Soul Trigger

Chapter 377 Aftermath and Harvest

It was Ji Li who was leaning against the wall wearing a cognitive mask:
"The world is always like this. When facing a being stronger than you, you don't even have a chance to struggle."

Bai Xingfeng's clenched fist trembled slightly:

"Why did you choose me in the first place?"

Ji Li said:
"Maybe because they see you have potential."

"possible?"

Bai Xingfeng murmured, a little absent-minded for a moment, but he really was just lucky:
"If I had tried harder... would Captain Liu not have been injured like this?"

"That's not necessarily true. Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, it's useless." Ji Li smiled.

“If you wonder if you didn’t work hard enough every time you encounter setbacks, you will probably just live your life in regret, suffering through setbacks and hard work. That’s how your life will end.”

Bai Xingfeng raised his head suddenly:
"…Then what should I do? I can neither give up nor work hard?"

"Just become stronger." Ji Li said.

"To put it simply..."

"If money is king in this world, you have to be the richest person."

"If technology is king in this world, you have to be at the forefront of the times."

"If spiritual essence is king in this world, then you should strive to become the strongest spiritual essence."

"It's very easy to become stronger in this world. As long as you have enough willpower and transform it into spiritual essence, you will become stronger."

"The law of the jungle is an eternal truth, no matter where in the world you live."

“When you become the ultimate life form and nothing in the world can threaten you anymore, you can enjoy yourself to your heart’s content and mess up as much as you want. No one can take anything away from you.”

"You can even gain an endless lifespan and do whatever you want, until your soul and body can no longer rot."

Bai Xingfeng was silent for a while:

"Is this why you became the Director General?"

Ji Li chuckled:
"none of your business."

Bai Xingfeng blushed:
"……I see."

Then he lowered his head:
"If I can become an immortal soul healer, can I cure the captain?"

“Too unambitious.”

Ji Li glanced at him:
"So what do you want to do for the rest of your life? Become a medical saint?"

Bai Xingfeng said awkwardly: "I..."

"You should think about how you will be able to hold down the head of an immortal soul healer and lick your wounds clean in the future. You won't even dream about it?"

Bai Xingfeng suddenly realized:
"……I see?!"

The fluctuating spiritual essence in his body calmed down slightly:

"...Thank you for saving my life and helping the captain to avenge his death."

Ji Li tilted his head:

"Then you didn't say anything?"

Bai Xingfeng immediately frantically searched all over his body, and finally found half a hamburger:

"…This is all I have with me. How about I repay you when I become awesome in the future?"

Ji Li said nothing, and then he took out a dog tag from Bai Xingfeng's neck and sucked it over:
"I'll go to the logistics department and order another one later."

Looking at Ji Li's departing figure, Bai Xingfeng was still a little stunned.

At this time, he noticed that the Director General was holding a plastic bag in his hand, and his face was startled:
Is he here to visit the patient as well?
……

Outside the Blue Label Hospital, Yan Xiyu stood in the corner with cigarette butts piled up under his feet.

“Can a living chimney be built like this?”

Ji Li's voice came from the side. Yan Xiyu threw away the half-smoked cigarette in his hand and crushed it irritably:
"…How about glasses?"

"I reattached it to him. As for his limbs, the doctor said a new supplier of psychic props has arrived locally, and they use prosthetic limbs."

Ji Li followed and leaned against the wall.

Glasses followed Bai Xingfeng into the Lingbo Prison and also suffered a lot of bad luck.

But he had a psychic item made with Yan Xiyu's spiritual essence, which was obtained from the Equipment Department.

However, Yan Xiyu's spiritual essence contained elements of mutations from the other world, so even though his limbs were torn apart by Lawrence, the trinity structure was preserved intact.

Later, Ji Li kept him in a potted vine, and after everything was over, he was sent directly to the life support machine. Now he is awake.

"Damn bastards, whether it's the Kedon people or the Tower of Babel..."

Yan Xiyu crushed the cigarette butt with his boots:

"Thank you for helping me get revenge."

"It's not over yet. Lawrence will appear there. It's obviously related to the Tower of Babel. He heard the name." Ji Li said.

The reason why he came to visit Glasses was to give him a Soul Mach to help him recover from his injuries.

The other is to ask for information related to Lawrence. After all, Yan Jing, Bai Xingfeng and others were present at the first scene where Lawrence appeared.

Ji Li naturally also got the information:

The name of that dead disciple was Su Yan.

It is said that when Lawrence was muttering to himself, Glasses and others heard it.

Yan Xiyu turned his head and looked at him:
"When will you leave?"

"There's no rush. After all, he's a Dead Apostle. Plus, the 'Gray Aspect Master' is in Aurora City, so there's a high chance that he'll be completely in hiding for a while, but I already have an idea. As for you, do you have enough strength at the moment?"

"...That's definitely not as good as you, with the soul howling again and killing another Lawrence."

Yan Xiyu seemed to be hesitant to speak:

"Speaking of which... Song Kanghao sent me something."

She took out a long box like a magician. Ji Li took a glance at it:
"This kid also gave you cigarettes?"

Yan Xiyu's mouth twitched: "It's not a cigarette... Do you still remember that I was a trafficked child?"

"I haven't forgotten."

"The Capital Intelligence Bureau said they found information related to my parents. That's a bit strange."

"Are you ready to return to your roots?"

Ji Li didn't have much fluctuation in this regard. His childhood was a distant but deep memory, as he grew up on the streets.

"I'm not mentally prepared yet." Yan Xiyu hesitated and said, "...When I'm free in a couple of days, shall we look for clues together?"

"Okay. Then let's go back to the bureau? We have things to do today."

"it is good……"

Watching Ji Li walking towards the parking lot, Yan Xiyu secretly gave himself a hammer.

She actually wanted to ask Ji Li to come to her house today and watch it with her, but she couldn't say it in the end because she was a little embarrassed.

The point is not "inviting Ji Li to her home to eat instant noodles", the point is "she really wanted to open it and take a look immediately but was not mentally prepared to look at it alone and wanted Ji Li to accompany her."

To her, it was like when there was thunder outside and she didn't dare to sleep alone at night, and she had to have Ji Li hold her in her arms before she dared to sleep -

So shameful.

"...When it comes to begging for favors, that silly Jin Misa is still the best."

The cool girl shook her head with a frown in her heart, her high ponytail fluttering behind her, and she quickly caught up with Ji Li.

……

Lawrence's matter has come to an end for the time being, and it is said that there is some shock over at the Capital Investigation Bureau.

The crimes committed by the awakened ones, who have once again calmed down in Aurora City, also indicate that the result of this battle seems to have been spread, and the effect is good.

Ji Li did not have time to understand the reaction of the outside world. On that day, he tried to integrate Lawrence's personality fragments through the soul space.

But what was unexpected was that this thing was extremely dangerous, and both the Otherworld Curse and the Ascension Protocol issued warnings.

The personality fragments of the immortals seemed to be completely different from the ordinary ones in terms of composition. After looking through the archives, Ji Li came to this conclusion:

After death, their immortal essence retains a great deal of consciousness, preserved in fragments of their personality.

Although normal personality fragments and personality relics will also retain fragments of the original owner's consciousness, especially the evil ones.

However, since the composition of immortal spiritual essence and ordinary spiritual essence are completely different, if Ji Li forcibly merges the fragments, Lawrence's consciousness will remain in his soul.

The Ascension Protocol and the Curse of the Other World also point out this risk. Only after achieving self-immortality and possessing the ability to overwrite spiritual essence can one be qualified to erase this thing.

The Ascension Protocol and the Otherworld Curse also provide another solution:
Forced purification, just like he had previously purified the otherworldly pollution from the personality relic.

However, forced purification will result in a decline in the functionality and quality of the personality relics.

Lawrence's ability has already shown to be quite powerful, and he is unwilling to let the precious fragments of the immortal's personality disappear.

Taking this into consideration, Ji Li gave up for the time being and decided to find a craftsman to see if he could make it into a powerful psychic tool while retaining the personality relic itself.

However, it's not that there is nothing that can be used immediately.

The potted plant did not eat the spirits, but stored them in its body in some way and digested them slowly.

In addition to some new abilities given to it by the evil it devoured, the immortal spiritual essence it ate was transformed into incomplete personality fragments due to the spiritual essence reaction of the Lingwei covering the reality.

These personality fragments are more or less related to the ability of "flowing ectoplasm".

To put it simply, it is the "wind of spiritual essence", which is completely consistent with the "disaster master" ability that Ji Li is currently using.

After integrating these personality fragments, Ji Li's control over "flowing spiritual essence" was further enhanced.

After calculations based on the Ascension Protocol, the killing capabilities of air pressure bombardment and whirlwinds are about 30% stronger than before, and the range of anomalies that can be towed has become larger.

And because Ji Li can sense the flow of spiritual energy more keenly, the abilities he can display are not limited to whirlwind.

By creating a cyclone lens, he was able to concentrate lightning and transform it into a more lethal corrupt lightning cannon.

By drawing on compressed etheric winds, he is able to create powerful gas explosions, which can be achieved remotely via reverse collapse.

In addition, he can also construct a high-speed flowing wind epidermis to cover his body surface and deflect incoming spiritual attacks.

Creating precise cyclones can also allow him to glide or even soar into the air while no longer in the evil spirit state.

Ji Li thought that if he had used this ability in his previous life in the scientific research team that studied aerodynamics at Murphy's Megastructure, he might have been able to come up with a unique use that combined science and spirituality.

As for him, all his expertise is focused on fighting. If he only thinks about fighting, he can only go this far. He cannot go any deeper.

As for the potted plant itself, it has entered a state of digestion. It is not yet clear what it will evolve into in the future. Currently, the only eyeball has become very large and is still expanding.

But the scope of spread did not continue to increase. Ji Li suspected that it would require a qualitative change to cover the entire Aurora City.

Or maybe the potted plant itself is a by-product of the Gate of Flesh and Blood, and its ability to penetrate the spiritual prison may actually be "marking out territory."

But there is indeed a new ability:

The potted plant can now separate a part and attach itself to Ji Li's body.

After using spiritual essence to crush its vines and flesh, Ji Li's spiritual essence will be able to have a stronger ability to attract strange phenomena in a short period of time.

And if it completely covers Ji Li, he will have a strong affinity with the environmental spirits, and even with evil spirits.

In terms of lethality, Ji Li's attack spirit will be strengthened by the environment, and the quality will be significantly improved.

In terms of affinity, if the rabbit girl creates a shadow area for him, then the attacks used by Ji Li in this environment will affect her shadow spiritual essence, thus compounding various strange effects.

If this kind of enhancement reaches its extreme, it may allow him to have the power to change the world in an instant, but it currently only exists in theory.

The reason for this is probably that the potted plant swallowed a lot of Lawrence's immortal spiritual essence. This may be due to the fact that it has a certain "spiritual essence overwriting" characteristic during the dominant stage.

Ji Li returned to his own office in the Special Management Bureau. Except for Jasmine, three people from the Capital Investigation Bureau had been waiting for a long time today.

"Good day, Mr. Director General." Gray Xiangshi stood up and saluted, and the other two also saluted.

Ji Li nodded and sat down behind his desk. Jasmine pulled out the chair for him obediently.

"Well, you've seen what you need to see. Tell me, the real reason why you came to see me..."

He tilted his head:
"Soul faction, and human faction..."

(End of this chapter)