Sound Wave Manipulation

A short, sharp sound was emitted.

The sound wave unique to this word transformed into a precise silver thread, piercing straight towards the irregular ripples.

"Well!"

Wei Leyang convulsed violently, and a horrifying lump suddenly swelled up on the skin of his neck, then quickly deflated.

"It works!" Han Ling whispered from the side.

Shen Heng frowned slightly, but did not relax despite Han Ling's exclamation.

His gaze remained fixed on the bulge, watching the ripples that, though much lower in frequency, were still vibrating.

Shen Heng took a deep breath and opened his mouth again.

Deep within the bright red blood vessels, red worms are frantically burrowing deeper and deeper.

But the muscles that were encasing the Origin Power suddenly spasmed, trapping it tightly at the bifurcation of the carotid artery.

The next moment, invisible sound waves penetrated the tissue, piercing its soft body like countless fine needles.

Its body began to expand and contract unnaturally once again...

A few seconds later, everything returned to calm.

Wei Leyang lay quietly on the ground with his eyes closed.

The bulge in his body stopped moving and remained quietly positioned slightly below his neck.

"Is this... okay?" Han Ling asked, somewhat uncertainly.

Shen Heng glanced at the bulge on Wei Leyang's body; there were no longer any ripples emanating from there.

He nodded to confirm, "Yes, it's okay."

"That's great! Shen Heng, we owe you so much this time!" Han Ling excitedly patted Shen Heng on the shoulder.

"Yeah, but it seems Wei Leyang is pretty tough, he didn't die from this!" Wu Cheng wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Le Gu Nan stood to the side, chuckling softly.

Although Wang Hai's expression remained calm, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He glanced at the bulge still clinging to Wei Leyang's body.

"Le Gu Nan, I'll have to trouble you with this."

Le Gu Nan nodded slightly.

"Okay, sure."

It was dusk.

Shen Heng sat in his training room.

After the police station mission was completed, everyone did a quick cleanup of the scene and then returned to their normal shifts.

He was taking advantage of the time before dinner to summarize his new abilities.

In the spacious training room, you could see him raising his hand and tapping or flicking in the air, occasionally making a strange sound or two.

After a long while, Shen Heng slowly stopped all his movements and began to sort out his thoughts.

"The new ability is called Sound Wave Manipulation. It allows you to sense sound waves and manipulate them with the aid of Origin Power and mental power, such as increasing or decreasing frequency, converging or focusing them."

"Although it seems like it can perform many operations, in reality, it can only achieve three effects at present."

"Sound Wave Attack, Sound Barrier Shield, and Sound Simulation."

"The first method is simple: by focusing and concentrating sound waves, you can directly launch a physical or psychological attack on the enemy."

"However, if you want to cause real harm..."

Shen Heng raised his hand and gently pinched the ripples floating in the void.

"At its current intensity, it's unlikely to cause much damage."

"The reason we were able to kill that Calamity Beast during the day was because we first cut off a piece of it, then it sacrificed most of its remaining parts to burrow into Wei Leyang's body, and finally it held out against Wei Leyang Wei Leyang several minutes inside his body."

"And so, it took me most of my Origin Power to kill it."

"In a one-on-one situation, if you're completely unharmed, you'll probably only cause the enemy a brief moment of disorientation."

"In that case, it's still more of a supporting role."

"But at least I have some offensive capabilities now, right?"

Shen Heng chuckled and continued summarizing the second point.

"Sound Barrier Shield, which involves manipulating sound waves to form a dense buffer layer in front of oneself, thereby weakening, resisting, and deflecting enemy attacks."

"But..."

Shen Heng raised his hand and tapped the ground several times, manipulating the sound waves to overlap in front of him.

Then, he slowly raised his hand and stretched it out in front of him.

"You can feel the resistance, but it's not significant."

"In combat against opponents of the same level, it can probably only help to slightly deflect attacks; you can't expect it to block them entirely."

Shen Heng slowly lowered his hand.

"Whether in attack or defense, its strength is not high."

"It seems that even after this Ability Evolution, I am still at a relatively low energy level."

"I don't know if it's because the level of the ability I awakened at the beginning was low, and I have to slowly level it up as I evolve, or if I'm just not destined to awaken a high-level ability all at once."

Shen Heng sighed, but didn't seem to care too much.

Previously, when he thought his abilities couldn't evolve, he was initially just amazed that he had awakened an F-Class ability, let alone now.

Now that we know abilities can evolve, even if we can only level them up one by one, we'll eventually reach the next level.

"And then there's the last one, Sound Simulation."

Shen Heng slowly walked to the mirror, raised his hand, and gently touched his throat with his fingertips, feeling the subtle vibrations of his vocal cords.

"Let's start with the simple things..."

"Cough..."

He coughed lightly and cleared his throat.

Then he closed his eyes, recalling Captain Wang Hai's voice—that calm, authoritative tone.

"Operation begins."

His lips moved slightly in the mirror, but it was Wang Hai's voice that came out.

Those three short words seemed to truly convey the captain's imposing presence.

Shen Heng opened his eyes, a slight smile playing on his lips.

"It's a success."

He continued trying, this time with Han Ling, using a tone that was somewhat languid yet subtly sharp.

"Hey, Shen Heng, stop practicing, let's go play mahjong later?"

A languid female voice came from his mouth, and he even perfectly mimicked the downward curve of Han Ling's last syllable.

Shen Heng couldn't help but laugh out loud, but he quickly composed himself and began to try it on the other people.

"Um... hello!"

"Captain, should I stay by Shen Heng's side and protect him during the mission?"

"Amaterasu..."

Getting carried away with his play, Shen Heng, after simulating human voice, began trying to simulate other sounds.

"Swish..." (Wind blowing through the leaves)

"Gaaah--!" (The Calamity Beast roars)

"Woof woof..." (Dahuang whispers a threat, pretending to bite someone)

"..."

In the empty hall.

Dahuang ran back with a worn-out tennis ball in its mouth.

It placed the ball next to a girl with shoulder-length short hair, then frantically wagged its tail.

"Wow! Our Dahuang is the best!" Le Gu Nan laughed as she squatted down, cupping its face in her hands and rubbing it. "Did you secretly practice? Hmm?"

Dahuang let out a "woof" and nuzzled its head against her chest, as if to say, "One more time."

Le Gu Nan smiled and picked up the ball, just as he was about to throw it again, when he saw a figure stand up at the front desk.

"Alright, stop playing around. The captain said it's time to eat!" Li Jianguo said with a kind smile.

As he spoke, he looked at Le Gu Nan:

"Gu Nan, could you please go and call Shen Heng? He's still training in his room!"

Le Gu Nan nodded, and just as he was about to leave, he heard Dahuang Huang bark twice.

"Do you want to go too?" Le Gu Nan looked down and smiled at Dahuang.

Dahuang nodded.

"Let's do it together then!"

The man and the dog laughed and walked to the side.

They skillfully arrived outside a training room and then pushed open the door.

"Lulu--Lulu--"

The sound stopped abruptly, but that didn't stop Le Gu Nan from hearing it.

She stood at the doorway, her small mouth slightly agape, staring blankly into the room.

Under her gaze, the figure inside the room slowly and stiffly turned its head.

Was that... a pig's voice just now?