The Daily Life Of A Cyberpunk Magician
Chapter 398 - 233: Slaughter Heaven

Chapter 398: Chapter 233: Slaughter Heaven

"What exactly do you want to know?" Paperman Tang stared intently at Jiang Shu.

The basement was brightly lit, with walls painted snow-white, giving it a simple and neat appearance. This style made it impossible for Tang to discern any clues about his location.

He couldn’t determine where he was, so he couldn’t contact his two fake bodies.

This was a very bad thing.

Being unable to contact the fake bodies meant that even suicide was ineffective.

People resurrected needed about three days to reform their spiritual bodies before they could enter the normal resurrection phase. If he committed suicide now, his fake bodies wouldn’t know when he could reform his spiritual body, so the next time he resurrected, he would still encounter Jiang Shu.

Still Jiang Shu...

Why did Jiang Shu know the method of resurrection?!

What had been happening during his own death?

Had Dick Manor been completely conquered, and had the secrets of resurrection been leaked?

Suddenly, numerous questions surged in Tang’s mind, striking directly at his core, each one representing the difficulties he least wanted to face.

But given the current situation, he was completely passive, not even knowing how to break the game.

"I want to know many things," Jiang Shu, with eyes that seemed to see through the hearts of others, spoke slowly. He now had the absolute initiative, and naturally exerted pressure with his presence, "Of course, I won’t mention things that everyone already knows."

"Like?" Tang countered, needing to deduce more from Jiang Shu’s responses.

After dying and entering the Spiritual Space, he had completely lost the concept of time and external perception. When he came to his senses, he found himself transformed into a paperman in Jiang Shu’s hands, this state of knowing nothing, having nothing, being useless...

It was distressing.

And naturally, Jiang Shu knew what Tang was thinking, but he just squinted, contemplating for a while before replying, "Like your plans."

"My plans...?" Tang repeated Jiang Shu’s words, his paper face revealing a vigilant expression.

Similarly, he could try to extract words from Jiang Shu, so Jiang Shu could also extract words from him, a mutual relationship.

"Yes, I am already quite clear about the parts related to your plans. Now, I just need information about the new Black Wall," Jiang Shu shrugged, his tone a bit impatient, "The other two mechanical Tangs have already been destroyed by me, your plan has also failed, there’s no need to hide the new Black Wall, finding the method to shut it down is just a matter of time. However, I would like to save some time, so I am willing to make a deal with you."

"What deal?" Tang immediately asked back, but he did not fully believe the words Jiang Shu uttered, just analyzing the underlying meanings in them.

The plan has already failed?

Why so fast?

No...

Even this Jiang Shu couldn’t possess such strong capabilities. The Mechanical Forces prepared in the manor, the Secret Police Forces obtained by controlling the heads of the Three Major Groups in the Fifth District...

It was unthinkable for these forces, prepared over such a long time, to be easily destroyed by this mere T4 level Entertainment Series Magician.

This was completely unacceptable.

No, it’s not right, he must maintain rationality. Perhaps this was just one of Jiang Shu’s tricks.

But his grasp on information was too scant now; in this environment, he couldn’t even determine the date and time. Being utterly confused was most troublesome.

"Tell me the method to shut down the new Black Wall, and I’ll give you your corporeal body back," Jiang Shu proposed the deal with a smile, appearing very confident.

Tang calmed his mind, of course, he wouldn’t just believe anything Jiang Shu said, so he fell into a brief contemplation.

Jiang Shu watched Tang in this state, inwardly alert.

It seemed Tang didn’t know he had been deceived once before.

During the last temporary resurrection using the paperman, Tang had already been tricked, claiming that the spiritual information wasn’t shared between the two sides, which seemed to be true?

Or was Tang hiding something?

However, it seemed Jiang Shu noticed Tang’s hesitation and added with a smile, "Of course, you can do many things with this body, everything, except..."

His eyes suddenly lost all color, filled with a lethal aura, "using poison gas to kill everyone in the Fifth District."

Upon hearing this, Tang abruptly looked up. Although his paper face showed little expression, Jiang Shu could discern some information from his reaction alone.

It seemed he had hit on something.

Similarly, facing Tang in this paperman state, Jiang Shu couldn’t use Mind Reading Technique to grasp Tang’s inner thoughts or use Foreknowledge Technique to anticipate Tang’s reactions. Thus, he was relying on his previous conjectures and word craft to trick Tang, who might just believe his bluff under the shock and suspicion.

This also made Jiang Shu wonder, what exactly was the Main Brain’s definition of "human"?

It was understandable that Mind Reading Technique couldn’t read Tang’s mechanical replicas, as strictly speaking, Tang’s fake bodies weren’t human, but what about Tang in this paperman state?

Does it require a human’s soul coupled with a human body to successfully read minds?

Wouldn’t then highly modified cyber-psychotics also be unreadable by Mind Reading Technique?