Soul Trigger

Chapter 345 Breaking the Cycle
In a dark room covered with crimson rust, Ji Li opened his eyes.

The surroundings were unfamiliar, but the layout of the room looked familiar.

Those dark walls are covered with rust and traces of time erosion. If you touch them lightly, you can knock off a large piece of rust, revealing the light silver steel underneath.

“…This is the virtual training space I once designed. Although it looks very old, it is indeed old-fashioned just from the appearance.”

Through the ability of "Reverse Nightmare", he determined that everything in front of him with the appearance of virtual space was his dream.

"But why is it so dilapidated? It smells like an invasion from the other world."

Ji Li turned over and got out of the moldy bed. At this moment, there was a knock on the door and a dirty tray was handed in. On it was something that looked like a sandwich, a box with an image of corn printed on it, and a cup of turbid shit-green liquid.

It says in English:
【Orange juice】

"This is really humorous..."

As for why it is suspected to be a sandwich, it is because that thing looks like it has been in a stinky ditch or some other corner for more than ten years. There should be no less than ten microbial communities in such a small piece.

For some reason, Ji Li always felt that everything in front of him was inexplicably familiar, and he also felt a strong sense of incongruity.

He walked to the door. There was an LED light on the sophisticated mechanical door, which was glowing red.

The interior, which had long been rusted, collapsed when Ji Li pushed it.

Standing outside was a completely corroded mechanical guard that seemed to have been abandoned for a long time.

Ji Li was able to recognize that this guy was indeed the model used by the World Tree Group, and confirmed his guess that the environment in front of him belonged to the virtual space of the training chip.

It just looked like many years had passed and everything was abandoned... This was a bit unbelievable, although he could sense that the current environment was in his dream.

But the environment in this dream was obviously a projection of the virtual space in his memory. How could he imagine the dilapidated appearance of an illusory world?

Unless, this indicates some message, especially since it is his own dream.

It was quiet outside, and the corridor was also covered in red rust, with a broken mechanical guard lying there.

These red colors always remind Ji Li of the other world.

After making sure there was no danger around, Ji Li returned to the room. He counted the things he had obtained in the Lingbo Prison in the "Land Outside the Realm".

[Reverse Nightmare] merged with the new ability and became [Wind Demon Engine].

After trying out the new ability, that strange feeling came over me again -

There was a familiar feeling, as if he had practiced it countless times, as if this was not the first time he had used this new ability.

The consciousness separated from the soul space, and the eyes returned to the rusty red virtual dream.

Ji Li casually tore out a jet of black air and shredded the wall. The steel was more brittle than biscuits, and it clanged and splashed everywhere under the burst of his spiritual essence.

This scene made him feel somewhat familiar——

This isn't right.

Although he calls himself a master of battle, things like spiritual essence are different from the laws of Murphy's megastructure.

He simply had extraordinary experience in using it in combat. By using this wind power that allowed spiritual essence to flow, he could quickly develop various combat methods based on his own actual situation.

But that doesn't mean he can make it change into various acrobatic shapes in the air -

The pitch-black spiritual wind ball kept changing shape in the air, sometimes like a swimming snake, sometimes turning into a small tornado, and sometimes condensing into a shallow human shape under his control.

In the end, it even turned into a little Odin, although it quickly dissipated:

"Something is wrong. Is it because in the Lingbao Prison of the Outer Realm, even if there are rules imposed on me, my spiritual essence will still be consumed? My spiritual essence has been reduced a lot compared to before I entered the Lingbao Prison. Only about one third of it is left..."

In the middle and late stages of "The Land Beyond the Realm", the rules gave Ji Li almost endless spiritual energy, which he squandered at will.

From the perspective of basic soul psychology theory, what he used in this situation should be the spiritual essence given to him by the rules of the Soul Limbo.

It was like having an extra infinite blue bar. Even if a lot of his original blue bar was used up in the early days of entering the Lingbi Prison, it should have been recovering in the later period.

From this perspective, after he escaped from the Lingbi Prison, even if his condition was not fully recovered, it should have been mostly recovered.

"Also, I remember hearing a prompt related to the 'Bismuth Network' from the Ascension Protocol before I lost consciousness."

"What on earth was that thing that Fairy Huan Guang extracted at the end? What on earth is this..."

Suddenly, Ji Li was startled. He suddenly realized that he had completely ignored that thing when he was counting the spoils.

The Bismuth network that triggered the Ascension Protocol's outburst prompted him to look at something that had been extracted from the body of the Fairy of Phantom Light. He remembered that it was something similar to the red crystal that Monsa had once given him.

How could he overlook such an important thing?

The sudden flash of inspiration at this moment made him alert instantly, and he expanded his spiritual essence to the maximum extent, using his ability to pry open the dream space in front of him -

I have to wake up immediately, this place is affecting my consciousness.

In the past, in Murphy's megastructure, the legendary battle master had his share of setbacks.

In addition to his early experience as a mercenary, he also found himself in difficult and dangerous situations many times after joining the World Tree Group.

Captured by the enemy, pulled into the virtual space, and tortured through various algorithms.

There are endless torture methods. In addition to the most basic use of virtual space permissions, various changes are made to the appearance of the torturer and the tortured.

Or directly use the virtual space system to generate various AI algorithm results to confuse the torturer, as well as various cognitive rewrites.

For example, by affecting the brain area, blocking a piece of memory, and then throwing him into the battlefield, he thinks that he is still a reformed mercenary on the road of revenge.

Or he could simply rewrite his perception and make him think that he was an interrogator, torturing the enemy, but he would unconsciously reveal all kinds of information.

Ji Li survived this kind of torture more than once and even learned a lot. He, the legendary combat master, was tortured into a legendary endurance master.

The situation right now, where he had forgotten something important, was very similar to “cognitive blockade”.

Considering his strange familiarity with his new ability just now, he even had reason to suspect that he might have been in this cognitive blockade for some time.

Is it because the environment has always been too comfortable that I have become lazy?

While thinking, Ji Li had already driven his spiritual essence, trying his best to pry open the entire memory space, intending to wake himself up completely.

At this moment, he felt the soul trigger vibrate wildly, and violent energy attacked from the side -

boom! ! ! !

There was a deafening explosion, the entire wall evaporated on the spot, and a terrifying red light stormed over:
"Haunted by thousands of ghosts?!"

Ji Li dodged in an instant, and in a flash he saw that the entire room had been completely destroyed.

The scarlet neural light on the head was slowly twisting and fixed on himself.

run!
Ji Li casually released a short-distance column of dark air and blasted away, then turned and ran without even looking at the result.

The next moment, a spherical scarlet explosion suddenly expanded from where he was originally located, tearing apart the entire interior of the base more than ten meters away.

But Ji Li's figure had already disappeared outside the ruins. The roar of the ghosts shook the earth, and they crushed a thick gully in the ground and chased after him madly.

Ji Li, who had already sensed something was wrong, quickly recalled all his memories of the virtual space before him and headed straight towards the direction of the secret information in the B rating.

This time he thought of the "safe" theory again. The red crystal separated by the Phantom Light Fairy was not on him, so it must be in the "safe".

Suddenly, he felt the frequency of his soul trigger, which had been trembling wildly, increase dramatically. Everything in front of him exploded, and a huge claw tore from the side -

"Hiden-sama!"

Ji Li entered the evil spirit transformation.

When the red lightning exploded, it narrowly avoided the attack of Ten Thousand Ghosts and turned into scarlet lightning that rushed away.

In the red lightning, there was a dark airflow following and lingering. Ji Li could feel that his speed was much faster than before. Obviously, this was due to the Fengmo Engine.

But this feeling of galloping only lasted for a moment, and the trembling soul trigger once again made him feel the threat from behind.

Without thinking, he created a vortex under his feet, which then exploded.

With the help of the violent impact force, his own speed of the Red Electric Main and the blessing of the Wind Demon Engine, plus the instantly activated Soul Mach, Ji Li's body flashed almost at the same time as the Ten Thousand Ghosts.

The former tore the side wall apart directly, while the latter completely destroyed his original position with rolling steel grooves.

The circular explosions spread out in circles around the ghosts, chasing Ji Li's figure. After escaping from the last circle of red shock waves that soared into the sky, Ji Li, who once again brushed shoulders with death, exploded countless vortices around him, tearing apart the collapsed steel structure.

As his mind raced, he looked at the environment in front of him. A security robot that was also in disarray but had a slightly different appearance attracted Ji Li's attention.

This also allowed him to instantly determine his approximate location at the moment and rush towards a certain direction at full speed.

There were constant explosions along the way, and Soul Mach was rapidly consuming Ji Li's remaining spiritual essence, one in front and one behind, one small and one big.

Two equally scarlet figures flashed continuously, destroying everything in their path.

"It seems that this Wan Gui Zang Shen's tactical thinking is not as good as mine at the moment. In this case..."

Ji Li, who was once again disconnected from an attack, picked up a device from a large pile of mechanical guard wreckage on the ground. It looked like some kind of mechanical module built by the roots of the World Tree. The moment it was activated, a green light appeared on it:
"The first step is complete. As expected, in my mind, the Demon God system has a quality that cannot be erased by time..."

A scarlet beam of light erupted from behind him, tearing through the space. Ji Li dodged it and glanced at the ghosts chasing after him:
"Including you..."

The moment he leaped into the air, Ji Li tightly grasped the device, and the electric current on his body spread wildly in all directions.

In an instant, dense scarlet electric currents flowed throughout the entire base.

Countless half-decayed robots that had turned into wreckage opened their eyes and launched an attack at Ji Li who was passing through their vision.

The alarms that were reactivated under his violent electric current rang in his ears. A large number of automatic machine guns rubbed against each other with sparks, and drilled out from the rusted walls, spewing out rain of bullets chasing his figure:

"Very good, my current is useful, now the next step is..."

His speed ignored the rain of bullets and the half-dead robots, and when he saw the cross hall in front of him, a flash of spiritual energy appeared in his eyes.

But the red light that burst out from the side made his pupils jump——

Speeding up?!
"Roar--!!!!"

The visor was torn, and the ghosts with exploding armor all over the body, emitting hot steam, actually circled in front of Ji Li.

At this extreme speed, he only saw everything on the side being shattered in an instant, and the burning claws pierced into the right side of his body.

Red lightning flashed and flesh was torn apart.

Ji Li gritted his teeth suddenly and dragged his broken body out.

The device held in the torn limb flew in the air and was grabbed by his remaining hand, and he dodged to the other side of the cross hall.

At this moment, his entire upper body was torn apart vertically, and the area from his right shoulder to his left ribs was violently torn off, revealing his bloody ribs:

"It looks like a good material for stewing soup... But because it was a dream, it's just a fatal injury..."

Red lightning flashed in his eyes, and he evaporated Soul Mach again, increasing his speed by two times, and ran around the cross hall three times.

In an instant, the space and matter around the cross hall were completely shattered by the ghosts that were like maggots on the tarsal bones, and the spiral red energy exploded densely.

"Twenty meters... thirty meters... that's enough!"

Ji Li stomped on the ground hard to blow up the dense electric snakes and rushed straight to the central elevator.

He attached the device in his hand directly to the elevator, and then used red electricity to violently activate it.

In 0.1 seconds, the huge central elevator flickered and went out.

In 0.2 seconds, Ji Li noticed this fatal situation and kicked the entire central elevator facility fiercely.

0.3 seconds later, the central elevator started operating.

In 0.4 seconds, Ji Li tore open the door of the central elevator and entered the empty elevator shaft. The torn trench created by the movement of Ten Thousand Ghosts spread outside the elevator.

0.5 seconds--

boom! ! ! ! !
The central elevator fell like the center of the earth, and at the same moment, it collided directly with the ghosts that appeared in the elevator shaft following Ji Li.

Amid the earth-shaking tremors, violent red light exploded in all directions, and the angry roars of thousands of ghosts almost tore the eardrums apart.

And the creaking sound of the central elevator turned into an unwilling roar, and it sank down in a deafening sound!
In the dust, Ji Li, who only had one hand, pulled out a scarlet sword flashing with red lightning from the air and appeared in front of thousands of ghosts.

At this moment, most of its body was sunk underneath by the central elevator with a radius of more than ten meters, leaving only a ferocious shoulder and head exposed. Its huge claws were tearing at the ground, and it was growling continuously.

"The pursuer should have been a hyena, and the trigger condition shouldn't have been in the initial room... I don't know why it turned out like this, but this is the training I designed after all."

Ji Li’s knife tip reached the head that was haunted by thousands of ghosts.

In his design, if he wanted to complete the A-level evaluation in this training space and kill the pursuers, he had to use the central elevator.

The original process was very cumbersome, and even required trainees to use a variety of Murphy's megastructure transformation capabilities to make the core elevator fall down like a gravity collapse and tear the hyenas apart.

This thing is not an ordinary elevator, but a super facility with a strong gravity field. Its fall is no less than the collapse of the earth's crust.

As for why such a terrible physical phenomenon only destroyed the pursuer and did not have much impact on the surrounding environment...

After all, this is virtual training. The design serves the content, and the parameters are filled in this way.

"Well... Product of the Founder, thank you for helping me so much in Limbo... If there is a chance, I really want to take another romantic journey with you..."

The tip of the sword stopped at the nerve source of the head that was haunted by thousands of ghosts:
"But this time, it's better to put an end to it."

Poof! ! ! !

Red lightning burst out, and in Ji Li's astonished eyes, it was as if an invisible force blocked his attack:

"how come!?"

He unleashed the power of the Lord of the Darkness to the extreme, the scarlet sword shone like a laser, he emitted a red light under the unjust maxim, and his evil spirit body unfolded into two sections.

The red electric spirit was like a spiral drill bit, drilling madly into the head haunted by thousands of ghosts.

But the invisible stance blocked his attack so tightly that even when he used the red essence, he couldn't break through it, and then it exploded -

"Damn, cognitive impairment?!"

In the terrifying dust storm, Ji Li gave up the idea of ​​killing the other party and went straight to the B-rated "safe".

The spirit in his eyes flickered wildly:
Killing the ghosts was a possibility to escape from here, and it was also a bold desire in his heart.

There is no challenge more fulfilling than killing the founder of the World Tree, even in a dream.

But he couldn't do it. Was it because of the cognitive impairment caused by the strange mechanism of this dream, or was it...

Because it is the product of the founder. In his heart, the demon god system is the most powerful force of Murphy's megastructure...

So, I don't think I can overcome it, thus forming a cognitive barrier?

He suddenly clenched the scarlet sword:
Then let's see what's in the "safe"...

Without the entanglement of thousands of ghosts, Ji Li soon appeared at his destination, a rusty archive.

He destroyed all other materials, stabbed the sword into the cabinet on the wall, and suddenly thrust it out -

The shabby cabinet door flew out, and a bunch of white mosaics appeared in it, suddenly rushing towards him.

The scarlet sword was raised to block, but it suddenly collapsed, and the white mosaic was grabbed by him.

Silver room, memories, obtaining the "Demon Sealing Engine", practice, breaking through, and being killed by thousands of ghosts.

He saw his previous cycles, and the memories of those cycles appeared in his mind.

When the countless scenes before his eyes ended, he suddenly realized that there was something extra in his hand, and he raised his hand suddenly -

It was a huge and complex white lance.

The curse seal of the other world scorches:
-
[Personality Fragment: Gun of Destruction]

[Soul quality: unknown]

【Features: Helmholtz's reverse rotation. 】

【Cannot be materialized.】
-
this is not? !

While he was thinking, a violent roar came from behind him——

"High-risk memory risk detected, executing the highest clearing instruction—"

(End of this chapter)