Regarding the matter of awakening lightning abilities after transformation

Do you know what this is?

Su Wanxi pointed to the bloodstains on her cuff; the pure black fabric was soaked even deeper by the liquid.

"It must be part of the descendant's body; it gives me a strangely familiar feeling..."

As Gu Cheng answered, she filled the rotating wheel, and the bioelectric radar quietly spread. Su Wanxi nodded to indicate that she understood, while standing quietly in the front position.

"Let's go, it would be terrible if there was an exit leading to the outside world underground."

The two walked together, looking out for each other. Gu Cheng slowed down, silently sensing the static feedback in her mind. Su Wanxi held a gun, alert to her surroundings. A spherical force field about two meters in diameter surrounded her body, and neither bullets nor other flying objects could penetrate the gravity field.

Besides the fragrance of each other's bodies, Su Wanxi also smelled a faint smell of blood. She raised her flashlight to illuminate the wall and saw that, without her noticing, streaks of blood were clinging to the passageway, resembling animal entrails or muscle tissue that had lost its skin protection.

Just looking at it was nauseating. Su Wanxi could even feel a sticky sensation on the sole of her shoe. Looking down, she saw that it was indeed the same type of blood clot.

Her stomach was churning, and she felt a kind of dreamlike disorientation. She stuck out her tongue and licked her lips, then gently bit herself with her canine teeth.

"what happened to you?"

Compared to the unknown ahead, Gu Cheng was clearly more concerned about Su Wanxi's condition.

"..."

"I feel a little nauseous," the woman replied casually.

All she could see were blood vessels and chunks of flesh, so it wasn't surprising that her sanity was dropping so quickly. The girl hesitated for a few moments, glancing at Su Wanxi, but ultimately chose to believe her.

"I didn't expect it to be so deep down..."

Gu Cheng muttered to herself. In order to investigate Lin Shusheng, An Zhishui even found the specific information about the sale of the house back then. The villa only had one basement level, and logically speaking, the passage should not be so narrow and long.

"Have you ever seen a basement designed at the rear of a villa? It clearly leads to somewhere else."

Gu Cheng thought to herself, "Gu Chengyan has only lived in a few villas, how does he know so much?" Following the other person's lead, the girl quickly came up with a new guess. She cleared her throat and asked Su Wanxi, "Wanwan, is the house renovation a big deal?"

"It depends. Hollowing out such a layer would take a long time and be quite noisy," Su Wanxi paused before continuing.

“The place we just came from is near a residential area. If it were an illegal renovation, someone should be able to hear it.”

The villa has only been completed for three or four years, and the people of Beidu are generally conservative and unwilling to move out. Perhaps if you ask around, you can find out some information. In fact, Gu Cheng was so dependent on An Zhishui that she actually forgot about this.

Seeing the girl's dejected face, Su Wanxi patted her shoulder and comforted her softly: "Don't think too much about it. Lin Shusheng was hit by a lead bullet, and the ricin in the steel ball is about to take effect. He won't get very far."

Strenuous exercise accelerates blood flow, and the man already felt a burning sensation in his throat and a dull ache in his brain. All the measures he took could only alleviate the spread of toxins, and it was difficult to eradicate them completely.

There was no escape route in the basement. From God's perspective, Gu Cheng and Su Wanxi only needed to guard outside. Without professional medical equipment, Lin Shusheng would eventually die from the poison.

Lightning... why did it have to happen so coincidentally... the villa's backup power supply was located in the basement. Gu Cheng's first wave of electrical attack had destroyed the entire line, rendering the cell phone unusable and the wired communication hopeless. Lin Shusheng was isolated and helpless underground.

The man gritted his teeth and muttered softly, his sore and numb muscles regaining their activity. If he were caught in this state, he would only face certain death. He had to escape to the laboratory to have a chance of survival.

......

Halfway there, Gu Cheng suddenly pulled Su Wanxi, who turned to look at her, her dark eyes filled with confusion.

"The radar is responding?"

Gu Cheng shook her head, then nodded, her tone complicated. "The reaction has always been there. What we're stepping on and what's above us are living creatures." She could see the electric current in the pulsation of the blood vessels, as if a giant heart was constantly pumping deep underground.

"A trace amount of bioelectricity was detected not far ahead, and the preliminary judgment is that it is human."

"A trace amount?" Su Wanxi asked her, pursing her lips.

"Yes, he's been dead for about an hour, and his organs are about to completely die." There is always some bioelectricity left after a person dies, but it won't last long. If we act sooner, we might be able to save him. Gu Cheng's expression didn't change, but she couldn't help feeling a little guilty.

Reaching the feedback point, the girl pushed the handrail, but the door didn't budge. Just as she was about to call for Gu Chengyan's eraser, the other person was quite self-aware, and the door dissolved from the center in the next second, creating a gap that allowed the two of them to pass through. Su Wanxi walked in front of Gu Cheng, and couldn't help but frown as soon as she entered the room.

The room was very small, only about twenty square meters, and contained various instruments of torture. The first thing that caught the eye was an iron bed, covered in rust.

The burlap sacks I had seen through the binoculars were scattered alone in the corner, and a ragged man was chained to the edge of the bed, his wrinkled skin stained with blood.

The wounds on his chest, arms, and thighs were gruesome, indicating that he had suffered greatly before his death. Gu Cheng's eyelashes fluttered as she bent down to examine him, and she made a preliminary judgment that the man had died from excessive blood loss.

Su Wanxi picked up a scalpel from the table, its sharp blade gleaming coldly in the light.

Was the lack of a quick death due to Lin Shusheng's eccentricities, or some other reason? Looking at the dense wounds, Gu Cheng seemed to understand something.

He was deliberately prolonging the process from birth to death for the prisoners.

Chapter 279, Section 284: The Filthy Land

Covering the corpse with a sack, Gu Cheng stood up, trying her best to control her emotions. Her lips trembled slightly before she pressed them tightly together. Then she took a deep breath. Her shoes were sticky, and the scarlet liquid flowing from the bed board stained the floor tiles and dissolved into the flesh.

In this situation, Gu Cheng suddenly thought of the butchering of live fish in the market, where the shop owner would take a cleaver and cut parallel to the tail, then bring the still-moving fish close to the sewer to bleed it.

Butcher hooks, boning knives... perhaps in Lin Shusheng's eyes, ordinary people were nothing more than livestock waiting to be slaughtered on a chopping board. Unlike Gu Cheng's indignation, Su Wanxi's face was pale, her cold, dark eyes were unfocused, she casually tossed her hair, and closed her eyes with the movement, only opening them again after a very long time.

Witnessing death again, related scenes kept replaying in Su Wanxi's mind. She seemed to remember the accident that happened back then. All she could see were ruins, broken limbs mixed with bullet casings, and her finger on the trigger was sore and itchy.

As she pondered, the scene shifted, like a montage in film editing, and Su Wanxi saw a girl with long light brown hair. She had a smile on her face, but her missing left eye was hideous and terrifying.

"boom."

Almost instinctively, Su Wanxi's eyes sharpened, and the bullet, manipulated by gravity, veered off course. Gu Cheng quickly turned and aimed at the target, only to discover that the bullet originated from her lover's Beretta 92F.

"what happened?"

Seeing Gu Cheng's wary expression, Su Wanxi finally snapped out of her daze. She lowered her gaze and calmly replied that she had misread something, while simultaneously releasing her index finger from the trigger, which was resting on the outside of the pin. It wasn't a case of misreading something, but rather an accidental discharge. Su Wanxi realized that her mental state was worse than she had anticipated.

At the very least, you can't let your mind wander at times like this.

Leaving the room, the two walked for half a minute to a spacious basement. It was much larger than the previous room, roughly the size of two basketball courts. Fortunately, there was only one secret passage, so Gu Cheng didn't have to worry about getting lost.

The flashlight beam swept across the area, revealing not only the same blood clots, but also several more lumps of flesh on the walls and overhead. These lumps were several meters apart, connected by blood vessels that had been creeping through the tunnel, with liquid faintly visible flowing through their dark red outer membranes.

It's like insects spreading a fungal carpet; there are so many different patterns.

To ease her mood, Gu Cheng continued forward following the information scanned by the bioelectric radar. As she walked, she noticed that the electrical potential interactions between the walls were becoming more and more frequent, which meant that they were about to approach the core.

"Su Wanxi, what do you think the level of the creatures deep inside is?" Gu Cheng turned to ask her. As long as it's not higher than strong neutral, they can handle it.

After a moment's thought, Su Wanxi gave a somewhat uncertain answer: "It should be within the neutral range; beyond that, it's an insurmountable barrier." Similar to the rare A-level Awakeners, there are very few neutral beings that can maintain their form in reality, and the nutrients required by higher-level monsters would be astronomical.

Gu Cheng nodded upon hearing this, tucked the flashlight into his waistband, and reached out to cover Su Wanxi's hand.

Are you cold?

The girl's delicate hands were as cold as ice, and she clenched them tightly. Su Wanxi neither struggled nor spoke, but simply watched as the other person warmed them up, her pearly teeth gently biting her lower lip.

After a moment, she replied softly, "Hmm, maybe I'm not wearing enough clothes."

Having just finished strenuous exercise, Gu Cheng felt warm all over. The girl frowned and looked at Su Wanxi with some concern. Su Wanxi, recalling what she had said before, avoided the main point and said, "You know I used to take medication to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. The light is poor underground, and my limbs are easily chilled."

This explanation is both true and false; it could be attributed to side effects of the medication, or it could be seen as an indication of a relapse.

"Just cold hands?"

"My legs are a little bit too."

You must tell me immediately if anything happens.

"Good~"

Gu Cheng failed to notice the subtle scheming hidden in her lover's words, and like an old woman, she showered him with concern and care, which Su Wanxi readily accepted.

......

After passing through the open space, deeper inside was an underground plaza with towering stone pillars. Gu Cheng received a feedback signal from ahead, gradually lowered his breathing, and at the same time called to Su Wanxi to turn off the beam.

Lin Shusheng slumped in the corner. The wound on his palm had been simply bandaged with a tie to stop the bleeding. Hearing footsteps, he activated his ability to slow the blood flow, trying to reduce the electrical potential interaction caused by his life activities.

If it were a year ago, this method might have been able to deceive Gu Cheng, but unfortunately, after a long period of training, her control over electricity is now completely different.

With a crackling sound, a ball of static electricity sparked from Lin Shusheng's clothes, standing out conspicuously in the dark space.

Although he is known as the "Omnipotent One," the price of his omnipotence is that he only has a superficial understanding of everything. He can bully lower-level Awakened Ones, but he is clearly at a disadvantage when facing higher-level or even equal-level opponents. He lacks clear means of attack and defense, and he cannot resist either gravity crushing or electric shock guns.

Realizing that Lin Shusheng's mental strength was unusually weak, Su Wanxi quickly locked onto her target and used gravity to violently pull on his heart. In addition to the internal organs, the man's skull was also tentatively sinking, and the nerves were compressed, causing unimaginable pain.

"Su Wanxi, have you considered the consequences of killing me?"

Lin Shusheng squeezed out a sentence through his lips, feeling his mouth filled with the taste of blood, his teeth chattering so violently he could barely lift them.

"as a result of?"

Su Wanxi increased her pressure, her tone icy cold.

"If I die, the things below will lose their seal." As if to confirm Lin Shusheng's words, the tumor throbbed with an unsettling dull sound. Gu Cheng looked up and around, a few drops of blood dripping down her nose, her cheeks sticky.

Are you threatening us?

At Su Wanxi's signal, Gu Cheng slowly walked towards Lin Shusheng, holding a metal military knife crackling with electricity to his neck.

The girl said in a flat tone, "Good evening, Mr. Lin, do you remember me?"

The metal was magnetized into a slender Tang sword. Lin Shusheng didn't remember Gu Cheng, but he remembered the Tang sword resting on his shoulder. Its owner was a very troublesome Awakened.

"Don't you remember?" Gu Cheng asked again. Lin Shusheng remained silent, all his mental energy was focused on resisting the erosion of gravity.

A voice in Gu Cheng's mind urged her to take action, and the military knife in her hand subconsciously moved inward half an inch, with drops of blood seeping out along her skin.

Kill him, kill him...

“That thing is dormant. Once it awakens, it can destroy the entire neighborhood. There are at least several hundred ordinary residents around here, including the elderly and children. If you kill me, you will completely dirty your hands.”

Lin Shusheng was gambling that Gu Cheng would misjudge and soften her heart, and that this small-eating monster was far from enough to destroy the city.

After listening to the man's words, the girl pondered for a moment, then sheathed her Tang sword. Immediately afterwards, she took out a new Colt Python from her weapon belt.

"Want to try the Soviet roulette? Six bullets to start with you."

Chapter 285 A Tree

The Colt Python in Gu Cheng's hand was not the one originally issued to the Hermit Bureau; the latter had long been left in a corner underground, buried by the accumulation of mud and sand.

Before Lin Shusheng could speak, Gu Cheng aimed at his limbs and pulled the trigger. Several shots rang out, and the man's wrists and ankles were shattered by bullets, with hot blood gushing out and splattering onto the girl's hair.

"There are two left now."

Gu Cheng smiled at him, the bloodstains on her lips making her skin appear even more delicate. Her fair face looked like a demon from hell in Lin Shusheng's eyes. The air crackled with explosions, and Lin Shusheng felt a burning sensation on his wrist. The violent electric current evaporated the moisture and compressed the blood vessels, causing the lumen at the wound to become blocked and form a blood clot.