Chapter 111: Extremely Simple
Chapter 111: Extremely Simple
“What was that just now…”
Just as the human-faced Psychic Entity began to blur, as if about to disperse, Gecko—who, although having left the battlefield earlier, had stubbornly refused to venture too far—suddenly started in shock. He quickly jumped up and turned to look towards the High Wall.
After concentrating and sensing carefully, he muttered urgently, “I sense the collapse of Mental Power… that human-faced entity…”
“It was about to erupt.”
“…”
It was unclear what he thought of, but as he spoke these words, his expression even seemed to twist.
“What’s the current Psychic Magnitude level?”
Tie Cui’s voice, calm and swift, came through the communication channel.
Gecko checked the detector in his hand and whispered, “From three thousand meters away, I can still detect nearly one hundred units of residual Mental Power. It can be inferred that the Psychic Entity under the High Wall must have had a Psychic Magnitude of at least over two thousand… This is already minimal. When we left earlier, its Psychic Magnitude was continuously increasing, approaching four thousand…”
“So, Mr. Lone Soldier managed to reduce its Psychic Magnitude by half in such a short time?”
“…”
“Even a Psychic Magnitude of two thousand would lead to terrifying consequences…”
After rapid calculation, Tie Cui finished his thought over the channel: “If a Psychic Magnitude of two thousand erupted, even if that Psychic Entity had no other Contamination Traits, even if it was merely a distorted Psychic Energy Field… exploding instantaneously…”
She paused slightly before murmuring, “It would be nearly equivalent to ten kilograms of TNT!”
“And the most terrifying aspect is that the eruption could spawn a Mental Plague of distorted psychic force. The radiation radius would exceed three kilometers. Within this range, all ordinary people would die instantly… or be warped, becoming Sources of Contamination themselves…”
“…”
Gecko leapt up in alarm: “Should we call in the Special Dispatch Team?”
Tie Cui replied softly, “It’s too late for them to deploy now…”
“No need!”
Mr. Lone Soldier’s voice, firm and steady, suddenly came through their channel.
Tie Cui reflexively asked, “Why?”
“Because,” Mr. Lone Soldier continued steadily, “I’ve been monitoring the channel all this time. Mr. Lone Soldier hasn’t requested assistance from me yet.”
Han Bing’s voice, light and soft, interjected gently: “Mr. Lone Soldier is a very reliable person. Since he hasn’t asked for help, it means he can handle it!”
Gecko momentarily found himself at a loss for words.
At that very moment, an exceptionally clear sense of vibration suddenly washed over him. The earth and the building he stood on visibly shook. This tremor was not born of the mind, but was a tangible vibration of the ground itself. Startled for a second, Gecko swiftly scrambled up against the building’s facade, reaching the roof in one breath. He strained to look towards the direction of the Southern Wall.
At the position of the Southern Wall, no flames erupted. Instead, vast amounts of fine dust seemed to billow up.
Unable to discern anything clear at that distance, Gecko anxiously looked down at his palm.
The gauge on the device in his sweat-slicked hand showed the residual energy levels rapidly declining.
“What is this…”
Gecko stood frozen on the spot, momentarily stupefied.
“Report: Psychic levels at the Southern Wall region of Satellite City No. 2 are plummeting rapidly!”
“Psychic Radiation is dissipating! Levels nearing zero!”
“Requesting instructions: Proceed into the site?”
“…”
Instantaneously, similar reports and notifications echoed from various locations across Qinggang City.
Immediately followed by an agonizing collective wait, a tense process surely vexing many people in numerous control rooms uncertain of the next step.
The first to receive orders was Gecko: “Approved by Command: Gecko, enter the site for assessment…”
Gecko agreed instantly and was about to sprint off when Tie Cui’s voice, now tinged with hesitation, came through the channel: “…Be careful!”
Gecko paused for a fractional second, then suddenly laughed heartily: “Okay, Linda!”
……
……
As the word faded, Gecko, like a streak of shadow, shot towards the direction of the High Wall.
He vaulted over multiple walls and fragments of ruined buildings along the way, resembling a Ghost under the Crimson Moon.
Within five minutes, he reached the periphery of the wasteland laying at the base of the High Wall. After a brief, cautious sweep to confirm no trace of the Psychic Entity remained, he accelerated once more, urgently rushing into the desolate expanse and began searching.
He saw countless people lying under the High Wall—some silent, others sprawled amidst Chaos—prone upon the earth.
On another side, numerous people remained standing. Unlike before, when everyone stood silently weeping towards the wall, some displayed dawning awareness, bewilderedly scanning their surroundings.
A few, opening their eyes only to be confronted by the carpet of corpses, were terrified into immediate unconsciousness.
Still others burst out in cries of Fear, pushing and shoving, staggering and stumbling, desperately trying to flee the area.
Fear and confusion hung over everyone like dark clouds.
Gecko paid these people no mind. He swiftly moved through the crowd and found Lu Xin sitting atop a massive boulder unearthed from beneath the ground, his head bowed. At his feet yawned an exceptionally terrifying crater. On both sides, immense force had blasted downward, heaving earth and shattered rocks up along the edges, creating a startlingly grotesque scene.
“Brother, are you okay?”
Gecko cautiously approached Lu Xin, picked up a thin twig from the ground, and gently poked him.
“Hmm?”
Lu Xin, lost in thought, snapped his head up, startling Gecko into jumping backward.
“You’re here…”
Recognizing Gecko, Lu Xin visibly relaxed and smiled. “It should be handled now. Have the Support Team come in!”
“Oh…”
Gecko responded hesitantly. Seeing Lu Xin lower his head again, he couldn’t help but swallow hard. “What are you doing?”
Lu Xin slowly turned. He was holding a crushed headset and the shattered fragments of a monitor, trying to piece them together. Unfortunately, both the headset and the monitor were far too broken to fix.
“The headset’s ruined, and I stepped on the monitor, smashed it…”
Lu Xin seemed troubled as he murmured this quietly.
After a moment, he lifted his head with a worried expression. “Headquarters won’t make me pay for it, will they?”
“…”
Faced with this utterly unexpected question, Gecko was at a loss for words. He could only reply honestly on instinct: “If you don’t truthfully report that you stepped on it… they probably won’t make you pay…”
Lu Xin felt somewhat reassured and finally gave up on his attempt to piece the fragments together.
Meanwhile, Gecko, feeling utterly bewildered, had finished walking a complete circle around the crater, which was about four or five meters in diameter.
Silently calculating the energy required to create such a massive pit, he glanced back at the panicked crowd running behind Lu Xin.
Deep in thought, he squatted down beside the crater. “Brother, how did this happen?”
Lu Xin glanced at it. “It was the Psychic Entity. Suddenly, it erupted… like a Bomb.”
“Looks that way,” Gecko nodded seriously, then lifted his head again, his eyes brimming with shock and fear. “Then…”
“How did you manage to confine the force of its explosion to just this one small spot?”
“…”
Lu Xin looked up at Gecko.
The astonishing scene flashed back into his own mind.
As the Psychic Entity was about to explode, releasing a distorted and horrifying force field, Little Sister had split her small body apart. The twisted Psychic Entity birthed from her Contamination also split its form. Using their separated bodies, they wrapped the human-faced Psychic Entity tightly within them. So, instead of dispersing, the explosive force was contained within that confined space.
Just how powerful was that?
Honestly, even he, Lu Xin, found it strange at this moment.
But seeing Little Sister right now, grinning broadly as she lifted her small face, hugging his arm as if seeking praise…
Lu Xin didn’t answer directly.
“You just have to gather the force of its explosion into one spot and wrap it up to contain it.”
Lu Xin answered softly, looking up at Gecko. “Can’t you guys do that?”
Gecko shook his head slowly, deliberately and seriously.
Lu Xin seemed thoughtful. “Then it must be…”
“Brother, I know the rules…”
Gecko raised his hand to stop Lu Xin, finishing his sentence. “…So it must be our problem for being too weak, right?”
Lu Xin nodded and smiled.