Absolute Gate

Chapter 64 Mental Power Users

After Wu Zhong and his group were out of Ai Luo's sight, they began to sneak underground.

Because the noise from the previous hypersonic car crash was so great, even if the people from 985 were misled by ghosts and spirits and went the wrong way, they should have arrived at the scene by now.

One kilometer underground, Yangchunsha was still performing magic, carving up the mountain and creating a road diagonally below.

The flowing rock and soil then piled up backward, filling the space behind.

With their path opening up and closing down, they are like walking through a 'cavity' deep within the rock strata of a mountain, constantly moving downwards and forwards, going further and deeper.

There were five of them in the cavity. Yang Chunsha led the way, followed closely by Wu Zhong carrying Jordan on his back, then Luo Yi, and finally Xia Heng.

Jordan, due to the severity of his injury, had already fallen into a coma.

"Ailuo has been caught!" Luo Yi stared blankly.

Although the group was moving underground, Luo Yi left his shadow on the ground for reconnaissance.

They have no better scouts here than Shadow.

Ever since parting ways with Airo, Luo Yi's shadow has been unknowingly following him.

"how many people?"

"They're here, they're here. There are three of them catching up, they should all be members of the 985 program."

Xia Heng pondered and said, "Three people per class is the minimum unit. It's impossible to send only one small class. There should be people in every direction. The entire mountain range has been sealed off."

"The fact that we only have three people in this direction actually shows that the main force of the 985 universities has followed the wrong direction..."

Luo Yi nodded in agreement: "That's right, Ai Luo should have realized who we are, but she pointed us in the wrong direction..."

Wu Zhong smiled and said, "Ailuo belongs to my End Clan. Whether or not that guy has discovered our identities, he wouldn't dare let us directly engage in battle with the main force of 985."

Xia Heng toyed with the pen in his hand: "There's one more thing, Ai Luo also wants to get his pen back in the future."

"If we are caught by 985, this pen will also fall into 985's control, and he will never be able to get it back."

Wu Zhong was taken aback: "Oh? He's already been arrested, how could he still escape?"

Xia Heng shrugged and said, "Mercenaries like him, unless they kill ordinary people, will only be imprisoned in a detention center."

"Because no matter who is captured, they will say that they have some kind of special characteristic. Although 985 will not believe it, people from the Disaster Realm will not be executed unless necessary."

"This is also why many mercenaries are willing to abide by the rules and not kill ordinary people, leaving themselves a way out."

Wu Zhong expressed his understanding: "When there's a gap of one in a three-way siege, people will only do things that are profitable."

"If people from the Otherworld are killed the moment they are caught, then they will become unscrupulous and do whatever it takes to increase their strength, without any bottom line."

Xia Heng nodded: "That's right. If you get caught, you'll usually be imprisoned for life. If you try to escape and have a strong enough background, you might be able to get a ransom."

"Redeem them?" Wu Zhong was astonished.

Xia Heng fiddled with the fountain pen and noticed that there wasn't much ink left.

He said, "Of course, as long as Airo reveals his identity."

"After all, the Tijuana family is quite powerful and has close ties with the U.S. Disaster Management Bureau, so as long as Airo hasn't done anything wrong on 985's territory, he might be able to be redeemed."

"And since he possesses a calamity-inducing artifact, his status must be quite high."

Wu Zhong curled his lip: "If his background knew that he had lost the calamity artifact, he probably wouldn't redeem him."

Xia Heng smiled, shrugged, and remained noncommittal.

Knowing the characteristics of this pen, he was determined to get it.

The pen can reduce the mass of objects, which is very useful for his teleportation, because he can carry inanimate objects, and the limitation of carrying them is that they cannot exceed his own mass.

Now that he has a fountain pen, as long as he figures out how to use it, he can carry large objects and teleport them.

An hour later, the group had arrived at a point five kilometers underground.

At this depth, with the continuous snow-capped mountains pressing down above, it should be extremely safe.

Even if you search for a long time on the 985 list, you will never find them.

However, Luo Yi suddenly reported: "The pursuers are back, and they've stopped directly above us!"

Everyone was shocked. They had turned around several times underground, how could those three people have found them?
Xia Heng immediately became serious: "He is a mental power user."

Wu Zhong was awe-inspiring. The mentalists sensed that they were underground, but were separated by thick rocks and could not come down, so they followed them from above.

"call!"

Xia Heng stopped pretending and revealed his purple armor, which reflected a purple hue onto the inner wall of the cavity. The surrounding area was instantly filled with a bizarre and colorful purple liquid. Xia Heng had done this before in the dark tunnel.

"My purple lava can isolate mental energy."

Wu Zhong asked, "Will they be unable to sense us then?"

Xia Heng shook his head: "No, they should be 'catastrophe spiritual power' rather than extra-universe superpowers. My purple magma can completely shield them from the latter, and even backfire on them."

"However, calamity-related spiritual power cannot be blocked. It is an effect derived from other calamities and cannot be stopped by any multi-faceted law."

"At most, I will use the Void Armor to release 'excessive noise,' which means that the amount of chaotic information they perceive is so large that they cannot listen to and monitor our details."

"However, information such as location can still be sensed, after all, it's such a large area of ​​void information interference."

Luo Yi added from the side, "They must have used a mental energy focusing technique to stretch the detection range."

"The width is too narrow now, otherwise they should have been able to spot me..."

The only nemesis of Luo Yi's shadow is a mentalist.

Shadows are immune to most types of attacks, but not to mental power.

Moreover, since Luo Yi and his shadow share the same consciousness, mentally attacking the shadow is equivalent to attacking Luo Yi's physical body.

However, 985 did not discover Luo Yi's spying, which means that his mental energy was stretched into a narrow, elongated cone, focusing only on the ground, so he was unaware that there was another shadow observing them in the dark.

In other words, the mental power user above is currently releasing a cone-shaped mental force field with a base area of ​​approximately tens of square meters and a height of five kilometers.

"Hurry up, dig faster!" Xia Heng urged.

"Hmm." Yang Chunsha flipped through the pages of the book on her chest, the rocks and soil in front of her melted and parted, and she continued to clear the way.

The group immediately abandoned their plan to return to the surface and instead continued to burrow underground.

Time passed second by second; the soil in front was cleared away, and the soil behind was filled in.

They were traveling at five kilometers per hour to traverse underground to the Gaoling Mountains.

The group remained separated from their pursuers by a thick layer of rock five kilometers away. The pursuers knew they were there, but for the time being, they had no way to catch them.

An hour passed, and they had advanced five kilometers underground, while their pursuers had simultaneously traveled five kilometers of mountain path above.

I was able to stand precisely above them the whole time!
Obviously, it's impossible to shake them off by speed; they're too slow. Yang Chunsha's fastest speed through the tunnels is only five kilometers per hour.

This speed is not much faster than walking.

On the contrary, the pursuers above, who were initially three, have now joined six.

"Buzz!"

Suddenly, Yang Chunsha staggered and fell to the ground.

She felt immense mental pressure and screamed in agony.

At the same time, Xia Heng and Luo Yi also looked pale. Even Jordan, who had just woken up, rolled his eyes and fainted again.

Wu Zhong didn't sense anything: "What's wrong with you? Have you been attacked by mental energy?"

Xia Heng covered his head and said with difficulty, "Yes, in addition to probing, the calamity-related spiritual power can also attack a person's will, causing mental pain, mental pressure, and other effects." "Fortunately, I used the Purple Slurry Stream to interfere with their information from the beginning. They only know that we are in this cavity, but they don't know our exact location, so they can't attack us precisely and can only launch a wide-area mental attack!"

Wu Zhong touched his head: "Mental shock... I can't feel it at all."

His mind was bombarded, but no negative effects were generated.

"Ahhh! I feel terrible! My head is about to explode!" Yang Chunsha cried out.

Wu Zhong quickly hugged her, covered her head, and rubbed it for her.

But obviously, this is of no use except for a little psychological comfort; he can't help others build a door to their hearts.

Luo Yi, already exuding an aura of dominance, said, "We have no souls; we are a unity of body and spirit. Therefore, the stronger the body, the stronger the ability to withstand the impact of spiritual power."

Xia Heng's purple liquid was also boiling, and all his power was used to enhance his physical functions: "For now, we can still hold on. I can sense that there are only two mental power users above us."

"However, their numbers are increasing. If two more people come, then apart from Xiao Wu, none of us will be able to hold out. We'll all faint."

"Yangchun sand, quickly dig deeper!"

Yang Chunsha knelt on one knee, her face contorted and her eyes bloodshot.

She shook her head with a bitter face and said intermittently, "Five kilometers deep is already the limit of my conventional reinforcement."

“I usually only go as far as four kilometers deep. The deeper I go, the greater the risk of collapse. I need to continuously output magic to reinforce it.”

"Once you go beyond five kilometers in depth, the energy expenditure will increase exponentially... Ugh!"

The crowd fell silent. They were deep underground, in a small, cramped cavity, where a severe collapse could mean certain death.

Yang Chunsha was suffering from a splitting headache, and in her current state, it was really too much to ask her to use magic to dig the earth.

However, she also knew that this was a critical moment.

Whether they can escape depends entirely on her digging magic.

She mustered her strength, leaned on Wu Zhong, and gasped, "I can still dig. Can we dig slowly? They can't get down here anyway. Let's dig horizontally to India, find a busy area, and then figure out how to shake them off?"

Wu immediately shook his head: "Dream on, we can't shake them off like this."

“They’ve definitely taken action, but they can’t do anything to us for the time being. But they can’t stay helpless forever.”

"They're definitely waiting for reinforcements. Once those reinforcements arrive, it won't be of any use to us, even if we're five kilometers underground."

"Our time is probably running out."

Everyone nodded; there was no doubt about it.

It's not that 985 universities have no other options; they're just waiting for someone, or waiting for a catastrophic event.

It's just a psychological shock for now; they need to get rid of it as soon as possible, or who knows what they'll face later.

Xia Heng said solemnly, "We must dig deeper until their spiritual power can no longer track us! Don't worry, my purple magma can also reinforce the rock layer, so it won't collapse easily."

"As for the cost... I don't believe it can be too much. Anyway, I'm the one helping you settle your debt. At worst, you'll have to go through a short period of time to restore your original state. I can afford it!"

Wu Zhong comforted him, "De Biao, keep it up! Brother Xia will take care of paying off the debt. This is a rare opportunity to cultivate. Don't you want to become stronger?"

"You take everyone out of here, and I'll cover all your debts from now on!"

Xia Heng was stunned when she heard this. She was going to cover all his future debts? He wasn't an ATM!
However, upon seeing Yang Chunsha, his eyes lit up and he perked up again.

Xia Heng sighed, "Alright, if I'm by your side, I'll help you pay off all your debts."

Yang Chunsha's face twisted in pain, but the thought of having a long-term meal ticket through her "multi-credit card" immediately perked her up.

"I'll give it my all!" Her eyes burned with determination.

The high energy expenditure means she can recover quickly, and someone will help her resolve her debts—isn't that wonderful? Because she's essentially been cultivating all along!

Each time she exhausts her energy and replenishes it, she gains 0.05 bits.

She returned to her origin four times that day, including the up-and-down motion during the hot pot meal and the horizontal digging just now.

Don't underestimate these four times; compared to her previous efficiency, they are much higher.

She has worked hard for seven years and has only managed to return to the origin 86 times.

And next, she will return to the origin many more times.

"Alright! Leave it to me... I... I will definitely do it!" Yang Chunsha gritted her teeth and persevered, casting her magic once more.

"Boom!"

From now on, everyone can only rely on Yangchunsha.

She focused intently on digging downwards, breaking through the conventional limit of five kilometers in depth.

Because the reinforcement required enormous resources, the magic had already been replenished twice by the time the depth reached 6,000 meters. At 7,000 meters, it was replenished four more times.

When it reached a depth of 8,000 meters, it had been exhausted and replenished a total of 14 times.

During this period, Yang Chunsha was in excruciating pain.

Fortunately, Luo Yi shouted, "They got desperate, found a canyon and went down into it, and kept bombarding the rock layers, digging downwards with brute force."

"It must be our depth; we're almost at their detection limit."

Xia Heng pondered for a moment and smiled, "I see. The highest level of mental power users who came was level six."

Wu Zhong asked curiously, "How was this calculated?"

Xia Heng explained: "The normal state of the calamity mental energy field is a spherical field centered on itself. A diameter of less than ten meters is not considered a level one, more than ten meters is level two, more than twenty meters is level two, more than thirty meters is level three, and so on. A diameter of sixty meters is level six mental energy."

"Don't think this is small. This is just the passive range. Even when you are asleep, you will automatically sense danger. Moreover, there is no such thing as exhaustion of the calamity spiritual power. The value is constant. As long as you are conscious, you can use it indefinitely."

"If used actively, the mental field can be focused to perceive targets at greater distances, such as by focusing it into a cone shape, so that it can scan targets thousands of meters away."

"Of course, there are limitations. The minimum base area of ​​the cone must be 42 square meters. That's a fixed number."

"Therefore, you can deduce from their detection depth that their mental energy sphere is in the range of thirty meters."

Wu nodded: "I see. To be on the safe side, let's dig even deeper."

"Go Debiao!"

Yang Chunsha nodded, speechless. She covered her head and trembled all over, flipping through the leather book on her chest at lightning speed.

Everyone's location is getting deeper and deeper, nine thousand meters... ten thousand meters...

Actually, at around 9,000 meters, I could no longer feel any mental impact.

But just to be on the safe side, we still went to 10,000 meters underground!

After replenishing the mana a total of sixty-two times, they dug horizontally again. Luo Yi finally said that 985 was no longer following them and was still anxiously bombarding the rock wall in place.

"We've shaken them off! We've finally shaken them off!" Yang Chunsha collapsed from exhaustion upon hearing Luo Yi's words.

Wu Zhong hurriedly helped her up: "Don't let your guard down, keep going!"

“We are located at the foot of a series of snow-capped mountains. Some of the mountains are low-lying, and if we dig horizontally, the distance from the ground may suddenly decrease, and they will find us as long as they search from above.”

"Besides, six hours have passed since they started watching us. Who knows what other tricks they have up their sleeve? We need to get away from here as soon as possible!"

Yang Chunsha hummed in agreement, her head no longer aching since the mental shock had subsided.

But she was still very tired. She had been digging for seven or eight hours today, at least seven of which were non-stop digging.

"Go for it, Debiao! We're counting on you."

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(End of this chapter)