pjbooks Chapter 339 It's you!
Chapter 339 It's you!
That sound!
Chen Yifan suddenly stopped and slowly turned around.
Behind me, someone had appeared at some point.
The man was wearing a standard combat uniform for a lamplighter, and tactical goggles on his face, obscuring his features.
But the dark Gaussian energy gun in his hand, pointed directly at his forehead, and the familiar energy fluctuations emanating from the gun, instantly turned Chen Yifan's eyes cold.
"Is it you?"
Chen Yifan recognized the person.
He was the deputy director of the Jiangcheng Lanternman Branch Bureau, one of Lei Zhen's most trusted deputies, and also the technician who took out a detector to try to crack the formation at the chessboard checkpoint.
Shouldn't he have been trapped in the illusionary realm with the other pursuers, or simply died inside?
How could it appear behind me so silently?
Chen Yifan's keen senses swept over the area and he immediately noticed something was amiss.
Behind this deputy director stood more than a dozen figures.
These were the surviving Lamplighters, special police officers, and experts from the Council of Order.
But at this moment, all of these people stood motionless, like puppets, their eyes rolled back and their faces expressionless.
Thin, black tentacles, finer than a human hair, emerged from the gaps in their combat uniforms at the back of their necks, connecting to the deputy director's back and rising and falling slightly with his breathing.
Spiritual parasitism!
The word flashed through Chen Yifan's mind instantly.
Are you surprised?
The deputy director slowly removed his tactical goggles, revealing a face covered with strange black patterns.
The lines, like living things, slowly wriggled beneath his skin, forming an eerie pattern.
Chen Yifan recognized the pattern.
When I went to the Gobi Desert to change jobs, I had the same pattern as that person.
[Holy Church]
"Our cult has been eyeing this place for a year now."
The deputy director's face broke into a fanatical and twisted smile, and his voice grew increasingly hoarse.
"Unfortunately, the conditions for opening this relic are too demanding, requiring a massive sacrifice of lives. We've tried many times, but we still can't fill that bronze door."
"So, we changed our approach."
He spread his hands out, as if showing off his masterpiece.
"We deliberately leaked information about the ruins to the Kirin Conglomerate and those greedy fools in the Order Council."
"Sure enough, they swarmed over like flies that smelled blood, willingly sacrificing their lives to clear all the obstacles ahead for us."
"As for the Lamplighter..." He looked at Chen Yifan, his eyes full of mockery, "he's just a tool to be used incidentally. That idiot Lei Zhen probably still thinks this is all a conspiracy by the Council of Order."
Chen Yifan listened quietly, the anger that had been building up inside him because of his level cap was finally ignited.
What a clever tactic! The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.
From beginning to end, this was all a setup.
A bloody conspiracy that uses countless lives and the resources of two major powers to pave the way for their [Holy Church].
"However, I still want to thank you."
The deputy director looked at Chen Yifan as if he were a perfect work of art, his eyes filled with greed.
"Our original plan was to wait until they were both severely injured before I would take action and use their souls to break the final seal on this [Starry Sky Codex]."
"But your appearance is simply a gift from God!"
"Your pure, unpolluted spiritual energy is the perfect, most pristine key to unlocking this sacred text! With you, we can even skip all the subsequent bloody steps!"
As he spoke, he stretched out a hand and made a feinting grabbing motion towards Chen Yifan.
"Now, offer up your fascinating soul and make it the cornerstone of the cult's descent!"
The parasitized puppets behind him instantly raised their weapons and aimed them at Chen Yifan.
Dozens of energy beams, each powerful enough to flatten a small mountain, lit up at the same time.
The air was thick with the heavy tension of an impending storm.
However, facing this seemingly inescapable predicament, Chen Yifan showed no sign of panic or anger.
He didn't even lift his eyelids.
He simply looked at the deputy director, who was still rambling on, with the gaze one would give a dead man, and asked a question indifferently.
"Finished with your beeping?"
The deputy director's smile froze: "What did you say?"
"Have you finished speaking?"
Chen Yifan's voice remained calm, but beneath that calmness lay a terrifying killing intent capable of freezing the soul.
"Now that you've said your piece, go die."
The moment the words fell, the newly acquired, still-warm spiritual technique imprint in Chen Yifan's sea of consciousness suddenly lit up!
【God Meteor Thorn】!
There was no initial movement, no energy fluctuation, not even the slightest warning.
A purplish-gold spiritual beam, solidified to the extreme and almost materialized, appeared out of thin air in front of the deputy director's brow and pierced through him at a speed that transcended space and time!
"puff!"
The deputy director's head exploded on the spot, like a watermelon smashed by a heavy hammer.
Red and white splattered all over the ground.
This sudden turn of events caught everyone off guard.
However, Chen Yifan's brows furrowed tightly.
Not right.
so easy.
Sure enough, just as the deputy director's headless corpse swayed twice and was about to collapse...
From his ripped neck cavity, a terrifying worm, entirely black and covered with barbs and mouthparts, suddenly emerged!
The worm was not large, only the size of a palm, but the evil aura emanating from it was a hundred times stronger than that of the deputy director himself!
This is his true form!
"Hehehe... It's useless..."
A crack appeared on the worm's body, emitting a piercing mental fluctuation.
"My true form is a pure aggregate of spiritual energy! Physical attacks are ineffective against me! And your spiritual attacks will only be devoured by me!"
With its roar, the parasitized puppets, like zombies receiving a command, their eyes glowing red, abandoned their guns and pounced on Chen Yifan with their bare hands.
Their bodies were covered with bizarre growths of flesh and mechanical modifications, clearly indicating that the worm had forcibly unleashed all their potential.
Dozens of experts at the third or even fourth level launched a fearless charge, intending to use sheer numbers to wear down Chen Yifan!
Faced with the surging army of zombies, Chen Yifan not only did not retreat, but instead sneered.
He stepped onto the central stone platform and, just before the barrage of attacks rained down, grabbed the "Starry Sky Codex," which radiated a vast starlight.
"Use me as a key?"
"I'm going first!"