'Did she succeed? She should have succeeded, right? '
More than a dozen "You will listen to my instructions and do one thing" voices gradually faded from the air above the warehouse. The activation of [Concept Mishmash] had ended.
Lin Sanjiu's palms were soaked with a layer of cold sweat. She stared at the old woman who was slowly closing her mouth. Her heart felt like it was hanging in mid-air. She couldn't calm down for a long time.
This was the first time she used her temporary evolved ability ever since she obtained it, and she had to use it at such a critical moment.
"What you need to do is to get out of the factory …"
The old women stood in a line at the entrance of the store-room; the one in the middle spoke at a distance.
Lin Sanjiu, who was trying to figure out the result of her ability, felt a chill run down her spine. She pricked up her ears. "What does the factory want these ordinary people for? Even if I can only get one answer, it's better than nothing."
"As long as you're alive, you must always —" Unexpectedly, the old woman's voice was suddenly cut off when she reached the crucial point.
"Always what?
Do we have to do that thing until we die? "
Even though Lin Sanjiu was anxious, the old woman who was "in charge" of Lin Sanjiu had her mouth half-open. Her eyes were glazed over, and all of a sudden, not a single strand of hair on her body moved.
It was as if someone had pressed the pause button on all the Higher Consciousness humanoids. They froze on the spot. Even after waiting for a while, there was only silence in the warehouse. Due to the uneasiness of the crowd, a rustling sound broke out.
"What, what's wrong with them …" Someone who was braver muttered in a low voice.
"I … I don't care," someone suddenly shouted, "I want to go!"
The owner of the voice was standing at the edge of the storeroom, very close to the entrance of the alternate dimension. Lin Sanjiu looked up and saw a figure running out of the storeroom in a panic. The person ran past an old woman, who was frozen in place, and was about to run into the lookout station. Suddenly, the old woman rolled her eyes to the right.
Even Lin Sanjiu didn't see what happened. The figure suddenly rose into the air.
Like a pebble shot out from a slingshot, the man flew across the air and pounced in the opposite direction. Accompanied by a wet splashing sound, he landed on the other side of the warehouse, splattering blood and flesh into a splatter on the other side of the wall.
Amidst the screams and exclamations, the old woman in the middle regained her vitality — if a Higher Consciousness humanoid could be called "alive". She looked around and said in a hoarse voice, "Shut up, all of you."
Even though her voice was not loud, there were still ordinary people who were panicking and immediately shouted, conveying the message on her behalf, "Stop arguing! If you keep arguing, they might attack you again! "
Amidst the chaotic cries that the ordinary people found hard to suppress but were still desperately trying to suppress, the dozen or so old women turned a deaf ear to them. They stood where they were and turned their heads, looking back and forth at each other.
Lin Sanjiu shuddered. She suddenly realized something. They knew that one of the old women's abilities had been altered.
When the old woman was halfway through her sentence, she activated her [Michelangelo] ability for the first time.
Perhaps she had used up all her bad luck, but she finally had a little bit of good luck. Her ability, which allowed her to judge a person's dish, actually gave her a decent dish. It allowed her to add a condition to the old woman's [Concept Mishmash]. In other words, Lin Sanjiu and her group of normal people would only follow the old woman's instruction to do one thing when they saw a gay unicorn.
When she thought of this condition, she felt relieved.
"Something doesn't feel right," each of the old women muttered to themselves. Their white heads looked around, obviously trying to find which old woman had been tampered with. "Why does it feel like the ability … has been tricked? Which one is it? "
[Wait a minute. It's not the old woman talking.]
[It's the master behind the old woman. He's talking through their mouths.]
After all, the old woman in Lin Sanjiu's mind wasn't a real person. Even if she could use [Concept Mishmash] like a human, she wouldn't be able to sense the subtleties of an evolved ability. The only person who could say "tricked" was the master of the ability.
"That's strange..." Mrs. Manas muttered, "The old lady from Meat Elysium didn't manage to send your image back because you were sucked into the card. That's why the new old lady didn't recognize you. I thought they were like AIs that could act as independent individuals and act according to the situation … What's going on? "
Lin Sanjiu's back was drenched in cold sweat. She pursed her lips.
It seemed like the old woman had two "modes". The first mode was like an AI that operated independently, just like the one in Meat Elysium and Fan Jia City. The other mode was to become the master's doppelganger, the carrier of his mind.
However, it was unbelievable. How could a person divide his mind into more than ten parts and control more than ten doppelgangers at the same time? How did he do it?
This was a method that even Magus had never heard of.
The more Lin Sanjiu thought about it, the more apprehensive she became. After all, she had trouble controlling more than ten Higher Consciousness Ropes at the same time. Even if she had ten Higher Consciousness Ropes, she would still lose control of them easily, let alone the Higher Consciousness Ropes that were driven by her mental power.
Not far from Lin Sanjiu, the old woman who was facing Lin Sanjiu suddenly opened her mouth and said, "It's this."
[Michelangelo] found the problematic Higher Consciousness Doppelganger so quickly.
[Michelangelo]'s ability was powerful and rare, so it had a lot of limitations. Lin Sanjiu couldn't use it on the old women in a short period of time. Now that her master had found the problematic old woman, if she could only ask her to step aside and let another old woman use [Concept Mishmash] on them again, wouldn't her efforts be in vain?
How was she going to escape then?
Even though Lin Sanjiu knew that the problem was with the old woman, her master didn't seem to know what the problem was. After pondering for a while, he finally spoke in a hoarse voice.
"Not only is she fast, but she also has good eyesight and timing … It seems like the posthuman in the alarm is hiding in here."
This sentence came from the mouths of more than ten old women at the same time.
Lin Sanjiu's heart sank.
"What do you think? Do you want to come out yourself or do you want me to find you one by one?" The old women puffed up their cheeks and smiled. "I have no use for posthumans. If you are willing to come out yourself and retract that little trick of yours … you might still have a chance to live."
When the commoners in the warehouse realized that they were caught in a confrontation between the posthumans, they became even more uneasy. In the thick stench of blood, fear and doubt almost materialized.
"Wait a minute," Mrs. Manas suddenly came to a realization. "The old woman wants you to retract your trick … This means that her master isn't omnipotent!"
Lin Sanjiu also realized it at the same time.
If the old woman could use [Concept Mishmash] on them again, the master of the ability probably wouldn't waste his time on posthumans. So what if they were posthumans? If they were like commoners who had to do something until they died, what threat would they pose to the factory and the old women?
"I understand now … When I was in Meat Elysium, every time I used [Concept Mishmash], the effect of the previous ability would be removed. For example, I used the effect of my long hair to replace the effect of the grand prize getting beaten up. "
Lin Sanjiu's thoughts became clearer and clearer. She said to Mrs. Manas, "But if the effect of the previous ability didn't activate, or if it couldn't be activated at all, does it mean that the [Concept Mishmash] is stuck on some of us? Is it because the previous ability wasn't completed, so it can't be activated? The old woman can kill a commoner, but she can't lose so many people in one go! "
"You don't want to come out?"
The old woman who Lin Sanjiu did something to said slowly. "Even if you don't want to come out, I still have a way to find you … You must have noticed that you are one of the targets that I am responsible for using my ability on. That's why you want to stop me from using my ability on you. In other words, I just have to look for you among the targets that I have locked onto. "
When she said that, she lifted her chin and gestured to the man closest to her, "You, come here."
The man was so scared that he couldn't even stand straight. However, his fear was unnecessary. The old woman merely raised her hand and waved it in front of him a few times. Then, she ordered, "Hmm, not you … You, stand over there."
It seemed that the [Facial Hair] wasn't too bad of a disguise. At least, the old woman wouldn't be able to tell that Lin Sanjiu was a posthuman from afar. However, if she had to check them one by one, Lin Sanjiu wouldn't be able to escape sooner or later. She looked around and gritted her teeth. Then, she took a few steps forward.
As soon as she moved, the old woman's gaze was immediately attracted to her.
"What are you doing?"
"Don't … Don't kill me! I think I know … who is a posthuman? " Lin Sanjiu tried her best to pretend to be very uneasy. "I saw him just now. He is a small man. I will find him. Please let me go … "
As she spoke, she squeezed her way through the crowd. She looked left and right as if she was looking for someone. Step by step, she approached the old woman.
The closer she was to the old woman, the higher the possibility that she would be exposed. In other words, she only had a very short window of time to strike.
"Where is he?" the old woman asked impatiently. The other ten or so old women did not move either. They just crossed their arms and watched the people in the storeroom.
Fortunately, they had not discovered him yet. There was only a distance of five to six meters between them.
As long as the old woman did not raise her guard against her, she still had a chance.
"That's strange. I saw him just now," Lin Sanjiu said as she took another step toward the old woman. Lin Sanjiu retracted her gaze and turned toward the old woman. She sucked in a breath of cold air as she stared behind the old woman.
When the dozen or so old women turned around, Lin Sanjiu suddenly pounced on the old woman in front of her.
Since the old woman was a humanoid formed from higher consciousness, Brahma's [Seed] should be able to suck her in, right?
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