The weapon refiner is not doing her job properly

Chapter 135 Sealing and Destruction

As times change, the concentration of spiritual energy is quietly increasing, and the number of spiritual beings who awaken their special abilities is also increasing.

However, some of them choose to hide their identities and do not want others to know them.

Whether these hidden spiritual beings have committed evil deeds is difficult to ascertain, and naturally no one can effectively monitor them.

In contrast, an interstellar government that controls the overall situation would naturally crave to know their movements and intelligence.

Su Ninglong also received relevant information or task prompts, but she could not find the time to carry them out every month. For example, this month, she did not participate at all.

"Brother Yuan, what should we do?" Su Ninglong asked anxiously. "If my net hunter qualification is revoked, my progress will come to a complete standstill."

Upon hearing this, Lei Qingya rolled his eyes and said, "Don't worry about it. You're very tough. You can't even be killed by lightning. Go take the White Hunter qualification exam and you'll pass it easily."

"Are you cricketing in front of me?" Su Ninglong glared at her, displeased.

"Save your energy." Lei Qingya said dismissively, handing her a tissue. "First, wipe the grease off your lips and that conspicuous little bump."

She changed the subject, half-jokingly saying, "If all else fails, why not just openly use the back door? Lingfei is your number one sugar daddy; getting her to pull some strings is a piece of cake."

"I don't need it, I can handle it myself."

"How to deal with it?"

Su Ninglong deftly raised her wrist, tapped the bracelet, logged into her simulator account, and quickly sent a query to Smart Computing One:
I don't want to use emulators next month. Will this cause me to lose my online hunting license?

[User "Unproductive": This year you entered the simulated contaminated zone a total of 21 times, with a total win rate of 100% and an overall contribution of over 80% in each game. Based on your outstanding performance, your Net Hunter qualification status will not be affected in any way.]

As expected, Smart Computing No. 1 lives up to its name, possessing extremely strong thinking and judgment abilities, and knowing how to set special evaluation standards for top talents.

"Look." Su Ninglong proudly waved the light screen on her wrist, picked up the fluffy creature that had snuggled up to her feet, and said, "Geniuses have their own special treatment. Backdoors? What are those?"

"Qirui and I are going to talk to Ge Wei. Do you want to come along?"

"I can't go, the teacher assigned homework." Lei Qingya spread his hands with a bitter face, "I haven't had time to do Master Su's homework yet."

The homework she was referring to was memorizing texts, constantly memorizing them.

Lei Qingya still needs to practice shaping wood with spiritual fire, requiring him to stretch and deform it like rubber, but so far he has not been successful.

"Master, I want to go with you." It was work time again, and the eyes of the gorilla-headed robot that had been in the warehouse cabinet suddenly lit up. It opened the door and came out.

Every time Lei Qingya witnessed the appearance of the gorilla-headed robot "awakening", he couldn't help but curse Lian Xinyi's incomprehensible taste in his heart. This thing was so ugly that it made people's hair stand on end.

Xingyuan was also unable to accompany him, as a batch of important new materials was about to arrive, and he needed to personally go to count, receive, and properly store them.

Su Ninglong had no choice but to put her hands on Qi Rui's body together with the gorilla-headed robot, their figures becoming blurred.

The next moment, they appeared on the wasteland near the school gate.

The wasteland in front of the school gate has now been temporarily fenced off with barbed wire, with conspicuous danger signs hanging on it, clearly prohibiting anyone from entering.

The efficiency of building houses in interstellar space is astonishing. As long as you are willing to pay, a brand-new building can be erected in just over half a month, with only the furniture to be delivered.

Just then, Ge Wei led five Star Police officers and two prisoners, their bodies bound by energy shackles, into the building. The underground space here had been built into a solidly sealed chamber.

The sudden appearance of Su Ninglong and Qi Rui stunned the Star Police officers. "This is..."

“She’s my apprentice, you don’t need to worry about her.” The gorilla-headed figure extended its mechanical arm, projecting an electronic certificate with an official certification mark onto a screen and handing it to the lead star police officer for verification.

As for Su Ninglong and Qi Rui, they had no intention of entering; their goal was to patrol the three hundred acres of land under their own name first.

The five Star Police officers did not question him further and took the prisoner down to the sealing chamber.

After leading the prisoner to the sealing room, they entered the adjacent observation room.

The Star Police explained to the gorilla-headed robot, "One of these two is a serious criminal, and the other is a death row inmate."

The lead police officer pointed to the death row inmate, "This man was responsible for five horrific crimes that directly resulted in the deaths of hundreds of innocent people."

To prove that the death row inmate was absolutely not going to be pardoned, the accompanying Star Police officer prepared a case file, had the gorilla head sign a confidentiality agreement, and then handed it to him to look at.

Every object that is sealed or destroyed must have been convicted and deserved its punishment.

Only by providing complete case records and the final effective judgment can Su Ninglong have his own methods to verify the authenticity and severity of the crime.

"A serious offender sentenced to fifty years, his special ability is extremely dangerous—he can silently turn living beings into mincemeat. Using this ability, he directly murdered fifteen people. In addition, there were five other victims, both men and women, who had been forcibly raped and abused by him. Three of them were his old enemies, and the other twelve were complete strangers to him, killed simply because his twisted mind could not tolerate others living happier lives than him. He has only three years left before his release. We must not risk letting him return to society, repeat his mistakes, and harm the innocent."

This group of prisoners was not the first batch that Su Ninglong had come into contact with, but this time the prisoners came from an unfamiliar prison.

The two men committed countless atrocities, far more horrific than any of the prisoners sent before them.

After briefly reviewing the data, the gorilla-headed robot straightened its black robe, picked up the box, and said, "I'm ready. Make contact first, and once everything is confirmed, I will begin sealing and destroying it automatically."

The Star Police opened the door and let the gorilla-headed robot into the prisoner's cell.

The two prisoners were firmly locked in heavy restraint shackles.

A police officer in charge of escorting the gorilla-headed robot, his face obscured by a helmet visor, cautiously looked at the robot and asked, "Would you like me to provide you with a face covering? So that the prisoner doesn't remember your appearance."

“No need for trouble, I can replace this head anytime.” The gorilla-headed robot’s unremarkable words made the death row inmate wearing the hood burst into laughter. “Hahahaha, change your face? Changing your face doesn’t change your genes. Don’t worry, I will remember you. Before I face death, I will tell everyone in the prison about your appearance and deeds in detail.”

His laughter, like the hooting of an owl mixed with the mad tremor unique to an executioner, echoed in the sealed chamber, sending chills down one's spine.

The notorious killer who murdered over a hundred people showed no sign of tension upon being brought in, casually slumping in a chair as if he had no regard for life or death.

The police officer stepped forward and deftly removed the hood from the death row inmate's head.

The prisoner under the hood was clearly not expecting that he would be facing something other than a human; his cheek muscles twitched uncontrollably. "Officer, what is this?"

The Star Police remained silent and did not answer.

At the same time, the gorilla-headed robot extended its cold mechanical cane and gently placed it on the prisoner's body.

He stated in a completely emotionless voice: "According to records, you have violated multiple interstellar laws and are sentenced to death."

"Don't fucking repeat the verdict to me." The slight panic on the death row inmate's face was replaced by contempt. He grinned, revealing clearly visible dark red, festering wounds on his gums, not much different from rotting flesh exposed to the sun for three days.

"Trying to fool me with some ugly piece of junk? Ha, that's all the Star Police can do." He retorted dismissively to the Star Police, his eyes flashing with malice, as if trying to see what was hidden beneath the mechanical shell.

However, this posture is precisely the disguise often used by many death row inmates. Su Ninglong could feel the soul within his body trembling, using madness to mask cowardice.

"Destroy," the gorilla-headed robot said.

The merciless mechanical voice reached straight to the soul. The death row inmate stared blankly, then lost all sense of his abilities. A sharp pain erupted throughout his body, as if endless ants were gnawing at his soul.

The piercing scream aroused fear in the hardened criminal sitting opposite.

He knew the death row inmate, who, because of his death sentence, had become unrestrained and fearless.

Imagine how painful it must have been for him to abandon his last shred of dignity and scream in agony.

The gorilla-headed robot released its grip and stepped back.

The death row inmate reached out to grab the black hem of the garment, pleading, "Give it back to me..." The black robe of the fish-lipped robot was so smooth that he could only watch helplessly as the hem slipped through his fingers.

If he loses his status as a spirit before he dies, he will be sent away as if he had died as an ordinary person.

The police came and dragged him away. Every sob of the death row inmate was filled with blood and foam. "Give it back to me..." His fingernails scratched the ground. He looked pitiful and ridiculous.

The gorilla-headed robot turned to face another person. The seal would be more difficult, so Su Ninglong decided to use a magic weapon and directly apply the sealing ring, pressing it onto the other person's wrist.

The bracelet automatically snapped into his flesh and tightened. The convict shuddered. In the darkness, he felt a sharp pain in his wrist, as if blood was being drawn out, and then his soul seemed to be being pulled away.

The ability is being withdrawn, the superpower is shrinking. The serious criminals want to stop it, want to resist, but the more they resist, the more tired they become. Gradually, the ability is completely isolated, and the body and the superpower are completely separated.

The bracelet also became part of the convicted criminal's body, turning into a black mark. As long as the black mark exists, he will never be able to use his superpowers.

After doing all this, the gorilla head left the room, and the Star Police removed his hood, took off his gloves, and put a white mouse in his hand.

The other party couldn't help but use his supernatural power as soon as he grasped the flesh and blood. The convict's pupils shrank to pinpoints, and he finally understood why the death row inmate was weeping bitterly.

My superpowers are gone!

"Where did you take my special abilities?"

Was this a success?
The police officer said, "If you can turn the rats into mincemeat, you can be released early."

The convicted felon was unaware that this was a test, something the police officer had casually mentioned and that wouldn't get him any sentence reduction, yet he was willing to believe it.

No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't do it! His superpower had truly disappeared.

The convict, his voice hoarse, managed to squeeze out the same words.

"Give it back to me." Realizing it was all in vain, he laughed maniacally: "Hahahaha..." He banged his head against the wall, again and again, until it was almost bleeding.

The gorilla head said, "You can leave now, but don't dirty my place. Destroy three thousand, seal one thousand five hundred."

"no problem."

"Can I ask you something? Why is destruction more expensive than sealing?" the Star Police officer said before leaving with the prisoner.

"Because it's dirtier."

They couldn't discern any emotional changes from the robot's dead fish face, but when it said "dirty," they could sense its deep disgust.

Star Police: "..."

The destruction and sealing took only five minutes. Qi Rui led his group away, and the Star Police put headbands on the two prisoners before leaving as well.

Ge Wei watched them leave before calling over the construction workers and pioneers to begin their work.

The two prisoners, upon returning to prison, seemed to have lost their purpose in life. The death row inmates stayed in their cramped cells every day, waiting for death.

Serious offenders are still allowed to move around, work, and eat every day.

He changed his usual arrogant demeanor and started nervously avoiding people.

This appearance naturally attracted the attention of others, and he dared not raise his eyes when someone approached him.

In a place teeming with evil people, even the slightest anomaly can drastically alter the course of life.

Upon getting closer, his cellmate noticed that his restraints were missing. After a brief murmur, the cellmate put his arm around his shoulder and asked what had happened.

The serious offender was unwilling to talk and turned to run away, but his fellow inmates gradually surrounded him.

When forced to reveal his past experiences outside of prison, the stubborn convict finally confessed after being reprimanded by his fellow inmates.

The hardened criminals with superpowers suddenly became afraid. Some of them planned to go to a remote planet and cause a big disturbance after they were released from prison.

Some wanted to use their special abilities to find work, while others wanted to join more formal expedition teams so they could better utilize their skills.

When they were told that they might lose their powers before being released from prison, they all fell silent.

One by one, four or five people were taken away every day. When they returned, they would have a ring-shaped black mark on their arm and would no longer be able to use their superpowers.

It was as if the sky had fallen.

Within two weeks, the news reached some interested parties.

Law enforcement was pleased, as they now had the means to deal with these spiritualists. Even if news of spiritualists continued to spread among ordinary people, it wouldn't have much of an impact.

At the Star Alliance, even the most unrestrained hunters have toned down their behavior.

The Star Alliance, however, did not react, as if they already knew about it.

Shen Liwen's mother learned of this news from the other ladies and immediately went home to ask Shen Jiajing, "Has the Star Alliance released a new sacred artifact? I heard that many special ability users in the prison can no longer use their abilities."

At the dining table, Shen Liwen listened intently.

Shen Jiajing said, "It has nothing to do with the Star Alliance. How could we not know that they are working on projects with the government?"

"Mom, what's going on?"

"I heard it from a relative of the Xing family. You know how much of their family is involved in politics, so naturally they heard that the prison is piloting reforms. All spiritualists entering the prison will have their spiritual power banned from now on. I don't know who's so powerful or where they came from. If you ask me, if a spiritualist commits a crime, just kill them. Why all this complicated procedures?"

"Mom, stop spouting such extreme opinions. Aren't you afraid people will laugh at you?" Shen Liwen interrupted her mother's foolish opinion and said to Shen Jiajing, "Could it be that the people in the Killer Alliance are out of work and have gone to work for the government?"

(End of this chapter)