Volume 1 The Lawless Earth Chapter 3 The Five Domains of Power
Updated: 2012-06-21
What was supposed to be a normal line of sight suddenly stretched so far. In Zero's line of sight, both Leah and the objects in the room instantly shrank, as strange as standing hundreds of meters away and watching. Naturally, this is not the case, Zero is still sitting in the same position, but the distance of the field of view has changed. He was slightly startled in his heart, and subconsciously wanted to see Leah clearly.
This thought arose, and the field of vision suddenly narrowed again. Leah's figure immediately filled Zero's vision, and its clarity was so clear that Zero could even see Leah's snow-white peaks through the neckline of the checkered shirt.
Perhaps Zero didn't know that as his vision changed, the silver beast pupils in the golden eyes also changed. When the beast's pupil is vertical, the field of vision is farther away. When the beast's pupils are round, the field of vision is narrowed.
However, the free change of vision is limited to Zero's right eye. Zero's left eye was business as usual, so two different visions made him dizzy. He couldn't help but close his eyes, but a voice in his head kept asking: What's wrong with me?
Leah's change in the Golden Eye was seen in her eyes, and she asked happily, "How is it, do you feel something strange?"
Zero opened his eyes, and the silver light beast pupil in his left eye had disappeared, and it was scattered into countless hair-thin silver threads covering the edges of the pupil. He shook his head and said, "I'm sorry to disappoint you, everything is normal." ”
Even he didn't know that Weishenme's vision would change like this, so Zero decided to keep it a secret, including Leah.
"Forget it, it looks like you just have a pretty eye. Leah was a little disappointed, but soon, the girl regained her vitality. She saw that Zero had eaten almost everything, so she said, "You take a break, I'll go prepare the appraisal instrument." ”
Zero nodded, watching her push the door open. He knew that the so-called appraiser should be related to what Old Jack called "ability appraisal", and Leah had also mentioned "anomaly" and "evolution point" before, which was a new term for Zero. At least in his memory, there was no such thing.
His head is like a high-precision computer, analyzing and categorizing all the information he receives after waking up, and finally coming to a conclusion.
"Is it evolution?" Zero muttered to himself softly, and based on what he had seen and heard before, he already had a rudimentary concept of this shijie.
After what they call the cataclysm, the genes of life have been turned upside down. Some of these genes are heavily mutated, resulting in a wide variety of monsters. However, a small number of genes have evolved phenomena, so there are "aliens" and "evolution points". The supernatural person should be the new human who has evolved, but the direction of their evolution, the ability they produce, etc., because of the lack of information, Zero can't be analyzed.
Now, Old Jack has instructed Leah to conduct a test of her abilities. In other words, Old Jack suspects that he is also a paranormal. The basis of his suspicion should be related to his right eye.
Thinking so, Zero stood up, used the bottom of the aluminum plate as a mirror, and held it up to his face.
The pitch-black and gold pupil colors were completely different, making Zero himself slightly stunned. Then smiled bitterly, such a scene, it is no wonder that Old Jack has a lot of thoughts. Whoever sees these two-colored pupils can't connect with normal people. Zero thoughts.
"The equipment is ready, you can come here, what are you doing?" Leah pushed the door in, only to see Zero holding a plate and not knowing what he was doing, and was curious.
Zero put down the plate, shook his head and said, "It's nothing." ”
Leah didn't dig deeper, beckoning Zero to the next room.
It's a lab-like room.
The room is filled with test tubes and utensils for experiments, and even an operating table. There was some blood stains on the operating table, and I don't know what was lying on it. In one corner of the lab, a machine resembling an old-time magnetic resonance machine is energized. Leah was doing something Zero couldn't understand next to the machine, but it wasn't hard to see that the machine was supposed to be the Identification Instrument.
"Although it is an old appraisal instrument that my grandfather didn't know where to get it, what can be identified is only the ability below the third order and the basic body comprehensive index. But I think that's enough for you. No matter how you look at it, you don't look like a third-order or higher powerhouse, you say yes. Leah's hands were flying, busy at the console.
Zero is fascinated, these hands should not be operating some ability appraiser, but should be playing intoxicating piano music on the big stage.
"Hey, come here. Leah's voice shattered Zero's illusions, and the girl pointed to the platform at the entrance of the instrument and said, "Come, you lie down on this." ”
Zero nodded, walked over and lay down. At this moment Old Jack also came in, and he stood beside Leah, and glanced at Zero with an indifferent look, but said nothing.
Leah was also nervous, and she pressed the start button to announce the start of the identification.
Zero closed his eyes and felt the platform under him, driven by the mechanical pulley, sliding towards the warehouse of the instrument. Then, all kinds of lights light up in the instrument, and Zero knows that countless amounts of data are being formed and transmitted to the display on the operator's table.
Old Jack's eyes widened and he stared at the monitor.
As the various data took shape, the emotionless synthesized voice of the computer also sounded: "Identification completed." Subject: Human. Body composite index, based on standard data. Liliang 120%, body strength 110%, muscle explosiveness 130%. Ability: None. Evolution Point: None. ”
A flurry of data swept across the monitor, and Old Jack's face kept darkening. Especially when he saw Zuihou's data, he snorted and slammed the door, followed by his roaring voice outside the door.
Listening to her grandfather's voice, Leah sighed softly. When Zero came out of the instrument, he sat up from the platform, looked thoughtfully at the door and said, "He's disappointed?"
Leah smiled bitterly and said, "Don't blame grandpa, he hasn't been easy for him all these years." He has worked hard for the old men of the Parkland chaebol all his life, and now the top brass of the chaebol is training young executives to replace their grandfather. Without this job, my grandfather and I would have had a very hard time, so he always wanted to have someone with extraordinary abilities around him to increase his influence on the chaebol. ”
"Is the Adept that useful?" asked Zero.
Leah nodded vigorously and said, "You shouldn't know, after the cataclysm, the ground was covered with strong radiation, and 90% of the world's population died one after another, and only 10% survived. In order to survive, the genes of all living beings, whether human or animal, have evolved or mutated in just 50 years after being upheaved by the cataclysm. Alien beings are the result of genetic evolution. ”
From Leah's mouth, Zero completes a systematic cognition of the new Shijie.
Adepts are the product of genetic evolution.
Through the battle with mutant creatures, or through the cruel test of the harsh environment, or for various reasons. The genes of humanity have changed and evolved at an almost terrible rate in this turbulent year. In the process, they generate evolutionary points.
The evolutionary point is a new member of the gene chain, and its appearance breaks the original genetic makeup of human beings, and evolves a variety of abilities from the surface.
New humans with evolution points and the ability to appear are called Anomalous Beings.
And the classification and generalization of the abilities of the supernatural finally took shape after half a century of quarrels and debates. All the abilities that arise today and are known are grouped into five domains.
They are: the Elemental Domain, the Combat Domain, the Perception Domain, the Mutation Domain, and the Rules Domain.
The different abilities in different fields are divided into 12 levels. But theoretically, there is such a thing as the thirteenth order. Legend has it that when you maximize your ability and break through the bottleneck of the twelfth order, you will enter the thirteenth order. The thirteenth-order ability will produce the absolute realm, and the absolute realm is a substance similar to the energy field, and within the scope of the energy field, the ability will be maximized, even reaching the height of the gods.
It's just that for now, Quan Shijie has not appeared in a thirteenth-order god-level ability, so it has always been considered a legendary realm.
Naturally, the five areas of competence are different.
The elemental realm is a general term for the ability to manipulate the energy of various elements in nature, and the known energy elements include earth, fire, water, wind, thunder, light, and darkness. And the powerhouses of the Elemental Domain, also known as magicians, represent the reverence of the world.
Those who are good at the field of martial arts are all elite fighters. Capabilities in this area include various weapon specializations, as well as various combat-related ability enhancements such as liliang, defense, and agility.
Then there is the realm of perception, and most of the abilities of those in this field are manifested in the liliang of the mind. They are the most powerful of all the spiritual powers, possessing all kinds of incredible abilities such as psychic imaging, psychic eyes, psychic chains, psychic suggestion, and teleportation.
If the above three ability areas are concerned, their abilities are at least no different from ordinary people in appearance. Then the ability of the mutant domain is undoubtedly the existence of monsters. Those who are capable in this field, they are able to reorganize their genes in a short period of time, so that they can turn into another creature to fight. Among the known mutation abilities are animal avatars, insect avatars, ancient species avatars, and the most terrifying demon avatars.
Zuihou is the field of rules.
The so-called rule field is the powerful person who masters a certain rule. Although some scholars have summarized various rule-based abilities such as time control, space control, energy control, and matter control. But for now, there is no one who has the ability to appear in the rule domain in the whole shijie, even if there is only one.
Therefore, the realm of rules and the legendary thirteenth-order ability in general became a theoretical realm.
However, some people prophesy that whoever has the power of the rule domain will be the living god of this world!