Anomalous Trait Implantation

"Old Tang, what's going on? What did your students write? Can an experimental report be so carelessly thrown together?"

Academician Hu from Jingcheng said with a smile on the screen.

In response, Academician Tang looked expressionless, his face making him appear even older.

Academician Hu sensed something was wrong. He remembered Academician Tang as an extremely rigorous person, so how could he tolerate his students sending in a carelessly written report through such a formal channel?

So he said, "What happened? Did something go wrong?"

Academician Tang asked bitterly, "Did you guys read it? The report..."

"I read the report, but there isn't a single picture. How are we supposed to believe it? And the experimental results on it... what am I supposed to say?" Academician Hu absolutely did not believe the descriptions in the report.

A sword that cannot form an image and cannot conduct heat.

It also causes the iron elements contained within an object that is struck to disappear, and the location of the vanished iron elements is unknown.

This wasn't just a tall tale; it was like writing a novel.

But looking at the scholars from the Wuhan Chinese Academy of Sciences on the other side of the video, all of them looking serious and troubled, he became a little confused.

"It's not that we don't want to show you photos and operational records, it's just that we can't," Academician Tang said. "We said in the report that any optical detection methods are ineffective against it, and thermal imaging doesn't work either. Do you want me to send its gravity vector diagram? Its gravity isn't showing any anomalies..."

Academician Hu listened and said, "Where is the sword? Put it in front of the camera right now, and let me see it."

As expected of someone in research, he wouldn't believe it without seeing it for himself.

However, after he finished speaking, he noticed that no one on the other side of the video moved.

"Why aren't you getting it? It's fine to put it in front of the camera, isn't it?"

Academician Tang slowly gestured to the side and said, "It's right here, can you see it?"

Academician Hu was stunned. He could only see a platform, but there was nothing on it.

"What? It's in front of the camera? Where's the sword?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Academician Tang reach out and grasp at the platform.

As if he had grasped something, he held it up in his hand.

But from Academician Hu's perspective, Academician Tang's hand in the video was empty; he was just grabbing air.

"You're holding a sword?" Academician Hu found it incredibly absurd!

Grabbing air and claiming to be holding a sword, wasn't this the emperor's new clothes?

However, Academician Tang said with a serious and earnest expression, "Old Hu, I'm really not joking."

"Now, I will prove to you just how bizarre this sword is!"

After saying that, he made a drawing motion with his hand, clearly taking the sword out of its sheath.

Academician Hu watched intently as Old Tang, holding nothing, swung his hand towards the platform.

If there were a sword in his hand, this swing would have landed on the platform.

The next second, something incredible happened.

The steel platform instantly disappeared.

It didn't completely vanish, but a large amount of its material was gone, and much dust fell from mid-air, piling up on the floor.

Academician Hu was dumbfounded. This wasn't a special effect.

Academician Tang said solemnly, "With the sword strike I just made, all the iron elements in the steel platform disappeared."

"The remaining dust-like substances are merely modulated elements like carbon, silicon, phosphorus, and sulfur."

After speaking, he simply looked at the camera.

And on the other side of the camera, they just looked at him.

Silence fell between them for several minutes, and finally, Academician Hu's expression also became solemn.

He said, "Send it to the capital immediately!"

Academician Tang gave a wry smile. "Old Hu, you believe it?"

Academician Hu replied, "I believe you. You've gone this far; I know you're not joking."

Academician Tang immediately nodded. "I'll send it over tonight. Also, I request to participate in the research."

"Oh?"

Academician Tang looked at the sword in his hand and sighed with emotion, "Encountering it..."

"I know, I will dedicate my life to this sword!"

"I must find out why!"

"Let's begin!"

Bai Ge, having returned home, didn't immediately put his ideas into action. Instead, he had a big meal first.

After nourishing himself and replenishing his energy, he began to test his idea of cellular electricity storage the following afternoon.

The setting was done by Bell, and the editing target was Bai Ge's Earthling body.

First experiment: Safe Electricity Storage for three days.

Bai Ge returned to reality without any reaction. He didn't need to actually electrocute himself; he just needed to feel if he was weak or had consumed energy to know.

Second experiment: The time was changed to one day.

The result was still a failure. Clearly, this trait had a much higher cost than imagined.

Bai Ge experimented step by step, repeatedly lowering the requirements.

When Bai Ge conducted his sixth experiment, changing the trait to five minutes, he and his body returned to reality, and he immediately collapsed, exhausted.

It was an immense feeling of weakness. Bai Ge instantly became emaciated, collapsing to the ground, weak and listless.

"It really worked!"

Despite being too weak to even stand, Bai Ge was exceptionally excited. This meant he had succeeded.

At this moment, Bai Ge lay on the ground, panting. He could feel that he was almost dead, his entire body aching, unable to even lift his head. This was the reaction of his body being at its limit of weakness.

"I'm about to go into shock. I can't pass out. If I pass out now, I'll definitely die!"

Bai Ge quickly suppressed his smile and reached for the nearby electrical outlet.

A cup of water had already been prepared there. He wet his finger and resolutely plugged it into the outlet!

Instantly, his arm went numb, and a current surged into his body.

He didn't have time to eat. His current physical condition wasn't enough for him to eat either. Plugging his finger into the outlet was the only thing he could do.

As the current passed through his heart, he could feel his heartbeat strong and powerful. All the current entered his body as if it had disappeared, not burning his body, nor being lost, but rather being stored.

In just one minute, he stood up as if nothing had happened. His physical fitness had recovered, even improved, but his strength was greatly diminished because his muscles were gone.

"My body hasn't recovered. Although I have excess energy, it's all stored in my cells... and my stomach is still just as hungry."

Looking in the mirror, Bai Ge found that he was too thin. At 1.8 meters tall, he was now like a bamboo pole, perhaps only weighing a little over sixty jin. Not only was his fat gone, but even his muscles had shrunk. His face was gaunt, his eye bags sunken, and he looked like a ghost.

"The way normal people store energy is through fat, but now I have an additional method. Electrical energy will only be stored in my cells and won't increase my body fat. If I want to gain weight again, I'll have to eat more..."

With the addition of the cellular electricity storage trait, Bai Ge could survive even without eating, just by charging.

The electrical energy would supply him with the energy needed for survival; this was also part of the setting.

However, if he didn't eat, his stomach lining would be worn through.

"Seize the time, don't waste this precious time."

Bai Ge lay on the ground again and began plugging his finger into the outlet to store electricity.

Feeling more and more electrical energy in his body, Bai Ge knew that he could realize more brain hole settings.

"Five minutes. This efficiency is definitely far beyond the speed of human energy intake."

Bai Ge had a very strong sense of time. As the five minutes were about to end, he felt it was almost enough.

"I have to stop, otherwise the ability will disappear, and I'll be electrocuted."

The feeling of absorbing electrical energy was quite exhilarating, like savoring delicious food.

For living beings, eating is the most instinctive and satisfying thing, more so than procreation, but humans are accustomed to this instinctive pleasure.

In these short five minutes, Bai Ge once again experienced that joy, an immense feeling of fullness and happiness.

He reluctantly pulled his finger out, feeling better than ever.

"My stamina will remain full until the electrical energy runs out!"

The electrical energy replaced all the energy the human body needed. While nutritional imbalances might occur, survival was definitely not an issue.

"Continue! This surge of electrical energy within me also belongs to my human energy, and it should be consumable..."

Designed by Bell, Bai Ge once again realized the five-minute electricity storage trait.

This time, he didn't get thinner. He didn't even feel weak. Instead, he clearly perceived that some electrical energy had been lost from his body.

"As expected, the electrical energy was consumed."

After the second five-minute charging period, Bai Ge once again absorbed a lot of electrical energy.

The charging efficiency was clearly much higher than eating or anything else.

Even if he ate himself into a 300-pound fatty, the stored energy wouldn't be as much as in these five minutes. It was truly efficient energy storage.

"No more once every five minutes... I'll manifest a full day at once. My current energy should be enough."

Bai Ge tried to manifest the one-day energy storage trait, and he succeeded on the first try.

Clearly, his current energy was sufficient to bear the cost.

"The circuit breaker tripped... The instantaneous output was too large, after all, it's household electricity..."

Bai Ge didn't know how much electrical energy he had absorbed, but it definitely exceeded the load capacity for high-power usage.

"Right, I can just check the electric meter to see how much electricity has passed, right?"

One jin of fat can produce 1600 kilojoules of energy. Forty jin is 64,000 kilojoules, and one kilowatt-hour of electricity is 3600 kilojoules.

In other words, the first time he achieved the energy storage characteristic, it consumed about 17.8 kilowatt-hours of his own bodily energy.

Bai Ge went downstairs. The electric meter box was locked, but he had a habit of recording his electricity meter readings.

"What? That much?"

Bai Ge discovered that compared to last month, he had used 650 kilowatt-hours of electricity this month.

He usually used 120 kilowatt-hours. With it being the beginning of the month, he had used at most 50 kilowatt-hours. In the past ten minutes of drawing electricity, he had actually charged 600 kilowatt-hours!

"The gain from the electricity storage characteristic is sixteen times what was consumed to achieve this characteristic."

"This is just household electricity. I'm already earning sixteen times the energy. If I use high-voltage electricity to input energy, will the efficiency be even higher?"

Bai Ge was seen charging himself at home while pondering what other methods he could use to increase his energy intake.

"A few hundred kilowatt-hours is nothing, but I can't keep charging at home like this."

"Tripping the breaker like this all the time won't do... Wouldn't others suspect what I'm doing at home..."

"This time it's already overloaded. How about trying high-voltage electricity?"