Fantasy Game: Infinite City

Chapter 577 Help from γ4 (Part 1)

More than two months passed. During the period of high-intensity training and resting only by converting energy, Han Zu gradually discovered a problem. That is, his two current energy attack methods, high-energy rays and particle chains, did not seem to show any signs of getting stronger, unlike his physical fitness which had obviously become more than ten times stronger. Moreover, as the training progressed, there was even a counter-effect. He was slowly losing these two powers. It was not that he was completely unable to use these two energy attacks, but that his body had entered a certain state, thinking that these two abilities would be a waste of his own energy without benefit, and thus passively blocked them.

Now, two months and twenty-five days after Han Zu began training, he had completely lost his ability to use high-energy beams and particle chains. However, this wasn't all loss, as he could clearly sense that his biofield had significantly expanded, passively maintaining it without active control. Originally, his biofield, with minimal energy consumption, or even negligible consumption through energy conversion, only covered a one-meter radius around him and himself. Now, this radius had expanded to approximately 17 meters. Without increasing energy consumption, he could carry anything up to one ton within his biofield and, while protecting it, continue to move normally with the container fully open. However, exceeding this weight would exponentially increase Han Zu's energy consumption.

The second is the influence of perception. Without activating the biofield, not engaging in other activities, and only doing regular walking or slow running, his perception can always be maintained within a spherical range of 150 meters, and the sharpness of his perception is also very precise. He can use his perception to obtain the same accurate and detailed information that can only be obtained through the basic five senses without relying on the five senses at all.

Han Zu's energy conversion abilities had also improved. He now experienced no loss in the process of converting and absorbing energy. He could completely absorb any energy he came into contact with and replenish it within his energy reserves. Han Zu's own energy reserves had actually reached a staggering level, though he wasn't aware of this yet. He simply felt it had increased slightly, but he wasn't sure by how much. He also noticed that even when he'd replenished his energy to twice his previous level—thinking he was fully replenished (which he wasn't), he still felt severely low on energy. This was puzzling to him. He even had a growing feeling that his energy levels were failing to keep up with his physical fitness. He felt like a nuclear-powered spaceship running on AA batteries, feeling uneasy. He'd never experienced this feeling of superficial strength, but a weakness within.

A week later, when this feeling reached its peak, Han Zu stopped training. He thought he might have made a mistake. Although Han Zu believed his energy reserves were sufficient, his body gave off a feeling of energy depletion. However, he could see the improvement in his physical fitness. This asymmetry left Han Zu extremely puzzled and with a strange sense of contradiction.

Han Zu casually lifted the fully opened mineral cylinder, and with his fingers stuck on the handle, he turned the thing that could create abnormal gravity and weighed more than 600 tons. However, before the abnormal gravity created a strong turbulence on the seabed and caused serious damage, he stopped his action, put it back into the container, and stored it in the storage space of the contractor's equipment.

"The interference has disappeared and is being repaired..."

I wanted to use the contractor's equipment to check the time, but perhaps because I was in the gravity anomaly created by the mineral cylinder for too long, the contractor's equipment was greatly affected. Although considering the contractor's technological level, the equipment was not damaged, it would take at least some time to repair and restart the equipment.

"Luckily I ran to the deepest part of the seabed, otherwise, judging by the appearance of this place, it would definitely attract attention again."

As he stretched his body, Han Zu glanced back at his previous training location. Originally the deepest trench on the planet, under the influence of prolonged gravity anomalies, coupled with Han Zu's previous targeted energy training, this place had transformed from a trench tens of meters long into an underwater canyon several kilometers wide. Aside from rock debris and shifting seawater, there was truly no living creature around. Fortunately, Han Zu didn't create any pollution, so the ocean itself would slowly repair the area's ecology. Furthermore, Han Zu had done some good things; he used his energy to decompose all the marine debris swept here by the currents.

Of course, there is nothing left of the nearby heavy metal veins now, as they have been completely sucked dry by Han Zu.

Looking up, Han Zu, intent on leaving the seabed, activated his flight ability at his original energy output and speed, preparing to depart. However, barely a second into his energy output, he was shocked to discover that not only had he left the seabed, but he had soared directly into the sky. The air pressure there was extremely low—perhaps only one ten-millionth of that at sea level, according to his own experience—and it felt almost like a vacuum. The temperature was also low. While the exact temperature was unknown, it was certainly well above freezing. Furthermore, after stopping, Han Zu looked around and found no clouds. Looking upward, he actually saw a partial aurora. He was certain, however, that he hadn't ventured near the poles during his search for a training ground. Seeing the aurora was indeed unusual.

"Is this still Earth? What the hell are you doing here?"

After calming himself, Han Zu carefully observed his surroundings. Looking down, his powerful vision prevented him from seeing any clouds, indicating he was already above the cloud-forming altitude. Looking up, he could see a portion of the aurora, indicating he was still within the atmosphere and hadn't entered space. It was nighttime, and the moon was clearly visible. Han Zu felt it was significantly larger than usual. Looking down again, he could see an image of the Earth's surface similar to what satellites had captured. While he hadn't left the Earth's atmosphere, he wasn't far away.

"ah????"

I remember very clearly that from the time I flew from the deepest part of the ocean to where I stopped, I only flew for one second. Being able to reach this height in one second meant that my speed, at least my flying speed, had reached a level I had never imagined.

However, after thinking about this, Han Zu's first thing was to breathe a sigh of relief. He was very grateful that his bio-force field had been passively wrapping his body. Although he was not clear about it and had not seen the specific situation, he could understand what kind of huge impact this level of speed would have on the surrounding environment without a bio-force field.

So Han Zu planned to slowly control his flying speed, return to the base first, and test his current physical data after the contractor's equipment was repaired. However, even though he strictly controlled his flying speed, Han Zu still felt that the speed he controlled now was still much faster than before.

After returning to the base, Han Zu took out the container and put it back into the warehouse. He then returned to the second floor and waited for the contractor's equipment to be repaired. However, the condition of the contractor's equipment seemed to be more serious than he had imagined, and it has not been repaired until now.

"Strange? Did I really break the equipment?"

Han Zu planned to use the other contractor equipment in the base to contact γ4 or Gloria and have them use the teleportation anchor to teleport him over to check the equipment. However, as soon as he stood up from his chair, Han Zu suddenly felt his vision go black, lost consciousness, and fell straight to the ground with a loud bang.

"Clang!!"

I don’t know how long it took, but the feeling of suddenly eating something after being hungry for a week made Han Zu gradually regain consciousness.

"Uh......"

Han Zu muttered a few words and slowly opened his eyes. Bright but not dazzling, but very soft light entered Han Zu's sight through the gap between his eyes. He heard the humming sound of some kind of equipment, the special footsteps unique to contractors, and some vague sounds that seemed to be conversations.

Meanwhile, during the brief moment Han Zu tried to adjust to the light, he sensed a high concentration of a special radiation. He was very familiar with this radiation; it was one of the energy sources used by contractors, the energy used to power medium-sized bases. He had never seen it anywhere else; he must have arrived at the contractor's site.

After adapting to the light, Han Zu sat up from his lying position. He found himself lying naked on a large metal platform. Two thick energy pipelines extended from the bottom of the platform, one attached to his chest and the other to his side abdomen. They were continuously supplying him with high-concentration energy. But what surprised Han Zu was that the energy in his body now exceeded dozens of times the original amount, but he was still absorbing that energy and there was no excess energy load, which meant that he had not yet recovered his complete energy. His current energy storage capacity has exceeded his cognition and reached a huge number.

Han Zu stood up from the metal platform and looked down at his body, discovering it was covered in various tubes and wires. Although Han Zu hadn't seen all of them, he knew they were the ones the contractors were using to assess data. They were probably testing his body. This was a good thing; at least when it came to collecting data, the contractors were much more professional than he was.

At the same time, he also discovered that the contractor equipment in his body was missing, which made it impossible for him to fully confirm what the contractors around him were saying. Although Han Zu did not completely understand the contractors' language, as a race that was almost about to abandon language, they rarely used language in their conversations. Even if they did, they used some uncommon words that Han Zu could not understand.

"Uh... where am I?"

Han Zu wanted to inquire about his location, but the contractors around him were busy working and ignored him. Their metal bodies didn't have much expression to analyze. Han Zu scratched his head, unsure of what to say. The energy transmission pipelines and the measuring equipment attached to his body were operated by some spatial technology he was completely unfamiliar with. Therefore, even after leaving the metal platform, he could move freely. No one cared about what he did, even removing the measuring equipment, and no one stopped him. However, when he tried to remove the two energy pipelines, the contractors stopped him, but they didn't say anything more.

Replenishing energy was entirely beneficial to him, so Han Zu didn't necessarily need to remove them. However, judging by the contractors' condition, he couldn't leave this place, which looked like a large workshop or scientific research laboratory, until their energy was fully replenished. Without the contractors' equipment, he had no way to explore intelligence, so Han Zu returned to the metal platform and lay down again.

“■ ┠ ┬ ┼ ┛ ┨ ┼ ┴”

About dozens of minutes later, Han Zu, who was so bored that he just stared blankly, saw an energy screen emerge in front of the metal platform with some symbols on it. Although he didn't understand what they meant, he knew what these things were. These were the characters used by the contractors. The names of these characters could not be pronounced in the language of the earth, so Han Zu naturally had no intention of learning them.

However, after this text appeared, one of the contractors came over, removed the remaining energy lines from Han Zu, and raised his own hand, which was roughly equivalent to a hand. After all, this contractor was not humanoid. He pointed in a certain direction in the laboratory.

"You want me to go in that direction?"

“┼ ┴”

The contractor spoke a word in a metallic voice. This word was one of the few contractor words that Han Zu understood the exact meaning of. It meant "affirmation".

"OK then."

Following the direction indicated by the contractor, Han Zu left the metal platform again and walked to the designated location.

"Then..."

Before Han Zu could finish expressing his doubts, he was immediately enveloped by energy and left the laboratory. This seemed to be a new type of teleportation technology, or perhaps it was something Han Zu had never seen before.