After barely forcing all that food down, Chu Yunyi was sick of it.
At least he wasn't stuffed.
But the repetitive taste and greasiness were awful. Chu Yunyi even felt like chewing on a couple of leaves from the landscaping just to get rid of the taste.
Next,
Chu Yunyi repeated the same steps: hunting and eating.
He kept at it for three hours.
Three hours later,
Chu Yunyi took out his mobile personal terminal and saw that the number displayed on it had reached Credit Points.
That many Credit Points would be enough.
He pinched the flesh on his body.
Chu Yunyi found it terrifyingly firm, like a body tempered through a thousand trials.
If he hadn't been the one pinching himself, even an ordinary person would have struggled to make a dent.
It wasn't just his strength that had increased.
His muscles were probably denser, and his overall body weight had increased considerably too.
Chu Yunyi wondered whether, if his body continued developing like this, he would end up like Homelander rather than Superman.
Though their abilities were similar, there was a world of difference between them.
Superman could lift a plane and even carry it through the air for a while.
But if Homelander lifted a plane, it would be like raising tofu with a toothpick: he'd just pierce straight through it. After all, their points of force and densities were on entirely different levels.
Superman existed in movies and shows, where plenty of unscientific elements, like biological force fields, could explain things away.
But if Chu Yunyi's body developed too far, he'd probably turn out like Homelander.
If he wanted to lift a car with one hand, he'd probably have to crush one corner of it—or get himself lifted up by it.
Still...
"Whatever."
"I'll awaken new abilities later anyway. Maybe I'll even get something like a biological force field."
Chu Yunyi shrugged, not bothered in the slightest, and turned to leave.
With a casual wave,
NO.15 [Portable Space] opened. He turned the doorknob inside and used NO.1 [Void Gate].
After a brief stopover,
Chu Yunyi arrived at Old Jin's shop in an instant.
Without a word, Chu Yunyi went straight over to the languid Old Jin.
Clap.
He set his mobile personal terminal down on the table.
"Wait, you're giving up already?"
"I really did think too highly of you."
Old Jin sighed, his eyes sweeping over the mobile personal terminal on the table.
Suddenly,
Old Jin froze. He reflexively checked the scanned digits again.
"More than twenty thousand?"
"What the hell did you do? Go rob the Supernet!?"
Old Jin was startled.
But his face was artificial skin, making it hard to form complicated expressions.
Listening to Old Jin,
Chu Yunyi understood what he meant by "Supernet" through NO.6 [Words of All Spirits]. It was probably the main network server for all of Night Star, divided into thirty-six sectors.
The virtual currency of each city circulated in its corresponding sector.
Robbing the Supernet was about the same as robbing a bank on Blue Star.
"I still want a set of skin and a knife."
"You figure it out." Chu Yunyi's expression didn't change as he spoke plainly.
Hearing this, Old Jin's expression changed again. He was afraid the Credit Points might be dirty and that the network inspectors would come after him.
But after checking the terminal records, Old Jin froze once more.
"T-this is fucking impossible!"
"You hunted this many aberrants in just a few hours!"
"How did you do it? Even if I lined them up and let you kill them without moving, you couldn't kill that many!" Old Jin's eyes widened until they bulged out.
Seeing that cybernetic eye about to pop out, Old Jin pushed it and pressed it back into place.
"I just killed them."
"They were all pretty dumb. Not much of a challenge." Chu Yunyi waved a hand, indicating that Old Jin should stop babbling and hurry up with the things he wanted.
It sounded simple enough.
But Chu Yunyi had still been injured during the fights, and his intestines had almost spilled out.
Luckily, he'd managed to stuff them back in in time.
Then, with the help of NO.17 [Rapid Recovery], he ate some aberrant meat that had been turned into grilled steaks, and his wound healed completely.
After that,
it seemed to be the effect of NO.12 [Fighting Saint Body]. The aberrants hurt him less and less each time.
Eventually, he was just slaughtering them.
After all, his reaction speed and strength had both improved considerably.
Chu Yunyi even wondered if his body was bulletproof now.
Did he still need this set of Nano Skin?
As he wondered,
Old Jin came out holding two boxes.
One was small, the other long.
Old Jin took out the small box first and removed a blue crystal from it before explaining:
"Model Three Nano Skin. Most people use artificial skin instead. It costs a fifth as much as Nano Skin."
"But since you won't get cybernetic modifications, this is your only option."
Holding the crystal, Old Jin pressed it against the back of Chu Yunyi's wrist, then pressed it again to activate it temporarily.
"It's temporarily activated now. It'll last about an hour and twenty minutes."
"You can try it out first, then decide."
As Old Jin spoke, Chu Yunyi watched the semitransparent blue crystal turn a deeper blue and instantly flatten, becoming like a tattoo.
A chill spread from his wrist, covering his entire body in the time it took to breathe.
When it reached his scalp, Chu Yunyi felt his thoughts connect with it. He could control the Nano Skin, which was so thin it was invisible.
The more scientific term was probably something like brain waves.
Chu Yunyi reached out and pulled Walther from his [Portable Space], then aimed at his bare left arm and fired.
Bang!
A gunshot rang out.
Ripples spread across his arm, then settled.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
After several consecutive shots, the Nano Skin at the impact site completely broke down, and the bullets passed through.
Pfft!
The bullet sank shallowly into his skin. Chu Yunyi flexed his muscles, forcing it out.
Oddly enough, not a drop of blood came out.
That was because of NO.3 [Blood Control].
The completely shattered Nano Skin had a gap in it, and a faint blue light shone from that spot, indicating a breach.
It was clear that
the Nano Skin in that area was slowly repairing itself. It would probably be back to normal in a few minutes.
With that,
Chu Yunyi fired again at his exposed left arm.
Bang!
The bullet tore through his flesh and stopped against the bone, unable to go any farther.
The sensor in Chu Yunyi's brain detected the pain and began reporting it frantically.
After registering an enormous amount of pain, the sensor crashed. Meanwhile, his body began secreting a large amount of adrenaline.
That made Chu Yunyi feel less of the intense pain. All he felt was a cool, tingling numbness.
After experimenting on himself,
Chu Yunyi realized he still needed the Nano Skin.
"I'll take it. Let's see the knife."
Watching Chu Yunyi's wild act of self-mutilation, Old Jin grimaced. He'd seen plenty of ruthless people, but never anyone this ruthless toward himself.
He took a moment to recover.
Then he picked up the mobile personal terminal on the table and swiped it. The number on it immediately dropped by eighty percent.
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