Soul Trigger

Chapter 112 Youth
A young man with long hair and a ponytail rushed out from the corner of the street and helped the young man who fell to the ground.

Ji Li walked forward and extended his hand tentatively.

Just as he thought, his hand passed directly through the body of the ponytailed young man, which meant that he could not interfere with what was happening in front of him.

The two people in front of me were talking about something, and gradually conflicts arose, and finally a fierce quarrel broke out.

Ji Li moved closer, looked closely at himself and commented on his younger self:

"What an idiot that should be shunned."

At this moment, a blazing light like the sun enveloped the entire city.

As the building that rose into the sky emitted a loud noise like electromagnetic acceleration, a dazzling blue beam of light shot up from the end of the sky.

The holographic billboards across the city instantly transformed into the same picture:
It was a fully mechanized body, located in a huge blue beam of light, slowly rising towards the hole in the sky like a god.

The lights of the buildings that reached into the sky were flickering, and huge cables connected in all directions were constantly emitting arcs of electricity. It seemed that the energy of most of the city was supplied to that one place.

Ji Li whistled:
“I was deeply impressed by this.”

"The Ascender 'Omoin' that shocked the whole city was unfortunately sent back to the solar system ten years later. No one knows what he did up there."

I wonder what it felt like to be watching from below when my chest exploded.

At this moment, the residents on the street shouted and ran past Ji Li's body, rushing to the nearest holographic screen to watch the live broadcast.

The two stupid young men also gathered over.

The young man with the ponytail had envy in his eyes. He was infected by the crowd and cheered the name of the person who was promoted.

The disheveled young man stood at a further peripheral position, staring at the screen in silence.

Ji Li walked forward, first taking a closer look at the ponytailed young man, a look of nostalgia on his face:
"I almost forgot what you look like... How come you can find this out for me?"

He then walked up to his younger self, the dishevelled young man, and looked at the Ascendant on the holographic screen reflected in those bright eyes.

"Eager, unwilling, and disdainful. Indeed, you, Omoin, are nothing. You were killed by me in the 120th year since you fell down."

Then a fist appeared in Ji Li's field of vision and hit the embarrassed young man in the face:
The attacker was a tall and thin punk man who came with a few of his followers and started beating up the disheveled young man.

The embarrassed young man protected his head after being beaten for a long time. Finally, he seized the opportunity to spit out a mouthful of blood foam, staring at the other party and pounced on him like a hungry beast.

After losing an eye, he kicked his opponent in the crotch.

Ji Li clapped and cheered beside him.

However, the main reason for its success is that the other party's handle is still original.

If it was a durable steel cannon, it might not be the opponent's eggs that were broken, but your own feet when you were young.

The punk guy was scared away, and the ponytailed young man then noticed the embarrassed young man who was beaten up behind him, and pushed aside the passers-by who were watching coldly and helped him up:

"Ji Li, your eyes..."

Ji Li and the ponytailed young man squatted at the same eye level, looking at the embarrassed young man with blood on his hands covering his eyes:
"Mark, are we going to be in a gang for life?"

The ponytailed young man was stunned: "If it doesn't work... let's go work in a robot factory...?"

"I want to join the army."

The young man with the ponytail was stunned for a while and said that he would need a loan to make militarized prosthetic modifications if he wanted to join the army, and he would not be able to pay it back even if he sold himself to Achino Company for a hundred years.

The embarrassed young man said, then sell it.

Mark was silent for a few more seconds.

Then he smiled and said, "Let me sell it with you."

At this moment, the picture suddenly froze.

All the noise around fell into silence, as if someone had pressed the pause button.

Ji Li sat cross-legged next to the embarrassed young man and looked at his face. It seemed that every muscle line was saying, "I'm going to fuck up this world."

At this moment, everything in front of me began to appear.

The steel turned into endless yellow sand, the tall buildings turned into sandstorms, and faintly one could see the outline of a planet appearing at the end of the horizon like the setting sun.

The disheveled young man changed his appearance. He had short hair, a burly build, and one of his eyes emitted a technological red light.

The left arm has been fully metallized, and the silver shell is covered with bullet marks and residual sand.

While roaring, he dug in the sand frantically and took out a head tremblingly from it.

The neck of the head was connected to half of a scorpion-like metal spine and messy modified circuits, and there was a ponytail on the dead man's head.

……

The purple-black blade wave swept across the large number of twisted and deformed monsters in front of her. Jin Misha suddenly half-knelt on the ground, gasping for breath.

"Damn...what the hell is going on in this place?!"

She threw Ji Li, who was on her back, to the ground and shook his head frantically:
"Old Ji, wake up! We can't take it anymore! Wake up!!!"

Jin Misha slapped him on the face, and then slapped him at least a dozen times left and right.

"Sure enough, there is something wrong..."

Looking at the red marks on Ji Li's face left by her slap, Misha took out two pieces of gauze and put them on his face, one on each side.

Then he put his head on his chest and listened for a while to make sure the heartbeat was completely stable.

Then she placed her hand on his forehead and closed her eyes.

"No, I can't feel anything..."

Just then, she heard a dripping sound coming from Ji Li's body.

She suddenly stood up and rummaged around for a while, then pulled out an instrument with a flashing red light from his lower back.

If she remembered correctly, this should be the machine used to find "Captain".

At this moment, it suddenly rang... Is the captain nearby?
In an instant, a sound of breaking air came from behind. Misha suddenly picked up Ji Li and tried to dodge, but a figure suddenly appeared beside her and raised his hand to grab a pitch-black arrow.

A dark figure holding a crossbow suddenly disappeared from the end of the carriage.

"Be careful, there's more!"

The man shouted, and Misha jumped up and slashed out with a knife wave, tearing apart two black shadows that rose not far away.

Then the purple shadow in his hand fluctuated, and a spiked chain emerged from the shadow in the corner, piercing the third black shadow into nothingness.

"……sharp."

The figure finally breathed a sigh of relief and turned around to reveal a handsome but somewhat embarrassed face:

"Are you from the Special Management Bureau?"

As he was about to check on Ji Li on the ground, Jin Misha dodged and stopped him:
"who are you?"

The man was stunned for a moment, then he withdrew his hand and smiled brightly:

"My name is Li Mingshuo, and I have been trapped here for a long time..."

He was wearing a tattered guard uniform and holding a military dagger with an ectoplasm circuit engraved on it.

At this moment, he seemed to realize the beeping instrument in the girl's hand, and immediately took out the beeping instrument on his waist, with a visible surprise on his face:
"Were you sent by Shijun?"

Seeing the instrument in the other party's hand, Jin Misha's vigilance was slightly reduced.

After asking for some basic information from the other party and matching it with the information of the "captain" given by Jiang Shijun, he finally felt relieved and informed the other party of the situation.

Li Mingshuo suddenly sighed:
"I really didn't expect that they would do this for me..."

Then his face turned serious:
"Don't worry. After we get out, I will use my military merits to award you guest medals. And since you saved me, you will definitely receive other rewards from the guards."

Jin Misha nodded. She didn't care about this at the moment. Instead, she helped Ji Li up and said:

"what happened to him?"

Li Mingshuo immediately stretched out his hand, but was blocked by Jin Misha:
"Just you say it, don't touch my brother." How can I judge the situation for you if you don't let me touch it... Li Mingshuo was suddenly confused.

But he did know why. After that handsome face smiled awkwardly, his tone was serious:
“It’s cognitive interference.”

"How do I remove it?"

"We need to kill the nest master here."

Li Mingshuo glanced at the door at the end of the carriage and smiled bitterly:
"But... that guy is in first class. You should know that the doors here will randomly teleport us to different carriages."

"Although I am the one who opened the door, my spiritual essence is almost exhausted, and my instruments and weapons have been lost. It is not easy to get to the first carriage from here..."

The carriage they were in at the moment was No. 28, and Li Mingshuo said that the first class cabin was in No. 60.

"Jiang Shijun and his companions only went as far as Carriage 31. How did you know about the existence of Carriage 60? How can you conclude that it is the first-class cabin and that the nest owner must be inside?"

Facing Jin Misa's questioning, Li Mingshuo took out a half-torn note:

"Depend on this."

It was a colorful sticky note with some handwritten words that looked like rules on it.

"I found it in a carriage. Although I don't know who wrote it, I have been here for so long that I have verified most of it." Li Mingshuo watched Jin Misha take the note and continued:
"Don't you realize that the monsters here are becoming increasingly difficult to kill?"

Jin Misa read the scribbled words on the note one by one, and one of them said that "the derivatives in the train will gradually develop resistance to the same means of attack."

Li Mingshuo explained that according to his test, the means of attack refers to the method and posture of killing the enemy.

Shooting with a gun, stabbing with a knife, slashing with a blade, and punching will all be judged as different "means of attack."

"I give it back to you." Jin Misha threw the thing back to the other party, and Li Mingshuo gently pinched it:

"I have memorized the contents, you can just keep them..."

"I've memorized that, too."

Li Mingshuo lowered his eyes, paused, and then put the paper away.

Jin Misha stood up carrying Ji Li, and swung the black knife in her left hand towards the door of the carriage.

A dark purple knife mark appeared on the carriage door, and deep in the gap, one could glimpse the scene in the opposite carriage.

Li Mingshuo was stunned for a moment, then delighted:
"As expected, you are the one who opened the door! But this way of opening the door..."

"Let's fight quickly."

Jin Misha said this coldly, carrying Ji Li and Li Mingshuo and keeping a distance at all times.

……

In front of me is a large space filled with black metal cabinets.

This is the cemetery of Murphy's megastructures.

The young man was completely covered in a black polymer fiber robe, and only the nasolabial folds above his metal jaw and next to his lips could be seen.

He is quite a bit older.

He looked at a middle-aged woman in a goose yellow coat standing in front of Mark's tomb chest, crying as she put a wooden pony into Mark's tomb chest, and then left with a middle-aged man with a blurred face.

Then the young man walked up and lifted his hood.

His hair was all white, he had reached middle age, and his jawline to behind his ears had been highly remodeled.

He held up a cyborg's head and said, "Brother, I brought our commander at that time to see you. The people who killed you back then have finally been killed by me."

Although the slug who loved to follow us around when we were little is now the wife of a corporate exec, she still remembers you and will come to visit your grave.

Then he said, "Brother, you shouldn't have followed me to join the army. Not only did you owe a lot of debts, but you also lost your life."

As he spoke, he started crying, but only one eye was crying because the tear gland in the other eye had been removed because of the prosthetic eye.

At this time, countless red dots appeared on the young man, and fully armed company agents came out from their hiding places.

Gunshots.

The young man shuttled through the hail of bullets, revealing his highly modified cyborg body, and killed the agents one by one.

Gun smoke and kinetic bullets formed a rainstorm, and blood and modified parts flowed and hit the ground.

The high-frequency wrist knife flew with sparks and was retracted into his arm. He walked outside, with a pile of broken limbs and arms lying behind him.

Then plasma sweeps came down from the sky, flooding the entire cemetery.

He crawled out of the cemetery covered in wounds, laughing, and gave the middle finger to the invisible armed satellite in the sky.

Then he said loudly, "Fuck you, you want to kill me just for this."

Then he saw a blood-stained goose yellow coat among the bomb craters and ruins on the roadside.

The middle-aged woman lay quietly in a pool of blood, and his laughter stopped abruptly.

At last he laughed even louder.

The picture froze on the young man's laughing expression, and Ji Li could even see the transformation circuit that had been replaced on the upper wall of his mouth.

"They're all dead, acquaintances."

Ji Li squatted down and looked at the middle-aged woman's face.

Then comes the next scene, where the young man meets a woman while working as a mercenary.

The woman was not pretty, but she was caring and wild. She was a combat hacker, and the two became partners.

In the end, the woman died in his arms, having lost the battle in virtual reality to the enemy hacker and having her head burned off.

In the next scene, he met his nemesis. The two always bumped into each other because of tasks with different positions, but neither of them could gain the upper hand over the other.

They became friends in a bar, and after a long time, they met again on the battlefield.

After slaughtering their mutual employer, they fled, with wanted posters scattered across the solar system.

Later, that friend got tired of it and wanted to quit and find a place to live a good life.

A year later, the young man went to visit him with the head of the man who had posted the wanted poster. When he opened the door, he saw that his body had already rotted.

In the new scene, the young man met a partner again. She was a wealthy female businessman and even became his solid supporter for a long time.

But because of his negligence, she died in an armed assassination by a rival company.

So he closed down the company, and this time it only took half a year.

Another new scene...

I know enough people and have mentioned a lot of things.

He is sophisticated, mature, experienced, taciturn, decisive in killing, and some of his unconscious words are always regarded as golden sentences by young mercenaries.

At this time, he was no longer a young man, nor was he a street kid.

He becomes a famous mercenary in the solar system, but he never seems to get what he wants.

The last scene was frozen on his weathered face, and the entire picture disappeared.

Ji Li stood up in the gray space, as if he had watched a movie:
"Is this the end?"

It seems like less than a hundred years.

Not to mention a hundred years, it's not even time for him to join the World Tree.

At this moment, a dark figure appeared beside him:
"Why, your mood swings are so normal..."

"Why, I can't find your awakening aura..."

Ji Li showed an inexplicable smile and looked at the figure:
"Because you are too childish."

(End of this chapter)