Doomsday Lower City Base Vanguard City Outer Energy Reserve Center
At the same familiar spot, Xu Xiao suddenly appeared.
However, this time, he was spotted as soon as he appeared.
Having been disrupted twice, the outer base directly dispatched three squads to patrol the energy storage center day and night.
Xu Xiao's figure had just reappeared in front of the energy storage tank before it disappeared when the patrol team not far away spotted him.
Several rifles were immediately aimed at Xu Xiao, and a fully armed man shouted loudly from a distance:
"Who goes there? Don't move, or I'll smash your head in!"
Amidst the clanging of gun bolts, Li Meng stared at the strange man not far away.
As a seasoned veteran of the outer city patrol team, he sensed something was amiss.
He was certain that there was no one in the direction of the energy storage tank, and the sudden appearance of a man could only be explained by the fact that the man was a superhuman.
The appearance of a superhuman at the outer energy storage center reminded him of the strange events that had occurred more than a month ago.
A superhuman broke into the outer energy storage center and stole an expensive energy core, enraging the leaders of several gangs in the outer city, who vowed to catch the thief.
The man who suddenly appeared was the same as the thief with superpowers who had suddenly disappeared, as previously reported; he possessed spatial abilities, which are extremely rare and powerful.
"If they make a move, with our eight-man squad's ammunition, we probably won't survive!"
Thinking of this, Li Meng couldn't help but swallow.
Superhumans are not something that ordinary gang patrols can handle. In the outer city, every superhuman is a key figure in their respective gang.
The difference in combat power between superhumans and ordinary people is greater than the difference between a human and a dog. It is said that a powerful superhuman can even destroy a city single-handedly.
Yeah, the kind that erases even the traces of the city.
The reason why humanity was able to survive the apocalypse and the threat of so many mutated beasts, and even develop a civilization far surpassing that before the apocalypse, is due to the absolute strongest among humanity.
If it weren't necessary, Li Meng would absolutely not want to clash with a superhuman, even if that person had trespassed into this place temporarily known as the realm of ordinary people.
Fortunately, the patrol captain also recognized Xu Xiao's extraordinary nature. Xu Xiao's nonchalant attitude as he examined the stone in his hand, as well as his clean yet unusual clothing, made the captain hesitate to approach him.
For a time, the situation was peaceful on both sides.
The patrolmen raised their guns and pointed them at Xu Xiao, but dared not fire. Xu Xiao, on the other hand, curiously felt the stone in his hand, silently pondering something.
Only after Xu Xiao threw away the empty crystal shell that had been sucked clean did he look at the patrol team with an amused expression.
"I need a smart person to tell me about the recent changes in Vanguard City. Is there anyone willing to be that smart person?"
After he finished speaking, no one answered.
"Well, it seems you're all ungrateful bastards. Pointing guns at me means you're prepared to die."
"Fire!"
The patrol captain sensed the murderous intent in Xu Xiao's words, immediately spoke up, and pulled the trigger at the same time.
Unfortunately, Xu Xiao's Telekinesis was even faster than theirs.
The instant the order to fire was given, the Telekinesis was already in effect, snapping the necks of all eight people present with a crack.
They were too close to Xu Xiao Xu Xiao, completely within the range of his Telekinesis.
After Return from Acquired to Innate, Xu Xiao's physical attributes improved rapidly under the nourishment of Spiritual Power, and he also saw the source of his Telekinesis.
Behind the center of his forehead, which is called the Sea of Consciousness in Buddhism, the heavenly eye in Daoism, and the pineal gland in medicine, there was a different development.
This is the source of Xu Xiao's Telekinesis, and Xu Xiao discovered that both Divine Sense and Telekinesis rely on the Sea of Consciousness to function, so they can be said to be powers of the same origin.
(Let's standardize the terminology. From now on, I'll just call it the Sea of Consciousness. Actually, they all refer to the same consciousness. The Upper Dantian and Niwan Palace all refer to this place.)
Now, the range of his Telekinesis, or rather, his Divine Sense, has increased to eight hundred meters. As for how much power he can unleash, Xu Xiao has not tested it.
Anyway, in the Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils World, before he left, he could lift a side hall directly from the ground to a hundred meters in the air without any effort, and his Telekinesis had greatly improved.
At this point, Xu Xiao no longer needed to control his weapons to conserve his Telekinesis when killing, unless the target was outside his range or he encountered a powerful opponent requiring precise strikes.
For an ordinary person, once you enter within 800 meters of his Divine Sense, Xu Xiao only needs to think to kill you. Whether it's crushing your head or snapping your neck, it's completely unreasonable.
(This is why I didn't write those things before. It's not that I didn't think of them, but the protagonist doesn't have Divine Sense. First, he can't simultaneously launch multiple attacks, and second, his body is too weak, so he needs to conserve his Telekinesis.)
After dealing with the patrol team, Xu Xiao didn't rush to leave. Instead, he found a crystal core storage tank nearby to verify whether his earlier guess was true or just good luck.
The conversion device connected to the energy storage tank was torn open, and the yellowish-brown crystal core inside flew out and landed in Xu Xiao's hand.
The energy storage tank was damaged, and a piercing alarm sounded, but Xu Xiao remained unmoved, tightly gripping the crystal core and beginning to carefully sense it.
A familiar energy flowed into Xu Xiao's body from within the crystal core. This time, Xu Xiao did not activate the Golden Finger, but instead directed this power to his dantian.
The eye of the wind in the dantian sensed this energy and immediately became excited. It then quickly spun around, absorbed it, and transformed it into Spiritual Power that spread throughout the body.
"Phew~ Just as I expected!"
Xu Xiao's face lit up with a relieved smile, brimming with surprise!
Who would have thought that the depleted Spiritual Energy of the Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils World could be extracted from this tiny crystal core?
If Xu Xiao hadn't felt the familiar energy while holding the crystal core in his hand while charging the system, he might have missed it.
However, the Spiritual Energy inside the crystal core wasn't very high, and it was mixed with other energies. This crystal core only slightly strengthened the eye of wind within Xu Xiao's dantian.
To put it roughly, it's equivalent to ten days of arduous training in the Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils World.
"But that's enough. With Spiritual Energy, the eye of wind within my body will become stronger and stronger, and actively obtaining it from a fixed object is more convenient than obtaining it from the outside world."
Xu Xiao carefully sensed it and found that there was indeed a trace of Spiritual Energy in this apocalypse, but it felt similar to the energy on the Kunlun Mountain, extremely thin.
He could continue cultivating Carefree Wind Riding in this world, but the results probably wouldn't be very good unless Xu Xiao could obtain a lot of crystal cores.
"Never mind that, let's get our hands on the crystal cores first. Anyway, I'm coming back to assess the combat strength of this world and find what I need."
Thinking this, the surrounding energy storage tanks suffered the consequences. All those that used crystal cores for conversion were destroyed by Xu Xiao, who took all the crystal cores inside.
Fortunately, there wasn't just one type of energy storage tank here; Xu Xiao didn't touch any other simple large batteries or other bio-energy-related items.
He didn't plan to leave anyway; the alarm had gone off, and the local thugs would be arriving soon.
Rather than going out to search blindly on his own, Xu Xiao, who had tasted the sweetness of power, planned to use the same old trick again.