Over the next two days, since the time was relatively short, Guan Tong didn't open a new page in the [Wordless Book], but instead continuously tested Shadow's "Substantial-Ins substantial" ability.
During the testing process, he discovered a flaw.
That was the issue of line of sight.
Shadow itself had no five senses, all its actions required Guan Tong's commands.
Because of this, if Guan Tong wanted to send it to a place where he had no visual field, it was completely impossible to go.
How to solve this problem was still under consideration by Guan Tong. Either leave it as is, or find a way to give Shadow perception abilities, but it couldn't be complete perception.
If it had complete perception, then its advantage of not fearing pain would be lost again.
Guan Tong had considered attaching a hidden camera to it, with himself carrying a real-time transmission video receiver. But this might be subject to interference and jamming, and moreover, once Shadow became insubstantial, the camera on its body would immediately lose its carrier and fall to the ground.
If approached through the [Wordless Book], meaning "adding words" again, it might be useful, but currently Guan Tong didn't have time to attempt it.
He had no choice but to set this problem aside for now.
Additionally, he also tested the possibility of materializing Shadow while it was fused with other shadows.
He conducted an experiment in a remote outdoor area, controlling the insubstantial Shadow to connect with a car's shadow, then ordering materialization.
The moment he gave the command, his Mind Power was completely drained, and the transformation also failed.
This made him realize that if he had enough Mind Power, he might actually be able to materialize the entire "Shadow Car" entity.
However, failure was within expectations.
With his current Mind Power Upper Limit, controlling an ordinary physical Shadow didn't last more than 2 minutes. Let alone controlling the materialization of fused large-volume object shadows.
Finally, he also tested the control distance issue.
The first time he stood on the roof of an abandoned building, controlling the insubstantial Shadow to move forward along the road, stopping almost at the edge of his visual field, then ordering materialization, but it failed.
After that, he reduced the distance with each test, finally succeeding at around one kilometer. This meant his current control distance for the physical Shadow could not exceed one thousand meters; beyond that it would automatically become insubstantial.
After clarifying Shadow's limitations, Guan Tong could be more confident when facing different situations later.
Two days passed in a flash during his development and testing.
By the third day, he no longer consumed Mind Power, saving it to deal with tomorrow's new rule.
In the morning, he went downstairs to get the delivery food provided by the Livelihood Security Bureau. When passing by the hotel front desk, Guan Tong noticed that only a few room cards remained on the table.
It seemed many more people had checked into Lihua Hotel these past few days. This hotel had a total of 150 guest rooms; if all were full, there would indeed be quite a few people.
[Please enter verification code]
A prompt appeared from the transport-type unmanned vehicle parked at the hotel entrance. Guan Tong entered the verification code received on his phone, the vehicle's side door automatically opened, and a small plastic box was delivered by a robotic arm.
After Guan Tong took it, the unmanned vehicle automatically drove away, heading to the next registered delivery location.
Back in his room, he opened the plastic box. Inside were two boxes of fresh milk, one fruit bread, one pork floss bread, two ham sausages, some small snacks, etc., quite a generous single-person breakfast.
Although food was now distributed for free, the amount each person could receive daily was limited; it wasn't possible for one person to order a ton of supplies and have it delivered.
After eating, the remaining time was just waiting until 9 AM tomorrow when the Fire Thief would announce the new rule.
Bored, he went to the Countermeasures Research Office's official website and glanced at the updated "Doomsday Rules White Paper."
In the rule section for the third rule [Fasting Therapy], it recorded that Food Boxes could be used to assist with challenges, and that the number of boxes was limited.
It also recorded the hidden setting that when Mind Power decays to zero, the Personal Terminal would automatically shut down and become unusable.
[Multi-Terrain Marching Boots]: After testing, when worn, can normally walk on sand, mud, ice, and water surfaces, and can even walk in swamps.
[Constant Temperature Tech Underwear · Basic Model]: After testing, wearing only this underwear with constant temperature function activated, testers in rooms at 75 degrees high temperature and -30 degrees low temperature could maintain body temperature at human-comfortable levels.
[Gene Optimization Liquid · Inferior Quality]: After multiple rounds of complex testing, the common point for each tester was gaining 1-4 points of Mind Power Upper Limit increase. Differences depended on each person's geic defects, randomly repaired.
Tester A (congenital color weakness): 28 hours after consumption reported suspected improvement in color weakness, confirmed by testing.
Tester B (congenital albinism): 19 hours after consumption developed high fever, examination showed improvement in self-melanin production, expected to return to normal levels within the next 2-3 years.
Looking at the dozens of densely packed test reports, Guan Tong thought: "No wonder the Ascendants buying Gene Optimization Fluid are the most numerous."
This good thing that changes physical defects and provides long-term benefits to oneself would naturally be the most popular. Even people with normal healthy bodies would have some unknown geic defects; being able to improve them would be good too.
...
The next day, June 1st.
Around 8 AM, while Guan Tong was staying in his room, he suddenly heard a lot of noise outside.
He went out and downstairs to look, discovering over a hundred people gathered in the lobby. It seemed basically everyone living in the hotel had come down.
Some of these people were standing, some sitting on chairs, and many sitting on the floor. Everyone gathered together, chaotic and noisy, apparently wanting to wait together until 9 AM for the new rule announcement.
Guan Tong watched for a moment then returned to his room first. During rule announcements, he preferred to be alone. This way, after the announcement, he could calmly think carefully about challenge methods.
At exactly 9 AM, the Fire Thief arrived punctually with the new rule.
[The fourth Doomsday Rule has been released]
[Doomsday Rule Four: Snow in June]
[Rule content: From rule release, global continuous snowfall, duration throughout June]
[Success reward: 150 Ascension Coins, Bronze-level Survival Treasure Chest]
[Failure penalty: None]
[Remarks: Extreme environments are one of the best testing methods for biological survival ability, please strive to survive this month]
The moment the Fire Thief's voice fell, Guan Tong walked to the window and looked up.
Originally today was sunny and bright, with clear skies. But at this moment, he witnessed with his own eyes the sudden change in the sky, as sunlight disappeared without a trace.
And the goose feather-like snow falling all over the sky.
He saw a snowflake landing in his palm, nearly half the size of his palm, and his expression slightly changed.
"Such heavy snow, actually going to fall continuously for an entire month..."
"No wonder this time the reward includes a Survival Treasure Chest, while the failure penalty is none. Because failure equals... death."
Guan Tong felt somewhat heavy-hearted.
He knew that unlike the previous [Extreme Marathon] and [Fasting Therapy]... this [Snow in June] was more similar to the first rule [Sleep Deprivation], the kind of rule that absolutely couldn't be safely survived by simply giving up!
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