Tokyo underground city

Chapter 248 [Soul Dive]

"[Soul Dive]?"

Lin Huai'en was stunned for a moment: "Is this what you want to teach me?"

"Yes." Vaskov nodded and played with the long sword in his hand. This was the first time Lin Huai'en knew that he could actually use a sword.

And like Li Muen, they are both "long swords".

Vaskov put the pistol on his waist, played with the weapon in his hand, and slowly circled Lin Huaien.

"Lin, do you know Lake Baikal?"

"The deepest freshwater lake in the world?" Lin Huaien thought for a moment. Lake Baikal is located in southern Siberia, only more than a hundred kilometers away from them.

"Yes." Vaskov nodded, "The moment I saw you, I knew that you were a psyker, and you had not experienced [Soul Dive]. All your spiritual energy was radiating and showing On your own body."

"...What does this have to do with Lake Baikal?"

Lin Huai'en frowned, feeling that Vaskov's way of saying something was a little convoluted.

"It has something to do with [Soul Dive]."

Vaskov shook his head, paused slightly, and replied: "The so-called [soul dive] is to let your consciousness sink into the 'deep' and find your 'origin', and then you can be considered a person." A true 'psyker'."

"So Lake Baikal is...?"

Lin Huaien thought for a moment and nodded. He did not let go of any details that Vaskov said.

"Lin, do you know?"

Vaskov said slowly: "Most of us humans are creatures wearing masks and walking on the 'lake'."

“We see ‘other people’s masks’ but think we see ‘other people’s true feelings’. However, due to perspective problems, we cannot truly see clearly what each person hides.”

"And the so-called 'soul dive' is to break the 'ice on the lake surface' and let yourself fall into the deep cold. Then when we slowly sink to the bottom of the lake, what we can see will no longer be It's a 'mask' on people's faces."

"It's the 'truth' hidden under everyone's feet and hidden in their clothes."

Vaskov stretched out a hand and winked at Lin Wynn.

The next second, Lin Huaien felt that his feet were empty and he had fallen suddenly.

He was startled, but Vaskov's voice also sounded -

"Don't struggle, this is my psychic skill [synchronization], I am sharing my own memories with you."

(this is……?)

Lin Huai'en exhaled a lot of bubbles and floated in the cold lake water without using much effort.

Although he could feel the bone-chilling cold, he could feel that this cold did not pose much of a threat to him.

The cold lake water seeped into Wu Ruzhiyu's interior, making him feel extremely real.

Above his head, the light of the scales fell through the lake water, like the light spots of the forest or the scales of a carp.

He moved his limbs and swam upward, trying to breathe fresh air, but he hit the ice head-on.

"It's Lake Baikal."

Lin Huaien saw Vaskov floating more than ten meters in front of him and looked at him with a smile: "This is my memory. I synchronized it to you through [synchronization]."

(You said this is your memory...why do you have this kind of memory?)

Lin Huai'en felt an urge to slap the ice surface deep in his heart, but a figure came over on the ice, suddenly drilled something through the ice surface, and threw it down.

"It's a bomb. I advise you to avoid it."

Vaskov looked at Lin Huaien calmly. Before Lin Huaien could react, the black cylinder in his arms exploded, pushing him into the depths of the lake.

(Ahem! What the hell!)

Lin Huai'en felt his chest collapse and flew more than ten meters into the lake before reluctantly stopping.

The injuries on his chest caused by the water pressure also slowly healed under his own consciousness.

(Spiritual body?)

"Yes." Vaskov nodded, "We are all spiritual bodies now, so we don't need to breathe, and we won't freeze to death."

(But those people on the ice?)

Lin Huai'en followed Vaskov's example and slowly pushed his hands and feet so that he would not fall into the bottom of the lake or hit the ice, and then be attacked by the man in black on the ice with a bomb.

"My instructor."

Vaskov calmly replied: "Among the fifteen students in my batch, I was the only one who survived in order to acquire psychic skills."

(...How is it possible, aren't they murder?!)

Lin Huai'en was silent for a moment, then shook his head vigorously.

"We do this voluntarily."

Vaskov looked at Lin Huaien and swam forward slowly: "Like most of them, I am an orphan. Many of our relatives have died in the attacks of monsters in the dungeon, leaving us helpless. We can only choose this path."

Lin Huaien hesitated for a moment, then followed Vaskov and swam forward.

As the two men advanced, a large number of corpses appeared in front of them, including children and adults, but most of them were wearing uniforms and looked like cadets or military police.

"These are my dead 'companions'."

Vaskov introduced the situation at the bottom of the lake to Lin Huaien: "This is my 'Lake of Souls'. I awakened my psychic talent at the bottom of Lake Baikal and realized my 'soul essence', but as a price, I also became A psyker who cannot forget each of his fallen comrades."

(...Aren't you in pain?) Lin Huai'en was silent for a moment and spit out the bubbles in his mouth.

"No." However, Vaskov shook his head, opened his hands, looked up at the lake, and said slowly: "Do you remember what I told you? The meaning of [Soul Dive] is to let yourself The mind dives into the 'deep sea of ​​self' and recognizes what kind of person one is."

Vaskov turned around and looked at Lin Wynn: "And my essence is this lake of death."

Corpses floated past Vaskov, looking extremely eerie and terrifying.

But for some reason, Lin Huaien could feel something heavy but warm from Vaskov.

(...You can't forget the death of each of your companions, but you still think that their sacrifices have immortal significance?)

Lin Huaien hesitated for a moment. He didn't know why, but he could understand Vaskov's thoughts just by looking at the scene in front of him.

This may be because, although every corpse he encountered along the way had messy hair and pale face, their expressions were unusually calm and peaceful...

"yes……"

Vaskov nodded, his expression full of sadness: "Every time I [synchronize] with others, I will form a body in this ice lake. When they are alive, I can feel their Life, but when they die, they will turn into corpses, floating in my spiritual world, and become a drowned person who will never open his eyes again.”

Lin Wynn noticed that while Vaskov was speaking, "Ghost" Yevgeny floated past him, his face obviously rosier.

It was as if he was sleeping, with his eyes closed.

Then, among the endless corpses, he saw "himself".

"Lin Huaien" smiled and waved to him, then swam away.

(So...you mean, let me find my own 'lake'?)

Lin Huaien thought for a moment and asked Vaskov.

Vaskov nodded, then shook his head: "Since you can obtain psychic skills, it means that you have the conditions to become a psychic, but you want to ignite your own 'spiritual sense' and truly enter the world of a psychic." field, but still need to go through the test between life and death.”

"That's called [Soul Dive]."

Vaskov slowly explained: "My [Synchronization] ability allows you to experience illusory death in my spiritual world and plant a seed of 'spiritual awareness' in your heart. As for this 'seed' Even I don’t know when it will take root and sprout.”

“And what kind of ‘self’ you see after [soul dive] also varies from person to person.”

Vaskov raised his head and looked at the ice above his head: "For me, the ice above my head is the barrier that separates me from the normal world. Above the ice is the life of ordinary people; and below the ice , is the battlefield for me and my colleagues.”

"As for the werewolf warrior who uses the 'fire' ability, although his psychic skills are rough, his [Destiny Path] should be a boundless 'flame', or at least something related to 'flame'."

"And if you can awaken your own 'spiritual awareness', then what kind of [Destiny Path] you can obtain depends on your own life experience."

"And this kind of life experience is called [Destiny Path] in our communication as psychics."

Vaskov slowly turned around and looked at Lin Wynn.

([Destiny Route]...)

Lin Huai'en chewed this word in his heart, but saw Vaskov suddenly opened his arms,

The next second, his body was pulled by some mysterious force and he suddenly fell to the depths of the lake!

(Wha...I'm not ready yet!)

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Lin Huaien let out a scream and sat up suddenly.

He was covered in cold sweat, and a thick layer of snow had accumulated on his body.

"you're awake."

More than ten meters in front of him, Vaskov looked at his pocket watch calmly: "It took fifteen minutes, shorter than I thought."

"I am..."

Lin Huai'en covered his head, but he could not recall the memory of falling into the depths of the icy lake.

"Did I succeed?"

He looked at Vaskov and asked.

"I don't know." However, Vaskov just shook his head calmly: "The part of my spiritual body that led you to the end of the abyss has died. This is the price that must be paid to let you come back."

Only then did Lin Huaien notice that Vaskov's face was paler than before.

He frowned subconsciously: "For an uncertain possibility, you sacrificed part of your strength?!"

“Because I was able to get here through the constant sacrifices of others.”

However, Vaskov looked at him and smiled slightly: "You have seen my [Destiny Route], you should know what the essence of my soul is."

"Burial... no, to be precise, is it an ice burial..."

Lin Huai'en said slowly.

Vaskov nodded and raised the sword in his hand: "'Ice' means 'calm' and 'despair'."

"'Burial' refers to 'connection with others', 'death' and 'battlefield'."

"Then, my psychic skill is [Synchronization]."

"You should understand what will happen next, right?"

Vaskov looked at Lin Huaien and smiled, his snow-white teeth looking unusual in the wind and snow.

Lin Huai'en remained silent for a long time, then squeezed out three words from between his teeth——

"'Sharingan'."

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Compared with Lin Huaien's [Imitation], Vaskov's [Synchronization] is even more terrifying.

As long as he can drag the opponent into his [Destiny Path], he can synchronize with the opponent's "Destiny Power". In other words, every move of the opponent will be completely copied by him and become part of his own ability.

Even the actions can become exactly the same.

As for this [Synchronization] ability, Vaskov can't help but use it himself, and he can also share it with his companions through the [Destiny Route].

Because he had once entered the depths of Vaskov's sea of ​​consciousness, Lin Wynn was clearly aware of this.

"It's almost like the Manifesto, it's really creepy."

Lin Huai'en suppressed the discomfort in his heart and activated [Shadow Stealth].

""The shadow is summoned! ""

Vaskov and Lin Huaien read out the skill command lines almost in unison, and the two of them almost turned into two identical shadows and rushed towards each other.

The gray-green anger collided with the steel sword, and a series of sparks exploded.

Lin Huaien slid on the snow for five meters before barely stopping, but Vaskov was one step ahead of him and had already stood up.

"Equipment skills are also ineffective for me."

Vaskov held the steel sword in his hand and looked at Lin Huaien calmly: "As long as it is an ordinary dungeon ability, whether it is equipment skills, physical fitness, or spell casting ability, I can copy it."

"Because part of your spiritual imprint remains in my [Destiny Route], as long as you cannot use spiritual energy to shield your spiritual power from overflowing, you will be completely seen through by me and become my synchronization target."

"Even the consumption of your normal skills will be doubled. I only need to pay the basic mental power required for synchronization."

"...It's so fucking outrageous!"

Lin Huai'en looked at the consumption of his curse power and couldn't help but curse.

He somewhat regretted seeing Vaskov as a mere support staff member.

This combat ability is simply a monster.

In fact, because of his ability to master the nature of snow, Vaskov was still able to suppress Lin Huaien even if he used the same skills and abilities.

"But...'ordinary skills'..."

Lin Huaien looked at his skill list and took a deep breath.

He happens to have something that cannot be considered an 'ordinary skill'.