At the Geomantic Pillar, a person at the front of the crowd took out an item from the Terminal's Storage Box. It looked like a pair of magnets with positive and negative poles.
This was a peculiar item. The person holding the "positive" magnet would be on the receiving end, while the person holding the "negative" magnet would be on the transmitting end.
At that mont, the person placed the positive magnet in Guan Tong's other empty hand, while holding the negative magnet himself. Under the item's effect, his Mind Power imdiately began flowing continuously through the item to Guan Tong.
Guan Tong's nearly depleted Mind Power was instantly replenished. He glanced at the magnet in his hand, thinking that this item's effect was indeed quite good.
If facing an enemy, one could try to place the negative magnet on the enemy and hold the positive magnet oneself, thus quickly draining the enemy's Mind Power.
If there was a need to transfer Mind Power to soone else, it could be used in reverse. Its functionality was very strong.
The person holding the negative magnet had only held it for a brief three or four seconds before his Mind Power was empty. He imdiately passed it on, handing the negative magnet to the next person.
Seeing this, Guan Tong understood the intention: each person would take turns holding the negative magnet to transfer Mind Power to him.
To achieve higher efficiency this way, he also increased the speed at which he channeled Mind Power into the [Wordless Book].
The intense consumption caused the negative magnet to change hands every 2 seconds. The converted "cracking power" was also rapidly causing the Geomantic Pillar's shell to shatter and fall off, and the earthquake's power quickly weakened.
"It actually works!"
Not only were the people on-site pleasantly surprised, but even those watching the live stream video feed in the office were greatly heartened.
It had to be said that before witnessing this scene firsthand, everyone had harbored so doubts. But when they saw with their own eyes large pieces of the Geomantic Pillar's shell shattering, all reservations vanished.
"For resolving this rules crisis, we must rely on this person's power."
In the higher-ups' office, the leader's words were quickly relayed to the Counterasures Research Office.
The people in the Counterasures Research Office shared the sa thought.
No detailed data analysis was even needed; it was visible to the naked eye that the current rate of damage to the Geomantic Pillar's shell was far higher than relying purely on each person consuming their Mind Power Upper Limit!
It could be said this person was the core figure in this rule who could minimize the disaster's impact to the greatest extent. No one could deny this.
On the screen at that mont, with two minutes left in the earthquake duration, the Geomantic Pillar's shell had almost completely fallen off, then collapsed with a loud crash.
Everyone on-site couldn't help but cheer.
"Dr. Zhang, you are responsible for communicating with this person." Gao Liangwei looked at the screen. "Ensure this person assists in reducing the destructive power during every subsequent earthquake. If he raises any conditions or requests, try to satisfy them as much as possible, except for matters of principle."
Zhang Minglu nodded. "I understand, Director. I will try to establish a good communication channel with this person."
Zhang Minglu was very clear: regardless of other periods, at least during the duration of this rule, this person with the ability to make objects crack was undoubtedly the most important existence within this country.
On-site, the Commander, hearing a voice in his earpiece, walked up to Guan Tong and handed him a phone. "Dr. Zhang from the Counterasures Research Office wants to speak with you. What do you think?"
Guan Tong thought for a mont and took it. "Hello?"
"Hello." Zhang Minglu's voice ca through. "I am Zhang Minglu from the Doomsday Rules Counterasures Research Office, primarily responsible for work related to Ascendants. May I ask your na?"
Guan Tong said casually, "Just call
Mu Tong."
"Mu Tong? Okay." Zhang Minglu paused. "We saw the live footage. Your ability is very effective! If possible, we hope to continue cooperating in subsequent earthquake disasters to minimize the harm as much as possible."
Guan Tong's goal was to reduce the disaster, and this cooperation with the authorities had gone smoothly.
Based on their previous interaction, the authorities recognized he was soone who disliked trouble, so they didn't do anything unnecessary. They simply gave him the epicenter Coordinates and then sent a large number of people to transfer Mind Power to him.
"Continuing cooperation in this format is fine." Guan Tong said. "However, more items might be needed later. After magnitude 4 earthquakes, maintaining stable transmission at the epicenter won't be so easy."
Throughout the transmission just now, he felt tremors underfoot but could still stay steady. But starting from the next magnitude 5 quake, the epicenter area would beco difficult to stand, find footing, and maintain stable transmission without using special-function items.
Guan Tong himself was actually okay. At worst, he could use his shadow line to tether himself to the Geomantic Pillar to achieve stability. But the others responsible for transferring Mind Power to him would face so trouble.
"We are also very aware of this." Zhang Minglu said. "We will prepare corresponding items to allow you to stand firm and act stably in the epicenter area. Are there any other item requirents?"
Guan Tong thought for a mont and said, "If you can find more Mind Power transmission items, we could use a few more. Transferring one person at a ti is manageable ti-wise for magnitude 4 and 5 earthquakes, but facing higher magnitude quakes, it might not be fast enough."
Zhang Minglu sounded sowhat surprised. "A few more? Can you receive that much Mind Power simultaneously? Your Mind Power Upper Limit must be quite high."
"It's alright. Because I can convert all my Mind Power into 'cracking power' at once, receiving more simultaneously isn't a problem."
"If that's the case, we will prepare more transmission items, aiming for a scale of 3-5 people simultaneously transferring Mind Power to you."
"That would be good. Anything else?"
"Not for now. But if you have any requests, please ntion them. We will try our best to satisfy them." Zhang Minglu said.
Hearing this, Guan Tong initially thought of saying he had no requests, but upon careful consideration, why not use this opportunity to obtain so enhancents?
Asking for nothing would certainly appear noble, but he wasn't the type to say one thing and an another.
"I wonder if you have any items that can increase Mind Power Upper Limit?" Guan Tong said. "That's all I need. If you don't have any, that's fine."
"This..." Zhang Minglu's voice clearly hesitated over the phone. The high value of such items was clear to everyone, but he seed to have received so instruction and imdiately continued, "Yes, we do. We can provide you with 1-2 corresponding items."
Guan Tong had only asked casually and didn't expect there to actually be any. "In that case, I won't stand on ceremony. When dealing with the next magnitude 5 earthquake, please have your people bring them to ."
"Agreed."
Guan Tong returned the phone to the on-site Commander, then bid farewell and left. The Commander inquired with his superiors, who replied not to stop him or attempt to track him.
Back at the research office, after Zhang Minglu hung up, everyone in the room who had heard the conversation had varied expressions.
"He actually asked for the most precious items that increase spiritual power upper limit... This person really doesn't hold back."
"I think it's fine. As long as his ability is utilized well, it could ultimately save countless lives."
"Indeed, no matter how precious the items are, they can't compare to the lives of hundreds of millions of people."
Zhang Minglu said, "I also agree to give them to him. Based on his ability itself, a higher Mind Power Upper Limit ans greater simultaneous output, which aids in dealing with this rule. Secondly, for disaster relief of this scale, not giving so reward would be unreasonable. Director, what are your thoughts?"
Everyone looked at Gao Liangwei in unison. The latter was frowning deeply, as if pondering so serious issue.
"Director?"
"...Do you all rember what I said at the Human Consortium eting? I believe this rule is a punishnt imposed by the Fire Thief on humanity for establishing the Human Consortium. Yet this person who calls himself 'Mu Tong' can actually use his own ability to oppose the Fire Thief... What might this imply?"
Hearing this, everyone exchanged glances, most of them thinking he was overthinking it.
"Director, you're overthinking it. This Mu Tong is just lucky. In every previous rule, there were people who passed easily thanks to special items or abilities, right?"
"Exactly. His 'cracking power' just happens to be effective against the Geomantic Pillar. It can't really be considered opposing the Fire Thief itself."
Unlike the others, Zhang Minglu, upon hearing Gao Liangwei's words, fell into thoughtful silence.
Indeed, he also vaguely felt that this rule was completely different from the previous ones. This rule was entirely aid at exterminating humanity. Judging by the Fire Thief's past thods, it shouldn't have suddenly beco so radical. It really did seem to have a sense of punishnt about it.
He thought perhaps the Director was right. This "Mu Tong's" ability wasn't so simple. The so-called "cracking power" was just his own claim. What his true ability actually was remained unclear at present.
If this person truly possessed power that could contend with the Fire Thief, then the Director's imdiate instruction to agree to provide the Mind Power Upper Limit enhancent items... was the intention to foster goodwill? Zhang Minglu slowly began to grasp so of Gao Liangwei's line of thinking.
Reviews
All reviews (0)