Chapter 1577: Lin An Falls into the Trap

Open fire! Quickly open fire!

Focus fire on his eyes!! Snipers in position!

Above the chaotic square ruins, one after another poorly equipped, rough human soldiers streamed out of the city like ants, gathering beneath Lin An's feet.

Well-trained, under the command of officers one after another, they launched a meaningless attack at him.

Seeing them still obeying tactical motions, either taking cover behind broken walls or hiding behind armored vehicles to fire at him.

Lin An felt only a faint sense of strangeness.

Ding ding ding ding

Like a breeze, the heavy machine gun bullets shot out and gathered in midair into a roaring fire dragon.

Hit Lin An's body, producing a clear tinkling sound.

While patiently waiting for the mouse to take the bait, Lin An also didn't care about killing this group of brainwashed human soldiers, after all the attack they launched at him really couldn't be called an attack...

The ignorant know no fear.

Sometimes, not knowing anything at all might be what gives one the courage to fight.

Mortars, heavy cannons, rocket shells, anti-tank sniper rifles...

Having not seen thermal weapons used for a long time, Lin An, with interest, grabbed the incoming manganese steel armor-piercing cannon and held it before him to examine.

Bang!

Just as he grasped it, the timed-explosion armor-piercing bullet shot out a dazzling, six-thousand-degree-high-temperature armor-piercing jet.

After the high-speed metal jet exploded in his palm, Lin An's head was instantly engulfed in flames.

But in the face of such high-temperature armor-piercing, he only felt like washing his face with warm water.

Actually, the essence of modern thermal weapons is also the most basic, most basic application of rules.

If we replace spiritual energy attacks with a modern weapon system, even the weakest spiritual energy attack would be a high-energy, high-density laser weapon. Compared to weapons that still rely on kinetic or thermal energy, it would naturally be far superior...

Shells, bullets, and explosive kinetic weapons are essentially no different from primitive humans throwing stones.

Like the most advanced concept weapons that appeared before the apocalypse outbreak: electromagnetic cannons, Gauss weapons.

In essence, it's merely a lowly imitation and application of magnetic field acceleration within electromagnetic rules.

Unconsciously, Lin An instinctively began to think about the relationship between rules, spiritual energy, and technology.

As a villain, under massive human thermal weapon attacks, he actually gained a completely new perspective.

After the apocalypse outbreak, as spiritual energy emerged, the power of thermal weapons was greatly reduced.

Lin An has always thought, or rather all humans thought, that this was to make the apocalypse even more cruel; otherwise, if thermal weapons and modern technology didn't fail, how could humans possibly suffer so badly?

The System deliberately limited the exertion of thermal weapons.

But when his strength reached a certain level, Lin An unexpectedly discovered that this was not actually the case.

The power of thermal weapons has not been weakened at all.

It's the rules...

Is it the rules colliding?

Bang!

More than twenty anti-armor sniper bullets, like a straight line, consecutively hit his own eyeballs.

At extremely close range, Lin An somewhat unexpectedly discovered that, even without invoking any rules or spiritual energy, at the moment of impact, the bullet's kinetic energy seemed like a scattered, hazy 'kinetic' rule.

At the instant of contact with his body, it was canceled out by the dispersed spiritual energy rule.

Just as under the most basic spiritual energy protection, his whole body was generating a domain shield of spiritual energy rule.

Any attack would first be canceled out.

So...

So from the moment spiritual energy appears, in fact every person, every living being is endowed with the most basic spiritual energy rule.

So-called weakening is merely that the spiritual energy rule surpasses kinetic energy? Surpasses thermal energy?

Unexpected discovery.

Lin An raised his eyebrows; he never expected that his instinctive thinking would actually discover this little secret.

That's right.

This way, it can explain why, after becoming stronger, it is the condensation and manifestation of rules!

Because the original spiritual energy is just a prototype of rules; the stronger one is, the deeper the grasp, the closer one gets to the rules.

But if we think this way, what is the spiritual energy rule?

Spiritual energy... is an attribute-less energy rule? It can be given any effect, can be used, mobilized, strengthened by any rule...

Is it the foundation of all rules?

Did the System from the beginning give everyone the strongest, most essential rule?

Upon suddenly discovering this, Lin An couldn't help but think deeply.

He had always thought that the four great power rules he mastered were already the highest existence among rules, but if compared this way, the most inconspicuous spiritual energy might actually be the most fundamental rule.

If we say the spiritual energy rule is the force that propels bullets, then any other rule is merely various gun barrels and various warheads.

Is that right? Or did I misunderstand?

Under super-effective thinking, no one knew that Lin An, who was then under army attack, actually had his thoughts soar to the rules.

For Lin An, this dungeon run posed no difficulty at all; he could even consider it a rare relaxation.

No longer under the pressure of life and death, the problems that had previously piled up also now had time to be considered.

But no matter how he deduced, Lin An helplessly found that he actually really didn't understand the rules deeply.

Whether it was fugitives or alien species, their evaluation of him did have one point that was correct.

That is him, Lin An, who truly is not adept at wielding rule power.

His strengthening speed was too fast, like an elementary school student who had obtained a divine body; he could only simply use violence to solve everything.

Before Lin An could think further.

As a repulsive force surged up again around him, Lin An raised his brow and turned his head toward the direction of the spatial fluctuation.

Heh.

It looks like the god in this instance can no longer hold back.

Although I don't know how these fugitives dare to attack him, having courage is a good thing for Lin An.

At least, it saved him the trouble of searching.

But upon further thought, it's also quite normal.

Lin An put himself in their place.

If he could diminish the enemies' power this much in the instance, he would also give it his all.

All that can be said is that his fourth stage differs from the fugitives' understanding of it.

At the same time.

Two fourth-stage fugitives who had concealed their aura and slipped out of the spatial transmission were now glaring at Lin An, who hovered in midair.

Waiting for the right moment to strike, they looked at Lin An's arrogantly extreme figure, like a living target hanging in the sky, and felt a nameless anger burning in their chests.

"Too arrogant!"

"A human! Do you really think that just because you suddenly gained power you can be this arrogant?!!"

"If it weren't for the first generation's timidity, we would have had a chance to take out this kid!"

In their eyes, Lin An couldn't even think of using the rules to protect himself at this moment.

Standing in midair.

Like a target, the fearless Lin An.

Facing attacks from all directions, he treated them as if they were air, with not a hint of vigilance!

Even facing the instance's suppressive effect they mobilized, Lin An seemed unable to feel it, making no preparations at all!

Such arrogance was utterly unreasonable, even making them doubt for a moment whether the suppressive effect had any use.

However, before one of the fugitives could ask how much suppression Hai En had mobilized, a voice of triumph rang out suddenly.

"In three seconds!"

"After three seconds, the instance's suppressive force will be pushed to the limit! Even a Fourth Stage Peak won't be able to get away!"

"How foolish to dare oppose us on my turf!"

Already ready to teleport to the battlefield at any moment, Hai En looked with heartache at the instance core that had been consumed by more than half.

To suppress Lin An's strength as much as possible, he issued a dozen or so tasks to Lin An in one breath, then immediately killed the task targets!

This way, he could directly impose the punishment on Lin An through an extremely crafty method!

Faced with dozens of penalties, even the strongest being would be reduced from a tiger to a mouse!

This is also why he dares not to flee! In the instance, he is invincible!

"Die, Lin An!"

"Even if I can't kill you, I want you to know..."

"Never oppose the gods in the gods' realm!"