Understanding the System, Testing Tech Templates

In the dead of night, inside a cave more than thirty kilometers from the explosion site, Yueguang Han casually tossed the twenty-odd Sand Shinobi forehead protectors he had collected into a corner of the cave and sat down against the wall. Even in the pitch-black cave, Wang Han could see clearly. It was probably the effect of the Tech Template.

Tech Template.

Muttering inwardly, Yueguang Han closed his eyes and focused his mind into his Consciousness Sea. There was a light screen within it, with several window tabs arranged side by side like a webpage interface.

The first was the Carrier tab. Yueguang Han tried tapping it, and the Carrier page immediately opened, revealing new content.

Carrier: Yueguang Han, Wang Han (the protagonist's name before transmigrating). Standard: the Carrier is unique and cannot be changed. Non-Carriers cannot install Templates.

Downloaded and installed Templates: Energy Collection Template. Can collect energy, electricity, and heat. (More will be added later.)

(Terminator) T800 Robot Template: A skeletal robot made of hard alloy. Consumes 10 Energy Points per hour during intense activity and 2 Energy Points per hour while stationary. Can consume Energy Points for repairs.

(Bloodshot) Blood Nanorobot Template: Replaces all blood in the body with nanoscale robots. Can repair any injury and increase strength to a certain extent. Consumes 1 Energy Point per hour. While repairing, energy consumption depends on the extent of the repair, up to a maximum of 30.

Installed Weapon Templates: SPAS-12 Shotgun Template. Fires 12-gauge shotgun shells and can be used on the arm. Each manifestation consumes 3 Energy Points, and each manifested shell consumes 0.2 Energy Points.

Minimi LMG Template: Minimi LMG, also known as the M249 LMG. Rate of fire: 700–1000 rounds per minute. Effective range: 1000 m. Each manifestation consumes 5 Energy Points, and each manifested bullet consumes 0.1 Energy Points.

Seeing that he currently had only four Tech Templates, Wang Han exited the Carrier tab and looked at the second tab, Technology.

Opening the Technology tab, he found only eight words inside: Searching for new Templates.

He exited and tapped the third tab, Weapon Templates. It contained the same eight words: Searching for new Templates.

He exited again and tapped the fourth tab, Technical Templates. There were only two words: None yet.

Continuing on, he tapped the fifth and final tab, Energy Storage.

Current stored energy: 1770 Energy Points. Storage limit: 5000 Energy Points.

There was no other information after that. Of the 1770 Energy Points, most had likely come from the flames and heat generated by sacrificing those Explosive Tags.

After leaving his Consciousness Sea, Yueguang Han could not help touching his arm and giving it a hard squeeze. He could directly feel that his strength had increased greatly, his body had become much tougher, and his sense of pain had been drastically reduced.

Taking out a kunai, Yueguang Han held it against his forearm. Without hesitation, he slashed open his arm, leaving a ten-centimeter-long wound deep enough to expose bone. Yet not a single drop of blood flowed out. Instead, some blackish-gray material began gathering over the wound. The moment his forearm was cut open, Wang Han saw that his bones were no longer bones, but the skeletal frame of a Terminator T800, gleaming with a cold metallic sheen.

Before Yueguang Han could inspect it closely, countless nanoscale robots immediately filled the wound and began repairing it. It was as though blackish-gray mud were surging over the injury. In just a few breaths, the wound had completely healed. Yueguang Han, who had loved watching movies in his previous life, recognized it at once. These were Blood Nanobots. The nanoscale robots had replaced all the blood in his body.

Bang!

Yueguang Han stood up, turned around, and threw a full-force punch into the hard cave wall. His fist collided with the rock with a dull bang, and several cracks immediately appeared across the wall.

The flesh on Yueguang Han's fist was smashed to a pulp. Raising it for a closer look, he saw steel bones exposed beneath the mangled flesh, while nanorobots rapidly repaired the ruined meat. In less than a breath, it was fully restored, as good as new. Checking his total Energy Points, he found that repairing his fist had consumed nearly two points of energy.

Bang bang bang...

After silently thinking for a moment, Yueguang Han raised both fists and began punching the cave wall madly. A series of dull impacts rang through the cave. The cracks in the wall kept multiplying and spreading as shattered stones flew everywhere. In a short while, he had punched a hole half a meter deep into it.

"So hard, and so powerful. It would probably take only ten punches to break through the defense of Earth Style Earth Wall." Looking at his repairing fists, Yueguang Han evaluated them. The exposed metal bones were completely undamaged. With his current body, he would definitely be able to kill more and stronger Sand Shinobi in the coming war.

After remaining silent and thinking for a while, Yueguang Han turned and walked out of the cave. Firearms were loud and could easily expose his position. This was a battlefield; day or night, he would be exposed eventually. But he had to conduct these tests, and sooner or later, he would be discovered anyway. His vengeance did not permit him to hide and bide his time.

After leaving the cave, Yueguang Han found a small tree as thick as a bowl. He raised his right hand and aimed at the trunk. After consuming three Energy Points, Wang Han's forearm and palm lengthened slightly, their shape changing into a shotgun growing from his arm—the SPAS-12 shotgun. The transformation took no longer than clenching a fist.

After consuming one Energy Point to manifest five shotgun shells directly inside the gun, Yueguang Han aimed at the bowl-thick trunk and fired.

Boom! The gunshot sounded somewhat like a plastic bottle exploding, only far louder. A shell casing sprang from the chamber and turned into something like weathered rock while still in midair. It seemed the system also kept its technology secret.

The trunk of the bowl-thick tree had already been blasted halfway through. Against this kind of damage, if an ordinary shinobi were caught at close range and shot in the torso, even if they did not die immediately, they could only wait for death. And with the speed of shotgun shells, ordinary Chunin would have a hard time reacting, much less dodging.

Boom boom boom boom! Yueguang Han swung the barrel around and fired four consecutive shots at a tree five meters away, half a meter in diameter. Bark and wood splinters flew everywhere as steel pellets buried themselves deep in the trunk. The spread of the shotgun blast covered a circle forty centimeters in diameter. If it had been an ordinary wooden door, one shot would have blasted a huge hole through it.

Both his hands, and even his feet, could transform into shotguns. Any ordinary Chunin who tried to fight him at close range would be seeking death. Even Jonin would be in great danger if they got close. After all, not everyone was a freak like Might Guy.

After testing the shotgun, Yueguang Han consumed another 5 Energy Points to transform his arm into an M249 LMG, then spent 30 Energy Points to manifest three hundred bullets.

His right arm had already become an M249 LMG. Raising it, he aimed at a tree fifty meters away. His current strength was enough for him to use an M249 LMG one-handed with ease.

Rat-a-tat-tat-tat... Dozens of bullets poured out in just a few seconds. Crisp gunfire rang through the forest in the dead of night, carrying far into the distance. It could even be heard several kilometers away, and the forest echoed with the shots.

Pap pap pap pap pap... Bark and splinters constantly burst from the trunk of the tree fifty meters away, though the tree was not cut down. To sever a tree half a meter in diameter, he would need hundreds or even thousands of bullets, or several dozen large-caliber rounds.

After pouring out dozens of bullets, Yueguang Han stopped firing. With the T800's eyes, Wang Han could clearly see that the tree fifty meters away was now covered in bullet holes.

The M249 LMG's first trial was fairly satisfying, so Yueguang Han aimed the barrel at a large tree one hundred meters away.

Rat-a-tat-tat-tat... Loud gunfire rang out again as bullets streaked forth with a red glow.

Then came two hundred meters, three hundred meters, three hundred fifty meters, and four hundred meters. By the time Wang Han had fired all three hundred bullets, the barrel was glowing red-hot.

Yueguang Han nodded in satisfaction, his confidence growing even stronger.

The M249 LMG's muzzle velocity was 747 meters per second. Its bullets traveled faster than sound, so gunfire would not warn enemies in advance. The bullets were also small and difficult to spot. Without using Defensive Ninjutsu, ordinary Chunin and Genin would be unable to escape its barrage. Firing from several hundred meters away, enemy ninjutsu could not even reach him. Even against a thirty-man shinobi squad, he could fight them again. Previously, he had only managed it by spending everything he had on traps.

But there was still one more test to conduct. After the tests and movements had consumed 70 Energy Points, he still did not know exactly how much energy a single Energy Point represented. He needed to determine that as soon as possible. It was the foundation for whether he could keep fighting without restraint.