Soul Trigger

Chapter 278 Seed of Power (I)

What is this again?
Ji Li was a little confused.

Judging from the current situation, the ability of [Swarm Transmission] looks like a perception ability, with two different perception modes.

The first is related to the Predator King, and can sense the spirits of those who have touched the personality fragments of the Predator King after it exploded.

The second is a logical puzzle.

At this moment, the unique footsteps of Black Box came from behind Ji Li:
"Mr. Black Goat?"

This guy... is really fast.

Ji Li turned his head slightly and looked at the dark shadow behind him. The speed at which thousands of hyphae extracted electrical energy also slowed down slightly.

Considering what happened in the last black box dream, his affinity attribute seemed to have a significant effect on Da Lei's maid.

But why don't other wild evils have this effect?
The maid had already appeared on the rooftop and was moving towards him.

The black and white clothes float slightly in the night wind, giving a sense of fusion between maid outfit and nun uniform. It seems to be the result of the black box's own characteristics similar to cognitive camouflage, plus some film taste.

The hem of her skirt was still as long as before, and from inside came the sound of a knife piercing the ground.

The holes pierced by the sharp blades spread as she moved, and quickly disappeared as the spiritual power dissipated.

As it got closer, a pale little face with a stiff smile appeared in Ji Li's field of vision:

"Mr. Black Goat, are you...charging?"

There was a subtle hint of surprise in Heihei's sweet voice.

“There’s nothing wrong with that understanding.”

Ji Li turned his head back to face the black box.

"…My abilities might hurt you, so you might be better off staying indoors for now."

"Ah! Thank you for your concern!" Black Box put her hands together on the side of her face with a very girlish look, her head slightly tilted, looking very happy.

However, the fake face that looked like a mask was still expressionless, and it was creepy no matter how you looked at it.

Because this is indeed a fake face. Black Box is not a Dead Apostle yet. The best he can do is pretend to be like this:

"But I'm fine! Is there anything I can help you with?"

Black Box politely declined Ji Li's order to leave, stopped, and then "floated" forward a little bit -

(Should I get closer?)

The moment this psychological activity passed by Ji Li's ears, he suddenly felt a shock in his heart, and the trigger of his soul began to throb violently.

The throbbing of the soul trigger can be divided into many ways. Different human souls, different types of awakeners, and different types of awakening auras will have different throbbing frequencies.

Therefore, at various frequencies, vibrations and throbbing may point to different results.

As one of the core members of the awakener system, Ji Li naturally knew the throbbing pattern of his soul trigger very clearly.

But at this moment, there was a frequency he had never encountered before, which was fluctuating in his soul as the black box approached.

He instantly realized that this was the effect of the hive transmission. After thinking for a moment, he temporarily interrupted the power extraction and waved at the black box:

"Can you please come over first?"

Obviously, he would not get any results if he worked on it behind closed doors, so he decided to just try to have some simple contact with the black box.

But what he didn't expect was that the figure of Black Box instantly disappeared from Ji Li's sight:
"awesome!"

Then the throbbing in the heart suddenly accelerated, turning into a collision of spiritual essence that spread out.

As he looked in surprise, the black box actually emerged from his chest.

“What are you doing…?!”

Then, accompanied by a slightly tingling touch, the half-soft body of this evil creature pressed against him. Ji Li could even hear the frantic rubbing sounds of the scalpel feet under the other party's skirt.

She crawled out from the photo wrapped in Ji Li's chest, which was the life-saving photo that Feilin gave to Ji Li.

The face of the black box split apart like petals, and the whole thing was pressed against Ji Li's chest, as if it had taken a deep breath.

The perspective of evil creatures is different from that of ordinary people, and they do not have physical bodies in the strict sense.

Their observable appearance is actually composed of spiritual substance, which is similar to the situation of human spirit being transformed into evil spirit. The difference is that they are evil spirits themselves.

This also means that in the eyes of the evil, the world they see is different.

In the eyes of the black box at this moment, Ji Li's body was continuously emitting some kind of strange spiritual essence, which was more comfortable than its own nest.

But at this moment, Ji Li felt that the spreading spiritual essence was being transmitted through the nest group and was constantly drilling into the soul of the black box in front of him.

At this moment, the black box is completely immersed in the "smell" of Ji Li that only it can smell. It can be said that it is "wide open" in a sense.

"Wait, step back first..."

Ji Li wanted to speak out to warn, but it seemed too late. The black box's entire body trembled for a moment, and suddenly a sharp scream broke out.

Its body churned as if time and space were disrupted, and a strong spiritual essence burst out.

In the constantly rolling spiritual essence, Ji Li saw the rapidly multiplying black ice, the countless exploding hyphae, and the rising nightmare.

They were all abilities he had obtained before, even the bright red lightning that he had just obtained.

Although the visual changes did not allow Ji Li to understand the logic behind it, the ever-changing spiritual essence was very obvious:

The moment those characteristics flashed across the black box, it would emit an emotion of pain. Because it was evil, those emotions almost instantly transformed into additional spiritual essence and manifested.

And this situation has occurred almost every time this trait flashes across it.

Although the maid looks very painful now, Ji Li seems unable to reverse this situation.

And although it is said to have so many characteristics, in fact the flashing speed is extremely fast.

At the moment when the abnormality broke out, Ji Li had just begun to press the trigger of his soul to sense the changes in his spiritual essence, when a distorted voice from the black box came into the air:
“My Lord——?”

Suddenly, the violent reaction of the black box paused for a moment, and its body suddenly returned to its original appearance.

This continued for a few seconds, and then the entire body of the camera head suddenly corroded, as if the spiritual essence was being dissolved by some violent chemical reaction, and then the entire body was being reassembled.

Then, a clearer scream came from the black box again: "——Are you the Lord?!"

Ji Li frowned suddenly:

Lord?

It was at this moment that the drastic change in the spiritual essence of Black Box suddenly stagnated, and then became vigorous.

The black and silver spiritual essence began to boil again, no longer as crazy as before, but with a strange rhythm, as if some kind of creature was reviving.

It was just that thriving spiritual essence that made Ji Li a little confused about the current state of Black Box, but he felt a familiar feeling coming from the other party.

At the same time, the throbbing in Ji Li's heart suddenly stopped, and he felt a sense of clear connection from the black box.

The next moment, the black and silver spirit reconstituted the body of the black box——

First, the high heels with a bright black and red base and black and silver butterflies.

Then a long skirt with a red background and black cloth fell down, and the maid nun's uniform that looked familiar, but with some black and silver accessories, reappeared on it.

Next came doll-like fingers, long pale hair, and a white, stiff little face.

As the face quickly turned red, a pair of white eyes suddenly opened and stared straight at Ji Li.

At this moment, Ji Li was also a little dazed.

For no other reason than the appearance of the black box has changed drastically.

Although the costumes still have those Gothic elements, there have been very obvious and huge changes in both the overall shape and the height and figure of the human form.

Even his hair had grown longer, and his face was no longer as stiff as before. Although still pale without much blood, he blinked at Ji Li vividly.

But what stunned Ji Li was not how big these changes were.

Rather, this look was mostly due to an image that automatically appeared in his mind when he first heard Black Box call herself "Filin's Maid" during the call.

Then, he felt a pair of cold but soft hands suddenly grab his palms:
"You have become the Lord!?"

……

The activity room was brightly lit.

Black Box was humming a ballad softly and dancing in circles on the coffee table.

The hem of the skirt fluttered in the wind, revealing a little bit of the calf wrapped in shiny white silk.

Ji Li looked at the other person strangely, took a sip of whiskey, and was no longer sleepy at this moment——

He was actually quite sleepy and tired.

In an inexplicable state, after testing his ability on the black box, Ji Li studied it again and roughly understood what the ability of [Nest Transmission] was.

Excluding the complex principles of soul psychology and possible abnormalities caused by the predator system.

This ability can be summarized in one sentence: injecting your own strength into others.

And the relationship between the Lord of Malice and the Demon Contract is somewhat similar.

So the moment Black Box woke up, he almost thought that Ji Li had become the "Lord".

A short speech is probably about this short, but in fact, its structure is very complicated.

First of all, the object into which power is injected cannot just be something that exists.

Currently, in the special perception of [Hive Transmission], Ji Li can only sense the existence of the young adjutant Jasmine and the black box.

One of them wasn't even human.

Combining the similarities between Black Box and Jasmine, Ji Li could only draw a shameless conclusion:

Both of them have an obsessive feeling or a "desire" for themselves.

As we all know, the source of spiritual power is desire and thought.

Therefore, Ji Li guessed that it was because of this "desire" or "infatuation" that made them the chosen objects, or the objects of adaptation, of the ability of [Nest Transmission].

Because when the black box accepts Ji Li's abilities, not all abilities can be perfectly adapted.

Instead, after all of Ji Li's characteristics went through his body, he finally found the ability to adapt to it, and even completed his human form and became stronger.

The second point is the nature of this ability, which is somewhat similar to the relationship between the Evil Lord and the Contracted Demon—

The human spirit and the Lord of Malice made a contract, exchanging power with the other party for something very important to themselves.

The power comes from the Evil Lord, and its strength depends on how much the Evil Lord is willing to give. The upper limit certainly cannot exceed the Evil Lord himself.

The difference is that the ability of [Nest Transmission] is to "transmit" a certain ability of Ji Li in the opponent's soul -

Of course, this behavior will not make the ability that Ji Li passed on disappear.

The specific ability depends on whether the other party can accept it, that is, the compatibility issue, or whether the person is "qualified".

After this trait is integrated into the other person's soul, it will spontaneously combine with their own abilities, thus causing some subtle chemical reactions in function.

Let's not talk about what abilities the black box has acquired. After Ji Li's characteristics are integrated into the soul of the person being transmitted, he will establish a special soul connection with the other party just like the evil master.

This kind of soul connection allows him to sense the approximate spatial distance between himself and the other person.

Able to hear the other person's psychological activities when their emotions and thoughts fluctuate greatly.

Similarly, when within the perception range of Ji Li's soul trigger, he can communicate with the other party remotely through spiritual essence as a medium.

In addition, when they are also within the perception range of Ji Li's soul trigger, there may be some resonance with the other party when Ji Li uses his spiritual essence.

From this perspective, this ability does not seem like that of an evil master, but rather more like the concept of the "heart of the hive" among predators.

After all, it was something that exploded from the King of Predators.

So, in addition to sensing the "potential recipient", what is the ability of the person who can consume a large amount of spiritual essence to sense the spirit of the person who picked up the remains of the "Fireworks" personality?
After a brief discussion with Black Box, Ji Li left a more likely guess:

Expand the colony.

(End of this chapter)