Soul Trigger

Chapter 210 Predator Secrets

Seeing this scene, Gao Zhengwen coughed lightly and lowered his head to swipe his medical tablet to avoid Ji Li's spiritual core ability.

Yan Xiyu raised his eyebrows:
"……what have you done?"

"It can be considered a newly developed use. Anyway... I have gained something from this trip."

Ji Li waved his hand, letting "Scorpion" lie down again, then he got off the bed and stretched:

"But Doctor Gao, are you changing jobs?"

Gao Zhengwen smiled:

"Please stop mocking me. It was Captain Yan who called me here. Of course, after I knew that you were in trouble, I rushed here without stopping..."

Before he finished speaking, Yan Xiyu quickly continued, "After all, I just took up an important position and was ruined by the case here. If something goes wrong, I am also responsible."

Ji Li picked up the warm water on the table and took a sip:
"No need to explain, thank you."

Yan Xiyu frowned: "I'm not explaining, and the water in your cup is what I just drank from."

"How old are you and still shy?"

"..." Yan Xiyu stared at him, feeling that he had worried for nothing.

Gao Zhengwen coughed lightly:
"Come to think of it, I haven't wished you a promotion yet. I should have brought you a gift if I had known this would happen."

Gao Zhengwen was originally Tuzi's attending physician. After the pig factory incident, he took the initiative to serve as Ji Li's attending physician. As for the small matter of the list of soul doctors, the two of them still have some friendship.

He is a doctor with relatively long experience, so his medical skills are naturally good. Unfortunately, whether it was the case with Tu Zi or Ji Li, he was not given any room to perform except for basic treatment.

"No need to be polite, just a token of your appreciation will do."

Seeing that Ji Li was fine, Gao Zhengwen gave Ji Li a simple check-up. After all indicators were normal, he said goodbye to the two of them.

After all, this is the Special Management Bureau. Although he is a doctor at the Blue Label Hospital, it is not good for him to stay here all the time, not to mention that the Special Management Bureau had some unpleasantness with the Gaoxing Group behind the Blue Label Hospital today.

It is certainly impossible to directly shut down services to the Special Management Bureau.

This amount of money may not be a big deal to the wealthy Gaoxing Group, but it is a tough situation for the person in charge of the Blue Label Hospital. So even if there is a little unhappiness, Blue Label will still do what it has to do.

"Are you hungry? I'll let the cafeteria know so you can eat something first."

"Row."

After lying in bed for a whole day, Ji Li's stomach was indeed protesting.

……

In the cafeteria of the Special Management Bureau, Ji Li was eating the food prepared for him by the cafeteria while flipping through several mobile phones and looking at the various unread messages on them.

Yan Xiyu sat opposite with his legs crossed, busying himself with a few small pastries.

"You still like sweets?"

"Investigating cases requires a lot of brainpower and consumes a lot of sugar. So, what did you find out in your dream?"

“Behind the pig factory are predators.”

“…There really is a predator.”

Yan Xiyu was a little surprised: "I originally thought it was just an excuse for Shan Street to set up a special investigation department to interfere with the bureau."

Ji Li roughly revealed to Yan Xiyu his experiences in the dream, omitting the previous battle with "Mouthpiece" and directly telling about the experience of "Scorpion" and how he and "Mouthpiece" later returned to Aurora City.

He did not conceal the situation of the Flesh and Blood Gate and the Predators. He was gradually taking on important positions in the Special Management Bureau, and the power and resources here should be used in vain.

Not to mention the involvement of the Gate of Flesh and Blood, he doesn't intend to fight alone.

But just when Ji Li was talking about the city with the giant flesh and blood gate, Yan Xiyu's face suddenly changed and he stood up suddenly:

"The Gates of Hell!"

"The Gates of Hell?" Ji Li paused while eating.

"The Reflection City of the Black Sun Prefecture's Sakura City is a super-large spirit prison that can almost be considered a small world." Yan Xiyu said solemnly:

“For a long time, Silla wanted to know where the entrance to that place was…”

"It's a pity that 'Scorpion's' memory is fragmented, and I didn't see where the entrance is." Ji Li shook his head, but wrote down the name "Hell's Gate".

"What you saw in Scorpion's dream should be the Gate of Hell, because of the existence of Inuzuka Castle. I never expected that the Gate of Flesh and Blood would be moved to the Gate of Hell by the Black Sun Mansion..."

As Han Xiaofu's half-adopted daughter and confidant, Yan Xiyu naturally knew the relevant information about the Gate of Flesh and Blood.

"If this information is disclosed to the Capital Investigation Bureau, it may be a bombshell..."

The Investigation Bureau, whose full name is Comprehensive Abnormal Investigation Bureau, is located in the capital. It is an intelligence agency that specializes in investigating awakened people and sends spies overseas all year round.

However, due to Silla's small size and limited population, it was unable to send out many spies.

"Wouldn't it be better to keep it as a bargaining chip for internal transactions?"

"That's true." Yan Xiyu nodded:
"If that's the case, then Scorpion should have entered Inuzuka and met the eight major families in his memory?" Ji Li mentioned the old man: "Inukai Saburo."

"The emperor of the Black Sun Palace, the lackey of the Yuya family, one of the eight major families, the Inukai clan..." Yan Xiyu gave Ji Li some basic information about the composition of the Black Sun Palace, but did not discuss it in detail.

"That is to say, the name of the organization that 'Scorpion' belongs to is 'The Stable'. Relying on what the Mouthpiece brought back from the Black Sun Palace seven years ago, the 'King' opened the Door of Flesh and Blood and gained powerful strength, and thus called himself the 'King of Predators'..."

After listening to Ji Li's entire story, Yan Xiyu digested the information provided by Ji Li and extracted a very critical piece of information:

"So, the birth of the Predator was through 'transformation'?"

Ji Li nodded:

"You are familiar with the existence of 'essence', right? I just experienced it yesterday."

Ji Li was referring to the fact that the Director of the Internal Affairs Department used the "Essence Fuel" technique on Jin Yinghui.

Yan Xiyu nodded:
"From a doctrinal perspective, the term soul psychology is the fusion of the id, superego, and self of the human mind, and is the deep structure of the soul core trinity theory."

"From the practical application of spiritual essence, spiritual essence can be materialized. Different people's spirits are manifested in different appearances. Evil spiritization is a form that shows part of the essence."

"So the essence is also called the 'true nature of the soul'."

Ji Li tore a piece of chicken leg and gave Yan Xiyu a thumbs up:

"As expected of someone who has received higher education, you are able to speak with a lot of theories. But could it be that you are essentially a sparrow that discharges electricity?"

"Then you are a cross between an Ice Mushroom and a Destruction Mushroom."

"What is that? Genetically modified plants?" Ji Lixin said that the name was so fancy that it almost flew into the sky.

"A guy without a childhood." Yan Xiyu had a blank expression.

Ji Li returned to the topic without paying any attention:

"Remember that the Predator is the only Awakened who has not yet discovered a way to awaken?"

"There are some theories, but no real evidence."

Yan Xiyu narrowed his eyes:
"Don't tell me you found it?"

"Things in dreams cannot be used as evidence, but I did 'see' it."

Ji Li said: "The way a predator is born is that a predator separates a part of its own essence and plants it into the soul of another person, developing them into its own 'downline'."

"In Scorpion's memory, the Mouthpiece called this method a 'Nest', and the developed 'Downline' would basically obey the 'Upline'."

"It sounds more like a zombie setting, like some kind of infection mechanism..." Yan Xiyu frowned:

"So it's like ants and bees? There's a hierarchy?"

"Yes. The 'Stadium' is a nest organization. The 'Mouthpiece' was developed by the 'Predator King' to become his own 'downline', and the 'Mouthpiece' planted its own essence to others, who developed into his downline."

"In this spider-web-like structure, the 'Predator King' is the core of the nest and the highest superior, so he calls himself the 'King'."

Yan Xiyu was silent for a while:
"If this is true, then this will be a major discovery that will shock the world of soul psychology. If someone in the Special Management Bureau is infected..."

The consequences would be disastrous.

But the cool girl immediately thought of something:
"Such a terrifying ability should also have very strict limitations."

"Yes."

Ji Li drank a sip of the Silla tofu soup provided by the cafeteria:
"'bridegroom'."

"Pei Taiyu..." Yan Xiyu was stunned for a moment, and then a little dazed:

"Taewoo was...wait, the reason he was infected was to be corrupted?"

"It's not corruption, it's destruction and tampering."

Ji Li took the soy sauce bottle on the table and poured it casually. The thin strips of soy sauce formed a long rectangle.

With his hands moving quickly, he cut the long rectangle into four frames, and drew something in each frame in the manner of pouring soy sauce. Finally, he placed the pot:
"That's the answer."

Looking at the four stick figures in the frames who seemed to be doing radio gymnastics, Yan Xiyu fell into deep thought.

"Why don't you just tell it orally?"

"Aren't you a top student? How can you not understand this?"

"This has nothing to do with being a top student, and more to do with the level of the painter..." Yan Xiyu gave me a look that said "you're hopeless".

"Really?" Ji Li looked at the painting on the table that he had poured out with soy sauce in confusion, and then looked at the image projected by the Ascension Protocol on his retina:
“I think it’s very vivid?”

"Which eye of yours thinks this is graphic?! What exactly are you trying to express? Stop stressing out your artistic germs!"

"Remember the slate I brought from the pig factory?"

(End of this chapter)