Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 70 Let Palose Burn to Ashes

The bright red liquid slowly seeped into the crystal powder, and strands of crimson threads spread and penetrated through the cracks, making it difficult to distinguish which part was blood and which part was the powder made from the ground ruby.

[You have a new communication from: Jackal——]

"It's not even six o'clock yet. Are you up so early? Good morning, Jackal. This is Nandou."

"What are you doing?"

"Ah...make some genetically modified cereal for breakfast."

Song Shi answered while stirring the mixture in the beaker with a wooden stick.

"Last night's mission failed?"

The jackal's voice was emotionless.

"Yes, the situation was quite complicated at the time, and I made a mistake. I will return the deposit later."

".The employer is very angry now."

"All I can say is, I'm sorry."

Song Shi stared at the beaker, confirming the degree of stirring, and said sincerely: "But there is nothing I can do. I am limited in my ability. Sorry."

"I see."

The Jackal paused and said, "You don't need to pay a deposit. I don't have a policy of refunding deposits here. But considering this failure, Nandou, I will increase my commission by five points for your next mission."

"No problem, of course."

Song Shi said: "Remember to apologize to your employer on my behalf. I am really sorry."

The two quickly hung up the phone.

"Emerald Pharmaceuticals. Maybe someone is targeting me again."

Song Shi talked to himself.

The "Carmen" incident last night was obviously directed by Emerald Pharmaceuticals, who were planning to lure out someone - combined with what "Carmen" said, their initial target was not even the [Enlightener].

Initial goal.
Competing companies like [Ksim Bio-Integrated Security]? Or some anti-corporate forces or individuals?
Song Shi tends to agree with the second view.

As for "Carmen" finding him through the jackal, it is not impossible, but at least it is unlikely in the short term. As a middleman, leaking the information of both parties in the transaction is a taboo in the industry.

What's more, Jackal is one of the most famous middlemen in the Deep Moss Region. With his wealth and status, even if he faces Emerald Pharmaceuticals -

You have to sit for a while before kneeling down.

"Yeah, just right."

Song Shi put these thoughts aside for the time being and turned to look at the beaker.

The mixture of his own blood and ruby ​​powder quickly boiled under the heat of the welding torch, emitting a series of gurgling bubbles.

Song Shi picked up the beaker and drank it in one gulp.

Taking rubies, agates, etc. and one's own blood every day is one of the prerequisites for reaching the second level of the psychic skill, [Burning Blood].

But that's not the point.

The most critical prerequisite for obtaining [Burning Blood] is to accomplish the task of "staying true to one's heart and defeating the strong with the weak".

As for the standard of "using the weak to defeat the strong", this is determined by the [Dayuan] Dao.

This brings us to the topic of how to acquire psychic skills.

Simply put, there are two ways for a psychic to acquire psychic skills: one is "the way" and the other is "other".

The "Tao" nourishes the "Psychics", and the "Psychics" promote the "Tao".

Whenever a psyker dies, he will turn into a star and ascend into his own path, becoming a part of the path - so in theory, the path carries all the mysteries of psykers of all generations.

Of course, this also includes "psychic skills".

Even if this "psychic skill" was created by a psychic, after his death, this "psychic skill" will become a part of the Tao. Even if the former is not passed down, it may still reappear in the future.

The most common way to acquire psychic skills from the Tao is through "ritual".

[Taoism] makes the monopoly of psychic skills meaningless, so the real monopoly of the major psychic nobles, organizations, and countries is "ritual". Even if someone occasionally obtains their secret psychic skills through Taoism, the uniqueness of the inheritance is still ensured as a whole.

【Tao Path】 is the first way.

The second method, "other", is easy to understand.
Direct initiation by high-level psychics, inheritance of certain psychic treasures, sealing "psychic skills" in certain entities through special methods for inheritance, practicing step by step according to various secrets, and self-research and development by psychics. These are all considered "others", and seriously speaking, there are quite a lot of types.

"Don't go against your heart, use the weak to defeat the strong." Song Shi recited.

"Using the weak to defeat the strong" is a not uncommon ritual element, and it refers to many psionic skills.

The "desperate situation" of "transcendence", the "unyielding determination" of "consensus", and the "eternal existence" of "truth".
The prerequisites for each of the above rituals are not exactly the same, but the most critical element is "using the weak to defeat the strong."

——How did I obtain the "Burning Blood" in my previous life?
Song Shi thought.

At that time, I was very interested in the country [Yenan] located on the other side of the world, which was established by the exiles brought by the former "Seven Lands War".

So half a year after entering the second ring, I planned to leave the [Pan-Eastern Continent Federation] and go there to take a look.

just.

As a free bounty hunter, something went wrong during a mission to assassinate a gang leader, and he was forced to switch from "assassination" to "assault". The situation was very chaotic, which led to a fierce battle and exchange of fire. Although he successfully killed the leader, he also killed a "person who should not be killed".

——The offspring of a large local family.

The guy had come to discuss something with the leader, but he accidentally died on the spot - he only found out afterwards that this once-powerful gangster in the local area was actually supported by the other party's family, acting as a hunting dog in the dark.

Shortly after he left the city, a group of mercenaries hired by the family blocked him in the wasteland.

Song Shi has recalled the scene at that time more than once.

The dark sky that seems to swallow people, the horizon that seems to have no end, the rolling sandstorm in the sky, and the suffocating and stuffy air pressure.

He lay in a crevice, pressing down on the bleeding wound, gasping for breath - those mercenaries were already elite, and they were armed with a large number of restricted military equipment specially provided by this family, which almost cost him his life on the spot.

But I still survived.

Song Shixin thought.

Blood, gunfire, psionic power, roar, guerrilla warfare, hunting and counter-hunting.

After thirteen days of fighting between the two sides in the wasteland, he finally won and killed the last mercenary.

What happened later was not so clear.

I only remember that I returned to the city and spent a whole month and a half gradually eroding the power of this big family. There were several dangerous situations during this period, but I managed to survive them all.

Until finally, on a rainy night, he dragged the family patriarch, who was also the mayor of the city, out of the safe house and hanged him on the clock tower in the city center.

When the rain that lasted all night stopped.

He was surprised to find that Daotu had gained a psychic skill called [Burning Blood].

It was not until the third ring that I learned from somewhere else that "using the weak to defeat the strong" was one of the most critical prerequisites for the ceremony of obtaining [Burning Blood].

“So, it’s really regrettable.”

Song Shi stretched out his right hand and slowly stared at the palm of his hand.

I accomplished "using the weak to defeat the strong", but due to my ignorance, I did not complete other prerequisites for the ritual - they are indeed not the key, but they do affect [Burning Blood] to a certain extent.

This results in that among psychics who possess this psychic skill, his [Burning Blood] can only be considered to be of medium level.

Do you plan to keep this regret after being reborn?

But this time, how can I achieve the goal of “using the weak to defeat the strong”?

Staring at the texture on his palm, Song Shi suddenly laughed.

He turned his head, and his sight seemed to penetrate the wall, through the dilapidated buildings of varying heights that overlapped like a honeycomb in the deep moss area, and fell into the tallest building in the entire Palose, covered by an artificial sky.

On the huge paint on the exterior wall of the building, broken white porcelain hands stood up silently, and pieces of jade turned into olive leaves, intertwined into rings, circling around.

This is one of the "gods" of the Corporate Alliance, the mortal temple cast in Palose.

It stood in the past, it stands now, and it will always stand.

"really……"

"How could there be a better choice than this?"

Song Shi closed his eyes, then slowly opened them. Red-gold molten fire flowed in his pupils, and a smile from the bottom of his heart appeared on his face.

"Next."

Song Shi walked to the window and pulled open the curtain. The sun at the end of his field of vision had just risen from the horizon, and it would still be some time before dawn.

"——It's time to burn Palose to ashes."

(End of this chapter)