Soul Trigger

Chapter 382 Fixation
The black box has a very special ability, called "fixing distortion". This is what the black box told Ji Li, and it comes from the name of the film.

Its abilities are positively correlated to the act of "shooting", and strictly revolve around "absorbing ectoplasm" and "distorting space" to interfere with reality.

From what Ji Li had witnessed so far, it could combine with the power of Film to create a "film substitute" to die for the carrier once -

That photo is still on Ji Li.

In terms of lethality, it can squeeze the subject and distort the space around it.

In some cases, it can absorb psychic spells and evil attacks, and even imprison weaker evil spirits or human spirits directly in a photo.

In addition, the black box has many capabilities that Ji Li is not aware of.

This is also the reason why Ji Li did not hesitate too much after Black Box proposed to try the [Loan Contract].

After all, it is a spatial ability. Just look at the bunny girl digging holes in the Lingbi Prison every day and you will know that it is impossible not to be moved.

However, the ability that the contract gave Ji Li seemed to have nothing to do with space travel, but instead focused on the part where the black box "absorbed" spiritual essence.

After some testing, Ji Li basically understood the function and scope of the contract borrowing ability:

First, the loan contract gave part of the power of the black box to Ji Li's right eye, allowing Ji Li to release the borrowed power through this eye.

He named this ability "Fixing".

Then, after triggering this ability, the object that is at the center of his sight will be "photographed" and turned into a color photo for his collection.

Objects that can be photographed include, but are not limited to: objects, human spirits, evil spirits, and spiritual substances.

If you take pictures of objects, you can store them in the photos, carry them with you, and release them at any time.

If you shred the photo, the item will be destroyed simultaneously.

If it is a human spirit or an evil being, it will be cursed with "fading".

After the curse is cast, if the cursed person is attacked by Ji Li's spiritual power, the color photo in his hand will gradually turn black and white.

After the photo completely turned black and white, the curse officially took effect.

Any action Ji Li takes with the photo will be reflected back to the cursed person.

This ability is interesting, but it doesn't particularly match Ji Li's fighting style, so it is still useful.

But compared to this, he was more curious about the ability to absorb spiritual essence.

Ectoplasm released from human spirits or evil spirits for the purpose of interfering with reality.

In simple terms, any action of using spiritual essence to attack, defend, and interfere can be captured by Ji Li's right eye.

After the capture, the photo taken will record the ectoplasm ritual, whether it is a hostile existence or an ectoplasm ritual released by oneself, all can be recorded.

For example, the black hurricane released by Ji Li, or the mycelium explosion, can all be recorded as a photograph and "fixed".

Unlike the "Fading" curse, if the fixed ectoplasm spell is torn up, the ectoplasm spell will be directly released in the form of a consumable.

This is much more interesting.

You know, the various techniques of evil and human spirits are strange and varied. Ji Li never lacks means of attack, but what he lacks is some functional abilities with strong interference effects.

For example, Bunny Girl's ability to travel through the Shadow Gate and Question Shadow, or Anado's ability to travel through the opponent's aura for a short period of time and influence it, or use the aura to directly reorganize himself.

There is also Jasmine's cognitive touch, Cha Chan-ho's digital detection, Cha Li's "copying", and even Qin's "imprint of desire".

Apparently, the black box's fixation allows him to steal some good abilities from others, which is no less than Kurari's copying.

Unfortunately, this thing also has limitations. After all, it is borrowed power.

Fixed photos are one-time. If you want to use them again, you must "fix" them again, and there is a storage limit:

It is limited to storing photos of psychic rituals, and a maximum of three photos can exist at the same time.

When fixing the fourth picture, Ji Li sensed that the spiritual circuit had entered an unstable state.

It is not impossible to fix the fourth picture by force, but it will cause the spiritual circuit to collapse in a very short time.

Considering that this spiritual circuit established a strong connection between itself and the black box that was strong enough to span the reflected world, Ji Li did not test the consequences of the collapse of the spiritual circuit, which might lead to some kind of backlash.

In addition, if the fixing is forced beyond a certain intensity level, additional capacity will be consumed to complete the fixing, or even the fixing may not be possible.

This means that originally three cards can be reserved, but if Ji Li covets someone's ultimate skill, then this ultimate skill will take up all the slots of the three cards.

Ji Li's ability to influence the environment by leveraging spiritual essence cannot be fixed.

According to his understanding after the battle with Lawrence, this behavior has already involved the "spiritual rewriting" of the immortal stage, which essentially surpasses the operating principles of the spiritual rituals of most awakened people, so it cannot be fixed.

However, all the fixations can be given to others, and there is no such thing as them becoming invalid after leaving Ji Li.

After testing it for a while, he was quite surprised. The spiritual circuit was more interesting than he had imagined. Now he could understand these magic addicts.

If his spiritual circuit were put on the black market, I wonder how many tattooed guys would flock to it.

After all, this is equivalent to a secondary demon contract, and it can also contract multiple beings, which means it is not yet perfect.

Without Ji Li's strong affinity, a random contract might have terrible consequences.

The incomplete masterpiece of the master is so terrible. If he learns all the things in the ruins, who knows what kind of terrible enhancement it will bring to him.

As the aperture in his eye closed like a shutter, Ji Li's right eye returned to normal.

He spread out a stack of photos in one hand like playing cards. In it were various objects that he had photographed when experimenting with his abilities, and there were even two little evil things.

After tearing the two evil creatures into pieces and releasing the useless objects and putting them back in place, he was left with only three spell-fixing images in his hand.

Two of them were his own attack spells that he had casually recorded, and one was a spell ability that he had captured from a little evil creature.

After all, there is no way to fix the black box's own abilities to perform nesting dolls, so we can only take some random shots.

But he seemed to have forgotten one thing-

"Mr. Black Goat..."

Sensing the violent fluctuations of the spiritual energy behind him, Ji Li turned around suddenly.

He saw Black Box standing there, twisting his body with a pout, and some kind of emotion was fluctuating in his body -

A loan contract is to realize the other party’s wishes.

But Black Box is one of us, so I guess he won’t have any weird wishes?

As soon as this thought came to his mind, the next moment a strong evil spiritual energy burst out from the black box. His body was extremely twisted with a sound of bones cracking, and his head hung at the side of his body, looking at him.

A certain extreme enthusiasm danced on that originally well-behaved face, a crazy desire blossomed from those eyes, and even the voice was distorted into overlapping multiple tones:

"I'm sorry...but I suddenly feel something strange...there is something I have to ask you to do for me."

Ji Li's mouth twitched. He had used the fixation function countless times just now. The "wish" in the black box was probably extremely strong at the moment, and it had begun to affect the composition of his spiritual body:

"It's my problem. I almost forgot that this thing is essentially a transaction... What do you need me to do for you?"

Heihei's body trembled, and the sound of frying beans came from her body again. In an instant, she changed back to her previous maid nun outfit, her eyes leaping with joy:
"Can we go take pictures together?"

With such a big commotion, I thought they were going to do something... Ji Li was about to nod, but suddenly remembered something -

Compared with the previous small wooden board with lemon, both the power gap between the black box and the board, as well as the accumulation of "borrowing" are two extreme differences.

If you keep dragging your feet and not fulfilling the other person's wishes, or even making excuses and refusing, can you simply avoid "repaying" them by relying on your own affinity?
Ji Li, who was about to agree, changed his words:
"Not today. I have to go back to the Special Management Bureau later..."

Before he could finish his words, he felt the space on all sides begin to distort and turn into black and white colors like a photo.

The intense danger actually began to pry the trigger of his soul and the black box in front of him revealed its original form.

Black cloth body, camera head, blade and legs.

That voice, which was always so sweet, turned into a low roar that was like a quagmire for the first time.

"But it's not like the bureau won't turn around just because I'm gone. Are we leaving now?"

Everything in front of him disappeared in an instant. Hei Xie held up his little face, smiled sweetly, and walked forward, hugging Ji Li's arm:

"Let's go to Longshan!" Tsk, it seems I can't just be a deadbeat anymore.

Ji Li Sisou spoke:
"I asked Jasmine to drive over..."

"No need-"

The black box pulled Ji Li's open arm and drew him to face the wall of the Lingbo Prison.

Since Ji Li's "megastructure" Lingbi Prison was handed over to Black Box for management, the interior environment is almost identical to Black Box's own Lingbi Prison "Hunting Shadow Building".

On that wall, there are a large number of photos displayed like a photography studio.

Most of them are landscapes, both urban and rural.

Ji Li felt the spiritual fluctuations of the black box enveloping him, and then his vision rushed towards the photo on the wall along with the black box -

Longshan Electric Appliances Street View.

...What kind of ability do you have? ! Ji Li was surprised.

The excited black box pulled Ji Li into the alley of Longshan Electrical Street in an instant.

The bustling streets are filled with people, surrounded by tall electrical appliance shopping malls, and not far away there is a newly built commercial street that has just completed its ribbon-cutting ceremony.

A large crowd and reporters gathered there, and Ji Li could see a fat man being surrounded.

He felt that the other person looked a little familiar, and the next moment he remembered that the person seemed to be the mayor.

It seems that the ribbon-cutting event that the mayor invited Ji Li to participate in but he refused was taking place today.

It just happened to be when the new commercial street here opened.

Yongsan Electric Street was famous for the distribution of military electronic equipment in the early years of Shilla, and gradually became a practical electrical appliance consumer market.

It mainly consists of various civilian electronic devices and some subculture products, such as game consoles, photographic equipment, home appliances, audio equipment, etc.

Among them are leisure shopping streets and large flea markets, which are divided into five areas and occupy a large area within the current administrative division.

There is even a city-themed amusement park on the edge, which makes it a top-notch commercial location in Silla.

A newly expanded modern commercial street was the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

If Ji Li remembered correctly, there should be a lot of agents on duty around a gathering of human spirits of this size.

He took out the Special Management Bureau's PDA and looked at the hidden network, and indeed saw signals from many agents around.

The black-clad bodyguard on a high place was stunned the moment he saw Ji Li, and his spiritual energy briefly fluctuated due to surprise. It was obvious that he was an awakened person.

Then he quickly turned on the headset beside his ear and reported something in a low voice.

The mayor, who was surrounded by reporters and was giving speeches with a smile on his face, suddenly changed his expression. He pushed away the young and beautiful female reporter in front of him and looked around for something.

Following the instructions of the bodyguard, he immediately met the eyes of Ji Li in the crowd, and his face suddenly broke into wrinkles due to smiling.

Then, ignoring the stunned crowd around him, he rushed towards Ji Li, waving his fat hands and pushing and bumping -

How come no one informed me that the Emperor of Aurora City agreed to attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony?!

But there were too many people here, and after the mayor rushed out of the crowd panting, Ji Li was nowhere to be seen.

In the corner, an agent on duty was confronting a purple-haired girl.

Strictly speaking, the two were only making necessary contacts, but the girl's somewhat casual attitude made the agent's words a little sharp.

But when he suddenly heard the message in his headset, he turned around and was a little stunned:

Why is the Director General here?
In doubt, he glanced at the yawning purple-haired girl and made a call in the other party's indifferent words:
"Captain Yan, the people from Flash Street have contacted me, but does the supervision of the Human Spirit Cluster require the personal involvement of the Director-General?"

Director General?
The purple-haired girl opposite, who had a bored look on her face just now, suddenly had a flash of light in her eyes, and her originally uninterested look began to flicker.

Following the agent's gaze, he began to look for Ji Li in the crowd.

……

In the electronics shopping street, Hei Xie ignored the surprised looks from all around and took pictures with Ji Li in his arms.

There was originally an old-fashioned camera in her hand, but after seeing the selfie stick sold at the door of a mobile phone store not far away, the camera turned into a "mobile phone" with a selfie stick.

At the entrance of the mall, there is a milk tea shop, a mobile phone street, a flea market, and a VR game center...

Hei Xi checked in frantically, and after taking many photos with Ji Li, they stopped in a somewhat old photo studio.

This photo studio looks quite old, with many antique cameras inside. Black Box seems to be extremely fond of these things.

After getting the shop owner's permission, he couldn't put down these antiques and secretly swallowed a large amount of spiritual essence from them while the owner wasn't paying attention:
"I came here with the master a long time ago."

Black box happily held the big-headed camera in his hand:
“Although the films inside have been taken out, the recorded emotions and spiritual essence continue to remain in these things, thus becoming my food.”

Ji Li nodded thoughtfully:

"Is it okay for you to come out like this?"

There is another reason why the black box cannot leave Aries Academy, and that is that it relies heavily on film and the Linglin Prison to maintain its own existence.

Like before, when Ji Li took it out in camera mode, it fell into dormant mode after being used a few times.

Moreover, after leaving the spiritual prison, the black box itself also suffered a severe loss of spiritual essence.

"It's okay, I will enjoy every minute with you before I fall asleep!"

Heihei raised his selfie stick and hugged Ji Li, pressing his head directly against his face, freezing a sweet smile:

"Can I take another photo with you?"

Ji Li agreed, and a slight clicking sound came from in front of him, and the other party's wish was slightly dissipated.

I really can't tell it's evil.

Hei Xiang hugged Ji Li's arm infatuatedly. The two left the photo studio and stood under the shopping mall. Hei Xiang reached out and pulled out a large number of photos from his black "mobile phone", and spread them out with excitement in his eyes.

It was filled with dozens of photos of me and Ji Li.

Every time he took a photo, Hei Xie would invite Ji Li, or rather, politely seek Ji Li's permission.

It was filled with her sweet smile, which formed a sharp contrast with Ji Li who was looking around beside her.

Black Box suddenly revealed a resentful look:

"Mr. Black Goat, you are too careless."

“…so the wish hasn’t been fulfilled yet?”

He didn't know where this guy got so much girlishness from. He stopped along the way and even bought a cup of milk tea, but didn't drink a single sip.

The evil creature couldn't ingest this kind of thing, she just thought it looked nice when taking pictures with it.

At this moment, a burst of exclamations aroused the interest of Black Box. It turned around and pointed the camera at the group of foreign tourists and took a picture. Then it noticed the object of their exclamation:
A huge Ferris wheel turns behind the city, and even on a sunny afternoon it is brilliant because of the flashing color screen.

Black Box's eyes suddenly lit up, and he turned around to look at Ji Li, pointing his little hand towards the Ferris wheel:
"Can I sit with you that?"

A moment later, Ji Li and the black box with glowing eyes sat on the Ferris wheel.

In an unknown corner, Yan Xiyu, who was listening to his subordinates' report, had his cell phone instantly crushed by a huge force, and the red light flashed wildly:

Another one? !

Black Box was taking pictures excitedly, and Ji Li could feel that the wish in the other party's heart was being quickly consumed.

Then it suddenly stood up and gently grabbed Ji Li's hand:

"Mr. Black Goat, thank you for your company! Today is such a pleasant day! I have one last request..."

It picked up the "phone" and blinked its big eyelashes:
"Can I take a picture of this romantic moment with you?"

At this moment, the Ferris wheel suddenly shook, and there was a loud sound of twisting steel bars.
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PS: I'm sorry, godfathers, there shouldn't be only this much today, but I didn't get a nap at noon, and I've been relying on black tea to keep myself alive until now. I'll see if I can add more tomorrow. I still want to try my best to get back to the double update status.

(End of this chapter)