Chapter 300: Only I know (Part 1/2)


    Trantor: Strivon


    ck Beetle could be considered a mentally enhanced ability user. Even if he didn’t really have a gift for sensory observation, he possessed basicmon knowledge regarding it.


    Naturally, ck Beetle would find reaching the level of a prating bright light, something unblockable and unstoppable, with his sensory observation to be an excellent thing. The problemy in the fact that he had be a target of observation via mental senses. The observation of his entire body could bepared to wind leaking through and rain seeping in. Every detail of his body and mind, from the inside to the outside, could be seen.... This was enough to drive him crazy!


    This was what ck Beetle was feeling right now.


    Looking at the situation from a realistic and understandable level, Luo Nan’s face was within the grasp of his palm. ck Beetle just needed to reach out ever so slightly, and he would be able to tear the skin off the kid’s face. But as soon as that unblockable and unstoppable feeling emerged, he truly felt that winds were prating his body from all directions. He couldn’t suppress the feeling of weakness that instantly swept across his entire body.


    What the heck was going on?


    ck Beetle found it difficult to figure out this sudden change within a short period of time. He looked through the slits between his fingers, and the only thing he saw was Luo Nan’s eyes oozing with blood. Those pupils had slightly dted. They were unfocused. They didn’t move at all. They appeared a bit lifeless.


    He had just reached this conclusion when Luo Nan’s eyes moved. The messy rays of light converged a bit, and a faint gleam of light locked with his gaze.


    The glimmer was akin to needles; prating with a force like threads.


    The subtle piercing force prickled ck Beetle’s thick skin. At most there was an instant of pain, but the force felt like it pierced into his eyeballs, into his heart, and into his brain. There were certainly other consequences.


    This was what ck Beetle felt.


    ck Beetle couldn’t form any protection against being riddled with holes. And the force of the piercing needles moved unimpeded, unhindered. The force exploited his weakest and most fatal locations, messing with them!


    In an instant, ck Beetle felt a thunderous pain. The pain exploded within the skull of his brain, and it rapidly spread out. It was impossible to control once it had started.


    ck Beetle howled in pain, his eyeballs nearly bulging out of his eye sockets. The colors of ck and red inteced, turning his vision into a sheet of chaos. His mind instinctively flooded with fear, but his many years of life-threateningbat experience continued to spur him. He seized all the courage he could muster, and he did his best to probe with his hand. His intent was to grab the mischievous kid in a single move.


    He was just a fist away... but his fingernails, coated with poison, grasped only air.


    A fruitless attack, and ck Beetle’s body continued to rush forward. Only then did he realize all the things going on in his body while he was doing his high-speed assault. Pain exploded. His senses were confused. There were changing stimtions to his nervous system. All this made the equilibrium of his body aplete mess.


    "F***!"


    His extended fingers swiped across the hard wall. Then his wrist bent to the corner of the wall. Next, his head and body collided into the wall.


    In the end, ck Beetle’s entire body had smacked into the wall of the elevator area. His body failed to reactpletely due to the assault of intense pain. He had smashed into the wall hard without even an ounce of cushioning. He then slid to the ground. The sunsses that covered his face had snapped.


    Only at this point did the pain somewhat alleviate in his brain. However, the feeling of the impact to his fingers, wrist, head, and body came next. This wave of pain was nothing much whenpared to thest, but the feeling of disgrace of smacking into the wall and falling to the ground was like having sulfuric acid sshed to his chest and sprayed all over his head and face.


    "I’LL KILL YOU!" A burning and corroding heat proliferated outward with ck Beetle’s howl. At the same time, he threw down his deformed sunsses, which he had crushed with his hand.


    He ignored his vision, which was still chaotic, as well as his terrible sense of bnce. He used the wall as support while he struggled to stand up. He waved his arms, venting, and controlled the beetles to fly in all directions. However, everything he did was useless. He was unable to touch even a hair of Luo Nan’s.


    No. I need to calm down. I need to calm down!


    Feelings of anger and fear entwined and undted with the series of failed attacks. There was a trough in this wave emotions, and ck Beetle seized it. He went all out in calming his mind as he tried to break free from hispletely horrible state.


    He leaned against the wall while trying to call out to his temporary partner, "Puppeteer! Puppeteer! ...F***!"


    Before Puppeteer could respond, the prickling feeling came back again. But this time, pain didn’te to him. A faint sound, from who knows where, came instead.


    No, it was a telepathic thought!


    ck Beetle smashed the wall behind him with a hand. His heart was filled with hate but also near-inescapable fear.


    Powerful people with formidable soul strength and mastery of techniques could indeed transmit thoughts to others in a unidirectional manner. But most of the time, this could only ur during states of peace. In true battles of life and death, the mind must be stretched taut and the opponent must be highly prepared. This sort of unidirectional imbuing of thought would certainly suffer a great deal of interference. It was practically impossible to realize while maintaining the integrity and uracy of the transmitted information.


    But right now, a sound rang within ck Beetle’s brain. There was a bit of noise at the very beginning, but it grew clearer and clearer.


    "...Factor analysis. I’ve learned it before."


    Luo Nan expressed his thought telepathically to continue the topic they were ’discussing’ a moment earlier. Namely, the topic of analyzing factors in victory or defeat.


    ck Beetle had undoubtedly raised the topic to mock Luo Nan and mess with his emotions. But now, Luo Nan bounced the topic back at ck Beetle, stuffing ck Beetle’s brain bit by bit.


    "The advantages I’ve analyzed for victory are different than yours. You see:


    "You can’t see what I can see.


    "You don’t know what I know.


    "You can’tpare to what Imand.


    "You are unable to reach where I’m at.


    "Lastly, I havee to a conclusion. My superiority lies outside of your deficient imagination!"


    The broad and uniform sentences of information were done in a somewhat shaky manner, having been pieced together on the fly. But the cruel ridicule came permeated within Luo Nan’s distant telepathic thought, branding into ck Beetle’s mind.


    Crack! ck Beetle crushed one of his back mrs. Then his mood followed his crushed tooth with a spray of blood.


    "I’LL F*** YOU BACK EIGHT GENERATIONS!"


    ck Beetle’s crude cursing and his boiling blood was incapable of drowning out the bone-chilling wind in his mind. He understood the situation well. Luo Nan’s projected telepathic thoughts weren’t that powerful; they were like strands of silk. But no matter what defensive and protective means ck Beetle used, they were unable to interfere with Luo Nan’s telepathy at all.


    This thread of telepathy coulde as it pleased and could stay as it pleased. It wantonly smeared a drawing to be engraved in ck Beetle’s mental ne. Such an ability seemed inhuman. Itpletely affirmed the ability that was akin to a prating bright light, unblockable and unstoppable.


    ck Beetle could not suppress his fear and shame. They were like two swords stabbing in and stabbing out. They took turns stabbing him and cutting him, shredding his dignity beyond recognition.


    If just a little bit of force was added... just a little...


    Ding!


    The sound that indicated the arrival of an elevator rang by ck Beetle’s ear. ck Beetle had somewhat recovered from the intense pain and chaotic vision by now. He dimly saw, through the corner of his eye, a faint figure flit past him, and soon the elevator door closed again.


    A sound no longer came from Luo Nan.


    The changes in details were like a sudden foreshadowing emerging, and it made ck Beetle’s mind jolt. A certain thought spawned in his mind. If that kid can truly get rid of me that easily, there’s no need to push himself until his eyes start flowing with blood. Plus, he spewed a bunch of nonsense.


    Though ck Beetle had these doubts, he was unable to think further. He staggered half a step, turned his body, and looked toward the elevator. He merely saw the elevator door close and head downward.


    He looked around with his somewhat fuzzy vision. The elevator area was spacious and empty. It was just empty space all around. Luo Nan’s figure wasn’t there at all.


    Yes, Luo Nan just needed to add a bit more force and he would be done for.... That f**king kid has a problem with his interference ability. ck Beetle was able to deal with the purely mental attack, but Luo Nan probably couldn’t even muster the force to affect ck Beetle’s body and soul structure.


    "F*** ME!"


    ck Beetle let out another round of cursing as he smashed into the elevator door. But all he did was cause a dent in the metal te. The elevator indicator was already showing changes in the floor number.


    He stopped hesitating and shook his head fiercely. He locked onto the fire escape that ran on the outer side of the corridor. He rushed over in a few steps, rammed the door to the stairwell open, and jumped down the narrow gap between the flight of stairs.


    At the same time, he tried making contact with hispanion once more. "Puppeteer? Say something if you’re still alive!"


    "Tsk. That kid is too sneaky. I nearly choked to death in the water. I almost lost my puppets." Puppeteer’s voice finally came through in a bout of cursing. “Snake Tongue’s protective spell isn’t worth sh*t...."


    "This is hisst move," ck Beetle spoke through gritted teeth. "He doesn’t have the energy to follow up, so he fled! He certainly can’tst long. Keep an eye on elevator number fifteen."


    “I’m looking... It stopped! On the 133th floor!" In the crystal pir, the devil ray ran by the high-speed elevator’s side.


    ck Beetle didn’t ck as well. He used his elbow to push off the railings. His body flipped, and he urately stopped at the 133th floor. He charged into the door to the building and went in.


    Within the elevator room, in front of elevator number fifteen, stood a white-cored worker. The elevator door opened. It was none other than this person who had caused the elevator to stop.


    This white-cored worker was given a scare by ck Beetle charging out from the fire escape. The white-cored worker had just turned his head, and ck Beetle moved like a phantom to seize the worker’s body. ck Beetle extended his hand to the worker’s head and fiercely mmed the worker into the metal door.


    Blood immediately flowed from the white-cored worker’s head, and he fainted.


    "Thanks for the help."


    ck Beetle spat out these words without a trace of sincerity as he curled his lips into a grin. His expression grew all the more malevolent, and the aura around his body practically burned. The tie wrapped around his neck appeared like a living snake as it slipped out of the cor of his suit. Upon the tie, one of the beetle patterns inexplicably squirmed and budged out. It turned into a real beetle and crawled along the tie.


    As soon as ck Beetle would see Luo Nan, he would tie Luo Nan up with his tie and shove the poisonous insect down Luo Nan’s throat. Screw whether Luo Nan lived or died!


    The elevator, which was automatically controlled by aputer program, was not concerned at all about the situation outside. It arrived at its destination and its door automatically opened.


    ck Beetle leaned forward and was about to move.


    But the elevator was absolutely empty. Not a trace of a person could be found.


    No, there was something.... A paper man.


    There was only this piece of work that was the size of a palm. It was of the same make as the two paper men ck Beetle had ground to pieces earlier. It possessed no fear, and it had stood there all this time since the elevator call button was pressed. It stood on the wooden floor of the elevator, holding a fighting stance.


    "SCREW YOU ****!"


    The string of reason within ck Beetle’s mind snapped just like that. He simply reached out with his palm and let out a tyrannical strength, disregarding how much pain his hand was in. He crushed the paper man into pieces.


    "He didn’t go down! He went back to the viewing tform!" Within the crystal pir behind ck Beetle, the devil ray ascended rapidly. Puppeteer gestured to ck Beetle through the protective ss, indicating that he was going up.


    The gesture was extremely normal to do, but it was an absolute mockery from ck Beetle’s perspective. ck Beetle still wasn’t able to understand what exactly happened to him. He just knew that Luo Nan had yed him.


    It was just as the strand of telepathy Luo Nan had left and imprinted on his mental ne.


    You can’t see what I can see.


    You don’t know what I know.


    You can’tpare to what Imand.


    You are unable to reach where I’m at!


    "ARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGHHHH!"


    ck Beetle punched out in madness, and the metal door of the elevator deformed from the smash. It could no longer close and was stuck in ce. Harsh rm lights lit up.