Wan Jie Hospice Care Company

Chapter 86 Immobilization Technique

The cell was dimly lit, with only a few rays of light filtering through a small window high up. Xu Yunhan sat on a pile of straw, looking solemnly at Xiang Yu.

"Our school of physiognomy has three techniques: first, determining the person; second, determining the burial site; and third, determining the stars." He spoke slowly, his voice echoing in the stone chamber. "But during the Qin Dynasty, when the world was in chaos, these techniques were lost to various places. By the time they reached me, only the technique of determining the person remained."

Xiang Yu leaned against the wall, squinting his eyes.

"The effect of this immobilization technique is to gain insight into the other person's memories," Xu Yunhan said, pointing a finger to his temple. "In other words, if I want, I can directly see through everything you've experienced in the past."

He proudly raised his chin: "That's why our Xiang family is known as omniscient."

Xiang Yu was silent for a moment, then suddenly clapped his hands as if he had just realized something: "—So you're still a liar. You only know the past, and then you lie to people and say you know the future."

"This—" Xu Yunhan opened his mouth, but the smugness on his face froze. He wanted to refute, but found that he really couldn't, so he could only stammer and turn his head away.

Taking advantage of Xu Yunhan's awkward moment, Xiang Yu raised his head and quietly activated his title, "Knowledgeable and Experienced." This title allowed him to see the strength of others—in his eyes, three question marks appeared above Xu Yunhan's head.

【? ? ? 】

In other words, he is at least a D-level figure.

Xiang Yu's gaze swept over Xu Yunhan's limbs imperceptibly. Although his hands were fair, there were no calluses on the base of his thumbs, and the muscles in his arms were loose. Apart from being slightly more agile, he was just an ordinary person who had never undergone combat training.

That proves that his level is entirely supported by that [Immobilization Technique], which is at least a C-level skill, and could even reach B-level.

Knowing someone's past—that skill is way too overpowered. One glance and you're locked up, then you can spout your ID number like a spell incantation. Who could stand that?

So, Xiang Yu asked again, "What are the weaknesses of your immobilization technique? Or rather, what conditions are required?"

"How could our Xiang family's tradition have any weaknesses? It is naturally flawless," Xu Yunhan said, tilting his head back.

Xiang Yu keenly noticed the details. As Xu Yunhan spoke, his right index finger unconsciously rubbed his nose, his gaze shifted to the lower right, and his neck was stiff.

In psychology, the act of lying is often described as saying "yes".

"Then you decide on me." Xiang Yu suddenly sat up straight, spread his arms wide, and opened his arms wide.

"Huh? Really?" Xu Yunhan turned his head back. "Don't go back on your word and say I invaded your privacy or something—"

"I won't back out. If you really have that ability, I'll accept it."

Xiang Yu is an upright and honest man. Apart from blowing up his classmates' slippers with firecrackers when he was a child, poking holes in the screen window to let mosquitoes in during evening self-study in high school, instantly locking in top lane Teemo when playing League of Legends, using the stun gun as a backup in CS, and blocking bridges in Delta Force, he has probably never done anything bad in his life.

People with such integrity as him are rare, so he openly let the other party see it.

Xu Yunhan cleared his throat, his previously relaxed demeanor suddenly becoming more composed. His eyes sharpened, as if vortexes were swirling deep within his pupils, and an invisible wave spread through the air, piercing straight into Xiang Yu's mind.

The feeling was strange, as if something was forcibly trying to unearth his memories.

But Xiang Yu quickly sensed something was amiss. The moment that power entered his mind, it vanished like a stone thrown into the sea, and he seemed to have grasped the reins that were blocking it.

My mental strength has reached C-. If my previous D- level was one in a billion out of eight billion humans, then C- is a level that no human can ever reach.

A sense of curiosity arose in Xiang Yu's heart. He first tentatively released a mental barrier, and found that although the other party's power was strange, it was not solid.

Since it's not sturdy, there's no need to be polite.

Xiang Yu's eyes turned cold, and his mental energy, no longer used for defense, transformed into a heavy hammer, ramming back with all his might.

"Bang!"

Xu Yunhan rolled his eyes so hard the whites almost popped out, and then he fell straight to the ground.

What happened next was completely unexpected. Xu Yunhan rolled around in the cell like a ball, sometimes hitting the wall, sometimes hitting the bars, letting out screams like a pig being slaughtered.

"Aaaaaaah!!!"

He was convulsing, his hair was disheveled, and drool was dripping from the corner of his mouth, as if he had been greatly frightened. He was like a bowling ball, bouncing around wildly in the small cell.

Xiang Yu watched the opponent rolling around, then stepped on the ball to stop it, and asked, "Uh—are you alright?"

"It's nothing—" Xu Yunhan forced himself to sit up. "Why did you—resist—"

"Didn't you say you had no weaknesses?!"

"If you don't resist, you won't have any weaknesses—" Xu Yunhan weakly added from the ground, trying to salvage some dignity.

"Oh—so, your immobilization technique can only begin searching memories if the target doesn't resist," Xiang Yu began to analyze. "If the target resists, then a mental battle must be waged, and the search can only begin if you win?"

Xu Yunhan did not refute, so his thinking must be correct.

"So, as long as you knock the other person unconscious, you can directly know all their information?" Xiang Yu nodded.

"Actually, you don't need to knock her unconscious; she doesn't need to resist either—"

Xu Yunhan said with difficulty on the ground.

"That's a great skill—I'm tempted." Xiang Yu couldn't help but exclaim. "It should make escaping from prison much easier."

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Upon hearing this, Xu Yunhan seemed to be electrocuted, and abruptly sat up from the ground: "Wait, what are you going to do?"

"A prison break."

"With such tight security outside during the day, how are you going to escape? Besides, escaping would be an even more serious crime!"

"Didn't you say fifty strokes of the cane would beat you to death?"

"Then—we can't escape either—"

Xu Yunhan became timid and hesitant, completely losing his previous imposing manner.

Xiang Yu turned to look at the darkening sky outside the cell, a smirk playing on his lips: "Since the guards are so tight during the day, why not just escape at night?"

"At night? Are you crazy? How can you run around at night!"

Xu Yunhan grew anxious: "Strange things start appearing in Chang'an City at night, and a curfew is imposed before sunset. If you run at night, you might just run into that evil spirit!"

"Doesn't that mean that as long as we run away at night, no one will dare to chase us?" Xiang Yu was always good at thinking in reverse.

"This—" Xu Yunhan opened his mouth, a dry sound coming from his throat. He looked at Xiang Yu, then at the Chang'an city gradually being swallowed by darkness outside, and couldn't find a reason to refute it.

The night was as dark as ink, slowly engulfing this ancient city; this darkness might truly be the only way out.