands all shook their heads, truly clueless about the reason. Fourth wagged its tail, voicing its guess: [Iron should have been summoned by the master...]

Ji You: ”???”

Regarding this question, actually even Fourth was a bit confused as well. Although the strands could communicate with each other and often bragged or shoved off blame when they did something bad, the Six Strands couldn’t freely communicate with the Iron Plate or other people’s Spiritual Silk at all. Therefore, they genuinely didn’t know.

Fourth: [Sisi guesses, the master must reach some condition to summon Iron.]

Ji You pondered, I summoned the Iron Plate earlier? When was that? Just now... that means while sketching the Array Diagram, at that time, Ji You was fully immersed and didn’t pay attention to the surroundings.