Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 750 Food Chain

"Before I reached the pinnacle of Emerald Pharmaceuticals, I could not do projects purely out of interest. I was also forced to do tasks and expectations given by the company's top management. I have collaborated with many people and have also led several students and assistants."

The two looked at each other from a distance without moving. Apotoka put his hands in his pockets, as if there was no sea of ​​fire burning the city around him, but he was in an auditorium where a lecture was being held.

"Humans are social creatures. We have been included in the evaluation system since the moment we were born. Most people, including the employees of Emerald Pharmaceuticals, think that I am a cold and taciturn person who is used to immersing myself in my own world."

“This is a fallacy.”

Apotoka took his time.

"The only reason I don't talk to them too much is because it's meaningless. For the same question, some people only need a few words of my explanation to get the answer, while some people, or should I say most people, will just look at you blankly no matter how long you talk and how patiently and meticulously you speak."

"Song Shi, you belong to that very small group of people. Well, among the people I am willing to talk to, you are also in the very small group."

"You seem to be unable to think of a solution to kill me for the time being, right?" Apotoka gave a faint smile: "In that case, why don't you listen patiently first."

"Your current body is much weaker than the first one."

Song Shi suddenly said.

What arrived before words were the sparks caused by the psychic skill [Suzaku Soul]. As if they had been lurking for a long time, a huge amount of sparks suddenly jumped out from the ocean and submerged Apotoka.

The next second, the latter broke through the sea of ​​flames, but he looked quite embarrassed, with ugly holes on his white coat, and obvious burns all over his body. You know, after the repeated evolution of "True Spirit: Survival of the Fittest", Apotoka did not completely ignore such attacks, but at least he responded calmly.

“Impatientness is a very bad quality.”

However, Apotoka's expression did not change at all, and his tone was still full of commentary: "It is an extremely dangerous process for a spider to shed its shell. It needs to shed its old, cramped shell with great difficulty first, but the new shell is very soft at first and needs to be waited for to gradually harden."

“I certainly can’t do it all at once.”

Apotoka said: "But, just because of this, you still want to take action now?"

He tapped his temple with his index finger.

"Even if this body has not yet evolved to its peak, I can still deal with you without using your true spirit. Believe me, during this period of time, the speed at which I have become stronger through 'survival of the fittest' will definitely exceed your expectations."

"If you use your true spirit."

Apotaka said nonchalantly, "Do I need to remind you as a pioneer that even we cannot use our true spirits at will without any cost? You can certainly destroy one, two, or three of my bodies. But I can still create a fourth, fifth, or sixth body. Are you willing to rely on a war of attrition to win? Who will reach the limit first?"

"--why not?"

Then, someone spoke.

Song Shi twisted his neck hard, his eyes like burning glass, and he sneered.

"Don't you know that I love gambling all my life?"

The roar like a natural disaster sounded again from afar, spreading and flooding over Song Shi's feet.

The battle between Chakoro and Ralph was entering a new climax. Indistinctly, it seemed that Chakoro had the upper hand, but the latter was as smooth as a koi fish, and his spiritual energy flowed and switched freely, making it impossible for Chakoro to achieve further results.

The sudden increase in the intensity of the battle between the two sides also attracted most of Paddy's attention, causing him to temporarily shift his sight away from Song Shi and Apotoka, and he plunged in without hesitation.

Song Shi no longer listened to the other party's words, raised his sword and chopped it down!
——“Total annihilation” [bad calamity]!
Although his speech was interrupted and he was hit with a killing move filled with destructive power, there was no trace of anger on Apotoka's face. The moment he disappeared from the spot, there was only unspeakable joy in his eyes.

But I couldn't avoid it completely!

The biological weapon transformed from the white coat was like a pufferfish with spikes all over its body. In the next second, it was brushed by the heavy killer. Without even a sound, half of its body was gone on the spot.

Apotoka didn't even bother to look at his injuries, he swung his whip, and the twelve whip blades cut the atmosphere into pieces, trying to force Song Shi back and interrupt the latter's further pursuit.

Song Shi sneered, and his psychic skill [Black Body Curtain] rose up. He held the whip blade tightly and advanced instead of retreating. He rushed forward with [Chongxiao] fiercely. In a flash of light, he rushed to a range that was within reach of both sides!

One hundred meters.

Hand-to-hand combat.

Without gestures or sight, Apotoka's mind follows his thoughts.

In the small space, a hiltless sword appeared. It was thin, like a cicada's wing, and in less than one thousandth of a second, it extended outward - compared to a "sword", it became more like a "line".

A line that spans ten kilometers, so thin that it is almost invisible, but can divide the sky and the earth!
Psychics on the path of balance can obtain a high-dimensional perspective in human form. They can see the discontinuous flow of time and the degree of space warping, and gain all kinds of incredible abilities. Apotoka once spent a lot of time exploring how to construct a high-dimensional receiving organ through purely biological methods.

Finally, after repeated failures, Apotoka temporarily gave up receiving and chose another path.

Utilization.

When a star enters old age and dies, it gradually collapses inward, and its supermass is repeatedly compressed to form an extremely dense celestial body, whose gravity is enough to distort space and time. Even light cannot escape - this is the so-called black hole horizon.

The essence of Apotoka's "sword" is to output ultra-high intensity gravity waves in a short period of time, which in turn affects the stability of space, just like causing ripples on a calm lake - a product from space, even if it is just a ripple, can easily shatter the physical world.

A tiny crack in space is enough to cut through all solid matter in the world.

At such a close distance, there was no other way except to face it head-on. The barrier held up by [Black Body Curtain] only blocked the attack for an imperceptible moment, and then it was cut open silently, and the sea of ​​fire was separated smoothly.

At the same time, the True Glory Dharma Image waved its flames, and the blessing from "True Spirit·Destruction" caused everything to perish, leaving no trace. Even Apotoka's body, how could it withstand such destruction?

The remaining half of the body was devoured by the flames, leaving only smoke and ashes, which disappeared in a flash.

"Well, a high-level shot."

But the next moment, Apotoka's voice sounded again, emerging in the void and echoing around.

With the remaining heart as the center, flesh and bones spread rapidly, intertwined and entangled, once again outlining the outline of "Apotokal Leus". The man straightened his white coat, stood in the drifting fire, tilted his head slightly, and looked at Song Shi.

"Do you need to continue? You are not in a healthy state."

Hundreds of meters away, Song Shi lowered his eyes, his left arm was cut off at the root, and disappeared without a trace. The price he paid for launching that attack just now was that his left hand was cut off. He blew a breath, a fire was extinguished, and a huge amount of spiritual energy surged in, slowly solidifying into an arm.

I pinched my five fingers together a few times, and nothing was different.

Compared to this kind of injury that can be repaired quickly, his biggest problem at the moment is "total annihilation".

The other party made a long speech, and one thing he said was correct, the True Spirit could not be used endlessly. According to the different natures of each other's True Spirits, the consumption was different, but in essence, even for a fifth-ring psychic, the True Spirit was not a method that could be used recklessly.

Otherwise, Chakoro could have brought most of the people of Terra to a state of death by now.

Song Shi couldn't say what happened to the other fifth-ring true spirits, but his own "annihilation" could be said to be a double-edged sword. It was certainly unstoppable in killing people, but it was equally ruthless when it came to cutting oneself. If one was not careful, a big hole would be burned.

And having fought all the way to this point, and having crushed the other party's two bodies one after another, it was impossible not to pay a price, and his own state.
"Is my condition unhealthy? Why do I feel fine?"

Song Shi tapped the bloody pupils. "Your true spirit 'Survival of the Fittest' is constantly analyzing [Liuli Guan] and evolving a new observation and countermeasure system. If you use other observation-type psychic skills, it will indeed be difficult and you won't know where to start, but [Liuli Guan] is different."

"It's not an eye, it's just a way of seeing things." Song Shi said the image that was born from it: "--clear inside and out, pure and without any blemish."

"The longer you fight me, and the deeper your entanglement, the clearer it can see." Song Shi said word by word: "I have gradually seen your true outline."

Apotoka stared at the former for a few seconds, then suddenly smiled: "It sounds like you have the upper hand and are sure to win."

"——But why didn't you win?"

Song Shi slowly lowered his heavy knife.

——He didn't lie just now.

As long as the fight continues, [Liuliguan] will indeed be able to find out the opponent's true body little by little, and then blast out [Yixitian] to decide life and death.

But therein lies the problem. Apotoka's "True Spirit·Survival of the Fittest" cannot stop Liuliguan. However, the incomparable fierce evolution and the targeted observation and countermeasure system can greatly delay the process of Liuliguan seeing its true self.

If you really want to kill Apotoka, you have to keep fighting, you have to keep fighting until you can successfully touch the opponent's true body.

Otherwise, we will just follow what we said before and fight a war of attrition to see who reaches the limit first.
That must be because I reached my limit first.

With all his cultivation, he had plunged headlong into the path of destruction, never looking back. Even now, even a simple attack was still extremely powerful. Facing the opponent's new body that had been reshaped from scratch and whose strength had significantly decreased, in theory, he could easily burn it to ashes in a few encounters.

We will kill as many as they come and we are not afraid of the so-called war of attrition.

However, "True Spirit: Survival of the Fittest" greatly enhanced the efficiency of the new body's strength increase. If you are not careful, a few encounters will turn into a dozen, dozens, or even hundreds of encounters.

Unless one uses one's own true spirit to achieve "total annihilation".

That would indeed achieve a quick kill, but it was equivalent to exchanging non-renewable resources for renewable resources, a first-rate loss-making deal. Even if the two sides exchanged their true spirits, Apotokal Lius, as a fifth-ring psychic who had reached the second stage, had accumulated more experience in this area than himself.

Most likely you can't afford it.

This is real. It's a bit troublesome.

"Well, you said you like gambling?"

Apotoka paced in the stratosphere and did not initiate the attack: "Now it seems that this sentence is not a lie. You put yourself on the gambling table, believing that you can kill me. From a statistical point of view, the moment you made this decision, the balance of victory inevitably tilted towards me."

"——So, I am willing to provide you with an opportunity to increase your chances of winning."

Although he spoke in a suggestion tone, Apotoka's posture remained unchanged. He put his hands in his pockets and stood not very straight.

But at this moment, Song Shi could no longer focus on people.

Liuli's fiery pupils suddenly widened.

The center of the vast sea of ​​fire suddenly caved in, as if some huge existence had descended, and then slowly stretched out its body - just this one movement, it forcibly created a space in the sea of ​​fire.

Behemoth?

No.

It is not something so concrete, but something more abstract that cannot be said to be abstract, because there are clearly real creatures that appear in our field of vision.

The earthworm struggled and was thrown into the ocean. A small fish smelling the fishy smell swam over quickly, but before it could take a bite, it was swallowed by the bloody mouth that suddenly opened behind it. It was a sea fish that was obviously larger in size.

It was chewing contentedly, but for a moment it wasn't paying attention, and was bitten by a giant conger eel hiding in the seaweed. It was instantly torn in half, and the air was filled with blood mist. The fishy smell spread far away, and other creatures, active in groups, swarmed in, starting a long and protracted fight.

More than just the ocean.

The sky, the earth, the dense forests, the swamps, the glaciers, and even the bacterial communities in the petri dishes under the microscope, those simple organisms with a single cell nucleus, also follow the instincts imprinted in the deepest levels of their genes, launching endless and brutal fights to compete for a higher level of life.

The individual believed to be "Apotka Leus" disappeared at some point.

Instead, there was a floating outline that was hazy yet clear, vast yet visible. The illusory word "world" appeared in front of Song Shi for the first time with a concrete outline.

This is the real Apotokari Leus.

Song Shi concentrated his mind.

The second stage of his true spirit, "Survival of the Fittest", clearly uses itself as a framework to accommodate a miniature ecosystem that never stops and evolves eternally!

The human form he showed to the general public was just a part of this miniature ecosystem - so even if it was shattered by "annihilation", he didn't care.

Throughout the ages, countless species have become extinct in this world and in the Terra ecosystem, but Terra has continued to exist steadily to this day.

Apotoka's voice echoed back into the void.

"Now, do you see clearly?"

".Yeah." Song Shi said.

There was no need for a long fight anymore. The opponent was so calm and almost arrogant that he took the initiative to show his true body.

[Liuliguan] has already taken note of it. Now, even if the other party hides his true form again, it will be a natural thing for him to catch him again.

"Are you so confident that if I blast out [A Crack in the Sky] right now, can you survive?"

"First, I am the 'Creator' of Terra, Apotaka Leus." Apotaka said calmly, "Second, you will not choose this path."

".Ah."

After a long while, Song Shi's shoulders shook, and then laughter rang out, getting louder and louder, and more and more intense, and he laughed wildly.

"You are so confident, how can I refuse you? Let's use this to decide life and death!"

Song Shi's whole body suddenly condensed, and his whole body was shining with dazzling light, like stars.

Immediately, the star had no more hesitation, and like a ray of fire from the sky, it plunged straight into the miniature ecosystem in front of it!

"bring it on--"

Apotoka finally laughed, as if something he had been waiting for for a long time had finally appeared before him, and he was so happy that he could hardly suppress it.

"—Do your best to get to the top of the food chain."

(End of this chapter)