Chapter 1053: Chapter 806: The Key
Long Yi immediately followed Maxwell and rushed to the front.
"The squad is just ahead!"
Maxwell said.
After passing a piece of ruins, there indeed was a twenty-person squad hiding behind the cover of the debris.
"Why not continue advancing?" Maxwell shouted.
"There is a powerful enemy watching ahead, and it’s difficult for us to find a breakthrough," said a soldier.
Sure enough, in front of the ruins stood a black building, incredibly tall, with astonishing magic shooting out from it—this was the Strategic Magic Launch Platform.
Along with heavy footsteps, Cyclops were pacing back and forth, their single eye emitting a red glow that continuously swept across the battlefield. Whenever there was the slightest movement, a deadly burning light would immediately shoot out from their eye, melting everything within a large area.
"Is there a way around it?" Maxwell asked.
"We don’t know," several soldiers replied.
"Long Yi, I order you to scout ahead and find a breakthrough here," commanded Maxwell.
"Yes!"
Long Yi immediately saluted, then silently left from the side. At this time, however, Maxwell couldn’t relax yet, because these twenty people were avatars created by Long Yi. He had to maintain his identity as the leader in front of them without any slack; otherwise, Long Yi would immediately notice something wrong. Then all his efforts would be in vain.
"You three, continue holding this position; everyone else, disperse immediately and look for opportunities from different directions. Report back to me at once if any arise!"
"Yes, Captain!"
The God Chaser, disguised as Maxwell, kept his gaze fixed on the huge building ahead, known as the Strategic Magic Launch Platform, which was in reality the core of Long Yi’s mental world. The continuous firing of strategic magic was a kind of self-protection for Long Yi’s mental world.
Would Long Yi find the breakthrough? Of course, he would! Because this was Long Yi’s mental world!
Too bad, you’ll never know that you, the master, have brought me, a parasite, into your own mental world, right?
At this moment, Long Yi felt an extremely awkward sensation all over. He sensed that something was not quite right, but he couldn’t think of anything specifically amiss. Everything around him seemed normal, yet why was there an indefinable discomfort?
Long Yi took a deep breath. It was just an ordinary battle, and it was normal for him, as a new soldier on his first mission, to feel nervous.
Long Yi circled the tall building and finally found an unguarded spot. He initially intended to report back, but then he thought that the opportunity might be lost if he did so. Deciding swiftly, Long Yi dashed from that spot, approaching the building. Almost at the same moment, two Cyclops appeared on both sides!
"Please don’t see me!" he prayed silently.
Then something amazing happened—the red glow from the Cyclops’ eyes just missed Long Yi by a hair’s breadth!
Long Yi felt like he was about to die from fright. As a new soldier dying on his first mission would be too shameful.
After the two Cyclops left, Long Yi continued forward, and the path ahead was surprisingly smooth. When Long Yi finally entered the interior of the building, the sight that met his eyes left him speechless.
In the midst of the vast empty space, there was only one highly regular structure in the center, and Long Yi recognized this structure all too well.
The virus.
This was the virus created by Long Yi himself—in his own mental space.
And the sole purpose of this virus being here was to remind Long Yi that whatever you see now is false, all illusions conjured within your mental space.
"My God, that was a close call," Long Yi had completely awakened at this point.
Back when Long Yi was undergoing his Divine Power training, Little Zi had reminded him that spending too long immersed in the mental world could lead one to treat it as the real world. Therefore, it was best to place certain things in one’s mental space that would only appear there. In this way, when one saw these things, one could immediately awaken.
Long Yi had thought long and hard at that time and finally chose this virus. The logic was simple: the virus had a straightforward origin, and being so immense as a virus was also unreasonable. This illogical aspect easily jolted Long Yi awake.
It seems that this Captain Maxwell really does have a problem, or rather, this so-called Captain Maxwell is essentially a God Chaser, right?
Now that Long Yi had woken up, the script must be rewritten!
Long Yi soon discovered that he actually had complete control over this world. Everything that happened here was merely a projection of his consciousness. Thankfully, he had undergone extensive training before; otherwise, he would definitely be at a loss right now.
God Chasers, oh God Chasers, since you want to play, then I’ll play with you!
At this moment, Captain Maxwell—or rather, the Avatar of the God Chaser—was anxiously waiting for news from Long Yi. According to his estimation, Long Yi should have already managed to enter by now. And next, as long as Long Yi came out and brought him in, everything would naturally fall into place.
He didn’t think any accidents would occur; everything here was within his calculations.
But why hadn’t Long Yi appeared yet?
Just then, a scout suddenly ran over from afar.
"Captain! We’ve discovered a secret entrance! It was supposed to be underground, but the collapsing ruins broke through the surface, so the entrance was exposed!"
Upon hearing this, Maxwell was instantly overjoyed—this was indeed an unexpected delight. However, he also had some doubts; everything here was supposed to be a projection of Long Yi’s innermost thoughts. If there was a secret entrance, could it be that Long Yi once sealed a secret deep within his psychic world?
God Chasers enjoy peering into secrets; by mastering secrets, sometimes one can control everything about a person.
Come on, Long Yi, let’s see what you’ve truly hidden!
"Let’s go!" The God Chaser decided not to wait for a response from Long Yi anymore, but to enter the depths of Long Yi’s psychic world through the secret passage himself.
Following the scout, the God Chaser arrived at a collapsed area of the ground, and as expected, a massive alloy door lay before a fallen passageway, already somewhat deformed. However, the narrow space was still too small for a person to pass through. The God Chaser was capable of transforming himself into a smaller size, but he absolutely couldn’t do that in front of these soldiers. They were all created by Long Yi’s spiritual power; transforming in front of them would be akin to doing so in front of Long Yi. If anything went wrong, Long Yi would instinctively sense it, and things would not go smoothly.
"Find a way to open it," the God Chaser ordered.
"We can’t, Captain," the soldier who discovered the door replied. "This door is made of an extremely rare alloy that can absorb any form of energy. Anyone who touches this metal would become an ordinary person. Unless immense brute force is used to pry it open, no one can get through here."
The soldier explained helplessly.
The God Chaser’s brow furrowed tightly. He knew that Long Yi’s brute force was immense, so it wasn’t a surprise that he had installed such a door. He could not personally touch such a door because the property of absorbing all energy was almost lethal for him. Since he had chosen to submit to the rules of Long Yi’s psyshic world, he couldn’t breach even a little, or else it would indeed cause him terrible damage.
"Fortunately, the soldiers supporting us will arrive soon. He has no energy, but an infinite brute strength," the God Chaser said.
Indeed, a few minutes later, a dark-skinned, big fellow appeared in everyone’s sight, with all the other soldiers looking at him in puzzlement.
"Who is he? We’ve never seen him," a soldier asked.
The God Chaser laughed, "This is a super soldier I’ve been secretly training, unfazed by any energy supply, with sheer brute strength. This is your first time seeing him, but I think you will have more opportunities to work together in the future."
This so-called super soldier was in fact a character fabricated out of thin air by the God Chaser, specifically devised to counteract the mechanism set by Long Yi. Actually, this was a very risky move for the God Chaser, as it was like forcibly inserting a character that didn’t belong in the world created by Long Yi. Even if, for the time being, this wouldn’t make the soldiers created by Long Yi suspicious, it couldn’t be maintained for too long. But the God Chaser believed he was about to control Long Yi, so there was no real need to worry.
The muscular soldier silently walked up to the door and grasped the thick metal with both hands. The surrounding soldiers watched him, their faces filled with confusion, as this outsider was arousing their suspicion. The God Chaser was also nervous at this moment, but it was a critical time and he couldn’t afford to have any hesitation.
"What are you doing standing around! Prepare the defenses!" the God Chaser commanded, utilizing his status as the captain recognized by Long Yi’s subconscious. Immediately, all the soldiers took their attention off the super soldier and instead began to watch the gap of the door.
Accompanied by the noise of the metal deforming, the heavy door was pried open by brute force, and the super soldier was obviously not having an easy time. The devouring force emanating from within the door was actually sapping the God Chaser’s spiritual power!
The rest of the soldiers didn’t realize, but the God Chaser could feel it. The super soldier was created by the God Chaser’s spiritual power, and the devouring force was directly transferring from the super soldier to the God Chaser!
Almost at the same time, the originally alert soldiers almost instantly shifted their suspicious gaze toward the God Chaser disguised as Captain Maxwell.
Although no one said anything, it meant that Long Yi was instinctively feeling that something was amiss!
The super soldier used all his strength to remove his hands from the door, and the God Chaser shouted, "What are you waiting for! Go in now!"
Although still puzzled, the soldiers’ innate obedience to orders compelled them to enter the door immediately! (To be continued. If you like this work, please go to Qidian (qidian.com) to cast your recommendation votes, monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)
