317: Chapter 318: Completely Out of Control, Taking an Engineer's Shovel to Acupuncture
As Instructor Su Qing walked toward those unlucky assassins, her steps were steady, without a single hint of hesitation.
The rain had soaked her black combat uniform, making her look like a god of death emerging from the shadows.
She first walked to the spot where the sniper had vanished into thin air after Lin Qi modified his Karma.
There, only a trace of nearly imperceptible spatial fluctuation remained.
Instructor Su Qing reached out, a wisp of pitch-black shadow power swirling around her fingertips as she lightly touched that patch of void.
"Sizzle..."
A soft sound rang out.
The moment her shadow power touched that area, it melted away rapidly like snow thrown onto a branding iron.
Instructor Su Qing's face turned a shade paler.
She could feel that within that seemingly empty space, there lingered a Law power that made even her Soul tremble.
It was a power of... 'Nothingness'.
It wasn't destruction or annihilation, but rather the complete erasure of an 'existence's' 'Cause' from the source, leaving behind only the 'Effect' of 'disappearance'.
Too overbearing!
Is this the 'bug fix' Brother Qi talked about?
Using an even more overbearing 'bug' to overwrite another 'bug'?
She then walked over to the assassin, 'Shadow Bind', who was trapped in the 'Despair Corridor'.
At this moment, Shadow Bind still maintained a forward-charging posture, but his body was imprisoned in an incredibly bizarre state.
Around him, space was infinitely elongated and infinitely folded.
He appeared to be only a few steps away from Instructor Su Qing, but in reality, there was a distance of light-years between them.
He could see Instructor Su Qing and hear the sounds of the outside world, but any action he took would be swallowed by this infinitely extending space, never reaching its destination.
This was a torment more terrifying than death.
It was an eternal despair where hope was visible but forever out of reach.
Instructor Su Qing looked at him with no pity in her eyes.
As a former top-tier assassin, she knew the taste of this kind of despair all too well.
She simply reached out, and a wisp of shadow power, like a venomous snake, silently coiled around Shadow Bind's neck.
There was no scream, no struggle.
On Shadow Bind's face, distorted by fear and despair, there was even a hint of relief.
His life force was rapidly devoured by the shadow power, and he finally collapsed to the ground as a shriveled corpse.
Finally, there was Ying Wan.
The gold-medal killer of the Shadow Blade Alliance, the Void Walker.
At this moment, he was truly a vegetable.
After his Soul had been crudely 'searched' by Lin Qi, it had completely turned into Chaos, with only the most basic physiological functions remaining.
Instructor Su Qing walked up to him and, without hesitation, brought her blade down.
After dealing with these 'scraps', Instructor Su Qing felt her Realm, which had been somewhat unstable due to the sudden surge in strength, steady itself slightly.
Just as Lin Qi said, this kind of work clearing out 'trash' was indeed suitable for her to hone her control over her power.
She took a deep breath and turned her gaze toward the four massive black totem poles.
This was the main event of today's cleanup work.
These four pillars of the 'Four Directions Prison Formation' were themselves crafted from extremely precious Materials, and they were inscribed with complex spatial Law runes.
Although they had turned dim after being reverse-controlled by Lin Qi and struck by the phantom of the 'Throat of Devouring Heaven', their essence was still that of top-tier Law creations.
"The Boss said these are 'trash'..."
Instructor Su Qing murmured to herself, a bitter smile involuntarily appearing at the corner of her mouth.
Taking even one piece of 'trash' of this level outside would be enough to make those research institutes in the Federation fight to the death for it.
But in Brother Qi's eyes, they really were just... trash.
She didn't try to destroy or move these totem poles.
She knew that with her strength, she couldn't budge these things at all.
She closed her eyes and began to follow Lin Qi's instructions, sinking her mind into the ground beneath her feet.
Shadow power was no longer used as a weapon for slaughter, but instead transformed into countless tiny tentacles, gently and tentatively extending into the depths of the earth.
At first, she could feel nothing.
Only cold, damp soil.
But she didn't give up.
She remembered Lin Qi's words—'Go feel the "emotions" of every inch of soil'.
Emotions?
Can soil have emotions too?
Instructor Su Qing cast aside this unrealistic thought and simply, stubbornly, integrated her perception into the earth over and over again.
Time passed minute by minute.
The rain gradually stopped.
A hint of pale dawn appeared on the horizon.
Just as Instructor Su Qing felt her Mental Energy was about to be exhausted, suddenly, a difference appeared in her perception.
It was a... pulsation.
Very faint, yet very rhythmic.
Like a sleeping, gargantuan heart slowly beating.
"Thump..."
"Thump..."
"Thump..."
Every beat seemed to resonate with her own heartbeat.
With this pulsation, she 'saw' it.
She saw the intricate network of earth veins deep underground.
She saw essence energy flowing through the earth veins like a stream.
She saw countless tiny Law threads, invisible to the naked eye, spread across the entire D-3 Region like a spiderweb, forming the foundational 'skeleton' of this world.
And those four black totem poles were like four giant nails, crudely and unreasonably pinning through the 'Law skeleton' of this area, causing multiple 'fractures' and 'blockages'.
So... this is the true principle of the 'Four Directions Prison'!
It's not suppression, but destruction!
By destroying the spatial stability of a local area, it achieves the goal of sealing space!
Too crude! Too barbaric!
In Instructor Su Qing's perception, this was like a clumsy doctor who, in order to treat a patient's cold, simply chopped off the patient's head!
And what about Lin Qi?
In Instructor Su Qing's mind, that 'Pangu Formation' diagram involuntarily surfaced.
The densely packed lines and symbols on it seemed to 'come alive' at this moment.
She suddenly understood.
That diagram wasn't some architectural blueprint at all!
It was a... 'Meridian and Acupoint Map'!
It was the most precise and perfect 'Human Meridian Map' tailored for the 'land' of the D-3 Region!
What Lin Qi wanted to do wasn't to build houses on it.
What he wanted to do was perform 'bone setting', 'massage', and 'acupuncture' on this 'terminally ill' land!
He wanted to clear those blocked 'meridians', activate those sleeping 'Acupoints', and let the 'Qi and blood' of this land flow smoothly once again!
The moment Instructor Su Qing realized this, she felt as if her worldview was about to collapse.
Can a human really achieve such a level?
Treating a piece of land as a living being, to be transformed?
What kind of inconceivable Realm is this?
This is no longer 'reaching the divine'.
This is 'creation'!
Boom!
Just as her mind was reeling, the 'Pangu Formation' diagram in her hand suddenly burst with golden light!
The lines on the drawing seemed to turn into flowing light, actively surging into her mind and perfectly overlapping with the underground scenes she perceived!
In an instant, a complete, three-dimensional, and dynamic underground Law structure map of the D-3 Region appeared in Instructor Su Qing's mind!
Where was solid, where was void.
Where the nodes were, where the pathways were.
Where could be guided, where needed reinforcement.
Everything became incomparably clear, understood perfectly.
Instructor Su Qing snapped her eyes open.
The previous confusion and bewilderment were gone from her eyes.
She looked at this devastated land before her, her gaze becoming incredibly firm.
She knew what she had to do.
"Engineering Team! Everyone! Listen to my orders!"
Instructor Su Qing issued her first command through the communicator to the Engineering Team that had been waiting on the perimeter.
"Abandon all heavy machinery! Everyone, bring the most primitive entrenching tools!"
"Follow me, and let's... loosen the soil for this great land!"
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