Si Guosheng was the only one in the team with an electromagnetic gun. He fired it reflexively. Amidst the sound of electric currents, a fifteen gram metal pellet exploded out of the muzzle at twenty times the speed of sound. It tore through the sound barrier. The air burned within the narrow passageway, and hot winds assaulted their faces.
Si Guosheng was already paying more attention to his nearby companions, but Luo Nan and Cat Eyes still had their ears rumble. They instinctively crouched down. The raging flames and heatwaves surged above their heads.
This kind of bombardment was not something the fleshly body could resist.
However, the biker gang member displayed his super keen senses. Even though He Yueyin had specially used the mission channel of the Psychic Wave Network to secretly issue orders, this fellow still shifted his position ahead of time before the artillery shell left the chamber. He narrowly avoided the trajectory of the bullet.
The deafening sound of an explosion rang out at nearly the same time. Under the effect of the powerful kinetic energy, the passageway behind them collapsed in an instant. Even the structure of the upper and lower floors caved in. The entire building groaned and trembled.
He Yueyin's figure turned from stillness at this moment. An arc of light flashed, and she pounced forward.
Admittedly, the biker gang member had avoided the disaster of death by shifting his position ahead of time, but this limited his direction. In addition to the obstruction of the collapsing ruins behind him, he had practically no leeway to choose. And what he had to face right now, aside from He Yueyin's assault of an arc of light that transcended the sound barrier, there was also the rapidly expanding formatting domain!
Intense light and heatwaves intersected in the void. Visually, the space seemed to warp and deform. The light enveloped the surroundings in the next second, sweeping away practically every shadowy corner. It made one suspect that even their internal organs had been penetrated, turning transparent.
Light and heat were always linked together, but at this moment, the heat within the passageway was greatly reduced under the all-encompassing intense light. The high temperature of the 'furnace' controlled by the biker gang member was cleansed and dissipated. His body also warped and shrunk within the light. In the end, he was streaked by the swift and fierce arc of light. He smashed through the wall amidst a spray of blood and quickly fled far away.
He Yueyin had already strode forward in pursuit, but after taking two steps, her speed suddenly decreased. The mission channel displayed the latest news: "Machine Number One's overclocking state has ended."
"Officer!" Gaud could not help but shout.
He Yueyin took another step forward, but she still stopped. And at this time, the aura of the biker gang member, which was boiling like a furnace, rapidly cooled down and calmed down. After charging out two hundred meters, he simply concealed himself without a trace.
This was not just on the spiritual plane. Even when he interfered with the physical plane, there was no feedback at all. It was as if the spiritual plane had disappeared into thin air.
Luo Nan was speechless when faced with this kind of opponent who hid when he said he would.
"Formatting the domain!"
Cat Eyes' attention was drawn to He Yueyin. Her first impression of He Yueyin wasn't good, but after a period of observation and familiarization, as well as the shifting of hatred and other factors, her evaluation of He Yueyin became more and more fair. "This wave of maneuvering is really immediate. It feels like she's not much worse than that Tian Bang. That slash was also very cool! "
He Yueyin took a few seconds to regulate her breathing, but she was still panting a little. It was obvious that she had consumed a lot of energy just now. "The enemy retreated on their own. It's probably because they cut through the supply line that they lost the ability to continue fighting."
"Supplies? What was going on? Is the rat tide almost cleaned up? "
Currently, the distance between the group and the main body of the rat tide had already exceeded the range of Cat Eyes's all-encompassing senses. In comparison, the integrated sensing module of the Deep Blue Walkers was more useful. Combined with the shared images from the Psychic Wave Network, she was able to roughly project the current state of the rat tide in the ruins behind them.
It could be seen that the thermal imaging results were sporadic in the surroundings of the freight corridor, where the temperature had already dropped. The data statistics were much more convenient.
Gaud reported, "There are 1437 left, 1311 left … … The rate of decline is fast!"
According to this rate of reduction, the rat tide would be swept clean in another ten seconds or so … … Even if it was raining knives, it would be impossible to kill them off so quickly, right?
Cat Eyes looked at Luo Nan in astonishment. Even she was doubting whether or not the Shangding Building had joined in the interference.
Luo Nan actually frowned. In the instant He Yueyin and the motorcycle gang collided, the enemy had exploded at least five hundred rats in order to support the corresponding explosion. This caused the rat tide to shrink by over a quarter in an instant. But what was truly strange was that there were no decent reinforcements after that. This was the most important reason why the scale of the rat tide had shrunk.
The source seemed to have been cut off?
Luo Nan expanded his sensing range to cover the entire area. At this time, He Yueyin explained softly, "We just sent a group of people to destroy the enemy's' nest 'within the building. It can be considered as taking drastic measures."
Cat Eyes was enlightened. "A nest … … That's right. Of course there's one. But do you know where it is?"
"Since it's a nest, energy and nutrition are indispensable. In the wilderness, these nests are often placed within high energy mineral deposits that can be absorbed and transformed. The basic conditions won't change in the city. It must be within an area suitable for replenishment. "
Cat Eyes snapped her fingers. "The energy center!"
Due to the leaps and bounds in energy technology, the current mega metropolis of Xia City had basically achieved a decentralized distribution of energy supply. For example, the Gear Laboratory that Luo Nan was more familiar with was equipped with an independent power station. Large buildings like the Kewang Communications Building located in the center of the bustling city were also equipped with an independent energy center.
If one didn't care about the technical links such as mass to energy conversion, then the most convenient energy supply point would naturally be there.
The relevant images were already connected to the mission channel as they spoke. The energy center should be a team of ability users mobilized by He Yueyin. There seemed to be a military police background as well. Right now, the operation to clear out the nest had already ended. They were currently cleaning up the mess.
He Yueyin explained a step further. "Right now, the SCA has already taken samples of the abnormal changes in the building's energy center. The relevant areas within the city are under full surveillance. If this sort of situation is encountered again, an emergency power cut will be needed … …"
Cat Eyes gave her evaluation. "Crushed by resources."
He Yueyin had fully utilized their advantage in resources in Xia City. Soldiers came with generals, water came with earth weir. Even if they fell into a disadvantage for a time, they could immediately carry out targeted improvements to make up for the loopholes. As the enemy's strength was gradually exposed, the enemy's space for activity would constantly shrink. The advantage of their side would grow greater and greater. This was truly the most upright way of using troops.
This sort of method wasn't anything out of the ordinary. What was truly rare was that He Yueyin was in the middle of an intense battle. She was able to think and issue orders in a timely manner. Otherwise, even if they had more resources, it would be meaningless if they couldn't mobilize them properly.
At this time, Cat Eyes could finally breathe a sigh of relief. "Without the rat tide to die for him, that fellow would probably only be at the standard of four or five explosive strikes … … Speaking of which, he's also injured. I didn't get a clear look just now. Are his injuries serious enough?"
"His chest was cut open. His internal organs are damaged."
He Yueyin's breathing had completely returned to normal at this time. Her breathing was practically non-existent. She wore an exoskeleton armor and her face was covered by a helmet. She looked like an ice- cold robot. In reality, her thoughts were as calm as a machine's.
"The enemy's retreat isn't necessarily a good thing. From the design of the ability user clone body, it can be seen that they weren't built for a protracted battle from the very beginning. Moreover, they were able to perfectly conceal themselves even after being injured. This only proves that their injuries didn't truly affect their strength. "
Gaud expressed his approval. "That's right. Clone bombs and ability user assassins are the true job of these fellows."
Cat Eyes rubbed her chin. "After all, they aren't true life forms. If they were to throw caution to the wind and self-destruct, I don't know what the scene would be like. Oh, if that's the case, could it be that they relied on the rat tide to greatly exhaust your physical strength in preparation for the final strike … … Are you still okay? "
He Yueyin didn't directly respond to Cat Eyes's inquiry. She only added, "They were also measuring my limits. It would be more advantageous for me to make a final judgment. At the same time, they might be luring me to get used to the intensity from before, causing me to make an error in judgment at the last moment. "
"Wait for the thunderous strike." Cat Eyes's gaze swept over her companions and the surrounding ruined environment. "Even if you think with your toes, you'll know that the moment when the flying device takes off is the most perfect. With that fellow's ability and destructive power, it's simply an unbreakable knot. "
"Why didn't they wait until then to reveal their trump card?" Si Guosheng spoke in a deep voice. This was the first time he had taken the initiative to participate in a discussion since joining the team. His thoughts were extremely clear. "The target clearly possesses extremely powerful concealment techniques. The building's surveillance and sensor systems haven't discovered any traces of him up until now."
"It's because the rat tide is hard to conceal. A certain someone is extremely sensitive." Cat Eyes's gaze turned and pointed straight at Luo Nan.
Luo Nan didn't react at all.
Cat Eyes had long since grown accustomed to his wandering soul. She just shrugged. "In the end, a counterattack is the most correct choice. In the inner world, strength ultimately speaks for itself … … The problem is, where is he? "
"We haven't discovered any traces yet, but the rat tide is about to arrive. Oh, they've all been killed."
Don't just look at the group of people conversing at the end of the passageway. Most of their attention was focused on observing the surveillance. They were trying to search for the hidden and dangerous target. But so far, they had found nothing.
Everyone's gazes inevitably turned to Luo Nan.
Little did they know that Luo Nan's heart was quite vexed right now. The scale of the rat tide rapidly cleared to zero, representing the complete collapse of the so-called pressure transfer network. But from his perspective, the nature of his paper rapidly changed. The feelings he had just accumulated also vanished like smoke into thin air.
Even if he had some clues right now, he could forget about experimenting with them.
Fortunately, he was able to notice the gazes of his companions. He withdrew his mind somewhat unwillingly and asked suspiciously, "What did you guys say?"
Everyone was already immune to this sort of reaction. He Yueyin immediately repeated the relevant problem in a simple and clear manner. Her main focus was still on the whereabouts of the motorcycle gang.
Luo Nan shook his head. "That fellow certainly has some method to interfere with mental senses. I fell for it before. If I do it again, I don't dare to say that my senses will be correct. For example, right now. It's impossible for that fellow to just flee a kilometer or two away. But the truth is that I can't find any traces of him at all. "
He believed that the motorcycle gang should have a method of assimilating with the surrounding environment. This included the optical aspect and the deeper information aspect. In this case, he would inevitably be troubled by the corresponding camouflage colors unless he completely gathered and analyzed the information on the material plane within a radius of several kilometers.
Luo Nan finished his analysis and looked at He Yueyin. But He Yueyin still had her metal visor facing him. Actually, it wasn't just He Yueyin. Gao De and Si Guosheng had the same posture. Their gazes pierced through the visor to stare at him.
Luo Nan just felt baffled. He turned to look at Cat Eyes, who looked quite normal. "Uh. What did I miss?"
Cat Eyes blinked. She made an exaggerated expression of astonishment in an instant. "One kilometer. Why one kilometer? Vice President He, what was the range of his all-encompassing senses when someone reported last time? "
How would I know how much he said last time?
Luo Nan saw this and immediately knew that he had inadvertently let the cat out of the bag. The speed at which his mental senses expanded and the frequency of changes had already drowned out his memory reserves.
Luo Nan's mind went blank for a moment. He could only answer vaguely, "My senses toward living beings are more sensitive right now. My all-encompassing senses are a bit higher than normal."
Cat Eyes laughed. "Your family's senses are ten times or twenty times?"
Luo Nan glared fiercely at her. It doesn't matter if it's ten times or twenty times. It doesn't matter if you can't find the enemy. Is there a need to keep harping on this? You'll be happy when I tell you the number of twenty kilometers later, right?
Huh? An inexplicable inspiration popped up in the depths of Luo Nan's mind in this instant.
Luo Nan's current level of mental senses really wasn't his highest level. His highest level was still when his soul left his body, when he completely broke free from the shackles of his fleshly body.
In the past, there was a huge disparity between the fusion of body and soul and the separation of body and soul. This was mainly due to the serious imbalance between his mind and his body.
Right now, Luo Nan was following Gym Master Xiu in tempering his fleshly body. He also received the reverse nourishment of his soul strength. His toughness had increased by a large margin. In addition, he was influenced by the Gear Telescope Format. The form of mental senses underwent a substantial transformation, and its efficiency grew day by day. The disparity between the two states grew smaller and smaller.
But in reality, the disparity between the limits of his soul strength and his fleshly body was growing larger. The reason why it didn't lead to more serious consequences was because Luo Nan made full use of the miraculous effects of the neuron in the outside world. It was also because his attainments in the mutual interference between the mental and the material had increased by a large margin.
In short, if he were to leave his body right now, he would indeed have the ability to raise the level of his mental senses to another level. At that time, at that time …
Luo Nan's face drooped, and the light that flickered in his mind grew brighter and brighter. That's right. At that time, he would use a special method to realize the mutual interference between the mental and material planes.
The soul cloak!
Yes. Yes. He had just thought of the 'paintbrush' and 'canvas', but he wasn't able to understand the method of interference clearly. It was the soul cloak!
Luo Nan still remembered that he had just comprehended the mysteries of the Condensation Ring that day. He had used it as a medium to forcefully interfere with the material world, allowing him to bring the external neuron to Gear and open the mysterious door leading to the cloud world. It was during this process that the soul cloak was molded and formed with the help of the Condensation Ring, allowing his soul strength to truly cross the boundary between the mental and material planes. He realized a breakthrough from zero to one, achieving an unprecedented interference effect.
His sense of familiarity came from this.
The cloak … Could the interference effect of the Dripping Sword be like this?
No. It was the same method. The difference between having and not having a clear direction was enormous. And Luo Nan was used to the Condensation Ring, which had no killing power at all. If he were to add the support structures one by one, what sort of effect would there be?
He really wanted to test it out right now!
Luo Nan nearly left his body right away. Luckily, he still remembered what time it was right now. Once his soul left his body, his fleshly body would be tantamount to an empty shell. He might not be able to react in time if he encountered an unexpected event.
He was still able to distinguish between priorities and urgency.
But if this was the case … So what if he didn't leave his body?
In any case, it was a method of mutual interference between the mental and the material. It didn't seem to matter if he left his body or not. At most, he could make the external neuron in his brain change its form. It would change from a fluid form that was as bright as a dragon to a fixed form like the Condensation Ring.
Would there be any danger?
Luo Nan didn't think too much about it. In fact, the external neuron in his brain had already coiled and twisted the moment his philosophy changed, forming a perfect Condensation Ring structure.
Then, a cool and comfortable feeling spread out from his brain. It was as if a layer of mint had been smeared near his brain. It was cold, cool, and extremely comfortable. Was this the Condensation Ring letting water seep out?
Huh!
Luo Nan's body suddenly froze when this thought was confirmed. Then cold sweat flowed down. He had actually condensed the Condensation Ring in his brain, and he had even allowed it to freely absorb water molecules …
This was a standard case of pouring water into his brain!
It must be known that water made up 70% of a human's body weight. With the powerful might of the Condensation Ring, it only took a breath to separate and purify bodily fluids and condense them into a bead of water. If he had placed several support structures into the ring, his brain might have exploded by now.
This was a high-end way of dying that not even the cloned rats had enjoyed. Presumably, it would be passed down in Xia City and even the entire inner world, becoming a joke for a hundred years.
Luo Nan's body was covered in cold sweat, and he wanted to immediately disperse the structure. However, the cool and comfortable feeling continued. The Condensation Ring formed by the external neuron did not form a substantial bead of water to fill his brain. Only the cool feeling continued to spread. It seeped from his brain to his face, to his neck, to his chest, back, waist, and finally to his legs and even the tips of his fingers. Even his hair was seeping with cool air.
This cool feeling was like an endlessly expanding membrane that covered every corner of his body. It continued to expand outward, brushing past the surrounding void as if it were weightless.
At this very moment, the three Deep Blue Walkers, who were equipped with advanced sensing equipment, did not discover any abnormalities. Only Cat Eyes looked at him with some confusion, but she did not obtain any concrete results.
What followed was a feeling that grew more and more familiar. It was exactly the same as the soul cloak that unfurled after his soul left his body. This marvelous cloak that hovered between the tangible and the intangible simultaneously unfurled toward the mental and material worlds.
On the mental plane, it drifted in the polar domain. On the material plane, it affected the microscopic. From beginning to end, it maintained a certain distance from the world that ordinary people were used to, yet it could cut in at any time.
Luo Nan's grasp on the mental plane was quite good. After all, this was a mysterious and undetermined region. What he saw was what he got. What he knew was everything. But on the microscopic plane, a thousand years of physics development had already drawn the basic picture of the microscopic world. With the existing knowledge system, Luo Nan was certain that his submicron level sensing precision was far from being able to touch the true microscopic world.
However, the marvelous effects of the Condensation Ring manifested here. He really could not see it, but he could clearly feel the marvelous disturbances within the area covered by his mental senses. The atmosphere, the building, and the human body were like the gentle flapping of a cloak.
And when Luo Nan's thoughts took effect, the boundless power that came from the mental side instantly suppressed the relevant disturbances. The cloak expanded and rippled according to his thoughts. It was as if it ruled the entire microscopic plane.
With Luo Nan's current knowledge structure, wanting to give this phenomenon an accurate and comprehensive explanation was tantamount to a lunatic's ravings. He did not count on this. He just needed to use his own clairvoyance to decipher it.
This was an interference painting that used the Condensation Ring as the tip of the brush and the surrounding material plane as the canvas. The cloak was the result of the painting. But this result was a product of the unconscious. It could change at any time as Luo Nan's consciousness entered it. All he needed to know was what direction the change was.
And so, he needed to have a clear train of thought.
But new information formed within the natural disturbances of the cloak before Luo Nan could sort things out. It was transmitted back. The high-speed moving target caused the natural disturbances on the microscopic plane to deform. Large amounts of ingenious hedging operations were carried out, causing the traces to be mostly canceled out before they could be transmitted to the normal perceptible plane. The traces were ingeniously buried within the multifarious and complex flow of information.
The technique was marvelous, but these operations appeared excessively noisy if one were to use the microscopic background as a reference. They were too orderly and deliberate.
The motorcycle gang!
The concrete facts had just been restored to Luo Nan's mind when another stimulus followed. Compared to the exquisite and peerless concealment and control of the cloak, this wave was simply an explosive attack.
Luo Nan did not need to decode too much to figure out the direction and the concrete changes. It was the explosive growth history of a cell. Under the effect of some inconceivable method, a single cell rapidly absorbed an enormous amount of energy on the submicron scale. It borrowed this energy to carry out a frenzied fission and proliferation. Then it completed the transformation from a single cell to a complete life form. Then it divided and proliferated, a complete set of processes.
As for the appearance of the proliferated life form, Luo Nan had already encountered it countless times before.
The gray and white rat shadows were like flowing turbid liquid. They sprinkled down one after another, converging into a river and surging out like a tide.
Luo Nan was just about to issue an alarm when the information from the energy center entered the mission channel. The relevant monitoring personnel discovered this situation at practically the same time as Luo Nan through the changes in the power supply curve.
The energy system controlled by the supercomputer reacted faster than humans by a thread. The energy supply was cut off the moment the problem appeared. However, the enemy only needed a split second to do so.
It was a mechanism that had been planted in place long ago.
Plus, those were probably not real rats.
Luo Nan noticed that this wave of gray and white rat tide did not realize a complete conversion of mass and energy. The things that surged out from the energy center were more like phantoms of the rat tide than the rat tide. They existed between reality and illusion.
Perhaps this was closer to the essence of the enemy's design. The rats were not just rats. They were special networks that were used to shift enormous pressure and increase the operating space.
The network was just a network. The true killer move still lay in the concealed fellow who had yet to emerge.
Luo Nan could not afford to delay no matter what. He could not afford to delve any deeper into his research. He followed closely the warning information raised by the energy center. Through the functions of the Psychic Wave Network, he directly made changes to the intelligence map integrated into the mission channel.
But the problem was that he was actually unable to make changes!
According to the feedback from the Psychic Wave Network system, there was an even higher level of authority to synchronize the operation, and the overlap rate reached 100%.
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