Chapter 234: Saving Hwi

After thinking briefly, he immediately opened a can of cat food and placed it right beside Hwi’s nose. Afraid that it would not be enough, he poured out some cat food as well. After thinking about it, he also took out the crab corpse and placed it nearby.

For a mutated beast, ordinary food might not be attractive enough, but the corpse of another mutated beast should be much more appealing, right? Not to mention that seafood had a strong fishy smell. For an animal like a cat with such a keen sense of smell, it should be very easy to detect.

However, although Hwi did indeed instinctively sniff at the scent, he did not wake up. His eyes moved rapidly beneath his tightly closed eyelids.

Could a cat that was probably only Level 2 or Level 3 pass a Will check?

Joo Joowon was somewhat worried. Although his relationship with Hwi was not particularly deep, no matter how he looked at it, he did not want anything to happen to Hwi.

His ability to grow larger was extremely useful, and with him around, Byeol’s safety could also be protected to a certain extent. Especially during these three days, Joo Joowon definitely would not stay at home and simply wait for death. He would actively go outside to hunt zombies and gain experience, even though the outside world would definitely be more dangerous than before.

Because the cats could no longer see in the darkness, the agility they had once relied on could no longer be of much use. Under these circumstances, Joo Joowon was not comfortable leaving Byeol alone at home. He was afraid that Byeol might encounter danger, and if Hwi was there, he could feel somewhat more at ease.

If Hwi got into trouble first, then there would be no way to guarantee Byeol’s safety.

Taking Hwi outside would be risky, but leaving him alone at home would also be dangerous.

What should he do? What else could he do to help Hwi?

"From which direction can I invade the enemy’s body without being easily detected..."

The lesson from the skill book flashed through Joo Joowon’s mind. After hesitating for a moment, he immediately injected the only Mental Recovery Potion he had left.

The Vitality Harvest skill was extremely difficult to use without relying on the system, because an enemy would not simply allow their life force to be drained, while the body would instinctively reject foreign things.

Therefore, when Mental Power invaded an enemy’s body, it had to do so without being noticed at all. It even had to disguise itself as the enemy’s own Mental Power to a certain extent, making the body believe that all these actions were coming from itself. Only then could the life energy be "stolen."

That’s right. The Vitality Harvest skill was not about forcefully plundering an enemy’s life.

Perhaps the Vitality Harvest skill after being modified by the Age of Apocalypse forcibly plundered an enemy’s life force, but the original version of the skill created by the apprentice mage was actually about stealing the enemy’s life energy.

Therefore, if Joo Joowon disguised his Mental Power as Hwi’s Mental Power and invaded his dream, was it possible that he could bring Hwi out of it?

Of course, the risk of doing this was extremely high.

He only understood the theory and had never actually practiced it. Mental Power was an extremely important sensory organ of the body. If he rashly invaded Hwi’s mind, it would be very easy for him to damage Hwi’s original Mental Power. If he made even one wrong move, he might achieve the achievement of "wiping out the entire family himself."

If Joo Joowon made a mistake during the process, there would only be two possible outcomes.

The first was that Hwi would become a vegetative cat.

The second was that he would not even be able to become a vegetative cat and would die completely.

Should Joo Joowon gamble on Hwi waking up on his own, or should he personally intervene and put an end to everything?

Joo Joowon did not hesitate.

Even if Byeol were the one who had fallen into such a situation, he would personally intervene.

It was not because he did not trust Byeol. Rather, he wanted to personally take part in saving everything. He did not want to leave everything to some vague and unpredictable fate and simply watch helplessly as it happened.

At least he would have tried his best.

Since Hwi had actively enlarged his body, that meant that his subconscious had sensed some kind of threat.

However, in a confrontation within the mental world, the role that the physical body could play was truly insignificant. This kind of resistance would have very little effect unless Hwi’s enlargement skill affected more than just his physical body and also doubled his Mental Power.

The possibility of that was far too low.

Joo Joowon placed his hand on top of Hwi’s head and slowly, carefully transmitted his Mental Power over.

Approach, make contact, disguise himself, and then enter the brain.

Humanity’s exploration of the body had continued for thousands of years. Even today, their understanding of their own bodies had already become quite clear.

If science had been able to achieve such a level after thousands of years of development, then there was even less need to mention the supernatural world where the apprentice mage came from. Ever since the discovery of the supernatural, they had never stopped exploring Mental Power and the soul for even a single day.

Moreover, unlike on Gaia, where conducting experiments on human bodies was generally avoided, the magical world on the apprentice mage’s side did not even have any clearly established prohibitions on the surface. Whether someone did it or not depended entirely on their own moral standards.

In Joo Joowon’s view, this was not particularly strange. It was just like how, even after the cultivation world had developed for thousands or even tens of thousands of years in cultivation novels, it could still remain an agricultural society.

In a world with powerful supernatural forces, the power of civilization ultimately belonged to the individual. It was perfectly normal for such a world to regress from a civilized society into a feudal era, a slave era, or even an age dominated by Western religious beliefs and divine authority. The only thing that was almost impossible to achieve was making supernatural beings and ordinary people "equal."