26 Facelings (23)
Seeing that the bodyguard behind Inoue Renta seemed to be about to make a move, Inoue Renta suddenly raised his hand, like a football referee holding up a red card, to stop the bodyguard's movements, "Slow." β
"Huh?" The bodyguard paused in confusion.
"Don't fight yet." Inoue Renta said in a strange tone, "Although this room has been treated with excellent sound insulation, even if you draw a gun and shoot here, it will not be heard by people outside, but you and Xu Shengxing are both super-grade psionics, and once you fight, you will inevitably be noticed by people outside......"
"So what?" The bodyguard seemed to have no respect for Inoue Renta's employer, and directly interrupted him, "You know the details of this policeman, but you are still afraid of this?" What is the difference between this and a murderer who is afraid to kill a chicken. β
"No, I meanβI think, this might be the last conversation I'll ever have with this friend." Inoue Renta said without replying, "But I still want to do something for this hard-won friendship...... Let's just remedy it. Because I...... There's only one friend. β
After speaking, he ignored his bodyguard anymore, and focused all his attention on Xu Shengxing's body, his expression was sincere, word by word, "Shengxing, come to my side." β
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Xu Shengxing looked at him at this time, as if he was looking at a fool who was giving a speech to the tree to make way for it.
But Inoue turned a blind eye and said single-mindedly: "For a long time, you hated 'vulgar bureaucrats' and 'stale rules' the most, but now you are working in the system of the alliance. With unique skills, but being constrained everywhere, how aggrieved? You should be active on a better stage, and I can provide you with that opportunity. It may seem to you that I'm just a criminal and don't have the right to say such things, but you should also understand the value of psionic awakening potions - you know I'm working on this, right? As long as this achievement is used as a step, even the alliance will have to admit us, and the sins of the past will be written off, and we-"
"Enough, I don't want to hear this." Xu Shengxing said indifferently, "You have long been unrecognizable, and you are no longer my friend." Don't talk to me like a friend, it feels like eating. β
Intinoe Renta's face changed, and then he sighed, "Do you remember what I said to you before?" People's hearts are fickle, parent-child, husband and wife, siblings, friends...... No relationship lasts forever. That's exactly what we're looking at today. Don't you think that's pathetic? β
"Do you still have the face to say that? Do you deserve it too? Xu Shengxing seemed to suspect that something was wrong with his ears, but even so, he still didn't do it immediately, which shows that the other party does have some meaning in his heart, "Anyway, you have come to this point, if you really want to pursue the so-called unchanged human heart, why not hire a psyker to hypnotize others?" β
"It's not as simple as you think." Inoue said, "The human heart is like a vessel that keeps changing parts, and with the metabolism of forgetting and memory, the old personality will sooner or later be replaced by the new one." The speed of spiritual death is far more rapid than physical death, and what a terrible thing that others simply do not understand. Even if the so-called hypnotism is used to forcibly fix the feelings, but if everything else changes, it is meaningless. β
"Listen, I don't know which book you read from this 'life insight' of literary youth, full of the stench of literary youth, and your feet are ten meters above the ground...... There was not the slightest hint of interest. Xu Shengxing was unmoved, and even said disapprehantly, "I only care about one thing, what does this have to do with your research on psionic awakening medicine?" β
"Just as you told me before." Inoue Renta looked at him motionlessly, "Only by becoming a psionic can you be qualified to explore further realms. β
"So you let your son dig out the forbidden knowledge from his wife's brain?" Xu Shengxing's question is undoubtedly a temptation.
"Nope." Inoue Renta shook his head and said, "My research on the source of faith in psionic awakening potions is indeed forbidden knowledge, but it has nothing to do with my wife. Besides, my son, who is full of 'heroic thoughts,' is unlikely to assist me in such a thing. β
He went on to say, "Forbidden knowledge was given to me by a 'mysterious man'. β
"What?" Xu Shengxing furrowed his eyebrows.
I didn't expect that at this juncture, there would be another mysterious person.
No, I did discuss with Chloe before, and perhaps there was a "mastermind" behind the psyker who gave the key knowledge of the psionic awakening potion to the occult organization, but I never associated it with forbidden knowledge.
"More than a month ago, that mysterious man with a hidden head and tail appeared in front of me." Inoue recalled, "He didn't know where he got the forbidden knowledge that contained the 'theory of making psionic awakening potions', and although he lacked some technical details, it was still quite useful. And when he handed it over to me, he also asked me to make a promise that if I did make a finished product, I would give him a copy at that time. β
As he spoke, he paused slightly, and his tone became sarcastic, "But I unilaterally broke this promise." The reason is simple, since he has already handed over the knowledge, it is of no value. I also don't want to hand over valuable technical achievements to those who sit back and enjoy the results. β
"You're getting dirty." Xu Shengxing said coldly.
"He probably wasn't reconciled, so just this morning, he sneaked in here and wanted to steal the technological achievements here." Inoue Renta smiled, "But the ending can be imagined, he failed and ran away." β
"Really? Then, then, you will also face failure. Xu Shengxing got up slowly, and his momentum gradually rose, "And the difference between you and him is that you will definitely not be able to escape from the palm of my hand." β
The bodyguard was expressionless and stepped forward.
"Conceit only brings ruin, star." Inoue Renta also stood up, "Do you think you have a chance of winning?" Even though I have super-psionic beings on my side, there are still a lot of my subordinates in this pharmaceutical factory-"
Before he could finish speaking, suddenly, the door was slammed open.
And as the door opened, the sounds of the outside battle broke into the soundproofed room like a storm. Knocking on the door was a man dressed as a security guard, who seemed to be the "subordinate" that Inoue Renta said, who was seriously injured at this time and wanted to say something to Inoue Renta, but his eyes were glaring, and he couldn't even say a word, and he fell to the ground.
Seeing this scene, I also understood, it turned out that Xu Shengxing seemed to be sitting still, but he had already transmitted signal instructions to the police force lurking in the outside world.
By this time, the police force had already broken into the building, and the battle began.
*
The first person to do it was me.
I was the first to climb over the couch and rush to Intue, while the bodyguard next to me smiled at me.
As he smiled, a large number of black lines suddenly blew in the room, looking like the wind - this may sound a little incomprehensible, but imagine this: in some paintings, in order to make it easier for the viewer to understand, the painter will scribble some thin black lines as the shape of the wind, and at this moment, these lines are like the "wind" blowing from the picture, with an extremely sharp breath, encircling me.
On the other side, Xu Shengxing did not sit idly by, he waved his arm violently, and a large number of flames also emerged from all corners of the room, mixing with all the black wind on the field, at first glance, it seemed that a large number of orange-red and black "paint" were mixed together, but they bypassed me alone.
I took this opportunity to come up to Inoue Renta and prepare to knock him out first.
Just as I was about to get my hands on it, a translucent blue wall, let's call it the "Force Field Wall," suddenly appeared between me and him, blocking my attack. This should be the function of a certain psionic item that Inoue Renta is carrying, and I'm not surprised, since he can afford to hire a super-grade psionic as a bodyguard, it is normal to carry one or two psionic items for defense.
At this moment, an ethereal figure "drilled" out from under the floor behind him, which was the phantom created by Chloe with the "Evidence of Differentiation", which could penetrate matter.
Inoue turned her head consciously, and Chloe should have finished swapping positions with the phantom by this time, reaching out to him with her left hand.
In the next second, she did something beyond the expectations of everyone present.
She stabbed her finger into Inoue's right eye socket and brutally gouged out his eyeball, tearing it off along with the optic nerve that followed.
Inoue Renta suddenly let out a terrible howl - unless he experienced it firsthand, no one could imagine what it was like to have his thick and dense optic nerve torn off by brute force.
Chloe's figure vanished in the blink of an eye, never to be seen anywhere in the room again. It is likely that she had already arranged the phantom in the outside world, and at this time she had switched places with the phantom.
But why?
I couldn't comprehend this scene for a moment, and with the screams of Inoue Renta, the wall of the force field between me and him suddenly fluctuated irregularly like the surface of water that was quickly stirred up by someone with a stick. This sign was quite dangerous, and I immediately withdrew a few meters after that.
Sure enough, in the next second, the force field wall exploded, and the blast wind and the black wind and flames present were mixed together, making the scene extremely chaotic.
Through the smoke and dust that filled the room, I vaguely saw that Inoue Renta dragged his scarred body and crawled out of the room.
I chased after it without thinking, but at this moment, the bodyguard slammed out from the side, and a hand knife wrapped in the black wind stabbed over, obviously a human palm, but there was an invincible terrifying momentum like an ancient battering ram.
At this critical moment, I don't have time to dwell on this guy at all.
I dodged his attack while clenching my right hand and landing a backhand on him β a punch that didn't carry the same "turn the pieces into wholes" I used to fight Xu Shengxing. It's not that I'm underestimating, you know, even if it's me, I can't get into that incredible state anytime and anywhere. Rao was like this, and the strength of this fist seemed to be beyond his expectations. Caught off guard, he was beaten back, and although his body was unscathed, he still showed a confused expression, as if he couldn't understand why he was being pushed back by me, an ordinary person.
Immediately after, he regrouped his posture and tried to attack me, but Xu Shengxing also came out from the side, and while entanglement with him, he said to me: "Catch up!" β
Without saying anything, I immediately withdrew from the room and looked into the hallway.
With just such a little effort, Inoue Renta has disappeared.
Although with his injuries, he will definitely not be able to run far, and he may die if he is not careful, but in this case, where should I find him?
Chloe didn't know where she had gone, and I couldn't figure out why she had gouged out Inoue Renta's eyeballs - no, on this occasion, there was only one purpose for poaching out his eyeballs. The employee who led us the way said before that some parts of this pharmaceutical factory must pass the iris certification process to enter, and the newly dug out eyeball is still alive, and it can also be used to pass the iris certification process.
But she had evidence of division, walls and doors were like air to her, so why bother?
Unless, the place she wants to enter is the same room as last time, which can isolate psionic energy.
And if so, then a new problem arises.
And this question, most likely, means that Chloe was not my partner from the beginning.
I grabbed a researcher who was struggling to escape, and asked him if there was a room that met both the conditions of "must pass the iris authentication process to enter" and "be able to isolate psionic energy".
"How do I know!" He shouted in panic, "Let go of me!" β
It seems that the way I asked the question was too polite.
I pulled out my pistol, put it against his head, repeated my question as it was, and when I had finished speaking, slowly applied force to the trigger in a way that he could feel.
He didn't know that there were no bullets in my pistol, and his eyes widened and his body went limp, and he showed me the way in fear.
I left him behind and hurried in that direction.
Soon, I found a room at the end of the hallway, the door was unguarded, the size of a high school classroom, with no furnishings, except for a square silver metal pedestal in the center, about the height of a person's waist.
Chloe stood alone in front of the silver metal pedestal, with her back to me, seemingly staring intently at the top of the pedestal.
I pressed the button next to the door, and it slammed shut.
"It seems that I really don't have a partner." I said as I walked over to her.
"It's not your fault." As she spoke, she also turned around, took off her helmet, and smiled, "Who made me a 'bad woman' of unknown origin?" β