Inside DiMarco's room, which had endured two rounds of attacks.
More and more arcs of electricity crackled from Jiang Baimian's left palm, growing brighter and brighter.
*Crack!*
The ball of silvery-white electricity suddenly erupted, its claws and fangs flying towards every corner of the room.
Those arcs intertwined, forming a net that covered the entire area.
The faint but unusual electrical field that had enveloped the room was instantly disrupted, defeated, and torn apart, melting away like snow under the scorching sun.
The coldness and darkness here faded considerably, and the flashlights in their hands no longer seemed so dim.
Rampaging electricity landed on Long Yuehong and Bai Chen, causing their bodies to tremble slightly. The corners of their mouths, which had been lifted, unknowingly relaxed.
Jiang Baimian was also unable to escape this indiscriminate "electric shock," and the hairs on the back of her neck stood on end.
The depths disappeared from her eyes, returning them to their usual appearance.
As a metal robot, Genaeva inevitably absorbed a large amount of electricity, with silver snakes darting across its surface, but nothing happened.
This was a problem they would have considered during the design phase, otherwise the "Mechanical Paradise's" Intelligent Human Dispatch Work Manual would definitely have two more entries:
“Do not go out during thunderstorms.”
“Do not stand next to carbon-based humans during thunderstorms.”
Back then, Jiang Baimian had also opened the baffle and directly injected current into the critical interface, causing the law enforcement robot's power supply to overload.
The yellowish-green luminous pearl in Shang Jianyao's palm was also struck by two currents, causing obvious tremors and instability, but it quickly returned to normal.
...
Inside the "Sea of Origin," on the sunny island with mountains and water.
DiMarco's enormous figure, as large as a mountain peak, suddenly became extremely blurred, like a reflection on water, undulating, twisting, breaking, and reassembling with the "waves."
His aura weakened instantly, and his body rapidly shrank, quickly returning to a normal size.
At this moment, the Shang Jianyaos, who had been successively deprived of their five senses, stood blankly in place, as if turned into wooden stakes.
In order not to give the opponent a chance to breathe and counterattack, DiMarco braced himself and stretched out his right hand again.
He weakly announced:
“Consciousness Deprivation!”
One by one, the figures of Shang Jianyao became blurred and disappeared like dream bubbles on the island.
However, eight Shang Jianyaos still stood there, only slightly illusory before returning to normal.
“This...” DiMarco's pupils dilated.
He asked himself, even if the electricity had shattered a large number of "avatars" and made him quite weak, he should still be able to "deprive" all consciousness from such a target.
It should be known that not only was there a gap in level between the two, but DiMarco had also methodically deprived the other party of their five senses, striving for an infallible final blow.
Who knew that the result would be completely beyond his expectations.
And the failure to deprive consciousness also caused the previous effects to disappear, and the Shang Jianyaos once again saw this middle-aged man wearing an old-fashioned black cassock from the Old World and a matching soft hat.
They laughed, and one of them said on behalf of the others:
“You're really not that good.”
Hearing this slightly familiar sentence, DiMarco had a flash of insight and understood.
The weak him could no longer suppress his violent and furious emotions, and blurted out:
“When we were talking earlier, you used your ability to influence me?”
“That's right.” The Shang Jianyao carrying the man-portable rocket launcher said with a smile, “I know my ability will definitely have a small impact on you, so I can only try as early as possible, hoping to deepen the effect by relying on the passage of time and changes in the situation. Do you need me to repeat it?”
The two Shang Jianyaos carrying the stretcher spoke in turn:
“Your performance isn't very good...”
“It's impossible for each DiMarco to say something different.”
The Shang Jianyao wearing the white coat made the final summary:
“So...”
So DiMarco would subconsciously think that he was not as crazy as Shang Jianyao, not as strong as he imagined, and in this purely conscious realm confrontation, self-awareness would undoubtedly affect the strength and effect of his abilities.
When DiMarco was influenced by the outside world and became weak, this perception was greatly strengthened.
“You!” DiMarco seemed to be a very easily angered person.
The Shang Jianyao holding the assault rifle also smiled:
“Are you thinking that you shouldn't have said so much to me and should have gone all out from the beginning to get rid of me?
“When did you get the illusion that you were only affected by my ability when the conversation started?”
As soon as DiMarco invaded Shang Jianyao's mind world and landed on this island, Shang Jianyao used "Sentimentalist" on him!
It was just that there was a gap in level between the two, and Shang Jianyao's all-out "Sentimentalist" could only make DiMarco more arrogant, more proud, and more eager to show himself.
This time, DiMarco was not angry. Although his violent aura remained, a hint of a smile appeared on his face:
“Then why are you saying so much now?
“Don't you know that my consciousness recovery ability is much stronger than yours?”
As he spoke, the feeling of weakness on DiMarco's body faded a lot!
The Shang Jianyao holding the small speaker returned a smile:
“Because, I'm waiting for it!”
A ball of yellowish-green light suddenly appeared in his hand, and it quickly solidified into a luminous pearl the size of a fish eye.
At this moment, the Shang Jianyao in the real world no longer had any light rendering in his palm, leaving only an ordinary glass ball.
Since the "aura" obtained in the "Mind Corridor" could be brought into the real world, combined with objects, and fixed down, it could naturally return to the mind world!
Shang Jianyao had done preliminary confirmation of this point when studying the effects of the luminous pearl.
Seeing this scene, an undisguised look of astonishment appeared on DiMarco's face:
“Are you crazy?
“It's one thing to use it in the 'Mind Corridor' and the real world, but who would bring someone else's aura into their own world of consciousness? This is your 'Sea of Origin,' your mind island. Aren't you afraid that the owner of the aura will descend in reverse?”
The Shang Jianyao holding the small speaker and luminous pearl raised his eyebrows:
“Is that so? I don't know.”
Hearing this answer, DiMarco felt the urge to vomit blood, but fortunately, he was now in a state of consciousness and did not have a physical body.
Immediately afterwards, the Shang Jianyao holding the small speaker and luminous pearl smiled, seemingly not worried at all.
“Anyway, you've already come in, so it doesn't matter if there's one more.” The Shang Jianyaos said with a smile.
Looking at those few smiles in different states, DiMarco felt that the other party might really be crazy.
The next second, the Shang Jianyao holding the small speaker directly crushed the yellowish-green luminous pearl in his palm, allowing its remaining power to explode without reservation.
In an instant, the entire mind island was shrouded in yellowish-green light.
DiMarco's figure was also stained with this color, and a door suddenly appeared before his eyes.
It was an illusory white door, half-covered, neither fully open nor truly closed.
Behind the door was a darkness, and in the darkness, there was a vague female figure watching all of this.
An unspeakable timidity surged in DiMarco's heart, causing him to shout out in terror uncontrollably:
“No!”
...
Inside DiMarco's room.
With the help of electrical stimulation, Jiang Baimian regained control of her body.
But she could still feel that the consciousness that had affected her before had not completely disappeared and could make a comeback at any time.
However, this did not prevent her from thinking.
With the experience just now, she understood one thing:
The person who was killed in the two rounds of attacks by the "Old Task Force" was indeed Lehmann's lover, Lars, but he was also DiMarco, the owner of the "Underground Ark"!
This was a monster whose life state was closer to that of an "Eternal"!
He could separate his consciousness, but not upload it into a special chip to become a mechanical monk, but occupy the bodies of other people!
Now, recalling the past described by the Ark guards, Jiang Baimian strung them together from another perspective:
“Every previous owner of the 'Underground Ark' may have been the same person, the monster who is now called DiMarco!
“His uniqueness comes from his Awakened ability.
“The reason why each generation of Ark owner has a large number of partners, has many children, and encourages servants and guards to marry, behaving as if they like new life very much, is because they want to rely on numbers to screen for a more suitable body to occupy, and this often appears among those who are related to him by blood.
“The main reason why DiMarco suddenly went crazy after the death of his youngest son was probably: apart from this child, the entire Ark did not have a body suitable for him to occupy. In this way, even if he forcibly possessed it, he could only support it for a short time, and the body he was using at that time, named DiMarco, had probably already begun to decay and would not last long.
“In desperation, he inevitably went against the grain and became increasingly brutal, even wanting the guards and servants who had had children to have children for him.
“Later, Lars's appearance gave DiMarco hope. Not only did he have the same hair and eye color as DiMarco, but he was also very suitable for occupation.
“So DiMarco calmed down, and not long after, his mistress also became pregnant with a new life...”
This was a guess made by Jiang Baimian based on her experience just now and the past situation, a guess that could truly explain all the details.
At this time, Genaeva had approached the somewhat awake Long Yuehong and Bai Chen, preparing to stun them.
Seeing this, Jiang Baimian couldn't help but sigh in her heart:
Our "decapitation operation" was indeed successful, but it only killed one of DiMarco's bodies...
Wait, Lars is dead, and the child in DiMarco's mistress's belly has not yet been born, which means that he does not have a body to occupy at present, and his own consciousness will dissipate in a short time... But he is not furious, and he has not shown the brutality that the Ark guards mentioned... Could it be that he found another object to occupy after Lars, or could one of us play this role? While Jiang Baimian's thoughts were racing, she suddenly turned her gaze to Shang Jianyao.
Just then, Shang Jianyao opened his mouth and let out a terrified shout:
“No!”
A blurred figure then separated from his body, wearing an old-fashioned black cassock and a matching soft hat from the Old World.