Soul Trigger

Chapter 10 Sacrifice
“…I got…got hit…”

Her body began to spasm violently, and the tentacles that emerged from her face waved wildly, spitting out slippery mucus that came from nowhere. Several sharp tentacles left numerous wounds on her body under the explosion of tentacle arrows.

For a moment, his whole body was covered in blood, his movements became increasingly staggering, his speed dropped sharply, and his muscles began to spasm.

Ji Li, who was carried on his shoulders, was thrown all over the place. Looking at the blood-red tide that was getting closer and closer, he pressed down on Bunny Girl's head, then pulled out the Soul Well supplement from her waist, stuffed it into his nose, pressed it and inhaled violently:
"Ascension Protocol, overclock me again, just like before."

He selectively ignored a large number of physiological warning logic boxes. He felt his brain was overloaded, as if visible black smoke was rising from his head.

But at the same time, the Ascension Protocol was also running at high speed, presenting a large number of tactical simulation analysis reports in his mind, especially the large cluster of tentacles that were strangling him, which were completely materialized by trajectory analysis to show all the possibilities within one second.

Ji Li "pulled" the trigger which was throbbing with pain, and his body instantly turned into a demon, but only half of it.

In an instant, there were continuous explosions of metal-like collision sounds. Ji Li raised his hand and deflected a large part of them in a split second. The eyeballs on the sharp tentacles were exploded by him, and the strong reaction force almost knocked the running girl to the ground:
"Hey, focus, I'm helping you stop these things!"

The girl gritted her teeth, shook her head violently, and then slapped herself, hitting the tentacles flying on her face and making her scream.

At the same time, he stuffed something into his mouth, shook his head vigorously, and his eyes gradually became clear again, and he began to speed up again.

But at this moment, the distance between the two and the mutated Spider-Woman has been infinitely shortened, and the brief respite given by the distance has completely disappeared.

At the same time, at least ten tentacles bombarded the two of them.

Ji Li's naked eyes could no longer keep up, and even the trajectory analysis of the Ascension Protocol made him dizzy.

He could only rely on the assistance of the Ascension Protocol and his combat instincts to barely knock those tentacles away.

But every hard rebound would blow away a large amount of debris from his bony arm, and a piercing pain would come from deep in his soul.

And this posture is not suitable for long-term combat, until a tentacle finally breaks through the blockade -

boom! ! !
Ji Li only felt a black screen before his eyes, and the bone claws that barely returned to defend collided with the tentacles that became extremely hard during the attack, creating a surge of debris.

With a piercing loud noise, the two bodies turned into two extremely fast gray lines that crossed the distance between the two corridors and smashed into the wall diagonally.

With this last shot, both of them were hit and flew out like tennis balls.

Ji Li rolled on the ground for several turns, and his left arm snapped and bent on the gray-yellow carpet.

[Warning: Physical injury, fracture of the lateral condyle of the humerus. Calling the World Tree Medical Service Team... It is recommended to stop strenuous exercise immediately. ]

[Execute first aid measures for No. 46's broken arm, and wait patiently for the arrival of the medical team... Error, unable to connect to the World Tree Medical Service Team... Reconnecting...]

"Even your mother, shut up!"

Ji Li gritted his teeth and climbed up from the ground:

"Hey! Rabbit, are you still alive?!"

He turned his head and saw that the wall on one side was cracking with a lot of thick bloody lines, and then it collapsed outwards with a crackling sound, revealing a huge gap.

There was actually a blood-red unknown space behind it. The scarred girl was falling out with half of her body hanging outside as most of the wall of the bloody world fell off.

“…Is the outside world the other world?!”

Ji Li suddenly rushed out and grabbed the calf that was falling out with his right hand. His legs were nailed to the ground, but he felt that his whole body was being lifted and pulled out by the other party.

“Fuck…this woman…is so heavy…?!”

He felt that all the muscles in his body were trembling, as if they were about to dissolve, and he watched the carpet on the ground being dragged and slid outwards.

He could only lower his head suddenly and bite Bunny Girl's ankle, not caring whether he would bite off two taels of flesh or not. He held on tightly and cooperated with his hands to fall into the corridor.

It was not until Ji Li's eyes went dark and he finally fell backwards that he managed to pull the girl's body back.

Ji Li, exhausted, only felt a dense mass of colorful dots flashing before his eyes. He was sweating profusely and felt as if all the muscles in his body were about to dissolve. After several breaths, his vision gradually returned to normal. He panted and glanced at the bright red world outside.

At this moment, this corridor is actually suspended in this bright red world, like a canoe in the vast ocean.

"West...Eight...Personality...Pollution..."

The bunny girl stood up staggeringly as if she was drunk, the tentacles on her face were still flying wildly, and there was a tendency for them to spread towards half of her face.

The chase just now left both of them seriously injured. The only good thing was that the tentacle attack also created a large distance between them and the flesh and blood monster.

However, considering the speed of the flesh and blood monster, this distance is not enough. "...Can you...still...run?" Ji Li was panting, and he hadn't recovered his strength yet.

The Well of Souls had completely dried up, and he was now using pure physical strength. The pull just now almost sent him into shock.

"...I think...I may not be able to escape..."

The girl looked at Ji Li staggeringly:
"...Just to confirm, you are the newly awakened Soul Well, right?"

"…What do you have in mind?"

The girl took something out from her waist and gradually faced the monster that was approaching.

Ji Li also clearly saw the tentacles flying on her face, which were now splitting apart from the ends to form mouthparts and making tiny hissing sounds.

He took a long breath and ignored the warnings coming from deep in his soul. His consciousness once again touched the "trigger" in his heart, and he struggled to stand up:

"It's not time to fight to the death yet..."

As soon as the voice fell, as if this space was mocking Ji Li, a surging red light exploded in the direction where the two had just fled. The corridor behind them shattered piece by piece, revealing the bloody space outside -

In that endless blood-red space, the suspended corridor looked like a cliff thousands of feet high. The two stood at the end of the cliff, and behind them was a real blood-red abyss.

This corridor was like a giant coffin suspended in mid-air, completely trapping them in the air.

"...See, there is really no way out now..."

The girl suddenly grabbed the tentacle that emerged from her cheek and crushed it. The blood was like a blooming flower pouring on her hands and she wiped it off on her body.

Then he grabbed Ji Li's wrist and stuffed a stack of things into it without saying anything.

It was a white cardboard bag wrapped in a transparent sealed bag. You couldn't see what was inside, and the surface was covered with the girl's blood.

"My name is Jin Misa."

"When you get out, take these things and go to Flash Street to find a man named Lacey."

"...Are you talking to me about your last words?" Ji Li's eyes narrowed.

Jin Misha turned her head and saw that the flesh and blood monster was not far away from the two of them.

"Yeah, ah...I should not have gotten involved in this mess..."

She looked at the blood monster coming from the end:
"There's no time to say anything else. If we continue like this, we'll both die here. Remember the triple world theory I mentioned before?"

"My ability can send a sufficiently weak life form into the reflection world, but it requires a heavy price. There, as long as you find an uncontaminated mirror as a medium, you can return to the real world. Remember, you need an uncontaminated mirror."

The girl spoke very quickly. The current situation did not allow her to explain everything clearly. After stuffing everything into Ji Li's hands, she took out a small pistol with a strange shape, took a deep breath, and pointed it at her forehead:

"Don't worry, this thing isn't a real gun, but it's pretty close."

"It can forcibly pry the soul well from another angle, pull the 'soul trigger', and transform the shadow side of the personality into uncontrollable spiritual essence, presenting a powerful force in cognition."

"...It's just like your previous state of necromancy, but the difference is that this thing triggers the personality shadow..."

"Anyway, after using this thing, if your soul is not strong enough, it will go out of control and turn into a monster similar to the one on the other side."

"But whether it's out of control or not, it can bring very powerful power."

After saying that, she fixed her eyes on the blood-red monster that was getting closer and closer, and the hand holding the gun handle began to tremble:

"Before I lose control, I will use my ability to send you to the Reflection World, but you must complete what I tell you to do. This is a deal! I see that you are an honest person. You are willing to risk your life to pull me up, and you didn't touch my butt when you were on my back, right?!"

Ji Li was stunned for a moment, then grabbed her wrist holding the gun:
"What the hell are you talking about..."

"This is the only way now!!!" Jin Misha opened his palm and choked up:
"I can only send you out in my current situation! Because you are a rookie who just awakened! The Well of Souls is small enough and weak enough! Don't I want to run?! Of course I want to run!!!"

The trembling girl rubbed her eyes twice:

"It's better to die one than two! Since we can only send you out now, then I'll send you out. As long as you hand over the things to Flash Street!!!"

(End of this chapter)