Free Web NovelChapter 197: Chapter 167: Want to Try a Shot? It Feels Great.
Lin Qi once again began to speculate about the effects of the Extraordinary Item held by the Dragon Country’s government.
Amidst his speculation, Lin Qi also discovered something else.
It seemed there was a limit to how much the activity of Spiritual Particles could be enhanced.
This time, it had only increased by about ten percent, and he could faintly sense it was already hitting the upper limit.
Lin Qi had a gut feeling that the First-Class Merit Ding Yang helped him apply for wouldn’t be as exaggeratedly effective as he had imagined.
If something like "merit" could be manufactured by the Dragon Country’s government and stacked indefinitely...
...the Extraordinaries within the government would have long since surpassed the simple level of Tier Three.
They’d be pushing for Tier Five by now.
The hundred- or thousand-fold Meditation efficiency he had imagined was most likely impossible to achieve.
But Lin Qi wasn’t discouraged. This was only to be expected.
Otherwise, the danger level of the Doomsday World would increase without limit.
And who knew what level of monsters would be spawned in such an environment.
The train ran smoothly. At forty kilometers per hour, the journey from Shuining City to Modu would take about eight hours.
During this time, Lin Qi remained in Meditation, while also dedicating a sliver of his focus to observing Wei Yue’s condition.
If Wei Yue were to wake up, Lin Qi would immediately stop meditating to confirm whether she would still obey his orders after her transformation.
However, Wei Yue showed no change, even by the time Lin Qi arrived in Modu at Hongshan Station.
It seemed the incomplete trait had not yet been fully absorbed, and it was helping Wei Yue break through the threshold to Tier Two.
...
On the platform of Hongshan Station, sentries from Hongshan Camp received the news when the train was still ten kilometers away.
They drove back to the camp at speeds far exceeding the train’s to report to Ding Yang.
By the time the train pulled into the station, Ding Yang was already waiting on the platform.
Ever since Lin Qi had set out the day before, Ding Yang’s heart had been in his throat, terrified that something might have happened to him.
At the same time, he worried whether Lin Qi had actually been able to handle the disaster in Shuining City.
Even now, Ding Yang couldn’t fully relax.
The train came to a stop. Ding Yang immediately stepped forward and asked, "Lin Qi, are you hurt? What’s the situation in Shuining City? The team dispatched by Headquarters has already arrived in Modu; they’re just waiting for news from you."
Lin Qi didn’t waste time. He first piloted the M-Class Mecha onto the platform, then opened the cockpit.
Taking out the Tier Three Crystal Stone he had obtained from Shuining City, he showed it to Ding Yang. "The problem in Shuining City was no small matter."
His very first words made Ding Yang’s heart leap into his throat.
"But fortunately, the Tier Three Monster has been dealt with, and the Moon Worshipers in Shuining City have also been taken care of."
Phew!
Hearing Lin Qi finish, Ding Yang finally let out a sigh of relief.
’As long as it’s resolved, and he’s safe, that’s all that matters.’
But Lin Qi wasn’t finished. "However, there’s also some bad news."
Ding Yang’s heart leaped back into his throat.
Lin Qi didn’t keep him in suspense and carefully explained the situation in Shuining City to Ding Yang.
"The disaster in Shuining City was caused by Moon Worshipers. Compared to the Moon Worshipers in Beining District, the ones in Shuining City were more ruthless, and also much stronger."
"Shuining City has become a ghost town. Nearly every living person was slaughtered by the Moon Worshipers, including everyone on the official rescue team..."
Lin Qi gave Ding Yang a detailed account, including the Blood Moon Descent Object in Shuining City and the ritual methods the Moon Worshipers had used.
To be honest, the ritualistic methods employed by the Moon Worshipers were beyond what Lin Qi thought the term "Extraordinary" encompassed.
These were no longer Extraordinary methods; they even had a touch of the fantastical about them.
But considering the so-called ritual was connected to the Blood Moon in the sky, Lin Qi thought it was still within the realm of reason.
After all, the Blood Moon itself was an existence that surpassed his comprehension.
Listening to Lin Qi’s account, Ding Yang’s heart grew heavy.
A city with a population of a million had just become a ghost town, just like that.
Ding Yang couldn’t help but feel a sense of sorrow.
’If the incident in Beining District had been allowed to continue...’
’If it hadn’t been discovered in time, if Lin Qi hadn’t gone to deal with it...’
’...then would Modu, a city with a population far exceeding Shuining City’s, have also met the same fate and become a ghost town?’
Fortunately, things hadn’t developed to the worst-case scenario.
Before a Tier Four Monster could be born, Lin Qi had stopped it all.
Ding Yang didn’t think Lin Qi was lying.
But next to Ding Yang, a man in camouflage fatigues frowned.
This man was looking at Lin Qi.
And Lin Qi had his own Spiritual Vision locked on this man.
’An Extraordinary!’
’And not a low-level one, either. When my Spiritual Vision touched him, it felt like hitting a wall of solid steel.’
’It couldn’t penetrate even a little.’
Lin Qi was very familiar with this feeling. It was the kind of power only possessed by an Extraordinary who had surpassed him by an entire major realm.
’A Tier Three Extraordinary from the Dragon Country’s government!’
He didn’t need an introduction at all; Lin Qi could guess his identity.
Obviously, this man didn’t believe a word of Lin Qi’s story.
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’Among them were Tier Two Moon Worshipers, and they could even control a Tier Three Monster?’
’Although the details of Lin Qi’s story were very similar to intel the government had collected in other regions...’
’...it still sounded fantastical, not like something a normal person could have experienced.’
"Since when were Moon Worshipers so easy to deal with? If the civilian population had a few more miracle workers like Lin Qi, why would any city in the Dragon Country have fallen?"
"This Tier Three Crystal Stone is real, I’ll give you that. But I’m very curious how Lin Qi managed to kill a Tier Three Monster that was on the verge of advancing to Tier Four?"
Before Lin Qi could even respond to those words, Ding Yang’s expression changed drastically.
He quickly cut in, "Major Wang Qiang, Headquarters didn’t send you here to question one of my own men, did they? If you want to confirm the situation, you are more than welcome to go to Shuining City immediately and verify Lin Qi’s account."
’I really don’t want to see another clash between these people from Headquarters and Lin Qi.’
’During peacetime, a bit of arrogance from the people at Headquarters was tolerable.’
’But now, after the apocalypse has broken out, their arrogance hasn’t diminished but has actually grown?’
’What is wrong with them!’
"Questioning me?"
Lin Qi retorted, stepping out of the M-Class Mecha’s cockpit and closing the hatch behind him.
Wei Yue was still inside, and Lin Qi wasn’t sure if this Tier Three Extraordinary from Headquarters had any means of identifying Moon Worshipers.
After closing the hatch to avoid unnecessary trouble, Lin Qi walked closer until he was standing face-to-face with Major Wang Qiang.
Even though the other man was Tier Three, Lin Qi was certain he wouldn’t dare to make a move against him.
This wasn’t just a gut feeling; by observing the man’s micro-expressions through his Spiritual Vision, Lin Qi had confirmed his style of conduct.
Raising his arm, Lin Qi showed off the protruding mechanical structure.
Then, he began his introduction. "S-Class Weapons. You all should be clear on my weapon classification system by now, right?"
Wang Qiang’s expression shifted slightly. Headquarters had been in an uproar for a while now over the technological products Lin Qi had created.
They had even split into three factions over the matter of Lin Qi.
Lin Qi didn’t wait for Wang Qiang to respond and continued, "S-Class Weapons, according to my classification, are weapons capable of inflicting effective damage on Tier Four Extraordinaries, or even Tier Four Monsters."
"In terms of raw power, they’re not inferior to nuclear weapons."
HISS!
There were quite a few people present, and many of them sucked in a sharp breath when they heard Lin Qi’s words.
Even a muscle in Wang Qiang’s face twitched.
Tier Three Extraordinaries were one of the trump cards held by the Dragon Country’s government.
Wang Qiang could vaguely sense that Lin Qi was also an Extraordinary, but a Tier Two at most. He had wanted to use his own Tier Three power to put some pressure on Lin Qi.
’But S-Class Weapons?’
’What the hell is this?’
’How did Lin Qi create something like this? And he’s explaining its destructive power right to my face.’
Lin Qi’s introduction wasn’t over. He continued, "An S-Class Oriented Energy Release Device. The principle is basically to fire a super-high-energy beam. The beam’s maximum diameter can reach 1.6 meters."
"The beam has strong penetration capabilities, and I can control the exact distance at which it actually releases its energy."
"In simpler terms, I can strike something through a mountain."
As he spoke, Lin Qi raised his arm, as if aiming it right at Wang Qiang.
"To be more graphic, it means I can control this weapon to release a burst of energy, with a yield no less than a nuclear bomb, right inside your body."
"That amount of energy is enough to destroy a body with Tier Four resilience."
"Major Wang Qiang, would you like to give it a try? It feels great. And it doesn’t even use that much power. This thing is powered by a micro-nuclear reactor. The current energy supply should be enough for about nine more shots."
"Oh, by the way, this is what I used to kill that Tier Three Monster."
