Chapter 165
Chapter 165: Liberation of Mental Power and Body
Mental Power was decreasing.
The dagger in his hand was undergoing changes, decomposing and shattering.
Its potential had long been insufficient.
But the power of Sublimation was forcefully changing everything about it.
Crushed and reorganized, it turned from the shape of a dagger into a lump of residue.
Then from residue, it turned back into a dagger.
Over and over again… in a continuous cycle.
Ye Qiyan’s decrease in Mental Power synchronized and spread to the outside world through the book of reality and illusion.
Everyone who came into contact with that purplish-red glow went from clear-headedness to confusion, from confusion to collapse, and from collapse to complete loss… and madness!
Ye Qiyan jumped down from the high platform.
Red Tears followed behind him.
He strolled forward.
The purplish-red glow did the same.
The Mental Power of the modified people was already on the verge of complete collapse.
If it continued to decrease, it would be madness.
An uncontrollable madness.
“Roar!”
The machine-constructed people were no longer controlled by Qiao Jie.
They launched attacks against each other, against everything.
And likewise, against Qiao Jie.
“Damn it! What are you doing? I created you! I gave you eternal life! I am your master! Get away from me!”
Qiao Jie angrily opened his hands, continuously firing bullets from his ten fingers.
Those machine-men modified from the natives could be knocked down with a single blow, but those modified using the bodies of Train Captains were something even Qiao Jie himself couldn’t defeat immediately.
He was surrounded and attacked by his own modifications.
Enveloped by the halo of the book of reality and illusion, he fell.
Already terrified by what had just happened, he was even more panic-stricken under the dual effects of the Rain of Red Tears and the book of reality and illusion.
Flee!
This voice rang frantically in Qiao Jie’s mind.
He had to flee!
He must escape!
But, how could he escape?
A Train appeared in Qiao Jie’s mind.
That was his Train.
“Damn it, damn it, damn it!”
Not daring to use machine bodies with self-awareness anymore, he threw out a batch of machine creations from that door of flesh and machine to self-destruct. Then, without hesitation, he began to flee in one direction.
Ye Qiyan watched the direction of his escape, the corners of his mouth curving upward.
The Raven Demon, which had been hiding in the sky all along, chased forward along with the wind and rain.
Flee?
How could he flee?
There is only the Train.
Even though this guy said he had abandoned his identity as a Train Captain.
But Ye Qiyan didn’t believe that this guy would abandon his Train as well.
A level 37 Train Captain—even if his Train had been abandoned for many years, there must still be many valuable treasures inside.
Looking around.
The modified people were still beating each other frantically.
Under the power of the book of reality and illusion, they had already achieved liberation of their Mental Power.
But there was still the physical body.
“Red Tears.”
He issued an order.
The sword of carved tears shifted horizontally.
A sorrowful sound spread in all directions.
All the modified people seemed to have received some kind of command, rushing frantically towards this direction.
He swung the sword—
Severance—
They achieved liberation.
Having settled all this, Ye Qiyan followed in the direction of the Raven Demon.
As he passed by Shangguan Yingxue and the others, their complex gazes, filled with fear, envy, and even a bit of jealousy, fell upon him.
Ye Qiyan hadn’t intended to pay attention to these guys, but he suddenly stopped and looked over with a smile.
“Go back and prepare. Although I saved you by accident, I still have to charge a fee. As for how much your lives are worth…”
He didn’t finish, only giving Shangguan Yingxue and the others a playful look.
As a Train Captain of the same batch, Ye Qiyan felt he was still quite kind. At least he didn’t kill these guys and take their Trains and carriages to sell on the black market.
Although Shangguan Yingxue, a relatively familiar woman, was among them.
But in the end, their relationship was just that of trading partners, nothing more.
“Where can you find a good person like me?”
Ye Qiyan lamented.
As for whether they would directly take the Train to escape?
Forget it. For a bunch of level 3 or 4 Train Captains, even if their docking time was only the basic three hours, by the time everything was settled, they wouldn’t be able to leave by Train.
If someone really could leave…
Then consider them lucky.
Qiao Jie flew in mid-air, the machine jet device behind him running at maximum power.
Ten-Cang Rice City, as the name suggested, had ten huge rice granaries.
His Train was inside one of these rice granaries.
“Here…”
Entering the rice granary, a rotting stench rushed to his face.
Since completing the machine-flesh modification on the vast majority of people in the entire city, very few people would eat this white rice anymore.
The air blower blew away the rice.
Revealing a Train buried beneath it.
How many years had it been since he saw this Train?
Qiao Jie never expected that he would use it again one day.
“Damn it! If it weren’t for that guy! Just you wait, I will definitely kill him in the future!”
He walked to the Train door and reached out a finger to touch it.
Ding—
The familiar System Light Screen floated before his eyes.
[“Detected former Train Captain: Qiao Jie has returned. Rebind the Train? Reclaim the identity of Train Captain?”]
He had abandoned the Train System, but the system was still willing to give him another chance.
“I…”
Before he could finish his sentence,
a sharp raven cry accompanied by the Black Feather Storm slammed his body aside.
“Cough!”
Engine-oil-like black blood spurted from Qiao Jie’s mouth.
Looking up, he saw a terrifying, demon-like existence staring intently at him.
“Caw!!”
As a claw swiped at him, Qiao Jie tried to dodge, but he was still grabbed into mid-air by the Raven Demon’s talons.
“Ah!”
The hard talons crushed his shoulders.
Thrown to the ground from high up, then lifted back up from the ground.
The Raven Demon was like a cat playing with a mouse, continuously shattering Qiao Jie’s already extremely fragile heart.
“Let go, let go of me! Ah!!!”
Pain. Ever since completing his self-modification, he had never felt such intense pain.
death…
This demon with a raven’s head and human body emitted a certain signal.
He would die!
“No, I cannot die! I haven’t become an Apostle yet! I haven’t taken revenge on those Judges of Solomon City!”
Qiao Jie’s eyeball fell to the ground, once again turning into a door of flesh and machine.
His last batch of machine-modified humans were summoned from it.
If that terrifying young man and the woman beside him weren’t here, then surely…
Buzz~
A purplish-red ripple spread outward.
Clack—
Clack—
Clack—
One step, two steps…
It was the sound of leather boots stepping on wooden boards.
Gradually approaching.
A man and a woman strolled in from outside the rice granary.
Qiao Jie’s only remaining eyeball stared fixedly in that direction.
In Qiao Jie’s eyes, this handsome young man who looked only in his early twenties was like a life-claiming nightmare.
His Mental Power collapsed.
“Ah!”
