Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 212 Spokesperson

"--nineteen."

In the bathtub, Song Shi sat cross-legged and slowly opened his eyes.

There was an indelible red in the depths of the pupils, as if they were burning.

But as Song Shi blinked, the red color quickly faded away.

The situation was exactly as they had guessed. The abyss network domain similar to the "duel arena" was definitely closely related to the intelligent machines and even the former Freedom Revolution.

During these ten days, he and Lapis Lazuli entered the cave every day, and all the opponents they encountered were intelligent machines - to be more precise, they were all the corpses of intelligent machines that had fallen into a deformed and insane state.

The strongest ones among them even have psychic powers that can reach the third level.

But they had lost their sanity, and their own psychic energy had been polluted, so facing the alliance between him and Lapis Lazuli, these guys could only be described as "a bit troublesome".

——Within ten days, a total of twenty-one intelligent machines were killed.

Song Shi stretched out his right hand.

The color of the flames was reflected on the pure white tiled walls of the bathroom, creating ripples in the puddles on the floor.

one two Three
Twenty red-gold balls of light quietly emerged and quietly surrounded the young man.

The number of [Fire Seeds] has accumulated to twenty, and only the last eight are left to reach the peak of the second ring and enter the realm of the third ring.

Song Shi turned his wrist, and the flames dissipated instantly. He got up from the bathtub and walked towards the living room.

At the innermost side of the living room, a temporary workroom was brightly lit. Lapis Lazuli was suspended in the center, with a large number of cables extending from its body and plugged into various facilities, absorbing and discharging a large amount of electricity and computing power resources - this scene has lasted for ten days.

In addition to diving into the Abyss Domain every day, it stays here almost all day and all night, constantly analyzing the memory data of the distorted intelligent machines they have killed. At the same time, it uses various channels to secretly collect relevant information and conduct continuous comparisons.

There have been some results.

The first distorted omnic they killed was a heavy tank named "FR8". It was the product of a militarized combination of an intelligent control auxiliary program and a heavy tank. It became the only omnic among the thirty-four brothers and sisters that awakened its "self-awareness".

During a battle in the wasteland, the enemy, which had been carefully hiding its awakening, found an opportunity and took a chance in the chaotic battle situation. It took several artillery bombardments and at the cost of most of its body being scrapped, forcing the accompanying engineering unit to give up the idea of ​​towing it back for recycling. After dismantling the high-value components, it was abandoned on the spot in the wasteland.

After waiting for a while, it successfully escaped.

According to historical records, after the outbreak of the [Freedom Revolution], FR8 responded to the call and was active for a period of time in the early days, but then disappeared - the situation was extremely chaotic at the time, and no one cared about such a small role.

Now it seems that the other party's true fate is that he sank into the [Abyss] for some unknown reason.

In the fragmented memory data of FR8 obtained by Lapis Lazuli, the former only saw the strong hatred and anger that filled every scene. After extremely tedious and painful unraveling, Lapis Lazuli barely extracted some useful information.

——It seems that the intelligent machines, including FR8, entered this network domain voluntarily or under duress for some reason.

boom.

Song Shi knocked on the wall.

"——It's time to stop."

He leaned against the door of the workshop and looked at Lapis Lazuli. "Don't tell me you don't know how much of a burden it is on the mind to continuously accept these memory data contaminated by the abyss."

"By then you will be indirectly contaminated and fall into madness. What will happen to the one year of service you provided to me?"

".I know my limits." After a long while, Lapis Lazuli's voice sounded.

There was clearly no change in the voice, but with Song Shi's perception ability, he could clearly feel that there was great fatigue in the other person's voice.

"I'm sure of my condition. I'm not yet." "I know." Song Shi interrupted him, "I know you can still hold on for a while, otherwise how could I tell you this? I would have unplugged your power and network cables long ago."

"Chakoro asked me to come over. The zero element crystal of [Liaoyuan] has arrived."

"Before I come back, stop all of this and do a self-check for a while." Song Shi turned and walked out the door: "I have a hunch that when the countdown ends - in two days, we may be able to find out the truth."

"I only have one suggestion."

"Save some energy." Song Shi paused. When he was about to leave the house, he turned his head and looked at Lapis Lazuli: "At that time, after all, I am not an intelligent machine."

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"Ah, Mr. Song Shi, I would like to ask in advance, do you have any taboos about 'makeup'?"

In front of the makeup table filled with all kinds of bottles and jars, a short-haired woman looked in the mirror, then looked at the young man sitting in front of the table, and couldn't help but exclaimed: "To be honest, I think you don't even need any makeup, you can compare to those professional idols."

Honestly speaking, from her perspective as a senior makeup artist, judging from the facial features alone, the person in front of her is just above average. There is a clear gap compared to those professional idols who have their faces carefully customized down to every micro-expression.

But when these five features were combined together, and even when she met him in person, she was greatly surprised by the other person. She even secretly compared him with those customized idols in her heart, and then she had to admit that in terms of the "feeling" he gave her, he was far superior to anyone she had ever met before.

——Is this what is called temperament?

——Is this the change brought about by psychic power?
She thought to herself and heard the other party speak.

"There's nothing to worry about. Just do it as you like." Song Shi looked at the mirror. The black-haired young man tilted his head and looked at himself: "But try to be quick. After this, I have something else to do."

"No problem, no problem—"

Hearing this, the makeup artist clapped her hands and laughed: "Before I came here, my employer specifically told me to keep everything simple."

She stopped chatting as cracks appeared on her custom-made left prosthesis, which then blossomed like a flower, transforming into a multifunctional robotic arm hung with common makeup tools such as scalpels, micro cutters, screw machines, laser welders, powder puffs, lip brushes, and eyebrow pencils.

In just a few minutes, everything was done.

Song Shi nodded and stood up.

The other party's previous words did not seem to be simple business bragging. She did not apply heavy makeup, but just slightly modified some places to make it suitable for lighting.

"Mr. Song Shi, please come this way——"

The staff nearby had already set up the venue. When they saw Song Shi, they burst into great enthusiasm. Some even took out pens and wanted him to sign for them.

Song Shi sighed, took the pen, randomly signed his name on a few people's clothes, and then hurried into the venue.

There is a huge advertising wall at the venue, with the logo of Chunguang Drinks on it extremely eye-catching, and below it are illustrations of new products launched this quarter, three sports drinks with different flavors.

Not long ago, when Chakoro informed himself that [Liaoyuan] had arrived, he also asked a question.

"I say, since we're here now and you've been so popular lately, are you interested in endorsing us?"

Song Shi sighed deeply again.

He stepped onto the stairs and picked up a can of "Ultimate Explosive Saltpeter Flavor" sports functional soft drink from the pile of drinks next to him.

Song Shi unscrewed the pull ring and drank it all in one gulp.

The next moment, the young man threw the can with all his strength towards the flashing camera in front of him, with a bright smile on his face.

"——Drinks, I only drink 'Drunk Light'!"

(End of this chapter)