This Spiritual Energy is Lethal!
Chapter 400: Deities and Clan

Chapter 400: Chapter 400: Deities and Clan

"I need to... go first, Parker." Chen Ke stood up, looking towards Xu Jing.

Parker nodded and also glanced in Xu Jing’s direction, asking, "Oh... Is that your girlfriend?"

"Worse than that, I’ll cover the bill this time." Chen Ke shook his head, tossing a 100 union coin bill on the table.

Parker looked skeptical as he watched Chen Ke walk towards the woman.

The black Mercedes was stylish, Chen Ke couldn’t recognize the model, but judging from the two-door sports car design, it must be worth quite a lot of money.

He didn’t know how this woman earned the trust of the Administration Bureau in this era, but obviously, she didn’t lack money and held high authority.

"Chen Ke." Xu Jing took off her sunglasses and greeted Chen Ke.

Today, she wasn’t wearing the red business suit and black leather skirt but had instead changed into a very retro dark red dress coat.

A black leather belt was cinched at her waist, with exaggerated lace embellishments on the shoulders and upper body.

The clothes looked thick, definitely not suitable for this season; her face was flushed from the heat, and her forehead was covered in fine sweat.

"Aren’t you hot?" Chen Ke asked.

"It’s hot here, but where we are going, this set is just right." Xu Jing said.

"Where we are going?" Chen Ke stroked his chin.

"You’d better change your clothes too, this suit isn’t suitable for there." Xu Jing looked Chen Ke up and down.

Chen Ke activated his Spiritual Vision and looked around. This time meeting with Xu Jing, she hadn’t brought along a crowd of P.W.A.T and Administration Bureau agents, but came alone.

"Are you so sure I’ll go with you?" Chen Ke asked.

"I’ve dealt with more people than you’ve met, and you’re not the kind who would lie," Xu Jing looked at Chen Ke.

"Where are we going?" Chen Ke asked.

"Get in the car, I need to prepare a new set of clothes for you." Xu Jing said.

Chen Ke looked back at Parker, who gave him a thumbs up.

"Your friend?" Xu Jing asked.

"None of your business." Chen Ke snorted and walked to the passenger seat, pulling open the car door.

Xu Jing glanced at Parker, her face showing a meaningful expression, pulled open the driver’s door, and sat down. After Chen Ke fastened his seatbelt, she started the car.

The car headed towards Raffi Road, true to being a sports car, the acceleration and feel when speeding were indeed incomparable to a taxi.

"You asked me to help deal with another Chen Ke, but I must tell you first, that being known as HCP0001 doesn’t like listening to me, and I can’t guarantee I could use that thing at will," Chen Ke said.

"I’m not worried about that, that’s your problem. If you help me take out... take out that Chen Ke, the Foundation will definitely reward you," Xu Jing said.

"In that case, you should provide me with intelligence and support with equipment and personnel," Chen Ke said.

"This is not an assassination contract, Chen Ke. Keep that in mind," Xu Jing smiled.

"I know, and it’s precisely because this isn’t an assassination contract that I’m asking for so much. You want me to kill something that belongs to a Clan. And I don’t even know what a Clan means," Chen Ke said.

"Not knowing about the Clan and still being able to eliminate one, I think highly of you~ About the Clan, I will only talk once, briefly, so you’d better remember it immediately," Xu Jing said.

"Mm-hmm, I will record it on my phone and review it repeatedly," Chen Ke pulled out his phone.

Xu Jing looked at Chen Ke, her expression mixed with seven parts surprise and three parts disdain.

"Don’t look at me, watch the road... that’s how accidents happen," Chen Ke said.

"Alright, considering you’ll listen to this over and over, I’ll use a sexier tone," Xu Jing smiled.

"Let’s get on with it," Chen Ke said.

"Let me briefly educate you about the relationship between the Divine System and the Clan, since it’s hard to get this kind of information in your era," Xu Jing said.

She began to explain, and Chen Ke had not turned on the recorder inside, Xu Jing’s tone wasn’t that sexy either.

In this world, there exist entities known as gods, which Chen Ke had already encountered. Their abilities vary vastly, as do their forms, and there is a great disparity in their power levels.

But what’s common among them is that for humans, most of these entities are hard to understand and are highly catastrophic.

Contrary to many fantasy movies and novels, these gods are actively trying to make contact with humans.

However, the signals they release mostly exceed human perceptual capacities, and only a very very limited number of gods can communicate with humans, while the Administration Bureau has always been barring and regulating such contacts.

Though they are called gods, in reality, they are just abnormally large and indestructible phenomena or entities, beyond physical and perceptual destruction.

Some gods don’t have physical forms; they are merely ideas, memes.

Clan members are vassals to these gods; think of them as devotees who have made contact with gods and have been granted powers.

They maintain human appearances and retain their consciousness, but ultimately, they get mutated by Spiritual Power, turning into non-human entities.

Depending on the god, the powers of the Clan members vary. Moreover, it is certain that Clan members cannot be harmed by Spiritual Power, and conventional weapons have almost no lethal effect on them. The Foundation speculates there is some connection between Spiritual Power and the gods.

"That means Clan members can’t be killed, right?" Chen Ke summarized.

"Right, you could kill them while they still retain their human state, but things would only get worse. Once they fully transform into Clan members, their sense of self vanishes, turning into something akin to mutated individuals, only stronger," Xu Jing replied.

"In objective reality, do you need to inject medicines into your spine to use Spiritual Energy?" Chen Ke suddenly asked.

Diana had told him that Spiritual Ability Users needed injections to use the Holy Relics and had to have it removed every month to rest for a week...

"In this reality, your use of Spiritual Energy is still too primitive, but without you, there wouldn’t be us. We don’t ridicule history nor arbitrarily provide advanced technology and knowledge because it could lead to unpredictable consequences," Xu Jing smiled.

Chen Ke leaned back in his seat, remembering that Li Moyang had told him that Lin Yaying provided him with technology from over 100 years later, which was clearly against the Foundation’s usual practices.

"The Foundation used to handle Clan members quite simply, by throwing them into different deadly worlds, letting them perish along with the subjective reality," Xu Jing said.

"Clearly, that Chen Ke doesn’t buy that approach," Chen Ke said.

"You’re the only one who can deal with him... person," Xu Jing thought for a moment before saying.

"Why so sure?" Chen Ke asked.

Xu Jing thought for a moment, then decided to tell Chen Ke about HCP0001.

HCP0001 is a type of god that has appeared multiple times in human history; it was the weapon in the hands of many historical greats and mythological figures, indirectly participating in and promoting social changes.

But unlike other gods, HCP0001 does not have the ability to create Clan members. Its relationship with users is more symbiotic. However, this symbiosis totally contradicts human physiology because it replaces the owner’s heart.

This was something Chen Ke had already known.

After all, these details were personally disclosed by the god in his heart, who seemed not very adept at speaking human language, only piecing together human words to express its intentions.

"We’re here." In the middle of speaking, the car stopped next to an antique shop on Raffi Road. Xu Jing pulled out the car keys, urging Chen Ke to hurry out.

Chen Ke looked through the antique shop’s window and saw a dim interior where an elderly man with white hair was dozing off at the counter.