53 Knife
◎Eat Xiao Mingran's spirit◎
Bright and warm.
It is not the common damp, corrupt, depressing and dim dungeon.
Like sitting on the edge of a bed on a spring afternoon, with no training missions, no reporting requirements, and even no dungeons. She was born on an afternoon when humans still lived on the surface, enjoying the caress of such ordinary sunlight.
This was something she had spent her entire life striving for, and it seemed to have been with her since she was born. The dungeon was like a thrilling dream she tossed and turned in late at night, and everything in it gradually faded away with the light of the rising sun.
She is clearly... clearly...
——!
Xiao Mingran suddenly opened her eyes. Kong Wei was already before her. She had straightened her appearance, and under the cold light, her cheeks looked exceptionally pale, with only the clotted blood remaining, difficult to wipe away, leaving a few spots.
His eyebrows were half-drooped, as if he was tired, or as if he was hiding something.
"I think I forgot to tell you, I'm also an alienation guide."
There was no murderous intent, and there was even a sense of warmth and intimacy. Xiao Mingran looked at her drooping eyelids and couldn't help feeling sleepy.
I wanted to raise my eyes, but my eyelids felt as heavy as a thousand pounds, too heavy to hold up. Only my consciousness was still struggling desperately.
It feels like sitting in a long and boring meeting in a conference room. Even though you know you have to listen, your fingers and eyelids are out of control.
The moment Xiao Mingran reacted, he knew it was too late.
Her spiritual entity began to disintegrate from the far end, and she began to lose the ability to feel her legs and feet. Kong Wei and Yan Xunzhi sat in the cryostat. The former had a calm gaze, as if waiting for something, while the latter half-supported his arm, rubbing his temples with a look of pain.
Xiao Mingran laughed, "You're just pretending. Aren't you afraid of me?"
Kong Wei's tone remained calm as usual, seemingly an illusion compared to the intensity he'd shown earlier. "You're just stronger than me. There's nothing to be afraid of."
She was never a genius like Xiao Mingran. Yan Xunzhi was wrong. In her position, she would only see more powerful people. Some people could overthrow the alliance just by standing there.
She was used to seeing geniuses, and then she found that geniuses were just like that.
"There's nothing to be afraid of." Xiao Mingran stopped laughing, stared at her, and said word by word, "I was complacent, afraid of seeing too much, and I was deceived by you. But I haven't lost yet, and you are not invincible either."
Kong Wei's sudden attack made her think that she was weaker than her. It was because of fear and anxiety in her heart that she suddenly attacked when her defense was off.
The subsequent fight made her even more certain of this. She was far from being her opponent in terms of mental strength alone, which was why she had set up such a trap for her.
"Failure means nothing but death." Kong Wei's eyes, hidden behind his eyelids, shone brightly as he spoke calmly, "I've died once. Death is death. There's nothing to fear."
She was never afraid of death.
One spirit body died, and the other spirit body's mental power was overdrawn, nerve damage, and a significant decline in ability. Even the slightest movement of mental power would cause her eyes to bleed profusely. Before coming here, she had already prepared to die at Xiao Mingran's hands.
The only choice between them is to devour each other. Xiao Mingran is such a powerful person. If he eats her, he may find a second way out.
"I am a healing type. Alienation cannot change my physical strengths. Even if I am alienated, I am still a healing type."
She just has more confidence to be the pioneer.
"My mental strength is far from enough to go to the ground."
Xiao Mingran relied on the natural transformation of the surface, and because she was a high-level guide, her mental strength was extremely strong, so she was not affected by the transformation and lost her mind. Similar to her, she was a successful alienated self, and was almost indistinguishable from an ordinary underground guide.
The spread of the spiritual imprint showed that she could already survive on the ground.
Being able to counter the invasion network, her mental power should be alienated and very aggressive. Her boldness can just make up for her mental weakness, and her aggression will become the spearhead she lacks.
She looked at Xiao Mingran.
The cryostat was specially designed to store her foreign brain, which was connected to a thin hollow hose and into which medicine was continuously dripped.
There are sensors and mental monitoring attached to both sides. At this moment, the foreign object has died, but its mental power is still fluctuating steadily within the normal value of hibernation.
"You're actually right. You think too highly of yourself because you're an attack type and I'm a healer. Every profession has its own strengths. I'm not as capable as you. With just mental strength, I can't defeat you no matter what."
During this passage, she was gently deprived of control of her body. This plunder was more like a theft after hypnosis. Xiao Mingran saw that all her mental power was dormant, but her consciousness was constantly active.
The body is often driven by consciousness, and only when the consciousness is deeply dormant will the body lose control.
This is completely contrary to normal.
In the split second between life and death, Xiao Mingran smiled with relief, "Healing... Oh, this is your ability."
Kong Wei remained silent. Xiao Mingran looked him up and down, his uncontrolled eyes suddenly gleaming. "Very strong. He's been transformed, yet he can still live like a normal person. He's completely deprived of others' consciousness, yet he doesn't even sense any murderous intent."
"Killing people without being seen. Your alienation is better than mine."
Yan Xunzhi secretly agreed. Few people had seen Kong Wei's methods, and she couldn't share them everywhere. She would just talk about it and then ask people what they thought.
But she was deeply afraid of this ability. It was much stronger than the attack-type abilities of Sang Wanyin and others. Killing someone required a fight, but if Officer Kong were to fall for this ability, he would be dead while feeling elated and happy! Killing someone without being seen, how terrifying!
Kong Wei shook his head, "It's not that you can't feel it, it's that I have no intention of killing."
Xiao Mingran was slightly stunned, and Yan Xunzhi next to him almost dropped his jaw.
Others didn't know that they were sharing a picture. Kong Wei used her huge picture to deal with Xiao Mingran's deprived mental power. She saw with her own eyes that she said this calmly while violently crushing and occupying those mental powers in the picture.
This is called no intention to kill? She felt that this method of disposal was almost the same as dismembering a body!
The picture fluctuates slightly.
Kong Wei didn't often listen to her thoughts - or rather, she, this emotionless robot, didn't say anything after listening. Over time, Yan Xunzhi almost forgot that the Sentry Link could share emotions.
She was a little embarrassed, licked her lips, her eyes wandered, and she forced herself to think blankly, pretending to be well-behaved and nothing had happened.
Kong Wei pulled her. Yan Xunzhi was distracted, and the freezer compartment was uneven, so she almost slipped down. Fortunately, she caught her again.
"She's also a mutant, can you tell?"
Xiao Mingran was surprised. Yan Xunzhi, as the mutant himself, was even more dumbfounded than her. He almost slipped and fell again. He couldn't help but turn around to confirm with Kong Wei, "Alien? Who..."
The lop-eared rabbit in the picture jumped up speechlessly and kicked her.
The meaning is clear: Shut up!
Yan Xunzhi was genuinely surprised. She wanted to ask, was she the only one? Was Sang Wanyin a mutant? Was Ning Yue a mutant? Was there anyone else besides her?
How come she is suddenly on the same level as the big guys!
But look at the rabbit in the picture, ready to go. She successfully swallowed all the chain shells back into her stomach, and had time to ruminate but no time to digest them herself.
Feeling a pair of hot gazes scanning her up and down, Xiao Mingran actually regained some control of her body in this extreme excitement.
Her entire body was solid with spiritual power, without any bone restrictions. At this moment, two inches below her shoulders suddenly bent up, and her head and neck were almost vertical. The distortion was so frightening.
Yan Xunzhi felt deeply uncomfortable.
Although she was already used to being looked at as a curiosity—as Kong Wei's more successful experimental subject, she was often visited—Xiao Mingran's current posture, with her upper body folded, her middle lying flat, and her vagina dissipating, was a bit too strange...
"Can you..."
She was about to open her mouth to complain, but Xiao Mingran quickly interrupted, "Don't say anything! Let me guess!"
“…”Who was the one who was beaten down and about to die?
Yan Xunzhi thought it over and over in his mind twice, if she was going to be eaten, then just let her go, and saw a new light flashing in Xiao Mingran's eyes.
She looked at her almost blatantly. If her gaze could be condensed into mental power, Xiao Mingran would have wanted to peel off her flesh.
A few seconds seemed so long. She lay back down, channeling her mental energy into the cryostat's machinery. The exposed gears creaked and sizzled under the strain.
Xiao Mingran's eyes were calm, without any reluctance or fear, only anticipation.
"I will counter-invade and erase the effects of your interference." She squinted slightly, her gaze sweeping across, stopping at Yan Xunzhi, "Take me away."
She smiled, "Just like I took Xuyan away."
Yan Xunzhi had a meal.
Kong Wei pushed her back a bit, and her shoulder blocked her in front again, "It's okay, I'll do it."
The spiritual power flooded her body again, and she did not continue to struggle and destroy, but sank silently as if drowning.
Yan Xunzhi felt a strange and sharp pain, which then spread out like ripples on water and became gentle again.
Kong Wei will kill her spirit body and then devour her mental power.
The federation completely prohibits this, and at least as far as Yan Xunzhi knows, no one has ever done such a thing.
It’s like the dungeon is extremely barren, and most of the sentinels will never get a bite of meat in their lifetime, but the Federation will never allow cannibalism.
Not to mention that it is against human ethics, if it is allowed to continue, the underground will kill each other, and the consequences will be unimaginable.
The spirit body envelops a person's consciousness, and the biological instinct is survival. Eating a chicken doesn't make it crow like a rooster, nor does eating a duck suddenly teach you to swim. Devouring it doesn't necessarily grant you its abilities, but the damage caused by the spirit's struggle is real.
Xu Yan can counter-invade the worm. If Xiao Mingran is strong enough, it is possible that Kong Wei will be counter-invaded by her when he devours her.
Kong Wei just...
Yan Xunzhi suddenly understood the significance of his visit today.
She is not only Kong Wei's storage warehouse, but also her adapter.
Her degree of alienation or ability is not as good as Xiao Mingran's. The healing method allows her to temporarily control it, but as Xiao Mingran said, she has not lost yet.
She was willing to be devoured by Kong Wei.
First, her ability has enabled her to survive without a physical body, and second, after she was swallowed by Kong Wei, Kong Wei became her new carrier. Kong Wei, at least for the time being, cannot completely take her for himself.
But...it seems like she can.
Kong Wei became the one holding the knife, and she was the knife. Even though she was a very blunt knife, without her, Kong Wei would not be able to kill Xiao Mingran.
They were connected, sharing images and mental energy. Within this range, Kong Wei transferred the Xiao Mingran she had cut off and made it a part of herself.
【Author’s words】
Pickled Fish: I suddenly realized that I am just a tool!
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