Chapter 16: Zombies Arrive, Welcome Them (1)
Abilities have various directions of evolution and use, all honed little by little based on the ability user’s comprehension. The most proficient use is definitely the one that appeared earliest with the ability. For example, a metal-elemental ability user whose ability manifested with the use of metal to attack would naturally be most proficient in attacking. If they wanted to use metal to create different shapes, they would need to train themselves later.
The direction of cultivation for Lu Weiyi’s mental ability was designed by Zhuang Mingxu for him. Attack involved using mental power to manipulate objects for attack or directly using intangible mental power attacks. Direct mental power attacks were only effective against people of the same level or lower. Manipulating objects allowed him to disguise himself as having other types of abilities, such as metal-elemental, to avoid detection by those with ulterior motives.
Defense involved directly covering himself with a layer of mental power. This could shield him from zombie detection. Even when facing zombies directly, he would be ignored by them. Even in a crowd, people covered in mental power would be subconsciously ignored by others.
This was a veritable cheat device. Zhuang Mingxu had put a lot of effort into training him in this.
And what Lu Weiyi mastered best was not any of the offensive or defensive techniques, but the simplest and most direct application of mental power – directly extending his mental power to the area he wanted to cover, allowing him to hear other people’s conversations.
In the beginning, Lu Weiyi couldn’t control it. Within the range of his mental power, others had no privacy at all. Messy and chaotic information rushed into his brain, making it impossible for him to sleep day and night.
It wasn’t until Zhuang Mingxu slowly helped him explore and control it bit by bit that he could later precisely use a mental thread as thin as a hair to probe his target. This allowed them to avoid some ill-intentioned groups time and time again. Of course, this bizarre initial ability also made him well-versed in all sorts of gossip.
Re-training his ability, Lu Weiyi still chose his forte, mental power extension, to exhaust his energy. The range gradually expanded from a single room to upstairs and downstairs, slowly spreading to the surroundings.
The appearance of both zombie energy and anti-zombie energy caused certain changes in the creatures of the natural world.
Later, scientists called this change “awakening.” Based on the degree of awakening, they divided everyone into seven levels: D, C, B, A, S, SS, and SSS.
The most common level was C, with an awakening degree of 0 to 15%. This was the most common level for ordinary people, while D was for those with extremely poor physical conditions, even worse than ordinary people.
Level B had an awakening degree of 15% to 40%, A was 40% to 60%, S was 60% to 75%, SS was 75% to 80%, and SSS was 85% to 90%.
As for whether there were higher levels above SSS, Lu Weiyi didn’t know for sure. When he died, Zhuang Mingxu was already an SSS-level expert, and there was no known existence above SSS in the entire country at that time.
And now, Lu Weiyi’s ability was only at the initial stage of C-level.
Five days later, Lu Weiyi’s ability covered the neighboring building. Amidst sighs and self-consolation, a scream from the neighboring building finally broke the surface calm.
Zombies began to appear on a large scale.
