Chapter 60 The Slum Boy's Desperate Comeback (Part 5)
Si Yisi is trying to cut open the metal outer layer of the mecha.
That dull dagger alone wasn't enough, but now that he had mastered the mental power within his brain, it seemed effortless. He smoothly peeled away the metal to study it, without harming Ah Tu's "core" in the slightest.
A-Tu's body should still be in the system space, but this time he infiltrated the mecha in the form of a spiritual entity by chance.
Speaking of mental power... Si Yisi knew even better that the mental power he displayed was actually his own built-in data stream.
The system itself cannot possess mental power; what it manifests to the outside world is actually a massive flow of data.
Si'an's own aptitude doesn't reach that level; at most, his mental strength is only slightly better than that of the attacker in Si's hands.
The "spiritual power" of the system Si Yisi that possessed him was like a lush tree or an unattainable bright moon.
Ah Tu screamed pitifully, kicking his rabbit legs with all his might.
The noise woke Lisa up. She propped herself up and looked around, and immediately saw Chen Han lying in the corner.
“This…” Lisa’s voice trembled, “Who is this? Won’t bringing him back offend someone we can’t afford to offend?”
"Who made that scream?"
“I’m killing rabbits, Mother.” Si Yisi looked directly at her, and certain changes in him made Lisa realize that her son was different.
"As for that person—don't worry, it will be taken care of soon."
Lisa murmured softly, "It's good that you're alright... We have to be careful here to survive."
“Mother, we will be able to leave here soon,” Si Yisi replied decisively.
Lisa stared wide-eyed, wanting to ask something, but Si Yisi pushed her back into the room.
Chen Han is dead, not from suffocation. There are no abnormal poisoning reactions in his body, but when Si Yisi used her mental power to investigate, she found that his active cells were operating at an extremely fast speed, while some of his cells had already ruptured.
This is far more advanced than a poison sac, killing without a trace.
Fortunately, Si Yisi never intended to extract anything from Chen Han; he had already obtained very useful information.
Si Yisi glanced at Chen Han's corpse and, under cover of night, hung it in the most conspicuous place.
—On the cross of the only chapel in the slum.
In the interstellar age, faith has become nothingness; crosses and churches exist only for the sake of retro style.
The cross was placed high in a place where people in the slums could see it at a glance, and Si Yisi tied Chen Han's body into the shape of "Jesus".
This is a blatant provocation!
After receiving the intelligence from his spies, Tru was so angry that his face looked as if it had been smashed flat. The room furnishings that had just been changed were once again devastated.
He gritted his teeth, wishing he could skin Si Yisi alive and tear him apart!
Tru knew this was a provocation from that kid, but he couldn't bring himself to openly launch a large-scale sweep of the slums.
Sis's actions have already attracted the attention of the upper echelons of power in the slums, and even Tru couldn't immediately remove the corpse from the shameful cross!
His anger could only amount to nothing more than a cloud of white smoke!
How long did the compatibility test last? How long was that corpse tied to the cross? During these long days, Tru's temper grew increasingly volatile, and he smashed no fewer than ten pieces of furniture.
On the day of the compatibility test.
This is the only chance for slum dwellers to rise above their circumstances, but the age limit of under twenty eliminates most of the slum dwellers.
The remaining group, knowing how difficult it was to seize an opportunity for compatibility testing, all took a break on this day.
Of course, this truce is only temporary. The main theme of life for slum dwellers will always be constant fighting, robbing, and encroachment. Once you peel back that outer layer, the people of the slums become demons, beings that outsiders can despise and be wary of.
Si Yisi walked into the matching team, and as he stood still, he suddenly glanced in one direction!
That intense hostility vanished in an instant, as quickly as a fleeting shadow.
Was the person lurking in the shadows trying to prevent him from participating in the compatibility test?
Si Yisi touched an age-testing stone. If someone was older than the required age, a red line would appear on the stone. This method caught many people who tried to take advantage of the situation.
Si Yisi touched the cold testing stone.
That prying gaze is back, following us like a shadow!
The test stone showed no red lines from beginning to end! So... is the secret in the later levels?
Si Yisi was curious to see what kind of tricks he could pull off.
In the second round, the testing stones were no longer distributed one by one; instead, they had to line up to touch a spirit-testing instrument that looked like white jade.
No! Never!
The person in charge of observation was complaining and impatiently saying, "Who would want to do this thankless job? Look at those slum dwellers whose mental strength couldn't be measured; they all have such cold, sinister eyes that they look like they're about to launch a surprise attack!"
If it weren't for the Empire's pity on them, tsk... they would have all been wiped out long ago! What kind of spiritual talent could commoners possibly have? Reaching D-rank would be the best they could hope for!
"Go away! Get out of here, what are you staring at!" A burly soldier pushed a boy away.
The thin girl in front of Si Yisi trembled as she touched the jade-white spirit-testing instrument.
Suddenly, a very thin wisp of mist appeared in the spirit-testing instrument. This mist was ethereal and easily dispersed, disappearing without a trace after rising for only a short while.
The person in charge said impatiently, "E-level mental strength...pass..."
Before the word "pass" had even finished fading, he seemed to suddenly remember that the people standing there were all lowly commoners, and he abruptly stopped, saying decisively—
"but!"
His first sentence had brought a blush to the girl's pale face, but this sudden change of heart was like throwing her from heaven to hell!
The girl's face was as white as a sheet of paper, and she seemed about to collapse!
The person in charge made no attempt to conceal his malice; he glanced at the lowly people before him with a cold and contemptuous look.
Although the Empire advocates equality for all, everyone knows that in the interstellar era, there is actually a fairly clear class division! The lowly people who come from the slums have no human rights whatsoever, and anyone can despise and insult them at will!
The girl obviously had no choice but to suffer in silence... because here, the person in charge is the ultimate authority!
Si Yisi clenched his fist, his knuckles cracking. He sensed Si An's grief and indignation; he wanted people who had come from the slums to also have the right to be called human beings!
Si'an wasn't particularly pitying or sympathetic towards the girl, but rather chilled by this rigid and terrifying class system!
The other slum dwellers standing here were also restless, staring at the person in charge with hungry wolf-like eyes, as if they could tear a piece of skin or flesh off him at any moment!
The atmosphere suddenly became tense!
"Get out of the way!" Sensing the subtle change in the atmosphere, the person in charge, with a sour expression, ordered the soldiers to push and shove the girl away.
Faced with this intimidation, the slum boys present temporarily fell silent. But that doesn't mean that if the person in charge were to sentence them to death in the same way as the girl... they would remain unmoved from beginning to end and succumb to this so-called tyranny!
Si Yisi remained calm throughout, glancing at the girl's swaying body.
What good will it do to stand up for the girl? She can only be at the E level of mental strength, and her future life will probably be no different from living in the slums because of this targeting!
If we're going to do something, let's do something big!
Si Yisi touched the spirit-testing device, and the moment he made contact, he frowned. He felt a tremendous rejection of his spiritual power; so that so-called technique was hidden here!
No, it's not just a simple matter of rejection...
Si Yisi even sensed something "surging" out of the spirit-testing device. That thing had an evil aura and was trying to invade Si Yisi's body!
Si Yi wanted to test what this was, so he temporarily withdrew his mental energy, only to find that "his" consciousness was being eaten away little by little by the cocoon!
Once this thing is touched, it becomes uncontrollable. If Si Yisi doesn't have mental strength to protect her, she will be corrupted and turned into a fool or an idiot in no time!
If he's turned into an idiot, wouldn't he be completely powerless to resist? You wouldn't even need to think of a reason for his disappearance—an idiot, after all, can you expect him to behave normally?
After Si Yisi isolated and even devoured that thing, changes appeared on the spirit-testing instrument—
Suddenly, countless plumes of blood mist erupted from the center of the spirit-testing instrument! The mist was blackish-red in color, looking like dried blood, carrying an indescribable evil aura.
"Blood Moon Mist!!" The person in charge jumped up, the contempt on his face finally disappearing, replaced by a look of fear and unease!
He didn't even dare to look at Si Yisi's face, as if he had encountered some kind of monstrous flood!
The person in charge nearly stumbled and fell, but managed to grab the corner of the table for support. He immediately ordered the soldiers, "Grab him! He's a cult member!"
Upon hearing the word "cult," even the slum boys took a step back in unison.
Lisa, who was hiding in the back and whose illness had not fully healed, almost fainted!
Cultists—what a severe and terrifying charge… Anyone who is even remotely associated with that title, or who has only done some research out of curiosity, will end up in jail and be condemned to eternal damnation!
Because everything related to cultists is undoubtedly a taboo in the Kaz Empire!
Si Yisi's pupils contracted slightly. A cultist? Si An's memory contained only tiny, rice-grain-sized recollections, which originated from a nursery rhyme that Lisa sang to scare him when he was a child.
But one thing is certain: Si'an could never have any connection with cult members; this is a setup!
That's quite a lot of effort...
At that very moment, the spirit-detecting device in Si Yisi's hand suddenly exploded! Jade-white fragments flew everywhere, and this strange occurrence caused the person in charge to scream once again—
"Mental strength exceeding Grade A?!"
A middle-aged man who had been hiding to the side also changed his expression. He hadn't expected such an unexpected turn of events!
Although the Blood Moon Mist is said to be a symbol of unforgivable taboo, the unexpected explosion of the spirit-testing device was something the middle-aged man had never anticipated!
What does it mean when a spirit-measuring device capable of withstanding A-level mental power explodes? It means that the mental power level of the person Prince Tru is about to kill is above A-level!
That is... an unexplored level of S-level mental power, or even higher, that has only existed in the very history of the empire!
The middle-aged man thought he had perfectly completed the task assigned by Prince Tru, but he never expected this unexpected incident to interfere!
Even if the Blood Moon Mist is terrifying, so what? Having an A-level mental strength is enough to absolve Si Yisi of guilt!
Si Yisi blinked. He had just been thinking of fighting his way out, but the mental energy of the being that was clearly hostile to him had undergone such a strange change.
Disbelief and anger—this feeling is like the resentment of failing to accomplish something bad.
so?
Si Yisi glanced at Lisa in a corner outside the crowd, but decided to wait and see.
He smiled faintly as the soldiers, equally terrified, came over and handcuffed him. Si Yisi felt the soldiers' trembling bodies and his feelings were somewhat complicated.
Are you the "criminals" who are to be arrested, or am I?
Before being taken away, Si Yisi gave Lisa a look. That look meant, "Don't worry, I'll be back safely."
Lisa, standing in the corner, suddenly burst into tears. She leaned against the gray wall and rushed forward, pulling at the soldiers.
Her illness had not fully healed, and her pulling force should have been weak and feeble. But at this moment, Lisa was like a raging lioness, desperately reaching out her sharp claws to tear at the soldiers who were trying to take Si Yisi away.
The soldiers tried to push her out—but just as they were about to do so, they were struck hard in the abdomen by a gust of wind!
Si Yisi withdrew his foot and looked at the row of soldiers who had been kicked to the ground. He was only thin and small, looking no different from a short bamboo pole.
He spoke in a calm tone, yet... Si Yisi's eyes were as chilling as cold stars! The fleeting killing intent in his pupils was utterly genuine!
"You dare to lay a hand on me?"
Si Yisi spoke each word with a hidden menacing intent.
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