Chapter 594: The Exit Is Right In Front
The Veda had no kryptonite in this world. Be that as it may, if there was anybody who could give them some trouble, it would be Soulsqn.
The Veda could store and a.n.a.lyze any attack or ability they received, regardless of its strength and type, and make it less useful.
In this sense, Soulsqn could be called gifted.
Seeing the two humans looking at her with expectant eyes, the crimson-red flesh worm raised her head and said contemptuously, "Those Veda, hmph! They all talked so high and mighty, but they could not do a single thing to me when I used my ability!"
"Cut the c.r.a.p and get straight to the point!" Lin Sanju interrupted.
"Have you forgotten that I can create reality, too?" Soulsqn said hastily, rubbing her mandibles.
Although both Soulsqn and the Veda could create "reality", fundamentally, they were different.
For example, when the Veda created an apple, everybody could see, touch or even taste it. The apple truly existed before it was deleted. However, that wasn"t the case for Soulsqn"s reality. She could only erect a "reality" for a particular group of people. Only the target in her reality could see, touch, or taste the apple; as for the people who did not fall into her ability, the apple did not exist.
This was also the reason why Soulsqn could escape from the clutches of the Veda again and again. As long as she trapped her pursuer in a reality that contained another her, the Veda could not locate the real one.
The best part was that even though the Veda had recorded and a.n.a.lyzed her ability, it did not affect Soulsqn much. For the Veda, all the realities she created were real. It was irrelevant to her battle parameters, and she could create however many she wanted.
In the end, Soulsqn had become the only "person" who had not been a.n.a.lyzed by the Veda.
After she finished gloating her ability, Soulsqn did not receive the feedback she"d antic.i.p.ated from the two humans.
"d.a.m.n it!" There was a moment of silence until Lin Sanjiu cursed aloud. She took a deep breath, turned away from the flesh worm, and looked at Puppeteer, asking, "What should we do?"
"We must leave now," Puppeteer nodded with his chin at the flesh worm and said coolly, "Make sure your ability is on standby. The moment a cord comes near us, you must create a reality to distract it."
Soulsqn looked at Lin Sanjiu and Puppeteer with a dazed expression on her face, unable to comprehend what was going on. Suddenly, her body was lifted from the ground, and when she looked ahead, she saw that a black hole had appeared at the void in front.
"Wait, wait, wait, wait!" the flesh worm yelled, wriggling with all her might. "Why do the two of you look so sulky? With my ability, they cannot harm us. Don"t you think this is—"
Lin Sanjiu shoved Soulsqn into the black hole without making any comment. The latter"s body squelched as she fit through the hole.
The black hole could open a portal within a certain range. Only when the two humans and worm came out of the other end of the black hole did Soulsqn finish her sentence, "—a good thing?"
Grasping the worm in her hand, Lin Sanjiu opened another black hole without saying a word.
The Veda had a.n.a.lyzed all of Lin Sanjiu"s abilities and Special Items. The only thing she could rely on right now was the [Pygmalion Choker]. This implied that they had only five minutes to find the metal plate and escape from the Veda"s pursuit.
They had leaped through the black hole four times straight, yet the metal plate was still nowhere to be seen. Every time they showed themselves from a black hole, the cords, which had been quiescent, would come alive, quickly homing in on them like a bunch of sharks that smelled blood, and flood the area with blinding light.
Soulsqn dared not to yell at Puppeteer, so she could only bl.u.s.ter at Lin Sanjiu. "This is a good thing. Why do you look as if your mother died? Hey, don"t ignore me, say something!"
Lin Sanjiu pinched her skin and said through gritted teeth, "They got both of us"s information. And my mother is deceased."
"Oh, my," Soulsqn exclaimed, half surprised and half-amused by what she had heard, "Unbelievable. You two are so wea— Oh, well… I mean, that is so unfortunate, Lord Puppeteer."
The second half of the sentence was said only to Puppeteer.
Lin Sanjiu raised one of her eyebrows and harrumphed. "So your ability is useless now."
"What do you mean? It has nothing to do with me. After all, it"s you two that lost—" Soulsqn did not finish her sentence as understanding dawned upon her. Her body became frozen stiff as Lin Sanjiu hurled her into the sixth black hole.
She yelled in rage the moment she slipped out of the black hole.
"You exposed the secret of cracking my ability to them?" Soulsqn"s body convulsed with anger as it became redder and redder. "How—How could you—"
"Quit yapping like an annoying fly. Blame yourself for developing such a chickens.h.i.+t ability," Puppeteer snapped, the glitter powder around his eyes sparkling grimly. "You should be grateful that we didn"t choose to call you a worthless piece of s.h.i.+t."
Soulsqn immediately fell silent.
She would never argue with Puppeteer, as the last thing she wanted was to enrage him. After all, there was a patch of plastic on her back.
"The amount of information containing both of our combat parameters should be tremendous," Lin Sanjiu said as she opened up another black hole. The cords were gaining speed, and the number of their pursuers was s...o...b..lling. "You can probably escape from them because they still don"t know that we know how to nullify your ability. Hence, the three of us must form a united front. If anything goes sideways, you have to use your ability to create a reality to help us escape."
The moment Lin Sanjiu finished speaking, the three of them came out of another black hole. Soulsqn seized the opportunity and hastily asked, "What if they use your method against my reality?"
"Don"t worry. n.o.body else knows more about our abilities than we do. We will help you."
That said, Lin Sanjiu was not confident in what she should do. Putting everything aside, there was nothing she could do if the Veda pulled out a [Nostradamus Card] to absorb Soulsqn"s reality. She knew exactly how powerful and dangerous her abilities were, and she had never expected that one day, she would have to go against herself.
After a short rumination, she added, "However, it"d be best if we could get to the metal plate before the Veda get to us."
Without waiting for her voice to settle down, Lin Sanjiu summoned another black hole and jumped into it. At the same time, the void around them once again lit up by a blanket of s.h.i.+mmering cords.
Lin Sanjiu got the black hole idea from Gong Daoyi. Gong Daoyi had a Special Item called [Wormhole], which granted the user the ability to travel between two points in s.p.a.cetime in the shortest pa.s.sageway. Lin Sanjiu could not replicate the full power of the Special Item, and she could only open up a portal within a certain radius. Hence, she had to jump around and try her luck in finding the location of the metal plate. Of course, it went without saying that she did not tell Puppeteer about the origin of this ability.
Just when Lin Sanjiu was about to jump out of the black hole, Puppeteer grabbed her shoulder and pulled her back. Shocked, Lin Sanjiu raised her head to see that a cord was floating right in front of her. She would have jumped straight into it if Puppeteer hadn"t stopped her in the nick of time. Lin Sanjiu immediately opened up another black hole, and the three of them jumped into it.
Perhaps Lady Luck decided to smile upon her. When the duration of the choker reached the fourth minute, they finally saw their destination—the large metal plate—hovering far away in the middle of the air.
However, the Veda seemed to have realized their intention.
Right at the moment they spotted the metal plate, the Veda showed up as well. As if somebody had knocked over a bucket of white paint, the silvery-white light intertwined and spread out, forming a white-colored barrier that obscured the metal wall in the blink of an eye.
The two humans and one worm couldn"t do anything but stare in a trance.
Their surroundings were filled with so much light that Lin Sanjiu had to s.h.i.+eld her eyes with her hands. She turned her head over her shoulder to look at Puppeteer and Soulsqn, and softly said, "So?"
Puppeteer looked even paler against the intense light, giving Lin Sanjiu the impression that he would merge with the light at any moment.
"There. I can see a slit between the white light and the metal wall," Puppeteer said in a hushed voice, "It"s worth a shot."
Soulsqn did not say anything. She went closer to Lin Sanjiu.
"Okay, on my command. As soon as I open up a black hole, jump into it!" Lin Sanjiu"s voice hardly died down before she grabbed Soulsqn and leaped into the black hole with Puppeteer.
The blanket of cords glowed to an intense white hue. It swirled and pulsated for a while before disa.s.sembling into strands of white cords. Unfortunately, the metal wall was empty; n.o.body was standing there.
Puppeteer, Lin Sanjiu, and Soulsqn had escaped.