ATDIWR Chapter 117

Chapter 117 Secrets and Unraveling Mental Suggestion

Ji An connected the video call. On the other end of the video, Charles was flushed with excitement, his eyes glowing strangely, as if he wanted to devour Ji An through the screen.

Charles’s gaze made Gu Jinsheng uneasy. He stepped forward, standing in front of Ji An.

If it were in the past, Gu Jinsheng’s defensive posture like this would surely have been seen as a provocation by Charles, causing him to rage and lash out. At this moment, however, Charles’s heart and eyes were filled only with excitement.

Charles burst into laughter, letting out a frantic cackle, “Gu Jinsheng, you must protect your little darling well. Don’t look away for even a moment, or your little lover will only be left with broken limbs and Killing remnants. Hahahaha…”

Gu Jinsheng’s eyes were ice cold, his dark, deep gaze like a ferocious beast lurking in wait to strike, ready to choose its prey and devour it when the time was ripe.

“Commander-in-chief Gu Jinsheng, don’t look at me like that, it’s useless. Now, as long as I want to, this lover of yours will become a world enemy, and your entire Xia Country will be overthrown and disappear from this world forever.”

Ji An narrowed his eyes slightly, thought for a moment, and then guessed the reason for Charles’s renewed arrogance, “You’ve unraveled the psychological suggestion I placed on Tang Tang.”

“As expected of someone who can invent things like space, nutrient solutions, and hovercars, this mind is indeed useful. I haven’t even said anything, and you’ve already guessed everything,” Charles said with a smile.

Gu Jinsheng’s aura grew even colder, his eyes filled with not only the coldness of wanting to kill, but also deep worry.

Gu Jinsheng knew that Tang Tang knew that the jade pendant on Ji An’s neck was a natural space containing a spiritual spring that could restore vitality and heal injuries.

Now that artificial spaces were available, space itself was no longer valuable. Even if it were spread, it wouldn’t matter much; no one would take risks just for a space.

But the spiritual spring within the space, that was a heavenly treasure. In this dangerous Apocalypse, a portable space spiritual spring that could save lives and possibly have infinite other possibilities was, in a sense, equivalent to having an extra life, and perhaps could even save others’ lives. It was enough to drive countless people crazy for it.

Charles said, “Guess how many people will go crazy if I tell them about your space. Will the humiliating Eight-Nation Alliance incident in your Xia Country’s history repeat itself?”

Charles thought that after he knew the secret of their space, Ji An would be terrified, weeping humbly, and begging him not to tell.

The reality was that Ji An and the others on the other side of the video were as calm as if Charles had just said the weather was nice. Ji An even smiled slightly and said, “Commander-in-chief Charles, if you like saying it, just say it.”

“You’re not afraid?” Charles asked incredulously, “Ji An, don’t think I’m just scaring you. I’m telling you, I really will tell. If you don’t want to become an enemy of all humanity, if you don’t want Xia Country to be destroyed because of this, if you don’t want to become a sinner of Xia Country, then give me all the core data of those technologies, and of course, that space pendant.”

Charles made an exorbitant demand. He knew he was asking for too much, but he was certain that Ji An and the others would not dare refuse his demands.

If the world knew about the life-saving spiritual spring water, Ji An would truly become a target for the whole world to hunt down.

Ji An still had that calm look, “It’s the same thing I said before. Whether you say it or not is up to you. But neither the technology nor the space spiritual spring can be given to you.”

If the mecha hadn’t been built, Ji An might still have some reservations, but now that the mecha, which was enough to revolutionize the entire combat method, had been developed, he had no fear.

Ji An waved at Charles on the other side of the video, who couldn’t accept reality, and said, “If Commander-in-chief Charles called this video just to talk about this matter, then it’s finished now, so goodbye.”

As Ji An spoke, without waiting for Charles to respond, he hung up the video call.

Charles, whose video call was hung up, was like a mad dog with rabies. He was red-eyed, wildly smashing everything within sight, completely disregarding the value of the equipment.

“How dare they, how dare they hang up on me! Aren’t they afraid I’ll expose their secret!” The furious Charles shouted.

The staff in the room were silent as chickens. Charles’s assistant, remembering the fate of the previous assistants, wished he could disappear on the spot.

Charles smashed everything he could smash, and his One-eyed one eye turned towards the living people in the room.

Charles’s blood-red one eye turned towards the assistant, then to the staff, like the Grim Reaper’s scythe, targeting whoever it landed on, causing them to freeze, not daring to move, as if shrouded by death.

Finally, Charles’s one eye stared intently at Tang Tang. Charles suddenly pounced and grabbed Tang Tang by the neck, his expression frantic, “Is it because you, this woman, didn’t tell the truth that Ji An and the others aren’t afraid? It’s you, it must be you who lied to me, right!”

Amidst day and night torture, Tang Tang had long since suffered a mental breakdown. This time, her mental suggestion was forcibly unraveled by a psychic power user, leaving her mental domain like a battlefield after a nuclear bomb attack, utterly desolate.

The current Tang Tang was merely alive; her mind was in complete chaos, and she couldn’t understand what Charles meant at all. Her actions were driven only by instinct.

Tang Tang instinctively shook her head, instinctively struggled, letting out the instinctive whimpers of livestock sensing danger.

If Tang Tang were facing a normal person, they might have noticed her abnormality. But she was facing the equally abnormal Charles. Charles’s mental state was not much better than Tang Tang’s. In order to break through his bottleneck, Charles had used the crystal cores of cloned people to impact his power, and not just one, but many, which led to Charles’s mental disorder and severe mania.

Seeing that Charles was about to snap Tang Tang’s neck, the assistant had to brace himself and remind him, “Commander-in-chief, we still need this Eastern woman for now. With her here, the commanders-in-chief of various countries will believe us and stand on our side, forming an allied army with us to attack Xia Country.”

“Attack Xia Country.” These four words restored Charles’s sanity. He looked at Tang Tang with his blood-red one eye, slowly released his hand, and Tang Tang slid to the ground, covering her neck and gasping for air.

Charles looked at the disheveled Eastern woman on the ground who was coughing from breathing too hard and burst into laughter, as if this pathetic Eastern woman portended the similarly pathetic fate of Xia Country.

“Ji Shen, what did Charles mean by that?” Wan Xueying asked.

Not knowing what Charles was going to say beforehand, this video call was not hidden from the deputy commanders of the base. As things stood, there was nothing left to hide.

Ji An took out the space pendant and said to Wan Xueying and the others, “The space pendant Charles is talking about is this. There is a natural space inside this jade stone, which I discovered accidentally.”

Wan Xueying and the others were not unfamiliar with the jade stone in Ji An’s hand. When Ji An first arrived at the base, he was wearing this jade necklace.

Kong Zhongcheng’s eyes widened, and he pointed at the jade pendant, “So, you mean this space wasn’t developed by you, Ji Shen?”

“Yes,” Ji An nodded, “I don’t know how the space inside this jade stone came to be. Maybe it was created by someone else, or maybe it was naturally formed. Nature is a wondrous existence, and anything is possible.”

Zhou Qin said, “It should be naturally formed. If it were developed by someone else, there wouldn’t have been any movement at all. Even if they were afraid of trouble and kept quiet before, after Ji Shen you appeared out of nowhere, with you blocking the way, there’s nothing to be afraid of.”

Wan Xueying agreed, “This is very likely a naturally formed space. If it weren’t for the Apocalypse, I might still have doubts, but now that abilities exist, what else is impossible?”

Gu Jinsheng said, “Tang Tang and the other person chased after Xiao An previously because of this space.”

Ji An said, “This space necklace was given to me by a professor. At that time, I didn’t know there was a space inside. Tang Tang asked to borrow it from me to wear, so I lent it to her. Later, I don’t know how Tang Tang discovered the space inside. I asked her for it back many times, but she was unwilling to return it. Slowly, I realized something was wrong.”

Rebirth was Ji An’s secret, and Ji An would not tell this to everyone, so he simply said he discovered something unusual.

“After that, I started observing Tang Tang’s behavior secretly, and I detected the abnormality of her space. Thinking that she refused to return the necklace to me, I speculated that her space ability might be related to my necklace,” Ji An said, “I found an opportunity to steal the necklace back and discovered there was a space inside. As for what happened later, you all know.”

Kong Zhongcheng was filled with righteous indignation, “Tang Tang and Chen Chen are truly an adulterous pair, completely shameless! It was clearly your item, how could they have the nerve to slander you?”

Wan Xueying mused, “At that time, Chen Chen slandered you, saying you stole supplies from the base. In reality, what you took away were the supplies privately hoarded by that unscrupulous couple.”

“That’s right,” Ji An nodded.

“I wondered why Chen Chen was so generous, willing to trade one-third of the base’s supplies for you. Turns out you had more supplies there,” Zhou Qin suddenly understood.

Gu Jinsheng said, “This necklace in your hands is definitely more useful than in theirs. In their hands, this necklace was just an ordinary space. In your hands, it can create thousands upon thousands of spaces.”

Ji An curved his lips slightly. Why hadn’t he noticed before that Gu Jinsheng was actually a Ji An admirer, never forgetting to boast about his achievements at all times?

“That’s just one thing. The second is that there is also a pool of spiritual spring water in this space. Spiritual spring water can strengthen the body and heal injuries. Tang Tang’s healing-type ability also came from this,” Ji An said.

Everyone present was stunned. They truly hadn’t expected this necklace to be so miraculous; in addition to a space, it actually had spiritual spring water that could heal injuries.

Everyone couldn’t help but think of the various miraculous properties of spiritual spring water in novels, wondering if the spiritual spring in this necklace was that amazing.

If it were truly that amazing, then even without illness or injury, long-term consumption of spiritual spring water could not only strengthen the body but perhaps also help with ability upgrades.

Thinking of this, the expressions of several people changed slightly. In the Apocalypse, abilities were life.

Ji An did not want to test people’s hearts. Wan Xueying and the others had gone through life and death with Gu Jinsheng. Although they had private intentions, they were more guided by righteousness. There was no need to use this to test their loyalty, which would instead make people feel cold.

Ji An said directly, “The spiritual spring water is indeed very miraculous, it helps with ability improvement and mental power, so I added it to the nutrient solution.”

Kong Zhongcheng said in surprise, “So, the nutrient solution we are eating now contains spiritual spring water.”

“Yes,” Gu Jinsheng said this time, “The spiritual spring water is too miraculous to be openly disclosed, but Xiao An never thought of keeping it for himself. When none of you knew, Xiao An thought about how to let more people drink the spiritual spring water.”

This was truly something none of them had expected. If they put themselves in his shoes, if the spiritual spring fell into their hands, they would definitely hide it and keep it secret, at most giving it to the people they cared about, but absolutely not to others.

And Ji Shen, upon obtaining the spiritual spring, even if he didn’t intend to make it public, would still secretly find ways to let more people drink it. With such broad-mindedness and generosity, they were convinced.

Zhou Qin bowed deeply to Ji An, “Ji Shen, thank you. I thank you for myself, and I also thank you on behalf of the tens of thousands of people struggling in this Apocalypse. I am truly convinced by your great love.”

Kong Zhongcheng followed suit and bowed, “Ji Shen, I’m clumsy with words and don’t know how to express the excitement in my heart, but I want to say that I will follow you and the boss for the rest of my life. You are the people I am worthy of following.”

Wan Xueying’s expression was complex, “I’ve always known that Ji Shen you are a selfless person, but I truly didn’t expect you to be selfless to this extent. I’m convinced. Thinking about it carefully, the spiritual spring should be in your hands to play a greater role and let more people drink it. With this spiritual spring in your hands, I feel the most at ease.”