Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 177 Bloody Battle in the Abyss

After returning to his residence, Song Shi took off his clothes, took a shower, and then slowly sat down on the sofa.

He suffered some minor injuries while killing the "Anfu Axeman", but for Song Shi, the mixture of blood, oil and other things all over his body was more uncomfortable than these minor injuries.

After setting up the data tablet, Song Shi casually opened a can of soft drink and looked at the tablet: "Hey, hey, what's up?"

"Have you had contact with the people from Zero Degree Network today?"

A scribbled stick figure expression popped up. It was clearly a question, but Lapis Lazuli's steady voice sounded affirmative.

"That's it."

Song Shi took a sip of his drink and said casually, "I could feel someone watching me at the time, but I couldn't determine who it was. You were there?"

Regarding tonight's operation, he revealed some information to the other party, and both sides believed that [Zero Degree Network] would not be absent.

For the Zero Network, a wandering "intelligent machine", especially one who is suspected to be an eyewitness of the "Freedom Revolution", is undoubtedly a valuable asset. In this case, the other party actually took such a big risk and approached the battlefield?

"Providing timely support to companions is the basic responsibility of an alliance." Lapis Lazuli remained calm.

Song Shi raised his eyebrows, looked at the other party for a few seconds, and then his tone gradually became lazy: "Okay, thank you for your support."

Then, he asked with interest: "So, what do you think?"

Lapis Lazuli paused for a moment, and instead of answering the question, he asked, "Song Shi, what do you think of 'Lapis Lazuli'?"

"Very good, really good."

Song Shi concluded, praising him generously: "Although it may be a bit unfair to say this, Shanxing is not as good as you. It's not even a simple technical gap, but something more material, about thinking, intuition, and perspective."

Lapis Lazuli's expression was trembling, as if he was a little surprised: "With your ability in the Internet domain..." He paused and changed to a more euphemistic wording: ".The ability that can be expected in the future, how did you come to this conclusion?"

Song Shi said seriously: "It's an innate talent."

Lapis Lazuli said nothing, but put on a smiling expression.

Seeing this, Song Shi laughed: "You continue."

This is certainly not a talent. At least in terms of network technology, he really has no talent. It's just that he met too many experts in this field in his previous life, even "Abyss Lords", so at least he has some vision.

Lapis Lazuli obviously had no intention of investigating further.

"——I can say that I am far from the real 'Lapis Lazuli' now."

Soon, its tone became serious and solemn: "But as long as I complete one thing, I will be able to recover and my abilities will be greatly improved."

"In return." Without waiting for the other party to speak, Lapis Lazuli said in a deep voice: "As long as it is completed, I can serve you for a year."

Song Shi propped up his chin with one hand: "Go on."

Lapis Lazuli was silent for a moment, then spoke slowly.

".Song Shi."

"You don't have a prosthesis implanted, so you are not afraid of remote hacking attacks against the prosthesis - but you still need a sufficiently powerful 'cyber countermeasure'."

"In reality, the Internet is everywhere. If we use your customary name, the Internet is the 'Heavenly Way' that now covers the four corners of the sky and represents the meaning of all things. Intelligence search, remote support, equipment control, tactical strategy formulation... all of these need to be achieved through the Internet."

"Destroying a heavily guarded military base will take a lot of time and effort, even for you. But as long as I am here after my recovery, I can greatly reduce your costs - hack into the protection system in advance, retrieve the defense plan, and usurp their equipment and prostheses." Song Shi nodded slightly: "Then?"

".Abyss." said Lapis Lazuli.

"Song Shi, your psychic power is strong enough, but you cannot survive in the Abyss relying solely on psychic power. Without sufficient technical support, those wandering intelligences, malicious programs, and memetic viruses will be in danger even for you."

"But with my assistance, none of this will matter. I can make sure you get down to depth 4."

Song Shi changed his posture: "It sounds good, but I am not a 'demon', just a pure 'psychic'. What's the point of diving into the abyss for me?"

"Of course it makes sense."

Lapis Lazuli's voice was steady, and his expression on the tablet was serious.

"Your enemies have a zero-degree network, and you will definitely face the 'Demon' in the future. Simply killing their remote doubles in reality will not completely kill them. This can only be achieved in the [Abyss]."

"As for your other enemies, I can also help you lock them online. When they log into the virtual network, I can hack into the firewall and drag them into the Abyss to kill them. Or I can conduct a memory search and confirm the information."

"——Also, you should know that as long as you defeat those 'derivatives' in the [Abyss], you can quickly increase your psychic power."

Song Shi snapped his fingers, as if he had already guessed what the other party wanted to say: "Blood battle in the abyss."

Since the birth of the miraculous creation of the "Internet", under the long-term use of human beings, the psychic power derived from the subconscious mind, along with almost endless information and emotions, has been mobilized, transforming the original network into a "redundant psychic energy aggregate" - which is now the "Abyss".

In other words, the environment of the Abyss is worse than before.

Because of the creation of the giant wonder, the [Domain Firewall], various forces divided the clean part and piled up the heavily polluted part, just like the creation of the world in mythology, with clear air floating up and turbid air sinking.

This division results in the "Pure Domain" above the domain firewall and the "Fallen Domain (Abyss)" below it.

Under such circumstances, the [Abyss] has become a pure garbage dump since its establishment.

It is named after the mythical "abyss", which means an inhuman place filled with sulfur vapor and never-extinguished magma.

After so many years of autonomous evolution, redundant psychic energy, negative emotions, memetic viruses, malicious programs and other things have been mixed together to create a special individual - now they are called "derivatives".

In a sense, "derivatives" are the original creatures bred by the Abyss.

——And killing these “derivatives” can increase your spiritual energy!

To be more precise, after killing the "derivative", the killer can devour the psychic energy contained in the latter and transform it into his own power.

This is in addition to the underlying rule called "constant weight of all things ()" that gives weight to everything, causing information such as technological blueprints that sink into the abyss to be scattered in different depth layers according to their own importance and technological content.

Another underlying rule of [Abyss].

"Survival of the fittest".

If you kill it, you will seize its power until you kill it again next time, or you are killed yourself.

Under the influence of this rule, there is a repetitive, endless fighting in the [Abyss]. As the depth continues to increase, the fighting will become more brutal and noisy.

Therefore, some people also call it.
Bloody battle in the abyss.

(End of this chapter)