“Lao Xi changed the flower knife style to suppress her destructive urges.”
“Xiao Xi is really too gentle, I’m crying.”
“At the beginning, Xiao Xi was truly kind.”
“Xiao Xi really is my white moonlight, sob sob sob sob.”
Seeing Yun Ruoxi’s pair of horribly mangled arms, Lin Zhen and the others instantly stopped breathing.
At the same time, they all thought of the times when a faint smell of blood would occasionally come from her, along with that pale face.
So this was the real reason Yun Ruoxi had sometimes acted strangely during this period.
She had been secretly struggling all along to suppress the bloodthirst brought by mind control.
She would rather hurt herself than hurt anyone else. This was the Yun Ruoxi they knew. This was the true color of her gentleness.
But such a gentle Xiao Xi had tried so hard, and in the end she still became like this.
If only they had discovered it earlier, if they had helped her sooner, would things have turned out differently?
Everyone was filled with guilt.
“Looking back at the earlier episodes now, every time I see how gentle, cute, and lively Xiao Xi used to be, I think of how she is now and my heart starts aching instantly. Sigh.”
“Production Team, Lao Feng is gone!”
“Riding Production Team Lao Feng around everywhere.”
“Production Team, your mom is gone.”
“If the barrage doesn’t start attacking the writers and Production Team, I’m going to start attacking you instead.”
“Supervision team, get over here.”
“We also have innocent blood on our hands, Xiao Xi!” Lin Zhen refused to give up and tried his best to persuade her, his eyes full of sincerity. “Your sins started because of me. We can bear them together with you.”
“No. It’s no longer necessary.”
Two lines of bloody tears streamed down Yun Ruoxi’s face as she sobbed, “I’m no longer that pure Yun Ruoxi. I’ve already been destroyed. I’m already in hell. I’m beyond saving!”
“So!”
She suddenly raised her hand and revealed a strange smile. “Then you might as well all come to hell with me!”
The moment her words fell—
A powerful surge of telekinesis burst out from the girl’s body, disturbing the airflow inside the enclosed space and forming a howling gale.
Boom!
Everyone narrowed their eyes against the wind.
Was Xiao Xi about to attack them?
No.
They sensed that the terrifying telekinesis swept past them and shot straight toward somewhere behind them.
Toward… the spaceship?
Lin Zhen’s expression changed drastically. He instantly activated his supernatural power. “Xiao Xi, she’s going to destroy the spaceship!”
The next moment—
Metal Liquid surged upward in reverse flow, forming a thick wall that split the spaceship’s area from their current location before the telekinesis could arrive.
Bang!
A harsh, grating crash echoed heavily.
That thick metal wall, struck head-on by the formless telekinetic force, warped violently.
Yun Ruoxi had grown stronger.
She had actually become even stronger than she was back in Tree God City.
Lin Zhen stared in shock as the telekinesis began transforming into a hammer and slammed repeatedly into the metal wall.
He suddenly turned, clenched his right hand toward Yun Ruoxi, and shouted to his companions:
“Hold Xiao Xi back!”
As his words fell—
The special signal-blocking metal on Yun Ruoxi’s neck collar and wristwatch instantly melted. Under Lin Zhen’s control, it turned into slender snakes that rapidly slithered across her body.
“Star energy shackles!” Lin Zhen shouted.
The metal snakes instantly solidified into unbreakable star energy metal restraints, tightly binding Yun Ruoxi’s limbs before she could react.
Then fine spikes grew from inside the shackles, piercing the girl’s delicate skin and stabbing into her blood vessels and meridians.
“Ah!”
The bound girl cried out. Her body went limp. When she sensed her connection to star energy becoming faint and unstable, she looked at Lin Zhen in disbelief.
“Brother A Zhen, you actually tampered with me beforehand.”
“What a sinister goblin.”
“Anyone who plays tactics has a dirty heart.”
“No wonder when Lao Lin blocked the signal earlier, they gave a close-up of Lao Xi’s collar and watch.”
The others, who had originally planned to step forward and help suppress Yun Ruoxi, were stunned when they saw this and looked at Lin Zhen, whose face was full of pain.
“Sorry, Xiao Xi. I had no other choice.” As he spoke, Lin Zhen pressed his right hand downward.
Dozens of silver-gray jets shot out from the surrounding walls, connecting to the shackles on the girl’s body. They hardened into chains that pressed her toward the ground like a spiderweb.
Creak. Creak.
The Iron Chain clattered loudly, like grounding wires, draining away all the star energy Yun Ruoxi had just managed to circulate and conducting it into the ground.
Having lost her star energy, the girl cried out again as she was forced down onto both knees.
After Lin Zhen noticed something was wrong with Yun Ruoxi, he naturally wouldn’t foolishly make no preparations and rely only on words to persuade her.
According to the intelligence he had obtained from Chicha, once a Mental Brand fully matured, it would completely alter the mind of the brainwashed person, causing them to form a rigid logic system that could not easily be broken.
At that point, whether they fought or retreated against a brainwashed Yun Ruoxi would both be huge problems.
Fight? Even if all six of them joined forces, as long as Yun Ruoxi didn’t hold back, they would have no chance of winning.
Retreat? With the home-field advantage inside the Meteorite, they might be able to escape. But he was unwilling. He couldn’t bear to give up on Yun Ruoxi.
So during the two days and two nights spent preparing the spaceship, a considerable portion of his time had actually been used to prepare a backup plan to capture Yun Ruoxi.
He contacted Chicha again and asked how the Empire had imprisoned star energy users during the great war. From him, he learned another application of star energy metal.
As a supernatural metal that possessed star energy, certain types of star energy metal were themselves the best conductors of star energy.
Back then, the Empire used this special metal as shackles, piercing the body’s star energy circulation nodes and forming an external connected energy network, thereby draining all the star energy from a star energy user’s body.
This achieved the effect of sealing their abilities.
This method reminded Lin Zhen of his own full-cycle astral art. It created a star energy network inside his body, allowing him to circulate his supernatural power constantly through full circulation.
There had to be some connection between the two.
Of course, the current situation didn’t allow him to investigate the link deeply. But it did allow him to conveniently use his own body as a template to test which nodes were suitable for draining star energy.
As for that special star energy metal, although it was quite rare, as long as it was metal and he knew its properties, it was no longer a problem for Lin Zhen.
At most, it was just a matter of how much time synthesis required.
“My long-dead circuit theory knowledge is attacking me.”
“Wait, Lao Xi got captured just like that?”
“Captured twice in one episode. At this rate, I’m really going to control you, Lao Xi.”
“Lao Xi, hurry and use your world-shocking wisdom as Number 0001.”
“Lao Xi: My world-shocking wisdom tells me it’s time to use world-shocking power.”