However, now... what echoed in Zhou Ziwei's mind was no longer some ghostly image, but clearly the voice of a child with 100% anthropomorphism.
Moreover, from its simple sentence just now, Zhou Ziwei already sensed that it should be a clever, emotional, and extremely honest independent soul... Well, since what it just said was all praise for Zhou Ziwei, Zhou Ziwei could only think of it as an honest and good child. Could he possibly say that it was hypocritical?
"Are you the soul that was just born in that chip?" Zhou Ziwei tentatively tried to communicate with the owner of the voice in his mind using his soul consciousness.
"Yes... Master, didn't you just create me? Without you, I wouldn't exist. Or... would it be more appropriate for me to call you Dad?" the childish voice said hesitantly.
"No...don't call me Dad!" Zhou Ziwei stopped the little guy with a black line on his face, and then said, "That title makes me feel guilty...well, you can just call me Master, and I'll call you...I'll just call you Shin-chan."
Zhou Ziwei clearly had no talent for naming things. He had casually named the two people he had taken in Vietnam "Ada" and "Aer" before. This time, he thought that this little guy was actually the soul of a chip, so he took the homonym of the word "new" from the chip and thus got rid of his great and sacred duty of naming a new life.
Moreover, Zhou Ziwei thought that the little guy's personality seemed to have a bit of innocence and mischief, which seemed to be comparable to Crayon Shin-chan, so the name Shin-chan was not a haphazard choice!
Sure enough, Shin-chan was quite satisfied with his name and excitedly exclaimed, "Great, great... Shin-chan is a great name! I love Crayon Shin-chan the most!"
"Hehe... I'm glad you like it..." Zhou Ziwei felt a little smug after the other party approved of the name he had chosen. However, he was immediately taken aback and hurriedly asked, "Wait...aren't you a newly born independent soul? Your soul should be a blank slate right now...well, at most it should only have some simple data from the chip. But how...how do you know about Crayon Shin-chan? Even if your chip has a large storage capacity and contains a massive amount of information, I just don't think the guy who made this chip would transmit information from a boring cartoon into your chip, do I?"
"Of course not," Shin-chan replied matter-of-factly. "It's just that... well, to be precise, this chip I'm attached to was implanted into your brain, Master. It started slowly copying your memories, including those about Crayon Shin-chan... I saw all of that in your copied memories... Oh... but the copying speed used to be so slow, so incredibly slow. It took so long to copy only 2.4 percent of your memories. If I were to manipulate the copying myself, it would be done in a matter of minutes... Wait a minute, Master... there seems to be something wrong with your memories... This... it's truly unimaginable how your memory storage capacity is so vast. According to data comparison, your memory storage capacity is 1489.65 times that of an average person! My God... so my Master is a superman!"
Zhou Ziwei's heart pounded. Although he had long sensed that the chip implanted in his brain was extraordinary, he hadn't expected it to have the function of automatically copying memories from his brain. He immediately asked, "So... have these copied memories been transmitted out?"
"Not yet..." Xiaoxin's words made Zhou Ziwei breathe a slight sigh of relief.
"There is indeed a function in the chip to automatically transmit data back to the host of the black network system. However, the chip was originally set to start the automatic transmission only after all the memory data in your mind has been copied. But... the memory in your mind is a massive database. After so much time, only 2.4% of your memory has been copied. It is still far from being completely copied. According to the original program, since it has not been completely copied, it will naturally not start transmitting data."
Zhou Ziwei nodded, secretly feeling a little smug. The black market assassin network's method was indeed quite insidious; the idea of using this chip to copy other people's memories was terrifying.
However, they were unlucky to run into Zhou Ziwei, this freak. If Zhou Ziwei only had the memory of a normal person, then without a doubt, the things in his mind would have already been copied and transmitted to the host of the black market assassin network.
In that case... Zhou Ziwei would have no secrets left for the Black Market Assassin Network.
However, Zhou Ziwei had absorbed countless souls through the Six-Syllable Mantra, and each time he absorbed someone's soul, he would also absorb a portion of that person's memories from their previous life.
Although these memories are incomplete, they represent the most important parts of a person's life. Therefore, Zhou Ziwei absorbed and preserved most of the fragments of memories from countless individuals' lives. This accumulation resulted in a terrifying amount of memory for Zhou Ziwei. The chip, operating at a normal copying speed, couldn't easily replicate them all. Moreover, this was even after Zhou Ziwei hadn't retained all the absorbed soul memories. For example, he essentially deleted all the soul memories attached to the nearly 20,000 fallen souls he absorbed in the pilot plane. Otherwise, if those 20,000 soul memories were included, Zhou Ziwei's memory volume would likely be many times greater than it is now.
Fortunately, Zhou Ziwei managed to capture the chip in time. Otherwise, if it had been delayed for another year or two, the consequences would have been unimaginable. No wonder that after Zhou Ziwei was controlled by the Black Market Assassin Network, the network never gave him any missions or made things difficult for him.
Zhou Ziwei had initially thought that this black market assassin network was just a loosely organized group without much ambition, but now he realized that they actually wanted to copy his memories.
Presumably, once his memories weren't completely copied, the black market assassin network would never treat him so politely again! Even if they didn't treat him like a slave, they would at least squeeze every last drop of profit out of this expert whose strength was enough to rank among the world's top ten assassins.
"Master...shouldn't you wake up?" While Zhou Ziwei was still lost in thought, Xiao Xin anxiously called out to him in his mind, saying, "I can sense a strong wave of life activity outside. It seems that a large number of creatures are gathering here. Master, you have been keeping your five senses and six consciousnesses closed, which makes it difficult for my bio-wave scanning function to work. This is very dangerous, great master."
Upon hearing this, Zhou Ziwei realized that he had been in a state of closed senses and was completely unaware of what was happening outside... Before entering this state of closed senses, he had specially filled the alloy suit with heat energy, so that the independent soul of the alloy suit could do everything possible to resist in case of an accident. Only if it was impossible could he be woken up through soul communication.
In addition, Zhou Ziwei also arranged for his Kun pets to guard the area around the cave, but he specifically ordered them to only attack when the enemy entered a certain range. If the enemy retreated, they were not to pursue them. Their main task was to protect Wang Xuewei and Chu Qiutang inside the cave.
Zhou Ziwei believed that with this arrangement, they should be able to handle ordinary enemies. Of course, if another one of the top ten assassins, ranked even higher than the werewolves, came, then they would probably be completely outmatched.
Zhou Ziwei was surprised to find that two of the world's top ten assassins, ranked above werewolves, had actually appeared this time.
However, due to some special reasons, although these two people were ranked ahead of the werewolves, their strength seemed to be much weaker than the werewolves on the surface. They almost lost one of their members in the combined attack of Zhou Ziwei's Kun pets.
He reinfused his soul power into the body, regaining control and restoring his five senses and six consciousnesses. Then, Zhou Ziwei was surprised to find a strange red mist drifting into the center of the cave. His swarm of mosquitoes were frantically surrounding the red mist, desperately devouring it.
Because the cave was very dark, Zhou Ziwei could only scan it with his soul power. He immediately discovered that what looked like red mist was actually a living creature.
Zhou Ziwei was immediately taken aback. He never imagined that this wisp of gas was actually composed of countless tiny life forms. After he further expanded his soul power outward, he discovered that the Insect King and the beautiful snake outside, as well as the countless large and small poisonous insects that were rushing in from all directions and had formed an overwhelming momentum, all seemed to be crawling towards this cave.
Seeing so many poisonous insects immediately reminded Zhou Ziwei of the almost boundless expanse of black beetles he encountered in the pilot plane. Compared to the scale of those black beetles, which were almost like an ocean, these poisonous insects were nothing more than child's play. However, since the three of them were currently trapped in a cave on this mountain, and these small insects that were swarming in seemed to be all poisonous, the situation was probably no better than what they had experienced on the Gobi Desert in the pilot plane.
Why are all the creatures that come here poisonous?
Zhou Ziwei was puzzled, and then he noticed that the dozen or so insects frantically devouring the red mist were actually all mosquitoes, while the ladybugs were flying far away on the other side of the cave entrance, seemingly having no interest in the red mist at all.
Could it be that... this tiny, mist-like creature has a strong attraction to poisonous creatures, and that all the poisonous insects roaming the mountains and fields outside are being drawn here by this red mist?
Zhou Ziwei's heart stirred, and he quickly connected with the souls of those little mosquitoes. He then clearly sensed that these little mosquitoes were in a state of extreme excitement, and this extreme excitement came entirely from that red mist-like microorganism.
These little mosquitoes had been following Zhou Ziwei for some time, and under the constant cleansing of his soul power, their intelligence was not low. Although they were not as intelligent as ladybugs, they were still quite remarkable. However, now, due to the influence of the red mist-like microorganisms, their souls were instinctively filled only with a longing for those microorganisms. Nothing else could enter their souls anymore.
"Damn it... how dare they use something like this to scam me."
Zhou Ziwei saw that the little mosquitoes had already eaten their way to the point of bursting, but they still showed no sign of stopping. It seemed that they would not give up until they had eaten all the red, misty microorganisms or until their bellies were burst open.
Zhou Ziwei didn't need to think much more; he could see it all... The overwhelming swarms of insects outside must have been caused by this group of red, misty microorganisms, and the one controlling these red, misty microorganisms must have been the tall, thin man who had hidden far away outside. Because that guy was still gesturing wildly towards the cave, and making strange noises.
Seeing that his swarm of mosquitoes, which he had been raising for a long time, was about to be completely defeated here, Zhou Ziwei couldn't help but fly into a rage and immediately released a small vortex of air without saying a word.
Then, he used the vortex to condense a small whirlwind, instantly engulfing the entire mass of red mist-like microorganisms. Following this, he executed a reverse push, using the same tactics against the same person, blowing the red mist-like microorganisms towards the man, even causing them to adhere directly to his body. The result, naturally, was that the Insect King got himself into trouble, and was directly turned into a skeleton by the poisonous insects he had summoned.
Regardless of the true strength of this insect king, Zhou Ziwei had to admit that the way this guy manipulated insects was so amazing and varied that it was worth learning from and emulating.
Therefore, after the Insect King died, Zhou Ziwei naturally and without hesitation began reciting the Six-Syllable Mantra, forcefully devouring the Insect King's newly deceased soul...
This time, reciting the Six-Syllable Mantra brought Zhou Ziwei an unexpected surprise, because he suddenly discovered... it seemed that not only human souls could be absorbed by him. In fact, the soul power Zhou Ziwei absorbed this time was not just the little bit left by the Insect King. Zhou Ziwei suddenly found that when he recited the Six-Syllable Mantra this time, the huge halo seemed to have become much finer than before, so it could also purify and pull over some naturally weak souls...
Volume 2 The Assassin's Nightmare Chapter 427 Foolishness
Because a large number of poisonous insects from the entire mountain peak gathered here at the same time, the non-poisonous creatures in this area suffered a catastrophic loss.
Within a radius of over a thousand meters centered on this cave, almost all animals, large and small, perished in the horde of poisonous insects.
After these animals die, they also form extremely weak souls. When Zhou Ziwei recited the Six-Syllable Mantra, these weak souls were actually gathered into Zhou Ziwei's sea of souls along with the soul of the Insect King.
Although the souls of these animals were weak, their numbers were enormous. As a result, Zhou Ziwei absorbed the soul power of three thousand five hundred animals by reciting the Six-Syllable Mantra.
This... is definitely an unexpected surprise... Zhou Ziwei thought with great joy. Since he could absorb the souls of animals, he could naturally absorb their soul memories as well. In that case, wouldn't he be able to master all kinds of animal languages at any time?
What made Zhou Ziwei happiest was that... he could now absorb soul power from the souls of various animals without having to kill people to obtain enough soul power.
You have to understand that we live in a time of peace on Earth. Even if wars break out occasionally, not many people will die.
Therefore, it would be virtually impossible for Zhou Ziwei to collect 400,000 units of soul power in one go, just like he did in the pilot plane last time. This also means that if Zhou Ziwei does not go to the pilot plane again, his progress in soul abilities in this life may only reach this point. It is basically impossible for him to increase his soul power reserves to a million.
However, now that he has the energy to absorb the souls of other animals after they die, this undoubtedly presents him with countless new opportunities. He can continuously improve his strength by absorbing the soul energy of these animals.
Thinking of this, Zhou Ziwei's mood immediately improved, and the frustration he felt from having wasted three years in the pilot dimension space was somewhat relieved.
Remembering that there was another one outside who was known as one of the top ten assassins, Zhou Ziwei quickly and roughly searched through the newly absorbed soul memories of the Insect King. After obtaining some information about the woman nicknamed "Beautiful Snake," he stood up and led the still-shaken Wang Xuewei and Chu Qiutang out of the cave.
No matter how capable a woman is, she has an almost innate fear of poisonous snakes and insects. Just now, the two women saw that the outside world was almost covered with those disgusting creatures, which almost scared them out of their wits.
Although they could see that the poisonous insects outside seemed to have retreated, if Zhou Ziwei hadn't been with them, they probably wouldn't have dared to leave the cave even if they were beaten to death.
Just moments ago, the mountain forest was bustling with activity, but now only a beautiful blonde woman remained, standing there all alone. Wang Xuewei and Chu Qiutang naturally knew that this woman, whose figure was the envy of many, was also a formidable character. However, now that Zhou Ziwei had woken up, they no longer needed to worry about what tricks this blonde beauty might pull.
The two women originally wanted to make some sarcastic remarks to the blonde beauty, but to their surprise, the blonde beauty didn't say a word and started dancing a sexy dance on her own.
What a shameless, despicable woman...
Wang Xuewei and Chu Qiutang were quite taken aback when they saw the blonde beauty flirting with Zhou Ziwei right in front of them, displaying such a seductive and provocative manner.
However, their disdain for the blonde beauty did not last long. When the blonde beauty opened her throat and hummed a series of melodious and dreamlike songs, the two women finally lost control and became infatuated with the beautiful singing. Their expressions gradually became infatuated, and for a moment they completely forgot where they were.
"This is the most powerful move of the beautiful snake – Heavenly Sound."
Zhou Ziwei had previously only found some information about the beautiful snake woman in the Insect King's memories. He knew that this woman's personal combat ability was not very strong, but she was good at jujitsu and had a strong advantage in stealth. She could silently sneak into any heavily guarded place, which was a unique advantage for killing.
In addition, the seductive arts of the beautiful snake are also very powerful. As long as she uses her seductive arts, almost no man can resist them and will be manipulated at her will.
However, the most powerful move of the beautiful snake is called the Heavenly Melody. It is said that anyone who hears this Heavenly Melody must die. Therefore, even the Insect King has only heard of the power of this Heavenly Melody, but has never actually witnessed it.
Could this heavenly voice be an upgraded version of a seductive technique?
Zhou Ziwei also felt that his mind was being subtly stirred by the beautiful singing of the beautiful snake, and he even had an absurd desire to be intoxicated in this moment and never wake up again.
However, this temptation, which seemed to come from the devil, was not very strong, so Zhou Ziwei did not take the heavenly sound seriously. But when he noticed the reactions of Wang Xuewei and Chu Qiutang, he was shocked.
"Anyone who hears the Heavenly Music must die." This is the only description of the Heavenly Music obtained from the Insect King. It is clear that the Heavenly Music is not as pleasant as it seems on the surface. With Zhou Ziwei's soul power as vast as the ocean, there is naturally no need to worry about this small, mental attack-like secret technique being able to do anything to him.
But Wang Xuewei and Chu Qiutang are just ordinary people... If this beautiful snake continues to sing, Zhou Ziwei doesn't care, but he's afraid Wang Xuewei and Chu Qiutang won't be able to hold on.
It seems it's time to shut her up.
Zhou Ziwei muttered to himself, preparing to forcefully interrupt the beautiful snake's song, but at that moment, he suddenly noticed that there were extremely faint strands of soul energy floating in the surrounding space.
These soul energies are not powerful, but they are like diluted liquid explosives, possessing extremely unstable characteristics, seemingly capable of unleashing a destructive force at any moment.
Soul power... this so-called heavenly sound is actually just a technique for utilizing soul power...
Zhou Ziwei sensed the faint wisps of soul energy dissipating in the space, and finally realized that the melodious singing was actually a method to drive the power of the soul.
However, it is obvious that the soul power possessed by this beautiful snake is too insignificant. So, although her method is very advanced, the ability she can exert is really not enough. Of course... saying that her heavenly voice is not enough is only relative to Zhou Ziwei. If it were against an ordinary person, there would probably be very few people who could survive her strange attack mode.
Zhou Ziwei did a rough calculation and found that the amount of soul power consumed by the beautiful snake when she used the Heavenly Melody of this scale was only about five to eight units. Five to eight units of soul power was nothing to Zhou Ziwei, who had hundreds of thousands of units of soul power. However, the power displayed by this small amount of soul power through this peculiar method was something that even Zhou Ziwei couldn't help but take notice of.
In terms of the utilization rate of soul power, Zhou Ziwei is far, far inferior to the beautiful snake.
However, upon discovering the restless nature of the soul power floating in the air, Zhou Ziwei had no time to lament. He immediately summoned at least several hundred strands of soul power from his sea of souls and released it with a cold snort. He then manipulated these soul powers to surround the snake woman with ten strands each, instantly disintegrating the encirclement of soul power that the snake woman had painstakingly created.
"Ah—" The beautiful snake felt that after Zhou Ziwei's cold snort, the "divine power" she had finally released and was slowly invading the brains of the three people in front of her was suddenly devastated. In her mind, it was as if she had encountered a fierce storm. Everything she had painstakingly set up was destroyed in pieces before she could even close the net.
Because she suddenly lost the support of "divine power," the beautiful snake felt a sharp pain that seemed to erupt from the depths of her soul. Then her whole body went weak, and her consciousness gradually became blurred...
After breaking the beautiful snake's heavenly voice, Zhou Ziwei originally planned to continue with a soul roar to break through her sea of souls and make this vicious beauty's soul disappear.
However, before he could make any further moves, the poor beauty collapsed on her own, catching Zhou Ziwei off guard. He was unsure whether he should take advantage of her unconscious state to strike again.
Or perhaps we should also absorb her soul, so that we can learn her unique skill in using soul power to create heavenly sounds.
But she's already unconscious, and to just devour her soul like that... seems a bit cruel...
"Ah... what's wrong with this sister?" Just as Zhou Ziwei was still hesitating whether to take action, he heard Wang Xuewei and Chu Qiutang, who had just come to their senses, suddenly notice the beautiful snake lying on the ground. Then, contrary to their previous feelings of disgust and hatred, they affectionately called this woman "sister".
What Zhou Ziwei found even more unbelievable was that they actually ran forward without any fear of danger and helped the beautiful snake woman up, one on each side, as if they were looking after their own family.
Zhou Ziwei's eyes widened, wondering what was wrong with them. He muttered to himself, "Could it be that these two silly women have unknowingly fallen for this beautiful snake's seductive arts? But... isn't the snake's seductive arts only effective on men? Why am I, a genuine grown man, not reacting at all? Why do these two beauties seem to be under a spell?"
"What are you staring at like an idiot for?" Wang Xuewei and Chu Qiutang were both annoyed to see Zhou Ziwei standing there blankly staring at them with a very strange expression. "Didn't you see this sister is sick? Aren't you going to come and help? You... don't you have any compassion?"
Zhou Ziwei nearly fainted upon hearing this. He touched his nose and said with a wry smile, "You two... um, is anything bothering you?"
"We're perfectly fine, it's this lady who's in trouble, okay?" Chu Qiutang rolled her eyes at Zhou Ziwei, then a slight smile appeared on her lips as she said gently, "Director Zhou, are you implying that we're both out of our minds? Well, let me tell you, we're both perfectly fine, nothing's wrong. We... we just sensed from this lady's mournful singing that her background must be very pitiful. The reason she came here to deal with us was because she was forced into it, she had no other choice... I think... this lady doesn't seem to have much ill will towards us, at least not murderous intent. I can sense that, it's a woman's intuition, it's very accurate..."
Zhou Ziwei was stunned for a long time, then walked over and solemnly placed his hands on the foreheads of the two women. He examined them intently for a long time, even using his hypnotic abilities, sending a wisp of his soul power to invade the sea of souls of the two women to check. But even so, Zhou Ziwei still did not find any signs that the two women were controlled by the beautiful snake.
It seems I was just overthinking things... I didn't expect that the two of them weren't actually controlled by the seductive magic. But why did their attitude towards the beautiful snake woman suddenly change so drastically? Could it be because this heavenly voice has a benevolent effect? Although the beautiful snake woman didn't manage to subdue the three of them with her heavenly voice, she did manage to win the favor of the two women?
Zhou Ziwei was puzzled for a long time but could not get a definite answer, so he had to give up in frustration for the time being.
She's just an insignificant nobody. To ordinary people, this beautiful snake is the fourth-ranked master among the world's top ten assassins, but to Zhou Ziwei, she's nothing at all and not even qualified to be his opponent.
So, although Zhou Ziwei thought that killing this woman would be the easiest way to avoid future troubles, it seemed unlikely that he could kill this beautiful snake in front of Wang Xuewei and Chu Qiutang, those two silly women.