This Spiritual Energy is Lethal!-Chapter 227 - : One Week
Chapter 227: Chapter 227: One Week
Chen Ke knew that judging a monster’s strength by its appearance and size was unreliable; logically, the bigger ones were usually more formidable. However, to conserve energy, he decided to let Ying Baiyi offer some insight.
Every monster was categorized and numbered by the Administration Bureau based on their attributes. During their second entry into the West Gold Building, Sleery and Yang Xiao had already briefed Chen Ke on the basic catalogue that investigators needed to memorize.
As a level 9 agent, Ying Baiyi certainly knew more than them. He immediately focused on S-level monsters and listed a few hundred from the thousands under containment.
Chen Ke carefully examined the monsters on the screen. Not all S-level monsters necessarily had a soul; only those classified as “Extraordinary” by the life countdown and identified as mutated individuals had “massive malformed souls.”
Thus far, Chen Ke had acquired three souls.
The first was from a giant toad in the sewer. Facing an Extraordinary monster for the first time, the soul power was passively absorbed by the life countdown, adding five hours to his lifespan limit.
The second and third were from a contract demon and Faralis.
The large malformed soul of the contract demon had added ten hours to his lifespan, while the grand soul of Faralis was exchanged by Chen Ke for a double-handed sword she had wielded.
The Administration Bureau’s classification of monsters was not the same as Chen Ke’s life countdown.
For investigators and agents, the grading from D to S level corresponded to the humanly judged degree of danger, whereas the ranking given by the life countdown represented a more absolute biological level.
Only Extraordinary-level monsters possessed powerful souls, and ordinary monsters, lacking even an information box, were given a cue based on documents Chen Ke had come across meant for investigators.
As for how threatening a monster was to Chen Ke, the most direct indicator was how much lifespan its killing aura could replenish. The stronger the monster, the more lifespan gained.
“Look at that… that big guy there,” Chen Ke pointed at a minotaur on the screen.
Though called a minotaur, it was actually a giant man with a pair of curved horns on his head.
He was enormous, barely fitting into an 18×18 room, his arms wrapped around his knees curled up inside. The green night vision screen made it impossible to discern his skin color, but just a look through the screen suggested that this man was a formidable being.
“Oh… this is a fierce one. I remember he was extracted from some Great Void. Who knows what the research institute wanted to find out from him,” Ying Baiyi shook his head and entered the room number, selecting the “Extermination” command.
A sharp alarm sounded from outside, and red emergency lights bathed the pitch-dark surroundings in a blood-red glow. In this silent place, it was enough to make one’s scalp tingle. A countdown timer of 2 minutes and 30 seconds began on the screen.
“Damn… so slow… Can it be done immediately? This alarm is driving me crazy…” Chen Ke complained.
“No way, it’s a safety mechanism, giving you 2 minutes and 30 seconds to reconsider, and only one can be handled at a time,” Ying Baiyi shook his head.
This design was intentional by the Administration Bureau, and the two could only endure the annoying alarm and silently waited for 2 minutes and 30 seconds.
“Snap!”
The alarm suddenly stopped, and the monitor screen turned pitch black. After a tense few seconds, the red light turned green, then silently extinguished. Chen Ke immediately looked at the screen where the minotaur had vanished…
“Where is he?” Chen Ke exclaimed in surprise.
“He’s been exterminated,” Ying Baiyi said.
“That thoroughly…?” Chen Ke couldn’t help but be dumbfounded.
“Probably used an oppositely charged Spiritual Energy repulsion field that eradicated him immediately,” Ying Baiyi explained.
Chen Ke walked to the edge of the transparent wall and looked down; he hadn’t obtained a soul and wasn’t sure if it was because the music was too distant or if the monster wasn’t at the Extraordinary Level.
In the Fan Hede Kingdom, he and the contract demon had fallen off a cliff, and even though he returned to the real world through a Teleportation Gate, the contract demon’s death had granted him a soul. Thus, Chen Ke guessed distance was likely not an issue.
Therefore, either this monster wasn’t at the Extraordinary level or… obtaining a soul required a prerequisite condition… The monster must be dealt with directly or indirectly by him.
If it really required him to act personally, that would be quite troublesome.
“No, this won’t do…” Chen Ke shook his head.
Ying Baiyi shrugged his shoulders and dropped another monster list for Chen Ke to choose from.
“Can I operate it this time? Is it difficult?” Chen Ke asked.
“Not difficult,” Ying Baiyi chuckled and moved aside, “I’ll tell you what to click and what to enter. It’s as simple as playing a video game.”
Chen Ke looked at the screen-listed S-level monster, which was not large in size, about the size of an adult, but covered in black fur, and its head slightly resembled a Husky…
Under Ying Baiyi’s guidance, Chen Ke entered the room number and selected the annihilate command.
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After a 2-minute and 30-second wait, once the red light outside turned green and plunged into darkness again, Chen Ke felt a familiar sensation swelling in his chest, and suddenly, a line of orange prompts appeared in his vision.
Gained soul: A small malformed soul
[Small Malformed Soul]
[Usage: Add 5 hours of life expectancy or open a Teleportation Gate once]
[Coming from an Assassin’s soul, a man weighed down by deep vengeance, his heart forever filled with anger. As moons change and stars shift, his hatred transcends time, turning him into the embodiment of revenge.]
[That dog held a special significance to him, they really shouldn’t have done that…]
A wave of purple mist penetrated the walls, rising from the pitch darkness below toward Chen Ke, adding a malformed soul to his soul interface!
“How about that? Does this work?” Ying Baiyi stood to the side and asked.
Chen Ke felt a surge of secret delight but didn’t show it, coughing instead and shaking his head.
“Excuse my boldness, but how do you decide what works and what doesn’t? …Maybe I can be of help…” Ying Baiyi asked.
“I have a special way, whether you believe it or not… I can just feel it,” Chen Ke said.
“Say what you will, if you don’t want to tell me, then keep searching on your own… but you’d better understand, our time is limited…” Ying Baiyi shook his head.
Chen Ke pulled out an orange Holy Diamond and tossed it to Ying Baiyi, who caught it with a flick, summoning the Blasphemous Dagger.
“Here, you’ll need this soon,” Chen Ke said.
Ying Baiyi didn’t speak, putting the Holy Diamond in his pocket and watched Chen Ke as he continued to select monsters.
Thus, Chen Ke continually used confinement measures to erase the selected monsters, and various souls kept rushing to him from the room matrices below.
Naturally, Ying Baiyi couldn’t see this soul fog; he only knew that Chen Ke was constantly killing those monsters, his face occasionally showing expressions of surprise or dissatisfaction.
Some time passed, and suddenly, the white fluorescent lights in the control room went out, replaced by dark red emergency lighting.
“Damn… we’re running out of power, stop playing around, is it done yet…?” Ying Baiyi walked up to Chen Ke.
At this moment, Chen Ke had a satisfied expression on his face. In that last flurry, he had killed at least 54 monsters, and despite 13 without souls, the rest had brought Chen Ke numerous souls, large and small.
In the soul interface, aside from Lin Mo’s soul, there were precisely 42 souls listed, from the 41 soul-containing monsters he had just annihilated and the gnoll’s soul he gained during the first attempt.
These souls could provide additional life expectancy, with the shortest being just 1 hour and the longest reaching up to 20 hours, totaling 168 hours!
Adding to his current life expectancy of 20 hours, by crushing all these souls, he could live comfortably for over a week.
“Better safe than sorry, Ying Baiyi, better safe than sorry, it’s time to go home…” Chen Ke turned, his face wearing an inscrutable smile.
