In three seconds, 152 tons of water increased Bai Jing's gravitational range by 0.001 meters!
That was, from 0.912 to 0.913!
The change might seem tiny, but at 0.001 meters every three seconds, that meant 0.02 meters per minute, 0.12 meters per hour, and 2.88 meters in a day!
Of course, it did not actually work out that way. The entire Gravity Field was a sphere, so its growth was cubic. The farther it expanded, the more matter it needed to grow by another meter.
Even so, he only needed a day to raise his gravitational range to at least 1.8 meters!
"I'm such an idiot!" Bai Jing wanted to curse. Why hadn't I tried such a simple method?
This gravitational range had been giving him a headache for a long time. At 0.93 meters, it could only cover half his body!
So when he fought, Bai Jing either had to sit down or crouch halfway.
It looked like Bai Jing was trying to show off, but in reality, he was just trying to make his Gravity Field cover his entire body!
Now things were perfect. As long as he jumped into water, his gravitational range shot upward!
Thank goodness, thank goodness. He had only transmigrated three days ago, so it was not too late to discover this.
It would have been awful if he only figured it out when he went to steal the hammer. By then, gods and the Destroyer would be showing up, and he might not even be able to beat them.
Bai Jing followed the Hudson River all the way to 46th Street. Without going ashore, he crouched in the river and absorbed water.
He realized he might have found the best way to rapidly expand the Black Hole's gravitational range. Air flowed too, but its mass was too low, making it terribly inefficient.
Various metals had greater mass, but there was not much of them around, and he would have to run all over the place collecting them.
Only water was different. He could float in the water without moving, and it would flow toward him on its own. Water was not exactly low-density, either. Combined, nothing could be faster than absorbing water.
Not even the Hulk's transformation energy.
Bai Jing had once envied it, but now?
The Hulk was just a little brother!
Of course, this method of growing had its downsides. Bai Jing discovered that the rapid influx of water had actually formed a whirlpool on the river's surface!
Fortunately, it was nighttime and winter, so there were not many boats on the river. If it had been daytime, someone would definitely have noticed the whirlpool.
The solution was simple, of course. He could go out to sea, to some part of the Atlantic away from shipping lanes, where no one would find him.
But that would be boring.
Besides, Earth's water was not infinite. There were only 1.45 billion cubic kilometers of it. If Bai Jing's gravitational range grew to 500 meters, he would only need 1.06 million days to drain all of Earth's water.
If his gravity grew to 5,000 meters, he would only need 30,000 days.
Of course, by then Earth's ecosystem would definitely be in trouble, and all those guardians of Earth would surely come looking for him.
From eight in the evening until seven-thirty in the morning, Bai Jing remained in the water without moving. During the latter half, he had even handed control of the Gravity Field over to the Black Hole and gone to sleep.
When he woke up, he suddenly saw a huge fish charging toward him. Before he could even react, the fish began vanishing bit by bit from its head. Bai Jing watched as though its cross-section had been exposed in a main view, from head to body to tail, until it finally disappeared from the world.
The Black Hole had swallowed it!
Bai Jing briefly sensed his gravitational range, then froze in shock!
1.94 meters!
In one night, nearly twelve hours, his gravitational range had increased by almost one meter!
Bai Jing excitedly flew out of the water and looked at the world around him again!
When a radius increased, the surface area increased quadratically, while the volume increased cubically.
His original Gravity Field had a volume of roughly three cubic meters. Now, it was eleven cubic meters, more than triple its previous size!
What came with it was a clearer, sharper world.
He could clearly see every droplet within the clouds overhead. He could see a child pressed against the window of a passenger plane flying through the sky, curiously watching the world outside. Reflected on the child's retina was an Irish woman with red hair and fair skin.
He could see a seagull on the horizon with a coin in its beak. Reflected on the silvery-white metal coin was half of New York.
He could clearly hear Matt and Ryan talking inside SpongeBob Hall, even though the room had excellent soundproofing.
He could hear police sirens three blocks away. A Black person was committing robbery, an asian person was cursing furiously, and they were fighting over something.
Listening to the wind and the movement of gas, Bai Jing sketched its shape in his mind.
An utterly ordinary, featureless thick gold chain.
Then, he "saw" the Black child pull out a gun.
A playing card suddenly appeared in Bai Jing's hand, then suddenly vanished!
"Die, Chink!" the Black child shouted. He was about to pull the trigger when a flash of Rainbow Light streaked past, severing the wrist holding the gun at its base!
The Black child began screaming, passersby began calling the police, and the police sirens began changing direction.
So this was what it felt like to have strength!
It was practically like Observation Haki!
What had improved was not just his combat strength. His gravitational range, vision, hearing, sense of smell, and mental processing power were all making tremendous leaps as his gravitational range increased!
This was far more than a simple one plus one equals two. The improvement of his Five Senses made him sharper, while his enhanced brainpower made him smarter and his methods more versatile.
Combined with the growth of his Gravity Field.
Bai Jing could confidently declare that from this day on, he was a legend on Earth!
His more agile mind made every move he took afterward more precise.
He had three choices. First, he could continue reading physics books and explore more uses for the Black Hole.
Second, he could read books on life sciences and explore how gravity could alter the body, strengthening himself and achieving immortality.
Third, he could go to the Sanctum Sanctorum.
Naturally, he chose the third!
A portal that could lead to other planets was extremely important to him!
There were too many people on Earth, and Bai Jing did not want to destroy the world yet. But finding an uninhabited planet and swallowing it whole would not cause so many problems!
As for Black Hole applications or bodily modification, those were merely side matters.
Magic could grant immortality. With the Black Hole, he had the foundation to control space and time. The magic of the Supreme Temple was practically made for him; not learning it would be a waste!
Of course, before that, he still had a few things to arrange.
Bai Jing arrived at Banner's residence and found Banner reading.
"You didn't come back yesterday?" Banner casually asked. "Did you meet your other half at school?"
"If you say so!" Bai Jing handed his phone to Banner. "Put your other work aside for now and study this. From now on, all your money will depend on this phone!"
"This is a phone?" Banner took it in astonishment and looked at Bai Jing.
Bai Jing nodded. "A smartphone. A trillion-dollar market in the future!"
Though to the current Bai Jing, it was only so-so.
Even if he did nothing else and focused solely on producing Black Hole Metal, he could become richer than a nation. But this had been Bai Jing's original intention when he came here. If he did not accomplish something, it would feel strange.
In the past, he definitely would not have given the phone to Banner at this point. He would at least have waited until Hell's Kitchen was unified.
But now, Bai Jing was confident that with his strength, no one could turn things upside down!
Unless Nigga called Captain Marvel back. But even then, it was still uncertain who would be stronger!
Once the protagonist became invincible, the story was not far from falling apart.
So, I did not really want to write that absorbing water could make him stronger, but there was no reason not to write it.
After all, wasn't this a basic ability? If I did not write it, people would question it.
There will be another chapter later, but it will be a bit late. You can go to bed early and read it tomorrow.
What are you still doing voting after four in the morning?
Before you continue