"Really?"
"I can awaken an ability like you?"
In Meng De's room.
Watching Jiayi excitedly jump to her feet, Meng De smiled and nodded.
Just moments ago, Meng De had looked at Jiayi's long, slender legs, so white they were dazzling. Acting on male instinct, he had unconsciously activated Telepathic Perception—and saw something in the woman's mind, nestled in his arms, that was "gestating," something identical to his ability crystal.
It was much smaller than his, only the size of a grain of rice, and still a ball of light. It had clearly yet to take shape! Then he remembered that Jiayi's ability awakening progress had already reached 96%. Though he did not know what ability she would awaken, this was obviously a sign of imminent awakening! If he had not awakened Telepathic Perception, he might never have noticed this phenomenon.
It seemed that with Telepathic Perception, he would be like he had gained X-ray vision.
He could see things ordinary people could not.
This was quite useful. For example, when exploring the beautiful scenery beneath certain tiny scraps of fabric, he could skip the trouble of taking them off. Clean and efficient! Of course, if the other person was on guard, they might still notice it, just as Jiayi and her sister had last night.
At that moment, he did not stop Jiayi from celebrating.
Because he understood that, for a capable woman and good older sister who had been independent since childhood and raised her younger sister herself, the helplessness and despair she felt when facing monsters after the apocalypse arrived must have been unbearable.
And he also understood the intense desire for power within the woman before him!
The strength and resolve born of wanting to protect someone were terrifying!
As for whether Chen Jiayi might betray him after awakening an ability, Meng De had no such concerns.
Because the system had already given him the answer! Any woman whose favorability toward him reached 100 would become absolutely loyal to him and never betray him!
Meng De then used Telepathic Perception again to inspect Jiayi from head to toe.
Under his Telepathic Perception, he could clearly see every structure within Jiayi's body, even every blood vessel.
Of course, that was only because Jiayi did not resist and was willing to cooperate. Otherwise, it would not have gone so smoothly.
Jiayi also finally understood where that voyeuristic sensation from last night had come from.
Meng De explained that it was a newly awakened ability of his.
She had been seen by her own man. What could she say? They had already done everything they could, anyway! Yet what Meng De did not expect was that after the examination, Jiayi's face grew redder and redder.
Why did this examination feel so strange?
The moment that thought surfaced, Jiayi collapsed directly into his arms. ???
Meng De swore in his ancestors' names that he really had not done anything!
However, while they were eating lunch together, Xiao Yao tilted her head and asked that deadly question again.
"Sis, what happened to your hand?"
Jiayi turned scarlet, drowning in awkwardness. "I..."
Fortunately, she had experience with this already.
"Mm, it's nothing. Maybe I didn't sleep well last night."
Jiayi silently praised herself for her quick wit.
Xiao Yao: ??? Why hadn't her sister slept well again???
Meng De did not go out for the next few days, and they had enough food.
On top of that, he had dealt with all the external threats in the residential complex.
For the time being, they did not have to worry about someone raiding their home!
So during those days, he spent the daytime familiarizing himself with his abilities and practicing how to use them.
And as soon as night fell, Meng De immediately slipped across the hall. The facts proved that his hard work paid off.
Bai Jie's favorability toward him rose directly from 60 to 82.
Compared with Jiayi and the others, Bai Jie's favorability rose as though she had cheat codes. It was undoubtedly the fastest.
Come to think of it, it was rather like her Innate Saint Body. If it did not awaken, then fine—but once it did... well, someone was in for a rough time. Thus, he had discovered the secret to increasing Bai Jie's favorability toward him.
Simply put, it was ten words: Don't slack off. Keep your head down and work hard!
Kind old Heaven would never mistreat anyone who worked hard!
You reap what you sow! And if you sowed but reaped nothing, congratulations—you had won the lottery!
Because Boss Li would personally tag you: Sometimes, you should look for the problem in yourself. After all these years, has your salary gone up? Have you been working seriously? Clearly, Meng De understood that only effort brought rewards.
Sure enough, his diligent labor earned him increased favorability, and that increase earned him another two batches of rewards—two sub-abilities of SSS-level Telekinesis! The first was the SSS-level Telekinesis sub-ability—"Telekinesis (Telekinetic Control)": It controlled the movement of objects through telekinetic abilities and could remotely control weapons for long-range sniping!
He knew this one! Wasn't this how Brother Feng, the Lord of the Galaxy, first took off with his cheat ability?
Later, he even became the number one psychic on Kepler!
So Meng De could now directly "preload a skill"!
They could preload their lives, so was it too much for him to preload a skill? After practicing over the past few days, he had gone from controlling only one fruit knife to controlling ten fruit knives at once.
Of course, the more Fruit Knives he controlled simultaneously, the greater the drain on his abilities.
But he truly looked forward to the day when he could shout, "Swords, come!" and recreate Myriad Swords Return to Origin! That would be a real-life Sword Control Technique!
In his previous life, he had watched a short-video creator forge ten thousand swords and recreate the scene of Myriad Swords Return to Origin at a one-to-one scale!
It had made his blood boil! Even if the special effects had only cost fifty cents, it was still insanely cool!
Unfortunately, he had never gotten a sword to fulfill his dream of roaming the world as a swordsman!
But now, he had the chance.
Most importantly, this Telekinesis sub-ability could also be used together with his SSS-level Space Ability.
One could store things away, while the other could be used to attack!
The second SSS-level Telekinesis sub-ability he received was "Telekinetic Shapeshifting"! It could condense telekinetic power into different forms, such as blades, swords, axes, hammers, and so on.
Once condensed into different shapes, it could carry out precise cutting and attacks!
And it was important to note that this attack was "invisible"!
It directly destroyed from the level of the soul! In summary, one of these abilities attacked externally, while the other attacked internally! But if he had to choose which one was stronger and more insidious, he would definitely choose Telekinetic Shapeshifting!
After all, the first could still be seen and defended against, but the second was truly impossible to guard against! Overall, he had been living quite comfortably these past few days.
But those comfortable days did not last long.
On the fifteenth day after the apocalypse descended, it happened to be the day of Crazy Smoked Chicken 4!
The era of water cuts, power cuts, and gas cuts had finally arrived!!!
This meant that the phones which could still send text messages before would now be completely useless!
They would also be completely cut off from the outside world! This O. Henry-style abrupt twist added yet another layer of hardship to this cruel apocalypse!!! The entire world would descend completely into madness. PS: Earlier, some handsome readers questioned the issue of phone usage, so let this serve as another clarification: phones would completely lose their communication functions! They could no longer be used!!!
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