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Chapter 254: 254

“Thwack!”

“Thwack!”

“Thwack!”

Inside the dimly lit basement, Chen Chen continuously tossed around faintly glowing blocks . These blocks radiated a faint blue glow in the darkness, instantly turning red upon being held in hand .

Their red glow started strong but as time went on, they slowly grew dimmer and dimmer until they eventually fizzled out .

By that point, Chen Chen would toss them by his feet and reach into the display again to extract more similar objects .

Several hours later, countless such blocks the size of a fist that had already extinguished were littered around Chen Chen’s feet . Upon closer inspection, one could see that these objects were crystal clear substances resembling a gem .

“Phew…”

After silently tallying the total amount, Chen Chen finally heaved a sigh of relief . He wiped his bleeding nose and proceeded to get up .

As Chen Chen got up, his expression suddenly changed as he doubled over and collapsed onto the ground, causing a commotion .

Immediately after that, he vomited a pool of bile . The strong stench of bile began to fill the entire basement which at that point, several Black Knights helped him up .

At that point, Chen Chen had long passed out .

Due to the previous incident with the statues, Chen Chen became fully aware of the hostility of the USB drive . He gave up on conserving energy and immediately exhausted a large portion of the energy accumulated in the USB drive over the last few months . In one short burst, he had extracted five hundred pieces of cut crystalline .

A piece of crystalline weighed 4 . 7 kilograms . Chen Chen had extracted a total of 2 . 4 tons worth of substances from the USB drive, which was equivalent to two months of electricity generated by the nuclear power plant .

This maneuver cost him more than when he previously converted them for the Medpod 3000 fully-automatic medical platform, immediately setting Chen Chen back to the medieval ages .

The symptoms Chen Chen was exhibiting were the result of mass exposure to radiation . Since even the movie itself did not show the effects the initial exposure had on the three protagonists, Chen Chen did not anticipate such a drastic side effect after absorbing as much crystalline as he did for the very first time .

…

Early dawn next morning . The first glimpse of sunlight beamed through the windows and landed on Chen Chen’s cheeks .

After a full night’s rest, Chen Chen slowly opened his eyes as he emerged from his dreams .

Instead of the head-splitting headache commonly experienced by people after having passed out, Chen Chen immediately felt rejuvenated . Each cell in his brain seemed to be soaring with energy after enjoying a lengthy rest .

The first thing that came into view was a splendid, pink-colored room .

The room was adorned with large, reflective decorations . There was a wind chime at the head of the bed spinning to a rhythm of its own, a fine fragrance loomed in the surrounding air…

Chen Chen sat up in a blur and set his bare feet on the floor as he inspected the room carefully .

This place appeared to be a woman’s bedroom?

Chen Chen frowned a little and came to a desk . Apart from a messy arrangement of women’s magazines, he also spotted a framed picture of a Chinese girl .

Chen Chen instinctively reached for the picture frame . Before his arm could graze the picture frame, it levitated on its own and flew into Chen Chen’s hand .

“Field is significantly stronger…”

Chen Chen muttered to himself . He remembered that the protagonists in the movie were able to control a baseball masterfully the very next day after acquiring superpowers, even capable of stopping a thrown baseball mid-air .

A baseball weighed somewhere around 150 grams . Combined with the force of a throw, it’s impact force at close range could surpass 25 to 30N . The protagonists could effortlessly stop a thrown baseball mid-air and this was only their initial demonstration upon acquiring their superpowers .

When Chen Chen first acquired his superpowers, he could only handle spontaneous explosive force up to 0 . 3N, which was only one percent of what others were capable of . Even after more than half a year of training, he only managed to raise that number to 1N .

Now that he had absorbed five hundred pieces of crystalline in one go, its effects were immediately apparent . He even felt his spirits greatly revitalized .

The only thing he was curious about was, to what heights could his “Field” reach now?

Chen Chen smiled faintly, doing what he could to contain his excitement . He turned to inspect the girl in the picture frame .

Judging by the picture, the girl was probably in her late twenties . In the picture, she pursed her lips together and had her eyebrows slightly raised in a cutesy manner . Overall, the vibe she gave off was seven-parts cute and three-parts somewhat gloomy .

In this instant, Chen Chen felt his vision shifting as an odd feeling came to him uninitiated . He had an impression that he should be very familiar with the girl in the picture .

However, his mind was telling him that this was the first time he had ever seen this girl and this picture…

“Is this déjà vu…”

Chen Chen frowned . Déjà vu was a phenomenon in which a person got the sensation that they had experienced an event beforehand while the very event itself was just unfolding . According to physiology and psychology interpretations, this was a very common physiological phenomenon, mostly occurring in a person’s youth .

This should imply that this déjà vu was merely a coincidence .

With this in mind, Chen Chen silently placed the frame back in its original spot and approached the window to look outside .

There was a moderately sized lawn, separated from another lawn with a wall of fences . Further out was a path leading to the front gate with two rows of trees lining across both sides of the path . As it was in the midst of winter, the trees were barren of any leaves .

This was a common civilian house in North America . They were nowhere near extravagant as a villa but closer to the self-built houses in the rural area of the Mainland, except the housing planning and environment were better here .

Most common civilians in North America lived in houses such as these .

This particular house was a hiding spot for the Black Knights to evade the pursuit of the North American government . A B . S . S . member had purchased this lot several days ago . Chen Chen was not too informed of the general details . All he knew was that the original owner had just moved out not too long ago because he could still smell the lingering scent of female hormones in the bedroom .

Not planning to linger for too long, Chen Chen took a deep breath and exited the bedroom, where he went to the basement again .

In the basement, the bile he had vomited and the fragments of the crystalline were already cleaned up . There was only the computer with the USB drive plugged into it in the basement .

Chen Chen swiftly unplugged the USB drive and put it away before putting on a pair of Bluetooth earphones and spoke, “X, send me the address of the Munster Financial Group . Since we’re here, I might as well go meet him in person . ”

“Will it be dangerous?” Little X asked with mild concern .

Chen Chen grazed the button that was emitting faint blue light on his collar and smiled . “If I still find myself in peril even with the GS Combat Suit along with the memory eraser and cloaking device as a backup, then I suppose there’s no helping it . ”

“Understood . ”

Little X understood straight away and responded, “I’ve already sent the address to you . ”

“Excellent . ”

Chen Chen nodded and made to head outside before he suddenly seemed to recall something . “Oh yeah, look up information regarding the residents of this house, I want all their details . ”

With that, Chen Chen turned and exited the basement, disappearing at the end of the room .