Chapter 128 The Arrow on the String <TOC> Chapter 130 Display of Fireworks and Lanterns
Translator: SumTLMan
“Activate the Mental Barrier and prepare for battle!”
The Mental Barrier was developed before the Great Catastrophe to counter the erosion of the psychic powers of the Olden Day Rulers.
Before the Great Catastrophe, the Olden Day Rulers were able to project their power onto the Earth at will, using humans or other creatures as vessels to unleash devastating power, even directly descending onto Earth.
After paying a heavy price, the human alliance gained control of psychic power and dealt a heavy blow to the Olden Day Rulers and their minions.
However, the Olden Day Rulers, who had destroyed numerous civilizations and enslaved countless races, would not give up after a minor setback. In response to human firearms, they improved their minions’ black membrane, reducing resistance to psychic powers but enhancing defense against various human weapons.
In every battle with humans, the Olden Day Rulers would project their power onto vessels, carrying out large-scale mental interference on the human alliance, mutating soldiers’ minds and distorting human bodies.
To counter the vessels, humans developed the Mental Barrier device. It was installed on various vehicles to support Mental Barriers on the battlefield and resist the corruption from the Olden Day Rulers.
Della picked up a helmet connected to thick cables, took a deep breath, and put it on her head.
The working principle of the Mental Barrier device is similar to radar, both amplifying and transmitting beams through electronic components, except that the amplified beams are psychic beams rather than electromagnetic waves.
Ordinary psychically inclined awakened individuals would not dare to release psychic beams in front of the Olden Day Rulers, as they would be instantly corrupted. But with the Mental Barrier device, the terrifying corruption would be isolated by electronic components and circuits.
Advanced sensors, signals, and data processors significantly increased the psychically inclined awakened individuals’ ability to process the reflected psychic beams.
After putting on the helmet, Della felt as if he had gained an additional sensory organ.
The psychic transmitter connected the psychic receiver inside the helmet to a high-energy battery via a feeder line. Direct current was converted into radio frequency energy, amplifying the psychic beam signal, and then transmitted into space through the constantly rotating antenna on top of the riot control vehicle.
Reflected psychic beams were processed by the signal and data processor, instantly turning into extremely clear images and being transmitted back to the brain.
The foreign psychic energy from the Olden Day Rulers was extremely conspicuous in the psychic field of vision, appearing as heavy smoke rolling and spreading through the streets. It was less than a hundred meters away from the convoy.
Wherever the psychic energy spread, everything underwent severe corrosion, covered with mottled rust and mold.
When the psychic energy encountered a human body, it transformed into countless tiny worms, burrowing into the body. The civilians who were eroded by the foreign psychic energy could not see it and were completely unaware, even running towards the depths of the smoke.
By the time they showed symptoms, it was already too late.
Della groaned and wiped away the blood from his nose. Even with the Mental Barrier, facing the psychic energy from another dimension still caused him significant impact.
He adjusted the knob, increasing the wavelength of the psychic energy beam.
The imaging of the psychic energy beam immediately became blurred, like the world seen through the eyes of someone with severe farsightedness. However, the contamination caused by the foreign psychic energy was also greatly reduced.
In the next moment, Della no longer allowed the psychic energy beam to form a 180-degree fan, scanning the surroundings. Instead, he divided it into dozens of small-angle fans, concentrating the beams on the security officers and guards.
Rolling black smoke surged forward, and the psychic energy beam, amplified by the Mental Barrier, penetrated the smoke like a high-powered searchlight, driving away the erosion of the foreign psychic energy.
Veins bulged beneath Della’s skin, and his eyes were full of bloodshot. Maintaining the Mental Barrier put a great strain on him, and even with the continuous supply of electric power from the high-energy electromagnetic source, he couldn’t support it for long.
The buckle of the fixed power armor automatically unlocked, and under the drive of the high-energy battery, the power armor began to move, jumping off the trailer.
They carried machine guns, forming a battle array to meet the enemy, and cautiously advanced in alternation.
The convoy slowly drove further back, and the fully armed security guards filed out of the vehicles, entering the buildings on both sides of the street, seizing the high ground and preparing to provide firepower support for the power armor in front.
To facilitate passage, they even blasted large holes directly in the walls of the buildings.
Pedestrians, various animal-powered vehicles, and pack animals on the road all made way in panic.
Even the old Avonigarda people seldom saw such a scene in the city. The last time they saw so many power armors was when the Eastern Xia people invaded.
Children running around and elderly people sitting at the door were all dragged away by their families, hurriedly leaving the neighborhood.
A sniper among the security guards carried his sniper rifle and climbed onto the roof of a three-story building, kicked off a few loose bricks, opened a firing hole, and then laid a blanket on the ground, placing the rifle on it.
His assistant quickly measured wind speed, temperature, and humidity, and hung the NII-407 assault rifle with an under-barrel grenade launcher.
As the ace in the security department, the training of the security forces was well guaranteed.
The sniper took a deep breath to relieve stress and then put a piece of flumazenil under his tongue.
Even the mere gaze of the old ruler could cause massive casualties.
Especially for light infantry like them, who had no power armor protection. Almost every psychic impact would result in contamination or direct mutation. Even with a Mental Barrier, it was just a consolation.
Awakened individuals with a psychic bias would focus most of their attention on power armor and other awakened individuals.
Soon, the two of them felt the arrival of the enemy. The most direct manifestation was a strong sense of dizziness and nausea. The world in their eyes was shaking violently and twisting bizarrely.
They immediately crushed and swallowed the flumazenil under their tongues.
Under the effects of the medication and the Mental Barrier, the strange symptoms were suppressed, and their vision returned to normal, with only slight distortion at the edges.
The first to see the container was the sniper’s assistant, who spotted the high-speed flying container through the telescope.
It was a strange eye.
The assistant let out a scream in an instant, covering his own eyes. Even under the protection of the Mental Barrier, his eyes still showed black bloodshot veins.
The power armor immediately raised its machine gun as if facing a formidable enemy.
Della breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, the arrival this time was not any troublesome thing, just a container carrying a gaze. Although it was still quite tricky, it was still one of the best outcomes.
“There’s something chasing the container!”
A security officer exclaimed in surprise.
The next moment, a figure appeared behind the container at an astonishing speed.
With a loud bang, the eye transformed into a container was directly blasted towards them.
Chapter 128 The Arrow on the String <TOC> Chapter 130 Display of Fireworks and Lanterns