Psychics don't die from gunfire

After returning to his residence, Song Shi took off his clothes, took a shower, and then slowly sat on the sofa.

He suffered some minor injuries when he killed "Anfu Axeman", but for Song Shi, compared with these minor injuries, the blood, water, machine oil and other mixtures stained all over his body were more uncomfortable.

After setting up the data tablet, Song Shi opened a can of soft drink and looked at the tablet: "Zai Zai Zai, what's the matter?"

"Have you had any contact with people from Zero Degree Network today?"

A scribbled simple-drawn expression jumped out, clearly a question, but Lapis Lazuli's calm voice was filled with affirmation.

"So be it."

Song Shi took a sip of his drink and said casually: "I could feel someone peeping at me at that time, but I couldn't confirm the specific identity. You were actually there?"

In tonight's action, he revealed some information to the other party, and both parties believed that [Zero Degree Network] would not be absent.

For Zero Degree Network, a wandering "omnic", especially a suspected witness of the [Freedom Revolution], is an undoubted precious asset. Under such circumstances, the other party actually took such a big risk to get close to the battlefield?

"Providing timely support to companions is the basic duty of an alliance." Lapis Lazuli remained calm.

Song Shi raised his eyebrows. After looking at the other party for a few seconds, his tone slowly became lazy: "Okay, thank you for your support."

Then, he said with great interest: "So, what do you think?"

Lapis Lazuli paused for a while and did not answer the question. Instead, he asked: "Song Shi, what do you think of 'Lapis Lazuli'?"

"Very good, really good."

Song Shi came to a conclusion and did not hesitate to praise: "Although it may be unkind to say this, Flashing Star is not as good as you. It is not even a simple technical gap, but more metaphysical, about thinking, intuition, and perspective."

Lapis Lazuli's expression jumped, as if he was a little surprised: "You are on the Internet." He paused and changed his words to more euphemistic words: ". How did you come to this conclusion with the ability that can be expected in the future?"

Song Shizheng said: "Innate talent."

Lapis Lazuli said nothing and changed his expression to a smile.

Seeing this, Song Shi laughed loudly: "You continue."

This is certainly not a talent. At least in terms of network technology, he really has no talent. It's just that I have come into contact with too many experts in this field in my previous life, including some "Lords of the Abyss", so at least I still have some perspective.

Lapis Lazuli obviously didn't intend to delve into it.

"——I can say that I am far from the real 'Lapis Lazuli' now."

Soon, its tone became serious and solemn: "But as long as I complete one thing, I can recover and my abilities will be greatly improved."

"In return." Without waiting for the other party to speak, Lapis Lazuli said solemnly: "As long as it is completed, I can serve you for one year."

Song Shi propped up his chin with one hand: "Go on."

Lapis Lazuli was silent for a moment, then slowly spoke.

".Song Shi."

"You have not implanted a prosthetic body, so you are not afraid of remote hacking attacks against the prosthetic body - but you still need a sufficiently powerful 'cyber countermeasure'."

"In reality, the network is everywhere. If you call it according to your customs, the network is the 'way of heaven' that now covers the four directions and represents the collection of meanings of all things. Intelligence search, remote support, equipment control, and tactical strategy formulation. These all require Through the Internet."

"Destroying a well-protected military base requires a lot of time and energy even for you. But as long as I am here after recovery, I can significantly reduce your costs - hack into the protection system in advance and retrieve the defense plan , usurp their equipment and prosthetics.”

Song Shi nodded slightly: "Then?"

".Abyss." Lapis Lazuli said.

"Song Shi, your spiritual energy is powerful enough, but you cannot maintain it in the [Abyss] solely by relying on spiritual energy. Those flowing intelligences, malignant programs, and memetic viruses do not have enough technical support, even you are in danger."

"But with my assistance, it won't matter. I can make sure you dive to depth 4."

Song Shi changed his posture: "It sounds good, but I am not a 'demon', just a pure 'psychic person'. What does diving into the abyss mean to me?"

"Of course it makes sense."

Lapis Lazuli's voice was steady, and his expression on the tablet was serious.

"Your enemy has a zero-degree network and will definitely face 'demons' in the future. Simply killing remote avatars in reality cannot completely kill them. This can only be achieved in the [Abyss]."

"As for your other enemies, I can also help you lock down the network, hack into the firewall when the opponent logs into the virtual network domain, and pull him into the [Abyss] to kill him, or I can perform a memory search to confirm the intelligence."

"——Furthermore, you should know that as long as you defeat those 'derivatives' in [The Abyss], you can quickly increase your spiritual power."

Song Shi snapped his fingers, as if he had already guessed what the other party wanted to say: "A bloody battle in the abyss."

Since the birth of the "network", a miraculous creation, and under the long-term use of human beings, the spiritual energy originating from the subconscious has been mobilized along with nearly endless messages and emotions, transforming the original network into a "redundant network". "The aggregation of residual spiritual energy"—that is, the current [Abyss].

In other words, the environment in the [Abyss] is even worse than before.

Because of the creation of the giant wonder of the "Network Domain Firewall", various forces divided the clean parts and piled up the seriously polluted parts. Just like the world opened up in mythology, clean air floats up and dirty air sinks.

This division now exists between the "pure domain" above the domain firewall and the "degenerate domain (abyss)" below it.

In this case, the [Abyss] has become a pure garbage dump since its establishment.

It is named after the "abyss" in mythology, which means an inhuman place filled with sulfur vapor and ever-lasting magma.

And after so many years of autonomous evolution, redundant psychic energy, negative emotions, meme viruses, malicious programs and other things are mixed together to create a special individual - now they are called "derivatives".

In a sense, "derivatives" are the original creatures bred by the [abyss].

——And killing these "derivatives" can enhance psychic energy!

To be more precise, after killing the "derivatives", the killer can devour the psychic energy carried by the latter and convert it into his own power.

This is in addition to the underlying rule called "the constant weight of all things ()" that makes everything have weight and causes the technology blueprints and other information that sink into the abyss to be scattered in different depth layers according to their own importance and technical content.

Another underlying rule of the Abyss.

"Survival of the fittest ()".

Killing an opponent will take away its power until the next kill, or being killed.

Under the influence of this rule, there is a cycle of endless fighting in the Abyss. As the depth increases, this fighting will become more brutal and noisy.

Therefore, some people call it.

Abyss blood battle.