NOVPUB44: Chapter 44: The State of the Original Body During Time Travel (Please Favorite, Follow, and Vote)
44: Chapter 44: The State of the Original Body During Time Travel (Please Favorite, Follow, and Vote)
The liquid in the test tube had no taste, just a faint, mint-like coolness.
As this liquid entered his body, He Ao felt a strange energy revive within his flesh, seeping into his soul, bit by bit restoring the parts he had lost.
He Ao did not down the liquid in one gulp, but instead drank it in small sips waiting for his soul to revive, little by little.
After about a quarter of the liquid was gone, he felt his soul regain its peak condition, the previous exhaustion and weakness swept away, but continuing to drink just left a faint coolness without the feeling of his soul growing stronger by the moment.
So it was called a Recovery Potion, not a Strengthening Potion, it could only restore He Ao to his original state.
He Ao checked, and there was about three-quarters of the potion left in the test tube.
A quarter of the potion roughly restored the consumption of twenty seconds of Life Consuming.
The remaining potion meant he could recklessly consume another sixty seconds of life, equivalent to holding an extra ace up his sleeve.
Indeed, the act of Life Consuming can be quite addictive.
He sealed the test tube again with the cork, held it in his hand, and then He Ao opened his personal attribute interface,
[He Ao]
[Authority Level: Ordinary Player]
[Physical Fitness: 16 (Ordinary people in the Copy World are 10, in the main world are 5)]
[Skills: Talent Sequences 272: Super Memory (Soul Binding) (E class), Basic Firearm Mastery]
[Mechanical Modification: None]
[Martial Arts: Qi Induction (F class)]
The level of Super Memory had been upgraded to E class, and he had acquired a new skill; these were the changes He Ao was aware of.
He focused on the Physical Fitness category, where his physical fitness had increased from 15 to 16, an enhancement that seemed to stem from the Base Firearm Mastery’s reformative effects on his body.
With a physique of 16 in the main world, He Ao was already more than three times that of an ordinary person.
However, in the Copy World, according to Ande’s memory of Transcendent levels, an F class is 2 to 3 times the physical qualities of an ordinary person in the Copy World, which is between 20 to 30 in physical fitness.
Without the use of ability, He Ao’s own physical fitness was still just short of reaching this Transcendent level.
But Super Memory, after all, has a time limit, and Life Consuming is not a long-term strategy.
Improving his own physical fitness was of the utmost importance.
The only viable method of training currently available to him was the method of absorbing energy recorded in the small book, but that energy was only accessible at dawn.
He Ao could not understand the script in the little book and did not know if there were other training methods available; perhaps the next time he went to the Copy World, he could try to find some information about this kind of script. 𝖓𝔬𝔳𝔭𝖚𝖇.𝔠𝔬𝖒
At this moment, the countdown to his next mission had already appeared in his field of vision, still 24 hours, that is, one day later.
This time in the mission, he had stayed in the Copy World for about six or seven hours, but in the main world, only ten-plus minutes had passed.
He Ao closed the attribute panel, stretched lazily, and slowly walked over to the camera he had installed before the mission started.
He skillfully removed the camera’s memory card, entered the study, locked the silver test tube in the study’s drawer, and then turned on the old desktop computer.
With the fan buzzing like an old ox pulling a cart, He Ao knelt down, unplugged the network cable, and then inserted the memory card into a card reader, connecting it to the computer.
Two minutes later, the computer displayed the desktop, but at this time, moving the mouse had no response; the computer was in a state of boot freeze.
After about five minutes, the old computer finally powered up, and moving the mouse had an effect.
This computer was picked up by He Ao for a few hundred bucks at a second-hand market, he didn’t know how old it was before he bought it, but it had been with He Ao for five years already.
As the computer finished reading the card, He Ao opened the most recent surveillance footage stored on it.
The footage began with He Ao placing the camera in position, then moving away to sit on a stool.
About several dozen seconds later, He Ao’s figure flickered, and the entire camera’s image began to show noticeable blotches, all the objects in the room became distorted, turning into twisted colors beyond recognition.
Seconds later the image restored, but He Ao’s figure was no longer to be seen in the room.
Then He Ao swiftly scrolled the progress bar to about sixteen minutes later when the entire image once again underwent severe distortion, lasting for about five to six seconds, until the image stabilized and He Ao reappeared in the room.
He Ao turned off the video and fell into deep thought.
When heading to the Copy World, it was quite clear he underwent soul traversal, as the ‘Super Memory,’ which was soul-bound, could be used, while ‘Qi Induction,’ which was related to the body, couldn’t be.
Moreover, each character he played in the Copy World had a different body.
He installed the camera to confirm what state his body would be in the main world, after he had traversed.
Now it seems that during the process of crossing over, the body in the main world disappears as well, and ordinary electronic devices are unable to capture the process of disappearance.
I wonder if this is a protection mechanism of the system.
This is good news.
He had always been worried that when he went to the Copy World, his soul would leave, but his body would remain, and he would either be buried as a dead person or be stabbed to death without resistance by his enemies.
Now, he no longer had such worries.
Of course, since he would disappear after crossing over, he would have to start tasks in places with no people around.
Otherwise, if a person suddenly disappeared on the street, he feared it would become front-page news the next day.
Perhaps this was one of the reasons why the system showed him a countdown to his next task, to let him prepare in advance.
After figuring these things out, He Ao formatted the memory card once, then he copied some large videos from the ‘study materials’ folder on the computer hard drive to fill up the memory card, and formatted it once more.
He repeated this process two or three times before finally removing the memory card.
After the first format, the data on the memory card and the hard drive could still be recovered, so it was necessary to fill it with some large files to occupy all the space and overwrite the original records, then format it again.
That way, even if someone recovered it, they would only get some study materials.
By the time everything was done, it was past eight o’clock.
He Ao stood up from the chair and stretched his body.
He needed to prepare for his street stall tonight.
Just then, his phone rang again.
He Ao frowned and took out his phone.
He hardly had any friends, and usually only loan sharks, salespeople, and scammers would call him.
He looked at the screen.
He hadn’t saved this phone number, but it seemed somewhat familiar.
After he answered the call, a familiar female voice came through,
“He Ao, do you have time tonight?
I heard there’s a really good snack stall near the school, but it opens late.
How about I treat you to it?”
Liu Nan…
He Ao was momentarily taken aback,
Why was this girl so persistent?
Didn’t she know that there was a non-normal human being looking for her all over the world?
When he went to the police station yesterday, he had already told Captain Liu that the young man was planning to kidnap Liu Nan.
They hadn’t informed Liu Nan?
Did they have some other arrangement?
But these things were not He Ao’s concern; he was just a student running a cold noodle stand.
He picked up the phone and directly refused Liu Nan’s invitation,
“I’m busy tonight, sorry.”
He still had to run his stall to make money.
After thinking for a moment, he still gave her a warning, “You should be careful lately, don’t run around, and watch out for kidnappers.”
——
“Huh?”
Liu Nan was baffled, then she heard the busy tone on the other end of the phone.
She put down her phone in a daze and looked at the girl beside her, “He hung up…”
He didn’t show up yesterday when she invited him to an expensive meal, and today he declined again when invited for something cheap.
“He cares about you!
He must be worried about your safety!
He likes you!”
The girl analyzed confidently.
…
That statement was not convincing at all.
This was the first time that Liu Nan had been turned down twice in a row when inviting a guy out to eat.
Playing hard to get wasn’t supposed to go like this.
But the issue of owing someone a favor was like a thorn in her side, making her uncomfortable.
“Let’s go, Nannan.
We’ll try out the snack stall on our own,” Liu Nan sighed and looked at the girl, “Where’s that snack stall?”
“It’s near the Industrial District.
It’s not exactly a stall, more like a street vendor.
But I heard the food is incredibly delicious and only available at night.
Wait a moment,” the girl took out her phone, “I’ll start navigation.”
