Abilities Granted by Camouflage +4

Abilities Granted by Camouflage +4

The dormitory was in a private community on the outskirts, a small apartment building with only three floors. Each floor had about five units, each a one-bedroom apartment for a single person. It was much smaller than Yang Bo's current place and simply furnished. The doors here were old-fashioned ones that had to be unlocked manually, and the rooms had internet service.

"This is your employee card. You'll need it to enter."

"We don't have many employees here. Most of them have their own residences."

"This is your access card. There are security guards at the entrance to the private community." The security guards Liu Zhijie mentioned were actually laser emitters, a type of security weapon. If anyone forcibly entered the restricted area, the things would fire lasers.

Liu Zhijie then drove Yang Bo to buy a wristwatch and went to the community office to apply to cancel his lease. Community staff came with them to inspect the place. Yang Bo took only a few sets of clothes, leaving everything else behind, and turned in the government-issued wristwatch as well.

The private community around the dormitory had an even better environment than where Yang Bo had lived. He could barely see the neighboring residents here, as everything was hidden behind trees.

The room was simple: a manually flushed toilet, manual faucets, manually adjusted temperature, even windows that had to be opened by hand. The air conditioner was manual too.

Damn it, am I cheap or what? I came to the future, only to live in a rental almost like the one from my previous life. After taking it all in, Yang Bo inexplicably felt much more at ease.

The wristwatch was a product of Ping An Technology Co., Ltd. Though it was an outdated model, as Liu Zhijie had put it, no hacker would ever provoke Peace Technology Company just for Yang Bo. That was completely impossible.

The implication, both spoken and unspoken, was that he simply was not important enough for anyone to provoke Peace Technology Company over him...

This wristwatch did not have a Smart Butler system. Everyone living in government housing had to wear one because the government was responsible for their safety. Otherwise, if something happened, those politicians would be criticized.

This wristwatch was entirely centered on its owner. Yang Bo removed most of its functions, leaving only a contact function, similar to making calls, and an email service. Everything else was gone.

As for shopping, he could buy things through the wired Virtual Computer, after which the Property Management staff would deliver them to designated locations: storage lockers in the lobby downstairs or lockers by the elevator.

There was no need to sort garbage either. He could throw it away however he wanted; Property Management provided that service. He could eat whatever he wanted and drink whatever he wanted.

After Yang Bo showered, he found that his wristwatch had received a notification. It was from a game the original owner had once played. The game was running an event involving a concert by a Female Star the original owner had followed. Continuing to play the game would earn him a concert ticket.

Yang Bo had no interest in it. He blocked the game from sending him messages, then sat in front of the living room's floor-to-ceiling window wearing only shorts.

Skills! Yang Bo called out for his skills in his mind.

Swimming: Beginner (1/10)

Sonar Positioning: Beginner (1/10)

Dynamic Vision: Beginner (4/10)

Camouflage: Beginner (4/10)

The information appeared in his mind. Yang Bo pondered it. Sonar Positioning was a pretty good ability, but where was he supposed to find so many bats to kill? If it had been his previous life, he could have returned to his hometown and found a cave filled with pitch-black bats.

Camouflage... Yesterday, when someone was watching me, I sensed it immediately. Was that also because of Camouflage? Yang Bo muttered to himself.

Closing his eyes, Yang Bo silently focused on Camouflage. Suddenly, he seemed to understand something.

He went to the bathroom and looked at himself in the mirror. With a thought, something miraculous happened: his double eyelids became single eyelids.

With another thought, his large eyes turned into slitted eyes.

Then, with another thought, his eyebrows changed as well.

One minute later, Yang Bo looked at himself in the mirror. He had gone from a clean-cut young man to a greasy Uncle, the kind with slitted eyes who looked lecherous at a glance. Ahem, ahem.

"I can change muscles and hair, but I can't change bones."

"Could it be because my Camouflage level isn't high enough?" The transformation lasted twenty minutes before the ability vanished. Yang Bo felt hollow, as if he had entered sage mode.

Yang Bo had also figured out that Camouflage at this level could alter muscles and hair.

"I just don't know whether there'll be any Energy Fluctuation after the transformation."

"Should I buy an Energy Detector?"

"Forget it."

His stomach felt so hungry. As Yang Bo bought groceries, he continued pondering the ability of Camouflage.

"Now it'll probably be difficult to hunt those creatures. I should go Online and look up ancient martial arts." Yang Bo planned to look into ancient martial arts and gene activation after dinner.

Food he cooked himself really did taste good, though it was more troublesome.

The Virtual Computer used here was also from a major brand. According to Liu Zhijie, he should choose major brands whenever possible, because reputation mattered greatly to them. Unless someone was valuable beyond measure, no one was willing to provoke those major brands.

"Holy shit!" Yang Bo manually searched for ancient martial arts genetic schools, and the information that appeared made him curse outright.

The virtual image displayed a square metal fragment. On it was a diagram of the human body's acupoints and meridians. One figure shown from the front was complete, while the figure shown from the back was incomplete.

There was also an explanation. Four thousand five hundred years ago, when the Blackstone Empire, predecessor of the Three Great Alliances, conducted its first experiment opening a Space Jump, this metal sheet had burst out from another dimension.

According to research, it came from an unknown civilization. This civilization was strange: its method of making the metal fragment was incredibly crude, yet the content depicted on it was astonishing.

At first, the scientists thought the metal plate was a joke. Wasn't the human body just blood vessels and nerves? What were these marked points supposed to be? But perhaps one scientist had gone mad. He used electric currents to stimulate those marked points, and then... he awakened extraordinary abilities.

Only then did the scientists continue their research. Later, they discovered some suspicious information on the back of the metal plate. Once translated, it turned out to be methods of ancient martial arts.

"Are they trying to get themselves killed, stimulating acupoints with electric currents?" Yang Bo stared at the metal sheet. Could this damn thing have been some sort of probe launched from Earth?

Or were humans on Earth also from outer space?

He kept reading. The method of stimulating acupoints with electric currents later developed into secret techniques for activating Gene Evolution. As for Gene Serum, there was no introduction to it online, only that it used advanced biological genetic technology.

"Cultivation techniques—I don't know those, but I do know acupoints and meridians." In his previous life, Yang Bo had known massage therapy because his parents were getting old and always had aches here and pains there, so he had taught himself quite a few massage techniques.

Yang Bo had also liked reading novels in his previous life. When he was young, he especially liked martial arts novels and had even bought some so-called martial arts manuals to read. (In reality, there were people who had entered the Dao, but it was too dangerous, so ordinary people were not advised to try.) But what kind of cultivation techniques were they? Were they the same as those on Earth? Could Earthlings also be aliens? Yang Bo did not dare try anything rashly. Things Online were not necessarily real, and there were no specific techniques anyway.

"I should make money first." In the end, Yang Bo could only decide to make money first. Once he had money, he could talk about the rest.