Chapter 93 Shen Yao is Destroyed

It was late at night when Nguyen Ninh was resting at Chen Yao's residence.

A piercing scream suddenly erupted from the master bedroom, sounding particularly shrill in the quiet night.

Li Wei, who was guarding the next room, jumped up instantly, his expression changed, and without hesitation, he led two Shen family guards on night duty to break down the bedroom door.

"Young Master Yao!"

The room was dimly lit. Shen Yao had rolled off the bed and landed on the floor, clutching his head tightly with both hands. His body was curled up like a shrimp, convulsing violently. Incoherent hoarse sounds and painful whimpers came from his throat. His face was contorted, his eyes rolled back, and saliva was uncontrollably drooling from the corner of his mouth.

"Hold him down! Be careful not to hurt him!" Li Wei shouted urgently, and rushed forward first, working together with two guards to control Shen Yao's frantically struggling body.

Shen Yao's power was immense, completely unlike his usual self, and he struggled instinctively like a wild beast.

"Dr. Wang! Hurry!" Li Wei shouted to the door.

A healing-type ability user dressed in casual clothes, who had been accompanying the team in charge of medical care, rushed in carrying a medicine box. He was also surprised to see Shen Yao's appearance.

He immediately squatted down, his hands glowing with a soft white light, and pressed them against Shen Yao's forehead and chest, attempting to examine and treat him.

The white light seeped in, but Dr. Wang's brows furrowed even more deeply. A few minutes later, sweat beaded on his forehead, and he withdrew his hand, shaking his head at Li Wei with a grim expression.

“Assistant Li, something’s wrong.” Doctor Wang spoke quickly. “There are no obvious external injuries, and no organic lesions in his internal organs. But his mental energy is extremely chaotic, like… like it’s been violently shattered from the inside by something! My healing energy can only barely soothe his physical spasms, but it’s completely ineffective against mental trauma! This isn’t a normal case of demonic possession!”

"Damaged mental strength?" Li Wei's heart sank. "Can you determine the cause? Is it an old injury? Or a mistake in cultivation? Or an external factor?"

Dr. Wang shook his head again, looking troubled: "The cause cannot be determined. My abilities mainly work on physical repair and energy channeling, and I am not capable of dealing with the profound spiritual level. In Yao Shao's current situation, we must find a high-level, specialized spiritual ability user to figure out what happened and even try to stabilize his mind."

“High-level mental system…” Li Wei gritted his teeth. How many high-level mental systems could there be in a place like Dawn Base?

But he dared not delay and immediately ordered one of his guards: "You, go to the base command center right now, find the highest-ranking officer on duty, explain the situation, request the base's assistance, and find the best psychic ability user! Hurry!"

The guards obeyed and rushed off.

Li Wei then looked at Doctor Wang: "Stabilize his condition, at least prevent him from harming himself further!"

Doctor Wang nodded and used his healing ability again. White light enveloped Shen Yao, which barely reduced the intensity of his convulsions. However, the confusion and pain in Shen Yao's eyes did not diminish at all. He began to utter some indistinct and fragmented syllables, sometimes laughing shrilly and sometimes crying out, completely losing his mind.

Not long after, a lieutenant colonel on duty at the base command rushed over with two guards and was also taken aback by Shen Yao's appearance. Upon learning that he was from the Shen family in the capital and that he might have suffered a mental injury, the lieutenant colonel dared not be negligent.

"The highest-ranking psychic ability user registered at our base is 'Insightful Old Xu,' a mid-level second-tier user. There are also a few first-tier users. I'll send someone to fetch Old Xu immediately. But Assistant Li, I must remind you, psychic healing is extremely dangerous, especially for injuries of unknown cause. Old Xu may not dare to act, nor may he have the ability..."

"Please let him take a look first!" Li Wei interrupted him, his tone filled with unwavering urgency. "We'll bear any consequences ourselves! Please hurry!"

The lieutenant colonel nodded and immediately ordered his men to fetch the person.

The waiting time felt exceptionally long.

Although bound on the bed, Shen Yao still struggled from time to time, emitting eerie noises. Li Wei, his face ashen, paced back and forth in the room.

He absolutely refused to believe it was an accident or an old injury! It just so happened on the very night that Lei Bao had just died and Ruan Ning had just returned!

About twenty minutes later, an elderly man (Old Xu) with gray hair but exceptionally clear eyes was brought over.

He listened briefly to the lieutenant colonel and Li Wei's introduction, his brows furrowed. He walked to the bedside, but did not touch it rashly. Instead, he closed his eyes, stretched out his right hand, and placed his palm about an inch away from Shen Yao's forehead. A layer of extremely subtle, almost invisible mental energy ripples slowly emerged.

A moment later, Old Xu suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes filled with shock and disbelief. He quickly withdrew his hand, as if he had been burned, and took two steps back.

"How is it?" Li Wei asked anxiously.

Old Xu took a breath, looked at the delirious Shen Yao on the bed, then at Li Wei and the base lieutenant colonel, and slowly shook his head, his voice dry: "It's hopeless... at least I can't do anything about it."

"What do you mean?!" Li Wei's heart sank.

“His core consciousness is shattered.” Old Xu carefully chose his words, clearly still shaken. “It’s not disorder, not damage, it’s like glass shattered by a tremendous force, completely fragmented. Memories, logic, personality… everything is a jumbled mess. And there’s a trace of a very ‘cold’ and very ‘sharp’ destructive energy remaining, though it’s dissipating, its nature is extremely terrifying. This is definitely not something that could be caused by self-cultivation, nor is it like ordinary mental backlash.”

He looked at Li Wei, his gaze profound: "This was destroyed from the outside with extremely sophisticated and domineering spiritual power, precisely and violently. The opponent's spiritual power level is far above mine. I can only barely sense a little residual energy, and I can't even determine its specific attributes."

The room was deathly silent.

Destroyed from the outside? Mental strength level far exceeding mid-second tier? Within the base, silently and without a trace?

Li Wei's expression was beyond grim. The lieutenant colonel also realized the seriousness of the situation—it involved an important figure from the capital, and it was a suspected targeted attack within the base!

"Mr. Xu, what do you think..." The lieutenant colonel tried to ask more questions.

Old Xu waved his hand: "I can't cure him, and I dare not investigate further. That residual destructive energy is too strange. If I'm not careful, even my mind could be tainted and injured. In his current state, it's good enough that he can survive, but the possibility of regaining his sanity..." He shook his head, not finishing his sentence, but the meaning was clear.

Li Wei clenched his fists so tightly that his nails almost dug into his flesh.

He forced himself to calm down and said to the lieutenant colonel, "Lieutenant Colonel, you've seen the situation. This is very likely a vicious attack targeting my Shen family. Since it happened on your base, we demand that the base immediately launch a full investigation! At the same time, we need to contact the capital immediately and request that the family send more professional medical and mental experts!"

He then turned to Doctor Wang and Lao Xu: "Before the family's support arrives, please do your best to maintain Yao Shao's vital signs, or at least prevent his condition from deteriorating further."

Old Xu sighed and nodded: "I can only try to wrap his fragments of consciousness with the gentlest mental energy to prevent them from dissipating further, but the effect is hard to say."

Dr. Wang also solemnly stated that he would do his best to maintain Shen Yao's physical functions.

Li Wei walked to the window, looking at the pitch-black night outside the base, his eyes extremely cold.

Shen Yao is finished.

He was turned into a madman in the most humiliating and thorough way.

The murderer, however, remained silent and undetected, leaving only a trace that even a second-tier mentalist would find terrifying.

The image of Ruan Ning's cold and calm face flashed through his mind in an instant.

Is it her?

Does she have that ability?

If it really is her...

Li Wei felt a chill rise up his spine.