After Breaking Up, I Married the General-Chapter 175 - 174: Discovering another mental power 2

"Indeed," Ryzel also said in agreement.

The presence of mental power that he had discovered meant that the planet they were in was actually inhabited by people.

He wasn’t sure if they were also humans like them because there were also different races in the universe, but it was clear that those living on the planet they were in also used mental power like them.

Their mental power system might be a bit different because he hadn’t seen sentinels or guides that had the same mental power he had just discovered.

But using mental power still meant that the ones living on the planet were intelligent beings.

In the federation, they had already discovered that only those who had enough intelligence, like humans, could actively use their mental powers.

So, they could be sure that whoever used their mental power on the plants had enough intelligence to do so.

"We haven’t seen anything in the past two months that we were here, so I thought that only plants and animals lived here. I didn’t expect that there were actually ’people’ living here."

"This planet is very suitable for living things to survive. However, I had been studying this mountain range including its atmosphere for a long time, but I haven’t traced any signs of pollution at all.

In the federation, even though the pollution level is very low, there are still traces because there are still some products that inevitably produce pollution to the environment.

However, in this area, aside from natural pollutants, I didn’t detect any pollution from products at all.

Even if the ’people’ live in a far place, some traces should still be detected in the atmosphere as it’s unavoidable.

However, I didn’t detect any pollution level from chemical products at all.

So, even though this planet is very habitable, there’s only a ten percent chance that there are actually intelligent races staying here.

Because the races that we have also met before or had come in contact with the federation also have their own technological products that would still leave signs of pollution—even if they were very small, like 0.0001 percent—no matter how organic and environmentally friendly the materials they used.

But it seems that the people here are likely those that don’t use any technology or things that would cause pollution, or their pollution is very small and they’re also very far away, that’s why we couldn’t detect anything here as it’s probably already processed naturally by the planet."

"But they managed to get into this forest to provide mental power and nurture the plants here."

"If they didn’t rely on technology, then it’s probably something that their race naturally has."

"Well, probably. Then I’ll study the data of the plant more to see how long the mental power was present according to the plant’s absorption rate.

I’ll also check the absorption rate of the other plants again.

I’ll check to see when they came to this forest, as they would probably come again to enrich new plants."

"Indeed. If the plants here have their own habitats that they should have grown into, then those people were probably visiting this place from time to time to invigorate new plants.

You can study it, but don’t work too hard again. Storm is nearly repaired. After two weeks, we could use it again, so we can also roam and check this planet afterward."

"Don’t worry. I really won’t work that hard, but this is interesting, so I’ll continue my research now.

You can also go back to repairing Storm already," Ryzel said and then went to the corner to continue what he was studying.

The connection of the mental power and the plants around them was more interesting to study, so he focused on it first.

Because of it, he also woke up earlier the next day to study more of them.

Layton didn’t even want to let him go so early, but he was stubborn, so Layton had no choice but to let him start his research earlier.

He continued researching the plants and the mental power that he had discovered for three days before he finally discovered the exact time when the plants acquired the mental power they had, by comparing the digestion power of the purple plant and the other plants around it.

He also referred to their growth rate and other things. He even asked Layton to get more of the purple plants because the three plants he had weren’t enough to properly study the mental power they were digesting.

Layton went to get more purple plants obediently, so when Ryzel studied more of them, he discovered that the mental powers of the other purple plants didn’t belong to the same person at all.

The mental powers in the purple plants were all invigorating the plants, making them healthy and thriving. However, they were still slightly different in quality.

So he discovered that three people had used their superpowers on the purple plants that he had collected to study.

After three days of studying, aside from learning about the different mental powers in the purple plants, he also finally discovered that the mental power in the plants had already been in the purple plants for five months.

And the purple plant, which had the slowest digestion of mental power, would fully digest it in another two months.

So those people would probably come back again after two or three months if they were scheduling their visits until the slowest plant finished absorbing their mental power.

So if they also stayed in the forest for another two or three months, then they would probably meet those people even without moving around.

However, Ryzel was sure that Layton was not someone who would just stay put and wait for people who might not even be friendly to them.

After Storm was successfully repaired, the two of them would probably leave the forest to check the inhabitants of the planet they were in.

They’re also not sure about the schedule of their visit so it’s better to just actively look for them.