Chapter 152 Soul Flame
Everyone rushed over. Wen Chong tried two methods, but neither could stop the nearly transparent flames from growing larger and larger. She said anxiously, "Oh, I'm a retired special forces soldier. I'm not that good at theoretical research..."
Zhao Kuanqiao took a deep breath and heard a police officer nearby say anxiously, "Why don't we ask Professor Mu to come over?" She felt that something was wrong, but it was only about to come out.
"No," Wen Chong objected, glancing at Tu Lanxun. "If Tu's suspicions are true, anyone who has been in close proximity with Sun Zhongyi must never again be near Tan Ming."
"What?" Everyone was speechless.
Wen Chong turned to Zhao Kuanqiao and said, "Xiao Zhao, you and Lao Wei should leave together."
Zhao Kuanqiao quickly packed up his things in an orderly manner, nodded, and walked quickly out the door, dragging along Old Wei who was out of the situation.
"Call Bu Linlin over." Wen Chong's voice was heard outside, and he kept tapping on the keyboard of his mobile phone. Team leader Li from Mu Xiaozhen said he had received the message.
Wen Chong calmed down completely. She asked the non-core personnel to leave the room first, and then fiddled with the densely packed instruments. The light changed color twice. Suddenly the interrogation room looked like a butcher shop with dim red light, and then the observation room was so blue that it was impossible to open your eyes, as if a living Avatar had melted in the air.
The transparent flame on Tan Ming's body was still there. He sat there calmly without any reaction, and didn't even look at the one-way mirror.
Tu Lanxun understood two things: first, Tan Ming was not in much pain; second, he was not a very patient person, and the fact that he behaved like this showed that the fire was part of their plan, and he had known about it long ago.
And speaking of which, there may also be a mentality of not wanting to face one-way glass and not wanting to see one's own burning reflection.
Suddenly, Tu Lanxun saw something on Tan Ming. In his chest, where the flames could not reach, there seemed to be a long thread floating around. It kept swaying, and its arc shape was natural and light, making people suspect that it was not a real thread, but spider silk or even something else with life.
One end of the thread pierced his body, and the other end connected to the center of his chest, where there was a glowing, illusory ball the size of a broad bean...
The core of the soul.
"The fire on his body comes from the core of his soul." Tu Lanxun said this, and then saw that the flames on Tan Ming's body actually tended to fade. The line that looked like a silk thread but was actually a line of flame began to shorten, like a worm that crawled out of the body and began to retract, as if to take all the flames back into the body.
It's more like a fuse.
Wen Chong stared at Tu Lanxun: "What did you discover?"
Behind her, she heard Bu Linlin yawning and opening the door. "What are you angry about? Xiao Zhao told me about it, but I didn't..."
Tu Lanxun suddenly shouted, "It's not fire, it's a bomb! The interrogation room's security level is at full capacity!"
Wen Chong quickly replied, "It's already full! It can withstand at least Professor Shen's ghost attack."
Tu Lanxun felt a surge of panic, but only realized it after a second or two. He hurriedly said, "It was a soul core explosion. The bomb they created is inside Tan Ming's soul core. Sun Zhongyi should have a bomb as well. Did you find it? Let's try the soul core first."
When they heard the word "soul core", Wen Chong and Bu Linlin's expressions suddenly changed. They had more professional knowledge than Tu Lanxun, which revealed that the soul core explosion was a very terrible, extremely inhumane, and even unimaginable thing, because no one had ever thought of doing this.
Wen Chong quickly passed the order on. Bu Linlin was already fiddling with several instruments she had brought with her, including two rings with flashing lights. They looked like the plastic superhero equipment sold to children in movie theaters.
"There's no other way. We can force the flames back into Tan Ming's body, but it takes time and is a bit risky." Bu Linlin said, "Director Wen, do you have any way to further strengthen the interrogation room's blast resistance? We don't want the shock wave to reach us, and we don't want to damage the structural stability of the office building."
Wen Chong thought for a moment, then suddenly came up with an idea. He said, "Okay, I'll go in and put on two maintenance suits for him, one to wear right side up and one inside out."
As soon as these words were spoken, the eyes of the knowledgeable people present lit up. None of them evacuated at this moment, but stayed at the scene to find a solution. They were afraid that if they escaped Tan Ming's explosion, it would only cause the explosion to hit other people or even the building's skeleton, which would only kill more innocent people.
Wen Chong's idea was almost genius. The maintenance suit, also known as the dual-image suit, could give the wearer the dual nature of human and soul. That is to say, it would allow humans to have a spiritual "skin" under the world's definition, and allow ghosts to have a real person "entity" under the world's definition.
However, it is more used for humans than ghosts. After all, ghosts have a natural physical shell - their own corpse.
Now if Tan Ming were to wear two maintenance suits, the inner one could slightly materialize his spirit, and the flames on his body and the explosion ready to go would also have the dual nature of spirit and substance.
"It sounds like the flames have been intensified, but that's not the case," Wen Chong said quickly. "The key lies in the second maintenance suit, which is inside the jacket."
The second maintenance suit is facing outside inward and inside out, so theoretically it changes not the nature of Tan Ming or flame, but the nature of the external world.
It’s just that the external world is too vast, and its objective laws cannot be changed by a small maintenance suit, so the changes in the external world are only relative to the changes in the second maintenance suit.
——For Tan Ming and the explosion flame, the external world has the dual nature of both entity and spirit.
"When the first layer of the maintenance suit, which filters out the tanming and flames, is penetrated, the flames will flow into the second layer, but they probably won't come out and harm us." Bu Linlin quickly theoretically deduced Wen Chong's brilliant idea: "When dual bodies meet, according to soul science theory, they will attract and repel each other, resulting in a cross reaction."
Tu Lanxun looked at the empty space and asked, "What is cross-reaction?"
Bu Linlin helplessly explained, "It's just... Yin and Yang Tai Chi, you know? Two dualities colliding is like two groups of Tai Chi black and white fish colliding. They simultaneously attract and repel each other, and eventually, through a series of processes I can't even explain, the first group of black fish merges into the second group of white fish, and the second group of black fish merges into the first group of white fish. Black 1's force only acts on White 2, and White 1's force only acts on Black 2. The other forces don't affect each other, and eventually, the two groups of forces cancel each other out. In other words, all four fish sublimate or die, and nothing happens."
Seeing Tu Lanxun's thoughtful expression, Bu Linlin, still glancing at Tan Ming's situation, kindly added, "I'll lend you one of the Tourism Administration's internal literacy textbooks later."
Wen Chong interrupted their conversation and said, "This theory is too extreme. There's no guarantee that the process will unfold as Expert Bu claims. So, all of you should evacuate here. I'll help Tan Ming put on the maintenance suit."
If Wen Chong's worries came true, wouldn't she...
Bu Linlin was the first to intervene, saying, "Director Wen, absolutely not. The final battle is imminent. If you fall here, no one can replace you. You must consider the overall situation."
Wen Chong was about to say something when Li Ao beside him interrupted him, "Yes, Director Wen. If you wish to sacrifice yourself in the final battle, I won't stop you, as I'm mentally prepared for the same. It's just that Lucheng can't do without you right now. Professor Mu, Ms. Bu, and Consultant Tu are all unable to smoothly take over your responsibilities. Please don't put anyone at risk."
Seeing Wen Chong's anxiety and distress, Bu Linlin said, "I know. I have a suggestion. From the perspective of minimizing collective sacrifice, why not call Lu Lianbing over and let Zhao Kuanqiao take charge of Sun Zhongyi downstairs? If they can proceed simultaneously..."
Bu Linlin has always been a very unserious person, but the more she smiled at this moment, the more everyone knew that she was talking seriously. The nervousness and sadness in her eyes were as real as a body, making it clear that she was not afraid, but she couldn't bear it.
Wen Chong slammed the table: "Don't give me any random advice!"
Bu Linlin laughed. "You'll agree. If you were Xiaolu or me, we would agree, and our leaders would agree too. This is a must."
In the anxious silence of a few seconds, Tu Lanxun's voice came out softly: "Let me try."
Not only Wen Chong and Li Ao, but Bu Linlin's expression changed as well. Wen Chong started cursing, "What nonsense are you talking about? Everyone was heartbroken when Xiao Lu and Xiao Zhao died. Even though you're not a core member, can you just sacrifice yourself? Your role in the final war is no greater than anyone else's..."
Bu Linlin also tried to persuade him, but her words were unpleasant: "You're not going to manage such a large development zone? Isn't this just giving the Tianguo Group an opportunity to exploit? It would be better to evacuate everyone. If the building collapses, it will collapse."
However, if the explosion range is larger than the evacuation range and injures people, their behavior will be considered as fleeing without fighting.
It’s impossible to evacuate the entire Lucheng within ten minutes, right?
Tu Lanxun sighed and said to the others, "Have you all forgotten that I have a useless skill?"
She... can capture the soul core of others!
Seeing the alarm monitoring the fire situation accelerating at a fairly even rate, Tu Lanxun quickly said, "The explosion originated from the soul core. Can't we just grab it? In my opinion, their soul bodies are the fuel and gunpowder, and the soul core is the fuse. Is there anything wrong with removing the fuse?"
This method is still risky, but the magical skills of Tu Lanxun have greatly increased the benefits and chances of success.
There was no time for further debate. Wen Chong's eyes hardened, and he immediately had two maintenance suits and a small cage with the same structure as the suits, which looked a bit like an enlarged hollow woven bag. He said, "Grab the soul core and put it here."
Then she turned to her phone and said, "Tell Lu Lianbing and Zhao Kuanqiao to stand by outside Soul Interrogation Rooms 1 and 7 respectively."
In order to prevent Bu Linlin's deduction theory from being disrupted and invalidated, Tu Lanxun herself could not wear the maintenance suit. When she walked into the interrogation room with two maintenance suits, Tan Ming had already become like a human torch.
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