Master Qu's workshop was fully equipped with all kinds of facilities.
In addition to the workshop for everyone to use, it was also equipped with a single lounge. After Qi Yuan accepted the invitation, he naturally had an independent lounge.
After locking the door of the lounge, Qi Yuan sat down and began to carefully study the Tesseract in his hand.
Through Energy Control, Qi Yuan could vaguely sense that there were subtle differences in strength between the densely packed energy nodes. However, these differences were too small. If not for the fact that his Energy Control was sensitive enough and Qu Shi had already told him that the strength of each energy node was different, he would not have been able to detect these subtle differences.
"Although Energy Control can roughly distinguish the differences in energy nodes, it can't control the overall situation and can't complete the sequencing. Is Old Man Qu trying to trick me?"
Qi Yuan felt that the interior of the Tesseract was a mess of energy nodes and fell into deep suspicion.
He tried several times in a row, but all of them ended in failure.
Qi Yuan suddenly remembered another ability of his — Area Detection.
"I wonder if Area Detection can 'see' the energy nodes inside?"
Qi Yuan tried to activate Area Detection and focused all his attention on the interior of the Tesseract.
"This is!"
Qi Yuan suddenly held his breath. Using [Area Detection], he saw a resplendent starry sky filled with twinkling multicolored stars within the Tesseract.
"Are these the energy nodes inside the Tesseract?"
Qi Yuan looked at the stars of different colors and brightness as if he had seen a miracle.
After slowly recovering from the colorful starry sky, Qi Yuan's mind moved. Under Area Detection, his perspective seemed to have changed from that of a blurry observer to that of God. Everything in front of him was no longer a mess. He could easily distinguish the stars based on their brightness and color.
"With my Energy Control, I should be able to move these colorful stars!"
Qi Yuan tried to use his Energy Control to move these stars under the God's perspective of Area Detection. Sure enough, there were no obstacles.
If Area Detection gave him the God's perspective of the Tesseract, then Energy Control gave him the God's control of the Tesseract.
With the cooperation of the two, Qi Yuan quickly found a way to restore the Magic Cube.
Under the resplendent multi-colored starry sky, Qi Yuan felt as if he had become the creator of this starry sky. The stars of various colors moved slowly under the control of his consciousness. The world was no longer in a mess. Bit by bit, the resplendent starry sky began to have a sense of order.
After the Tesseract was enlarged into a colorful starry sky, the distance that each star could move became farther. This was not an illusion, but a sign that the position had become more precise. Although it took longer to move a star to a fixed position, the precision had undoubtedly increased.
The stars slowly moved through the starry sky and time went by, second by second. After an indeterminate amount of time, Qi Yuan suddenly felt a wave of fatigue wash over him. The space before him grew blurry.
He immediately realized that this was the aftereffect of using Area Detection and Energy Control continuously.
Although these two abilities did not consume as much energy as the Annihilation Warhead, using them for a long time would still consume Extraordinary Power. When Extraordinary Power was on the verge of being exhausted, his body would naturally remind him that it was time to stop and rest.
Qi Yuan quickly deactivated Area Detection and Energy Control. He withdrew his consciousness from the colorful starry sky and returned to his lounge.
Qi Yuan sensed the condition of his body and almost jumped in fright.
"My Extraordinary Power is almost completely depleted. How long have I been in this state?"
Qi Yuan raised his head and looked at the clock on the wall. Only then did he realize that nearly two hours had passed.
"Unknowingly, it's been so long!" Qi Yuan frowned.
Using the God's Perspective and God's Control to restore the Tesseract did give people the illusion of being the creator, but the energy consumption was also very high. In less than two hours, the Extraordinary Power in his body was completely depleted, and the restoration of the Tesseract was still far in the future.
"How many energy nodes did I restore just now?
It seems to be just over six hundred, not even seven hundred. At this speed, even if I don't sleep and don't have the problem of energy exhaustion, it's impossible to complete the restoration of the energy nodes in three days. The researchers in the Biological and Mechanical Laboratory are really amazing!
"Forget it. I'll rest for a while and recover my energy. The cleanup of the old cities will take some time. I should be able to restore this Tesseract before the mission begins.
"It's best if Doomsday Strike can complete the construction of the energy matrix. If it fails, I can change weapons. In Qu Shi's personal collection, there are a few pistols better than the Butcher. With Qu Shi's personality, he shouldn't refuse me for such a small matter."
Qi Yuan pushed the door open and walked out of the lounge, bumping into Qu Shi.
Before Qi Yuan could greet him, he saw Qu Shi's eyelids twitch.
"It's only been two hours. Why do you look like this?
Did you hide a woman in the room? "
What the hell do I look like?
Qi Yuan subconsciously touched his face, but didn't find anything out of the ordinary.
As for a woman?
Your studio doesn't even have a female mosquito. How could there be a woman?
Qu Shi glanced through the open door and did not see any woman. He only saw the Tesseract placed on the table. His expression suddenly became strange.
Were the young people nowadays so hot-blooded to such an extent?
Master Qu couldn't help but shake his head.
Before he left, he said, "Remember to clean the room and change the quilt. If you really can't stand it, you can go to Red Street. Don't stay in the studio all day."
After hearing a lot of inexplicable words, Qi Yuan could not help but touch his chin as he watched Qu Shi leave.
What's wrong with this old man?
Why was he acting so weird all the time?
Qi Yuan mumbled, closed the door, and turned to leave.
On the way, he met an experimenter with panda eyes. When he saw Qi Yuan, he was obviously stunned for a moment before revealing a knowing smile.
"Qi Yuan, I didn't expect you to feel the fear of being dominated by Qu Shi one day!
Don't worry, it's just the beginning. With your physique, you'll definitely be able to withstand it longer than us. You won't die so easily! "
Qi Yuan was speechless.
After meeting a few experimenters in succession and realizing that they all had the same expression, Qi Yuan vaguely felt that there was something wrong with him.
However, what was wrong with it?
Qi Yuan thought hard for a long time but could not find the answer until he saw his own reflection on the metal door that was as smooth as a mirror.
"F * ck!
How did I become like this?! "
Qi Yuan's face was filled with fear as he looked at the haggard figure in the mirror with sunken eyes, serious dark circles under his eyes, and sunken cheeks. It was exactly the same as the few researchers he had met earlier.
"That Tesseract can also devour a person's blood!"
After thinking about it for a while, Qi Yuan carefully checked his body and finally found the crux of the problem. Using Energy Control and Area Detection at the same time for a long time had put a huge burden on his body.
Ever since he had awakened Steel Self-Healing, his body seemed to have crossed an invisible boundary. His extraordinary power had completely merged with his body. Using too much of his extraordinary power would also cause his body to feel weak.
A strong sense of hunger came from every corner of his body. However, the feedback was not that he wanted to eat, but that his body needed to devour energy and metal!
Qi Yuan tried to release all the liquid metal that he had stored up for Steel Self-Healing. The hunger in his body was quickly alleviated, but Qi Yuan could clearly feel that his body was not full yet. It was still thirsting for another kind of food — energy!
After that, Qi Yuan tried to release the energy stored in his Energy Heart. Every cell in his body was like a dried-up riverbed, devouring the dissipated energy in large mouthfuls.
Looking at himself in the mirror, his face recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye, Qi Yuan suddenly sighed.
He was currently only at rank 1, but he was already walking further and further away from the path of a human body. If he really advanced to a high-ranked ability user, perhaps he would really break away from the concept of a human.
Could it be that my super Talent Tree of Life has really given me the weakness of my flesh and blood and the ascension of machinery?
Qi Yuan left the workshop and returned to his residence. After absorbing the remaining half of the metal ball, he unexpectedly found that his almost exhausted extraordinary power had recovered quite a bit. Steel Self-Healing could not only heal the body's injuries, it could also replenish the extraordinary power he had consumed.
"I wonder if I'm overweight now …"
Qi Yuan muttered to himself as he lay on his bed.
Just Steel Self-Healing and Steel Defense alone had absorbed more than two tons of metal.
If such a heavy weight pressed on a person's body, even with a rank 1 strength enhancement, it would be very difficult to turn over. However, he did not feel the slightest abnormality.
Where did the absorbed metal go?
Was it absorbed by his body?
Or was it absorbed by the Talent Tree?
If it was his body that absorbed the metal, why couldn't he feel it at all?
If it was the Talent Tree that absorbed it, why would the Talent Tree do that?
Although Qi Yuan wanted to convince himself that this was an equivalent exchange between himself and the Talent Tree.
He used the Talent Points and various fusion items needed by the Talent Tree to exchange for one powerful ability after another with the Talent Tree.
But his rationality told him that the truth was definitely not that simple.
Slowly, Qi Yuan fell into a deep sleep. Although his body was no longer as weak as it was at the beginning, the mental exhaustion still existed. Sleep was the best way to relieve mental exhaustion.
After waking up, Qi Yuan went to buy a few more tons of steel, kneaded them all into metal balls and brought them back to his residence.
In Qu Shi's workshop, absorbing energy could be covered up by the consumption of experiments, but the disappearance of tons of steel was not something that could be covered up by a lie. He could only secretly do it in his own residence.
There was no ability that could allow a body of flesh and blood to absorb so much steel. If the news leaked out, it would bring a lot of unnecessary trouble.
Among the researchers who were interested in his body, Tanqiu alone was enough to make him tremble in fear. If there were a few more, he might be dragged into a laboratory at any time and made into a specimen.
After the first lesson of almost dying, Qi Yuan took out an alarm clock when he used Area Detection and Energy Control to sort out the Tesseract for the second time. He set the time to one hour to prevent himself from turning into a shriveled and emaciated person again.
[Steel Self-Healing]'s ability to absorb steel to recover extraordinary power allowed Qi Yuan's recovery speed to become much faster. He did not need to waste too much time waiting for his extraordinary power to recover, and the speed at which he sorted out the Tesseract also increased.
Under the operation of restoring the Tesseract again and again, Qi Yuan clearly felt that the precision of Energy Control's control of energy had reached a new level. Even without Area Detection, he could still carry out a simple sorting of the Tesseract. It was just that the speed was much slower.
After more than ten days of sorting, the restoration of the Tesseract was finally coming to an end. Of the 32768 energy nodes, Qi Yuan had finished sorting and restoring more than 30,000 of them. The last energy nodes would take less than two days to complete.
However, at this time, Luan personally came to the workshop, found Qi Yuan, and told him.
The task of clearing out the old cities would be carried out in three days. It was almost half a month earlier than the previously scheduled time.
Qi Yuan could only regretfully stop the restoration of the Tesseract and go to Qu Shi to buy another gun to replace the Butcher.
Qi Yuan and Luan found Qu Shi, who was guiding the experiment with dark circles under his eyes, and explained their intentions.
"Are you really going to participate in the clearing of the old cities?"
Qu Shi looked at Qi Yuan seriously. Qi Yuan had stayed in the workshop for more than ten days to restore the Tesseract. Although he did not complete the restoration of the Tesseract as expected, it proved that in addition to having enough talent, he also had the patience that an experimenter needed the most.
"With your qualifications, if you continue to stay in my laboratory, I am confident that I can recommend you to enter the Black Steel Shelter and become a Level 1 experimenter in the Biological and Mechanical Laboratory in less than five years. You can then enjoy a carefree life in the Black Steel Shelter. You don't need to go to the wilderness to fight those insects and polluters."
Luan's expression changed slightly. She knew very well that with Qu Shi's personality, to be able to say such words at this time meant that he had high expectations for Qi Yuan. Since he said that he could let Qi Yuan enter the Biological and Mechanical Laboratory and become a researcher in five years, he would definitely be able to do it.
If it was someone else, to be able to receive such an evaluation from Qu Shi, they would definitely give up everything and stay in Qu Shi's laboratory, waiting for the day to enter the Biological and Mechanical Laboratory.
Almost everyone in the wilderness was looking forward to the day when they could enter the shelter. For them, stepping into the shelter meant that there would no longer be the threat of insects and polluters. It meant that there would be enough food and water, and it meant that danger would be far away. It meant everything.
Luan shifted her gaze from Qu Shi to Qi Yuan, as if she wanted to hear his answer even though she already knew the answer.
No one would refuse such an opportunity, not even Qi Yuan!
Several experimenters around them also looked at him with envy. They had stayed in Qu Shi's laboratory for so long and did not hesitate to stay up late every day to do experiments. What they wanted was nothing more than Qu Shi's approval and recommendation.
Today, just a moment ago, the opportunity that they had yearned for so long, yet could not obtain, had been placed right in front of Qi Yuan.
It was so easy to get!
Qi Yuan sighed slightly. If it were not for the magical talent tree, he might have chosen to stay and wait to go to the shelter to enjoy a comfortable life.
However, the existence of the talent tree had pointed out a path to the peak of strength for him. Although this path was full of danger, Qi Yuan still wanted to go to the peak of strength to take a look.
Standing at the peak of individual strength was an instinct of life!
It was a temptation that no man could resist!
"I will join the cleanup of the old cities this time!" Qi Yuan said calmly.
Before his voice fell, Qu Shi sighed and shook his head, no longer saying anything.
A few people with dark circles looked at Qi Yuan, stunned. It seemed that they did not expect Qi Yuan to make such a choice. However, when they saw Qu Shi's face, they did not dare to ask more and could only quietly turn around and leave.
A few people with dark circles looked at each other. In addition to shock, they also saw an expression of relief in each other's eyes.
Qi Yuan's decision was almost equivalent to giving up Qu Shi's recommendation opportunity, which meant that this opportunity might fall on their heads.
In addition, Qi Yuan had dark circles on his face. Although it was only once, it quietly closed the distance between them.
Imperceptibly, the faintly discernible hostility towards Qi Yuan also quietly dissipated.
"Why?"
Luan also looked at Qi Yuan in surprise. This choice was also beyond her expectations.
Qi Yuan smiled and said, "This is a man's romance. Women will not understand!"
Luan raised her eyebrows. Qi Yuan's answer gave her an impulse to stuff the gun into Qi Yuan's mouth and shoot him!