Chapter 396: Chapter 338: Cyan Dragon
[Explosion
Tier: Diamond
Type: Elemental Transformation
Description: Blooms within flames, power varies based on flame concentration and scale.
Consumption: Rated 20YP per use
With appraiser Old Pu: Do you think this ability is strong? You’re not wrong, it is indeed powerful, but not overwhelmingly so.]
Well then, what are you doing sitting there?
It’s like listening to an entire talk, as meaningful as listening to a talk.
Li Zheng, with a black face, ignored Old Pu and decided to personally test this new ability.
An old saying goes: Experimentation leads to true knowledge.
Looking around, he wanted to use the ability directly, but felt a bit uneasy.
If he accidentally damages his residence, he’d have to spend materials to repair it, which would be counterproductive.
"Let’s try it outside."
Turning around, Li Zheng saw Xiaoying standing at the door with Pink Poli, looking at him with concern, with two scarlet robots having rebooted without him knowing, also guarding there.
Seeing Li Zheng turn around, Xiaoying relaxed, didn’t make any gesture, and directly ran out of the residence to continue playing, casually nibbling on a crystal core.
Since the master is working so hard to enhance his strength, what reason would she have to slack off?
Set a small goal, finish eating a crystal core before tonight!
The two scarlet robots slightly bowed, each lifting an arm over their heads, performing an odd salute.
[A little tip from engineering guru Old Pu: Try changing the power transmission shaft for them, maybe there’s a surprise in store.]
Changing it for them?
Li Zheng was momentarily stunned, then suddenly understood.
Old Pu was being demanding!
He didn’t know the first thing about mechanical modifications, how could he replace their transmission shafts?
Better not screw them up.
The last time he repaired Ugly Farmer, he was utterly clueless and still doesn’t understand the principles involved.
Fortunately, he managed to fix it by sheer luck.
If it happened again, even if Old Pu might give some hints, Li Zheng didn’t dare take the risk.
He still wanted to extract some information from these two scarlet robots.
"Let’s talk about modifications later, let’s go try the new ability first." Li Zheng walked straight out of the residence, with the two scarlet robots following behind him like bodyguards.
After leaving the residence, Li Zheng stared at a wall and silently thought: Pop!
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"Why isn’t anything happening?" Li Zheng flipped open the ability panel, looked at the description again, "blooms within flames?"
This ability...
Does it need the target to be on fire to work?
Li Zheng thought about it, put away the residence, took out a small bunch of fibers, attached it with Fire Attachment, ignited it, and then threw it away.
"Pop!"
Boom!
The burning fiber bunch suddenly compressed into a tiny bright spot, then expanded and exploded with a violent shockwave.
The sudden shockwave hit Li Zheng head-on, knocking him unsteady on his feet, taking three stumbling steps back.
"Whoa! This ability is pretty good!" Li Zheng raised his arms to shield in front of him, eyes gleaming with surprise.
Even a thumb-sized fireball’s explosion power could rival an ordinary grenade, what if the flame size increased?
Moreover.
If used the explosive ability in a room like the previous one, how terrifying would the power become?
Perhaps killing an extraordinary — no! Even a star shining level life form would be seriously injured!
Of course, Li Zheng thought if such a situation truly occurred, he himself would also have a hard time escaping unscathed.
After all, the impact of an explosion affects all, even himself.
"Wait!" Li Zheng’s expression changed suddenly: "When the fireball exploded just now, there were also flames inside, and the area was larger!"
If continuous use of this ability triggers multiple blasts?
Thinking of this, Li Zheng attempted again, igniting a small bunch of fibers and throwing it out.
This time he learned the lesson, waiting until the fireball was thrown far before triggering the ability.
"Pop!"
"Pop!"
"Pop!"
Boom!
The new ability triggered three times, but only one explosion occurred, the other two were ineffective, and Genetic Force consumption didn’t happen.
"Doesn’t seem possible." Li Zheng patted his clothes, smoothing out the wrinkles messed up by the impact.
Despite the second experiment ending in failure, Li Zheng was satisfied with the effects of the new ability.
The only drawback difficult to accept is that using this ability requires flames as a prerequisite.
To trigger it in battle, one needs to find a way to ignite the target.
But for this, Li Zheng had a countermeasure.
Ice and Fire Attachment allows attaching ice and fire to any object’s surface, Fire Attachment and the explosive ability complement each other, forming a capability combination.
"By the way, if I shoot fire element ammunition with a firearm, could that also trigger an explosion?" Li Zheng suddenly realized this newly acquired ability had even more potential to be developed.
However, Li Zheng didn’t plan to continue experimenting.
There were no targets here, experimenting with the new ability wasn’t really worth it, it would just waste Genetic Force.
"Randomly select a lucky audience member to personally experience it." Li Zheng whistled, calling Xiaoying back from not far away, to explore other metal doors together.
The room was not big, Li Zheng took only two minutes to probe all the doors’ information.
One diamond, one platinum, one trap, one empty.
It must be said that the presence of Yuanfei Yuluo caused Li Zheng quite a bit of trouble.
Occupying one "slot" means Li Zheng occasionally leads a fruitless trip with every Mysterious Declaration.
Standing in front of the diamond creature’s door, Li Zheng noticed Xiaoying constantly looking at him with a weird face, suppressing a laugh.
Li Zheng finally couldn’t stand it anymore and asked: "What’s up with you? Ate something wrong?"
"Howl howl howl howl～" Xiaoying finally couldn’t hold back, burst into laughter, repeatedly wiping her head and face with her forepaws.
Li Zheng’s face darkened: "It’s just being bald, it’s not like I wasn’t bald before, is it worth this big of a reaction?"
Wait!
Li Zheng suddenly froze, teasing about baldness, wiping head is understandable, but what’s with wiping the eye sockets?
He took out a bottle of water, poured some out to freeze into ice, then used Shaping to smooth its surface, using it as a makeshift mirror.
Vaguely, a bare head appeared in the ice mirror.
The more Li Zheng looked, the more off it felt.
No hair, he had anticipated.
But...
"Where are my eyebrows and eyelashes?!!!!!!" Li Zheng cried tragically, shattering the ice mirror to pieces.
On impulse, he reached an arm into his armpit, pulled out a few armpit hairs.
"Even this place wasn’t spared!!!!!!!"
He then pushed his hand inside his waistband, tremblingly felt around, nothing but smoothness.
"I’ve become a Cyan Dragon!!!!!!"
(Afraid you might not get it, a reminder: White Tiger.)
Rolling up his pant legs, fair and smooth skin, with barely visible pores.
"Even leg hair isn’t left!!!!!!!"
"Damn it!!!!!!!"