Chapter 258 Gin's True Skill

Day 28 of the road survival game!

Feng Xing Shou stood there, stunned. Suddenly, the dream she had after falling asleep yesterday flashed into her mind. At the time, she thought it was a hallucination caused by the continuous increase in her mental strength.

After hearing about the information related to the Church of the Rising Sun, I had developed delusional speculations about the game's organizers. It wasn't until I saw this game announcement that I suddenly realized that it wasn't just a hallucination or speculation at all.

It was the actual scene appearing on the game live stream. Realizing this, she knew she only had a little over two minutes. In this time of urgency, she simply put the vehicle into her backpack, turned off the game organizer's monitoring, and then told everyone about the scene she had dreamed about yesterday.

Knowing that Feng Xing Shou had dreamt yesterday that the game livestream was auctioning off her and others' mental abilities to the viewers, and that someone had already won the bid for her and Hagiwara's mental abilities.

It's estimated that those people can't wait for the season to end, because the people on our side have already upgraded their mental power to the upper limit that they can control, thanks to the mental power potion provided by Feng Xing Shou.

They didn't want to risk letting Feng Xingshou and the others continue to increase their mental strength, which is why they hastily released this game announcement, letting their so-called testers reap their mental power...

Knowing that the organizers had ill intentions and their ulterior motives, everyone turned to look at Gin. Kazesei looked at his brother with trust and asked, "Brother, what should we do next?"

"Heh... I hope they won't disappoint me!" Gin sneered, seemingly without any concern for what was to come. He looked as if he were hoping the other side would appear before him, and said to Fuusei, "Release the vehicles. Without vehicle location tracking, they probably won't be able to get here in time."

As Feng Xingshou released the vehicle, he suddenly noticed that his brother's reaction was a little strange. Why did his brother not seem afraid at all? Instead, he seemed to be looking forward to the test. Did he already have a way to deal with the attacks from the testers?

Not only did Kazeki think this way, but Akai Tsutomu also looked up at Gin, and then, as if realizing something, asked in an ambiguous tone: "Gin, are you planning to retaliate in kind, with blood for blood?"

“No one can bully my fat piglet except me.” Gin didn’t answer his question directly, but his words seemed to answer everything.

Hagiwara felt a surge of urge to grit his teeth. This future brother-in-law was a bit annoying. When would he be able to say such domineering things to Kaze-chan? He was so envious! (＃￣～￣＃)

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Seeing that Gin had a certain grasp of how to deal with the challenges posed by the game system, the others were no longer so flustered. Their individual professions allowed them to quickly calm down in the face of this situation.

Despite knowing it might not be of much use, they still carefully searched the vehicle for weapons that could provide lethality, and the group quickly made preparations.

Two minutes later, a portal even larger than the dungeon portal, with a diameter of ten meters, suddenly appeared before everyone's eyes. Everyone stared in disbelief at the enormous portal in front of them.

Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen figures teleported from the portal to the crowd. These people were all wearing masks and their bodies were light as a feather. They landed on the ground from the portal in the sky without making a sound.

Moreover, they all had long hair tied up in the ancient style of the Central Plains Kingdom, which made everyone present look at Akai Tsutomu. Judging from their attire, he might have guessed correctly. These people were not aliens, but some kind of civilization on a parallel planet that had developed to a more advanced and developed level...

These people talked so much while watching the live stream, but now that they're in front of everyone, they're like cold-blooded killing machines, without any greetings or conversations.

A cold, yellow game announcement popped up in front of Feng Xing Shou: [Game Announcement: The Test Begins!]

These people then attacked their group, and everyone instinctively raised their guns to fight back. However, something happened that left everyone speechless.

Their bullets passed through these people's bodies without causing any damage. Their bodies were like water, or like a layer of air, unharmed by any substance.

Upon seeing this, Akai Tsutomu immediately reacted and said to everyone, "These people have evolved into spiritual life forms. They have no physical existence and therefore cannot be harmed by any material. To hit them, you must also use spiritual energy to damage them."

Upon hearing Akai Tsutomu's words, Gin was the first to release his Shadow Dumplings, which bound the group of people. Kazeki also released his water manipulation ability, creating water out of thin air and using it to attack the so-called testers who were bound by his brother.

The wind of Hagiwara, the lightning of Matsuda, the fire of the Akai father and son, and the light of Morofushi Kagemitsu—these special mental abilities relentlessly attacked these people.

However, the next second, the shadows that Gin used to bind them were shattered by a mental energy many times more powerful than them, and strange, ancient weapons suddenly appeared around their bodies.

"It's a legendary mental weapon!" Feng Xingshou, who reads a lot of novels, immediately thought of the descriptions in many novels about how the mind can be gathered into a physical mental weapon, and subconsciously exclaimed in surprise.

Her surprise seemed to elicit a reaction from the test takers, one of whom scoffed, "You do have good taste!"

Others added, "This mental weapon is not something you can fight against just because you've learned mental skills!"

As they spoke, they unleashed their own mental weapons, each one seemingly formed from unknown sources, brimming with terrifying power, whether it was the wind spirit's hand-controlled water manipulation or Gin's shadow manipulation.

Hagiwara's Wind Manipulation and other skills, when hit by these mental weapons, are instantly disintegrated into their original matter and can no longer be controlled by their respective mental powers.

Seeing everyone's disheveled state, the test-takers floated in the air, looking down arrogantly: "How pathetic!"

"I thought you guys would be different!"

"He couldn't hold on for even a short while?"

"It seems that even if your mental strength is raised to the top level, without actual combat training, you are still as weak and pitiful as a level one mental strength user."

"Don't waste time talking to them. Let's get started. This mental energy harvest is highly valued."

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After the person in the middle said those words, the masked men controlled their so-called mental weapons and launched attacks on the crowd. Despite the crowd using various mental skills to resist, the people were still able to resist.

It was still impossible to stop the attacks of these mental weapons. Even when Feng Xingshou tried to store these mental weapons in his backpack space, he failed.

The instant these mental weapons struck them, even though their bodies were unharmed, they felt as if their mental consciousness had vanished. They could no longer control the sensations spreading throughout their bodies and could only stand there blankly.

While they stood there helplessly, the test subjects flew down from the sky and rushed into their bodies. They were basically in pairs, with one person responsible for entering the bodies of Feng Xingshou and the others, and the other person monitoring and protecting them from the side.

Their mental weapons constantly surrounded everyone, as if they would instantly kill everyone and the abnormal at the slightest sign of trouble, right at this critical moment.

As these people rushed into the bodies of the eight individuals, and no abnormalities occurred around them, these masked individuals seemed to exude a slight sense of relaxation.

At that moment, an unusual scene unfolded. The figures that had lunged into the eight people were suddenly thrown out of their bodies as if by some kind of obstruction, causing them to let out a scream: "Ah! It hurts!"

Why can't I get in?

"Their bodies are so stiff, it's strange."

Why can't I get in?

As these people were ejected one after another, Morofushi Kagemitsu, who was standing there blankly, was the first to open his eyes. At the same time, his originally aggressive light instantly covered everyone around him.

After being enveloped by his light, Feng Xingshou felt her body, which had been as tense as a wooden doll, instantly regain its previous sensations. Even the physical strength she had used to sell those mutated sea beasts was completely restored, which greatly surprised her with Morofushi Kagemitsu's healing power.

Just as Feng Xing Shou opened his eyes, the others around him also opened their eyes. Bourbon sneered and said, "Is this how you harvest our mental energy? Looks like you're going to fail. We won't let you harvest us like the other survivors."

After he finished speaking, a different kind of energy suddenly emanated from everyone, and at the same time, Gin's command came from the side: "Everyone, use your bloodline skills to attack."

Upon hearing this command, Feng Xingshou used his bloodline power to create earth without hesitation and manipulated earth-attribute earth manipulation skills to attack the two test subjects beside him.

Her reaction was the same as everyone else's; they didn't give anyone around them a chance to react before unleashing their bloodline skills one by one.

Before being attacked by these skills, the test takers were not worried and continued to use their mental weapons to defend against them, not expecting that their previously invincible mental weapons would be so effective.

Faced with these seemingly ordinary attack skills, their mental weapons instantly disintegrated as if severely damaged, breaking down into specks of light that disappeared into the gray, rain- and snow-filled place.

"What's with these offensive weapons being considered offensive skills?"

Why can't our mental weapons withstand this?

"What kind of skill is this?"

"Their commander just now said it was a bloodline skill."

Why would someone have bloodline skills?

"Aren't we training mental skills?"

"How did they manage to activate their bloodline abilities?"

"Get out of the way! Don't engage their attacks with your mental gift weapons!"

"Call for help! Even if we have to use our absolute weapons, we must wipe them out here."

"Should we use that weapon?"

"If we use it, this spacetime portal will be ruined, and all the mental energy that can be cultivated in this spacetime will be wasted."

"Now is not the time to worry about waste."

"We must eliminate them completely; we cannot leave this threat behind."

“If their skill continues to improve, it will one day pose a deadly threat to us, and I don’t want to see them on my home planet one day.”

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The test takers all gasped in disbelief.

Along with these exclamations, the game panel in front of Feng Xing Shou emitted a series of sharp screeching sounds, and blood-red subtitles continuously appeared before it: [Game Warning: Survivor Feng Xing Shou has used unauthorized skill points, and a penalty is about to be triggered!]

[Game Warning: Player Feng Xing Shou has violated the rules and will soon have all of your...]

Before the warning was even issued, when Feng Xingshou saw the word "seal" on the announcement, he subconsciously thought of those games and anime where once a seal was used, it would seal off the target's usable skills, preventing them from being released.

How could she possibly allow her skills to be sealed away, especially her backpack skill, which was practically the bane of game vehicles? With that in mind, she didn't hesitate and stored the game vehicle in her backpack space.

Sure enough, with her movements, her ears and eyes were cleared, and there was no more game warning noise around her. She could still use her abilities without being controlled or sealed by anything around her.

Seeing this, Feng Xing Shou continued to confidently and boldly use his earth manipulation skills to launch a counterattack against the testers who no longer looked down on them with arrogance, as if they were at their mercy.

Unfortunately, her earth manipulation relies too much on the ground, making it difficult for her to ascend to high altitudes. Once the challengers are airborne, her earth manipulation skills can no longer attack them.

Fortunately, after Hagiwara wrapped the power of wind around him, whether it was because his bloodline skill and his mental skill had merged together or something else, he was still able to keep his body light and catch up with those who hid in mid-air and launch effective attacks.

Matsuda's lightning attacks are also the type that can be used for long-range attacks, just like the Akai father and son. Morofushi Kagemitsu, on the other hand, was constantly using his healing skills to restore the stamina of everyone present while observing the surrounding battle situation.

The usually reliable older brother, Kurosawa Jin, reacted strangely at this moment. He didn't use his bloodline skills and continued to control the black shadow, casting binding support skills on those guys in the sky.

It seemed as if his bloodline skills were completely unable to launch an attack, which made Feng Xingshou somewhat frustrated. He thought to himself, "My brother didn't even awaken a bloodline skill that could attack blood."

Why did I act so confident just now? To make myself feel strong enough to fight these bad guys. Now that my brother's skills are useless and my attacks aren't working, what am I going to do?

Just as the wind star was in a state of turmoil, something appeared, its center completely black with a blue ring around it, resembling a gigantic eye or a black sun burning with blue flames.

It appeared out of thin air above them, and then the rings of blue energy around the black sphere converged towards the very center of the sphere, causing the central circular area to turn blue...

Upon seeing these things, Akai Tsutomu instinctively warned, "Be careful, this big guy from the game is coming. Make sure you don't get hit by it. This thing looks different in terms of power. If you get hit by its attack, the result will probably be terrible."

"No! It should be this guy's attack form. Does it look like something that can unleash a powerful area-of-effect attack?"

"We're completely trapped now!" Feng Xingshou said anxiously. "How about I bring out the vehicle? A level nine vehicle should be able to hold out, right..."

Their voices drew scornful laughter from the other test-takers: "Ha, you think you can withstand the attack of the Eye of the Sky?"

"That's utterly delusional!"

"The Eye of the Sky is the culmination of research and development by all the scientists on our home planet, and it has never been surpassed since its creation."

"It will let you experience what is called nuclear peace!"

"Afterwards, your world will be erased again, and the survivors will become our breeding stock in the next world, continuing to provide us with the spiritual energy that allows us to evolve."

"Prepare to face the judgment of the Eye of Heaven!"

"His power is beyond your comprehension; it is the power of a concept!"

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"Is that enough?" Hearing their shouts, words that were usually spoken by him or his subordinates, the situation had reversed, and now others were being so arrogant towards him.

Clearly, they had really angered Gin. Faced with this desperate situation, he smiled knowingly and said, "Even if you haven't said enough, it's time for me to settle the score with you."

"Hmph! The Eye of the Sky, sounds like a remarkable thing, but I'm more adept at destruction than protecting anything. I hope this thing can withstand my destruction."

As soon as he finished speaking, he stopped using his weak and only supplementary shadow control ability. All the shadows returned to his side and gathered into a larger, dark ball.

At the same time, something even blacker than the shadow ball emerged from beneath his feet and merged into his shadow ball. When there was only a black shadow, no one ever felt that Gin was in danger.

However, when the two black shadows merged together and completely merged, a terrifying effect was generated around them. Whether it was Kazeki, Bourbon, Hagiwara, Matsuda, the Akai father and son, or Morofushi Kagemitsu, they all felt a terrifying attraction.

Emerging from this fused black mass, a pure white halo was gathering from the center of the black mass, gradually forming a slightly larger halo that surrounded the black mass...