Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 163 Lapis Lazuli

"you"

The captain barely stood up, like a fish lying in a mud pit due to lack of water, he opened his mouth weakly and looked very miserable.

Then, the moment he opened his mouth to attract the other party's attention, while still maintaining this miserable appearance, an inch of light burst out from the palm of his hand wrapped in the exoskeleton, and the whole person suddenly rushed forward!
——A folding dagger with a built-in power air pump!

In the face of this thorn, an ordinary cement wall is no stronger than a block of tofu.

But Song Shi's expression remained unchanged.

He simply shifted his center of gravity slightly to avoid the first stab, and then grabbed the exoskeleton's forearm with his five fingers from top to bottom.

The flame came as the heart desired, instantly burning out a few mottled cracks, and then poured in along the cracks. However, in the blink of an eye, the entire forearm turned into a large piece of floating ash like a sand castle eroded by the wind.

Seeing that the final attack failed, the captain's eyes showed despair. He staggered back a few steps and collapsed to his knees.

But even at this moment, he remained silent.

Even among giant companies, Zero Degree Network is the one that attaches the most importance to "information", even to an almost pathological degree. Employees need to undergo "memory review" regularly to determine whether they have violated confidentiality regulations.

——So is he.

In fact, as a member of the deep-sea diving force responsible for [Abyss] salvage and cyber information warfare, the confidentiality regulations he signed were more stringent than those of ordinary employees.

If you leak company information now and it is discovered in the future, your family will face extremely high compensation, become homeless overnight, or even lose your citizenship and become a living asset of the company.

“——Whatever.”

As the man subconsciously raised his head and stared in astonishment, the young man in front of him actually withdrew his hand, nodded slightly, and said calmly: "Anything else you want to say?"

The man was stunned for a while, and finally understood something. He uttered two words with difficulty: "Thank you."

The opponent's psychic fire that turned people into ashes destroyed the exoskeleton and brought great pain. Even if he adjusted his sensory parameters in time, it was still quite uncomfortable.

With this psychic skill, even if he is not a professional interrogator, he can easily think of several ways to torture people -

Song Shi nodded again.

He turned and left, with flames surging out from behind him, completely engulfing the other person.

"I thought you wouldn't..." On the other side, the man in beach pants considered his words as he looked at the young man walking slowly towards him: ".So straightforward."

"Zero Network must have set up things like 'Secrecy Threshold Orders' and 'Memory Shackles' for them. He couldn't tell me any valuable information."

"Also, the dead are the greatest - I have always been tolerant of the dead."

Song Shi stared at the man.

Almost in the blink of an eye, he had approached the latter, tightly grasped the other's neck with one hand, and slowly lifted it up.

"Uh ah. Uh."

The man struggled desperately, and his voice was hoarse: "Wait - you are going to kill me."

"Why are you messing with me? We have no grudge against each other!"

"——The 'consciousness' of this deep-diving team did not successfully surface and return to their real bodies."

Song Shi said in a cold tone: "My psychic skills do not target 'consciousness', so it is you who is doing the blocking."

There was one more thing he didn't say, which was that he didn't know much about the technology in this area.

"No. Can you blame me for this?" The man raised his voice as much as he could: "They wanted to kill us two! Is self-defense wrong?!"

"This is where the problem lies."

Song Shi raised his eyes: "Their deaths have nothing to do with me, and there is no reason for them not to die - but the 'two' you mentioned?"

"It's my bad! I'm sorry! I can pay for it!"

The man slid to his knees in an instant: "I don't want you to get involved! But in that emergency situation just now, I really couldn't do anything! You can see it! It was purely accidental!"

"No, that's not right." Song Shi shook his head: "This is not a 'coincidence', you chose me from the beginning."

"There were eight people near you on the street at that time, but I was the only one who could kill all of the deep dive team and solve your dilemma, so you bumped into me."

"[Second Ring Psychic Power] ensures that there is enough power, [Anti-Corporate Stance] ensures that I will not defect to the company and will stand on my side."

"You know I'm 'Song Shi'."

Song Shi's voice became colder and colder: "——I didn't expect that someone could see through the anonymous protection of Qianxing City and directly see through the identity of others!"

"What.thing?" The man's voice sounded extremely shocked, and he shouted: "Let's not talk about whether I have the ability to do these, but you make a judgment based on these two alone. This is totally unreasonable! Is this considered evidence?!"

"Yes, this is very incomplete logic."

Unexpectedly, Song Shi admitted it without hesitation.

Then, he said word by word: "But my intuition tells me that my judgment is correct."

——This is also illogical.

But after hearing these illogical words, the man stopped struggling. He seemed to be simply silent, or as if he was thinking about something.

But Song Shi did not stop.

tumultuous!
From between the clenched fingers, red-gold flames gushed out and enveloped the man.

But unlike the previous "devouring" of the deep diving team, these flames spread out into thin tongues of fire that "licked" the men's bodies.

Just like a candle melting under the heat, under the licking of these flames, the short-sleeved shirt and beach pants burned up, and the man's body began to gradually dissolve, revealing his true inner appearance - his lower body was empty!

No, to be more precise, the man's body below his neck was empty.

All that was left was a skull with the surface skin peeled off and a dark metallic color.

Two strands of green light flickered in the empty pupils of the head.

"--Tell me your identity."

Song Shi said.

Feeling the undisguised murderous intent, the head's upper and lower teeth opened and closed with a click, and uttered a word: ".Lapis Lazuli."

lapis lazuli?
Song Shi searched his memory and confirmed that he had never heard of this name - either in his previous life or now.

Aliases?

But looking at the head in his hand, Song Shi had no impression of this appearance.

One's own psychic flame burns the opponent's body. In theory, this is the opponent's "true appearance" in the [Abyss].

".Omnic?"

"Yes."

"Meeting me is a plan?"

"accidental."

"Why did Zero Degree Network come to you? Well, I asked a stupid question."

"really."

"Participants in the Liberal Revolution?"

silence.

"Are there any other accomplices?"

silence.

"How did you see through the anonymous protection of Thousand Star City?"

"Technology. You don't understand the principle."

Silence, this time it was Song Shi.

"alright."

The next moment, the murderous intent that had originally been revealed suddenly disappeared, as if it had never existed, as if it had been an illusion.

"Lapis Lazuli, let's call it that for now."

Song Shi completely let go of his hand, slowly put the other person on the ground, and squatted down himself.

He said briskly.

"Since none of you are good citizens, are you interested in causing some trouble for the company together?"

(End of this chapter)