Chapter 61: Not as good as Ji An! There is the shadow of Country R behind him...
"It would have been fine if you kidnapped those children before the end of the world, but now it's the end of the world and it's hard for everyone to survive. What's the point of you still trafficking these children?" Ji An asked.
"Freak show." The traffickers didn't want to hide anything at all. This water dungeon was worse than death. Now they only wanted a quick death. The sooner they could explain themselves, the sooner they would be freed.
"Someone found us and wanted us to provide a group of people to perform in freak shows for the R people." The trafficker didn't seem to be surprised when he mentioned the word freak show, as if he was used to it. "He said that the R people specifically asked for children, and they like to watch children's performances. Of course, if we can get a particularly beautiful woman, or a person with powerful superpowers, that would be fine too."
Watching the once powerful and mighty man fall from the clouds can give some cowardly people a certain kind of psychological satisfaction that makes their blood boil.
Beauties are always different, and when beauties are destroyed they can often arouse the strongest desires in people's hearts.
The three types of people chosen by the people of country R really fit the impression that their country presented to the public in the past - perverts.
When the trafficker mentioned the beauty, his eyes unconsciously glanced at Ji An.
Ji An's beauty transcends gender. It is a kind of beauty that makes people forget the world. If there really are immortals in this world, they would probably be like this when they come down to earth.
If they could get a person of this color, they would be rich. One hundred or one thousand children are not worth as much as one Ji An.
Ji Anzhi felt nauseous in his stomach, but Gu Jinsheng had already raised his hand and used his supernatural power to directly destroy the human trafficker's eyes. The human trafficker screamed, and the other human traffickers were trembling with fear, staring at the ground or other places, not daring to look around, especially not daring to look at where Ji An and Gu Jinsheng were standing.
Wan Xueying sneered, "To say that you are short-sighted is to flatter you. It's you who are mistaking pearls for fish eyes.
Do you know who this beauty standing in front of you is?
You just want to sell him off. His value is beyond your imagination. With him, even if you want to reorganize a base and become the king, as long as he raises his arm, thousands of people will respond immediately. You can only think of selling such a person and making a freak show?"
The traffickers could not respond, but they didn't think so. They had indeed guessed Ji An's identity. He was the psychic who shot a level 6 psychic into an idiot with three arrows at the execution ground that day. He was a psychic who was strong enough to challenge a level 6 psychic.
They did not deny Ji An's strength, which was indeed amazing. He alone could resist their combined superpowers and protect those children.
But no matter how powerful he is, he is just a strong man. When Country R and Country M join forces, what Country M lacks the most is powerful supernatural beings. Maybe it is precisely because of Ji An's strength that he can add some chips to his price and sell it at a new height!
Although no one said anything, Wan Xueying still guessed what these people were thinking. She sneered and said, "You are short-sighted in this life. Anyway, you have only one way to go. I am not afraid to tell you that the beauty standing in front of you is the only inventor of the space storage tools and nutrients in the Jing City base!"
"What?" The trafficker was so surprised that he couldn't help but look up at Ji An.
Ji An just stood there quietly, with a kind of beauty that was isolated and independent even in such a filthy water dungeon. They really couldn't believe that such a person was the only inventor of space storage tools and nutrients.
Space storage items and nutrients?
That is something that human traffickers would never dare to dream of.
With these two things, why would they need to live their lives in hiding? It is really like what Wan Xueying said, if they raise their arms and call for help, hundreds of people will respond immediately.
By then, the beautiful women and goods will rush to them and they will be invited to enjoy them!
A deep greed flashed in the trafficker's eyes.
Wan Xueying said coldly: "What a pity, you will never have that chance."
This sentence brought the traffickers back to reality from their fantasy, and they realized what a treasure they had missed. If they were given another chance, they would not want any children or freak shows, and only Ji An would be enough...
Ji An did not give these people time to continue fantasizing, and asked: "You already have so many children in your hands. If you want to perform a freak show, twenty or so children are more than enough. Why do you want to take the risk of catching more children?"
"The other party told us that Country R wants complete and healthy children. He said that Country R likes to see a good person torn into pieces and enjoys the ultimate desire for destruction. That way, the people of Country R can feel physically and mentally satisfied from the inside out." The human trafficker who had confessed before was in so much pain that he couldn't speak, so another human trafficker answered.
When he said all this, he was terrifyingly calm, without any reverence for life that a human should have, as if life was just a random thing in their hands.
"The children we have are already spoiled. They can't arouse the interest of the R countrymen. At most, we can throw them to those poor guys to earn a few nutritional supplements."
The trafficker suddenly said, “We didn’t think of the Salesian Home for a while, and we were thinking of kidnapping a few children. It was the person who contacted us who took the initiative to suggest that we could get some children from the Salesian Home.
He also said that the children in the orphanage were well raised, healthy and rosy, better than those raised in ordinary families in the apocalypse. They were also studying recently and had good temperaments.
Then we can pretend to be nobles and say that we are the children of powerful superpowers. We will definitely be able to negotiate a higher price from Country R."
Ji An got the point almost immediately, "The person who contacted you was Xia Ren? Do you know him? Who is he and where is he now?"
The trafficker hesitated for a moment before saying, "If you let me go, I will tell you. Now I can only say that his identity is very important to you."
Gu Jinsheng didn't even think twice and directly released his supernatural power. The pain of being burned by the raging fire made the human traffickers scream miserably in the sea of fire.
He twisted and struggled desperately, but the special iron chain bound him tightly. He couldn't break free at all and could only be burned by the flames.
The trafficker screamed, "That person's identity is very, very important to you. If you don't know it, you will regret it sooner or later!
Let me go. Only if you let me leave the Jing City base, I will tell you his true identity."
"No need, we have psychics." Ji An said calmly, "Go call Zhou Fanxiu over and have him control these people with his mind. The information we get from them will be more reliable than what they confess themselves."
The trafficker's eyes flashed with panic, "You, you can't do that, it is expressly prohibited by the Jingshi Base, it is against human rights."
"A human trafficker comes to talk to me about human rights. Ha... This is probably the funniest joke I have ever heard in my life!" Wan Xueying sneered.
There was a special car to pick them up, and Zhou Fanxiu arrived very quickly. On the way, someone briefly explained the situation to him. As soon as Zhou Fanxiu arrived, he began to exercise mental control over the human traffickers.
Zhou Fanxiu's spiritual thread was very thin, as thin as a spider silk. In this dark dungeon, it was almost invisible if you didn't look carefully.
Ji An was a little stunned. In fact, it didn't matter. The thickness and thinness were controlled by the psychic himself, and it didn't mean it was not tough. What made Ji An stunned was that he could actually see Zhou Fanxiu's spiritual power thread.
This, how is this possible?
The mental power of psychics is very special. Ordinary people cannot see their mental power. Only psychics can see it.
Now that Ji An's supernatural power has been abolished, he is just an ordinary person in terms of identity. He should not be able to see Zhou Fanxiu's mental power!
Gu Jinsheng on the side seemed to notice something was wrong with Ji An. He wanted to hold Ji An's hand to comfort him, but just when his big hand with distinct joints was about to touch Ji An's slender hand, he probably felt that it was inappropriate to do so and silently retracted his hand.
Zhou Fanxiu's spiritual threads flowed out from his brain and penetrated into the eyes of the trafficker. The trafficker immediately turned into a wooden man, motionless.
Zhou Fanxiu was delighted and relaxed a bit. The human trafficker opposite him blinked almost instantly.
Wan Xueying immediately said, "Researcher Zhou, don't relax."
Zhou Fanxiu didn't dare to be distracted and agreed. He immediately concentrated his attention on controlling the human trafficker, and the human trafficker turned into a wooden man again.
Ji An said: "Teacher, please ask him who the person who contacted him is?"
Zhou Fanxiu repeated Ji An's words. The wooden man was like a human trafficker, motionless, as if he could not hear Zhou Fanxiu's questions. He was unable to feel any perception from the outside world, and he really became a piece of wood.
Zhou Fanxiu didn't understand the current situation, so he asked again. The trafficker was still in the same state. The difference was that this time, after Zhou Fanxiu asked the questions, the trafficker quickly woke up and came out of that dazed state.
He looked at Zhou Fanxiu and the others nervously, his expression full of vigilance and inquiry, as if he really didn't know what Zhou Fanxiu had just done to him, and now wanted to get a glimpse of some clues from their faces.
"What's going on?" Zhou Fanxiu himself was also confused and scratched his head.
After Zhou Fanxiu awakened his superpowers, he came to the Jing City base. He had hardly ever fought a battle, and had been mostly doing research on the applications of psychic powers, so he only had a limited understanding of them at this time.
Ji An explained: "Looking at their state, teacher, you should have used the 'petrification' skill in mind control. Mind control is a higher ability than 'petrification'. Try to release the mental thread, drill into their brains, and then control their minds."
The dungeon power man was speechless. Wasn't Zhou Fanxiu the one with mental power now? Why did he need Ji An, who had no mental power, to teach him how to use mental power?
"Oh, is that so? Let me try it." Zhou Fanxiu was a little embarrassed. He was actually being taught by his own student.
For the first time, Ji An felt that his teacher had a treasure but didn't know how to use it, which was a waste of his psychic powers.
Wan Xueying saw Ji An's pain and said, "Boss Ji, before you, there were psychics who chose the combat-oriented path, but unfortunately, all of them failed. Countless facts have proved that psychics are non-combat-oriented psychics, and they are more suitable for research. As for you, I can only say that there are exceptions to everything."
Facts have proved that it is easy for Ji An to say it, but Zhou Fanxiu encounters obstacles everywhere when he actually tries to do it. Just like Ji An can easily make space storage props and nutrient supplements, they can't figure it out no matter how hard they try.
Even if he gets the core technology, it will take him who knows how long to study day and night before he can crack it. There is a barrier between him and them.
Zhou Fanxiu would get stuck at almost every step, just like a toddler who stumbles with every step and needs support.
"Ji An, how can I know if my mental power has penetrated into his brain?"
This question stumped Ji An. He was speechless and didn't know how to answer. For Ji An, this question was no different from eating and drinking water, where you can feel the food in your mouth.
"No feeling?"
"What's the feeling?" Zhou Fanxiu looked at Ji An in a daze.
Ji An explained: "It means discovering a spiritual power that does not belong to you."
Zhou Fanxiu felt it, but he didn't feel what Ji An said. "No feeling, no feeling at all."
"How can you not feel anything?"
Ji An really wanted to say, "I saw your mental power drilling into the brain of the human trafficker."
However, Ji An didn't say anything because he didn't want others to know that he could also see the psychic powers of psychics.
He didn't know whether other people whose superpowers had been destroyed could see other people's mental power, but he knew he could. He didn't know whether this was normal or not, and didn't want others to know.
Ji An said: "Teacher, try to feel it again."
Zhou Fanxiu closed his eyes, his brows were twisted into a knot. It was obvious that he was really using all his strength. After an unknown amount of time, Zhou Fanxiu finally said happily, "I feel it."
Ji An breathed a sigh of relief. The way he looked at Zhou Fanxiu was the same as a top student looking at a poor student. Why was it necessary to explain such a small matter? No matter how, it was equivalent to one plus one equals two. Didn't everyone agree with that?
However, Ji An was too happy too early. Before he could relax, Zhou Fanxiu asked a new question, "Ji An, I seem to feel it. What should I do? How can I control him mentally?"
Ji An seemed to hear the human traffickers' uncontrollable laughter. This really made the people on their side seem useless. The mental zombie king they fought last time knew how to mentally control his subordinates.
However, as someone who has never used mental power to control others, this is normal. Ji An said calmly: "You try to connect his mental power, just like a plug and a socket, just connect them."
"Connect?" Zhou Fanxiu encountered a new problem again. He didn't know how to connect.
If Ji An hadn't lost his mental power, he would have used his mental power to teach Zhou Fanxiu. Maybe Zhou Fanxiu could learn faster that way.
This time, this problem was a little difficult for Zhou Fanxiu. He tried for a long time but failed to solve it.
Ji An could only say: "Well, teacher, you control me with your mental power, I feel it, and I know how to tell you."
Ji An really didn't know how to teach this thing, so he could only teach it himself.
"no!"
“That’s not good.”
Two voices were heard at the same time, one came from Zhou Fanxiu and the other was from Gu Jinsheng.
Ji An is just an ordinary person now and has no resistance to superpowers. Even if Zhou Fanxiu can no longer perform mind control, it will be easy for him to do so.
Zhou Fanxiu also felt that this was not a good idea. When he was controlling a person's mind, he could find out any secret he wanted to know as long as he wanted to ask.
Ji An has too many secrets, of course, I am referring to the research aspect. Zhou Fanxiu and he are not in the same laboratory, so it is not convenient for him to control Ji An mentally.
"Ji An, you have so many scientific research results. It is not appropriate for me to control your mind." Zhou Fanxiu said.
Gu Jinsheng's face had become as black as the bottom of a pot.
"There's nothing inappropriate." Ji An turned to look at Gu Jinsheng, "The person who contacted us is too important. We must know who he is."
Gu Jinsheng pursed his lips tightly, obviously still unhappy. Ji An leaned close to Gu Jinsheng's ear and whispered, "Aren't you watching by his side? The teacher can't do anything."
Gu Jinsheng's identity as the commander-in-chief restricted him in many things, so he could only nod.
"Teacher, come here." Ji An said.
Although Gu Jinsheng didn't say anything, Zhou Fanxiu still felt a death gaze.
If he wasn't Ji An's teacher, Gu Jinsheng's behavior might have been more obvious.
Ji An watched Zhou Fanxiu's mental power penetrate into his brain. He did not resist at all. Ji An caught it almost the moment Zhou Fanxiu's mental power entered Ji An's mental sea of consciousness.
It feels like even though you can't see, if someone is spying on you in secret, you will definitely have that inexplicable feeling of being spied on. It's probably a kind of intuition.
But for Yu Ji'an, it was not just a simple intuition. It seemed as if there was a pair of eyes in his brain's sea of consciousness, which could clearly see where Zhou Fanxiu's mental power came from and how it entered his brain's sea of consciousness.
"Teacher, I feel your mental power. Can you feel it?" Ji An asked.
Zhou Fanxiu actually didn't feel it. It was only after Ji An asked him that he tried hard to feel it, and then he felt it.
Zhou Fanxiu said: "Ji An, you who don't have psychic abilities are more sensitive than me, the teacher who has psychic abilities."
"It's just muscle memory, a conditioned reflex honed through battle after battle."
Zhou Fanxiu seemed to understand, "Then what should I do now?"
"Mind controlling me?"
"How to control it?"
Ji An felt that he had already opened the door of his house and respectfully invited the thief in. Then the thief asked him, how do I steal things?
Ji An never dreamed that one day he would have to teach others how to control him mentally.
"Pfft..." Ji An heard a laugh, he looked over and saw that it was the human trafficker who couldn't help laughing.
Zhou Fanxiu blushed.
Zhou Fanxiu tried to hold it in for a long time before he finally connected his mind to Ji An's. He shouted, "I finally connected my mind."
Ji An also felt it, he nodded and said: "Congratulations, teacher, you succeeded."
Zhou Fanxiu asked, "I've already connected with you mentally, why do you still have independent thoughts?"
"Teacher, you only connected me mentally, but you didn't control me mentally. Now, teacher, you are controlling me mentally."
Zhou Fanxiu began to try, but had no clue.
In fact, Ji An was secretly trying to resist Zhou Fanxiu's mental control during this process. He just wanted to test his mental strength again.
But as soon as he tried it, he felt as if countless steel needles were piercing his brain.
Ji An couldn't help but let out a short scream, "Ah!"
At the same time, the few pitiful drops of water in his brain seemed to be dried up by the strongest storm. Ji An knew that this was the result of his forced mobilization of mental power.
Ji An had an inexplicable intuition that if he really eliminated the last bit of water in his brain, he would definitely become an idiot.
"Xiao An, how are you?"
"Boss Ji, are you okay?" Wan Xueying asked anxiously, "Researcher Zhou, Ji An is in pain, please stop."
"I didn't do anything." Zhou Fanxiu explained.
Ji An stopped trying to use his mental power, and the pain from the needle piercing his brain disappeared. However, Ji An found that his head, which had been in pain all along, hurt more than before.
Ji An knew that this was because he had forcibly mobilized his mental power, which caused a small part of the water droplets in his spiritual sea of consciousness to disappear. He endured the headache and explained to Zhou Fanxiu: "It has nothing to do with the teacher. I just have a headache again."
"Ji An, why don't we just forget it?" Zhou Fanxiu frowned.
"It's okay, teacher, please continue."
"Xiao An..." Gu Jinsheng spoke again at this time.
Ji An smiled at Gu Jinsheng soothingly, "Let the teacher continue. We need their confessions. The man behind this is very important. We can't miss him, otherwise the Jingshi base will easily collapse from the inside."
After Ji An said this, Gu Jinsheng could no longer object.
Seeing that Ji An and Gu Jinsheng had no objection, Zhou Fanxiu had no choice but to continue. This time, it took him a long time to finally find the way. Zhou Fanxiu was so tired that he felt like he had run a thousand meters and was sweating all over. "I think I succeeded! Ji An, who am I?"
"Zhou Fanxiu, my teacher." Ji An answered. His voice was clear, without any of the dullness that one would expect from a person being controlled.
Zhou Fanxiu was a little disappointed, "Ji An, you are still awake, I thought I succeeded."
Ji An replied, "I didn't resist. In fact, you did succeed, teacher, but it only took less than a second for me to wake up. How about you try again?"
"Okay." The success gave Zhou Fanxiu a great boost of confidence. He thought that with the experience of success once, it would be easy to succeed again. Besides, the target was Ji An, who no longer had any superpowers and had become an ordinary person.
However, in reality, Zhou Fanxiu hardly ever succeeded again, and he himself felt that he was too stupid.
Gu Jinsheng couldn't bear to watch it anymore and said, "I understand. Researcher Zhou, please try it on me."
"this……"
"Just give it a try. I won't resist." Gu Jinsheng said as he didn't want Ji An to be tormented again.
"Okay." Zhou Fanxiu exerted mental control on Gu Jinsheng. Gu Jinsheng didn't resist at all and was even very cooperative, just like Ji An who opened the door to his home. However, Zhou Fanxiu had already gone in and couldn't exert mental control on him.
Wan Xueying said, "Forget it, let him connect with these traffickers directly. One of you has too strong a power, and the level gap is too big, there is an unbridgeable gap. One of you was the king of mental power before, even if you have abolished your power now, your muscle memory is strong enough, it is normal that Zhou Institute cannot control your mind.
These human traffickers are different, maybe it can work. Even if it doesn’t work, it doesn’t matter, I have already contacted Han Yaokun and asked him to bring a few more people over to try.”
Zhou Fanxiu breathed a sigh of relief. He really didn't want to challenge Ji An and Gu Jinsheng, two big mountains. Especially since one of them was his student. The feeling of repeated defeat was too frustrating.
Zhou Fanxiu has mastered the skills, so it becomes easy for him to exert mental control on the human traffickers again.
At first, the trafficker looked nonchalant, but his expression went blank in a second. Zhou Fanxiu actually succeeded.
"Who is it? Who is the person who contacted you?" Zhou Fanxiu asked.
The trafficker looked numb and dull, his eyes were empty, and his whole body showed a blank look as if he was controlled. "He, he is..."
When he was about to say it, the trafficker began to show obvious resistance on his face. Such resistance might be very painful for the trafficker. His expression became ferocious, "No, I can't say it. This is my last chance!"
The human trafficker screamed and broke free from the state of mental control, while breaking the mental connection with Zhou Fanxiu.
Zhou Fanxiu felt as if his brain was scraped by an invisible force. He squatted down holding his head and screamed in pain.
Ji An could clearly see Zhou Fanxiu's mental power thread breaking, and hurried over to help Zhou Fanxiu up, "Teacher, are you okay?"
When Zhou Fanxiu raised his head, he was sweating profusely, as if he had been fished out of the water. He felt the mental power in his brain and found that there was no damage.
"It's okay, it just hurt a little when my mental power was broken." Zhou Fanxiu said: "It doesn't hurt now, it just hurt for a moment."
"How about I try again?"
"No need." Wan Xueying said, "Although both of your abilities are at level four, his is at the peak, and you are at the middle stage, a small level difference, the level gap is still too big."
There is a huge difference between one small rank among psychics. The reason why Wan Xueying agreed to Zhou Fanxiu's attempt was because of Ji An.
It doesn’t mean that just because Zhou Fanxiu is Ji An’s teacher, Wan Xueying thinks that Zhou Fanxiu will be more powerful than Ji An.
It was simply because the strength displayed by Ji An was so amazing that challenging opponents of higher levels seemed to be a common thing for Ji An.
This led Wan Xueying to believe that challenging higher-level opponents was a basic skill for psychics. Sure enough, Ji An was the exception after all.
"Let me try." At this time Han Yaokun and others arrived. Behind Han Yaokun followed Zhao Zhen, Na Boyu, Shi Jun and several researchers whose names Ji An was familiar with. These people were undoubtedly the top forces on Han Yaokun's side, and they were all high-level psychics.
Even if Ji An had not lost his superpowers in the past, Han Yaokun's superpower level was much higher than Ji An's. What's more, Ji An has now lost his superpowers and become an ordinary person, so he is even less qualified to point fingers at Han Yaokun, a high-level superpower user.
Ji An silently retreated to a corner, giving up the center position. Zhao Zhen followed behind Ji An and deliberately looked at Ji An with contempt when passing by him.
Ji An ignored him and pretended not to see him.
Han Yaokun was obviously much stronger than Zhou Fanxiu. At least he was very skilled in controlling people with his mind. However, he failed at the last moment.
Han Yaokun tried several more times but failed every time. He had consumed a lot of his mental energy and could not continue, otherwise he might get injured.
Han Yaokun's face looked very bad, not knowing whether it was because of the failure or because of the consumption of mental energy. Zhao Zhen no longer had the complacency he had when he came, and his face was as black as the bottom of a pot.
He shook his head and said, "Although his ability level is much lower than mine, his will to survive is very strong. He knows this is his only chance to live, and he can easily reveal it even if he dies, so I can't do it."
It is really hard to explain what perseverance is. Before the end of the world, many impossible miracles happened. For example, a mother lifted a huge rock that exceeded human limits in order to save her child, and provided a sky for her child during the earthquake. She even maintained that posture and refused to fall down after being dead for a long time.
Now in the end of the world, people with special abilities have awakened their special abilities, which in turn enhances their mental and willpower. People like human traffickers must be cruel and ruthless, and their spiritual world is inherently more difficult to control than that of ordinary people.
Even Han Yaokun couldn't do it, which was something Wan Xueying didn't expect. She couldn't help but look at Ji An.
Wan Xueying almost dared to assert with 100% certainty that if Ji An's special ability was still there, this kind of mental control would be easy for him to achieve in minutes and would not be so difficult.
The reason why a genius is called a genius is that he can do things that ordinary people cannot do. Unfortunately, God is jealous of talented people, and the genius has fallen!
It was also at this moment that everyone clearly realized once again how huge the gap between them and Ji An was. It was insurmountable. Whether in terms of technology or combat effectiveness, Ji An and them seemed to be in the same dimension. There was an invisible barrier between them that could never be broken.
In the end, all the high-level psychics brought by Han Yaokun tried it, including Zhao Zhen. As expected, no one succeeded. Even Zhao Zhen, a psychic of the same level as Zhou Fanxiu, performed much worse than Zhou Fanxiu and was almost backfired.
Zhao Zhen was greatly humiliated, his face turned red with shame and anger.
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