The Big Gamble

The crystal-clear menu in his mind was so vivid it almost made Chu Hang want to cry, and all the resentment in his heart vanished.

Ability Analysis.

The weight of those four words was immense.

It meant that the primitive era of copying abilities like opening blind boxes, relying entirely on luck, was finally over. From now on, he could directly see what good stuff a target had and take whichever one he wanted. The feeling was like a primitive man poking around in the dark with a fire poker suddenly being handed a top-of-the-line exoskeleton and a high-precision sniper rifle with an eight-power scope. The experience? They weren't even in the same dimension.

However, when his gaze moved down the menu and landed on the first option, his whole body froze.

[1. Binary (Cosmic Energy Manipulation)]

"Wait a second..." Chu Hang's heart skipped a beat as doubts rose within him. Didn't I already have this? Six years ago, when the Lightspeed Engine exploded, didn't I copy it already? What, did my system reboot and format my save file while it was at it?

This was no small matter. If his ability was gone, things would get very interesting.

Suppressing his unease, he cautiously asked in his mind, "System, what exactly is going on? I clearly already have Binary."

[Answering host.]

The system's voice was the same as ever—cold, mechanical, without the slightest emotional fluctuation. But this time, instead of a simple notification, it gave him a long explanation detailed enough to make his heart pound.

``` [Six years ago, because the system's core module was severely damaged during spacetime transit, and because the copying target (the Lightspeed Engine explosion) was in an extremely unstable energy overflow state, the "Binary" form you copied was an incomplete