Soul Trigger

Chapter 11 Gambler
The bloody monster was getting closer and closer, and Jin Misa put the gun handle against her forehead again.

In Ji Li's gaze, he saw the girl's finger holding the trigger tremble slightly.

Then the trembling quickly became more intense, or it should not be described as a simple trembling, but a tremor. The trembling spread quickly to Jin Misha's body like a plague. At some point, bean-sized tears welled up in the eye sockets of the mask and rolled down tremblingly:

“…Come on…dog!!!”

She clenched her teeth, her cheeks trembling, and roared in a dialect that Ji Li could not understand.

"I'm going to explode with you!!!"

Click——! ! !
"?!"

Jin Misa opened her moist eyes that had been closed at some point, and her pupils shrank almost to the size of a needle tip.

She kept pushing harder but couldn't feel her fingers.

“…Why, I…”

hum-

The sound waves cut through the air, and there was a flash of blood. Ji Li instantly hugged Jin Misha and rushed to the side. A tentacle cut through his arm and penetrated the place where the girl was originally standing.

"You little brat, are you looking for death? I'm trying to save you..."

"You don't even dare to use this thing! Do you think I can't see that?"

The girl sitting on the ground was stunned and wiped the tears from her face:

"…Who the hell do you think I am…"

pat!

The gun suddenly fell out of her hand. Jin Misha was stunned. She slowly lowered her head and saw her hands shaking like a sieve. Cool tears dripped from her smooth chin onto the pistol.

"I……"

"You can't even hold it steady, how are you going to pull the trigger?" Ji Li picked up the slightly damp pistol. The trigger was only halfway in and was slowly rebounding to its proper position. "If I really let you stand there shaking for a long time, you would have a fucking brain hole by now."

Essentially, this is a suicide act, and it comes with tremendous psychological pressure. When the trigger is slowly pulled, the coldness of the muzzle will turn into a needle-like pricking pain, like a moldy spot of death, gradually seeping into the human brain.

Then, creatures like humans may have a stress response under this huge pressure, just like Jin Misa -

Weakness, cramps.

It wasn't that she really had no strength, but the suicidal behavior occurred at that moment. This stress response turned into a thick barrier blocking her spirit and thinking, and then radiated to her whole body, triggering all kinds of uncontrollable physiological reactions.

Ji Li has lived for nearly three hundred years. He was born at the bottom of the society of Murphy. Whether it was the pressure of survival or insurance fraud, he had witnessed countless suicides, some successful and some failed. He understood the process of all these behaviors and psychological disorders.

But to be frank, she is just a little girl. Wanting to do something and being able to do it are two different things.

Ji Li stood up facing Jin Misha and put the muzzle of the gun to his temple:

"Is this how it is used?" A shrill roar of a monster came from behind him.

"you……"

"If you are willing to give me the chance to survive, then I will take a chance as well."

Jin Misa suddenly came back to her senses:
"Hey, brat... do you know what you are doing?! You will kill us..."

"Don't worry, little girl. I'm very afraid of death."

Ji Li has always been very focused, focusing on seeking the possibility of surviving from this space and even returning to Murphy's megastructure, but this does not mean that he is not afraid of death.

The older people get, the more they fear death. He was also afraid of death, and very afraid of it.

Otherwise, he would not pursue ascension or any higher form of life.

But can that reflection world really allow him to continue living?

Only he himself knows the current condition of his body and soul. He is exhausted.

Since the end of the second transformation, the Ascension Protocol has been constantly issuing warnings about its life status monitoring, and that fracture is just a minor problem.

After the series of outbursts and overdrafts just now, not only has this body reached its limit, but his soul as well, seems to be on the verge of collapse at the next moment, and is supported entirely by willpower.

Perhaps the willpower bonus of the Faceless Bone took effect, or perhaps his long years have given him an indestructible will, which was converted into tangible power in this world, so he has held on until now.

Asking him to go to that reflection world at this time is a gamble, or a bet on two lives. It is also a gamble now, and it also involves two lives. So why can't destiny be in his own hands?

Moreover, he felt the trigger sensor throbbing, which was caused by this gun. He breathed like a natural person, letting the intense fear linger in his heart, as if he had returned to the moment when he first stepped onto the battlefield as a mercenary more than 200 years ago, with dense plasma sweeps flying in the sky, and his breath was full of the smell of yellow sand and death. The commander's anxious instructions kept coming from the cochlear implant, just like the warnings and prompts that the Ascension Protocol kept popping up in his ears...

"Hey, girl."

He closed his eyes and pulled the trigger without hesitation under Jin Misa's trembling gaze:
"You said that the older the soul, the more powerful it is, right?"

I'm 299 years old. I can't be called ancient, but I should be pretty strong, right?

boom.

At that moment, Jin Misa almost screamed.

What the hell is this stupid bubble tragedy!

Why did things turn out like this, you stupid man! ! ! ! You think you can commit suicide? If you shoot us, we will both die! ! !

She changed her mind and felt discouraged again, her hands still shaking like Parkinson's.

In the end, I still can't fight for it...

But she seemed to have thought of something. At that moment, looking at Ji Li's slightly dirty face with sunken cheeks, but normal enough to be a little abnormal, she realized a problem -

He showed no personality taint.

The terrifying howl and red pollution just now almost made her mutate on the spot. Why was this rookie who had been staying on her shoulder not affected at all?

The gun has already been fired.

The firing pins collided, the trigger was triggered, and the gunshots erupted. These sounds connected into a line and in that moment they all turned into a poor and tasteless gunshot.

A dark blue impact burst out, passed through the ordinary head, and exploded from the other side of the head.

The soul seemed to have a big hole blown out, like a balloon with a leak, and black matter gushed out from the invisible hole in the brain, making a shrill scream.

Watching the scene before her, the soul trigger in Jin Misha's body trembled, sensing the other party's dry, tiny soul well that seemed to be rapidly expanding, expanding to a trembling degree, until it broke something, making a loud "puff" sound -

An exaggerated black arm broke out from Ji Li's head, like a corpse crawling out of a cemetery. Thick black substance gushed out from the broken head, making a shrill scream, and quickly turned into black skulls that flew all over the corridor, soon occupying her field of vision and turning into a bottomless black fog.

puff--

puff--

puff--

She vaguely saw in the deep black fog, a tall figure, like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon, tearing through Ji Li's body and coming out.

Instead, it was the roar of the blood-red monster that brought her back from the shocking scene before her eyes. When she looked up, she saw the blood-red tentacles covering the sky and earth, tearing cracks in the air that emitted strong interference from the other world, rushing towards her, but were cut off by a scorching stream of light in an instant -

hum! ! !
A large number of tentacles fell to the ground, the broken ends were black and burnt, and emitted hissing green smoke.

She stared in a daze at the figure that stood up from the black fog and stretched out the corridor. The huge body was dimly visible in the flashing lightning in the black fog.

The blood-colored monster's painful screams seemed to fade away, and the figure unconsciously attracted all her attention. Jin Misha heard a sound, a sound that did not belong to a living thing, like the roar of an engine, the flow, collision, and assembly of steel, like a rumbling nuclear power plant, like a rocket about to explode into the sky, or as if an electromagnetic gun was accelerated to the extreme, making a harsh buzzing sound...

In the dark fog.

The scorching plasma blade was stored in the wrist compartment, and the friction of the precise structure caused sparks to fly. The heavy armor plates were deployed layer by layer, screwed into the body by automatic screws, and covered with covers.

The heavy hydraulic joints hissed, allowing the thick anti-articular feet to trample the floor. Layers of uneven reactive armor bounced up and down, spewing out the breath of high-precision heavy industry.

Finally, the blue neural light from the head pierced through the black fog, and the glowing electronic eye looked down at Jin Misha who was kneeling on the ground in a daze.

The blinding light forced her to raise her hands, and she tried to discern the figure through the gaps between her fingers, but her eyelids felt heavier and heavier, as if she was too depressed by the pollution from the other world, and she fainted on the ground with a plop.

At the same time, a sophisticated robotic arm grabbed a large cluster of thick tentacles attacking from behind. The scarlet energy rubbed against the high-precision fingers, bursting into violent sparks.

Ji Li turned his head and saw a familiar head-up display in front of him. The battlefield analysis vision presented on his retina locked the red frame on the monster not far away.

Name: Ji Li (Normal Soul State/Soul Well Dry/Soul Well Blowout)

Soul Core: Odin (codename V1)

Personality Relic: Faceless Bone (In stock)

will:?
Super sense:?
Idea:?
Affinity:?
Odin V1: An all-in-one light-weight prosthetic transformation set, a fully-equipped close combat-specialized carbon-based destroyer. (Currently in the process of actualizing personality entity cognition)

(End of this chapter)