My transformation into a beautiful girl started with a hemorrhage.

"I'm going to show my skills in tomorrow's baseball game..."

"Hurry home, the TV program is about to start..."

"My mortgage payment is due again this month..."

"I'm going to confess my feelings to Anna tomorrow..."

"When I get home, I'll have to face that woman again..."

"I want to go out and play..."

"Ms. Ikeda is so beautiful. I wish I could get her phone number..."

"I must beat the game today..."

"I will definitely get into the University of Tokyo..."

"So much homework..."

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In an instant, the memories and thoughts of everyone within a 1000-meter radius rushed into Hui's mind. This chaotic stream of memories overwhelmed Hui's brain, causing her to feel a sharp headache.

It took Hui a while to calm down; she blocked out the thoughts and memories of everyone around her.

"Is this Level 5?!" Hui muttered to herself.

Takahashi and Ken, who were on the other side of the base, suddenly stopped what they were doing.

Takahashi muttered to himself, "Hmm?! I suddenly feel so depressed!"

"You too? I had the same feeling, a sudden pang of heart palpitations. Do you think it might be because the attacks these past few days have put too much pressure on us?" Xianye said.

"Probably! Let's go grab a drink after we finish our work today!"

"it is good!"

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Not only them, but everyone within a kilometer or so of this suburban factory in Tokyo felt a sense of unease and oppression.

However, this feeling comes and goes quickly.

This is what makes Level 5 "psychological manipulation" so terrifying!

Misaka Mikoto, at level 5, doesn't need to do anything; even while sleeping, her body is surrounded by highly concentrated electromagnetic waves.

While Level 5 "psychological manipulation" cannot generate that much energy, the damage it causes is incomparable to that of electric shock.

Even if Hui does nothing but sit and watch TV, the joys and sorrows she unintentionally experiences will directly affect everyone within a 1-kilometer radius, causing them to either become wildly happy as if they've taken stimulants, or so sad as to self-harm or commit suicide, or even suddenly become so enraged that they kill someone...

Even a dream Hui has while sleeping could lead to a human tragedy.

Misaki Shokuhou knew that this ability was too dangerous for ordinary people, so she set a "self-rule" for herself: the ability will only be activated when the remote control is pointed at someone, and the ability cannot be used if the remote control is not in hand.

Through this self-imposed, mandatory rules, Misaka Shokuhou solved this problem of excessive indulgence.

However, it is not necessary to have such mandatory self-rules. Self-rules are ultimately caused by one's lack of familiarity with one's own abilities.

Misaki Shokuhou was young at the time and was still under the control of the researchers at the Talent Workshop, so she didn't have much time and energy to hone her skills.

However, having lived two lives, Hui is already mature in her thinking and has had plenty of time to practice her abilities, so there is absolutely no need for her to choose self-imposed rules to limit herself.

After getting familiar with the level 5 'mind manipulation', Hui made the remaining demi-humans take poison and die again.

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After the seventh death... [Soul Quality: 1028 million]

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The twenty-sixth death... [Soul Quality: 1510 million]

All devoured!

These demi-humans can no longer be called demi-humans, because they no longer have the ability to resurrect infinitely; when they die... they are truly dead.

Hui cleaned up the cups at the scene, and then modified the memories of the demi-humans who were gradually waking up.

"Does everyone understand?" Hui asked the group of people who had just woken up.

No one remembered what had happened before. In their memory, Hui had only talked about the supplies to be prepared and some words to boost morale.

"Understood," everyone replied in unison.

"Okay, that's settled then, everyone disperse." Hui said, then turned and left.

Hui continued to think about her own affairs.

Having devoured so many demi-humans, Hui also carefully considered what these black particles were.

The black particles revive the demi-humans and repair their damaged bodies, but they themselves are not consumed.

This ignores the fundamental physical law of the universe—the law of conservation of matter.

Calling it the God particle is no exaggeration!

Because "creating things out of thin air" is entirely God's authority!

At the same time, Kei also discovered that the reason why the demi-humans could be resurrected even after being killed and burned to ashes was because, unlike ordinary people whose souls merged into their bodies, the demi-humans' souls resided in black particles.

Their bodies are just a shell.

As long as the black particles do not disappear, the physical body can be restored no matter how many times it is damaged.

These demi-humans who were devoured by the black particles have had their souls re-integrated into their bodies; if they die, they are truly dead.

"Hmm? Wait, no! Could it be that the so-called black particles are... that kind of thing?" Hui suddenly thought of a substance, a substance that was only a concept even in Academy City.

This is a paper that Misaka Mikoto read: "Some Theoretical Conjectures and Mathematical Verifications Regarding the Properties of Four-Dimensional Matter".

In the paper, someone posed the following thought: Since the 'god' we seek is a higher-dimensional life form, then... what about higher-dimensional matter? If higher-dimensional life exists, then higher-dimensional matter must also exist. And what similarities and differences exist between higher-dimensional matter and the three-dimensional matter of our real world...?

Ordinary matter has only three dimensions—length, width, and height. But what if matter had four dimensions?

So the first additional dimension is—time!

Four-dimensional matter has one more attribute than three-dimensional matter—the attribute of time. In other words, besides length, width, and height, the black particle also possesses a 'time' scale, which could be a minute, an hour, a year, or something similar.

"Why can black particles disregard the fundamental physical law of the universe—the conservation of matter?"

"Perhaps it doesn't violate the law of conservation of matter at all."

"The black particles repair the demi-human body without loss. Perhaps what it does is simply transport the demi-human's body from a time interval or a different timeline."

"From the perspective of four-dimensional space, this is in accordance with the law of conservation of matter."

"Humans do not have the means to observe higher dimensions. They can only see a moment in the four-dimensional world—three-dimensional space. Therefore, in the eyes of humans, the body parts lost by the demi-humans suddenly appeared out of thin air, which is incomprehensible."

"If that's the case, then we can deduce that there is a kind of death for demi-humans—death from old age! Because natural death from old age is the longest human body can live. There is no body that lives longer than death from old age in any timeline. No matter what time interval or demi-human body the black particles transport, they will get the same corpse. Death cannot be distorted in the dimension of time."

"Then, do demi-humans die of old age?" Hui didn't know, because less than 20 years had passed since the discovery of demi-humans, and there had been no cases of demi-humans dying of old age.

"Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore. Why bother thinking so much? It's better to become a higher-dimensional being myself and see things directly."

However, there has been no progress on Hui's biggest concern: how to turn ordinary people into demi-humans.

According to Hui, the secret to the resurrection of demi-humans lies in the black particles. Therefore, as long as an ordinary person merges with the black particles, he will become a demi-human.

However, in practice, Hui discovered that although the black particles of each demi-human looked the same, they were different. For example, Sato's black particles could only merge with Sato's soul, and Tanaka's black particles could only merge with Tanaka's soul. If they were swapped, they could not merge at all.

"I used to think that each demi-human's black particles were marked with the code of the demi-human's soul. Simply put, the black particles recognized a master, and others could not use the black particles that had recognized a master."

"Now it seems that perhaps the black particles do not have any soul code, but only a part of the black particles in the three-dimensional world are revealed. Just like when a three-dimensional object is projected onto a two-dimensional plane, it is just a shadow. Although this shadow has all the attributes that a two-dimensional image should have, it cannot be said that this shadow is the three-dimensional object itself."

"Similarly, it's not that black particles can't infect ordinary people, but rather that ordinary people must be infected by the entirety of black particles."

"The fact that I can devour black particles suggests that the devouring ability of the Void Soul fused with the Void Essence may be even higher than that of the fourth dimension. Perhaps this involves the dimension of fate."

"It seems that only by becoming a higher-dimensional being can I use black particles to turn ordinary people into subhumans."

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P.S.: Soul quality 1500 million.

P.S.: The author has only watched the Ajin anime, so they don't know how the original author explained the black particles. This is just the author's explanation. If you are a fan of the original work and know the original author's explanation, please don't criticize me.

The last two on the list in Chapter 73

Hui put aside her thoughts and returned to the base lobby. By then, Sato had already successfully assassinated his target and returned to the base.

After a short rest, Sato and his men began planning their next assassination attempt.

Seeing his diligent demeanor made Hui, who was just there to dabble in things, feel embarrassed.

In the following weeks, Sato and his team continued to assassinate those on the list.

Meanwhile, as the assassination attempt on Sato grew bigger, demi-humans from all over Japan began to stand up and support Sato and his group.

The most obvious manifestation of this is that Hui's logistics force is growing larger and larger, with as many as 235 new demi-humans added. Apart from those who don't even know they are demi-humans, Hui's logistics team basically includes all the demi-humans in Japan.

Of course, Hui also seized the opportunity to devour their black particles.

Hui's soul has now reached 7100 million strings. At the same time, Hui has left behind enough black particles to create 11 ghosts. She plans to turn the people she cares about into demi-humans after she finds a way to do so, so that they can become immortal.

In other words, Hui now has 11 ghosts.

Sato's place.

As more people on the list were murdered, these prominent figures on the list began to be placed under heavy guard.

However, the targets of assassinations are either executives of large corporations or high-ranking government officials, who cannot seek refuge abroad, because for them to leave the country would be tantamount to announcing to the entire nation that they have surrendered to a terrorist.

In that case, they won't be able to keep their current positions.

Furthermore, in addition to being unable to leave the country, they also cannot remain hidden in security facilities indefinitely.

You have to understand that in their positions, there are many things that need to be handled every minute. If they hide and never go out, then... they can only step down and make way for more capable people. There are plenty of people who can replace them.

For those in high positions, taking away their positions is no different than taking their lives.

All they could do was increase security personnel and try to conceal their movements as much as possible.

However, for a world-class hacker like Aoshan, tracking down a public figure is an easy task.

And can these so-called security personnel compare to the Japanese assault team that Sato massacred before?