Global Awakening: Eavesdropping on the SSS-level School Beauty's Inner Voice-Chapter 44: The Soul-targeting God-beating Whip! The Three Forms of Red Flame as a Weapon!
Chapter 44: Chapter 44: The Soul-targeting God-beating Whip! The Three Forms of Red Flame as a Weapon!
Alice was pulled back to her senses by Lin Tianming’s words inviting her to share the treasures. She seriously wondered if she had heard him wrong.
"You... you’re asking me to share the treasures here with you?"
[This life’s Tianming seems different from the one in my previous life... Could it be the butterfly effect from my rebirth that changed his personality in this life?]
[No... Impossible! There must be some trickery involved, maybe he’s thinking of some way to torture me again!]
Lin Tianming saw that Alice didn’t believe him, and he said impatiently, "Why do you girls have to dilly-dally like this? Hurry up!"
Hearing Lin Tianming’s tone turn fierce, Alice, completely drained of her strength, swiftly got up to prevent him from abusing her, and hurried to his side.
This approach still works!
Sometimes you have to be a little fierce!
Sighing inwardly, Lin Tianming smiled at Alice again: "Alice, if I hadn’t followed you today, I would have never discovered this Mechanical Secret Realm. I, Lin Tianming, am a man of my word. We’ll split the treasures here fifty-fifty.
I’ve made a connection with a treasure I found earlier, it’s called a Gravity Device, it can unleash multiple times the gravity to crush enemies.
I’ve already taken one treasure, now it’s your turn. Look at the remaining treasures and pick whichever you like, I won’t renege or snatch it away!"
The more generous Lin Tianming appeared to be, the more frightened Alice became.
"Tianming, I lost the duel to you just now, and I’m completely drained of power. I’m not qualified to compete with you for treasures... I promise I won’t make trouble, so please... please don’t play with me..."
Flashes of how Lin Tianming tortured her under his feet in the Mechanical Secret Realm in her previous life crossed her mind, and Alice’s delicate body trembled due to the psychological shadow of her previous life.
[Could it be... Could it be that in this life, not only will Tianming toy with and torture me, but I might also die even earlier, perishing right here?]
By eavesdropping on Alice’s inner voice, Lin Tianming also gained insight into how she was tormented by the original host in her previous life.
Alice had a tragic past life. She was used as bait to trailblaze and repeatedly attacked, forced to move forward, suffering under the Gravity Device.
After having helped the original host obtain all the remaining treasures with the Gravity Device removed, she was then humiliated and trampled underfoot by the host.
Had the host not thought she had been tormented to death, she might have been taken by the host out of the Mechanical Secret Realm and continued to be tortured in captivity.
Lin Tianming knew that it was almost impossible to make Alice, who had endured such destruction, believe that he would not harm her.
He could only adopt a tough attitude, allowing her to safely leave with these treasures and gradually dismantle her fixed impression of him.
Lin Tianming put on a fierce face: "Just choose already, if you don’t, I’ll get angry!"
"Please... please don’t get angry... I’ll choose, okay? Just... just don’t hit me!"
With her strength completely gone and revisiting the scenes of previous torment, the Alice who could not defeat Lin Tianming had no option but to obediently follow his commands.
[I can only take it one step at a time... If I don’t listen to him... I’m afraid he’ll just torture me even worse...]
Glancing around at the familiar surroundings, Alice took a deep breath and began to choose the treasure she wanted.
[The Gravity Device has already been taken by Tianming, so only Red Flame and the God-beating Whip are left here.]
[What does he mean by splitting fifty-fifty? There are three treasures from the Mechanical Divine Country, how can they be split in half?]
Although she couldn’t understand what Lin Tianming was really planning, after some deliberation, Alice set her gaze on the God-beating Whip.
The whip, clearly made of precision mechanical materials, boasted exceptional flexibility and could be bent and folded without breaking.
[This God-beating Whip is a Divine Artifact that targets the soul. If I could get it, I’d have a way to counter Tianming’s newly acquired soul power in this life when I settle the score with him.]
[But... will he really let me take this God-beating Whip? Could it be that as soon as he sees me wanting to take it, he’ll think I have murderous intent towards him, consequently revealing his true nature and torturing me to death?]
[What if... I should just go for Red Flame instead? It’s highly unlikely he’ll let me take any Divine Artifact, so choosing something that will lower his guard might give me a glimmer of hope for survival!]
Alice really wanted the God-beating Whip, but she felt that Lin Tianming was only testing her and wouldn’t actually give her a Divine Artifact.
Just as Alice was about to walk towards the Red Flame, Lin Tianming pressed down on her shoulder, causing her to jolt in fright.
"What... what are you trying to do?"
Lin Tianming said with a smile, "I noticed you’ve been staring at this whip for a while now. You must really want it, don’t you?"
Despite Lin Tianming’s seemingly kind gesture, Alice saw it as a devilish smile, sensing that he was testing her.
"No... I don’t want the whip at all... Tianming, I... I want the one that’s covered in flames..."
However, before the guilty tonguetied Alice could finish her sentence, Lin Tianming grabbed her jade hand and forcefully placed it on the God-beating Whip.
"Just take it if you want it!"
"No, no, no... I really don’t want it... Tianming, better you keep the whip!"
Alice was genuinely scared by Lin Tianming’s generosity and started crying, tears welling up in her eyes.
She was truly afraid. She thought if she really took the God-beating Whip, Lin Tianming could slap her to the ground, powerless, and then cruelly humiliate her.
"Take it when I tell you to!"
Terrified by Lin Tianming’s shout, Alice reluctantly picked up the God-beating Whip.
During the process of picking it up, she kept sneaking glances at Lin Tianming, fearing he might harm her.
Fortunately, what she feared did not happen, at least not right then.
"Establish a connection with this whip and see what it’s called? What’s its use?"
Under Lin Tianming’s urging, Alice still established a connection with the God-beating Whip, making it her possession.
However, she didn’t relax, knowing Lin Tianming could erase her at any time and take the God-beating Whip.
"This whip is called the God-beating Whip, a weapon designed to target the soul. It was specifically made by the Mechanical Divine Country to deal with Spiritual Power Ascenders."
Alice thought about lying, but she feared Lin Tianming would torture her if he saw through the deception, so she ended up telling the truth.
Lin Tianming was somewhat surprised that Alice would actually tell the truth.
He could eavesdrop on Alice’s thoughts and already knew it was the God-beating Whip.
So even if Alice lied, he wouldn’t have said much.
He teased Alice, who was a bit afraid of him: "No wonder you wanted it so much, you must’ve wanted to use it to whip me, huh?"
Alice flatly denied it: "I... I didn’t!"
At this moment, Alice’s heart was uneasy, afraid that Lin Tianming would use this as an opportunity to torment her.
Just then, Lin Tianming changed the subject to the Red Flame.
"There’s only one artifact left, it’s a bit tricky to divide, Alice!"
Hearing this, Alice immediately responded: "My power is completely gone... I’m grateful enough to get the God-beating Whip from your pity, the Red Flame Boxing Gloves are yours, I don’t want them!"
Lin Tianming walked over to the Red Flame and circled it several times, then snapped his fingers.
"I’ve got it, these flaming boxing gloves come in pairs, you take one, and I’ll take one. That’s a fifty-fifty split, isn’t it?"
Thinking and acting on his feet, Lin Tianming immediately took one of the gloves and established a connection.
"This Divine Artifact is called the Red Flame. It has three different weapon forms, with the boxing glove being just one of them. It also has claw and Flying Wheel forms!"
Having established a connection and learned about the three forms of Red Flame, Lin Tianming excitedly tested the other two weapon forms on site.
After a joyful testing, he also picked up the other Red Flame Boxing Glove and threw it to Alice.
"Catch, Alice. I, Lin Tianming, keep my word. This last treasure is rightly split fifty-fifty!"
Alice subconsciously caught the Red Flame Boxing Glove thrown at her by Lin Tianming.
At the same time, she stared at Lin Tianming’s friendly expression, deep in thought.
[To think that Tianming actually shared the other half of the Red Flame with me, is he... really the Tianming I knew in my previous life?]
