The instant ability selection ended, Lu Bai immediately understood how to use [Ink Black (Color)].
However, it was not quite like what he had imagined. This ability was exactly as described: it could only paint the color of objects black and had no effect on living beings.
Ah, this…
So why could this thing make it to Color Level?
Lu Bai unwillingly opened his eyes and looked around left and right, then picked up an apple from the fruit basket.
He stared at the apple in his hand, glared like Amaterasu, and activated [Ink Black].
In a flash, this bright red apple directly turned into an ink-like black paint.
Not sure if it was because one apple was too small, but anyway, he didn’t feel any consumption using this ability.
But what use was this?
He restored this apple to its original state and put it back into the fruit basket.
Lu Bai fell into silence; he was thinking.
Generally speaking, the smaller the restrictions on an ability, the greater the operability.
Strictly speaking, [Ink Black]’s restrictions were one and a half: one was that it couldn’t blacken living beings, and the other half was that it required line of sight.
The reason it was called half was naturally because line of sight, without obstructions, could theoretically extend infinitely in scope.
Thinking on the premise that this ability must be useful, [Ink Black] should be different from most simple and crude abilities.
Unlike abilities like [Blood Rage] and [Flash Time] that had obvious uses, figuring out how to use it effectively seemed to require some brainpower.
Used to break invisibility? Or paint weapons, clothing, and such black for a certain degree of camouflage?
No,
There seemed to be something wrong with this line of thinking. Since this ability had no consumption.
Then consider it on a large scale?
Lu Bai simply combined his not very outstanding physics knowledge and initially thought of several uses.
For example, blacken the glaciers at the planet’s poles to accelerate melting, easily raising sea levels by dozens of meters.
Or blacken clouds to control rainfall, or directly paint the atmosphere overhead black.
In short, the larger the scale, the greater the influence.
Even more destructively, directly paint celestial bodies in space, though this involved Lu Bai’s knowledge blind spot; he wasn’t too sure what consequences that would cause.
However, just the uses he had thought of so far were already terrifying enough.
The downsides were also obvious: these methods all required a certain amount of time to take effect, and the power was uncontrollable, not to be used lightly.
But even so, [Ink Black] was at a planet-destroying level.
Lu Bai leaned back, pressing against the wall.
In a certain sense, knowledge is power?
……
The office building across the street from the hospital.
A clean and hygienic high-end restroom, only the placed aromatherapy had been knocked over, and the walls were stained red with radial bloodstain patterns.
Changhu dragged a death fighter’s corpse into the stall, closed the stall door, turned, and walked to the sink.
“Hasn’t even taken first place yet?”
He twisted open the faucet and calmly washed the bloodstains on his hands.
In fact, it was precisely because he took out this white-collar identity death fighter that the second round ability pool was triggered.
“Wait for me, ‘Smiling Face’, I’ll come find you later.”
……
“Hey, what are you spacing out for?”
Several little sisters surrounded a high school student-looking girl with a high ponytail.
A little sister with a cigarette between her fingers said dramatically: “Xiao Mei, where have you been these past few days? You didn’t come to school; we missed you to death.”
At these words, the little sisters surrounding her all couldn’t help bursting into laughter, filled with a lively atmosphere.
“Yeah, what’s up with you? Didn’t you know to report your itinerary in advance?”
“Exactly, we even thought you were dead, hahaha.”
The high ponytail girl called Xiao Mei seemed to hear something, her gaze lighting up.
The next second, the bodies of the several little sisters present suddenly twisted one after another, as if struck by some invisible fist, collapsing to the ground successively.
Some were even directly killed by this invisible attack, stopping breathing.
After the attack ended, Xiao Mei struck an exaggerated pose: “High school student or whatever, killing is one thing, but bullying is too evil.”
……
“Yo, you know, Bureau Chief Xu actually looks pretty good on camera.”
Yao Yi watched the press conference live on the LCD television, clicking his tongue in wonder, feeling the novelty of someone he knew from life suddenly appearing on TV.
Lu Bai was very quiet, making no evaluation of this press conference.
Although things were indeed proceeding step by step as they had discussed so far, this smoothness always made him feel like something was off.
Not to mention anything else, notifying so many media outlets in advance—he didn’t believe the mayor’s side hadn’t received the news before the press conference started.
“Some big Vs have already started writing soft articles to steer the narrative; I’ll help forward them too.”
Yao Yi didn’t feel anything wrong; his emotions grew more excited, gradually entering combat stance, making one suspect his wounds would burst open the next second.
Lu Bai withdrew his gaze from the LCD television and checked the remaining time for the “node” acquisition.
Although it had been intermittent midway, the required time was now down to just a few hours.
Worth mentioning was that for this kind of living “node,” unlike item-type “nodes,” it wasn’t carried on the person.
Once a certain death fighter obtained the double points reward from it, the “node” would be considered to be on that death fighter.
If other death fighters wanted to seize the “node,” they only needed to eliminate them.
The existence of this rule was also why the death fighters hadn’t fought too fiercely over it so far.
“Good, good, good, exactly like this.”
Yao Yi forwarded several articles in a row, tirelessly flipping through the comment section: “So many people are starting to demand officials come forward to prove their identities.”
After a while, he noticed Lu Bai had no reaction, thinking Lu Bai was worried about the joint investigation with the police.
He then probed: “By the way, Brother Lu, the police side… you don’t need to go watch over it?”
“No rush.”
Lu Bai watched the press conference on the LCD television draw to a close, rubbing his chin with his thumb.
With only a few hours left either way, he simply decided to first acquire the “node”‘s double points reward, and whatever happened could be pushed back for now.
Unfortunately, he wanted to rest, but others didn’t give him the opportunity.
Not long after turning off the LCD television, the hospital room door was lightly knocked on.
Then the house door was pushed open by an external staff member, who quickly reported: “Team Leader Lu, latest news received: suspected parasitic organism has appeared in the emergency department.”