Chapter 124: Humanity's Last Line of Defense
"Ji Ling, be careful!"
The Miao Dao chopped the person in front of him, but it dissipated like water waves.
A chill suddenly ran down my spine, and I turned around in shock. The replica was right behind me, and I hadn't noticed it at all.
This divine container is more powerful than I imagined.
My second vision couldn't break the illusion.
And I can't create any other illusions except the projection of fear.
Even though the contamination I suffered was more complex and did not just come from an evil god, which resulted in me having some abilities that it did not have, these abilities could not do anything to it.
But it has more than one way to kill me directly.
The worst thing is that it would use large-scale fear projection from time to time, which put others at a disadvantage.
If it weren't for Lin Hanning setting up the barrier that was beneficial to us, I'm afraid the other people would have gone completely crazy by now.
Even so, I paid attention to the others. Each of them was in very bad condition, except Lin Hanning who was able to deal with her own shadow with ease, but she also had to distract herself to maintain the barrier of the entire battlefield.
But even though she didn't show it, I could feel that she seemed to be struggling.
Fortunately, I still had the advantage of speed. I pushed the handle of the knife back and it hit its belly directly, forcing it to take a step back. The next second, I chopped it with my backhand.
Although its speed was not an advantage, it was still dodged. The blade only split the white gauze covering its head in half, leaving a shallow scar on its face.
It raised its head and gently touched its face. When it saw the bloodstains on its fingertips, it tilted its head in confusion, as if it didn't understand why it was injured.
But its expression remained indifferent and it didn't care.
This is difficult. If it regards itself as a god because it is a vessel sent by God, or if it has some emotional fluctuations, my chances may be better.
But the person in front of me is really just a container with some self-awareness.
And its attack seemed to be just out of instinct.
This pure desire to attack is even more difficult...
The situation for everyone else on the field is not optimistic at this moment.
However, since fire suppression might accidentally injure us, other troops had already ceased fire. Most of the troops should be looking for the key to breaking the deadlock. The remaining troops could do nothing but provide some auxiliary interference on the battlefield from time to time.
This may be useful for other people, but it is completely useless for the one in front of me.
In other words, I can only fight it 1V1. Thinking of this, I don’t know why I feel excited.
Well, let's just see how long I can hold on. At this point, I don't think I can get out of this alive.
My heart moved as it pleased, and now I had become completely abnormal, with both eyes on my forehead fully open. At least I now had five visions.
My mind moves as it pleases, and I also distort that space.
To my delight, this trick actually worked!
It just stopped there, and then the whole body began to twist, with all the joints bent at a terrifying and incredible angle.
However, just after I released the space distortion, it slowly and forcibly bent its twisted and dislocated joints back into place.
Its expression did not change throughout the entire process.
Damn it.
In order to avoid being controlled by it again, I had to keep moving away.
Soon, I thought of another way. Since I couldn’t kill the one in front of me directly, I might as well deal with the other opponents first.
Thinking of this, I also used a large-scale but small-power fear projection, but it was obvious that those replicas had no emotions and acted only on instinct, so fear projection had no effect on them.
I wasn't discouraged, I was just trying it out. Fear projection has side effects, I wouldn't be stupid enough to just go all out right away.
After confirming that they were emotionless puppets, I changed my tactics.
I increased my speed, deliberately avoiding a head-on confrontation with my copy. Since it hadn't formed a normal logical thinking system yet, it didn't keep holding on to me. When it realized it couldn't catch me, it just projected fear again.
Lin Hanning was completely unaffected. Although I still felt a bit slow due to the influence of fear projection, this occasional fear projection also allowed my mental strength to be trained invisibly, and I seemed to be becoming more and more tolerant.
But the others were not so relieved. Jiang Wang even showed signs of mutation. Fortunately, Lin Hanning discovered it and suppressed him remotely.
I can't slow down either! First, the Steel Lord's replica. Both of their skills are relatively long-range, so it's not easy for me to accidentally hurt them if I attack them.
It just so happened that the space distortion could be used again. Thinking of this, I directly distorted the space where the fake Steel Duke was.
While the fake Steel Jue was being twisted, Steel Jue seized the opportunity and struck it directly in the vitals.
“Crack—”
The fake steel jug shattered gently, literally breaking into pieces like a mirror, and then disappeared into the air.
But soon, another new fake Steel Lord appeared again.
No way? Is this cheating?
Even if you can defeat one, you will be exhausted if you keep summoning them endlessly.
And at this moment I was just deliberately avoiding my copy. Once it reacted and was entangled again, the situation would almost be fatal.
At this moment, I suddenly felt powerless. Although it seemed that I was constantly dealing with it, in fact, it was almost all in vain.
If it weren't for the fact that it was a vessel man-made by the Apocalypse Sect and its intelligence was not as low as that of the Apocalypse Sect, I would have died hundreds of times.
But if this continues, it is only a matter of time before the entire army is wiped out.
A deep feeling of despair came over me, different from the usual dying situation, but rather the feeling of powerlessness where everyone seemed to have the power to resist but could only be consumed to death step by step.
At this moment, Song Nanxing was knocked away by a punch from the fake Song Nanxing. I happened to be moving at high speed, and seeing him flying towards me, I caught him without thinking.
It hurts so much, I almost got crushed to death...
I didn't care about the dull pain in my chest from the collision and held him steady.
The notebook that I had been holding in my chest also fell out and landed on the ground.
"Song Nanxing, are you okay?"
Song Nanxing was covered in blood at this moment, with a bruised face and nose. He coughed a few times, coughed up a large mouthful of blood, and shook his head weakly.
"It's okay... I can't see clearly... Where is that imposter?"
"You can't go there anymore!"
I grabbed him and shouted.
The condition he is in now, he will only be beaten to death if he goes there.
Song Nanxing groped and grabbed my wrist, then looked up and smiled at me:
"Ji Ling, there's no way we can go back alive, but at least... we have to stop it."
"Because we are the last line of defense."
Looking at Song Nanxing's face, I didn't know what to say.
Looking up, Gang Jue's body was full of holes, Jiang Wang was no longer in human form, and Chen Yubing was also lying on the ground, trying to stand up again.
Lin Hanning's complexion was not very good at the moment. Her hair began to turn slightly yellow and her height had shrunk a little.
Once she can't hold on, the barrier here will be broken. If that container uses fear projection or space distortion again, we will be completely annihilated.
Song Nanxing wanted to stand up again, so I held him down again.
"Don't move... I have a solution!"
When Song Nanxing heard what I said, he was slightly stunned.
"What method?"
"I've found the key to defeating them, trust me!"
Although I said this, I actually had no other choice. I also couldn't let Song Nanxing go like this.
Just then, I suddenly noticed the notebook that had just fallen out of me.
I took the notebook out of that laboratory. Although I can't understand it, since that laboratory is the base for researching this container, there might be some key information in the notebook.
I took a look at the location of the container, and it seemed that it also realized that this barrier would curb some of its abilities.
At this moment, it returned to the air and kept attacking Lin Hanning's barrier with various skills, trying to break the golden barrier.
Time waits for no one.
Suddenly a breeze blew and opened the notebook beside him.
I hurried over to pick it up, and the page that the wind blew open was exactly the missing page that I had opened before.
The reason why it is missing is probably because this page contains very important content.
Looking at the faint handwriting marks on it, I suddenly thought of something.
"Song Nanxing, what are planetary symbols generally used for?"
"It's generally used in astrology. In the Middle Ages, people combined medicine and astrology, so different planetary symbols also represent different parts of the human body."
After listening to him, I looked at the notebook in my hand again.
Sure enough, I found a human body outline in the next few pages, but this outline had six arms, and it was obviously the replica.
Combined with the marks left on the torn page, I suddenly had a guess.
Those blood sacrifice sites are probably not just for supplying energy to this abnormal unit.
Not long after we destroyed the blood sacrifice site, we received news that abnormal units suddenly went berserk.
Considering the white-suited believer who stopped us in the subway tunnel, he was deliberately delaying time not because he was afraid that we would rush to the city center to eliminate the abnormal units, but to buy himself time to evacuate.
At first, I couldn’t understand why they had worked so hard to create the divine descent vessel but just abandoned it and ran away.
It now seems that there is only one possibility: the abnormal unit is out of control and their experiment has failed.
So, they had to flee.
And whether the Investigation Bureau eliminates the abnormal unit or the abnormal unit eliminates the Investigation Bureau, it will be beneficial to them with no harm.
This notebook should have recorded the method of controlling abnormal units, but the key parts were torn up by them.
"What parts do the different planetary symbols represent?"
Song Nanxing was slightly stunned, but still told me.
I bit my finger, but Song Nanxing grabbed me.
"What are you doing? I can't see clearly but I'm not blind."
"I know how to suppress that thing."
We just need to draw corresponding symbols on various parts of its body, and I think we should be able to suppress it.
After finding a solution, I immediately drew a symbol on the palm of my hand with blood.
This symbol is the sun symbol, which represents the brain. I need to press the symbol on its forehead for it to work.
Although it is not easy to press the symbol on its forehead all at once, it is a feasible method.
So I took advantage of my speed and kept getting closer to it.
Because I cut off one of his arms, the other party learned his lesson.
So it kept throwing stones from the ground at me.
But I can also manipulate objects, and these stones pose no threat to me.
Although these stones did not hit me, they still greatly slowed down my speed.
Relying on such attacks, I have always kept a distance from it, which makes me a little anxious.
After all, everyone can hardly hold on any longer.
If we don't deal with this abnormal unit, I'm afraid our investigation bureau will be wiped out.
But I really can’t hold on any longer.
So in order to be able to get closer to it, I chose not to suppress the pollution in my body anymore and release my mental power with all my strength.
As soon as I released my mental power, my speed increased suddenly and I quickly approached the replica.
Without the mental strength to suppress the pollution, my mind became a little hazy, but fortunately I knew what I should do.
The whispers in my ears came again, saying some confusing, crazy and bewitching words to me.
Despite this, I never lost my mind.
Just because there is another sentence in my mind that is fighting against it.
"Because we are the last line of defense."
Song Nanxing's words kept lingering in my ears.
With the help of this sentence, I finally came near it.
Seeing me approaching, its eyes, which were calm in the slightest, suddenly showed a primitive cruelty.
One of the eyes on its forehead stared at me intently, and I felt a strong sense of blockage.
Perhaps it was a blessing in disguise. Without mental suppression, various forces raged within my body, and its conscious control did not directly freeze me.
Seeing that this trick didn't work, it narrowed its eyes, formed its five fingers into claws, and grabbed directly towards my heart.
Oops!
I was too fast to avoid it!
Driven by the instinct of survival, the body moved faster than the mind and moved slightly to the side.
"puff--"
I felt a sharp pain in my chest as its palm dug directly into my ribcage.
Ignoring the pain, I slapped it on the forehead.
But it was no use, it just blinked in confusion and then threw me out.
How can it be useless?
I glanced at my palms. The blood had dried. No wonder...
Although I just managed to avoid the vital parts, it still scratched a bloody hole in my chest.
Wait... there is a solution.
Thinking of this, I used all my strength and used my ability to manipulate objects to control my blood to transform into planetary symbols and directly slapped them on various parts of its body.
The abnormal unit let out a scream and struggled frantically.
It should be... done...
At this moment, I had no strength left, my vision went dark, and I fell to the ground.
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