Soul Trigger

Chapter 7: Rules

Instantly, along with a feeling of weakness coming from his body, a large number of logic grids instantly filled his blurred vision caused by the rapid fall. The wildly growing logic grids continued to explode and annihilate on his retina, completing the final calculation after only five seconds, pointing him to the clue to break the deadlock -

"Overclocking calculation?!"

In the Murphy megastructure, the Ascension Protocol, which was originally part of the central core, could overclock the entire body's prosthesis under Ji Li's instructions.

This allows the various mechanical parts and weapons on the body and even the system itself to achieve better performance than usual.

But he didn't expect that it could be used without any prosthesis, and it was something that directly consumed what was suspected to be soul energy in his body!
At this moment, the complex data had been imprinted into Ji Li's mind the moment the final result appeared. He only felt his soul shake, and the densely packed logical frames in front of him all disappeared.

He raised his head suddenly, and accompanied by a sharp and shrill scream, the blood had reached his head without him knowing when, and a blood-red claw broke through the water and grabbed his head!

A silver light shot out from Ji Li's rather weak hand, and there was a crisp sound of the mirror breaking. The light exploded into an orange flame above the woman's head.

The sudden overclocking of the Ascension Protocol was an accident, but also a surprise. Ji Li didn’t have time to study this issue in detail for the time being.

And according to what the "man in the mirror" said, this flame can be used again, so now is the best time.

As for how to use it, he could only throw it directly out under the guidance of the trigger sensor. Now it seemed that there was no problem with its usage.

Amid the screams of the woman's head in the sea of ​​blood, the speed of the bloody ocean suddenly slowed down. Ji Li's falling body adjusted against the strong wind and dived towards the abyss like a bullet.

The overclocking calculation of the Ascension Protocol instantly burned a large amount of soul energy in his body, even affecting his transformation state.

But it also gave him clues to break the impasse. All he had to do now was to act as quickly as possible.

The surrounding environment changed with his whereabouts. Every time he passed through a corridor, the surroundings became more gloomy and chaotic.

I don't know when it started, but the blood-colored lines and spots, like a mixture of biological organisms and mold, spread everywhere.

At this moment, the abyss in the surrounding corridors can be described as hell, and the visibility has also dropped visibly to the naked eye.

Ji Li seemed to have discovered something and adjusted his body——

With deafening continuous collisions, he was like a high-speed train that had derailed and rushed into the city. He crashed into the furniture for an unknown amount of time before he managed to stop the terrible force of his fall.

Amid the flying smoke and dust, Ji Li struggled to prop himself up on a sofa, with his buttocks full of exploded cotton and springs.

At this moment, his whole body was covered with cracks. A large number of bone fragments disappeared in the impact, half of his palm and a calf were missing, and his femur was stuck under the ribs along with the stacked bone armor, forcing him to "pull" himself out with force.

And his spirit, or soul, was feeling intense pain at this moment due to the severe damage suffered in the transformed state. It was as if a big hand was constantly squeezing his brain, and the pain was unbearable. Ji Li was in so much pain that he couldn't speak.

But in fact, this was better than he had imagined.

In his worst-case scenario, he would just have to keep one arm to move his body. He didn't know whether the result of having four basically intact limbs was due to the good quality of his old bones.

The screaming sound above his head was getting closer. Ji Li twisted his waist and found that everything was normal except for the intense pain. He prepared to move further downwards.

According to the calculation results of the Ascension Protocol, although the environment of this entire abyss-like corridor has been "deteriorating", it essentially follows certain rules.

Aside from the bloodshot and red mold, and the increasingly dim light, the layout of the corridor changes with each corridor.

Sometimes it is very empty, sometimes it is full of furniture, and sometimes it looks completely different. Such layout changes occur in a cycle every five times and are not endlessly random.

These five corridors are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 from top to bottom. No matter how deteriorating the surrounding environment is, after passing through corridor 5, the layout will start from corridor 1 and cycle again.

Among these five corridors with different layouts, Corridor 2 in the analysis results of the Ascension Protocol is the corridor with the antique telephone, and it is where he walked when the gravity was normal before.

If the analysis of the Ascension Protocol is correct, then the hope of escaping is in that corridor. However, the plan is reasonable, but the execution is often not so smooth.

After Ji Li became aware of the surrounding environment, he suddenly jumped up and quickly climbed towards the sea of ​​blood.

Wrong location!

At this time, he was between Corridor 3 and Corridor 4, and continued to rush towards Corridor 2 in the next loop below. Whether in terms of distance or the blessing of gravity, it was obviously the fastest route.

But the corridor further down was completely plunged into darkness, without even a trace of outline. It was like a real abyss. The trigger sensor was constantly warning the space below, and he had to climb up facing the female ghost above his head!

Dragging his broken body, Ji Li climbed up the sea of ​​blood at high speed, returned to Corridor No. 2 of the previous cycle at an extremely fast speed, and rushed straight to the telephone that was perpendicular to the wall together with the desktop.

Then he grabbed the flashlight that seemed to be stuck on the table and was stained with a lot of blood, and instantly pointed it above his head and turned on the switch -

Click.

With the crisp sliding switch, the flashlight flickered for a moment and then went out in an instant. Ji Li was stunned.

The piercing scream was only a corridor away from him, and a puff of blood washed over his skull, like a silent mockery.

The flashlight's casing suddenly shattered under his huge grip, and he smashed it against the tabletop hanging on the wall -

The electronic components inside, whether they were real or illusory, started to work again amidst the strong vibrations. Bright lights shot out like cannons, shining on the vast sea of ​​blood just above their heads.

The black-haired woman was tumbling in a sea of ​​blood, only one step away from Ji Li.

The body was sickly and thin, with four arms and two legs, and it was hunched over like a spider.

A rotten umbilical cord was dragging from its abscessed abdomen, and its facial features under its black hair were stuck together like glue, grabbing at him with its fangs and claws.

But at the same time, Ji Li also saw himself holding a flashlight in the turbid blood under the strong light at that moment. The body of the sheep-headed skull was tattered and full of huge cracks.

The reflection on the water surface can also be a kind of mirror, which is the meaning of "light".

However, the visibility just now was not enough for the blood to reflect enough light to create a reflection effect, so the person in the mirror should have written words like "light shining on the blood" in order to form a mirror that is large enough.

As for what will happen when all these conditions are met, Ji Li saw it the next moment -

A slender, tender green finger wrapped in a half-finger glove stretched out from the mirror made of blood.

He saw the palm that was obviously a woman's was turning over, as if grasping something, and then clenching her fist fiercely -

boom! ! ! !

The surging orange flames exploded, igniting the entire sea of ​​blood!
The spider woman suddenly let out a piercing scream, the sound shaking Ji Li's soul. When the flames met the blood around them, they turned it into ashes like burning paper.

In the flying ashes, the Spider Woman waved her twisted limbs, avoided Ji Li's body, and fell into the endless darkness below with a scream.

At the moment when the screams completely disappeared, the gravity of the entire world shifted again. Ji Li only felt his body falling heavily downwards, and fell on the gray-brown carpet with a plop.

The dumped interior returned to normal.

The girl in the black combat suit picked up Ji Li's arm and put it on her shoulder, giving him a thumbs up:

“Brother, that’s awesome!!!”

(End of this chapter)