novelraw Chapter 558
Chapter 558
Chapter 558
Jie Ming returned to the temporary laboratory. The moment he closed the door, he let out a long breath.
It had been thrilling.
That last encounter, thirteen native inhabitants encircling him at once, had made the Return to Ruins Armor’s defense last barely an instant.
If not for the Fate Subsystem being strong enough, he might have truly fallen inside today.
But it was worth it.
He walked to the experiment bench and sat down, waving his hand through the air. Dozens of light screens unfolded simultaneously.
They displayed dense arrays of data collected earlier: the battle process, information fragments, spell operation logs—everything was there. Jie Ming’s gaze swept across the data, finally settling on the failure records of the Causal Trace Shadow Technique.
Previously, he had used the Causal Trace Shadow Technique on three information beings in total. Except for the first one, he had cast it multiple times on the later ones.
In total, he had released the Causal Trace Shadow Technique seven times, and each failure had a different cause. Staring at these seven failure reasons, the corners of Jie Ming’s mouth instead curled into a smile.
Interesting.
If the Causal Trace Shadow Technique were completely ineffective against these information beings, the failure reasons should all have been the same.
Something like “target is immune to this type of spell” or “unable to lock onto the information level.”
But each of these seven failures had a different cause.
What did this mean?
It meant the direction was correct.
Only the method was not quite right yet.
It was like picking a lock—the key was wrong, but the lock cylinder could indeed turn.
As long as he continued testing, he would eventually find the right key.
Jie Ming leaned back in his chair and began sorting through all the intelligence he had gathered these past days.
From the information shared by the expeditionary force, those information beings displayed an “indifferent” attitude toward almost all methods. They didn’t care about fighting, didn’t care about retreating, and didn’t care about being killed—after all, they weren’t truly dead, so what was there to fear?
“Huh? Wait, that’s not right!”
Jie Ming suddenly realized there was one exception.
The Incense Poison.
He clearly remembered that when he had sent the Incense Poison through the spiritual channel back then, the reaction on the other side had been abnormally intense.
It felt like a physiological level of disgust.
No, information beings had no physiology.
Then it must have been “violent rejection on the information level.”
“Why is the Incense Poison effective against them specifically?”
Jie Ming furrowed his brows and began thinking deeply.
The essence of Incense Poison was the malicious thoughts, obsessions, and resentments of billions of living beings… a pile of chaotic, disorganized garbage information.
In terms of information complexity, it was not more advanced than the information flow impacts unleashed by those information beings.
In terms of aggressiveness, it couldn’t compare to baleful qi either.
Incense Poison was mostly passive contamination and lacked active destructive power.
Yet when those information beings encountered it, they reacted like humans touching concentrated sulfuric acid.
“Was it the unique nature of the material itself, or did some characteristic within the material take effect…”
Several thoughts flashed through Jie Ming’s mind.
After pondering for a moment, he sank his consciousness into his inner cave heaven and began searching through the warehouse inside it.
Mortal Dust Qi, Incense Fire Power, baleful qi, power of faith, vow force crystals, demonic spirit fragments…
More than a dozen items were neatly arranged there. These were all relevant materials he had deliberately prepared earlier.
Some were conceptual materials from the cultivation world, while others were special materials from the wizard world.
Jie Ming’s consciousness swept across these materials, excitement flickering in his eyes.
“I can try to verify this.”
He took out a portion of each material and began preparing at the experiment bench.
One day later.
Jie Ming once again stood before the enormous black fissure.
Many wizards were busy in the surroundings. When they saw Jie Ming appear, no one asked any questions.
In the past few days, quite a few people had been going in and out to probe. Everyone had grown used to it.
Jie Ming took a deep breath. With a flash of his figure, he directly passed through the fissure.
The pure white sea of light once again engulfed him.
This time, the moment he entered, he sensed that something was wrong.
The information flow around him was surging.
This meant a continuous stream of native inhabitants was rapidly approaching him!
It seemed that the complete annihilation of the thirteen from last time had thoroughly enraged the other side.
Now, as soon as Jie Ming entered, he would immediately be locked onto.
Jie Ming immediately heightened his alertness, staying ready to withdraw at any moment.
He floated within the sea of light, his gaze sweeping the surroundings.
They were here.
The first batch, over thirty native inhabitants, emerged from all directions. Their outer energy layers surged wildly, forming a tight encirclement.
They did not attack immediately, only locking onto Jie Ming tightly, as if waiting for some signal.
“Thirty of them? Looks like my luck isn’t bad!”
Jie Ming raised his right hand, and over twenty clumps of variously colored substances flew out at once.
More than twenty clumps of materials hurtled toward more than twenty native inhabitants.
Half of the materials were disintegrated and annihilated in mid-air by chaotic information currents before they could even get close.
The information defense of those native inhabitants was instinctive. Any foreign object attempting to approach would be automatically analyzed and destroyed.
But the other half struck their targets.
Among them, five types of materials triggered special reactions from the native inhabitants, while the rest quickly dissipated as well.
However, the most intense reaction was still from the Incense Poison.
Jie Ming personally witnessed one native inhabitant struck by the Incense Poison. Its outer energy layer fluctuated wildly in an instant, and its internal information core convulsed violently. Then, with a “bang,” it directly exploded.
It was not death, but a violent reaction on the level of “self-detonation.”
The scattered Incense Poison splashed onto the nearby native inhabitants. Those ones also began convulsing, and their formation instantly fell into chaos.
Jie Ming finally understood exactly what kind of reaction information beings had when they encountered Incense Poison.
But he had no time to observe slowly.
The remaining native inhabitants had already reacted and begun launching frenzied attacks.
Even more terrifying was that Jie Ming could sense even more terrifying information fluctuations rapidly “approaching.”
The main force was coming.
Without hesitation, Jie Ming turned and retreated.
As he withdrew, he frantically adjusted his information structure, lowering his presence to the minimum.
The native inhabitants behind him tried to pursue, but their formation had already been thrown into disarray by the Incense Poison, making it impossible for them to organize an effective encirclement.
The fissure was right ahead.
Jie Ming stepped forward. The pure white receded, revealing the familiar barren wilderness of the ship plane.
Then he heard the piercing alarm sound.
The entire ship plane entered combat readiness the instant he emerged.
In the distance, dozens of massive light pillars rose from the ground—the sign that the defensive arrays were operating at full power.
In the sky, countless wizards rose into the air, staring fixedly at the fissure.
At the fissure, the pure white light surged violently. Immediately after, the originally smooth and rounded plane suddenly bulged with a sharp point—the native inhabitants were chasing out!
But the moment they showed their heads, they were blasted back by the long-prepared defensive arrays.
Dozens of light pillars locked onto the fissure exit simultaneously. Massive amounts of elemental energy poured down madly, forcefully blocking those native inhabitants trying to rush out inside the plane.
The battle lasted less than three minutes.
Seeing they could not break through, the native inhabitants decisively abandoned the attack and retreated back into the information plane.
The alarm gradually subsided.
Jie Ming stood in place, watching the light pillars slowly dim, and secretly let out a sigh of relief.
That was close.
If he hadn’t run fast enough, he would have truly been done for back there.