【003】Spirit Line
On the sofa, Chu Lei was constantly walking back and forth, as if he was thinking about something, but looking at the excited expression on his face that could not be concealed, it seemed that there was something gratifying to discover......
It had been more than three hours since he woke up, and he had done nothing in those hours, just kept groping for the mysterious lines that had suddenly appeared.
And after these few hours of groping, he also has some preliminary understanding of the spirit line!
Spirit thread, this is the custom name that Chu Lei gave to this magical thing.
Because of the short time, Chu Lei only roughly classified the characteristics of the spirit line, which can be divided into four characteristics: control, penetration, strengthening, and dependence!
Control means that the spirit is completely under his control, and it is like an arm, and this is the basis for his discovery of other characteristics!
In addition, the spirit thread does not have an entity, but a linear energy body, because it is an energy body, so theoretically it can penetrate any object, and this characteristic of penetration is not of substantial help to Chu Lei now, it just gives this discovery a name.
In addition, Chu Lei found that when he withdrew the spirit thread into his body, he was able to obtain about double the physical fitness enhancement, this discovery made him very excited, no one would think that it was a bad thing for his physical fitness to be stronger, and for him now, this is tantamount to sending charcoal in the snow, giving him the basis to leave the sofa!
And attachment is Chu Lei's most important discovery now, and it is also where he can really rely on to get out of the sofa, and two and a half of these three hours are spent groping for this magical feature!
When the spirit thread is in the body, he can make the spirit thread attach to his muscles, bones, and organs like fine blood vessels, and the limbs or organs that are attached to the spirit thread will be significantly strengthened, the attachment to the muscles can make the muscles denser, the attachment to the bones can make the bones harder, bear more weight, and even the heart will beat stronger!
In other words, on the basis of doubling the physical fitness of the spirit line, he can carry out secondary reinforcement on a certain part of his body, and the degree of strengthening of the second reinforcement is directly proportional to the length of the spirit line.
And this kind of enhancement is completely controlled by him, and the process is very simple, you only need to control the spirit thread to gather to the organ or limb that needs to be controlled, and then let the spirit thread adhere to it!
But at the same time, because of this major discovery, Chu Lei also realized that the spirit line is not absolutely safe, although it is controlled by him, there is also the possibility of harming himself!
That is, when the spirit line is in the attached state, he can still control the spirit line to move, but at this time, the activity is no longer similar to the energy body, which can penetrate any object, but just like the substance, the spirit line will 'grab' the attached object and let the object 'move' with it!
Just before, Chu Lei controlled the spirit thread to attach to his arms, trying to make the spirit thread move in the attached state, wanting to omit the other two processes of attachment through this way, but under his control, the spirit thread actually pulled his arm muscles and moved together, just in an instant, he felt the sharp pain caused by the muscle tearing!
Fortunately, the severe pain made him immediately stop the next order, and there were no irreparable consequences, otherwise Chu Lei would already be a one-armed hero now!
At the same time, Chu Lei also threw this characteristic used for 'suicide' into the cold palace, and also made up his mind in his heart that if he slept in the future, he would try to summon the spirit line out of his body, otherwise he would be killed by his subconscious in his sleep!
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These were the results of Chu Lei's three-hour experiment, and he was curious if there were any other properties of the Spirit Thread that had not been discovered, and he wanted to continue to explore, because he had not been so full of curiosity for a long time!
But now is obviously not suitable to continue to explore, because unconsciously, the time has reached noon, he has not eaten anything since he woke up in the morning, and he has already felt a slight discomfort in his stomach, while hunger has not affected his body yet, Chu Lei decided to leave the sofa first!
With the spirit line, leaving the sofa is no longer a problem in his opinion, after all, it has doubled the physical fitness as a hole card, and can also be strengthened twice, in addition, the surface of the sofa is a mesh line that is very easy to grasp, as long as these lines can bear his weight, there is no problem at all to leave here!
He used the attachment characteristics of the spirit thread to strengthen his arms a second time, and then tried to see if the ropes on the sofa were strong enough, as he expected, these ropes could now fully carry the weight of his body at the moment.
The last worries were removed, and Chu Lei began to climb down cautiously.
Although he was already sure, Chu Lei was inevitably a little nervous, after all, it was not a stress-free thing to climb a net wall with a height of the fifteenth floor without any protective measures.
Fortunately, the spirit line did not disappoint him, he easily climbed down the height of nearly fifty meters along those mesh lines, and when he reached the ground, he didn't even feel much tired, and his body was still full of vitality, just because of the nervousness and his heartbeat was a little faster.
After calming down the obviously accelerated heartbeat, Chu Lei began to observe the surrounding situation, he didn't feel much on the sofa before, but now he stepped on the ground and found that every tile in the living room is now bigger than the basketball court, and the whole space is even more vast, as if he can't see the edge at a glance, which is very spectacular!
However, he has seen a lot of these things in the past few hours, and with the surprise brought by the spirit line, he has not been shocked at the beginning, and he has begun to get used to it slowly.
Chu Lei didn't know if his size would recover one day, and he didn't know if other humans were like him, or if the creatures of the world were like this at the moment.
But now that he had forgotten about these things, he knew that he had to be prepared for a long 'fight' first, and first of all to make sure that he could survive, otherwise there would be no point in thinking about anything else!
"Food, water, you have to find these two necessities to survive first!" Chu Lei looked around, looking for these two things, he couldn't even hold out for a week without food and water!
As for the food, he had already found it on the sofa just now, and there was still a box of potato chips in the three packs of snacks that he hadn't finished eating, and now the huge box of potato chips was not far away, presumably scraped into the living room from the balcony in the shock wave, and there were a large number of potato chips scattered on the ground that were bigger than people.
Seeing these giant potato chips, Chu Lei knew that he would not starve to death for the time being, and with his current body, it should not be difficult to just eat enough.
The food problem was solved for the time being, and the next thing was water, and there was a half-full bucket of bottled water in the living room, but with his current size, he didn't have to think about it, and he couldn't drink it at all.
Although he couldn't drink the water in the bottled water like a reservoir, he also found a dumped kettle in the living room, the iron kettle lid was gone, Chu Lei could only hope that there was still some water left in this kettle, otherwise, he didn't know where to find a water source in this home with his current size......
Fortunately, Lady Luck fell on him again, and there was still some water in the kettle, which would have been no problem for a week or two with his size if he had saved a little, but given the volatilization problem, this time should have been shorter.
But with this water, at least the two most urgent resources have been found, and Chu Lei also breathed a sigh of relief, while holding a potato that was bigger than his body to solve the hunger problem, while thinking about what to do next.
"Try to find a suitable hiding place first!" In the end, Chu Lei still found a place where he could hide, although he hadn't seen any other creatures yet, and he wasn't sure if there would be monsters that suddenly appeared in the movie novels, but the abilities had already appeared, and he felt that he had to be careful.
As he thought, he only ate less than a third of a piece of potato chips before he felt satisfied, and after filling his stomach, Chu Lei spent nearly an hour collecting all the potato chips scattered on the ground and putting them back in the potato chip box, he couldn't waste any food until he found another food source!
If conditions permitted, he even wanted to seal up the food and water, but his current strength could not move these things at all, let alone a suitable container for water, so he could only let the kettle and potato chip box fall to the ground, separated by more than 200 meters......
After doing this, Chu Lei began to carpet search for anything he could use...... The hard work paid off, and after a long period of running, in this extremely empty living room, I also found something that my body can use now!
First of all, it is naturally the most important hiding place, and the half pack of paper that is left before the end of the world is now very suitable, Chu Lei tried it, and the thin layer of plastic bag that couldn't tear the paper bag at all was far stronger than he imagined, so he tentatively set the paper bag as his hiding place!
As for the reasons why he chose the paper bag as a hiding place, there are three reasons, first, the entrance of the paper bag is very small and secret, and it is more convenient to seal, second, the paper bag has a layer of plastic as a protective layer, so as not to be directly exposed to possible dangers, and third, he can observe the outside world through the transparent plastic bag!
At the end of the day, observation is the point!
From the moment he discovered the spirit line, Chu Lei had already been mentally prepared, and he had made some mental preparations for possible dangers in his heart.
In his opinion, the best result is that all the creatures in the world are reduced in size like him, and no monsters appear, if this is the case, human beings no longer need to worry about resources, this is not called a disaster, it should be called a gift from God!
Chu Lei felt that this was the most likely reality now, because he had never heard any sound throughout the day, the sound of decoration in the past, and the car engine seemed to have disappeared now, which was obviously abnormal in the city!
Second, all human beings in the world have shrunk, and the size of other creatures has not changed, which is also good news for him, and there is no need to worry too much, because the door of the house is closed, pet cats, pet dogs and other creatures cannot come close, plus the house is cleaned very clean, and he has never seen a creature like a mouse or cockroach, he will be very safe at home!
Third, and the worst result, is the appearance of all kinds of terrifying mutant creatures, like in the plot of the novel, wantonly slaughtering humans, in this case, Chu Lei is very self-aware, can only resign himself to fate, it doesn't matter where to hide, because these monsters always have various ways to find traces of humans......
Of course, these are just Chu Lei's speculations, and he doesn't know what the specific situation is, the only thing he can do at present is to protect himself as much as possible, so that he can survive in this world that is equivalent to magnifying a hundred times!
In addition, he also picked up two crystal swords as weapons to prevent possible dangers!
Of course, this is not a real crystal sword, just glass slag from the balcony window......
The edges of these glass slags were sharp and sharp, although he was very skeptical that this thing could effectively protect himself, because if it was really any kind of situation he had guessed, these glass slags would be of no use, but all Chu Lei needed now was a sense of security, and he did not pin his hopes on these glass slags.
In addition, in addition to these more urgent things, he also saw toothpick buckets, garbage bags, disposable paper cups, half rolls of tape, and other things on the floor of the living room that he might use in the future.
And when Chu Lei finished dealing with these things, the time had already reached evening, the sun was setting, the golden sun was hanging outside the balcony, the balcony of the seaside community was facing the western sea, and his home was on the twenty-eighth floor, so the rays of the sunset dyed the entire living room with a layer of gold, like a huge golden palace, very spectacular!
Dusk has appeared, indicating that it will be night soon, Chu Lei looked up at the crystal lamp above his head, remembering that the light was on before he fell unconscious last night, but now there is no light, obviously there is no electricity at home, but I don't know if it is his house now a special case or the entire building, or the entire Xiangrong City!
The living room will definitely fall into darkness without lights at night, and now Chu Lei is not sure if the home is really safe, the original plan to explore his bedroom was suspended, and before he knew whether the night was safe, he still decided to hide first and observe the night situation!
While there was still light, Chu Lei began to rectify his hiding place tonight, saying that rectification was actually just sealing the only entrance above the paper bag with duct tape, and then covering the entrance with a few pieces of paper, with his current size and strength, even if he had a better idea, he couldn't do it.
Before nightfall, Chu Lei made preparations, and finally checked the paper bag he was hiding, the only entrance had been sealed with tape, and covered with three layers of paper, and there were two processed glass thorns beside him, and there was no damage on the paper bag,......
After confirming that there were no mistakes, Chu Lei sat in the center of the paper bag, tearing the paper under him with his hand, he was naked all day today, so he was going to use the paper to make a dress for himself, he was busy during the day to survive, and now he had time to do these things, and at the same time, his mind was constantly thinking about the problems he might encounter next.
Before you know it, as the golden sunset disappears, the light gets dimmer and the first night descends after the body shrinks......