Chapter 20 Psionics
“Ha——”
In the dim room with no lights on, there was first a sound of metal equipment dragging pipelines, and then a long gasp.
Even though Thousand Stars City has its own firewall protection, every time you enter the [Abyss] through the "deep diving equipment", it is a big burden for you.
But it’s a lot of fun.
In Thousand Stars City, you can freely observe others and speculate on their personalities. Under "anonymous service", this is much more difficult than reality, but this challenge brings much more satisfaction. Exercise is also beneficial.
Besides, you can also make extra money from time to time.
In reality, he is just a down-and-out online game power leveler. He sits in front of a tablet all day long, turning on automatic software to browse various materials. No one cares what his real name is. Know that the online name is "Tucker Studio (poke me for liver replacement training)" instead of Tom. Bah.
“Bah, no, my name is not Tom.”
Nicole got up from the bed, threw the deep diving equipment aside, and picked up the table from the pile of miscellaneous items. After groping for a while, I finally found what I wanted.
He walked unsteadily out of bed, opened the metal shutters rusted by acid rain, tilted his head and leaned against the window, holding a crumpled cigarette in his right hand, and the left finger that had been replaced with a prosthetic limb spurted out a wisp of flame and ignited it. cigarette.
The dense smoke rings slowly floated up, reflecting the dim night scene outside the window.
The neon lights of Baimen District cannot illuminate this remote alley in Deep Moss District.
“Cough”
Taking a big breath, Nicole couldn’t recover for a while and coughed repeatedly.
Although nicotine atomizers have now replaced most traditional cigarettes, and theoretically the taste and feel will not be any different, he still prefers smoking traditional cigarettes.
Even if it will make his already poor financial situation worse.
Nicole has never trusted companies, not only as a child, but still today.
Maybe it’s more than distrust.
Maybe I am more afraid.
Nicole exhaled a white breath and thought slowly.
So after accidentally awakening to psychic powers two years ago, I did not choose to report it to the coalition government, and of course I could not get the special talent allowance - it was both a talent allowance and a tool for the coalition government to search for psychics. One of the measures.
After all, it’s only 10,000 credit points per month. The economic situation has not been very good in the past few years, and everyone’s life is tight, so this money is not small.
“Hey, the people from outside are not really those wasteland bandits, are they?”
Nicole took another deep breath.
Although due to the abuse of nuclear and chemical weapons during the Seven-Earth War, 40% of the land was reduced to "wasteland" that was no longer suitable for human survival, but it was just unsuitable.
Various wandering tribes, wasteland supply towns far away from the city. Moreover, a city cannot be completely self-sufficient. Goods need to be sold, raw materials need to be bought, and various transportation teams also have to travel through the wasteland.
Wasteland bandits are a group of desperate lunatics who live in the wasteland all year round and make a living by extortion and robbery. From time to time, they will also enter the city to sell stolen goods, consume and supply supplies.
But after thinking about it, Nicole felt that it didn’t look like it.
[Consensus] The road has made his senses sharper than ordinary people. In the conversation not long ago, the other party was more like a mercenary than a gangster wandering the wasteland.
"The city you smuggled into, or something else? One... no, it should be a group of mercenaries, right? It's better to work together as a team than alone, especially for work that requires death."
I bumped into a group of people out of nowhere. The mercenary of unknown origin really has the temperament of Palother.
Nicole sighed in her heart.
Thinking of this, he hesitated and put out the last cigarette butt on the window sill. He planned to try to control psychic powers later, using that person's method. As for other things.
So what does it have to do with him being a low-level game booster?
Cheap hotel, room B302.
Song Shi slowly opened his eyes and adjusted his breathing.
The feeling of depression caused by diving into the [Abyss] gradually faded away.
[Abyss] is not only full of various technical problems, but also a huge "redundant psychic aggregate".
Therefore, the deeper you enter the [Abyss], the stronger the oppression you suffer - psykers can improve their resistance in this area, but they cannot stay in the abyss forever.
The psykers of the first ring can stay in a depth 1 area like Thousand Stars City for about two hours, but relying on the firewall of Thousand Stars City, this can be extended to four hours in the city.
"——Psychic energy."
Song Shi exhaled and looked at his palm.
Driven by the thought, a ray of red-gold flame burst out from the five fingers, swaying with the wind, and the next moment, it dissipated as it was tightened.
There are limits to the number of psychic arts a psyker can master.
It’s not just about “biting off more than you can bite off”, when the spiritual skills mastered are too many and too complex, they cannot complement each other, and may even conflict in turn, and the “purity” of the spiritual energy is not enough. Too confusing.
So.
Although there are some exceptions, on the whole, the best number of psychic skills mastered by first-level psychics is about three, and it can also fluctuate by one or two.
"I already have the "Forging Flame", and my starting point is much better than in my previous life"
When I awakened in my previous life, the spiritual skill given to me by the path was [turning fire into a blade].
It sounds very powerful, but its effect is just to guide the existing flame and reshape it into the outline of a long sword, so that the holder can use this fire sword to fight the enemy——
I can’t say it is useless at all, but it is indeed of little use.
First of all, this psychic skill cannot create flames out of thin air. You must prepare a lighter or the like in advance to provide enough flames.
Secondly, there are limits to the flames that can be guided. The temperature cannot be too high, the magnitude cannot be too large, and the shape can be shaped to a limit - so there is no need to think about the "ship-cutting knife".
And without [Elemental Resistance·Fire], this fire sword will also burn your own people. You must bring some insulation equipment such as asbestos gloves in advance, otherwise you will be burned first while the enemy is fine.
——The current [Forging Flame], in addition to its various characteristics, will also directly provide the holder with a certain resistance to the fire element!
If we don’t mention psionic energy, just use “technology” instead.
At least for first level psykers.
[Take Fire into a Blade] is just a limited flamethrower, while [Forging Flame] is a complex device that integrates body strengthening, weapon blessing, and creating flames out of thin air, among other functions.
This is the difference between the two.
Although the price for obtaining the Flame of Forging is to bear the ritual "Oath of Blood and Fire", you must take the head of an enemy with a certain weight that you face within nineteen days and offer it to the road. .
"I am a first-class expert. How can I show this without challenging things——"
Song Shi knocked on the table and showed an inexplicable smile: "Nineteen days? ?”
“Well, let’s make some quick money tomorrow.”
(End of this chapter)