Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 18 The History of Palose (Part )

Tom laughed immediately.

Then he continued speaking, but in a straightforward manner.

In addition to the "old industrial area explosion", there have been two major events in Palose in recent years.

The first one was five years ago.

A mineral vein was accidentally discovered on the outskirts of Palose. It is a rare mineral used in the manufacture of precision instruments and various engineering scenarios, and is very valuable.

Therefore, at the instruction of Jade Pharmaceuticals, the local coalition government began to bid -

After several rounds of bidding, the giant company [Nan Yu Heavy Industry] had already obtained the development rights and was about to start building the mine when another giant company [Time Pass] suddenly intervened.

While putting pressure on the local coalition government to postpone the announcement of the bidding results, they also brazenly deployed a group of armed units to severely damage the branch of Southern Heavy Industries in Palose.

Because of past competition and history, the two giant companies have long-standing grudges, and this may even be just a simple revenge.

Of course, Nanyu Heavy Industry would not give up. It urgently dispatched a group of armed forces to Palose. Even before it officially entered the city, it fought a battle with the ambush troops of Time Sequence in the wasteland.

Immediately after entering the city.

The two families started a formal exchange of fire, from the suburbs to the city, and from the city to the suburbs. Street after street was razed to the ground. Various vicious network viruses proliferated and were released wantonly. Terrifying thermal energy weapons easily burned down buildings. Groups of drones took off, bombarding indiscriminately under the command of the intelligent control network, and even fully armed upper-level psychics joined the battle.

In those days, except for the Central Hall of the ruling center and the Baimen District where the rich gathered, the rest of the city often experienced network collapse, water and electricity outages, and various shells fell from time to time, burning themselves, their homes and the surroundings to ashes.

It is said.

Just said.

When Nanyu Heavy Industry was about to use a low-dose "gravitational collapse bomb" to directly secure victory, Jade Pharmaceuticals finally couldn't bear it anymore and stepped forward to mediate.

The process of mediation is unknown.

In short, the final result was that Nanyu Heavy Industry obtained the right to develop the mineral vein, while Shixu Tongxing took a large amount of attendance fees funded by the local coalition government and withdrew from Palose, announcing the end of this "small company war".

When talking about this, Tom's tone was still filled with fear.

Even he himself could not tell whether he was acting like this deliberately to gain sympathy and show weakness, or whether it was truly out of fear in his heart.

“Corporate Wars.”

Song Shi pondered for a moment.

As a native Palose, Song Shi had experienced those days just like Tom, so he had memories of them.

However, at that time, the original body spent most of his time hiding in welfare homes and air-raid shelters and rarely went out - after all, he was only twelve or thirteen years old at the time, and he didn't have the pressure of attendance as a company employee, and he didn't have to go to work and punch in under the hail of bullets above his head.

He only learned about some more in-depth details, such as the "gravitational collapse bomb", from Tom now.

When the star itself cannot provide enough pressure to balance its own gravity, and thus can no longer maintain the original hydrostatic equilibrium, gravity causes the stellar matter to pull closer to each other and cause collapse.

When it collapses to its limit, there is a certain probability that a "black hole" will be formed.

This is the principle of the "gravitational collapse bomb", which is equivalent to creating a small black hole artificially. Even if this black hole will collapse in an instant, its destructive power is still terrifying before the gravity that swallows everything.

If it was a large-dose "gravitational collapse bomb" targeting a city, even Song Shi at the peak of his previous life would find it very difficult to deal with. He could run away, but he would definitely not be able to stop the collapse.

They were planning to use weapons of the "gravitational collapse bomb" level. At that time, Nanyu Heavy Industry must have been really angry. This thing had already gone beyond the scope of a "small company war". No wonder Jade Pharmaceuticals couldn't sit still and hurried out to mediate.

If it were really used, I'm afraid that half of Palose except the central hall and the white gate area would be affected, as for the people in it...

Maybe future plans can be delayed a little.

After I recover my strength, why not kill a director of Southern Region Heavy Industry first, and then head to the Vampsta Empire to fight as an elector for the second time?
Song Shi thought in his heart, and knocked on the table: "So, what's the other thing?"

Based on the original body's memory, Song Shi had some guesses about what this incident was, but he still wanted to hear the information from Tom's perspective.

"Um"

Tom thought for a moment, then chose his words carefully:

"I don't know, have you ever heard of 'The Enlightened One'?"

"Of course I've heard of it."

Song Shi laughed: "Who among us doesn't know about those guys who are always claiming to overthrow the "company order"?"

"But you want to talk about the Enlightened One."

“Do you mean ‘resistance organizations’ or ‘extremist armed terrorists’?”

Tom felt his heart skip a beat.

But then, before he could speak, Song Shi clapped his hands: "It's okay, just a joke, go on."

This is not funny at all.
Tom complained in his heart.

He didn't want to express his opinion casually and get involved in the fight between these two giants.

"A year ago, Emerald Pharmaceuticals severely damaged the power of the Enlightened One in Palose. At that time, the video of the arrest and execution of the Enlightened One was circulated everywhere on the Internet. If you search for it now, you should still be able to find it."

After thinking for a while, Tom added:

"I heard - just heard, that the heavy attack was planned and carried out personally by the security director of the local Jade Pharmaceuticals."

"That security director was transferred here from somewhere else two years ago. His methods are quite powerful and he is now well-known in Palose."

"Anyway, at least since last year, I haven't heard much about the actions of the Enlightened Ones in Palose. Perhaps the rumored "heavy blow" is true."

Three events.

The big explosion in the old industrial area thirteen years ago, the small company war five years ago, and the Jade Pharmaceuticals one year ago dealt a heavy blow to the local Enlightened Ones.

"Well"

Song Shi digested this information. He was not surprised by the failure of "The Enlightened One".

This is the largest resistance organization within the [Corporate Alliance] that is dedicated to overthrowing the "corporate order". He had dealt with them in his previous life and made a few friends there.

Fourteen years after this time point in the previous life, the Enlightened One broke into the Sky Tower Data Center of the giant company [Zero Degree Network] and seized control of the [Proposed Strong Artificial Intelligence Textile Machine]. In a shocking battle that shook the world, he even accepted the Enlightened One's employment and personally participated in it, and together they shot down an aerospace mothership of [Zero Degree Network].

--but.

Because of the actual gap in the control of resources, the Enlightened Ones are at a disadvantage most of the time in the overall situation.

Faced with practical problems such as equipment, personnel replenishment, logistics system, supply base, etc., the former can ultimately not compare with the corporate alliance with a huge scientific research and industrial system.

At the same time, there is another crucial point, that is, Enlightenment people have certain morals, while companies have no morals at all.

As for the strong.

There are indeed several masters among the Enlightened Ones, especially their leader of the previous generation. No, at this point in time, it should still be the current leader.

[Balance] Path, a psychic at the peak of the fifth ring, the strongest among the anti-corporate forces, and the undisputed current leader of the Enlightened.

——【The Rebel】·Chakoro.

Although Song Shi didn't want to admit the gap, but when he thought about what the other party had shown during their meetings in the previous life, he could only say that Chakolo fell at the peak of the fifth ring, while he died in battle at the peak of the fourth ring.

But this life.

That's hard to say.

If we put aside these memories and focus on the present,

The Enlightener and Emerald Pharmaceuticals, two forces stationed within Palosen, had faced off in their last confrontation, with the former losing.

In other words, does the company still have the upper hand in the current situation in Palose?

Now that I'm already confronting Emerald Pharmaceuticals, or rather, Emerald Pharmaceuticals' subordinate research institute, perhaps I can make contact with Palose's Enlightener?
Even without considering the influence of those friends from his previous life, he still had a good impression of the Enlightened One.

——After all, we can’t just go and stick to the corporate alliance, right?
As a free bounty hunter, in the battle to seize the "Proposed Strong Artificial Intelligence Textile Machine", Song Shi's employment offer to Enlightenment was a super friendly price, almost half sale and half gift - the latter also knew how to return the favor. After the battle, Chakoro personally came forward and privately gifted Song Shi a very rare psychic skill that was suitable for him.

While thinking in his mind, Song Shiming's expression remained unchanged.

"Well, Jack, my friend, that's all I know."

Tom tried to make his voice soft and looked at the person in front of him: "I don't know, are you satisfied?"

"Look at what you said. Friends should help each other. Why should we be satisfied or dissatisfied?"

Hearing this, Song Shi laughed, but soon put away his smile.

"I believe you are a psychic for two reasons."

Song Shi raised two fingers and shook them: "The first one is very simple, it's just intuition. You have too much of a consensus vibe. I had this feeling since you greeted me."

"Intuition? Taste?"

What kind of explanation is this?!
Tom was dumbfounded and couldn't help but wonder if this man was playing a trick on him.

"Intuition is intuition, or whatever you want to say. You can replace 'intuition' with 'experience', but it's the same thing."

Song Shi spread his hands and said, "I can't help you with this, but I can give you some advice on the second reason."

".Second, what is the reason?"

"The path of consensus is a spiritual path that goes deep into the spiritual world. Therefore, before the third ring, the "brain" is the absolute core. Most of the spiritual skills mastered at this stage also use the brain as the basis for release."

"So, for a mid- to low-level psychic on the path of consensus, the psychic power contained in his brain is much stronger than that in other parts of his body."

"This is determined by the actual situation and cannot be blamed."

"--but."

At this moment, Song Shi is like a teacher who teaches step by step, patiently explaining science to ignorant students.

"We are now a 'stand-in program'. We are in the Internet domain, not in reality."

Song Shi pointed at himself, then pointed at the other person, and emphasized:
"In this case, your psychic energy release doesn't need to be so dependent on your "brain" anymore, and you can do it more freely."

"But because of habit, or path dependence, your psychic energy is still subconsciously concentrated in your head, even though there is only your imaginary "brain". This is too obvious."

——Actually, there is one sentence that Song Shi didn’t say.

Although psychic energy can be sensed in the [Internet Domain], the difficulty is obviously much higher than in reality.

If it weren't for the intuition and experience brought by reaching the peak of the fourth ring in the previous life, how could an ordinary first-ring psychic see this? Even if Tom used psychic power in front of him, he might not be able to see it.

But there is no need to tell the other party.

"Is that so?"

Tom murmured in a low voice, as if in great shock.

He wanted to refute, but when he subconsciously used his psychic power, he realized that the other party was right.

"Learn to use your psychic powers as you wish within the network domain. This will reduce the possibility of your identity being exposed, and it will also be beneficial to your ability to control reality."

Looking at Tom who was lost in thought, Song Shi stood up.

Seeing this, Tom reacted and quickly stood up.

"This is a little trick, but it's up to you whether to use it or not."

After saying that, Song Shi pushed the door open and walked out, leaving Tom, who was still a little confused.

(End of this chapter)