Abnormal Doomsday Records

Chapter 157 7. If nothing unexpected happens, it’s time for something unexpected to happen. Chaos event is here

Although Jiubang is an organization of a bunch of psychopaths who huddle together for warmth, their efficiency is indeed beyond reproach.

In less than a week, they were ready to go to Time Maze No. 11 for a life-threatening battle. Rhine took some time to describe their general plan to Zhou Ke, who had no objection to it.

What opinion could he have?

Although he and Wu Neng escaped from that damn place, he had no memory of Time Maze No. 11 in his mind. Theoretically, his understanding of that place was limited to the fact that it was the remains of the No. Research Institute of the Shunko Organization and that very bad things had happened there, to a very dangerous degree.

Zhou Ke has always believed in the doctrine that "professional matters should be left to professionals", so after understanding his position in the team, he took D-4 back to the lounge specially arranged for him. Tomorrow he will go to the Jiubang Material Depot to choose equipment for himself and D-4, and will set off with the main force the day after tomorrow.

But there are still quite a lot of visitors tonight.

Just when Zhou Ke finished taking a shower, he heard an irritating knock on the door. He put on a bath towel, opened the door, and saw Afu standing outside with an unhappy look on her face.

The Curse Master said doubtfully:

"What are you doing in there? I've been knocking on the door for three minutes."

Zhou Ke turned her body helplessly, allowing her to see D-4, who was also wearing a bath towel and walking out of the bathroom with her hair tied up. The robot girl was holding a wet long skirt and underwear in her hands. Afu understood immediately.

She stared at Zhou Ke with a strange look in her eyes and said:

"Ah, you really are a homosexual pervert, just as little Acholi said!"

"I have reservations about this. After all, I admire the beauty of D-4's soul, and what we just did was just a simple muscle acupuncture point massage. We didn't do those... Well, I don't know why I should explain these very personal things to you.

"Can you have some sense of boundaries? Afu!"

Zhou Ke said with a straight face:

"Why are you here so late at night? Aren't you a tough guy? Do you want to change your taste?"

"Humph, I'm here to give you a gift."

Afu threw a box to Zhou Ke rudely. The latter opened it and was embarrassed. There was a hideous dried claw in the box, which was obviously a part of a monster's body. The craftsmanship was quite good.

But Zhou Ke really couldn't appreciate the overly "wild" decoration style inside Jiubang.

Seeing the expression on his face, Afu knew what this guy was thinking, and she explained in a low voice:

"This is Elder Illusion Demon's claw. It's the trophy I got when I followed the eldest lady on an expedition to the spirit world a few years ago. The psychic master used a special technique to lock Elder Illusion Demon's psychic essence into it. It can effectively strengthen your illusion and confusion. I used it to sneak into the occupied area of Staffin before.

Thanks to your help in Polina's matter before, I wanted to send something to express my gratitude, but I couldn't think of what to send for a moment. After all, you got supplies from little Acholi before, and Jiubang would not have any weapons of higher grade than those things.

But today, after seeing you master illusion, I knew this thing would come in handy."

"Ah, Afu, I take back my bad attitude towards you. You are really the kindest, most polite and good-hearted girl I have ever met in the Bad Land!"

Zhou Ke's expression changed immediately. He praised it enthusiastically, then picked up the ferocious claw and felt it.

He was very satisfied with the abundant purified energy locked in the magic weapon. Once this energy was extracted, he would definitely be able to repair his "Water Moon Mirror Flower" mask that was cracked by Rhine and increase its strength.

He really likes this gift!
It's like timely help.

Seeing Zhou Ke so happy, Afu also breathed a sigh of relief. She was actually not very good at dealing with people, let alone a guy like Zhou Ke who was so smart that he could think of many things at once.

She always felt that she owed Zhou Ke something, and now this gift perfectly solved her mental fatigue. She chatted for a few more minutes, then said goodbye and left happily.

Zhou Ke closed the door and returned to the not-so-spacious living room. He lay down on the sofa, leaning smoothly against the legs of D-4 who was blowing her hair with a palm cannon. While humming a song and enjoying the lap of his own mechanical girl, he held the magic weapon of the Phantom Demon Claw and began to extract energy.

He didn't quite understand the principles behind how the Eagle State made psychic magic tools, but he knew that he had found a "new benefit" from the Eagle State's existence. If the magic tool given by Afu contained purified energy, it meant that other senior members of the Eagle State might have similar good things in their hands.

A few minutes later, as Zhou Ke extracted the last bit of phantom demon energy, the claw that originally emitted a faint purple-pink glow under the light quickly lost all its mystery as if weathered by time, and was crushed into powder like a piece of brittle stone as Zhou Ke closed his five fingers.

In his other hand, the "Water Moon Mirror Flower" mask that had previously been cracked not only recovered to its original state, but its level of strengthening also exceeded 40%.

Just like other masks that have different appearances depending on the degree of enhancement, this mask is now becoming more and more bizarre.

It was suspended at Zhou Ke's fingertips, showing a pink color and, like the fox-like appearance of the phantom demon, showing a "smiling fox" with white mixed with pink. To be honest, if this mask could be seen by other people, then Zhou Ke would definitely be able to scare people by taking this thing out in the alleys at night.

The evilness of this mask is enough to scare even the most cowardly person.

"When I have time, I have to go to the spirit world to look for the 'illusionary elders' that Afu mentioned. With this level of energy, killing five of them at most will be enough to push the enhancement of 'Water Moon Mirror Flower' to around 90%."

Zhou Ke put away the mask and said something to D-4. The robot girl was stunned for a moment and said:
"Why not just push forward to the level of permanent masks?"

“Because the last 10% cannot be accumulated by simply piling up the quantity.”

Zhou Ke sighed and said:
“There is a gap between ordinary masks and permanent masks. With the miracle that my ‘self-mask’ can instantly allow me to break through from an ordinary person to an ascender, you can guess that the formation of all permanent masks is not a simple stacking of materials.

I suspect that I may need to hunt down a boss-level monster leader whose life rank is above that of the Illusion Demon Elder, or kill an Ascended Psionicist who specializes in illusion before I can complete the creation of the permanent mask.

This means that if I want to fully master the art of illusion, I must first kill an illusion master.
But I can kill the Master of Illusion, and the bonus this thing brings to me is extremely limited, so I don’t know who designed this stupid mechanism, isn’t this just asking for trouble? "

"Inhuman strength must be tested by inhuman tests, boss."

D-4 continued to blow dry her hair and said:

"Compared to those who have paid a terrible price to gain power, your promotion system is already very humane. Don't touch it! I'm blow-drying my hair, what if it gets burned?
My hair can’t grow back.”

She slapped away Zhou Ke's "Zhou Lushan claw" that was moving up along her waist, and said unhappily:
"Didn't I tell you? If you win the race, you have to obey me. You can handle it yourself for the next half month. Besides, your intracranial pressure is stable and your hormones are not abnormally elevated. I don't think I need to perform the duties of an external health treatment plan now."

As soon as he finished speaking, D-4 was thrown onto the sofa by Zhou Ke. The shadow warrior flashed away, and Ajie threw the clothes on the table with precise movements, just turning off the lights in the room.

In the darkness, Zhou Ke leaned over to D-4's ear, who was resisting with a force that was more like a "gangster's excitement punch" than a "struggle", and said:

"Today I will teach you a little trick about being a human being. Human beings are very hypocritical and twisted. The less you give us, the more we want it. Although it is possible that this may be some wonderful little combo you learned from Weng Meiyu, but you have already made a move. If I don't respond, wouldn't it be a waste of your precious attempt?
So. Shh! Listen to me now, honey, I have to confirm my confidence in some areas, so, slut mode activated."

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"Ah! I have glimpsed the truth."

At the same time that D-4 activated the damn dirty mode for the first time in his life, in a room converted into a meditation room on the lower level of the Beta base, a psychic master from Jiubang was conducting his daily meditation training.

Their meditation method is somewhat different from that of the Snake Nation. Psionicists generally have no interest in physical strengthening. It’s not that they don’t care about it at all, but they are more at the level of "going with the flow". What they really value is the cultivation of the soul and spirit, which means that psionicists live a very boring life every day.

Their spiritual training certainly does not take place in the material world. Once psychic vision is activated, psychics need to project their spirits into the spiritual world to be trained and strengthened under high psychic energy concentrations, thereby transforming their spirits into containers for the soul and completing the psychic's unique sublimation and advancement.

This step is already very dangerous.

The spirit world is the projection phase of the mysterious and chaotic subspace in the material world. No one knows whether one will be unlucky enough to be attacked by an old psychic creature while wandering in the spirit world with spirit. Although one can immediately return to spirit after being attacked while touring the spirit world in the state of clairvoyance and will not suffer serious damage to the body, every attack will cause mental disorder.

To put it simply, your San value has hit rock bottom and you may suffer a mental breakdown at any time, leaving behind a series of terrible and difficult sequelae.

This is also the main reason why psychics are generally crazy. If people walk on the road at night too much, they will definitely see ghosts. Psychics are becoming more and more powerful, and they enter the spirit world more and more frequently, so it is hard to guarantee that they will not encounter dangerous situations.

But if you think this is the danger of a psionicist, the rest of the Eagle Nation will just tell you that you are too young, kid.

After becoming a master of the Ascendant, the real "danger" ensues.

In this case, the psychic's spirit has become strong and elastic after being repeatedly tempered by the spirit world. Simply exploring the spirit world can hardly temper and enhance their overly powerful mental power. In order to better improve their strength, the psychic masters who rely on mental power and spellcasting talent must try to cross the spirit world and advance to the true birthplace of psychic power, the more dangerous subspace!

For example, Rhine the Evil Eagle, the most powerful psychic master in the evil land, has become accustomed to spending some time every night to make "skipping stones" at the edge of the subspace, in order to continuously temper his spirit while looking for "opportunities" for the sublimation of his soul.

She herself didn't know what "chance" was. All the things about psionicists were so mysterious and terrible. At least that's what the notes left by the Enlightened Thoth said. If a psionicist wanted to enter a higher "demigod" state from the sublimated state, he had to find a chance for his soul to "transform" after strengthening his spirit to the extreme. Those opportunities were all in the lightless sea of the subspace, which required the psionic masters to learn how to deal with the terrifying shadows in the lightless sea.

They had to be close, but not to listen or worship right away.

Those shadows invisible to ordinary people are the source of chaos and psychic energy. Even a master of psychic energy will be infused with a "truth" that he cannot understand if he approaches them recklessly, and his soul, which is not strong enough, will be corroded into another kind of evil thing that no one can save. When he returns from the warp, no one can predict what is hidden under his body.

Of course, no matter how big or small the shadows in the Lightless Sea are, in most cases they are very "friendly", even almost indifferent.

They will not actively attack the cautious contacts of psionic masters, and will not even notice that 99% of the tragic rumors that occur among the psionic master group are their own fault.

A soul that has not yet been transformed cannot withstand even the slightest glimpse of the shadow of the subspace.

But there are always some people who, under various circumstances, will enter this crazy final moment actively or passively. Just like now, this psychic master may have taken too much "Soul-Loving Grass Compound" at dinner, or the order to set off for Time Maze No. 11 made him feel a little pressure.

He urgently needed to strengthen and temper his soul and spirit one last time before setting off.

In short, while chanting, he unconsciously deviated from the "line" that Ms. Evil Vulture had strictly drawn for the psychic masters, and went from allowing his spirit to "skim" on the edge of the subspace and the spirit world to "wandering in the stars".

The master of psychic powers was startled when he realized from his trance that he had gone "too far".

He immediately subconsciously retracted his spirit into the safety line. After breaking away from the contact with the subspace, he nervously checked whether there were any "spots" or "shadows" in his spirit world. After checking and confirming that they were correct, he breathed a sigh of relief and prepared to return to his body along the spirit world which was very safe for him.

However, at the moment his consciousness returned to his body, his body opened its eyes earlier than his spirit.

The psychic master, who was isolated from the spiritual world, was stunned.

At this moment, he was like facing a mirror, and saw that the eyes of his body in the material world were opened and filled with strange pure black. There was no difference between the pupils and the eyes. The other party showed him a strange smile on his face which was covered with various mysterious runes and looked extremely old.

It was as if an invisible hand was twisting his face and mouth, causing his expression to change in an extremely stiff manner.

Now, the psionic master realized that he had made a terrible and stupid mistake that could cost the Eagle Nation its life. He did not try to take back his body from this "weird thing".

As an individual who could become an ascended psychic master, he still had some self-control and judgment. He quickly made his spirit retreat to a deeper realm in the spiritual world, and then activated the secret method of the Eagle Nation, and began to send warnings to all his companions who were in the spiritual world at this time.

At the moment when his body was "melting" in the material plane from flesh and blood into a ball of strange "black water", the four psionic masters who had received the warning had already rushed out of the meditation room with their apprentices, and even Ms. Evil Vulture was alarmed.

But they were not panicked. They had dealt with similar things before. As the Evil Vulture complained, psychics all had mental problems of one kind or another, and many of them chose to commit suicide under such pressure not voluntarily.

The number of Ascended Masters in Jiubang has always been unstable because there are always unlucky ones who will blow themselves to death on such a night and drag down innocent people who are just passing by.

"'Unknown anomaly' is seeping outward! Master Gris' spirit is still in the spirit world and is temporarily safe. Quickly seal this layer! Activate the alarm!"

The exhibitionist psychic master Pente, who was only wearing a rather avant-garde leather shorts, yelled and cursed:

"I told him not to take too many hallucinogenic drugs, but he just wouldn't listen! Now that this has happened, let's see what explanation he has for it.

Blanch!
My staff is still short of a contracted demon, so let him serve these ninety-nine years of hard labor."

"Instead of cursing, why not be more agile with your hands and feet?"

Another psychic master had flown into the air and started spreading blocking spells, throwing paper talismans everywhere like raindrops. The four psychic masters worked seamlessly together and quickly completed the initial blockade.

But when they saw the strange black water pouring out from the crack in the door, everyone's face changed drastically.

"Not good! There are at least seven layers of 'warp imprints' that can be detected by the naked eye! What on earth did that bastard Gris bring out of the warp? Is his spirit still pure?
I don’t believe it!

All right.

Now I can no longer be a contracted demon, so I will just be destroyed humanely."

The coquettish master of leather pants screamed, and then he roared at his apprentice:
"What are you still standing there for? The Great Anomaly has already happened! Why don't you quickly activate the spiritual layer of the Beta base?

That damn thing is tearing the edges of the real world apart. We're all about to be dragged into the chaotic spirit world. Good luck, kids!
If you don't slack off when learning my psychic skills, you will most likely survive with a mental illness. But if you keep slacking off, I'm sorry, the crazy spiritual world will not tolerate you bad students.

So, I declare!
The sudden monthly psychic exam starts now!"

As soon as Master Leather Pants finished speaking, the ball of black water that had been continuously attacking the seal suddenly exploded. The next moment, the entire Beta base "collapsed" in an explosion on the spiritual level.

At the same time, Zhou Ke, who was enjoying it with his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes.

The purple-red light in his pupils lit up uncontrollably at this moment. Without time to say anything more, he reached out and patted D-4's waist, who was still maintaining a certain graceful but high-frequency friction rotation, and said:
"I don't know what those nobles in Jiubang have done. I am about to be dragged into the spirit world. You are a robot and will not be affected, D-4. While we are operating in the spirit world, you do your work in the material world.
Be careful!"

"Swish"

Zhou Ke's figure disappeared on the messy bed. Amidst a tearing sound that even D-4 could clearly sense as a psychic shock, she lost her "support" and almost fell down. Fortunately, the mechanical girl's stable suspension system was awesome enough, and she landed steadily on the ground with a backflip in her high heels.

The damn slut mode was turned off at this moment, and the combat mode was activated while the work clothes were changed into the body, but the tattered stockings could not be changed. Fortunately, this did not affect anything. Fortunately, she did not play so crazy tonight and lost the clothes, otherwise D-4 would really be in an embarrassing situation.

"toot toot"

A shrill alarm sounded in the thought circuit that still retained a very disordered but vivid stream of simulated emotional data. D-4 detected, without the need to use his naked eyes, that a large number of spiritual creatures were pouring into the material world from somewhere beneath his feet.

It was very similar to the "truth" of the psychic storm that Zhou Ke had described to her.

A rift between the real plane and the spirit world has opened at Beta Base, and she must stop it before it expands.

The good news is that once a spirit creature enters the material world, it is no longer immune to heavy artillery fire.

The bad news is that, given the area of Beta Base, even if D-4's conventional weapons bays were completely emptied, it would probably not be enough, unless she could fire the three high-explosive thermobaric bombs in her No. fire bay from a safe distance. However, destroying Beta Base was not the outcome Mr. Zhou Ke wanted to see, so.
"Ah, try the melee mode."

D-4 walked to Zhou Ke's armed backpack, slapped it to make the black psychic straight-blade knife pop out, grabbed it with his left hand, opened the fire compartment in his right hand, walked out of the room door fearlessly, killed the black monster that jumped in front of him with one knife, and then prepared to start "physical exorcism".

Of course, she didn't forget to wipe the sticky stuff off her face, mouth and chest before leaving.
Don't get me wrong, it's just body maintenance fluid, but why this stuff is sprayed on these places, well, that's another story.

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"Why aren't you wearing pants? Pervert!"

Afu in the spirit world screamed and turned around, leaving Zhou Ke, who was dragged into the angry spirit world, looking embarrassed.

You bastards from Jiubang, how dare you ask me!
I was just having a great time when you guys dragged me into a battlefield for no reason. Before I could even start to punish you, you guys are already feeling shy.

But now is not the time to worry about these things. Zhou Ke took off a cloak from the Eagle State apprentice who was shot in the head by some kind of claws, and made a temporary "skirt armor" for himself like a Scottish warrior. Then he took out one of his masks and put it in his hand, ready to switch different weapons according to different enemies like a card master cutting cards.

"Hey, what's that in your hand?"

Afu turned around and took a look, and her attention was immediately attracted by the mask in Zhou Ke's hand.

"Ah? You can see it?"

Zhou Ke also asked in surprise, and then he realized that if his mask came from the "Chaos Blessing", then in the subspace projection of the spiritual world, it might really undergo some kind of "change". He subconsciously touched his "face" again.

Afu, who was slow to react, also noticed the biggest abnormality in Zhou Ke.

She exclaimed:

"Whose face is this? Why do you appear in the spirit world with someone else's face? Is this also one of your masks?"

“No, this is me, the real me”

Zhou Ke stroked his thin face, showing a genuine smile, snapped his fingers, whistled at Afu and said:
"Ah, I can finally fight with my face. I'm starting to like this damn place. What are you standing there for? Lead the way! Come on, girl, your brother Zhou Ke will take you to fight the BOSS."

(End of this chapter)