The Applications of the Talismans
First, he told everyone in Laboratory No. 2 to wait.
Han Fei drove straight to the training base.
As soon as the car started, vehicles tucked away in nearby corners began following him without drawing attention.
They merged into the flow of traffic.
They were all his security detail.
Before long, Han Fei arrived at the base.
It was in the suburbs.
Here,
the main site was a training base for the company's security personnel, including Zhao Xin. But the grounds were spacious enough that Han Fei had his own training area on the other side.
Han Fei had made a special belt, embedding all six Talismans in it. He covered them with something and secured them in place, leaving six empty slots as well.
"First up, the Chicken Talisman."
Levitation Power.
Han Fei focused his mind, and the hundred-jin barbell in front of him rose into the air.
It spun around above him.
Han Fei didn't feel a thing.
Several more large objects rose into the air.
A truck.
A rockery.
A road roller.
A whole heap of things floated above them, bobbing up and down.
It was quite a sight.
Only—
Han Fei's bodyguards were already looking a little weak in the knees.
"Right, all the objects are up."
Watching the things in the sky, Han Fei nodded and tried to make them move. Then he realized—
they floated, and that was all. They moved rather slowly; you couldn't exactly call it flying!
"Tsk. I'm missing the Rabbit Talisman."
"Black Star, have you got the data?"
"Based on calculations, the Chicken Talisman's levitation force currently exceeds one hundred tons. Its precise upper limit cannot be determined."
Han Fei nodded and slowly lowered everything back down.
"Next, the Ox Talisman."
The barbell flew through the sky; the rockery rumbled.
"Calculating data. Over one hundred tons; upper limit unknown."
"The Horse Talisman."
An arrow pierced the condemned prisoner's body. Blood trickled out. A flash of white light passed, and the arrow fell to the ground. Everything disappeared, restored to its original state.
A severed hand, hypnosis, dizziness...
"Calculating data. In addition to inanimate objects, physical and mental injuries to living beings can also be healed."
"Next, the Dog Talisman."
Han Fei's eyes gleamed.
A prisoner who looked quite old was brought in.
Before Han Fei's eyes, the man regained his youth!
His skin tightened, black hair sprouted, and his frame straightened.
He went from looking fifty to a young man of twenty!
"Oh, I, I..."
Stab!
A knife plunged through his heart.
"Ugh!"
To everyone's shock, the man's heart was ruptured, yet he still didn't die. He even struggled to get back up.
The Horse Talisman's power restored him.
"Take him away."
"Dog and Horse together—that's what makes you truly immortal," Han Fei murmured to himself.
"Next, the Sheep Talisman."
To be honest, Han Fei was quite curious. Did a science-fiction world have souls?
As far as he could remember, the Super God World didn't seem to have anything to say about that. The only thing even remotely similar was that freak God Karl and his Phantom Body.
So, to be cautious,
he didn't test it on himself this time. He used another condemned prisoner instead.
And this time, he stayed out of sight and hid.
Before long, the prisoner suddenly collapsed.
"Black Star, monitor everyone present."
A short while later,
one of the guards standing watch in the corner suddenly grimaced in pain and clutched his head.
Soon,
his eyes changed. He looked delighted as he felt his own body, glanced around, then quietly started moving toward the exit.
Han Fei nodded from the monitoring room. "All right, put the Talisman away."
"Forcible possession. That's pretty impressive. But it looks like this world allows souls to exist."
That had been the main thing he wanted to test.
Otherwise, what if the moment a soul left the body, it got reduced to particles or turned to ash?
Before long, the man was brought back under restraint.
Han Fei used the Sheep Talisman.
A weightless feeling came over him. He watched as he floated right out of his body, then drifted off with the breeze. He reached out to touch things on either side, but couldn't feel a thing; his hands passed straight through them.
After floating for a while, Han Fei remembered why he was here. He punched the man who had been restrained, knocking the man's soul out of his body.
Newly expelled, the soul looked dazed. Then anger filled its face, but soon it seemed to sense something, and terror took over.
"Ah! I—what, what, what? Wait, come closer! Don't leave me!"
The soul clung desperately to Han Fei, not daring to move away.
Han Fei grabbed him by the neck. "Tell me, why are you sticking so close to me? What were you afraid of just now?"
"I, I suddenly felt like I couldn't be exposed to sunlight or blown by the wind. I'd be done for, absolutely done for! Only when I'm close to you do I feel safe," he stammered, his voice full of utter terror.
Han Fei thought for a moment, then suddenly shoved him away. He watched carefully as he moved farther off.
The man frantically tried to run back to him.
"No! What are you doing? Please, please, I—"
Before he could finish, a gentle breeze blew by. To Han Fei, it was just an ordinary breeze, one he could drift along with at will. But the moment it touched the soul, the man was annihilated.
He didn't even have time to let out a cry of pain.
"Holy shit!"
Han Fei immediately returned to his body.
He sat up, still shaken.
He clutched the Sheep Talisman tightly in his hand.
"Ten meters. The distance is ten meters."
A while later, Han Fei walked out of the room.
The guard and the prisoner's bodies had already been taken away.
"Remember to give them double the compensation."
Han Fei reminded them.
"Yes."
Testing the Sheep Talisman had taught him a few things.
Souls
were fragile.
Unless protected by a Talisman.
Once that protection was gone, an ordinary soul couldn't withstand the wind or sunlight. Fragile was an understatement!
The Talisman had a safe range. As long as a soul stayed within ten meters of its holder, it could be protected.
That was Han Fei's conclusion.
In short, this thing was dangerous.
He couldn't use it casually.
Han Fei decided to keep it as a trump card.
He wondered if a Super Warrior's soul would be strong enough.
Putting those thoughts aside, Han Fei began testing the last Talisman, and the most unusual one.
The Rat Talisman.
Turning inanimate objects into animals.
Granting life!
That was the domain of the Creator.
In the Adventures of the Zodiac, the resurrected Feathered Serpent God hadn't shown many abilities. Even Lo Pei, later on, had only demonstrated the power of the Talismans.
He had no idea how powerful it would be in this world.
Next came choosing what to resurrect.
He didn't dare try it on those great deities from his imagination.
But he could try characters from works of fiction. The moose in the Adventures of the Zodiac had come to life, after all.
Han Fei had several figurines brought to him.
One came from a work of fiction: the all-purpose-use angel, Yikaluosi.
One came from a Chinese animated series: the scientist Gray Wolf.
There were also some figurines carved at random, with no specific character in mind.
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