Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 209 Spiral
"Mythical beast?" Lapis Lazuli's tone changed slightly: "A non-human creature that possesses psychic-like abilities, or has embarked on the path to become a psychic?"

"Yes, that's it."

The psychic energy spread from the five fingers to the inside of the lizard man's body. Without even turning his head, Song Shi said casually: "The target of the Tao is always the psychic."

"However, over the past few thousand years, those non-human intelligent creatures that gave birth to civilizations, such as the Varro Zerg and the Ivan Fairies, have basically been slaughtered by humans. The same is true for the mythical beasts. The sufficiently 'intelligent' communities have all been exterminated. Therefore, humans now occupy an absolute dominant position in the Tao."

"Seriously speaking, the current state of your omnics is already the best. After all, the world cannot live without the application of AI nowadays, and as long as AI exists, new omnics will always be born."

Feeling the uncontrollable and fluctuating spiritual energy of Lapis Lazuli next to him, Song Shi chuckled: "But I don't have any opinion on you. To be honest, if I really have to choose, it will definitely be more exciting to kill those company executives."

Lapis Lazuli remained silent, but the lines on his body flashed.

It is difficult for it to distinguish whether the fluctuating data flow in its body at this moment is due to the external influence of being in the abyss, or the emotional fluctuations caused by hearing the other party's words.

In other words, even if it has a self and awakened psychic powers, as an intelligent machine that is completely different from humans, can the former's definition of "emotion" really be applied to it?

There is only one thing that Lapis Lazuli is absolutely certain of.

If we really use "emotion" to explain it.

——At this moment, it felt angry and sad.

Then, in silence, the omnic slowly pushed these fluctuating data streams to the bottom of the stack.

Noticing the change in his companion, Song Shi nodded, and his tone suddenly changed: "Wait a minute, there is a problem."

"Mythical beast. This lizardman's structure is similar to that of a mythical beast."

Feeling the information coming from the psychic energy flowing into the other person's body, the young man frowned slightly: "I don't know much about bioengineering and fantasy beast anatomy, so I can't give an opinion on the biological structure, but from the perspective of 'psychic energy', this guy gives me the feeling that he is more like..."

"-Projection." Lapis Lazuli suddenly spoke.

Song Shi raised his eyebrows, looking a little surprised. He turned his head and glanced at the other person: "You figured it out too?"

After eating and living together for so many days, both sides have become familiar with each other.

Song Shi had evaluated in his mind that the psychic power displayed by Lapis Lazuli was enough to be described as "extraordinarily gifted."

If Gloria Groden, the "complete person" who was given high hopes by Fubo Energy, had not died in his hands, she would have a high chance of entering the fourth ring in the future - and Lapis Lazuli would probably be on par with her.

To be more precise, both sides have their own strengths, but are at the same level overall.

Among these strengths, "perception" is definitely not Lapis Lazuli's strong point.

But at this moment, the other party could actually feel it?
You know, even I spent a little time thinking about it just now.

"I just realized it, too." As if worried that the other party might misunderstand him, Lapis Lazuli considered his words carefully before saying, "Thirty-four seconds ago, I suddenly realized that my senses had become more acute."

"Wonderful, could it be that there are improvements for special groups here?"

"The judgment criteria, for the two of us, species? Path?" Song Shi's gaze paused on the lapis lazuli for a moment, and then he decisively decided to put the matter aside for the time being: "My feeling is the same as yours. The sense of substance this lizardman gives me is very subtle."

"It's very close to the mythical beast, almost identical - your 'projection' is very accurate."

"This thing is like a completely printed projection. It has a prototype, so it's real enough. But because it's a projection, even though it looks exactly the same, it gives me a sense of unreality when I actually touch it."

"Its essence is a 'projection'. The fantasy beast is just a superficial illustration. Even if it looks the same and behaves the same, it is not a real fantasy beast after all."

"Interesting, very interesting." Song Shi's eyes gradually lit up: "I have also seen some psychic skills with similar effects, but only to this extent."

He praised generously, commenting: "The psychic who projected this thing must have achieved great accomplishments.

The next moment, under the gaze of Lapis Lazuli and Song Shi, the lizard man suddenly shook, and the whole body quickly collapsed, but in the blink of an eye, it all turned into scattered light spots!

The movements of the two were by no means slow, but neither the suddenly rising gravity field cage nor the engulfing flames could prevent the corpse from dissipating.

Song Shi narrowed his eyes.

At the same time as the lizard man disappeared, a ray of spiritual energy flowed into his body, which was the gift of [Survival of the Fittest].

This feeling was not unfamiliar to him. These days, while he was killing derivatives in the abyss and exploding a large number of useless technological blueprints, his accumulation of spiritual energy was also progressing rapidly.

But this time, compared with the previous "redundant psychic energy" that needed the forging flame to separate out impurities and then slowly digested by itself, the psychic energy provided by this lizardman to himself was quite clean. No, it was not just clean, it could be said to be "catering" to himself!
If it is described as food, then in the past it was a bitter medicine containing dregs and difficult to swallow, but now it is a mild and sweet juice that requires almost no effort to digest.

——But this shouldn’t be the case.

The simplest point is, how could a psychic not hate the person who killed him? If by chance or if the original power was very strong, it could even affect the environment of the place of death for a long time, and even give rise to undead spirits such as "earthbound spirits".

While in the abyss, under the rule of [Survival of the Fittest], he could obtain a portion of the opponent's spiritual energy - but because of the hatred that was contained within, it would take a lot of effort to dissipate it before he could truly use it for himself.

How could it be so easy like it is now?

At this moment, a ball of white light suddenly appeared at the location of the Lizardman's body.

The ball of light flickered for a moment, and the light it contained quietly dissipated. Among the scattered points of light, there was a fuzzy data stream that was constantly breaking and reorganizing at an unimaginable speed.

Then, it paused, and the countless free information units suddenly closed together, and under the gaze of the two visitors, they turned into a "key".

The specific material of this "key" is unknown. Its top is quite rare, like an iron tree growing and blooming with a large number of irregular branches.

"Is this the access key?" Lapis Lazuli projected a blue light and continuously scanned the "key", with an uncontrollable surprise in his tone: "But this encryption algorithm..."

"What do you mean?" Song Shi observed the key.

"If I'm not mistaken, this is the access key that will allow us to arrive here in a certain direction in the future. After falling here, I have been trying to crack the address, but there is no progress at all."

Lapis Lazuli stared at the key, the blue light becoming brighter and brighter. "The essence of this access key is an encryption algorithm. It's normal that you can't see it."

"The overall idea of ​​this encryption algorithm is very clever, but the actual algorithm structure is a bit outdated. No, it cannot be said to be completely outdated. Its algorithm structure is a mixture of new and old." It hesitated for a moment and spoke cautiously: "I may know the situation of this place."

Without waiting for Song Shi to ask, Lapis Lazuli stated the conclusion directly.

"This domain was definitely not created recently. The oldest part of the algorithm of this key can be traced back to more than a decade ago."

"As for the new part, it is located in the abyss. This network domain is like a whale. It only needs to open its mouth and slowly skim across the ocean to devour a large amount of plankton. This place should have absorbed some of the technological achievements that have sunk into the abyss in recent years in this way and improved the algorithm."

“That’s why there are both new and old, but I need more information about the reason and purpose of the birth of this domain.”

The key suddenly shook.

Song Shi and Lapis Lazuli looked at each other and neither chose to take the key immediately.

The key jiggled again.

It kept shaking between the intelligent machine and the young man, as if it was hesitating about something, and soon, it finally stopped shaking, turned into a stream of light, and suddenly poured into Song Shi's body!
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"I see."

The woman slowly opened her eyes, her red pupils filled with an indescribable beauty.

Looking at the passage ahead, she slowly opened her five fingers, and the outline of the key emerged little by little, with iron branches blooming wildly.

"Finally found it." The demon named "Yushuyi" smiled faintly: ".One of the legacies of the Freedom Revolution."

(End of this chapter)