Chapter 14: In the Octagonal Cage
The night was getting darker, and Xu Yue had already returned to his room, and now he was sitting cross-legged on the bed, which helped him concentrate.
I recalled the meditation method explained by the professor in my mind, and the feeling of entering the professor's mental space came back again, which was the most important introduction.
As time passed, Xu Yue's consciousness became more and more drowsy, as if he had fallen into the deep sea, and the feeling of indulgence hit in waves, until his consciousness was completely submerged.
[Hunter's own comprehension skill: Mind Space (Special).] γ
[Hint: This skill is a special class and cannot be strengthened through the Reincarnation Paradise, and can only be realized by the hunter himself.] γ
The chaotic consciousness was awakened by the sound of the paradise, Xu Yue opened his eyes, and a somewhat old forging room appeared in front of him, which was the most familiar place in his memory.
This is...... I'm back again?
Touching the outer wall of the rough furnace, Xu Yue's eyes were a little dazed, but after seeing the purple flames burning in the furnace, he sighed lightly.
There's no such thing as a fire in the stove in my hometown, is this my mental space?
The eyes swept over a series of equipment such as furnaces, forging presses, and lathes in the forging room, exactly as in memory.
Even the positions of the weapons hanging from the walls were exactly the same, these were the blades that he had hammered out one by one.
When I opened the door of the forging room, it was not the small courtyard of my hometown, but a flat land, quietly suspended in the air, and beyond the land was an endless sea of purple fire.
The foundry room is like an island in a sea of fire, carried by a piece of land several feet in size.
Is the boundary of the professor's mind space a gray mist, and mine a purple sea of fire?
Xu Yue silently compared his space with the professor's space, and he knew it.
But is this space too small, Xu Yue looked left and right, the professor's space can carry a huge manor, and mine only has a small casting room?
Such an obvious gap also made Xu Yue deeply realize how spicy the intelligence of 5 points is.
After looking around, Xu Yue roughly understood the pattern of the spiritual space, and then looked up.
Above is a dazzling night sky, dotted with countless golden stars, varying in size and brightness.
Golden? Shouldn't it be blue?
There is also such a night sky in the professor's mental space, but it is all blue stars, according to the professor, it is the ocean of the collective subconscious of mankind.
As Jung's seabed theory suggests, the entire human community exists in an interconnected subconscious ocean, located in the deepest part of consciousness, and a star represents a human consciousness.
Mental manipulation, memory reading and other abilities are all through this ocean, to complete the consciousness connection between two independent individuals, but why is mine golden?
"Roar!"
While thinking about it, a roar suddenly sounded in the space, attracting Xu Yue's attention, the sound came from under the land, he walked to the edge of the land, looked down, and a cold octagonal cage was impressive.
"Hey, it's still a duplex."
Inside the cage, more than a dozen figures are constantly fighting, fists, teeth, everything, although there is no order, but it looks more primitive and tragic.
Looking at the face, it was the group of people who became fuel after being killed by Xu Yue, but now they were completely unconscious, fighting with instinct under the influence of the octagonal cage.
During the gladiatorial fight, from time to time, a figure was torn apart, and then turned into a large piece of starlight, part of which was submerged into the ring under his feet, absorbed by the octagonal cage, and the other part was swallowed by other figures.
"Interesting, it looks like a zombie war." Xu Yue above watched the cage fight with interest, but the efficiency of this fight was slow and he couldn't bear to look at it directly.
These fighting figures are the embodiment of the ownerless spirit that was piled up after the fire entered the body, but after all the memories and thoughts were burned by the fire, they behaved like zombies.
The fight in the octagonal cage is just the appearance, in essence, it is Xu Yue's own absorption and digestion of these spiritual powers, but this process is slow and efficient, and long-term consumption will also cause a lot of burden on the spirit, which is why Xu Yue will be depressed.
He's not the only one in his head.
And this method will also have certain hidden dangers, just like the digestion method of raising Gu, in the long run, if you raise a Gu King, it will be troublesome.
Looking at the scene below, Xu Yue also figured out the operating principle of this octagonal cage, the corners of his mouth slowly pulled apart, and his arms had begun to glow silver.
"In that case."
Boom!
Xu Yue jumped down directly, and with gravity, a figure had been smashed into a starry sky.
Slowly getting up, looking at the more than ten figures who roared and pounced in front of him, Xu Yue smiled more and more openly.
"Then let's kill you again!"
The roar grew even higher, and there was a few hearty laughs in the middle of nowhere.
Half an hour later, as the last enemy had his neck broken, the entire octagon cage returned to silence, and surrounded by countless starlight, Xu Yue stood in the center of the ring with his hands held high.
It was as if there was a cry in my ears that I had heard countless times:
"The winner is: Flame!!"
γHunter Intelligence +2γ
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"Whew, what a nostalgic feeling."
Xu Yue, who had returned to reality, let out a long breath, got up and moved his legs, which were a little numb, he was in a good mood now.
From the time he entered the world to the present, he has improved his attributes by 4 points, and his natural ability is very strong, and it will get stronger and stronger.
It was dark outside, and it was still early before dawn, but Xu Yue, who had just improved his intelligence by 2 points, was not half tired, and he was in just right shape now.
Sitting back on the edge of the bed, Xu Yue did not prepare to sleep, but closed his eyes and thought about something, and there was a dead silence around him, after a long time.
Xu Yuecai opened his eyes, with a little purple intent in his eyes, got up and took out the Xiaoyun Bow in the space, he touched the tight back of the bow, and sighed lightly:
"Alas, since ancient times, love debts are the most difficult to repay."
After speaking, Xu Yue stretched his waist, opened the door with a longbow, and walked towards the living room.
The rooms of Xu Yue and Professor Laura and others are on the second floor, and after walking down the stairs, you will reach the living room, which is directly opposite the door of the house.
It was late at night, and the living room was naturally empty, so Xu Yue dragged a chair in the living room and opened the door of the house directly.
Placing his chair in the doorway, he sat down and waited.
According to the original plot, X-24 would infiltrate the room tonight and deal a fatal blow to the Professor, the last time the Professor erupted in the hotel had already made Donald feel the fear, and they could not resist this force, so they had to deal with the Professor first.
X-24, as a clone of Logan, is undoubtedly the best candidate to assassinate the professor.
And Xu Yue deliberately approached the professor and blended into the protagonist team, carefully not daring to change the plot too much for this opportunity.
Revealing his mutant identity, approaching Laura, accepting a hire, being injured in the hotel to protect them, and explaining to the professor his ability to devour metal by killing enemies.
All in order to voluntarily kill the professor after he was severely injured by X-24, and then use the fire generated by the professor to solve X-24 and devour Erdman metal, killing two birds with one stone.
Moreover, killing Professor X, even if it is strictly a matter of picking up cheap knives, as long as it is Xu Yue who makes the last move, the reward must be very expensive.
Professor X's strength is at least the second order and above, and he is not an enemy he can deal with at this stage.
Lighting the fire that the professor got was the only thing he could get that worked on the Edelman metal, but he couldn't assassinate the professor on his own initiative, and with the professor's psychic ability, he could take him with him before he died.
X-24 was able to succeed only because the professor mistook him for Logan, and the professor was originally determined to live and die, otherwise he would not have been able to get close to the professor at all.
The memory of destroying the X-Men with his own hands has already made this old man have a lot of holes in his heart, and the huge cemetery in the mental space is the best proof of this.
Therefore, gaining the trust of the professor and letting the professor voluntarily kill Xu Yue before he died in order to protect Logan and Laura was the best solution that Xu Yue could think of to complete the task.
But the plan can't catch up with the changes, and the mental space that the professor taught him tonight is very unusual, which makes him owe a lot of favors.
He couldn't afford to ignore it, waiting for the professor to die before picking up the bargain.
He's a villain, that's right, he killed a lot of people in the octagonal cage, he never relented, no matter whether he was good or bad, whether he was old or weak, after becoming an opponent, only one person could stand and step down.
But there are always some principles that cannot be compromised, unscrupulous means in order to complete the task, there is no bottom line, what is the difference between that and a weapon without thoughts, anyway, living again is already earned, he doesn't want to live so aggrieved.
The professor was pure kindness to him, and he couldn't afford to abandon him, but he now wondered how his charisma could be only 5 points, which was obviously unscientific.
Since there is no way to make a profit, let's give it a go, he has never been afraid of fighting, and the previous warm-up in the space also made him fight now.