Chapter 131
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Luo Nan felt a kind of rhythm within the deep water. He carefully discerned it. It was the quiet and drawn-out breathing of deep sleep. The water appeared to be undisturbed, but it constantly breathed out the old and breathed in the new. It had its own rhythm.
Rui Wen's body and consciousness were all highly unified within this rhythm. Of course, this wasn't a monotonous fluctuation of strength and weakness. Instead, it was the joint effect of breathing, blood flow, internal organ movements, and other components. It was like a harmonious rhythm played by a symphony orchestra.
Even the soul was fused within. It was nearly perfect.
Luo Nan confirmed that if he were to use the Siege Hammer to attack Rui Wen, it would be impossible for him to ignore the defenses of the fleshly body and directly attack the soul.
This was because Rui Wen had used this method to perfectly fuse her fleshly body and soul together. The inside and the outside were harmonious, becoming one. An attack on the pure mental plane would be dispersed to the greatest degree.
This was the situation that Jack had displayed back then.
Sure enough, comparison was a good way to see through the root of things.
Luo Nan's Siege Hammer was ineffective when he fought Jack back then. He couldn't understand the theory behind it, so he could only attribute it to the Altered Human. Now his train of thought was much clearer.
Of course, Jack was able to accomplish this because of the Altered Human factor. And Rui Wen was able to achieve this by relying on the simplest of breathing.
Perhaps this was what a true genius was like.
The water slowly lit up when Luo Nan understood this point. His consciousness illuminated this place, and he truly saw Rui Wen. He performed a shallow scan on the girl.
Rui Wen was still unconscious. He couldn't see any other changes.
Luo Nan tried to wake her up, but he failed.
The reason was very simple. Rui Wen was currently in a kind of muddled state. It was very hard to distinguish the boundary between her body and her consciousness. Luo Nan's contact on the pure mental plane was clearly too weak. He was unable to form sufficient stimulation.
But there was a very crucial point here: Rui Wen's muddled state was the dual coordinated effect of her body and consciousness. These two fulcrums were indispensable.
Then came the problem. Rui Wen was currently unconscious. It was reasonable to say that it was impossible for her to truly achieve muddled state. But as long as she reached this state, she wouldn't be unconscious. She would certainly achieve absolute control over her body and mind.
A paradox seemed to form between the two … … This was the main culprit that caused Rui Wen to be unconscious until now.
Actually, Luo Nan had already discovered the reason for this earlier. Rui Wen's current state was merely 'nearly perfect'. There were still a few flaws.
The problem didn't lie with Rui Wen herself, but with two external sources of interference. One in the cranial cavity and one in the thoracic cavity. These must have been Jack's early implants.
There was an electric discharge device in her chest that was attached to her spine. It was similar to an electric shock weapon, and its purpose should be to destroy Rui Wen's mobility in the shortest amount of time possible.
However, according to Luo Nan's scans, this toy seemed to have lost its effectiveness. Perhaps it was destroyed by the recoil of Rui Wen's powerful ability.
The real source of interference was still the one in the cranial cavity. That thing was constantly emitting interference pulses. They weren't particularly strong, but they were able to destroy Rui Wen's harmonious state, causing Rui Wen's mental and physical "fusion" to always fall a little short.
It was precisely this point that had caused Rui Wen to remain unconscious until now.
That would be troublesome.
Luo Nan wasn't a neurosurgeon expert. Even if he was, he wouldn't be able to perform a craniotomy with the bit of consciousness he projected.
As expected, they still had to rely on external help to rescue them.
Luo Nan helplessly gave up on the idea of awakening Rui Wen. He settled for the next best thing. He used the projected consciousness as a fulcrum or a signal relay tower to strengthen his connection with his soul body.
Luo Nan's soul body was still at the DeShang Building right now. The radius of his all-encompassing senses was still only around five hundred meters. The surroundings were a vast, fuzzy, and dark area.
However, when this "signal tower" was erected, a ball of light lit up in the distant darkness. The "map" of that small area was illuminated.
The range of Luo Nan's mental senses didn't expand, but they were projected to a fixed point. Luo Nan looked down from a high vantage point like opening a crude satellite image. The resolution was terrible, but it was gradually improving.
And there was one point that no satellite image could compare to.
This was a miniature real-time panoramic map. Luo Nan was like a ghost floating in the sky right now. To put it nicely, he was:
A god.
Luo Nan 'saw' Jack in the next moment.
Jack clearly didn't sense Luo Nan's existence. This was because Luo Nan was relying on the signal tower built on Rui Wen's body to exert his power. He was hidden within Rui Wen's aura, so there would be some interference.
However, Luo Nan didn't pay special attention to him. He didn't want to make this crafty fellow vigilant.
Luo Nan mainly looked at the surrounding environment.
Sure enough, Jack jumped out of the car midway. He should be in an apartment right now, standing in the living room deep in thought. Rui Wen was sitting on a sofa within his reach.
The location of the apartment was unknown. Luo Nan didn't know whether or not it belonged to Jack. But when he thought about it, Xia City, an intelligent city covered by the Internet of Things, was practically defenseless to Jack with the Dynamo Core.
Luo Nan wanted to determine where he was, but it wasn't easy.
The small map that had just been opened had a limited range. It wasn't even able to cover the entire apartment. The center was completely shrouded in the fog of war. The only relatively clear information was the direction and distance. He had to compare it with the map of Xia City to make an estimate.
Luo Nan compared the map on the Psychic Wave Network while trying to make adjustments between the range and precision of his senses. He wanted to find a relatively ideal middle point.
A call suddenly came in from Jack's side while he was tossing and turning.
Jack was standing in the apartment's living room deep in thought right now. He laughed coldly when his wristband vibrated. He snapped his fingers and the holographic screen in the living room lit up. A figure that gave Luo Nan a deep impression appeared clearly.
"Hey Jack. How does it feel to be the center of the world?"
Yan Yongbo raised the cup of coffee in his hand to greet Jack from afar.
Jack responded coldly, "It's not great. You've gone from a banker to a gambler, and you've put your entire fortune on the line … …"
"Even if you have a Black Jack in your hand, it's still no good?"
"If you have the time to joke around, why don't you tell me the route of escape … … Actually, when I picked up, I thought you would say that there's already a car parked downstairs."
It could be seen that the relationship between Jack and Yan Yongbo was colder than usual.
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