The woman stepped forward again, all but pushing Shu out of the way. “Are you threatening us?”
Jay shook his head and snorted, “No, I don’t have time for threats. So, stop posturing. If I had decided to kill you it would already be over with. I prefer door number three. That is the option where we find a way to contain you all that keeps you safe but out of our way. I believe I have a way to do exactly that without causing you any real inconvenience.”
The woman started to speak again, but Shu seemed to have had enough because he turned on her. “Ming, just shut up. We get that you are angry but that isn’t going to protect our people. You saw what this guy can do. So, why don’t you open your ears and close your mouth for once. We all know what Wei saw in you.”
Li Ming’s face seemed to lose all color and her body trembled, but she got control of it and snapped her mouth shut, walking off to the side. Shu then turned towards Jay and said, “Okay, so how would this work? Ming may be a hot head, but I have to agree, I don’t really like the idea of being made a prisoner.”
Jay paused and looked Shu in the eyes before answering. “Truthfully, I could have just done it and you wouldn’t even know it. But I am trying to deal openly and honestly. So here is what I’m proposing. You will all stay here in these quarters for the next hour but if the field I create works properly seven weeks will have passed for everyone else.
“That will give us enough time to reach our destination and to get settled in. If something changes or there is an emergency, I will end the field sooner. Either way for you who are here only an hour will have passed.”
Jay gauged that Shu seemed resistant to the idea so he added, “This is really the best deal that I can offer you.” Then he stopped talking and just stood there waiting.
At least that was how it appeared to the outside world. Instead, he was busy creating a PSI circuit with the fuses there. He began with Amelia and moved on from there, binding their channels together. The process was becoming easier each time he did it.
The base amount of PSI that Jay held was a staggering amount compared to anything that he had imagined before. It would have only been possible with a circuit like this. The circuit worked so that as he ran his PSI through his fused girls it would resonate within them and then come back to him in an enhanced form.
Not only would the quantity double with each fuse added to the circuit but the PSI would for lack of a better term become condensed and more potent. His enhanced senses saw the difference in quality despite never having noticed it at first. He was also glad that Cluster 2 was obviously engaged in a heated telepathic argument because none of them seemed to notice the girls’ reactions to being added to the circuit.
It has a positively orgasmic impact on them. In a way, that made sense. He was pouring out from his very core into them. Invading their bodies and forcing his channels to merge with theirs. Each girl he added to the circuit expanded its complexity as he was forced to weave more and more channels together into one, forming a true unity.
Looking at how their connection worked, this was more than the standard partial fusion but not as extreme as the complete fusion he had performed with Trina and Meikiyo to defeat the undead swarms. Still the effect was amazing. His PSI levels reached over twenty-one million after completing a circuit with six of his fuses.
He had thought the power that he had before was godlike, but each time something like this happened he realized that his scope of understanding before had been so small. He forced himself to realize that now was likely no different. This was only a step forward.
It was one thing facing Forlorn monsters or an individual A’snkarnt, but by all information they had, humanity would soon be facing at a minimum an entire fleet of spaceships. Each would be armed with weapons that presumably were far more powerful than anything they had faced so far.
If what Ava had learned from the A’snkarnt ship was accurate, and he tended to never doubt his hyperactive little wife, then they had weapons that could destroy entire planets. Suddenly twenty-one million PSI didn’t sound like quite so much. Still, it would more than suffice for what he wanted to do now.
In the minute it took to form the complete circuit, Shu apparently wrangled the girls of Cluster 2 under control. “Okay, American. We will trust you for now. You give us very little choice. Just remember that how you treat us here will reflect in how we respond to you later.”
Jay simply nodded and then teleported himself and the six fuses out into the hallway where Abby and Kayla were standing guard. He was glad that the increased power his fuses now possessed was enough to keep them from passing out as part of the circuit. Even being stronger all of them except for Amelia and Trina were acting like they were drunk. That probably wasn’t too odd with the amount of energy running through them.
Now though, Jay thought, it was time for the rubber to meet the road so to speak. He believed he could do this, and he certainly had the power necessary to
