Soul Trigger

Chapter 1 Reverse Cross

The roar of the power reactor in his chest seemed to still echo in his ears. Ji Li felt like he had slept for a long time. The neural photons in his head kept sending inert signals and were unable to convey effective images.

When he felt that the consciousness of his brain in the vat was gradually recovering, the pain all over his body made him want to turn off the pain module involuntarily, but then the shift of his body's center of gravity made him feel extremely uncomfortable, as if he was nailed to the wall like an upside-down bat.

He pulled at his arms, but nothing moved.

As he became more conscious, he heard bursts of muttering coming from all directions, as if many people were surrounding him and constantly repeating something.

Among those layers of voices, there were also faint whispers of strange sounds, and words were constantly repeated. I felt like I was at the center of some kind of ritual.

It seemed like he was performing some kind of ritual before?

The chaotic thoughts stagnated.

Wait, my ascension ceremony?!
As if touching a key word in his memory, Ji Li suddenly woke up, and the scene of the power reactor in his chest exploding appeared in front of him:
I'm alive?!
Memories from his previous life kept coming back, scenes flashing by like a revolving lantern, until the last scene before his death. The death shockwave from the fusion chest power reactor, which was powerful enough to drive an asteroid impact, shattered his brain in the jar, and a surge of anger suddenly rose in his withered body.

"Traitor, I will kill you!"

As if he had knocked on a heavy door, he suddenly opened his eyes. Accompanied by the loud sound of flesh and bones tearing in his hands, his eyes were dazzled, and his body fell to the ground upside down from mid-air.

The face-first landing caused his chest to be hit hard, accompanied by violent spasms and excruciating pain in his lungs. He coughed dryly and heart-wrenchingly:

There's something wrong with this body!
Waking up from the trance of falling, Ji Li suddenly felt that something was wrong with his body——

As a mechanical upgrader whose body has been modified by more than 90%, how could he possibly have a natural human reaction like coughing?

After he stretched out his hand, the delayed pain exploded in his mind.

What came into view was not the highly bionic arms he had imagined, but a pair of ordinary natural human hands made of flesh and blood. Two blood holes, one on the left and one on the right, pierced through the palms, allowing him to see the blood-stained ground through the dense bone stumps.

what is this?
He turned back suddenly and noticed that what had just bound him in mid-air was a large wooden inverted cross. Large pieces of flesh and blood residues were still hanging on the huge steel nails on the left and right ends where he had violently struggled to break free.

There was no grinding sound of hydraulic joints in the limbs.

There is no HUD data distribution graph in the field of view.

The energy core and the network access bay at the back of the brain cannot be sensed.

The force field distortion device worth one billion euros did not respond at all...

"Natural person?!!!"

I became a natural person?!
Ji Li broke free from the remaining ropes on his legs and reached out to the body with his severely injured hands.

However, the bloody holes on his hands caused him, who was not familiar with physical pain, to spasm all over his body, and even his stomach felt sour.
“…Such a real pain!! Who uploaded my consciousness to this virtual reality?! Who gave them the courage?!…Wait…”

"My Ascension Protocol..."

The next moment, a blue light flashed in his eyes, and a familiar and cold female voice came from his ears:

"Good day, prototype client, how can I help you?"

"Very good... Run the search of the prosthesis, the brain in the tank, the whole body circuits and the intelligent hardware. Use the No. 4 awakening protocol to wake up my real body. Open the nanohive repair cabin to perform emergency repairs!" "Instructions accepted... Sorry, you are not currently equipped with any of the implants mentioned above. After testing, you are now in the state of a pure carbon-based biological natural person..."

"Run emergency plan No. 59 to break through the network ice wall and hacker blockade that may exist in the current virtual reality space!"

“Sorry, no malicious blocking or network ice walls were detected.”

"According to the energy analysis and calculation of the only sensor installed in the Ascension Protocol, the possibility that the current space is a virtual reality is 0.03%, and the possibility that you are in the material world is 99.72%. The remaining possibilities are..."

"That means it was hacked through a wired connection... disconnect the socket behind my brain in reality, and block all wired ports..."

"Sorry, no functional hardware or valid wired connection detected. I must repeat: you are currently in a pure carbon-based biological natural human state..."

The search results crushed the possibilities that popped up in his mind one by one, which made Ji Li feel dazed:
"You must be kidding... Maybe it's a high-level shielding device, or maybe it's the planetary giant computer that trapped me here and made you unable to detect me... Could it be some special digital prison?... What went wrong..."

I am the next mechanical ascender to the high sky, the first person under the Murphy megastructure high sky. No matter who does such a thing, you are dead... He gradually regained his sharp eyes and issued orders one after another:

"According to Article 67 of the agreement, substitute the current space environment, search for energy sources and beneficial substances that can be driven, and warn of possible space folding states according to the content of Agreement No. . At the same time..."

"..."

The whispers around had stopped when Ji Li fell off the inverted cross.

The crowd was wearing dark clothes of varying colors and the atmosphere was gloomy, but it was recognizable that they were all dressed like ordinary urban men and women, except that they all wore hoods.

They stopped the ceremony and looked at Ji Li, who kept uttering all kinds of weird words, looking a little confused.

It wasn’t just because the “sacrifice” suddenly crawled up and started muttering like a lunatic, but because they were very sure that the sacrifice had been stabbed through the heart and sacrificed to the other world!

How is it possible that he is still alive and even freed himself? !
An old man with a beard walked out. He raised his hand to stop the believers who were getting increasingly excited, and looked in front of Ji Li with dry eyes.

Ji Li was located below a large inverted cross, which was surrounded by a circle of small wooden tables with several items placed on them like tributes.

He calmly glanced at the broken items one by one. When he saw an intact goat skull at the end, his expression suddenly changed:

"There is still one relic that has not been accepted... the sacrifice... the sacrifice failed!!!"

As soon as these words came out, the surrounding believers were in an uproar, and their ferocious eyes focused on the half-crippled Ji Li:
"Kill him! Kill him!!!"

"My future... my life... I must kill him!! Sacrifice him to the great alien god!"

"Re-sacrifice, re-sacrifice!"

The crowd gathered around him in an instant, and Ji Li didn't even have time to react before he was surrounded by the crowd.

"Get lost! Carbon-based monkey!"

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(End of this chapter)