The grenade that the clown had just thrown out of the car exploded with a bang.
Steel bearings splattered everywhere, leaving the vehicle's exterior armor riddled with countless pockmarks.
Since it had been lobbed from above, aside from a few bearings that hit the bulletproof glass, the clown and Huang Ming inside the car were unharmed.
Illuminated by the flames rising behind them on the highway, the two continued driving ahead.
In the vehicle in front of them were Wu Xiong and his companions.
Seeing the booming commotion behind them, Wei tremulously adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses. Sun Ying was silent, while Wu Xiong heaved a sigh of relief and patted his own chest, "Small stuff, this is all small stuff..."
"Your grandpa's seen surrounded by three thousand undead iron cavalrymen, so what's this crap?!"
Up front in the driver's seat, Long rolled down the window partway to light himself a cigarette.
Singlehandedly gripping the steering wheel, he swore up a storm, "Damn it all, I'm gonna get a good look on this drive at which eyeball dares cast a wandering peeper!"
Wu Xiong and the other two: "..."
Wei: "Bro Long, isn't that just false bravado..."
Long haughtily proclaimed, "Borrowed bravado, isn't that still bravado?"
Wei was rendered speechless.
Sun Ying: "Long, you..."
"Hm?"
"You're becoming more and more like that person from the clinic."
Exhaling a wisp of smoke out the window, Long's face took on a hint of nostalgia. "Perhaps this is Dr. Lu's charisma.
"He may not accompany me for long, but he has nevertheless influenced my entire life in subtle ways."
"Dr. Lu is a very refined gentleman, you know..."
Long silently exhaled another ring of smoke, saying nothing more.
...
On the eastern outskirts of Yuncheng, Lu Yuan Clinic.
Having performed two surgeries on Huang Ming, Lu Yuan finally determined which gene controlled the ability to manipulate time.
Holding a syringe filled with light yellow cellular extract, he slowly aligned it with his arm vein...
After injecting the contents, Lu Yuan felt a bit dizzy.
Ever since dissecting Li Lin last time, he'd felt sporadic mental lapses. With this injection on top, his whole body felt even more muddled.
In a daze, Lu Yuan slumped back and fell asleep in the chair behind him.
When he awoke, he found himself lying in bed in his bedroom. Outside it was still dark and raining.
Beside him, Liu Yuan was yawning as she played on her phone.
"Oh? Boss, you're up?"
Lu Yuan shook his head and asked, "How long was I out?"
"Twenty-four hours."
"So a whole day has passed?"
"Yup, once it hits midnight in a bit, it'll be the first."
"You're confused, it's the thirty-first this month."
"Oh, right... I'm a little muddled from wanting to go on rounds with you. My bad."
Lu Yuan massaged his temples. "I feel like something in my brain is about to pop out..."
Liu Yuan: "Want me to prep OR 6 for you to open up your skull and take a look?"
"Alright, let's take a look to be sure."
Liu Yuan went to prepare the operating room while Lu Yuan picked up a cup of water by the bedside and casually splashed it onto the floor.
In the next moment, with a slight movement of his fingers, that splashed water suddenly froze in midair!
Lu Yuan examined his surroundings closely.
The swaying tree branches outside the window halted in the night breeze;
The pattering sound of rain disappeared;
The clock hands on the wall clock stopped moving;
Even Liu Yuan, who had just stepped out of the room, froze in place!
Lu Yuan looked into the distance as far as he could see, and everything within his sight froze in stasis!
It was as if time throughout the entire world had congealed in this instant!
One second, two seconds, three seconds...
Fifteen seconds—abruptly, Lu Yuan felt a sharp, needle-like pain stab through his temples!
Splash!
Next, the cup of water he'd flung out resumed falling and landed on the ground.
The night wind howled outside the window, the branches swayed, the sound of rain continued, and the clock hands moved once more.
Massaging his temples with one hand, Lu Yuan contemplated.
Fifteen seconds—that was currently the limit he could freeze time.
If accelerating or slowing time, this number could probably be pushed higher.
At this thought, Lu Yuan went upstairs to Li Lin's room for a look.
The light inside was still on, so he knocked on the door.
It opened.
Seeing Lu Yuan's somewhat tired complexion, Li Lin, now in female form, asked with concern, "Dr. Lu, what's the matter?"
"It's nothing, I was just curious about your time manipulation ability, so I came to ask about it."
A hint of smugness showed on Li Lin's face. She ran back to grab a cup of water from her room and poured out a small amount in front of Lu Yuan.
That trickle of water clearly lagged for about four or five seconds before finally falling to the ground.
Li Lin proudly said, "What do you think, Dr. Lu? Impressive, no?"
Lu Yuan nodded. "Yes, very impressive. But it seems your time manipulation has a limited area of effect?"
Li Lin: "Of course. Everyone's range differs depending on the strength of their ability. Of my clan I've seen, our esteemed Elder has the greatest range."
"He can influence the flow of time within a space of several hundred square meters on this floor!"
"All I can do is slow time. The Elder can completely freeze it for several seconds—amazing, right?!"
As she spoke, Li Lin suddenly noticed the world had gone silent.
The sound of pouring rain that was just clattering down a second ago vanished in the next second!
She turned to look, and everything outside in the rainy night was frozen in stasis!
One second, two seconds, three seconds...
Eight seconds, nine seconds, ten seconds!
Splash!
After ten seconds, the sound of rain resumed.
Ten seconds wasn't Lu Yuan's limit. His was fifteen seconds.
But even so, Li Lin still shuddered violently in that moment, as if struck by lightning!
She looked at Lu Yuan with utter disbelief!
"Dr. Lu?!"
Lu Yuan rubbed the slightly sore sides of his forehead with concern. "I can actually control the flow of time wherever I look...
"What's more, I can decide which areas to accelerate, which to slow, and which to maintain their original speed...
"I even have a sense I can reverse time by two or three seconds...
"My god, am I a monster?! How frightening!"
Li Lin: "..."
...
Half an hour later, OR 6, lights on.
After an hour, lights off.
Liu Yuan used dissolvable sutures to close Lu Yuan's incision.
"Everything's normal. Just paranoid thoughts, right? Or have you been overthinking things lately?"
With eyes shut, Lu Yuan pondered carefully. He felt like he was forgetting something.
The only unique thing in his brain was that whenever he dissected a new body part, some odd tidbits of knowledge would pop up.
He didn't seem to have acquired any new knowledge recently.
No, that wasn't right!
A few days ago he had clearly dissected an incredibly rare new lifeform—Li Lin, that spirit-like creature belonging to a super intelligent species!
Yet he had obtained no new knowledge!
At this thought, Lu Yuan distinctly felt his temples start to fuzz over again!
That was it!
At the time, he had been preoccupied with researching why he couldn't replicate Li Lin's abilities, and had forgotten about this!
Looks like he'd have to think of a way...
or! A blessing for those who struggle with love, a guidebook for dating novices. Quickly match with your dream goddess! Complete walkthroughs earn rewards, and perfect walkthroughs unlock limited achievements!】 Shen Yi, an ordinary office worker, accidentally downloads a mini-game called Dating Simulator. The mini-game is simple: randomly search for dating targets, simulate dates, and receive rewards upon successful confession. Rewards include but are not limited to money, attributes, and skills. The higher the evaluation, the better the rewards, with perfect ratings unlocking mysterious achievements. Shen Yi plans to use this mysterious mini-game to continuously pursue targets and improve himself, making his life better and better. ...... However, after several successful walkthroughs, Shen Yi suddenly notices something strange - the targets he previously simulated dating seem to be searching for him in real life?
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
