Soul Trigger

Chapter 3 Resonance
"I feel it... I feel the alien god!"

Voices of surprise came from the crowd. It seemed that these believers also saw the scene before them and were amazed by it.

But unlike Ji Li, who had a hideous and painful look on his face, their faces were filled with ecstasy.

The tentacle-faced old man who had already rushed to Ji Li also stopped, waving the strange-shaped cane in his hand, his body repeatedly jumping between normal and monster, and screaming:

"The inner world... the inner world is covered! Our sacrifice was successful, our sacrifice was successful!!!"

With a scream, a believer who had swelled up into a monster exploded on the spot, splattering everywhere like a flesh and blood bomb.

Then came the second one, the third one... one after another believers exploded.

But the people around him were extremely excited, dancing and singing as if they were welcoming some kind of gift, until only the old man with the beard and hair was left.

"Power... is the power of EsGod! I am right, I am the chosen one! I am..."

The state that kept jumping between normal and blood-red seemed to stop, and the hall was blood-red, as if the so-called other world had been covered.

The body of the bearded old man was still expanding, as if he had entered some irreversible state. More tentacles and human faces squeezed out of his body, making shrill screams.

Ji Li saw behind him, the inverted cross at the end of the hall with his flesh and blood residue swelled like a living creature, extruding a large amount of flesh and blood, emitting a surging red light, and turned into an extremely huge eyeball staring at him——

Ji Li felt as if his whole body, even his brain, was locked. He froze in place, his body flickering as if it was dislocated in time and space.

But unexpectedly, the big eyes withered away quickly like a plant in the blink of an eye, and the strange condition on Ji Li's body only lasted for a moment.

When he came to his senses, the entire blood-red world dissolved and disappeared like a dripping oil painting.

The hall was quickly returning to normal, leaving only blood plasma and remnants of internal organs on the floor, and the bearded old man who had returned to normal with a dazed look on his face.

"Do not……"

He trembled and fell to his knees.

“This is impossible… This is impossible!!! I have clearly completed the sacrifice… I am the one favored by the other world… Who is it… Who is it?!”

Meanwhile, Ji Li heard a cold female voice in his mind:

"Alert: Contact with unknown energy source - completed."

“The identification and updating of the current objective world - is completed.”

"Binary encoder - running. Ascension protocol main protocol program - initialization completed, restoring the data panel of the current body of the ascender -"
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Customer Name: Ji Li

Affiliation: World Tree Group
Position: Third seat on the board, Chief Armed Military Executive

Clearance: Delta Prototype Level

Prosthetics: None (hardware missing, no valid interface detected)

Power: 3.1
Responses: 2.4
Logic: 3.9
Adaptation: 0.2——
Since no prosthesis was detected, there is no prosthesis weighting algorithm for the above four-dimensional data.

"Based on the results of identifying and updating the current objective material world, and Article 1 of the Ascension Protocol Master Agreement—"

"Ensure and guide the Ascended to maintain their survival in any material world after Ascension, and continue to perfect the ultimate instructions for the evolution of life forms. Synchronously update and adjust the Ascended panel:"

Name: Ji Li (abnormal soul state)
Spirit Core: Unknown

Will: 12.6
Super sense: 6.3
Creation: 1.2
Affinity: 2.8——
"An objective object with special energy has been detected and is being decoded—"

However, Ji Li had no time to pay attention to what the ascension agreement said at this moment, because the bearded old man was staring at him with red eyes.

Or rather, stare at his left arm.

A bloody one-eyed symbol had appeared on his left arm at some point, burning in front of his eyes through the cloth. An indescribable pain came over him, and then gradually disappeared as the symbol extinguished itself.

When the Ascension Protocol returned just now, Ji Li felt an inexplicable connection transmitted to him, but he didn't know what it was until the moment that eye looked at him -

It’s the different space called the other world!
"Why...why is it you!!!"

The old man with beard and hair screamed like crazy and pounced at him with his fangs and claws bared. His eyes were completely drenched in darkness. The walking stick in his hand was covered with dense hair that grew wildly and came like the wind, wrapping Ji Li tightly inside and outside!

The old man walked forward step by step, with dense holes appearing on his body and spewing out foul-smelling gray smoke.

At the same time, dense black hair continued to emerge from the small hole, binding Ji Li high in the air and forcing his left arm to be lifted up.

The smelly black hair tore through the cuffs and pierced back and forth on the arm where the blood-eye symbol appeared, as if trying to cut off that piece of skin.

"Mine! That's mine!!!!" As if realizing the futility of this move, the crazy black hair immediately strangled his wrists tightly, and tied them tighter and sharper -

This old guy wants to cut my hand off!
Just as Ji Li was struggling in the black hair to stop it from getting any closer, he heard a cold female voice again. At the same time, the gray-white goat skull that he had thrown out before also vaguely appeared in his mind:

"Analysis completed, objective object detected and contact completed. According to the updated current information, the object is:"

"[Personality Relic]: No facial bones, and the following explanation of [Personality Relic] is provided for the reference of current customers:"

"[Personality Relic]: A special item created from the energy left behind after a special life form dies. It can grant the holder certain abilities, but will cause a corresponding degree of distortion to the holder's subjective consciousness."

"【Faceless Bone】: An ordinary relic left behind by an unknown life form after its demise. According to the current update results of the objective material world, this relic requires a certain amount of willpower to use."

"Do you want to collect it?"

"Warning: After storage is completed, this [Personality Relic] will be bound to the customer, and during use it will cause a certain degree of distortion to the subjective consciousness of the person who has been promoted."

"This option is highly dangerous and will have an irreversible impact on the stability of the consciousness of the brain in the vat. Please use the secret key to confirm the red risk behavior——"

"Password HG31067357, screw your risky password, what you are doing now better be of some use to the current situation!!!"

Ji Li roared and bit the smelly black hair that was attacking him. Without any sharp weapon, he could only try the most primitive way to escape, but the surging black hair squirmed between his teeth like a worm and tried to wrap around his body, and the foul-smelling gray smoke that filled the air made him feel dizzy in an instant.

Before he could react, the sudden shattering sound beside his ears caused a strange throbbing in his heart.

It was like the beating of one's heart, or like something was touched deep in one's soul, as if it was about to burst out.

"Confirm the secret key, the risk password 'fuck you' has been retrieved, initializing..."

With the sound of the Ascension Protocol, the white sheep bones not far away suddenly shattered, and he felt something drilling into the depths of his brain.

A chill ran through his limbs and bones, and the thousands of black hairs wrapped around him, wrapping him tightly in layer after layer into a gradually growing black cocoon.

But Ji Li seemed to have lost his mind, his eyes were stunned in the cocoon formed by the black hair. In front of his eyes at this moment, pictures were jumping one after another -

The battlefield of cyborgs was filled with corpses; meteor showers streaked across the sky; the plasma sweeps from the intensive bombings obscured the view; the space-based weapons blasted the entire Gobi Desert to pieces...

It seemed to be fragments of memories from the past. The images jumped at an extremely fast speed and finally formed a dark mechanical figure.

The human figure shattered in the blink of an eye, and a white object emerged from the darkness. It was the goat skull without the jaw.

When the goat skull exploded silently into darkness, he suddenly opened his eyes.

That strange throbbing erupted deep in his soul.

In reality, the surging and sticky black hair had wrapped Ji Li into a huge black cocoon, with only one arm exposed.

The arm with the burning mark dropped naturally, as if the person inside was completely dead. The bearded old man was so excited that his whole body was shaking. He knelt in front of Ji Li's hand like the most devout fanatic and slowly stretched out his withered palm to him.

The next moment, the hair on the surface of the black cocoon arched into black spikes, piercing into the inside to execute Ji Li. The old man with black hair personally took the cane covered with black hair, condensed it into a hair blade and cut towards the arm -

Poof! ! ! !

Like metal colliding, the strong reaction force shook the bearded old man. He took several steps back and looked at the arm in disbelief.

A huge gap deep enough to reveal the bone was torn on the arm, but no blood flowed out.

As if realizing something, he once again controlled the hair to continue to tighten towards the inside of the black cocoon, but the violently tightened stinking hair became extremely stagnant, as if being repelled by something, and finally exploded with a crackling sound by the surging shock wave -

Ji Li, who saw the light of day again, fell to the ground, coughing violently. The sudden burst of energy exploded the black cocoon into falling hair swirling in the sky.

Starting from the huge gash in his arm, his flesh and skin melted and flowed like candles, turning into a gray-white skeleton.

The skeleton seemed to be a hybrid of some creature and humans. The joints in some places were strong and thick, supporting Ji Li's head which had turned into a skeleton goat at some point.

The white bones multiplied in the blink of an eye, covered with layers of thin bone armor to fill the gaps between the bones.

Feeling the power and vitality rushing up into the sky, his body screamed and rolled out thick black smoke, in which dark human-faced skeletons rolled and cheered, making shrill screams.

Ji Li stood up in the black smoke, his dark eye sockets locked onto the black-haired old man who was retreating. The surging black air was like a fresh meteor fire tail, and it stretched out a shrieking black trajectory along with his body, and he punched into the opponent's chest.

"die!!!!"

The black-haired old man instantly exploded into thousands of pieces of flesh that crashed into the tightly closed door. Blood formed fan-shaped waves under the fierce force, sweeping across the hall like a tide!

(End of this chapter)