Chapter 69: Mental Power Harvesting Completed
Chapter Sixty-Nine
She now had nowhere to retreat, watching the spiritual energy in the square tablet continuously decrease, the figures on the ground disappear one by one, and the black mist in the crystal coffin gradually grow stronger.
Lin Xia clenched her fists. She had nowhere to retreat. If the black mist absorbed all the spiritual power, no one knew what would happen.
She must save herself!
Lin Xia approached the nearest person, and her mental energy decisively transformed into a knife, slashing at the threads behind his head.
The silk thread broke as soon as it was cut, but before Lin Xia could be happy, new silk threads formed and extended.
Lin Xia looked at the place where all the threads converged, made a tough decision, rushed over and slashed down with her knife, but the threads were so close together that she could only cut off the top few.
Lin Xia changed positions and continued cutting the silk threads. The black mist in the crystal coffin grew at a slower rate, but the silk threads continued to form, and spiritual energy was constantly being transmitted.
Looking around, it was like a giant spider web. No matter how fast she was, she couldn't cut so many threads at the same time. Moreover, there were more and more people, almost everyone she had ever seen at the training base.
As people continued to disappear, Lin Xia didn't know whether they had gone back or died, but in this situation, the probability of them surviving was not high.
The silhouette of the crystal coffin is becoming more and more defined...
She knelt on the ground, panting heavily, when the person in front of her suddenly opened his eyes—it was Xu Yue!
Xu Yue's eyes widened, bloodshot, his lips cracked, and he stammered, "Kill me, kill me..."
Lin Xia blinked, a complex look flashing in her eyes, and slashed at Xu Yue's neck with her knife. Xu Yue's eyes flashed with relief and joy before he disappeared.
She dared not think too much. Life and death were no longer important. What mattered was that the thing in the crystal coffin absolutely could not take shape! Otherwise, everyone would die, and the people of this planet would have no hope left.
She wielded her spiritual energy longsword with unwavering determination and frenzy, sending countless flying knives darting across the arena and decapitations flying everywhere. Lin Xia bit her lip tightly, tears streaming down her face.
She recalled Xu Yue's proud, unyielding, and heartbroken gaze as he spoke of the sacrifices of their predecessors; she remembered the people training gruelingly on the field, sleeping only two or three hours a day, their eyes filled with hope for ending the disaster...
Even if much of it is fake, conveyed to them by parasites in their minds, their hopes and desires are real and beautiful.
But whether it's a nightmare, a beautiful dream, hope, or despair, it's all given by this unknown thing in front of me, which is truly incredibly cruel.
Lin Xia stood in the empty square, looking at the crystal coffin. Her calm demeanor turned restless, as if she had awakened. The black square behind her also seemed to be stirring.
Lin Xia slashed at the square tablet with his sword, but the tablet, which could store spiritual energy, shattered with just one blow, and the spiritual energy inside scattered in all directions.
"Human, you have angered me." A whisper came from the crystal coffin. The language was unknown, but Lin Xia understood it.
Many clusters of spiritual energy suddenly began to fly out automatically, heading towards the crystal coffin. Lin Xia didn't have time to think, and her spiritual energy began to frantically absorb the clusters of spiritual energy.
However, the spiritual energy cluster dissipated very quickly, and Lin Xia did not try to intercept it. She only stopped the spiritual energy cluster that was about to fly towards the crystal coffin.
The sudden increase in mental strength cleared Lin Xia's mind considerably. The black mist inside the crystal coffin roared, also absorbing mental strength.
Lin Xia's mental energy surged wildly, rapidly increasing. As the mental energy cluster disappeared quickly, Lin Xia suddenly realized that her mental energy could no longer absorb mental energy clusters.
Just then, the black mist inside the crystal coffin roared, and the scene before Lin Xia's eyes shattered into pieces.
She returned, but the pain all over her body made her feel like she was dying. She quickly exchanged all her survival points for physique and rushed to the body-tempering area.
She began cultivating the Starfire Body Tempering Technique without daring to stop for a moment, as the danger of her body collapsing made her dare not slack off in the slightest.
She quickly learned the next four moves under the threat of death. Although it took her more than two hours to learn all ten moves, her physique actually increased by 60 points.
But no matter how hard Lin Xia tried, she couldn't sense the generation of energy in the last two movements. She didn't dwell on it and continued to do the first ten movements in turn.
She dared not stop for a moment, but the energy consumption was huge. During the breaks between movements, she took out the nutrient solution provided by the training ground and drank it down one vial after another.
During this time, the entire training base was quiet, without a single sound.
Her physical condition improved rapidly. Once Lin Xia felt she wouldn't die any second later, she quickly collected some nutrient solution and left the training ground by elevator.
She moved incredibly fast and hid in a basement far from the training base. She checked the time; there was less than an hour left before the game ended.
[Constitution has reached 800, Strength +80, Speed +80. Keep up the good work!]
Even after hiding here, she still dared not relax, and kept circulating her body-strengthening technique. Suddenly, a loud noise came.
Lin Xia heard people talking.
What is that?
"It looks like a spaceship."
"Have we achieved another technological breakthrough?"
"It's hard to say. Does that mean we can leave here in a spaceship?"
"Really? Will I stop having nightmares if I leave?"
"Definitely not. Just revealing the spaceship like this, does it mean they're going to take us all away with them?"
"What is that? It's black, like a stone tablet."
"A sudden, somewhat ominous premonition..."
......
"Oh my god, Nun, where are you going? Nun, Nun, what's wrong? Don't scare your mother!"
"Xiao Qi, what are you doing? What's going on? What's wrong with these people?"
The sound of panic could be heard.
"They're all superhumans! What's wrong with them?"
"They went towards the square! What's going on? What's happening? Help me! Tie my daughter up!"
......
Lin Xia immediately stopped what she was doing and hid in the corner. It was the last minute; if she could just hold on, she could end the game and go back.
In a flash, Lin Xia suddenly remembered the perk of this game: as long as she didn't use her special abilities, she wouldn't be discovered.
She had always thought that she wouldn't be detected if she didn't use her special abilities, but after her mental power was exposed, she stopped thinking about it.
So, does it apply to this moment as well? Watching the superhumans crawl towards that direction even when they were pinned to the ground, Lin Xia tightened her mental focus even more.
Her return time was almost here. Lin Xia breathed a sigh of relief and saw many people running back with terrified expressions through the window, muttering to themselves.
"They're all dead, all dead! Run, run!"
"They seem to have sacrificed themselves; they're all kneeling there dead! Run!"
......
But before they could run back, they seemed to be manipulated and turned to walk back the way they came.
As the countdown ended, Lin Xia saw the spaceship and the black monument in the sky. If the game hadn't ended, she felt she might not have been able to resist the summoning pull. It was a pity that the spaceship couldn't be backed up.
In the game worlds she had experienced before, she always felt there was still a chance to struggle a little longer, and perhaps humanity could survive. But in this world, there seemed to be no hope; the enemy was invisible and intangible...
Congratulations on completing this game.
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