From the end of the world

Chapter 195 Out of the Cage 1
The magic spear concluded that I could not do anything to Chen Long. This judgment did not seem to be based on likes and dislikes or emotions, but was a conclusion drawn after rational thinking.

He probably saw the information about the "Portal Armor" and thought that it was not a skill that a fire user like me could conquer, but he certainly didn't know that I could forcibly break that skill with overwhelming strength. I was also advised not to try to conquer Chen Long under equal conditions before, so even if he said this in front of me now, I just thought it was a rehash of the old tune.

"For a fire user like you, the only way to break the 'portal armor' is to rely on overwhelming brute force. Pure power can trample on all rules, and even the most absurd supernatural mechanisms must follow this principle - I guess that's what you're thinking. But even if you really have a super killer move that can increase your firepower to that dimension, you are doomed to not be able to defeat Chen Long, at least not in that independent reality."

The magic gun seemed to see through my true thoughts. He continued, "I have read the information about that independent reality space. I have a rough idea of ​​why Chen Long can exert his full strength there.

"You just need to concentrate on dealing with Ying Lingyun's 'possible clone' and destroying that independent reality space.

"Chen Long...I will kill him."

Zhu Shi frowned and asked, "Why do you say Zhuang Cheng can't do it?"

"Why should I tell you? You'll all know soon enough anyway, so just keep on giving up your headache here."

I didn't expect that Shenqiang would say such a thing. Since we are now on the same front, we should share information that is valuable for the war. However, just like I thought of him as a target to be killed later, he certainly didn't really think of me as a partner.

Moreover, he was probably a person who cared more about his own mood than the overall situation - no, it should be said that in his opinion, his own mood was the overall situation, and whether the operation was going smoothly or not had to take a back seat.

Looking at the ruins of the building, he broke through the load-bearing structure of the Luoshan Office and kidnapped Ma Zao. He might not have intended to show his domineering style, but he didn't think too much. Whether the building would be broken or others would be affected, these questions did not appear in his mind at all, just like when a player controls an action game character to break into a passerby's house, he is too lazy to avoid obstacles such as tables, chairs, boxes and cabinets, and will not realize that something is wrong even if he smashes it to pieces.

Perhaps rules are like the walls of this building in the minds of people like them. The Great Perfection level Wuchang is a super individual who can destroy a great country single-handedly. Their perspective on human affairs is destined to be different from that of ordinary people. I vaguely feel that I have come into contact with a completely different set of values ​​from everyone I have come into contact with so far.

Even the immortal monster who called himself a "superman" in the past did not make me feel the perspective and values ​​of this super individual - although he called himself a "superman", he still unconsciously respected those in power, the law and morality, and his heart was full of rules and regulations.

This kind of transcendental thought is not unfamiliar to me, because I have been unconsciously looking at the world from a similar perspective since a long time ago. I also had a part in turning this building into ruins.

While speaking, the Sharpshooter was still observing my expression. I'm afraid he said that on purpose because he wanted to disrupt my mentality before the battle. That would only disappoint him. From the beginning, I had been planning to conquer the "Portal Armor" under equal conditions. If the brute force method was really sealed, it would stimulate my desire for challenge.

His "trash talk" can even be heard as a disguised form of "good news" in my ears.

Seeing that I remained calm, he smacked his lips, turned around and jumped.

Just like a rocket taking off, he rose from the ground and soared into the sky. Even this simple jump caused a violent shock wave and strong wind. He turned into a blurry dot in the sky, and then burst into silver light, like a flying meteor, passing through the night sky, leaving a straight trail cloud, and finally disappeared at the end of the horizon.

He actually ran away?
I turned around and asked Lu Youxun where he had gone. What if I wanted to kill him later but couldn't find him?
"He went to the old base of the Humanitarian Bureau to ambush in advance." Lu Youxun replied.

"Ambush..." I glanced into the distance.

The demon hunter team brought by the God Gun was still waiting in the distance. Since the God Gun was going to ambush the old base of the Humanitarian Division hundreds of kilometers away, why were these people still here? They were not the God Gun who could move at several times the speed of sound. Was it too late to set off for the old base of the Humanitarian Division now?

"They can't wait dozens of kilometers away from the target location like a sharpshooter. In order to avoid being detected by the Humanitarian Department, instead of letting this team ambush near the old base of the Humanitarian Department in advance, it is better to go directly to the battlefield through space transfer." Lu Youxun explained, "And this method requires Ma Zao's help. We hope that she can recreate the portal in the Monster Maker's 'Clinic' and let our team directly enter the interior of the old base of the Humanitarian Department.

"I made this request to her before when you were investigating the enemy base, and she agreed to it."

"Is that so?" I asked Ma Zao.

After the powerful enemy left, Ma Zao came close to me again. She nodded and said, "As long as there is a tool that can bear the burden of my soul, it will be fine."

Then, she glanced at the direction where the magic gun went away, and said ashamedly: "...Zhuang Cheng, I'm sorry, I can't help you and I have caused you trouble..."

"I just like you to cause me trouble," I said.

"Huh?" She was stunned.

"I mean...don't take it so seriously."

After changing my words, I looked at Lu Youxun and asked, "Are you in trouble too? The Sharpshooter seems very unhappy with you for hiding my information. Will he retaliate against you later?"

"Don't worry, he and I have some friendship, so I know how to get away with it. Rather than that, you should worry about her first." He glanced at Ma Zao, "It looks like the Sharpshooter won't let it go. What if he suddenly comes back and kidnaps her? With just the G on her wrist—"

"Ah-ah-"

Zhu Shi suddenly made a loud noise.

"Zhu Shi, what's wrong with you?"

Ma Zao looked puzzled, then looked at Lu Youxun and asked, "Also, were you talking about my bracelet? What's wrong with the bracelet?"

Lu Youxun's eyes swam back and forth between us. He said with a strange expression, "...Oh, nothing, don't worry about it." In order to divert Ma Zao's attention, I immediately brought the topic back to the topic, "I left the 'Firefly' here. Now my connection with the secret base is very smooth. The 'Firefly' here is equivalent to my being here."

"That's no problem." Lu Youxun nodded.

Now that the Luoshan office has been destroyed, it is not convenient for us to stay here any longer, so we went directly to the "clinic".

Fortunately, the agents stationed at the Luoshan Office were not seriously injured during the previous sniper attack. In fact, they were a little injured because the noise from the bombing of the Luoshan Office into ruins was too loud, causing them to have concussions and shatter their eardrums. Fortunately, there were many healing items in the ruins, and Lu Youxun used them on the agents, curing them in no time.

On the way, I also briefly checked my "harvest" -

When I attacked the Sharpshooter earlier, I did more than just burn his arm.

Having learned from the past experience and lessons of fighting Chen Long, the flames I release now not only have physical destructive power, but also have the power to specifically target the soul. The flames just now should have also caused damage to the soul of the magic gun to a certain extent. However, this is the first time I have consciously killed someone's soul, so the feeling is still relatively unfamiliar.

Strictly speaking, this is probably not the first time. In fact, when I burned the researchers and guards to death in the secret base of the Humanitarian Department, I also wanted to kill their souls. But to be frank, the opponent's level is not good enough. I can't tell whether the opponent died because of the soul being killed or was burned to death purely by the physical lethality of the flames.

Since the souls of the enemies I have killed so far have been burned into "slag", it means that my flames originally have the power to kill souls, but in the past I only unconsciously exerted this power. That level is not enough to deal with a great success-level enemy. But this time, I finally officially attacked the soul of a great success-level enemy.

The evidence is "slag".

After the killing shot, I had a large amount of "slag", which was more than half of the "slag" I had accumulated so far.

From this, we can conclude that "slag" is indeed different from the "experience points" in virtual games. In virtual games, you can judge whether the enemy is dead by whether you get "experience points", but "slag" can be converted as long as the soul is burned.

Judging from the reaction of the divine spear, the soul injury he suffered did not seem to be particularly severe. Because I only burned one of his arms, his soul probably only lost a corresponding amount of weight at most. Losing an arm is not a big deal for the Great Perfection level. Even if it is a soul-level injury, there are probably ways to repair it.

In fact, I think that "the damage suffered by the soul" should not be calculated in this way, or the loss of the soul should not be measured from a quantitative perspective... It's just that as a human being, I may only be able to cause quantifiable damage to the souls of others, similar to "damage equivalent to losing an arm in the human body" and so on.

As long as I can be less bound by the material world, maybe even if I only burn a finger of the magic spear, I can completely burn its soul... No, this is still bound by the material space-time cognition. Why must I first kill the other party's soul through the medium of killing the flesh?
However, if a flame can affect the other person's soul without passing through material time and space, is it still a flame?

It's more of a curse in the form of fire than a flame. Having said that, I don't think it's a direction I can't move forward in. I recalled my past experience of extending the flame to the metaphysical level.

While trying to figure out the direction of the evolution of my superpowers, I shifted my focus back to the secret base's supervisor's office and continued investigating the information on the bookshelf.

This time I was not able to find out any particularly important information, I just stored the experimental information and data in my consciousness. Meanwhile, the girl Lu Chan was also working at the same time. She had persuaded all the imprisoned demon hunters to join the riot plan and was on her way back.

At the end of the investigation bookshelf, a report that was unimportant but perhaps worth mentioning came into my view. It was a report about the "demon hunter in the cell next door" whom I rescued when I first entered the secret base. After escaping from the cell, he certainly could not escape from the secret base, nor did he cause much trouble. He was soon discovered by the surveillance system inside the secret base, and then fought with the nearby guards and died in the struggle.

Although he was a stranger, I couldn't help but sigh when I thought about the person I had helped failing to escape.

However, in a place like this, it didn't matter whether he would be caught or even killed. He had already become an "earthbound spirit" in this living hell and could not escape no matter what.

And now is the time to destroy hell.

I put the last folder back on the shelf, then turned around and opened the door to the director's office.

A girl about fourteen or fifteen years old, wearing a white straitjacket and with delicate beauty, appeared in front of me.

"Everything is ready." said the girl Lu Chan.

I made a final decision: "Do you want to start now?"

At this moment, more than a hundred "fireflies" have spread all over the secret base under the activities of the girl Lu Chan. The "fireflies" I brought her are not only responsible for route reconnaissance, but also self-splitting and implanted in the keyholes of all the cell iron doors and mana seal locks.

She closed her eyes, as if recalling the past when she was in this horrible place. Then she exhaled a long breath, slowly opened her eyes, and said in a deep voice: "-- Let's start."

As she finished her words, I issued instructions to all the Fireflies inside the secret base.

In my perception, more than a hundred "fireflies" burst into flames at the same time, and shrank and solidified into the shape of a key, unlocking all the restraints; and the demon hunters who joined the riot plan obviously sensed the failure of the mana seal lock, and the iron doors of the cells that trapped them opened automatically.

All the prisoners were liberated.

For a moment, countless waves of magical power erupted in various places in the stronghold.

(End of this chapter)