Chapter 141 Who Will Proclaim the Way (Part Twelve) However, however...
Even though he had become such a grotesque figure, it was hard to say whether his supernatural abilities were still there, but Bian Shaoyan insisted that he had sensed the aura of the thing he was looking for here.
However, upon arriving here, Shi Liuyi and his team were not greeted with the joy of mission completion, but rather with a relentless cycle of deadly danger.
Bombs, monsters, snipers from above—the cycles in this space are completely unpredictable, making it impossible to defend against. The few things Shi Liuyi could figure out were the increasingly shorter intervals between cycles and the despair of his dwindling team size.
"Bang bang bang bang bang bang!"
His injuries had not yet fully healed. Shi Liuyi pulled out the gun hanging at his waist, aimed it at Bian Shaoyan's head, and fired a series of shots.
Given Bian Shaoyan's narrow-mindedness, Shi Liuyi would rather believe in the odds of winning the lottery than believe that Bian Shaoyan would repay him after leaving the eroded space.
Since he was going to die anyway, he wanted to kill Bian Shaoyan before he died, both to avenge his teammates and to vent his own anger.
"Our relationship doesn't need to be this strained, does it?"
Realizing that Shi Liuyi was serious, Bian Shaoyan's voice no longer held the confidence he had when he was tempted by offers.
While dodging bullets in a disheveled manner, he made more promises in an attempt to persuade Shi Liuyi.
"As long as we successfully find that seed, I guarantee you'll be able to move from District 3 to the Upper District immediately. I don't need to elaborate on the benefits of the Upper District, do I? As an A-level ability user, you've been stuck at the G3 level in the Security Bureau for a long time. Don't you feel frustrated? I can smooth things over for you with the Security Bureau. I can even make you the most competitive candidate for the next Security Bureau Chief after that old woman Christina passes away..."
"You are not allowed to insult the chief!"
Hearing Bian Shaoyan's "sincere" persuasion, Shi Liuyi not only didn't appreciate it, but his anger intensified, and he angrily interrupted Bian Shaoyan.
During their exploration of the gray fog-eroded area, the sheriff's squad's ammunition consumption far exceeded expectations. Even Shi Liuyi, the team leader, ran out of bullets in his pistol after several rounds of firing.
Shi Liuyi gritted his teeth and threw away the gun, pulled out the dagger stuck in the side of his boot, and ignoring the fact that this action caused his barely healed wound to reopen, he stabbed at Bian Shaoyan with a ferocious expression.
Damn it.
Bian Shaoyan cursed inwardly. He finally understood why Gu Liuyi was disliked among the sheriffs. He was actually on Christina's side—a complete idiot.
Christina is highly capable and adept at building a reputation. Logically, having served as the head of the police department for so long, she should have a group of loyal followers under her command.
But this woman had always been harsh on herself. Those who followed her seemed to have been brainwashed; those other sheriffs were unwilling to take on, or couldn't handle for years, all rushed to do, as if they'd fallen in love with the dirty and tiring work. Thanks to them, for a time, even the security in that stinking ditch in the lower district improved considerably.
Of course, it turned out that all of this was in vain.
The faster you rush, the faster you die; the more you do, the more mistakes you make. This is the most popular proverb among sheriffs.
Driven by other forces, whether intentionally or unintentionally, within a few years, most of Christina's faction of sheriffs were killed.
After that, she seemed to realize something herself, and stopped personally training sheriffs. Instead, she took the lead herself, leaving other forces to arrange manpower in the police department.
Bian Shaoyan never imagined that he had simply picked the strongest but unlucky guy, and yet he was so "lucky" as to draw the extremely rare pro-Christina faction among the sheriffs.
Seeing that reasoning with this person was futile, Bian Shaoyan's face darkened, his brows furrowed, and a fierce glint appeared in his eyes.
He, Bian Shaoyan, was naturally not a good-tempered person. The reason he had been able to patiently coax Shi Liuyi for so long was simply because he saw that Shi Liuyi's qualities were very useful here.
But even if someone is useful, they should be willing to use them for your own benefit.
Since he won't listen to reason, he'll have to suffer the consequences... Considering he'd just used his skill again, a faint killing intent rose in Young Master Bian's heart. Let him go to hell and reunite with his teammates!
Even after transforming into this grotesque form, he could still use his previous abilities, but the android's body was not highly compatible with his powers. Even with the gray crystal as a buffer, every time he created a mental energy fluctuation, it would strongly stimulate the android's nerves, causing intense phantom pain.
Even though androids are not fully developed mentally, they still experience physical pain. If their abilities are used frequently, an android's shelf life is only six months. This is why, although the City of the Sun has achieved "mass production of ability users" to some extent, it still prefers to hire naturally awakened individuals.
After all, the latter is cheaper and easier to use, and doesn't require the latest technology.
Bian Shaoyan naturally didn't use ordinary android materials. As a natural ability awakener, his brain nerve activity was three to six times that of android nerves. However, this could only alleviate, not eliminate, the pain when activating his ability.
Whenever he activates his superpower, his mental energy flows through his body, and wherever it reaches, it feels like being scraped by a knife. It's no exaggeration to say that every time Bian Shaoyan uses his superpower now, it's equivalent to experiencing a slow, agonizing death.
Furthermore, his surgeon told him that although his body was constructed using top-tier materials, it was still somewhat insufficient to support an A-level superpower. Bian Shaoyan had to strictly control the frequency of his superpower use.
If Bian Shaoyan uses his superpowers too frequently, damaging his expensive body is a minor issue; the most serious consequence is that it will cause irreversible damage to his brain nerves.
It can be said that nowadays, every time Bian Shaoyan uses his superpower, he not only has to endure excruciating pain, but also bear the risk of shortening his lifespan.
With so many negative effects, and having just been forced to use his superpower again in order to escape, how could he not hate Shi Liuyi?
Of course, although the limitations in terms of superpowers are very great, Bian Shaoyan spent almost most of his fortune to create this body, so it is definitely not just a pretty shell.
"Oh."
With his eyes closed and a sneer, Bian Shaoyan slowly turned his head left and right. Green, viscous liquid slowly seeped from the gap that Shi Liuyi had pinched on his semi-transparent crystal-shaped neck.
The liquid acted like glue, tightly adhering to the gaps. The crystals, like living things, began to grow under the binding of the green liquid, and some small cracks were healed in an instant.
From a distance, slender green lines wrapped around the surface of the transparent crystal, like a vine growing from Bian Shaoyan's neck, creating an indescribably eerie scene.
Shi Liuyi was suddenly startled. His mind, which had been consumed by anger, cooled down.
Even though his opponent had become such a wretched sight, he would never underestimate his opponent in battle.
After all, as a sheriff who had been fighting on the front lines for many years, Shi Liuyi had witnessed firsthand how extraordinary the combat power of Quark's androids was.
"Bang."
A sharp sound suddenly rang in his ear. Shi Liuyi's pupils contracted. Without time to think, he subconsciously conjured a shield, stretching it out to protect his vital organs.
This instinctive movement, honed through years of life-or-death struggles, saved his life.
"Pfft... How... how is this possible?"
Shi Liuyi's eyes widened in disbelief as he stared intently at Bian Shaoyan, his gaze revealing a mixture of anger and fear.
To be able to carry out a mission and return alive in the perilous gray fog, even when colleagues don't like you, requires either exceptional survival skills or exceptional combat abilities.
A prime example of the latter is Christina, the head of the Security Bureau. With her unparalleled strength and sense of justice, she carved a bloody path through a world filled with enemies, forcing even her adversaries to acknowledge that she truly deserved the title of the first leader of the City of the Sun.
Although Shi Liuyi is a supporter of Christina, he takes a path that prioritizes defense.
His special ability, Overload Refraction, allows him to deflect attacks that exceed the limits of human endurance into the depths of the spirit world. These attacks can be stored in some way to strengthen the thickness of his "shield" until he decides to detonate the energy to attack his opponent.
Although the conditions for converting attacks into energy are tricky, strictly speaking, Shi Liuyi's trait [Overload Refraction] is indeed a powerful ability that combines offense and defense.
Coincidentally, he used overload refraction multiple times in this distorted space, and these attacks were all converted into energy and stored.
It can be said that, disregarding the wear and tear on his equipment, Shi Liuyi's combat strength has increased rather than decreased after fighting in the eroded space for so long. This is one of the reasons why he dares to break ties with Bian Shaoyan.
But he didn't expect that his strongest defense, the barrier that the director said could even withstand an attack from an evil god once, would be broken by Bian Shaoyan in one strike.
The hastily elongated "shield" had a strange shape, with several inconspicuous green beads embedded in it, constantly rotating forward and stretching the thin shield even longer—until it "poofed" through the shield and Shi Liuyi's body, shooting into the distance.
Without the shield erected by [Overload Refraction], his body would probably have been torn to pieces the moment that green bead touched him!
Shi Liuyi clutched his wound, his eyes filled with deep fear, while Bian Shaoyan's eyes also flashed with astonishment, followed by a fury that seemed to want to tear the whole world apart!
The attack just now had taken a toll on him. Under the semi-transparent cover of his clothes and gloves, the level of the churning green liquid inside Bian Shaoyan's body had dropped slightly.
Behind that assassination that destroyed everything, there must have been the instruction of some hidden deity. Therefore, when Bian Shaoyan customized this android body, his requirement was that it should possess the power to "break through the limits of the human body" under overload conditions.
Pushing the limits of the human body is, of course, a taboo in the City of the Sun. His former fiancée, Gu Tu's sister Gu Xi, died on the operating table because of this.
But Bian Shaoyan had no worries. He had already become like this, destined to be further and further away from being a candidate for the Ascension Project. Everything was ruined. Even if the experiment failed, how much worse could the situation be?
Whether to call him lucky or unlucky, the experiment was a success.
Combined with the complete nervous system of a top-tier superhuman, and high-purity gray crystal, the two actually managed to create a body capable of unleashing power beyond the limits of the human body.
Compared to its achievements, issues like its unpredictable personality influenced by energy, its lifespan of only three years, and its high maintenance costs are insignificant.
However... however.
How could this fool with no resources or background possibly withstand my attack?
Then what about his sacrifice? A joke?
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Author's Note: I spent the May Day holiday shopping with Mingming, so I didn't have time to post this first draft. Please wait until I've revised it before reading it.
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