Chapter 378: A Madman?

Ghosts can invade intelligent beings and perform short-term possession.

The possessed not only see a massive increase in strength, but their recovery ability also improves.

After being killed, they can also possess another person.

In the Cultivation World, a single ghost can slaughter an entire city of mortals.

In this Dungeon Civilian District, an environment without Spirit Qi, ghosts are naturally restricted as well.

Even when possessing a mortal, there is a certain probability of failure.

Furthermore, don't even think about attribute growth after possession; the environment here does not allow it.

After the possession is completed and they are killed, ghosts also need to rest for anywhere from several hours to several days before the next possession.

However, the chaos and destruction caused by these one hundred ghosts.

Look more like a skirmish between a few or a dozen people.

The Dungeon central area is the Citizen District, which is surrounded by the Civilian District.

It is currently dusk.

Suddenly, he looks at the map, his heart stirred.

Even if the Civilian District is filled with the roar of artillery.

Because a real war is not the sea of people and omnipresent gunfire seen in television shows and movies.

The Lieutenant General refers to the analysis brief provided by the staff officers below.

"Could it be that this target is still so naive?"

Everyone clearly knows the true target within the Civilian District: Kalosis.

And Su Ping, at this moment, has already rushed to the surface.

He flicks out coins one by one, detonating the drones that discovered his trail.

He likely took advantage of this chaos to escape.

The Lieutenant General hesitates for a moment.

He thinks of Kalosis's status as a Commoner, as well as the education he himself received from noble figures.

"No, this might be a good thing; if he is truly exposed, the resources I can utilize later will be even greater."

He ignores the follow-up fire support and intelligence backing.

He locks down all the out-of-control Bipedal Mecha and Eight-legged Spider Mecha.

The remaining pilots invaded by ghosts are all cleared out with precision strikes.

Once they regain their senses and realize what bizarre situation has occurred on the front lines.

Regardless of that Lieutenant General or those staff officers sent in an emergency.

This sudden turn of events is equivalent to catching this command system off guard.

They hurriedly apply for war equipment authorization.

After all, the majority of these one hundred ghosts appeared in one direction.

As firepower increases, squads are often separated by distances ranging from one hundred to several hundred meters.

As well as various entertainment venues serving the Citizens.

Eighty percent of those living inside are Citizens of the Surface City.

The main fire delivery is still primarily from self-propelled artillery in the rear.

Or perhaps it shouldn't be called escaping, but rather breaking through, leaving other places in an instant.

And their value of existence is mainly to discover and report enemy situations.

This also causes a gap to appear in the entire encirclement.

Because of the terrain and special circumstances, the density in the Civilian District is not that low.

"That direction..."

After accepting the hint from the family elder that he is the reincarnation of a certain illustrious ancestor, the first lesson he learned was: psychological analysis of Commoners, Citizens, and the Elite class.

Dozens of seconds later, he still has his adjutant notify the Information Building in the Dungeon central area.

What this place has most of are hundred-meter-tall office buildings rarely seen in other districts.

Thanks to the ghosts, Su Ping's path has almost no other fire interference, aside from dodging artillery fire in advance.

It's just that this commotion.

He then rushes out from the side of the armored body occupied by a ghost.

Yet there are only five or six Bipedal Mecha and a dozen mobile infantry riding in vehicles every hundred meters.

For them, the central area is mostly just a place to clock in for work.

Then they deploy drones, and aside from the nearest ones dispatching special operations squads for capture missions.

The Citizens in the central area are still working or drinking afternoon tea.

Until the alarm sounds in various office buildings.

Some people show expressions of astonishment.

Except for a few Elites serving as head managers.

These Dungeon Citizens do not know what has happened.

They all look blankly at the warning alerts provided by their communication devices.

Is there a heinous criminal invading the central area?

"Look!"

Just when they are confused, ahead, at the ticket gate wall leading from the Civilian District to the central area.

A loud noise suddenly erupts.

Yet it had been smashed open by some unknown force.

Following that, vehicle after vehicle of security officers rushing to the scene were struck by something unknown.

They actually all exploded at once.

Some vehicles were even blown high into the air before disintegrating.

Parts turned into fireballs and flew everywhere, scaring many curious Citizens into fleeing in all directions.

And what made them even more panicked was that a large number of Drones were completely disregarding whether they might cause collateral damage.

All kinds of high-powered missiles were launched as if they cost nothing.

This caused the sky of this Underground City to be illuminated in a bright red!

At this moment, Su Ping also casually grabbed the Major General, whom the Shadow of the Abyss could not easily take away because there was no connecting underground passage.

He used a portion of the Shadow of the Abyss's power to wrap him in shadows so that outsiders could not see his appearance.

Grabbing Major General Luxi Ka'en, who was wrapped in shadows, Su Ping left the entrance and flashed into a Shopping Mall.

Amidst the exclamations of countless people, Su Ping charged through recklessly.

He smashed through one glass curtain wall after another, moving from this building to another.

This made it impossible for the swarms of Drones flying in the air to track or lock onto Su Ping.

On the contrary, whenever Su Ping felt like it, he would throw out one or two hidden weapons, turning those Drones that followed closest into fireworks.

The Information Building.

It was one of the tallest buildings in the central district.

It was responsible for the network services and the transmission of all kinds of information for the entire Underground City.

At this very moment.

Nosos, the person in charge of this important location, received a warning.

He also sounded the alarm at the fastest speed.

While non-essential personnel evacuated, a large number of combat personnel rushed in to set up a defensive line.

Furthermore, Unmanned Combat Robots or robotic platforms from other important facilities and equipment.

Were also urgently diverted to come and provide support.

But for Nosos, the target was coming far too quickly.

From receiving the news and preparing to hearing the Captain of the security team warn that the target had been spotted.

The interval was no more than three minutes!

In three minutes, the support sent from the nearest building had only just finished equipping their gear and stepped out the door.

And the first defensive line they had hurriedly set up themselves had just spotted the target and opened fire.

When they discovered the opponent suddenly leaped high into the air.

Under the illumination of the exploding fireworks of several large Drones circling the building.

With a boom, he smashed through a fifty or sixty-meter-high curtain wall.

And entered the interior of this Information Building.

Su Ping swept his divine sense and immediately grabbed a fat, green-haired man.

Sure enough, this was a minor leader.

He very easily obtained the required intelligence from the other's mind.

Immediately, Su Ping shook his head.

Then he walked into the emergency exit.

The security guards on the floor above had received defensive orders.

They were slightly shaken, thinking in their minds that the enemy wasn't just at the entrance.

How could he already be on their floor?

They had already seen Su Ping walking at the stairwell.

They raised their weapons.

But it was too late to pull the triggers.

Su Ping had already arrived at their side, striking first by arriving later.

The next second, these dozen or so security guards were scattered in all directions like falling flower petals.

Boom!

The door, carved with Grandmaster craftsmanship, was kicked off its hinges.

Su Ping carried the Major General and strode inside.

Without a weapon in hand.

A single glance was enough to make the dozen or so staff members in this information studio fall deathly silent.

Su Ping did not waste words.

He directly dispelled the shadows, then revealed Luxi Ka'en, who looked like a dead dog, showing his true face.

And after explaining the live broadcast requirements.

He was slightly shaken to learn that it actually required the authorization password of the person in charge, Nosos.

Su Ping remembered the appearance of the person in charge, Nosos, from the supervisor.

He swept his divine sense.

Su Ping dropped Luxi Ka'en and flashed, disappearing from the room.

Leaving the dozen or so staff members looking bewildered.

After a good while, a staff member boldly wanted to run away.

Who would have thought that just as he took a step.

He saw that at the doorway, which no longer had a door, that terrifying fierce god had already strode back, dragging the person in charge, Nosos.

The staff member swallowed hard.

He knew that this person in charge had been hiding in a Security Cabin, directing operations remotely.

That was a place comparable to a vault.

Yet he hadn't expected it to be breached so quickly.

He did not know, however, that the other party's actions had saved Su Ping the trouble of searching for people.

Su Ping had gone straight to the outside of the Security Cabin, opened the door, and then snatched the dumbfounded Nosos away.

On the way back, Su Ping had already turned Nosos into an idiot.

He had also learned many key details, including authorization passwords.

And he had gained some unexpected joy from this person, Nosos.

Nosos was a person of real power within the Underground City, and many matters could not bypass him.

Therefore, for this game involving Awakened, he was the person in charge on the Underground City side.

Because of this, Su Ping was surprised to discover from his memories.

When encountering candidates like Kalosis who were selected by the Academy of Sciences based on their genes.

In order to ensure that such people would make up their minds to sign up for the selection.

They would sometimes deliberately cooperate with those active gangs in the Underground City to make the other person's life full of disasters.

Kalosis happened to be just such a target.

And because of this, his relative's sudden serious illness was not natural, but man-made.

It was also fortunate that Kalosis had already been unable to withstand the pressure at that time and had chosen to sign up.

Otherwise, there were plenty of other tricks to make Kalosis unable to survive.

Su Ping knew this quickly, otherwise it would have been difficult to complete the mission.

He did not waste time; after bringing the person back, he immediately began a live broadcast to the entire Underground City district.

First, he briefly explained his name, identity, and encounter.

Then, he dragged Major General Luxi Ka'en over.

Under the urging of his divine sense, he made him bitterly admit with his own mouth that what Nosos said was true.

Almost the entire Underground City received this information.

However, looking at the effect of this performance.

Most people were completely bewildered.

Some even suspected whether this was a movie trailer.

Others recognized the identity of Major General Luxi Ka'en.

They had also long been suspicious of the mortality rate of personnel returning from Other-dimensional Space exploration.

But more people scoffed at such conspiracy theories.

They were just curious why they had received this false information.

Only a very, very few, mostly friends and relatives of the victims, would believe it a little.

But they still tended to believe that Other-dimensional Space exploration was just a life-gambling game, and even if people came back alive, they would die early due to side effects.

And not even a minute after Su Ping released the news on his side.

Someone started backup equipment and mass-sent a message again.

"It is regrettable that the original exploration plan member, Kalosis, has become a paranoid with persecution complex who is full of suspicion and distrust toward everything due to the severe side effects produced by the exploration plan."

"Worse still, this patient has developed certain special abilities and has thus become a demon with astonishing destructive power."

At this point, the message added a short film with edited, movie-like footage and musical rendering.

In the short film, there was the self-sacrifice of special forces members, and the crashing and explosion of Bipedal Mecha.

There was also a pilot discovered by the capture squad who was clearly different, being controlled by a ghost.

And from this, they deduced that the other party possessed special abilities like mental manipulation.

This made the testimony of Major General Luxi Ka'en naturally become insignificant.

"We hope every member of the Kaluo Federation will prioritize protecting themselves when seeing the other party."

"However, please rest assured, everyone."

"Facing such a heinous villain, the Kaluo Federation has made up its mind that no matter how great the other party's value is, we must exterminate them to return the Federation..."

Crack!

Su Ping crushed the communication device, ending the broadcast.

He could feel that the last emotional fluctuation of La within his body had completely turned into anger, and then, after receiving Su Ping's guarantee that those who caused all this would pay the price, it completely dissipated.

In the studio.

At this moment, a large screen projection suddenly appeared.

On the projection was the uncle of Major General Luxi Ka'en.

That Lieutenant General Xisikaen appeared on the projection.

After glancing at Luxi Ka'en.

This Lieutenant General sighed and looked at Su Ping:

"Have you seen your own powerlessness?"

"Kalosis, what can you change by doing so much with your own strength?"

"Give up this meaningless struggle."

"Surrender, and accept the research of the Academy of Sciences."

"I represent the Kaluo Federation in guaranteeing that you will be treated well, with no shortage of food, drink, or entertainment."

"Those scions of noble families who make you angry and resentful."

"They have indeed gone too far."

"They will also receive the punishment they deserve."

"The punishment they deserve?"

Su Ping smiled and looked at Major General Luxi Ka'en:

"Being scolded a few times, or fined some money?"

"Or perhaps imprisoning the one with the smallest background for a few years, and then acting as if nothing ever happened?"

Su Ping grinned.

He revealed his white teeth.

"Sorry, your kind of logic."

"I do not accept it!"

The Lieutenant General frowned:

"Do you know what you are saying?"

"Perhaps you do not understand the composition of the Kaluo Federation?"

"It was never the Federation that made the Nobles, but the Nobles that made the Federation."

"It is them and the families behind them that truly constitute the current Federation."

"Do you really intend to oppose an entire Federation with the strength of one person?"

"Why not?"

Su Ping said these words calmly, making the staff members all around him break out in goosebumps.

Then, they watched with complex expressions as Su Ping stood up and grabbed Major General Luxi Ka'en.

Right in front of that Lieutenant General.

He made the Major General's eyes roll back, and saliva flowed from the corners of his mouth.

He was also reading the Major General's memories.

Su Ping understood the habits of these Kaluo Federation Nobles.

These guys' promises to non-Nobles are implicitly just farting!

He couldn't help but laugh out loud before the Unmanned Combat Machine Platform in the corridor rushed over.

He issued a challenge to the Lieutenant General in the projection:

"One of your own family members is actually participating in the game, right!"

"Next, I will start with you."

"Destroy you, destroy your family, and then... destroy the entire Federation!"

"Madman!"

"Is the price of this guy's awakening that he has completely turned into a madman who cannot control his thoughts!"

The Lieutenant General listened to the other party's bold words.

Even though he was always steady, he still couldn't help but curse out loud.

Immediately following.

He saw on the surveillance screen.

That Kalosis did not continue to flee.

Instead, he walked out of the room and faced the large number of Unmanned Combat Robots that had already arrived in the corridor.