143: Chapter 143 Citywide Broadcast Cures "Chuunibyou" (A Japanese term for adolescent delusions of grandeur

Donghai City Square.

The dark red blood mist had become so thick it was impossible to disperse.

Hundreds of citizens who had downloaded the app now looked like inflated balloons, their skin covered in twisted purple veins.

Their eyeballs were rolled back completely, and their throats emitted a vibrating sound that did not belong to humans.

This sound converged, forming a massive resonance field above the square.

This was the fuse Su Yang had planted.

As soon as the resonance frequency reached the critical point, hundreds of people would instantly turn into Physical Body bombs.

"Fall back! Everyone retreat to five hundred meters away!"

The Special Police Captain leading the team shouted until his throat was hoarse.

He looked at those bodies that had swollen to the point of deformation, his palms covered in cold sweat.

Bullets were useless.

Tear gas was useless.

He even saw the belly of one citizen stretched to the point of transparency, where he could even see swirling dark red energy inside.

Driven by some evil command, these victims were stumbling and gathering toward the center of the square.

The heat inside their bodies was climbing rapidly.

The values on the infrared thermal imager were already so red they were turning black.

"Director Gu, there are thirty seconds until the critical point of self-detonation."

Inside the command vehicle, Chen Xiaobei's hands were moving so fast they were just a blur.

Dozens of virtual screens floated before him, with countless complex data streams scrolling frantically.

"Citywide broadcast System takeover complete."

"All outdoor LED screens takeover complete."

"Anti-Demonic Technique reverse sound wave module loaded successfully."

Gu Changan stood before the massive holographic map, the cup of goji berry water in his hand steaming hot.

He glanced at the frantic values on the screen, then turned to look at Su Yang, who was wearing a crazed expression on the detention center surveillance feed.

"Old ghost, do you think the Soul in the digital age is so easy to take?"

Gu Changan set down his cup, his voice calm.

"Begin the cleansing."

Boom!

The originally noisy and frantic Donghai City suddenly went quiet at this moment.

All the large audio equipment around the square erupted simultaneously with an extremely piercing roar.

That was not ordinary noise.

It was a reverse audio track developed based on precise calculations by the national supercomputer, targeted at the energy flow of the Blood River Scripture.

The audio acted directly on the victims' central nervous Systems through air vibrations.

"Ah—!"

The Blood Slaves, who had been swelling and roaring, were suddenly struck in the back of the head as if by a heavy hammer.

They all clutched their ears in unison and collapsed to the ground in pain.

The eerie red light on the surface of their bodies began to flicker violently.

Like a light bulb with unstable voltage, it dimmed and brightened.

This high-frequency reverse sound wave instantly severed the mental commands Su Yang had issued through the mobile app.

The Devilish Qi that had been gathering in an orderly fashion completely turned into headless flies at this moment.

"Chen Xiaobei, increase the power."

Gu Changan's voice was cold and ruthless.

"Clear the brains of this bunch of 'Immortals'."

From the broadcast speakers around the square, Gu Changan's voice resounded through the sky via the loudspeaker.

"This is the National Bureau of Abnormal Affairs."

"All citizens who have downloaded the illegal cultivation app, your current behavior constitutes illegal gathering and endangers public safety."

"The so-called 'Spiritual Qi' in your bodies is actually a highly active variant of a biochemical virus."

"This is not cultivation; this is a hallucination caused by a brain infection."

"What are you making a fuss about? That's a pyramid scheme!"

Along with this roar filled with materialistic righteousness, the victims in the square began to vomit frantically.

Large mouthfuls of black-purple viscous liquid were vomited out by them.

Those were the Devilish Qi crystals lurking in their stomachs and lungs.

As these Impurities were vomited out, their swollen bodies began to shrivel rapidly.

Inside the detention center.

Su Yang, who had been immersed in the dream of a "ten-thousand-person sacrifice," suddenly stiffened.

He felt that the blood energy that had been continuously feeding back to him had been cut off.

That feeling was like a starving ghost in the middle of a feast having its throat choked by someone.

"This is impossible!"

"This is control at the level of the Divine Soul; how could a Mortal's voice intervene!"

He frantically tried to mobilize his Divine Sense.

But what he got in return was an even more violent backlash.

The reverse sound wave spreading through radio waves actually followed the Divine Soul connection and blasted directly into his mind.

Blood seeped from all seven of Su Yang's orifices simultaneously.

He let out a shrill scream, his head banging against the iron plate with loud thuds.

"Treatment entering the second stage."

Gu Changan pressed a red button expressionlessly.

At this moment, the Donghai City Meteorological Bureau.

Three uniquely shaped rockets, trailing long exhaust flames, shot up from the launch racks.

They did not fly into the high altitude but exploded with a roar one hundred meters above the square.

There was no fire.

Only blue mist spreading across the sky.

These mists were not the silver iodide used for rainmaking, but a high-concentration aerosol mixture of haloperidol and midazolam.

This was the highest-grade industrial sedative.

The blue mist, like a thick quilt, shrouded the entire square.

The Blood Slaves, who had still been twitching and roaring on the ground, quieted down almost instantly after inhaling this mist.

The adrenaline in their bodies was forcibly cut off.

The rampaging cells stopped dividing.

The red light of imminent self-detonation was extinguished.

On the square, hundreds of people lay strewn about in a mess.

They looked like they had just woken up from a hangover; although their faces were pale, their eyes had regained clarity.

"I... where am I?"

"Where is my wife? Wasn't I cultivating?"

Confused voices rang out across the square.

At this moment, countless ambulances rushed into the scene with sirens blaring.

Doctors wearing hazmat suits nimbly placed oxygen masks on each victim and casually administered a shot of potent nerve blocker.

That was a forced disconnection at the physical level.

As long as the nerve signals could not be transmitted, no matter how capable Su Yang was, he could not command these shells.

Gu Changan stood at the command center, watching the situation on the screen gradually calm down.

He faced the camera, which meant facing the citizens of the whole city watching the live broadcast, and straightened the collar of his uniform.

"All citizens who downloaded the app, please immediately go to the nearest community hospital for a mandatory medical check-up."

"All electronic devices that have this software installed must be turned in for destruction immediately."

"Want to live forever? Want to fly on a sword?"

A trace of mockery appeared on the corner of Gu Changan's mouth.

"I suggest you go to the hospital and register for neurology first to see if you have late-stage Middle-School Syndrome."

"If your brain is broken, the law cannot cure you, but the doors of the psychiatric hospital are always open for you."

In the prison.

Su Yang lay on the ground, limp like a dead fish washed ashore.

He could not sense it anymore.

All the Blood Slaves, all the Divine Soul marks, had completely disappeared.

That "Heart Demon" he had meticulously arranged, which could have destroyed a civilization, was in the eyes of his opponent merely an illness that required medication and injections.

His worldview completely collapsed at this moment.

What exactly had he missed in these past thousand years?

Why were these Mortals even more unreasonable than the Demonic Sect?

Just as he was filled with despair, the prison door opened again.

Gu Changan walked in.

He held a brand-new fine ticket in his hand and slapped it directly onto Su Yang's pale face.

"Mr. Su, don't be in such a hurry to cry."

"Since your 'citywide beta test' has failed, we should talk about the issue of you illegally setting up a server."