Singlehandedly - Chapter 28

Chapter 28: Malfunction

In the early morning, the summer light was shimmering, and only two days were left before the starting of the special training camp.

Tang Hong opened his eyes, rolled over, and lay on the bed dazedly for a while, rubbing back and forth. However, he couldn’t go back to sleep anymore.

Groping…

His left hand swept across the particularly smooth bedsheet…

He groped for his phone. The alarm didn’t ring yet, when he glanced at the timing, indeed, it wasn’t 7 AM yet.

“Strange.”

He murmured silently.

Maybe it was because of the increase in willpower, but it was basically impossible for him to go back to sleep after waking up. The strong willpower was like a blood vessel being pressed somewhere, the looming pressure forced the body to wake up.

Tang Hong massaged his temples, and he felt that if he continued like this, he might die. “It’s like the pressure of walking a tightrope.”

At first, he didn’t notice it.

It was after half a month when he compared to before that Tang Hong guessed it.

Sleep time statistics: On average, he slept 56 minutes less than before every day.

“This is the effect of increased willpower?”

Tang Hong sat up, squinted his eyes, and scanned the warm-colored wallpaper in the dim bedroom twice.

The wallpaper was embroidered with light golden patterns, with elegant yellow as the background color.

After getting out of the bed and standing by the wall, Tang Hong’s fingertips swept across the wallpaper patterns. “Is it because the willpower is too strong, so as a result, there isn’t a need to rest too much? Those transcendents who have broken the limit of willpower will also experience this?”

“There are two days left in the special training camp.”

“Two days.”

The premonition of urgency was becoming stronger and stronger, and Tang Hong couldn’t wait to figure out more truths about the invasion of the gods from the different dimensions.

And also the truth of his own abnormalities.

Before entering the camp, he wasn’t going to increase the willpower percentage value anymore. He was waiting to enter the special training camp first and then react accordingly. If he was going to compete for the first place, then he might increase the willpower value if he had no other choice. After all, the reward points were all money.

‘The transcendent that broke through the limit.’

‘Gods that originated from an unknown source.’

In fact, what made Tang Hong most curious was that since those terrifying gods truly existed, and it seemed that there were quite a lot of them.

Then how were the transcendents able to fight back?

Regardless of winning or losing, strong or weak, the battle between the two sides would surely alarm those in their surroundings. The memory eraser alone didn’t seem enough to conceal the truth.

This was what Tang Hong thought of only after thinking back in retrospect.

Of course, the memory eraser was very powerful.

But if the gods manifested in the city, it’s useless even if the memory erasers were used on the spot. With the development of modern networks, it was enough to make the images of gods spread across the entire network in just a few hours.

‘And also.’

‘Why did the Tiansheng Organization choose to ensnare that god in Yunhai City?’

The more Tang Hong thought about it, the more puzzled he was. The wilderness outside the city was so big, the world was so vast, placing the laboratory anywhere outside randomly was better than placing it in the city.

Was there any reason that forced them to place the laboratory inside the city?

“Forget it.”

“Fang Nanxun made it very clear: Only when I officially graduated from the special training camp and become a transcendent… then, I will be allowed to participate in the task of fighting the gods. If I can’t graduate, even if I want to fight the gods with my life, the Yellow River Organization won’t allow me.”

“I will forget all this.”

“I will be erased of my memory.”

“And obtain a large sum of compensation.”

He would then return to the ordinary life of ordinary people.

If in early May, when he first got the Power of One support system, when he first joined the Yellow River Organization, Tang Hong would be tempted and happy to go back to a normal life.

But now.

Tang Hong wasn’t willing!

At the best age and the time of youth, he was greedy and wanted to truly have the dreamlike life that Fang Nanxun temporarily lent him.

He didn’t want to stay alive by hiding. He didn’t even want to wait for a few months, let alone a few years.

What’s more, seeing that god with his own eyes, and personally experiencing Fang Nanxun’s ease of coming and going like the wind, Tang Hong’s deep desire was growing stronger.

“If the transcendents are in danger.”

Tang Hong thought about it carefully. He could find excuses to avoid risks, hide his strength, and quietly accumulate individual value.

“I am thinking wrongly again.”

“Persecution delusions are really harmful.”

Tang Hong pinched his chin.

No matter what happens or what the situation was, it wasn’t appropriate to just think of hiding, avoiding, and giving in.

Tang Hong knew his path: Show off his edge and show the extent of his progress!

If he was a genius, or a super genius like what was considered by the Yellow River Organization, not alone would he be safe from danger, naturally someone would be willing to pay the price and help him pave the way.

And there would be a lot of resources, he could get whatever he wanted.

By that time, with the help of the Yellow River Organization, he would gain individual value much more quickly!

This was a win-win situation that benefited both parties, and hiding it would be a waste of life. In the case of meeting a god one day, the death rate would be 100%. He would be able to resist at all and he wouldn’t even know when he was being killed.

Tang Hong had encountered a god before.

At least he must first know what a god from a different dimension is!

It was like playing a game, after developing for half an hour, the character didn’t go anywhere, so it didn’t even die a single time, so it was indeed invincible. However, the teammates were all losing, the opposite team was like gods, how would he be able to win in such a situation?

“No matter how I look at it.”

“Joining the Yellow River organization in the early stage and entering the special training camp is probably the best choice.” Now, Tang Hong really wanted to know what the standards of being an extraordinary genius were.

It was said to be very difficult.

Therefore, he needed more individual value points. As long as he had enough individual value points, he would become a genius even if he wasn’t truly one.

‘First experience.’

‘Long-term benefits.’

So far, there have been many first experiences, but there was only one long-term sustainable benefit: the first sentence of getting up early every day would be the individual value increased by one.

It wasn’t difficult to discover more first experiences, but Tang Hong hoped to find a second stable and long-term income.

Something that would be similar to the first sentence of getting up early every day. This kind of endless supply of individual value was the true foundation for becoming stronger.

He already had some clue about this.

Transcendent technique!

First of all, the difficulty of the transcendent technique was definitely up to the standard. Secondly, once he successfully learned the technique, he would be training in it every day.

The difficulty of practicing boxing alone, the mood, and the time were all suitable. All the elements were available, which fitted the trigger mechanism.

There was no reason not to trigger an increase in individual value.

However, after practicing the fist technique for more than half a month, he still hadn’t successfully reached the entry standard yet, he was always slightly off every single time. Although it was obvious that every time it would be more perfect than the previous time, it was like 0.9 to 0.99 to 0.999, then to 0.9999. Not only was Tang Hong troubled over this, but Fang Nanxun was also even more troubled.

…

The day passed again.

The hot and dreary weather continued to envelop the entire city.

Tang Hong leaned on the sofa, thought for a while, and sent a WeChat message to Fang Nanxun: “Can I practice the fist technique by myself? It isn’t necessary for you to look after me at the side, right?”

There was no reply.

Tang Hong waited for almost 20 minutes.

“No.”

“If you practice wrongly, you will be ruined. I invited a scholar from the Central Research Institute to Yunhai the day after tomorrow to let him check what your situation is now…”

Fang Nanxun seemed very anxious and didn’t send a text, but instead sent a long voice message.

After listening, Tang Hong clenched his fists, then slowly released them. “Just a little bit, I am just a little bit away from truly learning it.”

This transcendent technique was very likely to be his second long-term benefit. At the same time, Tang Hong also somewhat understood why the preliminary transcendents like Zhang Jing would go crazy.

The road to transcendence was too painful.

It might be because of his strong willpower, but the trace of worry that lingered in his heart quickly disappeared.

“Let’s do something happy.”

Tang Hong played with his mobile phone, logged in to WeChat, and then exited, logged in to the QQ interface and tabbed out, opened the music player, and after only listening to half a song, he decided to browse the news.

After reading a few lines.

He switched back to the main interface, staring at the date and weather in a daze.

Yunhai City, June 28th:

Southeast wind, overcast to rain, 30°C to 24°C.

Suddenly, his heart moved, and without any reason, he pressed the Fish app icon with his fingertip.

“I’ll just take a look.”

“This doesn’t break the law, right?”

Tang Hong entered the Fish app seller page. It showed that the two orders have been completed and the other party had given good comments.

There was another order, which had just been sent by express delivery.

Flicking up and down twice, Tang Hong quietly clicked on the third order page and looked at the buyer information of the beret girl. There wasn’t a contact number or WeChat QQ number, it seemed that the other party didn’t leave such information.

Right.

The transaction was completed in person yesterday.

Tang Hong clicked on the portrait and entered the interface for editing information, thinking about himself as a conscientious seller in the new era: honesty, telling the truth, and courteous service.

So providing after-sales service should be justified?

It makes sense, right?

And along the process, asking her if she was single was also within the scope of the law. “I am too responsible.”

Although he couldn’t figure out what kind of after-sales service could be provided for two pure cotton scarves, these didn’t prevent him from trying to input this. Just at this moment, at the top of the chat interface, behind the beret girl’s nickname, a line of input prompt appeared!

It appeared suddenly!

Shocking Tang Hong!

“Malfunction?”

Tang Hong stopped typing, and the prompt that she was typing behind her nickname also disappeared. After four or five seconds, the prompt flashed again and then disappeared.

Tang Hong hit a series of question marks, and instead of sending them, he exited the app.

The app must be malfunctioning.

He re-entered the app and clicked on the message interface again, and the prompt that she was typing flashed past.

Was it haunted?!

Tang Hong sent a message:?

After he sent it, at the same moment, a message also came from the other side:?

He couldn’t tell which message came first.

It seemed to be an automatic reply from a smart robot.

Tang Hong was speechless. In an inexplicable mentality of giving up, he sent again: ???

“???”

“???”

Looking at the two neatly arranged rows of question marks, one up one down, one left one right, looking so harmonious, Tang Hong felt angry and amused.

Did he have a special ability or something?!

Whatever he use, it would malfunction, like the case with the Power of One support system!

“Junk apps ruin my youth.”

“But it’s okay, after all, being single makes us stronger.”

Time to go to bed, the days ahead were still long. Tang Hong plugged the charging wire into his phone violently.

Countdown to the special training camp: two days.