Chapter 334 - Chapter 334: Chapter 334: The nemesis of evil? (1/2)
Chapter 334: Chapter 334: The nemesis of evil?
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The lanky young man sitting in the back seat subconsciously glanced back again. Due to their hasty departure, they hadn’t even had time to close the warehouse gate properly. That dark gate was like a monster about to devour its prey, chilling anyone who looked at it.
Especially when he thought about the monster with many eyes and arms he had just seen inside, he wanted to leave this place as far as possible as quickly as he could.
“Baldy, let’s leave quickly. I… I didn’t see anything…” The young man said in a nearly tearful voice. He had no interest in discussing the monster any further. It felt like the mere mention would make the monster dash out from the warehouse to look for him.
The scar-faced man looked suspicious, “You didn’t see anything?” He looked at the obese middle-aged man sitting in the co-driver’s seat: “You said it didn’t want to let us leave. Do you know what it is?”
“You saw it yourself, don’t you know?” The middle-aged man rubbed his face hard, trying to keep himself awake, but his trembling hands betrayed his current emotional state.
“What the hell do I know? Speak clearly!” The scar-faced man suddenly exploded with rage, leaning over to choke the middle-aged man with the help of a wrench, and scolded him angrily.
“Baldy, Baldy, don’t do this, let’s leave this place quickly…” The young man in the back seat reached out and tremulously held the arm of the scar-faced man in an attempt to dissuade him.
“The damn car isn’t starting, how can we leave? Leave your ass!” The scar-faced man forcefully shook off the young man’s hand.
However, at this moment, the normally slippery middle-aged man unexpectedly leaned towards the car door, raised his left foot, and fiercely kicked the scar-faced man.
The scar-faced man was kicked fiercely, smashing into the driver’s door, creating a loud noise. The young man watching from the back seat worried if the blow would shatter the car window.
After screaming in pain, a ferocious light flashed across the scar-faced man’s face. Seeing the middle-aged obese man and the lanky young man still in the car, he quickly opened the car door, jumped out of the car, then, turning back, yelled at them furiously, “I knew it! It must be your dirty work! You planned to harm me! You collaborated to harm me! All for personal gains? Well, take it all. See where you can sell the goods without my connections! I hope you can handle the heat! Death upon you! I’ll remember this vendetta, you better be careful!”
Having said that, the scar-faced man glanced back towards the warehouse again fearfully, then started running towards the exit of the abandoned factory area.
Seeing the scar-faced man spew out a bunch of nonsensical accusations then suddenly begin sprinting, he even stumbled a few steps in, then immediately picked himself back up and continued running until he disappeared at the corner. This left the two people in the vehicle staring in bewilderment.
“Uncle, what happened to Baldy?” The young man asked shakily.
The middle-aged man wiped his nose and shook his head, “He’s haunted by guilt.” He paused and then continued, “The three of us… we all are.”
The young man didn’t quite understand his words, so all he could do was ask, “Uncle, what… what should we do? What about this car?”
“I probably won’t live much longer.” The middle-aged man put his head down and gave a bitter smile, burying his face in his hands, “I know that you also saw it, that monster in the warehouse. It can make us see the things we fear. The more you avoid, the more scared you become. Do you understand? The more you evade, the more you fear.” His emotions slowly settled, and he no longer appeared as shattered and out of control as he did earlier.
Upon hearing these words, the young man in the back seat started spacing out, seemingly lost in thought.
In the narrow alley next to the warehouse, Xiang Kun, who had already exited his Super Sensory State, was quietly recounting the conversation between the people inside the truck to Xia Libing.
From where they were positioned, they couldn’t see the warehouse door or the truck, but for Xiang Kun, distance was not a hindrance at all. Plus, thanks to the poor noise isolation of that rickety truck, Xiang Kun clearly heard the conversation among the three people inside.
The reason Xiang Kun decided to perform these experiments on the three people was not simply because he wanted to scare people for fun. He wanted to validate his two theories.
His first theory was an attempt to modify the group illusion capabilities Xiao Pingguo “developed” last night, that is, to propagate range illusions even without Gold Flash.
There were several methods Xiang Kun could use to create illusions in other people:
One was to affect others through eye contact-induced “co-manifestation”, allowing others to see what he was seeing. This ability worked best when combined with “Emotional Assimilation”. He used this method the last time he and Chang Bin went to the bar for a drink and he suddenly decided to sing Jacky Cheung’s “Big Husband”, affecting the people around him.
The second method was to directly utilize the ability Xiao Pingguo “developed” earlier, which involves packaging the emotions contained in “emotion-infused objects” and turning them into projections for co-manifestation. By “injecting” them into the target’s consciousness, the target would not only experience the corresponding emotions but also see the corresponding emotional projections. However, Xiang Kun had no control over what projections they would see. He utilized this method in Tongshi Town against the bald Boss Qi and Qi Haoguo who were with Liu Feibao.
The third way was to perform the previous method remotely while in a Super Sensory State, allowing people to experience corresponding illusions. After locating a Divine Technology research base through the rabbit wood carving, he used this method to make the researchers at the base see illusions of rabbit meat.
The latter two methods only affected individuals. Though the first could affect groups, it required him to enter an emotional state, or self-hypnotize first, which meant a long preparation time. Also, he had to expose himself in front of other people, which often wasn’t feasible.
As for the ability of “Illusion Reality” that Old Xia had just “developed”, he wasn’t sure if it was pure illusion. Though it could allow other people to see, so far, it could only manifest all kinds of food and it didn’t have the ability to affect emotions.
The modification method Xiang Kun utilized was simple. He directly entered the “Super Sensory State”, called upon the emotional projection of the Eight-armed, Eight-eyed Woodcarving, then right under the “Super Sensory State”, he utilized his influence over a large number of “Super-connected Objects” around him to expand the emotions and create a broad influence area.
If we were to liken the ability Xiao Pingguo developed last night to throwing out a sack of chalk dust (emotional projection), allowing a high-powered electric fan (Gold Flash) to scatter it everywhere for wide-range impact,
Then Xiang Kun’s modification was like arranging a pile of smaller electric fans (coins, marbles, and other super-connected objects) in advance, throwing out a sack of chalk dust, and letting these fans blow the dust everywhere for the wide-range impact.
When Xiang Kun used this ability for the first time, he was worried that he wouldn’t have enough “super-connected objects” to call and project the interference from, so he practically had Old Xia throw most of the “super-connected objects” into the warehouse.
To judge by the final outcome, the resulting illusions indeed propagated to a group. All three thieves who had entered the warehouse saw the illusions and experienced significant emotional effects.