Chapter 70 Let Paloser burn to ashes
The bright red liquid slowly seeped into the crystal powder, and wisps of bright red threads spread and penetrated in the gaps, making it difficult to distinguish which part was blood and which part It is a powder made from ground ruby.
【You have a new communication from: Jackal——】
“It’s just before six o’clock, do you get 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 holding a wooden stick and stirring the mixture in the beaker.
"Last night's mission failed?"
The Jackal's voice was emotionless.
“Yes, the situation was quite complicated at the time. I made a mistake. I will return the deposit later.”
"The employer is very angry now."
"I can only say that I apologize."
Song Shi stared at the beaker to confirm the stirring level, and said in a sincere tone: "But not My ability is limited. Sorry.” If you fail this time, 'Nandou', my commission will be increased by five points for your next mission."
"No problem, of course."
Song Shi said: "Remember to apologize to my employer, I'm really sorry."
The two quickly hung up the phone.
"Jade Pharmaceuticals. Maybe someone is planning to target me again."
Song Shi said to himself.
The "Carmen" incident last night was obviously directed by Jade Pharmaceuticals, and they planned to fish out someone - combined with the "Carmen", their initial target was not even the "Enlightened One".
Initial goal.
A competing company like [Xim Bio-Integrated Security]? Or some anti-corporate forces or individuals?
Song Shi tends to the second point of view.
As for "Carmen" finding herself through the jackal, it is completely impossible, but at least not in a short time. As a middleman, leaking information about both parties to the transaction is a taboo in the industry.
What's more, Jackal is one of the most famous middlemen in the Deep Moss District. With his wealth and status, even if he faces Jade Pharmaceutical——
he has to sit down for a while before kneeling down.
"Well, just right."
Song Shi put these thoughts aside temporarily and turned to look at the beaker.
The mixture of his own blood and ruby grinding powder quickly boiled under the heat of the welding gun, and a series of gurgling bubbles emerged.
Song Shi picked up the beaker and drank it in one gulp.
Taking rubies, agate, etc. and your own blood every day is one of the prerequisites for the second-level psychic skill, [Burning Blood].
But that’s not the point.
The most critical prerequisite for obtaining [Burning Blood] is to achieve a mission of "do not violate one's true intentions and use the weak to attack the strong".
As for the standard of "attacking the strong with the weak", this is determined by the path of [Dayuan].
This has to mention how to obtain psychic skills.
To put it simply, there are two ways for a psychic to acquire psychic skills, one is the "path" and the other is "other".
The "Path" nurtures the "Psychic", and the "Psychic" drives the "Path".
Whenever a psyker dies, he will turn into a star, ascend into his own path, and become part of the path - so in theory, the path carries the memories of psykers of all ages. All mysteries.
Of course it also includes "psionic skills".
Even if this "psionic skill" is created by a certain psychic, after his death, this "psionic skill" will become part of the path. Even if the former has not been passed down, it may still reappear. in the future.
The most common way to obtain psychic skills from the path is "ritual".
[Tao] makes the monopoly of psychic skills meaningless, so what the major psychic aristocrats, organizational forces, and countries really monopolize are "rituals." Even if occasionally someone obtains their secret psychic skills through the road, the uniqueness of the inheritance is still ensured on the whole.
[Road] is the first way.
The second method "other" is easy to understand.
Direct initiation by high-ranking psykers, the inherent inheritance of certain psionic secret treasures, the sealing of "psionic skills" in certain entities through special methods for inheritance, step-by-step practice according to various secret traditions, and the psyker's Self-research and development. These are considered "others". Seriously speaking, there are quite a lot of types.
"Don't go against your own will, use the weak to attack the strong." Song Shi chanted.
"Use the weak to attack the strong" is a not uncommon ritual element, and it also refers to many psychic skills.
The "desperate situation" of [transcendence], the "unbreakable ambition" 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 elements are all "attacking the strong with the weak".
——How did you obtain "Burning Blood" in your previous life?
Song Shi thought.
At that time, I was very interested in the country [Yenan] that was located on the other side of the world and was established by the exiles brought by the "Seven Lands War" in the past.
So half a year after entering the second ring, I planned to leave the [Pan-Eastern Continental Federation] and wanted to go there to have a look.
only.
As a freelance bounty hunter, something went wrong during a mission to assassinate a gang leader, and he was forced to switch from "assassination" to "attack". The situation at that time was very chaotic, resulting in a fierce battle and exchange of fire. In the end, although he still succeeded in killing the leader, he also killed a "person who shouldn't be killed".
——A scion of a local big family.
The guy came to the leader to discuss something, but he accidentally died on the scene. Only later did he find out that this gangster who was making a lot of noise in the local area was actually supported by the other party's family and acted as a secret agent. hound.
Shortly after he left the city, a group of mercenaries hired by this family blocked him in the wasteland.
Song Shi recalled the scene at that time more than once.
The drowsy sky is almost engulfing, the horizon has no end in sight, the dust storm is surging all over the sky, and the suffocating air pressure is suffocating.
I was lying in a rock crevice, pressing down on the bleeding wound, gasping for breath - those mercenaries were already elite, and they also possessed a large number of restricted military equipment specially provided by this family. , almost killed himself on the spot.
But I survived.
Song Shixin Tao.
Blood, gunfire, psychic energy, roar, guerrilla, hunting and counter-hunting.
After thirteen days of fighting between the two sides in the wasteland, he finally won and killed the last member of this group of mercenaries.
What happened later was not so clear.
I just remember that I returned to the city and spent a full month and a half eroding the power of this big family bit by bit. During this period, there were several dangers, but I survived them all.
Until finally, on a rainy night, he dragged the patriarch of the family and 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.
I was surprised to find that Daotu cast a psychic skill called [Burning Blood].
It wasn’t until the third round later that I learned from elsewhere that “attacking the strong with the weak” was one of the most critical prerequisites for the acquisition ritual of [Burning Blood].
"So, it's very regrettable."
Song Shi stretched out his right hand and slowly stared at the palm of his hand.
I completed "Strike the Strong with the Weak", but due to the ignorance brought about by my background, I did not complete other prerequisites for the ritual - they are indeed not the key, but they will affect [Burning Blood] to a certain extent.
This means that among psykers who possess this psionic skill, their own [Burning Blood] can only be considered to be of a moderate level.
Do you still plan to keep this regret after rebirth?
Only this time, how can I achieve "attacking the strong with the weak"?
Gazing at the texture between his palms, Song Shi suddenly laughed.
He turned his head, and his sight seemed to be through the wall, passing through the dilapidated buildings of different heights that overlapped like a honeycomb in the deep moss area, and fell into the tallest building in the entire Palother, shrouded in an artificial canopy.
On the huge painting on the exterior wall of the building, broken white porcelain palms stood up silently, and emeralds turned into olive leaves, intertwined into rings, and circled around.
This is the Mortal Temple dropped by one of the "gods" of the Corporate Alliance in Palother.
It stood then, it stands now, and it will always stand.
"Sure enough..."
"How could there be a more suitable choice than this?"
Song Shi closed his eyes and slowly opened them again. The red-gold molten fire flowed in his pupils, and his face showed the expression from the bottom of his heart. smile.
“Next.”
Song Shi came to the window and opened the curtain. The sun at the end of his field of vision had just risen from the horizon, and it was still a while before dawn.
“—It’s time for Palother to burn to ashes.”
(End of this chapter)