The wine cup shattered in his hand, but Tian Bang did not come back to his senses. He was still daydreaming. Shards of the wine cup shot out, but there was no wound on his hand. Only some of the wine and shards slid down his arm and into his cuffs. His waterproof sweater covered it, so it was impossible to see. However, once he changed his posture, he would not feel good at all.
"Major General Tian." Ju Ling tried to warn him, but Tian Bang maintained a fixed posture for the next five seconds. The wine seeped out from his sleeves at his elbow and opened up on his pants.
Cat Eyes looked pensive. She asked Ju Ling, "You mentioned Fragrant Bait Number 4 just now. What is that?"
Papercut sent a cupped fist emoticon over at the mission window, "Many thanks for your help in asking."
Ju Ling hesitated for a moment before replying, "It is bait specifically used to attract the Human-Faced Arachnid. It is also a target that can tempt the Human-Faced Arachnid to kill. "
"Since it is number 4, then there must be number 1, 2, 3, or 5, 6, 7..."
"There aren't that many. We only prepared four conventional baits."
It was unknown when Tian Bang regained his senses, but he personally answered Cat Eyes' question. He extended his hand and pointed at his chest, "This is number 1. Number 2 is my assistant. Number 3 is a mentally enhanced ability user hired by the military. Number 4 is a bit special. It is a mutant carrier occupied by the Human-Faced Arachnid... Then the first one was finished. The preset destruction incantation didn't seem to have any effect."
Cat Eyes raised her eyebrows, "He wasn't hurt?"
"It was useless." As he spoke, Tian Bang finally saw that only a bit of the glass handle remained on his fingertips. He tossed it away and swung his hand, flinging a pile of shards from his sleeves onto the ground.
Tian Bang shot a glance at Ju Ling after he finished this action. Ju Ling thought that Tian Bang was about to give an order, so he instinctively stood at attention. However, Tian Bang did not speak again. He just pulled out a wet wipe from the paper box on the coffee table and slowly wiped his hands. His perpetual smile was somehow paired with a wrinkled brow. His entire appearance was deformed.
At this moment, Tian Bang no longer had the feeling of a young man.
Ju Ling shut his mouth and maintained his silence.
Cat Eyes observed the man who called himself Frank with interest. She even asked, "How does it feel to fight against the Human-Faced Arachnid? Do you need help?"
"It's much smarter than the intelligence reports, or perhaps its instincts are stronger." Tian Bang's smile quickly returned to normal. "But its gaming level is terrible, and it gave up Flash very early. The only problem is that it doesn't look like it has a cooldown! "
Cat Eyes could be considered a gaming expert. She easily deciphered, "He directly teleported away. He didn't catch the tail?"
Tian Bang shook his head. "Polar Domain, Abyss Region, Deep Zone, Middle Zone … Especially the last two regions, we couldn't capture its movement trajectory. Even in the shallow zone, the feeling is very strange. "
"What kind of strange method?"
"In the empty room, playing hide-and-seek with you."
"… That's it? Okay, it escaped? "
"I don't know." Tian Bang threw the wet towel up and let it fall freely. He got up and walked out.
Cat Eyes pushed her sunglasses up to her forehead and followed him without a trace of politeness. Very soon, the group arrived at the frontline command center. At this time, more than half of the technical staff in the center were gathered in front of the radar data display screen and discussing. It seemed that it was difficult to reach a consensus.
The data was still the same data. He couldn't understand it. At the mission window, Papercut took out the good habit of asking questions when he didn't understand. He consulted someone who knew the ropes:
"Secretary He, what are they so conflicted about?"
"The conditions are incomplete." He Yueyin responded and then gave a simple explanation.
There weren't many methods to deal with Darksider life forms with the current detection technology. No matter how advanced the equipment was, it was very difficult to discover and lock onto a Darksider life form in time. They could only rely on methods like the Shadow Mist to distinguish the Human-Faced Arachnid's interference with the material plane. It absorbed various waveforms and indirectly determined the probabilities.
Since it was a matter of probability, there was nothing wrong with obtaining more effective data. If the combat forces arranged around the building weren't able to eliminate the Human-Faced Arachnid in the first instance, then they would force the Human-Faced Arachnid closer to the material plane. This would cause it to reveal more and more characteristics and details. This would serve as a reference for subsequent calculations.
But for some unknown reason, the Human-Faced Arachnid had never given any continuous set of data. This meant that it was always leaping and advancing without any pattern to speak of.
He Yueyin gave a simple explanation while Tian Bang communicated with the Center's Chief Technician about the specific perception of the mental plane just now:
"It's clearly in the shallow zone. My mental smoke has locked onto it, but it can always disappear and reappear with ease. It's like a flash, teleportation, and other such skills …. No, no, no. Don't be misled by my description. What I mean is, it's like a flat space. There are invisible folds that the arachnid can perceive and utilize at any time. These folds provide cover for the arachnid. Do you understand what I mean?"
It was clear that the Chief Technician's comprehension ability in this area was far inferior to his attainments in numbers.
At the mission window, Papercut felt that Tian Bang's perceptual description was more intuitive. He strove to understand the feeling, but it was unclear: "Damn, it's a mental strengthened one …. What does this mean?"
"It means that this Human-Faced Arachnid has grasped a deeper mystery on the mental plane at the same depth. It utilizes some sort of 'terrain' on the mental plane to obtain inconceivable results." He Yueyin stated calmly, "After all, we know nothing about what the world looks like in the eyes of a Darksider life form."
"The same logic can be used to prove that the world is distorted beyond recognition in the eyes of some monsters." Cat Eyes also spoke in the mission window, seemingly pointing at something.
Papercut had never been interested in mystical things. He found it strange that Luo Nan, who had always been highly sensitive to such topics, hadn't said anything yet:
"Nanster, did you fall asleep?"
"No."
Luo Nan simply responded with a single word, but his consciousness was climbing within the distorted world. Under his command, the Wraith Sign's long limbs moved noiselessly, moving from one 'curtain' to another 'curtain'.
His clairvoyance towards the mental plane was indeed different from other ability users. After experiencing and comprehending the Logic World and the Telescope, the two structural forms of soul strength and their different functions, he had a completely new train of thought on how to utilize this special clairvoyance.
Luo Nan had previously used the Human-Faced Arachnid's individual distortion towards the mental plane to pull the 'curtain' and weave a simple labyrinth at the last minute. This caused Tian Bang, who was used to being straightforward, to be bewildered by this little smokescreen.
Luo Nan never strayed far. After he made Tian Bang dizzy, he wandered around Aurora Cloud City. If he wanted to take the Wraith Sign away and erase all future troubles, he needed to have both Tian Bang and the Bloodflame Order reveal their hidden trump cards.
The faintly discernible Human-Faced Arachnid, the obscure and unclear ownership, and the erratic location. These three things combined together were undoubtedly the most ideal state for him.
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