Soul Trigger

Chapter 146 Intruder

Half an hour later, Ji Li and several other lucky people who were selected came to the large dining table in the center of the open-air restaurant.

From this moment on, the restaurant activated the spiritual circuit hidden in the earth, which Ji Li recognized as "dispersing pedestrians".

This spiritual circuit will conduct a spiritual appraisal within the surrounding area. People without soul triggers, that is, ordinary people, will be affected and will be unwilling to get close.

This small competition is divided into four groups, each group consists of two people. The rules are very simple. In front of each group there will be a plate of "God Chef Beef" as big as a normal table, and then they just have to eat it.

The one who eats the most within the specified time is the winner. If you finish the food on the plate, you can ask for another one to try to break the record.

Ji Li always felt that he was involved in some weird things again.

"The rules don't say that we can't use spiritual essence... I guess there's something wrong with this beef." Ji Li poked at the pile of so-called "God's Chef Beef" in front of him.

"I'm not a frequent visitor here, I just heard of the existence of this thing, but I didn't expect..."

Yan Xiyu tore off a small piece of the divine chef beef in front of him and put it into his mouth. His expression suddenly changed——

"This thing..."

"Please don't start early for Group 4. It's a violation to start early!"

Yan Xiyu and Ji Li are at table 6, the fourth group in the competition:
"Oh, sorry."

After expressing his respect for this entertainment competition, Yan Xiyu approached Ji Li:

"You're right. After I ate this meat, my spiritual essence was boiling. Although the scale was small, but..."

"But if you eat too much, there will definitely be problems. It's really not that simple. Do you want to win the championship?"

Yan Xiyu laughed dumbly: "I'm not a hungry spirit... just treat it as a joke."

The cool girl still looked quite happy at the moment. Ji Li shrugged and said nothing.

If it's about eating, he should have a way.

As the bell rang, Ji Li and the other man slowly put on their gloves, but the two guys next to them had already pounced on them and started tearing them off in big chunks.

A man and a woman armed with knives cut the beef into pieces with a dazzling dance of knives, and swallowed them in one gulp.

A sturdy man with a female companion directly entered the evil spirit transformation, transformed into a shark man with two heads, and attacked left and right, and the beef was instantly reduced to one third.

There are also those who summon insects to eat with them, and those who turn beef directly into liquid and gulp it down.

The one who left the deepest impression on Ji Li was a lone wolf, a short man. He simply cut the beef into the size of marbles, flicked it into his mouth, and it melted in his mouth.

Then, the next moment, his spiritual essence began to boil wildly, and he fainted with his eyes rolled back.

"Player No. 3 is out!"

Yan Xiyu looked at Ji Li:

"Participation is what matters. Let's eat."

Then she rolled up her sleeves, tore off a large piece and stuffed it into her mouth like a female savage.

Ji Li said that if participation is what matters, then how can he take advantage of others?

He first took a small sip, feeling the calm well of the soul, then took another big bite, confirming a guess in his mind.

As a result, Yan Xiyu only felt that the divine chef's beef was suddenly lifted up, and there was an uproar in all directions——

Ji Li, with the help of his spiritual essence, picked up the beef with one hand and stuffed it into his mouth.

Countless hyphae emerged from his mouth and pierced into the beef. The entire beef "drilled" into his mouth and disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In less than ten seconds, the whole piece of beef disappeared completely. Ji Li closed his mouth, burped loudly, and looked at the stunned referee next to him:

"One more plate."
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[The human spirit is extremely surprised by your behavior]

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

【Cognitive Index +6】
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One plate, two plates, three plates.

By the end of the game, Ji Li had eaten 8 plates of beef, and huge plastic plates were piled up next to him.

By the time he was eating the fourth set, all the other contestants had already laid down, and he was the only one still there, inhaling like crazy.

Everyone around, whether they were eating or passing by, were stunned, as if there was a bottomless pit inside Ji Li's ordinary body.

"Um...are you okay?"

Facing Yan Xiyu's cautious questioning, Ji Li shook his head:
“Nothing.”

The three hundred year old can seemed to be a little tipsy, and the Well of Souls fluctuated slightly, but that was all.

Moreover, the 24-point cognitive index was provided by the onlookers.

It wasn't until the bell rang that the game was stopped that the referee shouted -

"Guests, tonight's 'Predator' is born, breaking the record!!!"

Applause came from all directions. One reason was that Ji Li's storm inhalation was really awesome, and the other was that many of these people were regular customers of this store, so there was naturally a lot of atmosphere.

Feeling the burning sensation in his arm, Ji Li naturally smiled happily at the referee, and the other party handed him a large, fancy sign.

A slightly plump chef walked out from the crowd on the side, and seemed to be the "chef". Finally, the three of them took a group photo together while dragging the sign. This little game, which was quite interesting to Ji Li, ended.

The referee gave them both membership cards, as well as a bonus of 30,000 Hong Kong dollars, and an additional 50,000 Hong Kong dollars for breaking the record.

For Ji Li at the moment, this little bit of money is just pocket money and is nothing.

What’s more interesting is that the “chef” brought the two of them into the store.

After some investigation, I found out that this person is not the "chef" but the "chef's" apprentice, and is the head chef here.

The chef gave the two people the so-called mysterious grand prize, which was two man-made psychic props.

One is called "Limited Meat", which looks like a vertical can with the store's logo on it.

The other one is called "Don't Get Drunk" and it looks like a bottle of whiskey with the same logo.

The functions of the two are similar in that they replenish and accelerate the recovery of spiritual essence. Eating one tablet or drinking one sip can increase the recovery speed, and increasing food intake can obtain high-speed replenishment in a short period of time, which is much stronger than ordinary high-priced prop supplements.

However, the can is limited, and although whiskey may seem unlimited, it will gradually turn into water after you drink too much.

The chef said that if the two of them finished eating the meat and drinking the wine, they could come to him for refills.

But that will cost money, and they say you're welcome to visit their supply shop at any time, which is a disguised form of sales promotion.

Ji Li took the meat and gave the wine to Yan Xiyu. Since she hadn't taken the initiative to treat him, there would be no reward.

However, Yan Xiyu was determined not to take the last bit of money, but Ji Li still transferred 82% to her.

Yan Xiyu took Ji Li for another walk around the area. By the way, Pei Taiyu's pollution should be cleared up by tomorrow, so he reviewed the details of the case with Ji Li again.

On the way to the parking lot, the cool girl looked at today's group photo in the light, her red eyes thoughtful.

"Why are you dazed?"

Yan Xiyu put away the photos. She thought that she should bring the core team members here for a meal next time, but she felt it would be too unlucky to say it out loud.

"There's a bar over there, would you like to join me?"

"Still drinking?"

"We were originally here to drink, but were interrupted by that entertainment competition." Yan Xiyu inserted his fingers into his hair and rubbed his head:
"Speaking of which, you are really amazing. Where did all the food go after you ate so much..."

Yan Xiyu walked forward and suddenly found that Ji Li didn't follow him, so he turned around and looked at him:
"what happened?"

"Something urgent happened suddenly." Ji Li's expression became a little subtle.

"Ok?"

Something had entered his area.

To be precise, they broke into the Lingbao Prison Cluster.

……

In the darkness of the night, the demon shadow rushed back to Aries College, and Ji Li smelled the pungent smell of blood.

After the magic shadow faded away and he went to check, he saw a headless snow-white dog lying on the side of the road. It was the dog that had delivered the invitation to Ji Li before. It was now dead, and its head had rolled to the side.

As he continued to move forward, he saw more dead dogs, all of whom were members of Xiang Yu's Overlord Group. Except for the large white dog, which still had a complete body, the others were all broken limbs and blood plasma all over the ground, and they did not look like dogs at all. At this moment, he found a familiar dog head shivering next to the trash can:

"Xiang Yu?"

"Master, keep your voice down, that guy... is so fucking scary!!!"

Xiang Yu cried and murmured:

"More than a dozen good brothers are gone... Lao Da, go and call the big guys for help!"

Calling the boss...that is to say, in Xiang Yu's eyes, the other party is stronger than me.

Ji Li thought quickly and asked Xiang Yu to leave the academy immediately.

The next moment, Ji Li's soul trigger began to tremble. To be more precise, it was the Lingboyu that had established a connection with him that was trembling.

The black ice rats that remained in the ruins were killed.

Ji Li approached the activity room cautiously. After finding no trace of intrusion, he entered and returned to his own Prison of the Soul. He took out a translucent coat and covered himself with it.

Artificial psychic props purchased from the Flash Street platform can cover up soul fluctuations.

Then he returned to the ruins of the spirit prison through the passage. In order not to alarm the other party, he did not trigger the soul trigger to sense.

Gradually, Ji Li arrived at the ruins hall. He saw a black shadow walking towards the gate of flesh and blood from afar.

With the help of the Ascension Protocol, he saw the man come to the Gate of Flesh and Blood and look at it for a while, and then stand next to Henson's body for a while.

He then began to examine the ectoplasm circuit next to Henson, and then walked towards the door frame where the little dragon was.

Ji Li heard the sound of fighting and moved a little closer.

After a while, the man came out of the room where the little dragon was, holding the dragon's head in his hand.

One minute.

It was done in a minute.

Ji Li stopped advancing and turned away.

And a dark shadow was already standing behind him:

"You opened this relic?"

When Buhua Gu appeared, Ji Li instantly fled to the back of the ruins.

The man appeared in front of Ji Li almost instantly and asked in a low voice:
"That shouldn't be the case. With your soul fluctuations, even if you defeat the soldiers guarding the gate, you shouldn't be able to open the gate..."

As he spoke, Ji Li heard a crow cry, and a storm of flying feathers appeared in the sky, covering him, and surrounding him layer by layer.

The terrifying spiritual fluctuations and spiritual pressure swept across his entire body. This level... is at least the peak master.

And it's still very strong.

"That's really interesting. The real person should be very interested in you. Why don't you come with me..."

Ji Li looked at the other party's shadow, his vision gradually covered by dense feathers, and the calculations of the Ascension Protocol kept washing on his retina -

Failure, failure, failure...

"True body? What are you?"

"Oh? That's quite interesting. You still remember to gather intelligence in this situation? But just follow me obediently..."

A flash of red light danced on Dark Ice Storm's claws, and a cannon punch suddenly blasted out, and the red matter in the soul space began to jump wildly -

"Hey, you..."

Scarlet burst out, and all the crow feathers were shattered in an instant. The heavy punch tore through the air pressure with unparalleled power and hit the crow feather man.

The other party suddenly raised his hand and grasped Ji Li's fist. A crack appeared on the already red dark ice storm.

"The other world? How could that be? So you..."

"You seem a little too confident."

The speed of the red matter's beating suddenly increased, and a large amount of flesh and blood spread out from Ji Li's fist, replacing the black ice layer by layer. The opponent's face under the crow cloak became more and more shocked, and then turned into horror -

The Dark Ice Storm turned into a giant hand of twisted flesh and blood, which exploded instantly under the accumulation of more and more red matter. Under the spurting blood, a touch of metallic color was reflected in the dark space.

A shock came from the depths of Ji Li's soul, and for a moment it seemed as if his soul and this madly attached red arm had established a different connection.

Then the metallic luster actually bounced up and shrank layer by layer, and in the sound of intensive metal collisions, it turned into a precise steel arm, which was twisted and entangled with flesh and blood.

Sparks flew, armor plates bounced up and closed, and a high-frequency thermal energy knife suddenly popped out from the wrist and stabbed at the opponent like a sharp arrow.

The man's face changed drastically, and the spiritual essence that exploded from his body instantly turned into crow feathers all over the sky, exploding and transforming into flying spiritual essence protection in front of him.

But Ji Li was still evaporating the red matter, and the flesh and blood on the huge mechanical arm gradually disappeared, and densely packed machinery continued to grow.

The armored units bounced up and down like dominoes, assembling and multiplying rocket-like nozzles at his elbows, pushing the wrist blades forward and stabbing the crow man.

At the same time, another wrist knife appeared from the other side of the wrist, colliding with the tip of the other knife to form a sharp triangle, which rotated loudly -

The two high-frequency thermal energy wrist knives spiraled wildly and turned into shiny metal drills, and with a piercing noise, violent sparks like a waterfall exploded on the barrier.

In just a moment, the barrier exploded. The Crow Man vomited a mouthful of blood and was pierced through the chest, and his whole body was nailed into the wall.

"No, wait, talk to me first! Wait..."

Along with a heart-wrenching scream, the drill tore a large hole of crushed flesh in his chest and pierced into the wall behind him, with the entire arm embedded in it.

boom! ! ! !

The high-speed rotating drill stopped, Ji Li suddenly pulled out his arm, and the madly beating red matter froze at the ten-digit number beginning with "one".

Then a ball of sparks exploded from his arm and began to disintegrate. Piece after piece of heavy combat units and armor fell to the ground at a rapid speed, turning into spiritual fragments and dissipating.

The arm gradually returned to its original shape as the Dark Ice Storm.

Ji Li let out a long breath——

Got it done.

He looked at his Dark Ice Storm's claws, then at the pieces of mechanical debris on the ground that had not yet completely dissipated. It would be a lie to say he was not surprised.

He didn't expect that the red matter superimposed to the extreme would actually turn into a mechanical body?

The shape looked familiar to him. It was some kind of full-body prosthetic component that he remembered, but it was mixed with other models.

Is it made up of my cognition?

There is no point thinking about these things for the time being. The red mass accumulated during this period is only a dozen points left. It would be a lie to say that I don’t feel the pain.

"You'd better have something of value..."

He looked at the body of the crow man, which quickly turned into a pool of mud. As the mud evaporated rapidly, the body of a dead crow appeared in its place.

Ji Li picked up the thing carefully.

This is a specimen of a crow with a large hole on its chest and a pendant hanging around its neck. Ectoplasmic circuits are engraved all over its body, and some strange materials are implanted in its feathers. The filling inside emits a foul odor.

"This guy... is a clone?"

Soul Trigger's perception expanded to the maximum, and the three spider nests in the Soul Prison came out in full force to weave a denser surveillance network in every corner of the academy and the underground ruins.

"No one is here, at least no one is within the scope of Aries College at the moment."

This means that the other party's real body is not nearby.

The clone is the pinnacle master, so how terrifying is the original body?
Ji Li recalled the other party's deep and strange spiritual essence, and his soul triggered all his strength to sense the remaining things in the crow specimen, and his nerves were tense -

Evil spirit.

A talking evil creature, it is the avatar of a Dead Apostle.

Ji Li carefully examined the crow pendant, on which hung a symbol that looked vaguely familiar to him——

Tower of Babel.

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