Soul Trigger

Chapter 145 God

After bidding farewell to Misha, Ji Li returned to Aries College and used his limited free time to plunge headfirst into analyzing the spiritual circuits of the ruins.

Regarding the matter of the professor of spiritual circuit imprinting that Han Xiaofu mentioned before, he has completed the test questions given by the other party and sent it to the other party on the secret academic forum "Sea of ​​Man", but has not received a reply yet.

That test question circuit should be the core circuit of a certain school. Although it cannot be used, it also allows Ji Li to increase his attainments slightly.

As for the school, with the black ice rats and spiders conducting diffuse patrols, plus Xiang Yu's Overlord Group, he can basically get notified of any movement.

The "Dog King" also showed him what it meant to learn from past mistakes and imprisoned Yan Xiyu in a dark prison.

Although he is currently doing very well in the Special Investigation Division, it is better to avoid unnecessary trouble, not to mention the underground ruins.

In the soul space, the personality relic with the maximum negative effects given by the "Soul Eater" in the previous Ice Prison incident has been digested, and more than 40 red substances have been converted for him.

Moreover, the mining of fragments containing the aura of the other world in the ruins is also proceeding steadily. Not to mention the freedom of red matter, at least it is enough as a killer weapon besides the burster at this stage, but a way to improve the conversion efficiency has not been found yet.

After a busy day, Ji Li received a message from Yan Xiyu. He did not forget that this girl wanted to treat him to a drink, so he packed up and set off.

……

The open-air restaurant is particularly noisy at night, with tables and chairs placed everywhere. The restaurant is almost full of diners, waiters are busy shuttling back and forth, and the sound of wooden skewers and chopsticks colliding is heard everywhere.

Not far away is a beach. You can hear the sound of waves hitting the shore, and from a distance you can see children playing around.

"Have you been waiting for a long time?"

Ji Li sat down opposite Yan Xiyu.

Yan Xiyu smoked a cigarette and put down his phone:
"I just arrived too."

Then he handed Ji Li a color-printed list:
"Order, I've already ordered what I want."

The cool girl is wearing a leather jacket and leather pants today. The gray women's vest inside is bulging, and the flexible vest line on her abdomen can be vaguely seen.

She had her hair in a waist-length ponytail and a cigarette dangling from her lips, looking like she had just finished dancing at Wild Depot.

Ji Li took the list and took a look. Wow, a bunch of skewers are sold for three figures. Are you a price-conscious person?
"This restaurant is quite special and also quite expensive. Today is my treat, so you can order whatever you want."

"Thank you, rich lady."

"Don't call me that..." Veins popped out on Yan Xiyu's forehead.

The salary at the Special Management Bureau is good, but it is actually nothing compared to that of Flash Street.

"Did you see that bald guy over there?"

Following Yan Xiyu's eye signal, Ji Li looked over and handed the order list in his hand to the waiter who was passing by.

He was a big man. His face was not covered with flesh, but every muscle of his face seemed to be stating the fact that "I am not a good person".

"He's a four-star operator from Flash Street who's been to Black Prison." Yan Xiyu took a puff of cigarette, and immediately felt the soul trigger activated, and turned to look at Ji Li.

As he was spreading his senses, he instantly felt a large number of awakened people filling the surrounding area like candles—

Ninety percent of the people here are awakened.

A lot of attention was instantly directed towards Ji Li.

Yan Xiyu didn't even look at it and slapped his Special Management Bureau police badge on the table.

Countless eyes turned away silently.

"You are very skilled at showing off your power."

"Don't you have it too?"

Yan Xiyu snorted, not wanting to argue with him any more:
"This restaurant is closed during the day and only opens at night. It will not receive ordinary diners unless necessary. Most of the people who come to eat here are awakened people."

"But the quality varies a lot, there are quite a few little chicks." Ji Li leaned back in the recliner.

Although there were some dominant-level spiritual fluctuations in the perception just now, most of them were awakened people in the "Projection Extraordinary" stage.

Of course, when the spiritual essence is not activated and released, you will never know what the person's true level is.

"The little chick in your mouth is the main consumer here, coming from various associations and organizations, big and small." Yan Xiyu explained:
"The boss here was also a Flash Street Operator before, codenamed 'Chef'."

"Ability is related to food?" Ji Li was curious.

Cool girl nodded:
"That's right. The food he made can be considered a kind of supplement."

"It includes but is not limited to strengthening physical fitness, strengthening desires and thoughts, the rate of spiritual flow, replenishing the soul well, and even strengthening spiritual essence for a short period of time."

"It's quite interesting to eat and kill while fighting with the evil."

"It's not that style..." Yan Xiyu pulled the corner of his mouth, a little bit unstrained, and then picked up the phone to make room -

The food is served.

A pot of grilled fish, a plate of beans, a large plate of charcoal-grilled ribs, and various grilled skewers.

This store is very efficient.

And Ji Li's soul trigger could indeed feel the spiritual essence flowing in these foods.

“It seems that there is no Silla kimchi on the menu just now?”

"...You eat that stuff?" Yan Xiyu was stunned.

"No, I'm bringing some to the stupid pickled girl in jail at the hospital. After all, it's my boss's treat."

"You two have a really good relationship..."

“That’s what brotherhood is all about.”

"Brotherhood?" Yan Xiyu looked strange:
"Why do I feel like Jin Misha is looking at you with eyes that are about to tear?"

"I think your eyes are also very stringy."

Yan Xiyu held up his forehead:
"Would you please shut up..."

Yan Xiyu put on transparent gloves, grabbed a large rib, and wildly tore off a large bunch of meat and swallowed it into his mouth:
"Today I mainly wanted to thank you for what happened to Taewoo."

Then he took the beer next to him, bit off the bottle cap, poured it for Ji Li and filled his own glass.

The two of them clinked their glasses, and she drank the entire large beer glass in one gulp. Ji Li raised his eyebrows:
"Are you bringing me here to get drunk?"

Yan Xiyu shook his head, turned his head and burped, then bit off another bottle of wine to fill his own glass, ignoring Ji Li's question:
“I haven’t told you about my story, right? I was first abducted to Silla.”

"My impression of my family members is already very vague. I can only roughly remember their appearance."

“Do you know where the most pedophiles are in the world?”

Ji Li thought about the few world history courses he had taken at Aries College:

"Europe and America?"

"Correct."

Yan Xiyu raised his cup and clinked it with Ji Li's again:
"The human trafficking ship drifted on the high seas for a long time, and gradually I became friends with the other children in the cabin."

"Maybe because I was pretty when I was little, those people were planning to sell me to the Kaiton Federation."

"Captain Yan is still pretty good now, but he smells a bit like cigarettes."

Yan Xiyu glanced at him:
"I just thought you were complimenting me."

Then continued:

"It just so happened that the Lingbo Prison broke out at the Silla dock, and everyone was dragged in."

"Then you awakened and killed them all?" Ji Li chewed the bone, and Yan Xiyu watched his movements:

"That shouldn't be eaten..."

"Oh, I just want to try if there is anything special about this bone. Please continue." Ji Li swallowed the chewed bone.

After eating these things, he could feel a faint sense of comfort in the Well of Soul.

Lu Tian definitely couldn't eat the functions and effects that Yan Xiyu mentioned, but these foods were indeed different from ordinary ones, and the Well of Souls became a lot more comfortable.

"…That's about it. The adults ran fast, but the children couldn't. So the children died first."

Yan Xiyu lowered his eyes and drank a glass and a half of beer without a blush on his face:
"And just five minutes ago, we were crowded in the cabin, and there was a very brave child, who was older, telling us how to escape from the ship." "Wild survival or first aid in distress?"

"Neither." Yan Xiyu shook his head:

"He tells the story of Ultraman, Kamen Rider and Sentai Chaoren fighting monsters at sea."

"Before the Limbo broke out, he was talking about the Sentai Ultraman thing, something like 'good triumphs over evil'..."

Yan Xiyu gestured twice, and couldn't help laughing, but then put away his smile:

"And then they all died, and there was a little girl with a severed hand in my hand."

"I just watched the adults who kidnapped us run away right under the noses of the evil monsters. Because there were so many children, the evil monsters were too lazy to chase after the adults."

"That's right, a fresh and delicious human spirit, the kind that won't resist." Ji Li nodded.

"I followed the group of adults holding my severed hand. I wondered why innocent people had to die first. Weakness is the original sin, but does justice really exist?"

Yan Xiyu filled his third glass and clinked glasses with Ji Li:

"Then lightning suddenly sprouted from my body, and I electrocuted a few human traffickers who were running very fast in front of me. But I couldn't defeat that evil creature. After all, I was just a kid."

"In the end, it was Han Xiaofu who saved you?" Ji Li took a sip of beer.

"Yeah. I asked Director Xiaofu who saved me. He was still a field officer at that time. I asked him what justice was."

"He said justice was to avenge the children, and he is doing that now, and I have accomplished that."

"Uncle, I think justice should be to let them go home."

"Han Xiaofu said they were already dead, and then he argued with a little girl like me about the body return policy."

"I say that justice should revive them."

"He said little girl, that's what you should think."

"Is that your awakening aura?" Ji Li said.

Yan Xiyu nodded.

Having said that, she put the bottle aside, picked up the box of Marlboro on the table, took one out for herself, and then saw Ji Li stretched out two fingers and shook them in the air.

"Don't you not smoke?"

"I was afraid you would drop your little pearls, so I kept one for you."

"Little Pearl?"

"Just give it to me."

Yan Xiyu immediately retracted:
"No."

Apparently, he was rebellious again, and added:
"You're not an adult, are you? Stop smoking."

Ji Li shrugged and continued to chew the ribs, thinking to himself that you had already learned this kind of questioning when you were a child. Sure enough, your rebellious nature today did not come out of thin air, but the foundation was laid when you were a child.

The air was filled with smoke. Yan Xiyu took half a cigarette in one gulp and sprayed it all into the sky.

"Anyway, I've always thought this way and have always done this."

"It's not like I haven't failed before, but I failed completely with Pei Taiyu. He's not dead or sick, he's become evil."

"Because it is difficult. For your awakening aura, this difficulty is an objective fact and it is difficult for you to change it." Ji Li chewed on the ribs.

Yan Xiyu flicked off the ash from his cigarette: "It's like this, the world doesn't revolve around me, I can't take care of everything..."

“But if you are strong enough, you can make the whole world revolve around you. You can even stand shoulder to shoulder with the solar system.”

Yan Xiyu helplessly put his ten fingers into his hair and rubbed his head. He seemed to be affected by Ji Li and his words became a little off:
"That's so amazing! If the space shuttle isn't a spirit, then only a god can do it, right?"

“Then you will become a god.”

"That's easy to say..." Yan Xiyu glanced at the night view next to him, feeling a little more relaxed, and asked casually:

"What is the purpose of your awakening?"

"Become a 'God'."

"...?"

"If you think about it, God can do a lot of things."

“God can bring about the kind of justice you dream of.”

"God can have an infinite lifespan, enjoy all the fun that can be enjoyed, and have plenty of time to create fun."

Ji Li picked up the food in his hand:
"God can get up every day and eat as many ribs as he wants."

"And God cannot be oppressed or defeated, because God is the ultimate living being."

Yan Xiyu thought Ji Li was joking, but Ji Li acted as if it was a matter of course, which made her feel that this guy was serious.

"Ordinary people's justice cannot revive those children on your ship, but God can do it."

"Think about it, God is so awesome, it shouldn't be that easy for him to cross time and space, or go through a dimension, right?"

"So the ultimate answer to all this is to become a 'God'."

Yan Xiyu looked at him, not knowing what to say.

She didn't know if this was more childish or more unrealistic than her "righteousness", but this guy seemed serious.

"…Why do you have such an idea?"

"You are too young. It's normal that you don't understand. Live another hundred years."

Ji Li chewed the pork ribs and clapped his hands gently:

"Of course, it can't be a real god. I just need to have the power of a god."

"I must become that kind of life form, otherwise every minute and every second of my existence is a waste of air."

Having said this, Ji Li suddenly choked up.

Yan Xiyu chuckled and handed over the wine glass:

"God choked?"

Ji Li raised his hand to signal for calmness, then took out a piece of paper from the chewed pork ribs in his mouth -

"What is this?"

The next moment, a loud male voice came from the side -

“Congratulations to Table 6, two new challengers!!!”

In an instant, countless eyes swept over, and the waiters around stopped what they were doing and began to applaud.

Ji Li looked at Yan Xiyu, and Yan Xiyu also looked at him:
“It seems like we’ve won the lottery…”

"You two, do you want to participate in the competition?" the waiter asked, taking a step closer.

Ji Li flipped through the note in his hand: "Meat-eating predator?"

"Ah, the big eater challenge, I almost forgot about this... You are lucky today." Yan Xiyu said with a smile.

"Is there any benefit?"

"Free food and a mysterious grand prize from the 'chef', that's usually it, and then whether you participate or not, you can get a free meal tonight."

Ji Li felt countless burning gazes, and even his arms started to burn:
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[The human spirit group is sending out high enthusiasm]

[Your soul core is throbbing, and your connection with this world is deepening.]

【Cognitive Index +1】
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Ji Li stood up from his chair:

"Where to eat?"

(End of this chapter)