This Spiritual Energy is Lethal!

Chapter 51: Chapter 051 Found You, Little Brother

He knew that any slight excessive movement would get him riddled with bullets from over a dozen automatic rifles, so he slowly placed the PPQ.45 on the ground and then raised his hands, kicking the gun towards them.

“Investigator, state your code number,” a P.W.A.T team member yelled at him.

“I am… an investigator from Weber Spirit Production…” Chen Ke prevaricated.

“Your code number, investigator,” the P.W.A.T member demanded.

“I am from Weber Spirit Production…” Chen Ke repeated, not knowing what code number the team member was asking for. Was it the one on the investigator’s license?

“I want the code number! The code number!” the P.W.A.T member was growing impatient.

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Chen Ke did not respond, as he had prepared to summon his shield if necessary, and it looked like the other party was about to pull the trigger.

A scanning light moved from top to bottom over Chen Ke’s body, while a P.W.A.T team member at the back of the group held a strange device, scanning him.

This device was probably similar to the one used by the mailman, Priskin, only theirs might be more advanced. Chen Ke guessed it could also scan for liquefied Spiritual Energy inside the body.

“There’s no Spiritual Energy reaction in his body, he’s not an investigator,” the team member put away the device.

“Damn, so he’s just an ordinary person?”

“Maybe a mimic.”

“SA16C2X270397? No, a monster’s Spiritual Energy would pervade its entire body, not just a bit in the spine…”

“What do we do now?!”

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It seemed the P.W.A.T had fallen into some internal disagreement; Chen Ke remained standing on the spot, anxiously thinking of a strategy.

Even with a shield, he wouldn’t be able to block a volley from over a dozen automatic rifles and submachine guns, and he had no effective means of counterattacking. He didn’t know if the Sin trigger could stun all the fully armed P.W.A.T members at once, fearing he might be shot to pieces.

And at this moment, an even more critical thing happened—Chen Ke could no longer see the outline of the monster in his field of vision…

He looked around, everywhere around him, either on the ground or above his head, in front and behind, he couldn’t find the monster’s trace, but the prompts of gaining one year of life per second and having reached the life limit still kept appearing nonstop.

“What are you looking at? How exactly did you get in here?!” A P.W.A.T team member saw Chen Ke looking around purposefully, appearing very alert.

“Hope you all,” Chen Ke said, “are prepared.”

He felt the mark at his heart start spinning again, the rotation palpable through his clothes on his chest, like the fan on a graphics card…

“Prepared for what? Explain clearly!” The P.W.A.T team member stepped forward.

Since he could no longer see the monster, but the increase in life hadn’t stopped, that could only mean one thing: the monster’s position had overlapped with his own.

At that moment, a burst of white light suddenly erupted between the P.W.A.T and Chen Ke, blinding like the fierce sun of midday, making it hard to keep one’s eyes open.

From that ball of light, a thin, emaciated arm stretched out; the light seemed like a doorway, with a chillingly cold breeze blowing from within, but undeniably, the air quality was much better than inside the building.

A second arm followed the first, like someone being swallowed by a swamp, straining to pull themselves out. Finally, the monster’s head also emerged from the light.

What a face it was! It resembled a corporeal version of the character “囧”, but it was definitely not as comical as the literal meaning suggested; it rather made Chen Ke feel a chill down his spine.

The hollow eyes had no whites, just pitch black, yet you felt it was staring right at you. And its forever open mouth maintained a grievous, mournful expression.

The monster’s body was elongated and sickly pale, draped in a red scarf adorned with small flames, appearing as if it grew right out of its flesh, not falling off no matter how it twisted.

The monster struggled from the ball of light onto the ground, then the light swiftly shrank to the size of a ping pong ball and slowly faded away, leaving only the over two-meter-tall creature.

“I’ve found you! I’ve found you!” the monster actually said, facing Chen Ke.

“Fire! Fire!” shouted the P.W.A.T members.

A dozen HK416s erupted in white flashes as Chen Ke, in an instant, lunged, smashing through the nearby glass door and taking cover in the office, hearing the continuous gunfire in the hallway.

Chen Ke pulled out his M1911A1; though only four bullets were left, the power they exhibited before still gave him some hope.

“Boom!”

Just as he was getting ready to stand, a loud sound rang out—the monster had smashed through the entire wall!

He saw it gripping half a P.W.A.T team member’s body in each hand, turning its face toward him at a strange angle.

“You owe me a soul!”

The monster’s voice was mournful and filled with indignation, sounding neither male nor female, and Chen Ke noticed that even though the P.W.A.T team members kept shooting at it, the bullets couldn’t inflict any real damage.

Those were Administration Bureau’s Spiritual Bullets! They couldn’t penetrate the monster’s flesh at all, as if they had hit incredibly tough rubber, with the bullet heads bouncing off and falling to the ground.

“Try this!” A P.W.A.T team member shoved a Spiritual Gun Grenade into the under-barrel launcher and fired at the monster.

The grenade hit the monster’s waist, bounced off to the side, and fell by the monster’s feet—it was a dud grenade.

Chen Ke shook his head; that probably wasn’t a dud grenade… This monster seemed to have a Punishment attribute, making all Punishment attribute ammunition ineffective against it. After all, you can’t ignite fire with fire or extinguish water with water…

As the monster advanced through the broken wall toward him, fully coming into Chen Ke’s view, seven tags appeared beside it:

[Administration Bureau Monster Rating: ???]

[Blasphemous Contract]

[Flash]

[Discipline Immunity]

[Strength Enhancement]

[Psychic Attack]

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[Sin Weakening]

[Mystery Weakening]

Chen Ke gasped, he had guessed right! Discipline must be a general term for a category of attributes, and under Discipline were Punishment attributes; this monster was immune to at least three attributes!

Chen Ke still didn’t know what the six categories and eighteen types of attributes specifically entailed, but he believed he could piece them together one day.

What shocked him more was that this creature, like the Man-Faced Dog, could also perform psychic attacks, but with incomparable range and power.

Flash probably referred to the monster’s ability to teleport through doors, but what did the blasphemous contract mean?

Blasphemous…

It sounded familiar…

Blasphemous Dagger!

Lin Mo, Chen Ke’s predecessor, had been killed by that dagger!

This monster claimed he owed it a soul—what did that mean exactly? Chen Ke also remembered the Black People he met for the first time speaking of a plan…

Though still clueless, Chen Ke felt he was close to grasping everything. He just needed to survive this crisis!

The monster’s rating remained unseen; Chen Ke had read two essential books for investigators, which should have records of monsters from D to S grade.

This could only mean that this monster was beyond S grade, and such creatures were possibly only accessible to people within the Administration Bureau.

To obtain the most comprehensive and detailed information about monsters—to supplement his own life file—he saw that his only chance might be to access the Administration Bureau’s internal system database.

Chen Ke sprang from the ground, leaping over the desk, thinking to escape through another glass door.

He felt a gust of wind from behind and, without thinking, a flash of white light appeared on his left hand—a shield immediately flashed and protected his chest just as the monster’s claw followed and struck, sending him flying.

The moment the claw collided with the shield, the shield shattered into countless white luminescent fragments. In midair, Chen Ke didn’t even have time to check the shield’s durability data before it turned into powder.

He was flung through the broken wall into the corridor, violently hitting the wall, with a crack, several ribs broke, and he coughed up a mouthful of blood.

“-30 minutes of life to heal the wounds”

Chen Ke rose from the ground and saw a P.W.A.T team member throwing a grenade into the hole in the wall. He spotted his own PPQ.45 in the corner, rolled over to pick it up, and hid at the other end of the corridor.

“You owe me a soul!”

The monster roared furiously in the office as the hand grenade exploded promptly, filling the air with smoke.