The streetlights seemed to be having voltage problems, their glow flickering between bright and dim.
Chen Shouyi stood before the window of an empty building. There were no streetlights in the distant residential complex. Apart from the dim light spilling from a few windows, the entire complex was shrouded in darkness.
The window of Wang Shengyuan's room was still lit by a kerosene lamp. Just as he'd said, Wang Shengyuan hadn't gone to bed yet.
To be cautious, Chen Shouyi had chosen a spot a full kilometer from the complex.
But with his eyesight, neither the distance nor the darkness could obstruct his view in the slightest. He could even see through the window and past the walls to a naked man and woman on the bed...
What a pair of dogs!
Huh? Why had they separated?
The man looked embarrassed as he said something, while the woman sat up in bed, apparently trying to comfort him.
Who would've thought he was impotent?
Chen Shouyi immediately lost interest. He shifted his gaze to Wang Shengyuan's window.
Wang Shengyuan was practicing in the living room. Everything seemed normal.
Chen Shouyi glanced down at the watch on his wrist. "Nine fifteen."
That meant everything had been normal up to now. The "rebirth" event hadn't begun.
After the Book of Knowledge had been upgraded, its powers of insight had grown even stronger. This place was more than thirty kilometers from his home in a straight line, yet it still rendered everything without the slightest error.
Time passed by the second, and the energy he'd accumulated slowly dwindled.
But at that moment, he couldn't afford to care about the loss.
Shortly before ten, Wang Shengyuan finally stopped practicing. He went to the bathroom for a shower, then extinguished the kerosene lamp and went to