145: Chapter 145 The Prelude to Astral Projection

Donghai City First Detention Center, Intensive Care Isolation Ward.

Su Yang lay quietly on the specially made hospital bed, his chest rising and falling extremely weakly.

Outside the isolation window, several prison doctors in hazmat suits looked nervous.

The green line on the electrocardiogram monitor beat slower and slower, finally turning into a line devoid of Life Qi.

"Beep——!"

A piercing alarm sounded instantly in the quiet corridor.

"The patient has stopped breathing, his heart has stopped beating!"

"Perform defibrillation immediately!"

Two doctors pushed open the lead door and rushed to the bedside, pushing the defibrillator.

They did not know that at this moment, deep in the Sea of Consciousness of Su Yang's dilapidated Physical Body, a mass of dark red viscous substance was spinning crazily.

"A Mortal's shell is a burden after all."

Su Yang's voice echoed coldly on the spiritual level.

He had deliberately reversed his Meridians just now, causing his heart to enter a state of suspended animation.

He needed an opportunity.

A trigger that could instantly erupt with huge energy to help him completely tear away the shackles of this Physical Body.

The doctor tore open Su Yang's hospital gown, applied conductive paste, and picked up the electrode pads.

"Two hundred joules, prepare to charge!"

"Bang!"

Su Yang's body bounced violently on the hospital bed and then fell back heavily.

The waveform showed no reaction.

"Three hundred and sixty joules, maximum power!"

The attending physician was covered in sweat and pressed the switch again.

At this very moment, a two-thousand-volt high-voltage current surged into Su Yang's body.

This was the moment Su Yang had been waiting for.

Not only did he not resist this current, but he also controlled the remaining Devilish Qi in his body and actively met it.

Lightning and Devilish Qi collided at the heart position, creating a tiny spatial distortion.

"This is it! Blood River Soul Emergence, open for me!"

In the isolation room, the air suddenly became viscous.

A dark red beam of light, invisible to ordinary people, shot out from the Baihui acupoint on the top of Su Yang's head.

This beam of light was extremely thin but carried a chilling, bloody smell.

It easily penetrated the three-layered lead-shielded ceiling like a silent missile, shooting straight into the clouds.

The pupils of Su Yang on the bed dilated instantly.

His Physical Body completely became a cold corpse, and even the last bit of body heat was rapidly fading away.

"Success."

A thousand meters above the isolation room, Su Yang's Primordial Spirit hovered at the edge of the clouds.

He looked down at the brightly lit city beneath his feet, feeling the pleasure of his Divine Soul not being restricted by the Physical Body.

"Gu Changan, you are just a Mortal after all."

"Do you think you can trap me by locking me in an iron cage?"

"The Primordial Spirit is formless and qualityless; in this vast world, I can go wherever I want."

Su Yang laughed wildly, his voice echoing in the clouds.

He decided to go to the cemetery in the suburbs of Donghai City first to find a few corpses with heavy Yin Qi to serve as temporary transit stations.

As long as he had three days, he could find a better Physical Body for Possession.

By then, he would refine everyone around Gu Changan into blood slaves one by one.

Meanwhile, at the Command Center of the Bureau of Anomalous Affairs.

Chen Xiaobei stood up abruptly from his swivel chair.

"Boss! Something happened at the detention center!"

"Su Yang's Physical Body is confirmed dead; time of death was two seconds ago."

Gu Changan sat in his leather swivel chair, still holding the steaming thermos cup.

He didn't even lift his eyelids, his tone calm.

"Dead? Died pretty quickly."

"But..." Chen Xiaobei's voice trembled, "The energy monitor alarmed!"

"There is an ultra-high-energy infrared reaction in the third frequency band, and the nature of it belongs to spiritual energy particles."

"It just penetrated the shielding layer and is now moving northeast at supersonic speed!"

On the big screen, a glaring red dot was moving rapidly across the map of Donghai City.

Gu Changan put down the cup, and a curve appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"It seems our Old Ancestor Su is still unconvinced."

"He didn't like living in the single cell and plans to change places for a 'vacation'."

Gu Changan stood up and buttoned the top button of his uniform.

He walked to the big screen and looked at the rapidly moving red dot.

"Pass on my order."

"Activate the 'Nantianmen' low-altitude quantum defense matrix."

"Since he thinks the Physical Body is too cumbersome, we will teach him how to be a qualified 'data packet'."

Chen Xiaobei rubbed his hands excitedly and typed frantically on the Keyboard.

"Quantum radar at full power!"

"The target's energy signature has been locked, and the margin of error has been reduced to three centimeters."

"The city-wide electromagnetic interference barrier is preheated!"

On the lightning rod at the top of the detention center, several strangely shaped precision instruments suddenly rotated.

Quantum waves invisible to the naked eye swept across the entire city instantly.

In the world of ordinary people, the air remained transparent and fresh.

But on Gu Changan's screen, Su Yang's Primordial Spirit was like an eye-catching object shining a high-beam flashlight in the dark night.

Su Yang's Primordial Spirit was flying at high altitude, and he suddenly felt a chill down his spine.

The illusion of being watched by some terrifying existence made his Divine Soul fluctuate violently.

"Strange, I am in the Primordial Spirit state now, how could I have the feeling of being peeped at?"

He looked back, and there was only the pitch-black night sky and the city lights in the distance behind him.

"Thinking too much, in this Age of Dharma Decline, besides those monsters around Gu Changan, who else can see me..."

He was comforting himself when he suddenly noticed a few silvery-white dots appearing in front of him.

It was a group of special drones arranged in a 'pin' shape.

At the bottom of these drones hung a glass ball emitting a faint blue light.

Su Yang snorted disdainfully.

"Mortal iron lumps also want to stop me?"

His figure flickered, intending to pass directly through the middle of the drones.

In the Primordial Spirit state, he could ignore physical collisions.

In his eyes, these drones were no different from dust in the air.

However, the moment he approached the drones.

Gu Changan's voice suddenly rang out through the remote amplification System on the drones.

"Old Ancestor Su, not reflecting in the detention center in the middle of the night, out for a breeze?"

Su Yang was so scared that his Divine Soul almost dissipated.

"Gu Changan?! You... how could you discover me?"

"Aren't you in the detention center right now?"

He looked around in horror.

The drone's camera stared fixedly at him.

Gu Changan's voice carried a hint of mockery, coming from all directions.

"Who told you that radar can only see airplanes?"

"Learn about quantum entanglement imaging."

"In my eyes, not only can I see you clearly, but I have also calculated the amount of Devilish Qi in your Divine Soul clearly."

"Su Yang, you are suspected of violent escape, disturbing public order, and illegally spreading high-energy radiation."

"Since you don't like living in prison, I think the vacuum energy storage tank of the National High-Energy Particle Laboratory is quite suitable for you."

Su Yang was so angry that his soul body turned red.

"You are courting death! I am a free man now, no one can catch me!"

He exerted his strength suddenly, and his Primordial Spirit turned into a blood arrow, intending to teleport away.

Gu Changan indifferently issued an order.

"Capture team position one, prepare the antimatter net."

"If he wants to run, let him run enough."

"Chase after him, I want to see how much Divine Soul power he can have to support this kind of consumption."

Over Donghai City, a hunting operation invisible to the naked eye fully unfolded.