“I suspect that initially, it only requires a person to absorb one sac worth of energy to reach the second level,” Xu Song’s mind began to race again.
“It’s just that at that time, there wasn’t much energy inside mutated animals, and we couldn’t absorb much energy, which made our progression to the second level slow.”
“Yeah, from one to ten… Does that mean the next time we need to absorb ten times more? A hundred sacs?”
A hundred sacs… dear Lord, even though they had a hundred sacs now, that’s the amount of energy a single person would need to absorb. How many mutant animals would they have to kill? They wouldn’t be able to eat them all!
Xu Song first shivered but then became excited. “It’s alright; we’ll figure it out when the time comes. Take it slow; we’ll definitely reach that day!”
They still had crystals to help them absorb energy. If regular ability users had to rely solely on absorbing free energy, who knows how many lifetimes it would take to level up?
The hand that was caressing his back slid down to his waist. Xu Song, who was happily speaking, didn’t notice anything strange and continued, “The third-level fire elemental ability is indeed golden. So, as long as we see if the next level is white or green, we’ll know which pattern it’s following…”
Midway through his sentence, his mouth was blocked, and after a few whimpers, the person finally released his mouth, but he pressed down on him.
“How… again?” They had already done it tonight!
“I was afraid you’d wake up too late tomorrow, so I helped you expend some energy.” Who made someone who had been drowsy suddenly feel more awake? He had been holding back before, afraid that if he pushed too hard, Xu Song would complain tomorrow when he couldn’t get up. Since he couldn’t sleep anyway, he might as well help himself expend some energy…
“You bastard!” His protests were completely ineffective. He was overwhelmed by the silent Big Bad Wolf and was eaten up with no bones left behind…
Sure enough, when Xu Song woke up the next day, he felt sore all over…
He had originally planned to continue training Abu today, try to coordinate with it in combat, explore and develop his abilities, and test whether Yue Zheng had developed any new abilities… The wolfish nature of a man in bed is really the most untrustworthy thing! Although he had been quite satisfied himself…
He crawled out of bed with resentment and found that no one was in the RV at the moment. Xu Song quickly stretched his aching waist, rushed to the bathroom to freshen up, and then pushed the door open.
The golden flames were so stunningly beautiful that it was hard to imagine their original form was fire.
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Xu Song waved his hand, and ten golden fireballs appeared around him, transforming into arrow-like objects that shot toward the target Tiancheng had grown not far away. After the smoke cleared, the target only had some scorched marks on the ground, and the burnt ashes were almost unrecognizable.
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“The speed has improved quite a bit, and the temperature too.” Xu Song was very satisfied with this. As the fire dragon circled in the air, it looked like a flowing golden stream of light, and the fire no longer resembled fire but rather liquid gold, shining brilliantly and dazzlingly.
“Let’s see if I can make other improvements,” he thought. If he could only change the fireball into a “rocket,” the upgrade wouldn’t make much of a difference.
With his eyes downcast, it seemed like he was sensing or thinking, and after about ten minutes, he suddenly raised his hand. In front of him, the golden flames formed a “net.”
A fire net, or a fire wall.
“I finally have a large-scale fire attack!” Xu Song breathed a sigh of relief and raised both arms in celebration.
“Fire attack, fire attack!”
“Fire attack, fire attack!” The twins, not knowing whether they understood or not, raised their arms and cheered together. Xiao Shu naturally joined in the excitement.
“Not bad, this ability is very useful,” Yue Zheng said with a smile as he patted Xu Song’s head. With this move, they could at least block the enemy’s attacks. For example, if they encountered those ducks again, Xu Song wouldn’t need to worry too much about his personal safety. As long as he raised a wall of fire in front of him, the incoming water would be completely evaporated, and other attacks would be the same. With the temperature of Xu Song’s flames, even metals would likely be easily melted.
Yue Zheng took out a handgun, had Xu Song release the fire wall, and aimed at the ivy target behind it, shooting with his ability-infused bullets.
With Yue Zheng’s vision, he could clearly see that as the bullets passed through the fire wall, they completely disintegrated.
“Mom, give it a try. Shoot the target behind with your ability-infused bullets,” Yue Zheng handed the gun to Mother Xu for an experiment.
The experiment showed that even with ability-infused bullets, the primary-level bullets couldn’t penetrate the fire wall and hit the target behind.
“Now we can feel safe,” Xu Song’s personal combat ability was weaker than his own, and he didn’t want to rely on his speed advantage to dodge attacks like he did. Therefore, having a protective firewall like this was essential.
After testing Xu Song’s ability, it was time to test Yue Zheng’s. His senses had been enhanced again, allowing him not only to clearly see the trajectory of moving objects but also to predict the direction of their movement in advance. What was even more exaggerated was that his movements had become so fast that he could dodge bullets in advance…
Coupled with his spatial ability to teleport… Once his movements became fast, ordinary people could hardly catch his actions.
“I can hear other people’s heartbeats, and even the sound of their blood flow,” Yue Zheng looked at Xu Song beside him, “The closer they are, the clearer I can hear it.” This ability was most prominent at night, especially when he was making love with someone. Last night, he had subconsciously used this ability to easily expose someone’s weaknesses… Ahem, of course, he knew that this ability definitely had other uses.
“Listening to heartbeats? Maybe you could become a doctor with that. Doctors need to listen to patients’ heartbeats, right? Even traditional Chinese medicine practitioners need to feel the pulse,” Xu Song didn’t know that this ability had other unmentionable effects and gave a straightforward suggestion.
“Unfortunately, I never learned medicine; I only know some basic first aid principles.” It seemed like he could go and study it later. After the weather improved, he could go to the city and bring back some medical books.
But with Xiao Shu at home, did he really need to learn?
“In terms of physical fitness, everything has been enhanced, but the specific situation isn’t clear yet.”
“Next, let’s test the spatial ability!” Xu Song stood up and pointed to the target in the open space.
Yue Zheng’s spatial ability, teleportation, had increased from the original five meters to about ten meters. In addition, the speed of the spatial slash, the range of use, and the attack range had all increased again. He could even create a half-circular “spatial shield” in front of him that devoured all attacks, similar to Xu Song’s fire wall.
For other aspects… more testing was needed.
In addition to that, Xu Song also had mental abilities. Closing his eyes, he carefully studied them. He could confirm that his sensing range had greatly expanded. What was even more satisfying was, “I can sense the approximate shape of all objects within forty meters, living or dead!”
This ability was almost as good as a satellite map, and it was three-dimensional and all-encompassing!
He had just closed his eyes when he could sense that in the nearby room next door, there were some people living there. He could even vaguely detect whether those people were male or female. Although not very clear, he could discern their general outlines.
“Alright, let’s have dinner!” Mother Xu stood at the door of the RV and called out to everyone.
Xu Song was momentarily stunned and whispered to Yue Zheng, “I… seem to have other evolutions.”
“What?” Yue Zheng asked.
“I just felt like, Mom’s mood is really good right now…” Xu Song hesitated for a moment before continuing, “It’s like I can sense that you’re a bit worried…”
Yue Zheng was taken aback. He could clearly see that Xu Song was feeling a bit uneasy, and his heartbeat had increased slightly.
“Perhaps it’s the effect of the mental ability. We’ll explore it further later.” If one could sense someone else’s emotions, this ability could be very useful, but it needed to be controlled. Otherwise, it might end up affecting the user over time.
Xu Song nodded and looked at him, his expression somewhat awkward as he said, “I feel like you’re also a bit worried…”
“Yes, I am worried,” Yue Zheng smiled and didn’t hide it. If his loved one had this kind of ability, then he couldn’t hide anything from him for any reason. Firstly, because he couldn’t hide anything from him anyway, and secondly, only through honest communication could they deal with this ability properly.
“I’m afraid that you’ll absorb too many of these emotions and it will affect your own emotions. So, we’ll figure it out together.”
“Explosion… he exploded…”
“Thump, thump, thump…” Several people sat down around, staring blankly at the pool of red blood in the middle.
They still remembered what their comrade had said before eating that strange, bile-like substance from the mutated creature’s brain: “I’ll give it a try to see if this thing benefits abilities. If I eat it and nothing happens, or if my abilities level up, our squad can become even more powerful in the future!”
Before he consumed it, everyone had felt some jealousy, and envy, and even thought about snatching it from him. After all, that thing was extracted from the brain of a mutated creature. What if it instantly upgraded their abilities? Wouldn’t they become the top-ranked person in the squad?
But… he had exploded! Just like those people who suddenly exploded back then when the apocalypse first arrived!
“Sob… sob…”
Low sobs filled the air. They had thought it was a good thing, but… was God trying to force humanity to extinction? How did those second-tier ability users level up?!
Why were there suddenly so many people in the base who were continuously upgrading? Wasn’t it through these substances extracted from the brains of mutated creatures?!
But they didn’t eat it 😃