Chapter 255: Changes

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Chapter 253 of "Atlas of Heaven and Earth" opens introducing characters: On the small hill, the two-story building was engulfed in flames, thick black smoke rising... Find out more!

On the small hill, the two-story building was engulfed in flames, thick black smoke rising into the sky, with sparks flying all around. Chen Chuan , following Instructor Wu's instructions, burned his body and the house together with Algae Oil. To completely clean up the traces, he had also gathered the splintered pieces of wood from their fight and thrown them into the fire. At this moment, something on the grass was stirred by the air current and suddenly flew over. He reached out and grabbed it, seeing that it was the Molan Company advertisement. He glanced at it and casually tossed it into the fire. After checking again and finding nothing else left behind, he contacted Wu Bei using the Boundary Token, "Little Brother Wu, did anyone observe the fight just now?" Wu Bei's voice came through: "Little Brother Chen, don't worry. While you were fighting, I shielded the Biological Field in this area. Anyway, there's hardly anyone here, so there's no need to worry about someone reporting it." Chen Chuan hummed in agreement. Central City is different from other places because, due to the existence of Boundary Tokens and Boundary Points, events that occur in some areas can be broadcast and viewed through other means, so someone must be responsible for ambushing messages. Moreover, he could do more than just that. If necessary, he could also have Wu Bei cause some minor malfunctions in Instructor Wu's Boundary Token, causing his attention to be influenced for a moment. Wu Bei was also stimulated by the Anomaly. In fact, during that fight, he didn't see anything clearly except when the two stopped. He only saw bricks and wood splintering, and large pits appearing on the ground. This kind of power was simply inhuman. The last time Chen Chuan fought with the Golden Shrimp Commission Company, he thought that was already impressive enough, but this time he truly witnessed the level of a Martial Artist with powerful Strength. It was completely on another level. At this moment, he thought of something and said, "Little Brother Chen, this Instructor Wu , his situation, um, seems like he had Mental Derangement." "Mental Derangement?" "Yes, the current term defined by the Government and various Companies is Functional Disorder Syndrome. This theory suggests that under the long-term Influence of the Biological Field, the prolonged use of Boundary Tokens, and the multiple stimulating effects of Drugs and Implants, a person's cognition will swing back and forth between illusion and reality. They can't distinguish which is the real self and which is the real world. In a state of cognitive confusion, they often do things that normal people would find difficult to do. Oh, this is just a theory, the situation is very complex, so I only know this much." Chen Chuan nodded slightly. He had felt before that when he came to Central City, the surrounding environment had some weak invasion on Second Self , which was actually caused by the exchange of Biological Fields. Being in this environment for a long time might have some slight Influence on ordinary people, but for Martial Artists , it wasn't really harmful. Instructor Wu's situation might have more complex reasons behind it. Moreover, he looked down at the hill, and at this moment, the area where he was standing also had problems... However, he didn't have time to investigate it, after all, Central City was full of vitality, with all things competing to thrive. He didn't have the energy or the possibility to figure out every single thing. Now, there was something more worthy of his attention. In this battle with Instructor Wu , even without deliberately distinguishing it, he could be sure that the Merge time with Second Self had definitely exceeded twenty-four hours. He had a premonition that Second Self might have some kind of change at that time, and since it was already very close to twelve o'clock, he would soon know the answer. He said goodbye to Wu Bei , turned off the Boundary Token, and took out his watch from his pocket. Time passed by, second by second. Finally, it was twelve o'clock. Chen Chuan put down his watch, intending to see if there was anything different from before, when he suddenly felt an abnormality. This is... He looked out, and under focused observation, everything, whether it was the flying sparks or the leaves and weeds scattered by the wind, seemed to be much slower than what he had seen just now. It was as if he had Merged with Second Self . But the problem was, he had not chosen to Merge. He clenched his fist, feeling that strong and abundant Strength. seaʀᴄh thё NôvelFire(.)net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality. So that's how it is. After twenty-four hours of Merge, Second Self completely integrated into his body, so... did "Second Self " disappear? No. He looked to the side, "Second Self " was still standing there unharmed, and there were faint signs of fading on his body, still bearing the external invasions for him. He turned his thoughts, and with a Thought, Merged it in, but this time, it seemed that besides still being able to replace harm, there was no additional Merge effect. No, that's not it. It wasn't that there was no improvement, but the improvement was very weak. It was like... um, it was like only Merging in the Strength of an ordinary person. His mind raced, and he released Second Self again. After looking at it a few more times, he suddenly understood. The physical qualities of this Second Self should be the earliest time, that is, when he had just transmigrated over. He had judged before that Second Self was likely his other-world counterpart, also himself, but because of his arrival, the boundary of the world was broken. Now it seemed that when a certain Limit or a certain condition was reached, his counterpart would achieve a perfect fusion with him, but Second Self would not disappear. Instead, Second Self would return to the origin, that is, back to the way he looked when he first arrived. At this moment, without trying, he could clearly know when Merging with it that the Merge time was one day and four hours. This seemed to have broken the twenty-four-hour limit and was moving towards a longer future. He could feel that the Strength of this Second Self would gradually grow with the accumulation of time. To say growth was not accurate, it should be said that Strength would constantly move closer to his current state, but this process might require him to promote it. Whether it would approach his current Strength or the Strength before Merge was unclear, but even the latter would be a great improvement. And in the Merge, he found that he seemed to have another option. He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he found that his physical state had returned to the previous state again. When he chose to Merge Second Self , he could suppress the expression of his physical qualities to before the fusion, which was equivalent to indirectly stripping the original fused Second Self again. This was quite interesting. This was not a useless ability, but a very useful one, because the more powerful an individual is, the more matter and energy are needed to support its existence and maintain its activities. For example, the nutrition he needs to ingest during training now is much more than before. If he reaches a higher Limit, I am afraid that the consumption of maintaining his own existence alone would be considerable. And if Merge can maintain a low Limit state for a long time, it can weaken or avoid this situation. And there may be other effects in it, he has already thought of one, and feels that he can go back and try it. He looked at the fire in front of him, and at this time he remembered what He Xiaoxing had once said to him, the so-called "Limit" means that a person's Strength has its limit. As long as they are still human, no matter how powerful the Mutated Tissue is, there must be an upper limit in a certain stage, and only theoretically perfect individuals can reach it. At the time of the test, even with Merge Second Self , he failed to reach the theoretical upper limit, and only approached it. Now that he has fused Second Self , he doesn’t know whether he has reached this upper limit in the Second Limit? Or is there still a distance? He felt that there may still be, but with Second Self here, he felt that one day he might reach or surpass this Limit. He stood there quietly, in front of the red-hot fire, with the silent night behind him, Snow Emperor Blade was stuck on the side, the distant wind blew, and his scarf and windbreaker fluttered. After waiting for another hour, the fire finally went out, the entire house had been completely burned down. He confirmed that there was nothing special left behind, and then opened the Boundary Token. With the help of Wu Bei , he cleaned up some of the remaining traces, then picked up Snow Emperor Blade and left here. When he arrived at the station, it was almost two o'clock, but when he got on the elevator to come back, at least half of the car was full of people, most of whom were Company employees. These employees maintained long working hours through Drugs and Implants. At this time, it was only one or two hours later than normal off-duty hours, and many employees were used to it. On the tram, Chen Chuan used the Boundary Token to check the last two people that Instructor Wu mentioned. Yuan Binshu may not be from the Academy. There doesn’t seem to be this person among the teachers and senior executives of the Academy, and he doesn’t seem like a student either, so he can pay attention to it later. As for the other person, Instructor Wu did not finish his words, but he noticed that there were only two people named Ling among the teachers and senior executives of the Academy, one was an Academy consultant in his eighties, who didn’t even have a course, and the other was the vice-principal assistant, Ling Jianxing . He felt that the person Instructor Wu was talking about was likely the latter. Instructor Wu's matter may have something to do with these two people. If so, will these two people and the people behind them who participated in this matter give up because of the former's death? He felt that if this matter had a deeper purpose, then it was likely that they would not. While he was thinking, the tram went all the way back to the school. When he came out of the station and walked towards Mysterious Palace Tower, it was already more than three o'clock in the morning. As he was about to step into the hall, he looked up and saw Hong Fu standing above, and nodded to her. After Hong Fu saw him, her bright eyes above the veil looked over and nodded to him in the same way. Chen Chuan withdrew his gaze. From the moment he came down from that small hill, he had Merge Second Self to keep himself in his previous state. His Biological Field expression was almost the same as when he left the Academy. Walking into the hall and entering the elevator, he looked at the signs moving upwards and thought to himself, although the Merge time with Second Self has now exceeded twenty-four hours, the use of lowering his state like now, and transferring harm invasions and other choices will undoubtedly reduce this time. And in order for Second Self to return to a state close to his Strength, he still needs to find ways to extend the upper limit. The elevator doors slid open, he walked out, pushed the door and returned to the dormitory, put down Snow Emperor Blade, he glanced at the brilliant night view outside, pulled the curtains, took a shower first, and then went to rest.

Chapter 255: Changes

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