Chapter 1558: Chapter 1558
Chapter 1558: Chapter 1558: Right Before Our Eyes?
He Ao lowered his head and gazed at the sleeping figure before him.
After a brief moment of contemplation, he raised his hand, allowing a trace of thunder to flow across his fingertips.
He was preparing to try summoning Li Cheng’s historical phantom.
The pages of the Book of Bygone Days had been entirely used by him to inscribe the Historical Contract, serving as the medium to control the Historical Contract, but this did not mean that the pages of the Book of Bygone Days were completely destroyed.
In fact, because of their ‘cohesion’ with the Historical Contract, the original power of the pages of the Book of Bygone Days had been greatly enhanced.
Moreover, He Ao no longer needed to hold these pages to summon a historical phantom; he could directly transmit its power through his connection with the Historical Contract.
The scattered thunder’s brilliance gathered within this narrow room.
At that moment, He Ao used the Trapped Destiny Plate to replace a portion of this room’s space.
The powerful world rules suppressed the scattered thunder, and soon, a vague figure of thunder appeared in the ward.
He Ao gazed at that figure, and the figure gazed back at him.
The phantom had been summoned, but it still lacked self-awareness.
He Ao released his hand, dispelling the summon before the thunder figure fully formed.
He turned his head to look at the figure on the hospital bed.
It seemed that no matter the situation, Li Cheng always defaulted to allow him to summon his historical projection.
The exchanged area of the Trapped Destiny Plate returned to its original position, and the scattered thunder’s glow swept across the world’s foundation, vanishing into the void.
With one hand controlling the historical projection and the other suppressing the rules, He Ao managed the power well, even without affecting the electronic equipment in the room.
Of course, the ripples caused on the world’s foundation didn’t count, as such ripples are unavoidable whenever there is high-level power.
However, He Ao controlled it well, and these ripples would hardly cause any contamination or significant impact, quickly dissipating.
He Ao slowly withdrew his hand.
It was at this moment that his movement paused, looking in a certain direction.
The ripples on the world’s foundation stirred by the historical phantom seemed to have encountered some abnormal feedback.
He Ao retracted his gaze, glanced at Li Cheng on the bed, then stood slightly and walked towards the door.
As the room door opened and closed, the ward regained its silence, leaving only the instruments monitoring vital signs emitting faint beeping sounds.
The hand resting against the bed’s edge twitched a finger slightly.
Research Institute’s Retreat · Lounge
He Ao grasped the door handle, slightly turning it and pushing the door open.
In front of him was a simple sofa and a man sitting on it, pouring tea from a small jade teapot.
Hearing the door open, the man lifted his head, looked at He Ao, and was slightly taken aback, “Dean He——”
“Minister Yang?” He Ao looked at the man before him, interrupting him, reached out his hand to close the door, “Just call me He Ao.”
This man was indeed the head of the External Affairs Department, Yang De.
“You’re the dean now; if I still call you that way,” Yang De, seeing He Ao, was evidently pleased, and he chuckled, “It might undermine your authority.”
“This isn’t a work setting now,” He Ao laughed, walking up to Yang De, “I heard from the nurse you were coming, didn’t expect you so early?”
“Wrapped things up earlier today,” Yang De brought the poured tea to his lips, taking a slight sip, continuing with a smile, “The nurse mentioned someone was visiting old Li, didn’t expect it to be you.”
“Mm.” At this moment, standing in front of Yang De, He Ao suddenly reached out and lifted the coat draped over Yang De.
Underneath the coat, at the man’s back, the clean shirt was torn, with twisted flesh slowly squirming at the shirt’s tear.
He Ao turned his head to look at Yang De, “Minister Yang?”
“Old ailment,” Yang De chuckled, extending his hand, gently pressing down the garment hem, and covering the exposed area that He Ao had lifted, all while finishing his tea, “Just like older folks have arthritis or chronic stomach issues, it’s nothing.”
He Ao’s gaze swept over the tea in Yang De’s hand and the delicate jade teapot beside them, pausing, “Is this teapot the treatment item the dean found for you?”
Previously, Yang De’s treatment item, nutritional canned food, was given to He Ao, and Li Cheng said he would find something similar for Yang De.
“Don’t get any weird ideas,” Yang De looked at He Ao, seemingly guessing He Ao’s concern, he pressed the teapot, shaking his head with a smile, “Old Li gave me this, it’s more compatible with my body than the nutritional canned food, better able to alleviate the··· mutation··· damage.”
So, Yang De having this kind of treatment product was something he used to keep himself going.
“Don’t mind these little things,” Yang De chuckled, gesturing for He Ao to sit, “The difficulties and pressure you are facing now far outweigh my small issues, at least I have treatment items here that can sustain me for a while.”
“Since when has this been happening?” He Ao sat on the sofa, asking.
“Can’t say since when,” Yang De smiled, looking at He Ao’s serious expression, paused briefly, continuing, “This is ‘accompanied’ by my talent, oh, now it’s called Talent Sequences,”
He looked at He Ao, continuing, “Ever since I was promoted to C-level, my body has been , only slightly worsening recently, you know, our batch’s promotion was about luck, with good luck we consumed bodies that matched promotion and managed to endure it, so we promoted.”
He stopped momentarily, as if remembering something, sighing lightly, “With bad luck, we’d turn into monsters in the ruins, we didn’t talk about any ‘ceremony’ or the like back then,
“Of course, with even worse luck, we’d be eaten by exotic beasts in the ruins without even promoting, there might be some you thought of as lifelong rivals, never seen again after a ruin opened,”
He looked at He Ao, smiling, “So all this is quite normal, back then I fell into a glacier, by current division it should be the ruins’ Arctic region, chased by an exotic beast into the depths of an iceberg, then the glacier collapsed.”
His gaze elevated, as though past scenes unveiled before him again, “I had good luck, two overlapping monster corpses rolled down, landing before me, I felt attracted to something inside their bodies, struggled to eat everything edible.”
He looked at He Ao, “So my smooth promotion, and acquiring such strong Talent Sequences, I count as very lucky.”
“Is it an issue from the promotion?” He Ao paused slightly, moving in front of Yang De, placing his hand on Yang De’s shoulder, specks of orange-gray light flickering in his eyes, “Minister Yang, don’t move.”
If there’s a tendency for madness during promotion, theoretically, it’s impossible to maintain reason.
The last time he met Yang De, he hadn’t yet acquired the Eye of Truth, nor knew about Yang De’s physical condition.
And now, with the power of the Eye of Truth emerging in He Ao’s pupils, Yang De’s internal physical structure unfolded within He Ao’s field of view.
Yang De wasn’t as ‘healthy’ as he claimed, in some time, his body would completely mutate into madness, twisting into a monster.
This madness tendency wasn’t gradual, once a certain boundary was crossed, Yang De’s body would collapse like a landslide.
However, Yang De’s Talent Sequences lacked a particularly strong madness tendency, leaning towards stability.
Yang De’s official talent sequence was a warrior.
That should align well with his personality, theoretically not prone to losing control.
Then what’s causing this madness?
He Ao further ‘looked’ deeper into it.
What is this orange brilliance?
Wait, a second Talent Sequence?
Yang De has two Talent Sequences within him, and now the power of these sequences is entwining, rapidly catalyzing the mutation of his body. This is the source of his ‘mutation’. Official source is Nov3lFɪre.ɴet
But, why are there two Talent Sequences?
The other Talent Sequence within him, this aura is… noncommissioned officer?
The Talent Sequence of a noncommissioned officer is completely suppressed by the warrior, so normally from the appearance, it can’t be identified.
At this moment, He Ao suddenly remembered when he first met Yang De, before his first entry into the ruins, he sensed a ‘noncommissioned officer’ aura on Yang De.
Afterward, he never felt that aura again, and he thought he might have sensed it incorrectly.
After all, back then he had just started dealing with the transcendent realm for a short time, he knew nothing, and he had just finished the Joey’s Copy World, whose boss was a ‘noncommissioned officer’.
That time was the easiest to see a similar aura and make random associations.
Now it seems, he indeed didn’t sense wrongly then, it was just that Yang De couldn’t restrain the aura of the noncommissioned officer’s Talent Sequence, and a bit of it leaked.
But how did the two Talent Sequences appear together, when their attributes are completely different?
Warrior is 98, red, F-level Talent Sequence is Furious Man.
Noncommissioned officer is 120, orange, F-level Talent Sequence is Notary.
Wait, Yang De mentioned, when he ascended, he encountered the corpses of two exotic beasts leaning against each other, did he consume the extraordinary items of both beasts?
No, perhaps it was that the extraordinary items of the two Talent Sequences were entwined together at the time.
He Ao’s gaze shifted downwards, passing over Yang De’s body.
Yang De’s basic attributes are still red, which proves that what attracts him should be the ‘warrior’ extraordinary power, and the ‘noncommissioned officer’ was consumed incidentally.
However, these two Talent Sequences are not like He Ao the Angel used to be, one in the soul, one in the flesh. When two completely different attribute Talent Sequences are placed together, theoretically it should directly lead to madness.
He Ao feels his current ‘astonishment’ is probably similar to Andaville’s shock when he saw him.
Yet, Yang De’s Talent Sequences are indeed different from He Ao’s, Yang De’s two Talent Sequences do not coexist but instead are tearing each other apart.
Constantly causing him pain.
But, how do these two Talent Sequences coexist?
He Ao can suppress the rejection of the flesh because Super Memory is already Angel Tier, not Miracle Scholar, he can forcibly suppress it relying on his position.
But Yang De, what maintains these two Talent Sequences in his body to keep stable?
The power of Truth Eye continues to probe deeper, but only sees two Talent Sequences power entwining together, the red and orange brilliance intertwined, nothing seems wrong at a glance.
A slight divine sense seeped from He Ao’s fingertips, entering Yang De’s body.
He Ao began guiding the divine sense to approach the Talent Sequence ‘noncommissioned officer’ suppressed within Yang De’s body, attempting to find clues from another perspective.
And just as the divine sense slowly approached the two Talent Sequences, it suddenly shuddered, seemingly sensing some sort of fluctuation, naturally reacting.
Wait a minute, Martial Arts power?
“Minister Yang, can you close your eyes for a moment?” He Ao said softly.
“Alright.” Yang De closed his eyes.
The orange-gray brilliance nested into a dazzling ring in He Ao’s pupils, the illusion of the Truth Eye instantly appeared in He Ao’s mind.
Yang De’s body is very unstable now; gazing at the transcendent item of the mythical form like Truth Eye up close, even with He Ao’s restraint, might trigger a mutation, turning him into a monster on the spot.
The eye in the sky lowered, gazing at Yang De’s body.
The brilliance of the two originally entwined Talent Sequences became clearly layered in this instant.
He Ao finally saw the ‘boundary’ of the two Talent Sequences.
The two Talent Sequences have not fused or entangled; at their boundary, there exists an invisible, transparent barrier separating them, ‘neutralizing’ the conflict between the two Talent Sequences.
What is that? Divine sense?
No, it seems to be something more advanced than divine sense, or a more advanced divine sense?
He Ao was slightly stunned, suddenly realizing what it was.
The power of a Martial Arts Angel!
At least it’s power that possesses the attribute of a Martial Arts Angel.
The ‘abnormal’ ripple caused by the historical projection disturbing the world’s foundations earlier was formed by colliding with this power.
At this moment, within Li Cheng, this gentle transparent power isolates the two Talent Sequences, like a neutralizing agent, preventing their violent conflict.
But it’s clear that this power is insufficient, the transparent film formed already has many holes, leading to the true collision and entanglement of the two Talent Sequences.
He Ao looked at those two Talent Sequences, after brief contemplation, lowered his head, gazed at Li Cheng, and said softly, “Minister Yang, I have a way to cure your ‘illness’, but the treatment carries certain risks, if it fails, you might die on the spot, and even if successful, it might affect your future promotion, meaning you might not be able to promote to B-level.”
“Then go ahead,” Yang De said with his eyes closed, without hesitation and chuckled, “You speak as if I can promote now, don’t worry so much. If you succeed, my life can be considered saved.”
He actually knows very well the state of his own body.
The gaze of Truth Eye suspended behind He Ao descended, staring at Yang De’s body.
Theoretically speaking, He Ao may need to make some ‘preparations’, but in fact, any transcendent items needed in his plan he can borrow their power at any time.
“It might hurt a bit,” He Ao paused for a moment and calmly said, “Do you need me to get some anesthetics?”
This place has a small hospital.
“Those anesthetics don’t work on us that strongly, if you’re ready, just go ahead,” Yang De chuckled, “I can endure.”
“Alright,” He Ao replied, “Then I will start.”
The surrounding environment slightly changed, the house disappeared, transforming into a bright firmament.
He Ao directly replaced the nearby area with the world of Trapped Destiny Plate.
The suspended Truth Eye gazed downwards.
Yang De suddenly gasped, clenching his fists.