Forty-nine rules of the end times

Chapter 73 The Mother Transformer

Yunhua City Armed Forces Command Center.

The hall was filled with computers and other equipment. The commander stood on the platform, pacing anxiously back and forth.

"Has the location of that shrieking sound not been determined yet?"

"At present, we can only confirm that it is somewhere in the NK district in the southern part of the city, but we cannot pinpoint the exact location yet."

"If that shriek is emitted again, we can pinpoint its exact location within a minute!"

"Is that so?" the commander ordered. "Have the armed squad proceed to the NK area and wait for orders. Once the exact location is pinpointed, notify them immediately."

As soon as the commander finished speaking, someone reported over the radio: "Commander, six people claiming to be from the third squad have appeared. Should we allow them into the command room?"

Upon hearing "Third Squad," the commander immediately replied, "Proceed."

He had previously received instructions from higher-ups that "Third Squad" was a special unit stationed in Yunhua City with high-level authority, and that the local armed squads needed to cooperate and support their operations.

The door opened, and a group of six people walked in. All six looked very young; none of them were over thirty, and two or three even looked under twenty.

The leading man stepped forward and asked the commander, "Hey, have you located the 'Screamer' yet?"

The commander was somewhat displeased by this condescending tone, but considering the orders from higher-ups, he suppressed his anger and said, "Not yet, it's only confirmed to be in the NK area at present."

"They only confirmed the district's location? That's incredibly inefficient," the man complained. "Fine, let's go there first. Notify us immediately of any new developments via the communication channel!"

After the man finished speaking, he left with the other five men. As soon as they were gone, a lieutenant with a buzz cut couldn't help but curse, "What the hell! Why should we listen to these kids?!"

The commander said in a deep voice, "Assisting and cooperating with their operation is an order from higher up, and we can only follow orders. Once we pinpoint the exact location of the whistling sound, we just need to notify them."

"Are they special? Did some of the sublimation coins that were supposed to be centrally allocated end up being used on them?" The adjutant's tone was tinged with doubt. "Some soldiers are already complaining about this."

“I know,” the commander said. “Now is not the time to complain. Let’s finish the mission first. If you have any complaints, write them down in a report when the rules end, and I will submit them together.”

……

"……Thanks?"

Guan Tong didn't know how to respond to Shi Jingyi's praise of his name, except to say thank you.

Shi Jingyi glanced at the Silver Hunter in his hand. This shotgun, with its unique design and materials, looked like a product from a top-tier manufacturer.

"Is that your mental power artifact? It's very powerful. Even if I hadn't come, you could have easily dealt with these undead."

Guan Tong's heart skipped a beat. If others believed that this gun was his mental power tool, it would help him conceal his true mental power tool, the "Wordless Book."

Speaking of which, he was also curious about Shi Jingyi's exaggerated fighting performance just now.

"Was your skill just now some kind of mental power technique?"

Shi Jingyi raised an eyebrow slightly: "The skills and techniques I've honed over twenty years of hard work are not something that can be easily earned."

"..."

“However,” Shi Jingyi added, “without the support of mental power, my kung fu wouldn’t be so powerful.”

"Can mental power enhance kung fu?"

Shi Jingyi nodded, raised her right hand, and opened her palm.

"There are many ways to use mental power. Besides consuming related items, it can also be used to strengthen oneself."

As she spoke, Guan Tong saw a faint shimmering light appear in her palm, then spread to her fingers and wrist.

His pupils contracted sharply: "Psychic power can be used like this?" He had always believed that psychic power could only be used to consume related items or abilities. He had never imagined that psychic power itself could be used on the body as a pure energy source without any medium... No, that's not right.

It wasn't that Guan Tong hadn't considered it; it was that he had never heard of anyone being able to do it. No one online had ever mentioned it, and it wasn't even mentioned in the official white paper's entry on mental power!

Is it possible that only Shi Jingyi can use mental power simply as energy to strengthen the body?
Seemingly sensing Guan Tong's thoughts, Shi Jingyi said calmly, "The way to use it lies in one's mind. However, to use this power like I do, one must learn how to circulate it and lay a foundation."

"luck……"

"You'll understand soon enough." Shi Jingyi didn't explain further. She looked at the many undead corpses in the warehouse and sighed.

Guan Tong recalled that after Shi Jingyi broke through the roller shutter door to enter the warehouse, she said, "I'm late."

It sounds like she came here specifically to rescue people.

As he expected, Shi Jingyi quickly found the body of a young woman among the many undead corpses. Only half of her body remained; the other half had been destroyed by Guan Tong's earlier No. 3 bomb.

Shi Jingyi stared silently at the corpse for a moment, a look of deep sorrow appearing on her fair and handsome face.

Guan Tong asked, "Who is she...?"

"She was an apprentice at the martial arts school. I rushed over immediately after receiving her distress call, but I was still too late."

Just as Guan Tong was about to say something like "please accept my condolences," she suddenly heard a "creaking" sound coming from above!
He and Shi Jingyi looked up at the same time and saw a metal plate on the top of the warehouse being lifted by a giant claw. Then a scarlet eyeball the size of a basketball peered in, its blood-red gaze sweeping over the two people inside the warehouse.

Mother Transformer!
Guan Tong immediately confirmed that this must be the "Mother Converter"! It was indeed in this industrial park, and it was very likely that the commotion at the warehouse had attracted it here!
"What kind of monster is that?"

Shi Jingyi frowned, while Guan Tong immediately raised his gun and aimed it at the scarlet eyeball.

"boom!"

Without any hesitation, he fired the most powerful No. 3 bullet!

The explosion blasted a large hole in the warehouse roof, but the monster vanished without a trace. Guan Tong's heart skipped a beat; he knew the monster must have reacted incredibly quickly and dodged!
But in the next moment, the enormous monster suddenly leaped down from the hole, its long, sharp claws reaching for Shi Jingyi's head!

Boom!
In that critical moment, Shi Jingyi clenched her fists, and a pale white energy shield rapidly formed around her body. When the monster's forepaws touched it, they were instantly repelled by an astonishing force!

Is this also an application of mental power? Generating a 360-degree protective shield? How much mental power would it consume to use such a perfect, flawless defense even once?
Guan Tong was surprised, but she also saw the monster's appearance clearly, that is, the "Mother Transformer".

If he had to choose, he'd rather he hadn't seen it clearly. Because the moment he saw it, he felt incredibly nauseous and almost gagged.

This "Mother Transformer" is a monster pieced together from countless corpses!

Its single eye, the size of a basketball, was actually dozens of pale red eyes of the undead strung together with coils of hair. Its bloated body was also pieced together from the bodies of multiple undead, and its several-meter-long giant claw had multiple coiled colons in the middle and human fingernails and teeth at the tip.

This "Matrix Transformer," composed of countless undead corpses, made Guan Tong extremely uncomfortable. He immediately pulled the trigger, firing five No. 2 slugs in quick succession!

The "Mother Converter" had its claws knocked away by Shi Jingyi's "aura shield" and hadn't adjusted its movements yet, but it seemed to realize that the bullet fired by Guan Tong was threatening, and its body quickly rolled backward.

"Pfft! Pfft!"

Three of the five No. 2 rounds missed their targets, while two hit the target. This single-pronged bullet, capable of piercing a tree trunk, also tore two large holes in its body!

Before Guan Tong could even feel joy, the "Mother Converter" immediately grabbed a few undead corpses from the ground and filled the large hole blasted open in her body by the unicorn. After a wriggling motion, they quickly merged together.

This scene shocked both Guan Tong and Shi Jingyi.

If this monster can heal itself like this, wouldn't all the hundreds of undead remains scattered throughout the warehouse become its "blood bags"?!

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