Bai Jing heard the Black men behind him quietly running away, but he had no mind to think about that at all.
Transmigration? How had he transmigrated?!
And of all places, why had he transmigrated to America?
"I need to find a way back!" After all, this was the land of the free, with shootings every day. Bai Jing did not want to get randomly killed someday. That would be far too unjust!
For the time being, he could not return to his original world. Even if he wanted to go back, no one here would help him. Only by reaching Xia Country across the ocean, revealing his identity as a transmigrator along with his superpowers, might the country be willing to allocate resources to help him study the secrets of transmigration.
"Right, and this superpower!" Just as he was about to pull out his phone, Bai Jing suddenly remembered that this was 2008!
The Huawei Mate 40 in his hand was genuine black technology!
He could not take it out casually!
Fortunately, the streets were lined with shops, though most of them were restaurants.
"Could this be some kind of food street?" Bai Jing walked along the road, looking around as all kinds of English poured into his ears. Bit by bit, memories began resurfacing.
He had started learning English in the third grade of elementary school: three years of middle school, three years of high school, and four years of university.
Although he had not used it for so long that he had basically forgotten it all, the knowledge he had once learned was still recorded in his subconscious.
Ordinary people would never have the chance to awaken those memories in their entire lives, but Bai Jing was different. His brain seemed to have entered an overclocked state. Things he had memorized, things he had not memorized, even the Oxford Dictionary he had merely flipped through once—all of it began emerging one by one.
As he walked, Bai Jing suddenly realized he could understand what the people around him were saying!
But that was a minor issue.
Bai Jing came to a clothing store and stopped before the fitting mirror outside its entrance. Then he stared blankly at his reflection.
He was 1.86 meters tall, lanky and thin, with a pale face, messy hair, and the same dark circles beneath his eyes. He wore a white T-shirt printed in Chinese KaiTi font with the words "Working is impossible," along with a pair of loose sweatpants.
He was somewhat handsome.
This was him, no different from the him who had been livestreaming at his desk yesterday.
The only difference was his eyes!
He was a typical northern Han man, and his irises had been brownish-black. But now, the irises reflected in the mirror were an incomparably deep black.
They were black to such an absolute degree that they did not even reflect the image of the world that should have appeared in his eyes!
It was like gazing into an abyss. Even Bai Jing himself felt a chill run through him when he met his own gaze in that silent, dark pool!
"They look like black holes!" Bai Jing murmured unconsciously, then suddenly felt as if he had said exactly the right thing!
His somewhat handsome face, paired with those dark eyes, was like a dragon having its eyes painted in. His charm instantly rose several levels! From somewhat handsome, he became downright captivating!
With a light curl of his hand, the mirror before him swayed gently!
"When I was dodging bullets earlier, I noticed that there seemed to be something around me, like a domain!" Bai Jing sensed the range he could control, then picked up a ruler from the counter and placed it on the floor to measure it.
"0.93 meters!"
"A sphere centered on my eyes, with a diameter of 0.93 meters! I can control the gravitational attraction and repulsion within this range!"
And that was not all!
He focused all his attention on the ruler before him and watched it rapidly magnify. Even the one-millimeter markings expanded until they looked a meter wide!
And this was far from the limit!
"Microscopic Vision!"
With a thought, he felt his vision pass through the surface of the tape measure and enter the plastic particles inside, which were less than a millimeter thick. He could see the neatly arranged plastic particles within!
"Gravity can penetrate all things. Scientific theory even says it can pass into higher-dimensional worlds. So far, no material has been found that is immune to gravity!" Bai Jing muttered. "My vision possesses the properties of gravity, so it can scan all matter!"
Gravity Detection!
There was also the most basic ability!
What traits did a black hole possess?
Of course, it devoured everything!
Within the range of his gravity, the plastic particles turned into molecules. Then, under the force of powerful gravity, their chemical bonds collapsed, turning them into atoms before they vanished from the tape measure's plastic material.
The amount was so small that Bai Jing felt nothing, but he could confirm that those tens of thousands of plastic particles had been absorbed by his eyes!
He was merely using the ruler for an experiment. In reality, the range he could absorb was enormous—anything within his gravitational range could be absorbed!
That meant a sphere with a diameter of 0.93 meters!
"So that's why everyone else looked like they were moving in slow motion. It's because of Gravitational Time Dilation!" Bai Jing suddenly understood!
Gravitational Time Dilation referred to time passing faster when someone was within the gravitational range of a massive celestial body!
The greater the gravity, the faster time passed.
If a race lived on the sun, then because the sun's gravity far exceeded Earth's, under the same perception of time, people on the sun would see Earthlings moving incredibly fast!
Yet when Bai Jing saw the outside world moving in slow motion, it was because he himself was covered by the gravitational pull of the black holes in his eyes. Earth's gravity was much greater than the gravity of his eyes, making him the one in the weaker gravitational region. Therefore, his time passed much faster than that of Earthlings.
At present, the time ratio appeared to be around 1:2!
If this time ratio remained for long, then while ordinary people lived fifty years, Bai Jing would live one hundred. His lifespan would be half that of ordinary people!
But Bai Jing would not actually lose out, because on his own timeline, he truly would have lived a hundred years.
Still, if he could live longer, who would want to have only half as much time as everyone else?
I need to work on expanding my gravitational range. As long as it reaches two meters, I can probably adjust the time flow to match Earth's! Bai Jing thought.
This should not be difficult either. If a black hole wanted to grow, it just needed to devour things without thinking!
As for why his eyesight and hearing had improved, that was simple. Since his eyes were black holes, gravity directly enhanced their absorption of light and sound waves.
As for why his brain had improved too...
He did not know...
"But why did my eyes turn into black holes? Was it because space-time was compressed during transmigration?" Bai Jing had never liked using his brain before, but now that he realized it worked so well, he enjoyed thinking.
But after pondering for a long time without figuring it out, he simply stopped thinking about it.
Setting down the ruler, Bai Jing turned and prepared to find an alley so he could get jumped by a Black man again.
He had gone out to buy breakfast, but before he could buy any, he had transmigrated. His stomach was still empty!
And since he could not use mobile payments here, Bai Jing could only ask some kindhearted people for a little financial support!
"Hey, why is this ruler of yours so flimsy? It broke with one pull!" Behind him, a middle-aged woman with an enormous waist suddenly shouted.
Bai Jing picked at his ear and glanced around. Just as he was about to find an alley, he felt two people seize his arms from either side.
"Brother, come with us!" The burly man on his left had a full beard, brownish-black skin, and obvious Latin American features. He whispered into Bai Jing's ear, then even licked it!
"You're finished!" Bai Jing felt goosebumps fall all over the ground. In an instant, his gravity swept across the man, devouring one-third of the blood in his body!
The man's face turned white. He was instantly dizzy and unsteady on his feet, dropping straight to his knees!
"Hey, brother, what's wrong with you? Are you having a relapse?" Another Black man was startled by the sight and hurried over to support him.
Perhaps someone in the distance saw that something was happening and immediately stepped in. This time, they did not waste words. They grabbed Bai Jing and stuffed him directly into a van parked by the road.
The passersby kept talking and laughing as though they had seen nothing.
Inside the van, the two rows of seats were tall and spacious, and four or five people were already seated there. The seat Bai Jing was shoved into, however, was short and narrow. It was uncomfortable to sit in, yet impossible to stand up from.
On top of that, all five or six foreigners reeked of body odor, and the van was filled with an intense scent of hawthorn blossoms. Bai Jing nearly fainted on the spot!
Absorb it. Absorb it all! Smells were basically chemical molecules, so naturally, he could devour them with ease.
Only then did Bai Jing realize that his sense of smell was incredibly sharp too.
Also, this devouring seemed to follow his subjective will. For example, if he chose to devour odor molecules but not oxygen, he could still breathe normally.
If he devoured everything indiscriminately, he might end up killing himself!
"Is it him?" the person in the driver's seat asked.
"It's him!" A Black man sat in the front passenger seat. Bai Jing turned his head for a look and realized he was one of the three men Bai Jing had let go earlier!
"Who are you people?" Bai Jing asked. "Why did you grab me?"
"Why so much nonsense?" A Black man raised a palm as large as a fan and swung it down, but as it neared Bai Jing's face, he suddenly felt an overwhelming force!
Boom!
His entire arm slammed heavily into the van, denting the door outward!
"You people have some nerve!" Bai Jing was really fed up. He had done nothing, yet he had first been robbed, then kidnapped. Did he look that easy to bully?
Black Hole Devour. The rubber rope binding his hands vanished directly. The others panicked and rushed forward to restrain Bai Jing, but Bai Jing merely waved his hand, and all six of them collapsed to the floor.
With one-third of their blood drained, anyone who could still stand would be a true warrior.
"Super... superpower?" The Latin American driver was stunned. "You... who are you?"
"I should be asking you that first!" Bai Jing placed a hand on the man's shoulder. "Who are you people, and why did you kidnap me?"
The Latin American only felt an inexplicable force moving through his body. He did not know what had happened to the six people in the back—whether they were dead or unconscious—but could he gamble on something like that?
"We're from the Gray Squirrel Gang. My name is Ryan Daling. It was him—he came to report that he'd found someone from Xia Country who seemed to be carrying a very advanced phone!"
The Latin American pointed at the Black man beside him.
The Black man was dumbfounded too. "I... I only... I only..."
Bai Jing slapped him, and the Black man collapsed as well.
"I've absorbed the blood of seven people. That should be at least twenty kilograms, yet there's no improvement at all?" His perception was incredibly precise, having already reached the nanoscale, but even at that scale, he could not sense any change in the range of his gravity.
Twenty kilograms of blood was merely a drop in the bucket for the Black Hole Eye.
"Ah..." The Latin American driver was a little panicked, but Bai Jing patted his shoulder. "Take me to see your boss. I won't hurt you!"
"O-okay..." What loyalty could a gangster possibly have? The Latin American promptly sold out his own boss.
Their base seemed to be nearby. After less than five minutes of driving, the van stopped again.
"Our boss is inside!" Ryan Daling carefully got out of the vehicle, then hurried to the back and opened the door for Bai Jing.
If Bai Jing had been an ordinary thug, Ryan Daling might have considered earning merit and getting rewarded.
But he was facing a superpowered person.
It was better to play it safe!
Besides, even if this superpowered person got taken down, he could always say he had endured humiliation to carry out a greater mission!
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