Sonic Attack Training

Yang Bo sprang to his feet. He had only been mulling it over just now—sound waves, musicians shattering wineglasses with sound waves—and he had casually given it a try... Huh, it had actually worked.

He did not even spare a thought for the young woman bathing in the neighboring house. He hurriedly got up and bought items made of all sorts of materials: metal, ceramic, wood, glass, and plastic.

They were all small toy ornaments, mainly for testing what kind of attack each material required.

Yang Bo had recently come to understand that a skill's level did not represent one's actual strength. It still needed personal strength to support it. Right now, Yang Bo felt that his own strength was too low to fully wield Grandmaster-level Sonic Wave Control.

Still, there was no way to rapidly increase his own strength. Over this period, Yang Bo was already quite satisfied with his progress.

The next day, Yang Bo spent half a day mastering attack methods for all sorts of materials.

With a snap of his fingers, a completely metal ornament by the door instantly cracked into several pieces. Even among identical ornaments, no two crack patterns were the same.

Yang Bo snapped his fingers again. He was now at the greatest possible indoor distance, seven or eight meters from the floor-to-ceiling window to the door. With that snap, a glass ornament shattered on its own.

Wood was the most resistant to Sonic Attack.

There was another material against which Yang Bo had almost no solution: soft plastic or silicone-like materials. No matter how he attacked them, they remained utterly unmoved.

Then there were composite materials, like certain toys with steel wire supports inside. Those would not work either.

Yang Bo was not satisfied with the methods he had currently mastered. He pondered, I need to reach the point where I can shatter something without anyone being able to tell from the outside. That would be best.

Once he made up his mind, he got to work. Yang Bo did not even have time to play games anymore. What was the essence of playing Mecha Game? Improving his own strength.

Yang Bo was training his own strength now as well. It was not until the next afternoon that he found a few tricks, though he was still far from what he had imagined.

I should pass the company's Simulated Assessment first. I'll go to work tomorrow, then come back at night and find a chance to upgrade Sonic Wave Control to Grandmaster. Those bats have probably returned by then.

When Yang Bo arrived at the company the next day, Liu Zhijie took out a task list and said, "This is the only task left. You came the latest."

Yang Bo looked it over. It was a genuine Cleaner job, responsible for cleaning a designated area from ten at night until four in the morning. It was the exhibition hall of some high-tech company. Once the hall closed, he would be responsible for cleaning it.

"No problem, boss." Yang Bo had not expected to be the last one there, but this was good too.

"Then go ahead. Someone will arrange things for you when you get there."

Yang Bo took the task sheet. This time, no one came to pick him up. When he arrived, he realized it was not far from where he lived—the Dome Entertainment City, the largest entertainment venue in the city. It was similar to a stadium on Earth, except fully enclosed, with the entire dome using the most advanced virtual imaging system...

Beneath the Dome Entertainment City were several enormous exhibition halls, which were actually the ring of buildings surrounding the Dome Entertainment City. They were over ten meters high, and the halls were still being set up. The person in charge brought Yang Bo to one exhibition hall. "Sir, you'll be responsible for this hall. During working hours, clear the trash from the floor."

"You just need to push this vacuum cleaner around once. Also, when you enter to clean, you need to leave your wristwatch outside."

"Any questions?"

Yang Bo looked at the vacuum cleaner, which resembled a handcart. It was over a meter wide, a meter and a half long, and seventy or eighty centimeters tall. The area that needed cleaning was roughly a thousand square meters, and the exhibition hall was currently empty.

"No problem." Yang Bo carefully read the instructions. They were simple. It ran on a rechargeable battery, and he only needed to push it around inside once. If there was too much trash, he would need to replace the garbage bag manually.

Yang Bo registered there and was issued a Work Permit. This Work Permit would only allow him inside after ten at night. It was said that for this Li Aido Concert, even the cheapest ticket cost over ten thousand Credit Points. These exhibition halls were for major companies to display their products.

Yang Bo strolled home, planning to come back to work that night. It only took him a little over twenty minutes to walk home. This job felt great. It would last about forty days, starting tonight and ending after the Li Aido Concert, when the exhibiting companies packed up and left.

The Dome Entertainment City had its own staff, but some companies did not like using people with chips. Besides, the Dome Entertainment City had limited staff, so for events of this scale, they hired outsiders.

Working the night shift was practically Yang Bo's specialty. It could not be helped. In his previous life, if he did not work night shifts or overtime, he would not have made much money. They claimed the salary was several thousand, but really, it was traded for one's health. By the time you earned enough and got older, you would be spending money at the hospital. Then you had to work overtime to earn money, spend it at the hospital, and try to save—how could they possibly let you save money? They would feed you something nasty too...

He wanted to test his abilities outside, but after thinking it over, decided against it.

Back home, Yang Bo did the math. Buying a house would not be a problem, but it would cost at least one-tenth of its value every year in various expenses. The free dormitory was already very good. In his previous life, he had never lived in such a nice place while working for others. Of course, the level of civilization was different.

Moreover, Anzhi Clean Company's dormitory was probably safer than his own home would be. This was a high-end community. Yang Bo checked, and a home of the same size would cost around four or five million Credit Points, with several hundred thousand Credit Points in additional taxes and fees every year.

"Forget it. I'll wait and see." After thinking for three seconds, Yang Bo decided to improve his strength first.

"Enter the game." Yang Bo prepared to enter Mecha Game. To others, it was a game; to him, it was a way to increase his strength.

What Yang Bo did not know was that Bird-Slaying Bro had become quite famous. This Unlucky Egg had had his mecha destroyed by the officials twice in three days, becoming the first person in the game's history to accomplish that.

That alone would have been one thing, but the guy's behavior was bizarre. First, he had slaughtered birds. An eight-meter-tall mecha wielding a five-meter-long machete had leaped through the air and chopped apart a weak, helpless, pitiful bird... What normal person did something like that?

Then there was mowing grass... Seriously, using a mecha to mow grass? What was wrong with his brain?

In the system settings, Yang Bo turned off friend requests and invitations. He was not planning to hunt Mutated Creatures or Mutants anyway.

Yang Bo covered himself in Shockwave Bombs, strapped on two Micro Hydrogen Bombs, and set off!

Yang Bo did not know that the moment he left the base, nearby players recognized him. His mecha had not been modified in any way, commonly known as a stock model, and it was one of the least-used old mechas in the game. Blade Mecha belonged to the Third Generation Mecha, while the newest models had already reached the tenth generation and beyond.

"Damn, what is Bird-Slaying Bro up to?" The Blade Mecha was covered in bombs. It really gave off the air of someone going out with no intention of returning.

Yang Bo changed direction. His destination this time was still the bats—an underground entrance. The game world had a vast Underground World below ground, supposedly built by underground Mutated Creatures.