Chen Bin stripped naked, standing in front of the full-length mirror, he stretched out his right arm, and with a movement of his mind, the dark brown cartilage covered his entire arm in a blink of an eye.

He waved his arm, trying to control the tentacle stretching and deforming.

It's a strange feeling. He thought that materialization was just a shell on the outer body of the body, just like manipulating a mecha, but it was not.

Octopus tentacles have a sense of touch, whether they stretch or contract, or deform, from a sensory point of view, they are no different from controlling their own hands. The only difference is that it doesn't "feel" pain.

The hardness of this shell was also beyond expectations, Chen Bin didn't know what the hardness of his current ice crystals was, maybe fifth or sixth, even so, he still couldn't break through this thin layer of cartilage.

"The A-class sea monster is really not covered. ”

He thought of the terrifying figure of the Soul Snatcher Eight Claws overturning the river and the sea, and at the same time, he secretly rejoiced when his back was hairy.

"But I can't seem to be as gigantic as Captain Meng?"

He was impressed by the Deep-Sea Horn Demon's heroic posture of one against two, and he was now materialized, and he was still limited to covering the whole body and expanding freely, and it was not within the scope of his ability to become larger.

"It may be that the concentration of fog in my body is not high enough. ”

Chen Bin pondered in his heart. After a few days of research, he has come to understand that materialization requires fog as a foundation, and even consumes a certain amount of fog. Before baptism, no matter how much he tried, he could not materialize, also because he did not have the conditions for materialization at all.

As for the battle with the shell, it was probably because Xu Zehai's body collapsed, which led to an increase in the concentration of fog in the area, which gave the octopus balls a chance to come out.

On the second day after returning to Hong Kong, the association upgraded Chen Bin's authority to B-level, and the trainee account was also changed to an official and starred member account, which is an exclusive symbol for combat soldiers. He had 1,000 more points in his account, which was his reward for saving Meng Dashan.

After the privilege elevation, he also received a forum invitation code - a forum that only combat soldiers can enter, and the name of the forum is called the forum, just as the name of the association is called the association.

He has tried to invade this forum for more than ten years, but he has never been able to do it, but with this short sixteen-digit invitation code, he can log in openly and browse all the information in the forum without scrupulousness.

"Heh, as a veteran programmer ape who walked through the back door, has he been reduced to the point of entering the house?"

The moment he entered the invitation code and clicked to log in, he felt an inexplicable sense of shame in his heart. He despised his depravity, but this disdain only lasted two minutes, and he had to sigh when he saw the strange posts and a bunch of documents related to the far sea in the forum.

He spent two days browsing through the documents in the forum one by one, and when he finished reading the last page of the last document, he lay down on the bed with a tired face and let out a long sigh: "Sister Yingying is right, the association doesn't need students at all, the students are a fart! What the association needs is combat power." ”

His guess was roughly good. "Reiki" is baptism itself, and the association calls this "aura" "fog". The fog envelops all the oceans outside of the safe seas, and it is everywhere, eroding all the living things that lie beneath it.

After a long period of erosion, the body of animals and plants will gradually accumulate fog, and when the concentration of fog exceeds a certain value, it will mutate, that is, become a sea monster.

And the process of baptism is the process of receiving erosion. The accumulation of fog will cause the human body to undergo qualitative changes and gain unimaginable power, but at the same time, it also has certain risks.

Once the concentration of the fog exceeds the "threshold", this external force will get out of control and assimilate the object of erosion, a process that the association calls "atomization".

Chen Bin thought of the scene when Zhang Hanzhi exploded into mist in front of him, and his heart couldn't help but tighten. A lively girl who can talk and laugh can finally turn into a dead mist, which can't be described as weird.

According to the association's research for many years, the level of the threshold varies from person to person, under normal circumstances, the higher the affinity of the water element, the lower the probability of atomization, and the survival rate of baptism is more than 80% for people with an affinity higher than 90%, and the survival rate decreases by 3% for every 1% decrease. Once below 80%, the probability of atomization will increase exponentially.

Chen Bin thought to himself that this would explain why the association would rather reduce enrollment than relax the enrollment standards. Moreover, the promotion of baptism is only effective for the water system in the four series of elements, and the other three departments are not affected, so only the proximity of the water system elements is required when enrolling, and the other three departments are not required.

Thinking about it this way, in fact, many of the association's regulations seem to be clueless, but in fact, they are not made out of nothing.

"In the final analysis, it is still the loss of information asymmetry. ”

With his B-level clearance as a combat soldier, there is still a lot of information that cannot be obtained, such as why there is no fog in the safe sea, and the documents on this issue cannot be accessed with his current clearance.

But if you think about it with your feet, you know that there must be something that blocks the invasion of fog, otherwise with the average elemental closeness of human beings, about 99% or more of them will be atomized instantly.

And in this world, only the association has the ability to do this, as for how to do it, I am afraid that only when you are promoted to a sea general can you have the right to know.

"Admiral, ......"

The minimum criterion for inclusion in the list is the ability to control one billion tons of water, that is, the ability to control one billion tons of water at the same time.

One billion tons, the storage capacity of a medium-sized lake is no more than that, and the big guy on the sea general list can drain all the lake water in an instant as long as he is willing.

"How much control do I have?"

Control is a new standard, Chen Bin has never tested it, and the association does not test the students, it is estimated that it is also because the value of the students is too low and meaningless.

But after the baptism, Chen Bin felt that all aspects of the improvement were quite obvious.

"I don't know if I can enter the first-level combat power list. ”

The minimum standard for first-level combat power is 10 million tons of control, one billion is too exaggerated, and 10 million can still be expected.

Chen Bin, who was standing in front of the mirror, was already completely an octopus, with eight tentacles showing off his might to himself in the mirror.

Somehow, when he looked at the Soul Snatcher Octopus body, he felt ugly, but when he looked at the trumpet octopus in the mirror, he actually felt that the more he looked at it, the more handsome he became?

He quickly disembodied himself and put on his clothes. Materialization is to consume fog, in the safe sea, fog is a very rare thing, it is difficult to replenish after consumption, although there are people on the forum to sell, but they are all at a very high price, endless things in the open sea, who wants to pay a high price to buy it?

If you want to buy it, you also have to buy concentrated mist capsules, which can instantly increase the concentration of mist in the human body and burst out several times or even dozens of times the combat power. Of course, the price is even more expensive, one pill is a thousand points, and Chen Bin has an urge to rob the R&D department.

He looked at his phone, and at two o'clock in the afternoon, he was dressed and ready to go out. At three o'clock, the combat power is evaluated, whether it is a mule or a horse, and it is finally time to pull it out for a walk.