Soul Trigger

Chapter 2 Chaos
Without any mechanical modification, he could only perform the purest physical capture. He stretched out his hand and grabbed the first person who grabbed his shoulder and was about to knock him over.

But he obviously hadn't realized how weak this body was compared to his former self. The severe pain and injuries that made it difficult for his hands to exert force caused him to pull himself to the ground.

The body of a natural person is so weak? !

The moment his body touched the ground, he immediately changed his mind, using his shoulders and elbows to support himself and kicked at the person next to him. He did hit the person, but the severe pain from the carbon-based Homo sapiens' leg bones still made him gasp.

Such hard natural human legs.

His weak body made it almost impossible for him to organize any effective attack, but this sudden kick did cause a figure to fall to the ground because his center of gravity shifted forward when he pounced on him.

The man who fell to the ground tripped several others in succession, and the sudden chaos caused a series of believers to fall to the ground.

The people on the ground screamed because of the trampling. The crowd's tearing knocked down the candles on the table. The candle flames spread along some oily substance, burning through the wires. A burst of electric sparks exploded from the electrical appliances on the wall...

The chaos spread like dominoes.

"No neurophotonics were detected in the head. Your command cannot be executed through the image..."

"The sniffing sensor in the life support system was not detected and your command could not be executed through pheromones..."

"The drone was not detected to be carrying a magazine, and the drone could not be released to execute the environmental search command..."

Reports about the Ascension Protocol kept coming to his mind. Ji Li, who was in the crowd, endured the severe pain all over his body, found the right opportunity and squeezed through the gap between the two. As the hem of his clothes was torn by someone unknown, he escaped from the center of the chaos.

Enduring the severe pain in his palm, Ji Li quickly took off his clothes in an extremely awkward position, bit and dragged the clothes on the person closest to him, and shouted:
"He's here!"

In an instant, countless hooded men pounced on the believer covered by Ji Li's clothes, and rushed past Ji Li like a flood.

At this moment, there was only a figure lying unconscious on the ground beside him, who seemed to be protecting something, and some altars were lying all around him.

Taking advantage of the crowd's cover, Ji Li endured the intense pain, tore off the man's clothes covered in shoe marks, and reluctantly put them on in an awkward posture.

At this moment, a hard object fell out from under his clothes. He grabbed it and his palm with a big hole in it made him grimace in pain.

Unfortunately, this was not the weapon Ji Li thought it was, but a goat skull with flame-shaped cracks in its eye sockets and a missing lower jaw.

The grayish-yellow skull had large, curly horns, and the horns themselves were the same grayish-yellow bone color.

But the tip was as sharp as a weapon, allowing Ji Li to endure the pain and grab this somewhat heavy object.

Holding the skull with his wrist, Ji Li quickly put on the hood of his clothes and blended into the chaotic hooded people around him.

This body is too weak.

His hands were bloody, his brain was fainted and wasted, his ankles were still burning with pain from the friction of the ropes, his sternum was aching, and his legs were weak.

Not to mention that the loud roar just now made him feel a burning pain in his lungs, and the few times he was tormented almost drained the life out of this body.

Even if this is a digital prison... isn't this pain a little too real?
"Real" does not mean "painful". The torture in the digital prison is painful, but it is definitely not as exquisite and real as the pain I feel now.

Reminders kept coming to his mind that the Ascension Protocol could not execute commands. He finally ran to the door and crashed into it with all his strength, but he hit himself so hard that he saw stars.

I forced myself to throw myself against the door, feeling dizzy. There was no doubt that the heavy and steady texture could not be broken through by the physical body.

He took a deep breath, turned around and rushed to a nearby believer who was lying on the ground, then kicked him awake:

"Open the door!"

The believer slowly woke up: "... No... No... The sacrifice is not over yet, we can't... open the door..."

Ji Li's eyes were red, and he stepped on the man's neck with some force but precision: "Now, open the door for me!"

"...Only...the Great Heavenly Master's...holy object can open the door...and it has already been...sacrificed..."

As the believer spoke, his dazed eyes noticed Ji Li's clothes:

"...Why are you...holding...the Great Heavenly Master's...holy object..."

Ji Li immediately looked at the goat skull in his arms. For some reason, he felt an inexplicable trance in his dark eye sockets.

Before Ji Li could make any further moves, the believer gradually woke up. He couldn't help coughing due to the oppression on his trachea. He looked up and saw Ji Li's face under his hood. His expression changed:
"You are……"

Click!

The moment the other party's eyes trembled, Ji Li pressed down with all his weight, and the fragile neck collapsed instantly. He took advantage of the situation and smashed the other party's lower abdomen with the knee of his other leg.

Ji Li should be thankful that this frail body still has the weight of a normal male.

The contact surface between the abdomen and the knee was flattened and collapsed in an instant, just like a flattened water balloon with its air inlet burst. Blood spurted out sharply from the opponent's mouth like a flood, splashing from Ji Li's arms all the way to his jaw, and his head twitched wildly.

The opponent's strong convulsion made Ji Li fall to the ground without standing steadily. He suddenly felt a tremor in his arms, and when he lowered his head, his scalp went numb.

Two bloodshot human eyes had somehow grown in the eye sockets of the goat's skull, firmly embedded in the dark eye holes.

As if she felt the touch of his gaze, she turned and stared at him with her eyes wide open.

"Biological mutation?!"

Ji Li, who has lived in the materialistic technological world for almost three hundred years, has not yet considered some more abstract concepts. Apart from the possibility of virtual space, he is now a weak natural person, and his physical fitness is the weakest among natural persons.

Fearing that there might be a biological virus, he threw the skull far away. As it rolled to the ground, the voice of the Ascension Protocol in his mind that kept reporting errors stopped:
"Space energy fluctuations detected. Emergency escape measures are being implemented according to Protocol 67... Try to contact an unknown energy source..."

"No energy signal transceiver detected, unable to resonate!"

"No implant wired cable detected that meets specifications, unable to make physical connection!"

"No brain implant detected, brain wave energy cannot be activated!"

"The brain in the vat's thinking core has not been detected. The telekinetic system is offline. Fault!"

"Final plan: Use the core encoder to contact the information and perform binary decoding on the information——"

“Please note: This encoder is integrated into the Ascension Protocol main control system. Its original function only provides necessary support for the normal operation of the Ascension Protocol.”

"If the contact fails, it may cause irreparable fatal failure to the Ascension Protocol and the current prosthesis. Please prepare for the impact..."

Ji Li's pupils shrank, and his entire brain seemed to be hit by a heavy hammer, and everything in front of him became double.

In a trance, he saw everything in front of him flickering, and he didn't know when the creation was blood or rust, which spread throughout the hall.

Those believers who had reacted and rushed towards him turned into bloody monsters with bared fangs and claws. The whole face of the bearded old man who was in the lead turned into dense tentacles.

Every step he took caused his body to mutate and grow taller. By the time he rushed in front of Ji Li, he had transformed into a tentacle-faced monster several meters tall!

It was like another world before my eyes, overlapping with the normal hall just now, flickering and jumping between normal and blood-red.

(End of this chapter)