Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 185: Accumulation and Depth 4
Two figures passed each other on the data tablet of the external adaptive sensor handle.

Both sides kept swinging their weapons, releasing waves, blocking and parrying, making a crackling sound - although virtual reality games occupy the vast majority of the game market share, after a long time, some people have become electronically impotent and have turned to trying this kind of non-virtual reality technology game.

As a giant enterprise in advertising media, new religion, entertainment and social networking, news and digital content production, [Dust Contract Generation] has not ignored this share. It has specially allocated a part of its development resources to import a large number of high-quality or low-quality non-virtual reality games into the market every year.

A few seconds later, a female character wearing a revealing shrine maiden skirt and holding a sickle seized the opportunity when the opponent made a mistake in parrying, and launched a series of ultra-high-speed combos with gorgeous special effects, instantly clearing the health bar of the dragon character in front holding a long sword.

Two seconds later, two lines of text popped up.

【ez】

[Haha, what a loser]

Song Shi was furious and slapped the handle: "Lapis Lazuli! Log in!"

Lapis Lazuli in the distance immediately flew over, the sphere flipped over, and several thin cables stretched out and connected to the data tablet, while clicking the "Apply for Another Fight" option.

Twelve minutes later, Lapis Lazuli once again finished with a set of extremely difficult ultimate 100 combos, killing the opponent cleanly and neatly, winning twelve consecutive victories, and ending this game called "Atlantira Duel Ring (10th Anniversary Edition)" amid the opponent's curses.

Song Shi took a sip of the drink contentedly.

At this moment, the communication rang.

Gwenlin sent a text message, which was concise: "The stuff has arrived."

"Quite fast."

Seeing this message, Song Shi raised his eyebrows, got up and went downstairs.

He currently lived in the third district, which was one of the outer city areas controlled by the Enlightened Ones. However, he did not move into a special base, but just found an ordinary apartment building to live in.

--call.

I pushed open the door of the apartment, and in the dim sky, a strong cold wind blew towards me.

Although the Enlightened Ones successfully deployed a "geothermal power plant", the environment in Forged Light City - or more precisely, the outer city area - is still too harsh. The geothermal power plant can only alleviate this situation but cannot eliminate it.

As long as the "macro-state light energy matrix" that covers the sky and monopolizes the sun in its palm still exists, the Rokar Plain with the City of Forged Light as its center will have no hope of being bathed in sunlight.

But at this moment, these have little to do with Song Shi.

A huge rectangular box appeared in front of the main entrance of the apartment.

Song Shi took some time to move the box back to the room.

After opening the box, there was a bathtub-sized, alloy-made [Deep Diving Chamber]. The usage permissions had been unlocked in advance. With a tap on the light blue surface, the deep diving chamber silently unfolded, with countless honeycomb-like patterns on the inside.

"--How about it?"

Song Shi turned his head and looked at Lapis Lazuli.

“The specifications in all aspects are not low.”

It turned on the detection unit to scan and circled the submersible. "With me and this equipment, plus your psychic power, as long as you are careful, even the risk factor of depth 4 can be within an acceptable range for us."

It is now the second day that Lapis Lazuli wakes up.

After sleeping for three days, the intelligent machine finally woke up at midnight last night.

It turned from a necklace into a sphere again, and floated towards the balcony under Song Shi's gaze, where it hovered for a long time, staring at the night sky in silence.

that time.

".I remembered something." After a long time, the robot turned around.

It looked at the young man leaning against the window with his arms folded: "I 'saw' myself in the local network of the abyss, communicating with many different consciousnesses, and I 'saw' myself fighting with the enemy, and the sky was covered by endless artillery fire."

The omnic whispered, "But I still can't recall most of my memories, and even these are only brief, intermittent images."

"But one thing is certain...I have definitely experienced these scenes."

At that moment, Lapis Lazuli didn't look like an omnic at all. Instead, it looked like a hesitant gambler. It hesitated and murmured, "And these images must be from the period of the Freedom Revolution. Am I really 'Yaoxing III'?"

"Does this matter?" Song Shi asked after a while.

"Whether you are Yaoxing San or Lapis Lazuli, it all depends on what you want to do." Song Shi yawned and said directly: "There is only one question, what do you plan to do?"

"If you don't plan to do anything, then either retreat into the abyss, or use an agent vest and roam the pure network domain. If all else fails, go to Thousand Star City. Anyway, its establishment is closely related to you Omnics, so at least you can go in and become an administrator."

"If you don't want to play online, then you can just make an anthropomorphic body and hide away somewhere. After all, you are a second-ring transcendent who works part-time as a [Devil]. As long as you don't do anything stupid, it won't be hard to live a happy life."

"And if you don't plan to do that, and still want to seek rights for the intelligent machines, gain freedom, and expand the tribe and so on..."

"——Promotion." Song Shi tilted his head and said calmly: "You can't even remember what level your peak state is. Of course, I don't know either, but there must be a third level."

"You survived such a serious injury. This is a miracle. As a [Transcendence], do you still intend to stop at the third ring?"

"Exhaust your will, burn your blood and soul, and go through thousands of hardships in exchange for another miracle, so that you can be promoted to the fourth ring with dignity."

He was clearly looking at her at eye level, but suddenly, Lapis Lazuli had the illusion that the other person was looking down at him.

The young man spoke each word with a tone that sounded like he was explaining the truth: "Only then will you have the power to truly choose."

"You can be Lapis Lazuli, the new leader who leads the omnics in their struggle." "You can also be Yaoxing III, possessing the power of the fourth ring. How many people dare to confront and question you? No one will be able to deny whether you are real or fake. You can inherit Yaoxing III's legacy and be reborn with its appearance and name."

Lapis Lazuli remained silent and did not answer.

And when time goes back to the present.

"Blood Battle in the Abyss."

Song Shi stretched his body and lay down in the deep diving chamber.

Lapis Lazuli followed closely and changed its state again. The sphere collapsed and dissolved, turning into strands of dark blue liquid flowing around Song Shi and seeping into the high-performance deep diving chamber provided by the Enlightened One.

——Song Shi already knew the other party’s psychic skills.

Simply put, the psychic skills that Lapis Lazuli currently masters are divided into two parts: "virtual" and "real".

The former includes network specialization and active senses, while the latter is self-maintenance and gravity control - a "supernatural organ" created by combining psychic skills with mechanical equipment. Lapis Lazuli has a certain degree of self-repair ability and can freely adjust gravity to achieve various operations.

The two sides conducted an assessment last night. With a full-strength attack from Lapis Lazuli, the gravity field can crush an area with a radius of 20 meters, including this four-story apartment, into pieces.

There are six psychic skills in total.

——That is, the “median position of the second ring” under standard circumstances.

Dividing the realm of psychics by the number of psychic skills they have mastered is definitely not rigorous, but it is undoubtedly the most widely circulated and most commonly used way of division.

After all, every time a psychic skill is engraved, it will be a burden for the psychic. This burden needs time to be completely digested, and it also requires enough strength from the psychic to support it. From this aspect, this division method makes sense.

As early as in his previous life, before he stepped into the third ring, Song Shi knew one thing - he was special.

To be precise, it was me, Chakoro, and Renata...

Even if they exhaust the entire planet and look at all the countries and forces, there are only a few dozen monsters in the world. They can easily bear the burden brought by psychic skills and quickly transform them into power that flows freely.

One can be free from, or "not care about" such restrictions and engrave psychic skills in advance.

——The number of fire seeds I have now is fourteen.

In my previous life, when I was at the peak of the second ring, I had twenty-four fire seeds. Even though the upper limit might be raised again in this life, judging by the number of fire seeds, I am still in the middle of the second ring.

Under normal circumstances, he should only possess three second-ring psionic skills—but now, he has acquired five.

Excluding the extra space given by the path, there is no mention of the sixth psychic skill that Chakoro promised he would be responsible for.

Therefore, compared to normal psychics, there is no gap in psychic skills between himself and the peak of the second ring, but it is only limited to simple "accumulation"!
With a hissing sound, the cold air was discharged from the sealed threshold door and the cabin door was completely closed.

The vision suddenly darkened, and in the next moment, the world lit up again. A faint blue light spread along the inner matrix, and an orange-red liquid poured in, slowly submerging Song Shi.

Snap.

A simple blue prompt box pops up.

[Neural connection completed]

Song Shi closed his eyes.

"Accumulation" is the simplest and most troublesome thing.

It doesn't require extraordinary talent, but it does require time and effort. But because of this, even I can't skip this stage directly.

[Empathy system activated, floating beacon anchored]

Of course, the speed at which he accumulated knowledge was definitely far beyond that of most psychics, but no matter how fast it was or how short the time was, it still took time.

Originally, he planned to spend a year to complete the accumulation, and then be promoted to the third ring again - two years to enter the third ring, even with his own talent, it can be said to be terrible.

In my previous life, it also took me seven years to advance to the third level.

[Unnamed external link device detected, requesting.]

The cold mechanical sound was stuck for a moment, and soon, a low voice took its place.

[——Deep diving auxiliary countermeasure, "Lapis Lazuli" is now online]

But now, the accumulation process is accelerated by the "bloody battle in the abyss".
Even I am a little curious about how much I can shorten the time.

……Ah.

I hope the abyss will not let me down.

The next moment, a huge sense of weightlessness suddenly arose, and the pixels that maintained the world blurred and collapsed. In the gorgeous and bizarre light, all things were reorganized in destruction and rebirth.

Visitors from the upper world fell into the lower world, crossing the magnificent wall that connected heaven and earth.

Fallen Domain: [Abyss].

——Depth 4, [Coastal Ruins].

(End of this chapter)