Chapter 2171: Important Information
Dou Shengnan's mental evolution was absurdly powerful. Besides being able to supply spiritual power over long periods and wide ranges, she could also directly force high-level players to commit suicide—this was nothing short of horrifying. The willpower of high-level players was incomparable to ordinary people. Even if interference could be successfully carried out, the difficulty of the interference and the speed at which the target regained clarity afterward were far beyond what ordinary people could match, let alone directly driving them to recklessly kill themselves.
Dou Shengnan usually fiddled with a pocket watch, which inevitably led people to suspect that her watch was some formidable prop. However, in the two encounters, she never once took out the pocket watch. Instead, it was her eyes that used a strange power to control people's minds. Compared to ordinary high-level players, Xu Huo should have been less susceptible to influence, so these two instances were clearly targeted. Dou Shengnan didn't use this move against Nie Xuan but specifically came to kill him.
When he made his move, Xu Huo didn't think about props at all. He simply followed his instinct to blind her eyes. Unexpectedly, when he gouged out her eyeballs, he felt something inside them.
It was also a very strange sensation. The transparent bead in his hand felt solid, like a glass bead shaped like an eyeball, but when it was in Dou Shengnan's eye socket, it seemed not to exist—at least, he couldn't feel at all that her eyes were fake. Of course, the eyeballs themselves were real human eyes.
Having been in the game for so long, Xu Huo had never seen a prop that could merge with a person like this. Unfortunately, Dou Shengnan hadn't died, so the prop couldn't be stored in the item slot. For now, he had no way of knowing what it was.
After thinking for a moment, he used his trait "Home Field Perspective."
The pen began to scratch across the paper.
"Fighting alone was clearly an ignorant and arrogant decision. Xu Huo realized this when he tried to block Dou Shengnan's path. But precisely because he was ignorant and arrogant, he decided to see his plan through to the end."
"...After successfully luring Dou Shengnan into the Double-Bright Bird administrative district, his nerves became somewhat tense, so he failed to notice that the Dr. Dian in front of him was slightly different from the Dr. Dian he had spoken with during the day. However, given his current intelligence level, even if the evidence were placed before him, he might remain completely oblivious..."
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"Dou Shengnan seemed to have a reason she couldn't leave Zone 008. During the battle, she attempted to use a teleportation prop three times but gave up each time. The super evolvers in Zone 008 were nothing special. As long as she used props and instruments properly, she could easily stall for time and kill her target."
"...She was extremely dissatisfied with Xu Huo's perfunctory conversation. At the same time, she was particularly curious about a normal mental evolver with split personalities, as this was a realm she could never reach. Curiosity and dissatisfaction brought anger and killing intent. As if she were just like the ignorant and arrogant Xu Huo at the beginning, she too was controlled by emotion, insisting on killing this kindred spirit on the spot, especially when he tried to block her path again..."
"...The heart that Dou Shengnan released was a special prop, similar in effect to 'Pure Heart.' Both could minimize the influence of other props and instruments to the greatest extent, faithfully completing their tasks... Xu Huo thought the glass bead he had squeezed out of Dou Shengnan's eyeball had a similar function, but that wasn't the case. It was a mental-type super prop. Although he had obtained it by chance, he couldn't use it..."
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"All the mechanical eyes in this space could be connected to by anyone. So even the Double-Bright Bird enforcement team didn't realize that while they were watching the battle, these images were also faithfully transmitted to Dr. Dian's robot not far away..."
"...When Xu Huo was about to be beaten to death, Dr. Dian took out a declaration with a Double-Bright Bird pattern. It was a declaration signed by him opposing a certain type of species gene chimera experiment. Most of the names on it were quite famous in the Double-Bright Bird administrative district, but that wasn't important, because Dr. Dian's purpose was to tear it up..."
"Xu Huo, who thought he could come out of the black vortex again, was forced to fail the clearance."
"...The repeated drowning process was actually an attempt to kill Xu Huo spiritually. The root cause was the power from the super prop, also a counterattack from Dou Shengnan. As for why Dou Shengnan was so careless as to have her eyes gouged out, it was probably the foreseeable outcome for someone prone to anger..."
"Fortunately, the childhood personality awakened in time. It possessed a power that Xu Huo didn't know about and didn't have. It successfully deceived the Black Sea with the core materialized object stolen from Dou Shengnan's spiritual world. After avoiding the targeting, it allowed Xu Huo to barely escape with his life..."
"...The time difference caused by crossing zones allowed some life-saving props to take effect again. Unfortunately, Xu Huo landed headfirst. After barely adjusting his posture, he still broke his hands and feet. He lay peacefully in a patch of mushroom field... Someone came to bring him flowers, wishing him a peaceful departure..."
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"Xu Huo was very interested in this strange town and planned to investigate the Divine Maiden Spring that A Hai mentioned once he could walk around. Of course, while he was curious about others' physical conditions, they were also curious whether he had two sets of reproductive systems."
Ignoring the sarcasm directed at him and the main individuals involved, Xu Huo directly extracted the key points.
Of course, he looked at the important events mentioned in it; everything else could be disregarded.
First, the trait indirectly confirmed his speculation. Dr. Dian indeed knew the whereabouts of the declaration and had torn it up to give him a chance to leave Zone 008. It was just that he was too severely injured to make it in time. However, the fact that Dr. Dian had been replaced was truly unexpected. He didn't know the other party's identity, but judging from the outcome, the other party seemed to want to help him.
Second was Dou Shengnan's prop. Not to mention the heart, he really hadn't expected that what he had dug out was a super prop. This was as surprising as the childhood personality stealing Dou Shengnan's core materialized object. Moreover, it could be hidden in the eyes.
Regarding Dou Shengnan's core materialized object, when he used the trait last time, the trait only mentioned stealing something from her spiritual world without specifying what it was. This also seemed to suggest a direction for mental evolution: the ability to maintain the long-term effectiveness of spiritual power even when separated from the person.
Once he recovered, he should properly understand the true abilities of the childhood personality.
Although he was severely injured, judging from the current situation, this operation wasn't a loss.
Having obtained Dou Shengnan's super prop, even if he couldn't use it now, it greatly weakened Dou Shengnan's strength. This strongest support of the Eerie Sound Knights would likely disappear from the scene for a long time.
Although the "Time Tower" was still in Dr. Dian's hands, this person leaned more toward friendliness. His position at Stellar Pharmaceuticals was very important.
Of course, he didn't know who the other party really was, or whether the "Time Tower" could be recovered. Once his body recovered, he would definitely have to go to Zone 008 again.
"You're awake?" A Hai came in carrying water and said happily upon seeing him sitting on the bed.
(Chapter End)