Chapter 899 - 728: Causality Sight, The Mastermind Is There (2)

Chapter 899: Chapter 728: Causality Sight, The Mastermind Is There (2)

The dashed line visibly shortens, but Intelligent Brain Xiaoyou does not answer his inquiry.

He is a spectator, merely a spectator.

Not in the battle sequence, with no authority, Intelligent Brain Xiaoyou will not give him any answers.

The white dashed line on the screen pointing here has never been an "early warning" for his eyes.

It is purely Xiaoyou’s autonomous activation based on battlefield risk assessment... countdown to the clearance program!

"Ding—"

The man’s face changes drastically, suddenly turning his head, looking in the direction of the sound.

Only to see a series of small dark indicator lights on the surface of the explosive block on the wall, now lit with glaring red light, starting to pulse:

10,

9,

8,

.....

"Damn!!! Damn damn damn!!!"

Extreme fear transforms into the most primal force.

He emits a series of incomprehensible, breakdown-like screams, disregarding everything else, frantically scrambling out the door like a wild dog with its tail on fire.

Then, at the fastest speed of his life, he climbed over the low rear wall of the yard using hands and feet, without even choosing a direction, just buried his head and sprinted continuously.

.....

Team 087’s prison guards are also sprinting, directly aiming for the plain row of houses at the edge of the shrubbery.

Not by X-ray observation to see something unusual there, nor by using technological means to detect anomalies, but by [Destiny]’s peculiar method.

——Insight perception.

Like the fierce, strange, and combat-oriented six forms (shave, iron block, paper drawing, moon step, storm leg, finger gun), Insight perception is also a secret technique developed by [Destiny] Technical Development Bureau.

The difference is that Insight perception doesn’t enhance strength, nor speed, but focuses on deeply excavating and sublimating the perception ability of the practitioner, going beyond the limitations of the five senses, touching deeper information streams in the unknown.

It can greatly enhance, even "alter" the practitioner’s perceptual dimensions.

It is a technique touching the soul and Destiny level, with extremely high practice threshold and difficulty.

In some aspects, much harder and riskier than the six forms which focus on physical potential explosions and energy usage.

Requires the practitioner to have an innate soul sense, as well as subtle control of one’s Spiritual Power, any slight mistake can result in spiritual injury or soul fracture.

Within Destiny’s massive battle sequence, most team members of A grade or above have at least mastered one or two moves of the six forms successfully, it’s not uncommon to see someone mastering all the forms expertly.

There are even a few highly talented individuals who can touch and master the terrifying "Ending Form" above the six forms.

But Insight perception is completely different.

Even within the talent-rich and monster-filled inside of [Destiny], those who can successfully cross the threshold and master this art are extremely rare.

In some respects, mastering the six forms relies on hard training, perseverance, and precise control of body and energy, while Insight perception purely relies on talent, an innate affinity for the "Domain" of perception, and some indescribable "comprehension".

Due to its high threshold and difficulty in practice, once someone successfully practices it and advances Insight perception to the first stage, activating and stabilizing the mysterious "sixth sense," the abilities acquired are often quite amazing and highly personal.

Purely depending on the person, varied and strange, almost no two cases are entirely the same.

Some can "hear" the whispers of Destiny, some can "smell" the scent of crisis, some can "touch" the creases of space, and so on.

However, based on long-term data accumulation and the main features of the abilities shown, the research institutions inside [Destiny] generally summarize it into six categories:

Pure sensation type:

Extreme enhancement of one basic sense, such as vision capable of micro Insight into energy flow, hearing able to capture soft whispers kilometers away, smell able to distinguish and track specific individual’s "pheromones", etc.

Range type:

Forming a spherical perception Domain centered around oneself, knowing every movement in the Domain, even the most subtle airflow changes.

Distance type:

Sacrificing breadth of range, extending perception like a probe greatly, able to cross vast distances and lock onto specific targets or areas for "remote sensing".

Prediction type:

Can vaguely foretell a target’s next short-term (usually a few seconds) movement trend or energy change, used for combat evasion and counterattack, effect excellent.

X-ray type:

Not simple seeing through walls, but to some extent "seeing through" energy barriers, visual camouflage and even part of material’s internal structure, direct pointing to the core.

Special type:

The most rare and peculiar type, unable to be simply classified into the above five types, effects often involve more abstract and strange levels like causality, emotions, and Destiny lines.

And now, among the speeding Team 087, there is precisely one member—Zhao Zhibao, who has successfully mastered this rare secret technique.

Moreover, belonging to the most rare and inexplicable special type among the categories.

Zhao Zhibao is not burly in size within the team, slightly lean, usually speaks little, appearing somewhat taciturn.

Main features are arms beyond knees, and possessing a pair of naturally unequal eyes, left eye slightly larger than right.

His Insight perception ability, named "Causality Vision," is a name he coined himself.

When he activates Insight perception, deep inside his unequal eyes’ pupils, faint golden light like rapid data flow will appear.

Allowing him to vaguely "see" two faintly visible "lines" hovering above life forms.

Zhao Zhibao calls the two lines he sees—life and death causal lines.

One is the "life line" embodying vitality and hope, gentle in color, like a tender shoot in early spring; the other is entwined with dead silence and end, the "death line", dull in color, like a withered vine.

These lines are not created out of thin air, they connect to the "cause" person most closely associated with the target’s recent life and death fate.

In other words, he can see who recently caused the target’s survival probability to improve (life line), and who’s existence determined or greatly influenced the target toward death (death line).

This is not accurate fate prophecy, more like a probability visualization based on existing causality entanglement, specific interpretation, similar to divination, requires one’s own judgment.

At this moment, in high-speed running, Zhao Zhibao quietly activated the secret technique, in his altered vision, the battlefield presented a different scenery.

Representing the members on the side of Worries Relief Studio, high above their heads the "life line", most without exception, tightly connected to Feng Mu.

The logic behind this causality is simple, meaning under the current situation, whether these attackers can survive, their lifeline is no longer controlled by themselves but firmly grasped in Feng Mu’s hands.

Feng Mu’s will, Feng Mu’s next move, will directly decide whether these people’s Destiny continues or be cut short.

More surprising to Zhao Zhibao is the death line above their heads.

It doesn’t point to nearby, most threatening Zhao Zhibao or the approaching prison guard convoys, but all directs toward a certain building in the row of houses at the edge of the shrubbery.

There are two possible interpretations:

One is these Worries Relief Studio members will ultimately die at the hands of the person in that building;

The other is their death, tracing back, is caused by the person in the building.

And, the correct answer is obvious.

Zhao Zhibao’s unequal eyes flashed with wise brilliance, reminding Chen Ya:

"Captain, at eleven o’clock direction, 2.1 km away, there’s a big fish in that house!"

Charging at the forefront, Chen Ya’s original goal was to thrust into the battlefield center to defeat the most enemies at fastest speed.

Upon hearing, his pace stalled for a fraction of a second, asked back: "How big is the fish?"

Zhao Zhibao summed up succinctly:

"Heavier than all these enemies combined, likely the mastermind behind this attack..."