Tubuai Island is covered with thick vegetation, like a green leaf on the vast sea. The sparsely populated villages are scattered on this green leaf, like white eggs left by butterflies.

Local residents have lived in this tiny place for generations, and the extremely scarce resources make them especially cherish everything here. Because they know that the land under their feet is so big and there are so many things on the ground. They love every handful of soil, every tree, and every drop of fresh water here. Except for life necessities, they hardly cut down, and even the houses they build are simple and simple.

Therefore, the vegetation here is dense and uniform, and there are very few exposed rocks except for the seaside. However, the hillside where Aoki is located is an exception.

This place is like a scar on a green leaf that was eaten by insects, and like a withered scar left by the last severe winter. No matter how many cycles of spring the leaf goes through, it can’t be awakened anymore. vitality. Amidst the green surroundings, there is no tree, thorns, or grass, only yellow-brown scorched earth and rocks.

The hillside has little ups and downs, and some weathered rocks are scattered in the first half. Until the top of the slope, the number of rocks increased. Near the top of the slope, the rocks were piled up, seemingly disorderly but arranged according to a certain pattern.

However, Aoki is still some distance from there, but now he feels that there is a wall in front of him, blocking his way.

In fact, he knows very well that this wall is invisible and a mental barrier.

If it's an ordinary person, maybe he won't feel any difference, as long as he stretches his foot forward, he can pass without hindrance. But if the person’s spirit itself is sensitive, or the person with superficial lucid dreaming ability, then the mental consciousness will probably be affected by this thick spiritual wall, so that their brains will really think that there is a wall in front of them, and thus Can only take a detour.

Of course, Aoki will not have hallucinations, but it is also difficult for him to break through easily. If he was running hard at this moment, he would have to pierce the mental barrier in front of him with all his strength, but it would be difficult for him to interfere with the rapidly fired bullet with his mental power. He couldn't put away his mental power, and walked up like an ordinary person, then it would really become a living target.

He can only move forward slowly step by step.

This spiritual wall is extremely thick, and the more you go inside, the thicker it solidifies, like sinking into a swamp, surrounded by viscous liquid.

He had to walk hard in this swamp, and he had to be careful of bullets that might fly over.

Aoki could almost conclude that this mental power was definitely not released by someone. Because he clearly felt that this force did not have a conscious subject, a bit like the spiritual force attached to the bullet that had just been shot. Moreover, it is difficult for a single consciousness body to release such a huge spiritual power.

Just like Aoki himself, he will use mental power to hypnotize other people’s consciousness, enter other people’s dreams, or use mental power to interfere with other people’s consciousness, control part of the nervous system, and thus affect people’s behavior, and he will never be stupid enough to put himself His power is released like a flood, unless he wants to influence the thinking of tens of thousands of people in the stadium, but what's the point? That kind of consumption is not something ordinary people can afford, and recovery is also very troublesome.

If it is not released by humans, where does this mental power come from?

Aoki looked up at the piles of rocks on the top of the **** that Kikika called Tab.

The crow hovered in the sky. Judging from its posture, it may have encountered the same situation. So the thick wall of this spirit is not just a horizontal wall, but a raised hemisphere centered on Tab.

Therefore, the trajectory of the bullet that was shot at the crow in the sky was not the spiritual trajectory of the bullet itself, but it was left when it tore through this solemn spiritual barrier.

With the approach of footsteps and the release of spiritual power, Aoki confirmed his thoughts, but the only thing that surprised him was that the center of the Tab was empty. There is no spiritual power there, just like the eye of a typhoon, thick clouds and twelve-level wind and waves are condensed on the outside, but the center is quiet and peaceful, as if isolated from the world.

Aoki was very sure that the sniper with the gun was hiding in the center of this vacuum-like nerve storm-inside those strange piles of rocks, but he couldn't find the consciousness.

He knew that this was a contrast effect, because the concentration of mental power on the periphery was too high and the interference was too serious. As long as the people hiding in it were a little careful and didn't accidentally release their mental power, they would be able to hide themselves.

Aoki narrowed his eyes and walked forward a few steps, the invisible thick wall was broken open like the ice surface of the Arctic Ocean encountering an icebreaker.

A bullet flew towards Aoki.

At this distance, the bullet came too fast, and Aoki had to deal with it carefully. At the moment when he was locked by the bullet, he stopped abruptly and interfered with the bullet's trajectory with mental power.

With a "poof", the bullet penetrated into a crack in the rock next to it.

But the second bullet came immediately.

He probably felt a huge threat. This time the gunman didn't plan to let him go, nor did he plan to compare his marksmanship. Instead, he fired several bullets madly.

This is exactly what Aoki couldn't ask for.

He doesn't care about the number of bullets, as long as the bullet still has mental power attached to it, and the speed of the bullet does not increase, no matter how much it comes, he can control it.

From the weak and short trajectory left by the bullet tearing the mental barrier, Aoki can determine the specific location of the sniper. The reason why several trajectories are needed in succession is because the center of the Tabu mental barrier is empty, there is no mental power there, and the bullet has no trajectory. The trajectory there needs to be made up by Aoki's own brain. A single bullet is not enough, at least not accurate enough, and the approximate location, even without mental power, would have long been judged from the shooting direction of the bullet.

All the bullets passed Aoki without exception.

Aoki finally determined the location of the person, right behind one of the piles of rocks, where the shapes and gaps of the rocks are like natural designed battlefield barriers, allowing gunmen to lie in ambush behind, but the people under the hillside can’t see him. .

When the location was determined ~lightnovelpub.net~ Aoki concentrated on his mental energy and immediately caught the person's consciousness.

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Petru held his gun and hid behind the hard rock, he began to seriously doubt his marksmanship.

He has always been very confident, whether in the mercenary period or in the pirate career, his marksmanship has never lost to anyone. However, today, he has missed ten shots in a row, and he can't even hit a bird in the sky. This is still the case with the mental power bonus brought by the Tab.

He felt that the mental locking function with the help of bullets was no longer good, and he had to use the scope.

However, when he wanted to install the scope on the gun, he suddenly found that he couldn't move. He was sure that his blood circulation was normal, there was no numbness or injury, but he could not control the muscles and bones, as if this body no longer belonged to him, but was controlled by another consciousness.

Until the man approached, he looked at him in horror, and then asked in a hoarse voice using the only throat muscle he could control:

"Hareyu?"