The number made Tang Ling feel a little regretful.
His Precise Instinct was still a little lacking in front of this powerful machine.
Su Yao, on the other hand, had a strange expression on his face. He looked excited, heavy, and nostalgic at the same time. His rough hand caressed the screen with the number like he was caressing the most precious treasure in the world.
Tang Ling clearly saw that Su Yao's fingers were slightly trembling.
"One more time," Su Yao said, but his tone was obviously different.
Tang Ling did not waste time and repeated the process.
The result remained the same. He could accurately estimate his own strength, but it was still not as good as the machine before him.
"Again …" After a second of hesitation, Su Yao repeated his request, but he could no longer control his voice as if it was squeezed out from his throat.
Tang Ling did as he was told.
However, when he got the same result again, Su Yao was completely stunned.
His squinted eyes were a little red and his lips were twitching. Sometimes, he would curl up as if he was excited, but sometimes, he would purse his lips tightly as if he was sad.
Tang Ling was astonished, so he carefully asked, "Uncle Su Yao, d-do you want to try again?"
Su Yao came back to his senses, but he did not answer Tang Ling's question. Instead, he strode over to Tang Ling and hugged him tightly.
Su Yao was very strong, especially when he was excited.
Being hugged by Su Yao, Tang Ling felt like the air in his chest was being squeezed out. He could not help but cough.
Facing this man who was like a vicious beast, he deeply felt like he had no room to resist.
Maybe Tang Ling's coughs reminded Su Yao of his loss of composure.
He finally let go of Tang Ling, but his excitement made him tap Tang Ling's shoulder hard, almost causing Tang Ling to fall to the ground.
"Very good, this ability is very good," he said.
However, the strange feeling lingered in Tang Ling's heart. It was not a magical ability in his eyes, so why was Uncle Su Yao so excited?
He wanted to ask, but Su Yao took two deep breaths to calm himself down.
"Your Growth Rate is barely passable, but don't be upset. You'll get stronger."
My Growth Rate is barely passable? Tang Ling was concerned about it, so he forgot about the strange feeling just now.
As a matter of fact, he had no idea what growth rate was. However, since Su Yao was so concerned about it and purposely brought him here to test it, it must be something more important than basic values, such as his current strength and speed.
I'm not strong?
"There's no need to lose confidence. I told you, you'll become stronger. As long as you can grow safely, you will be … very strong. " However, compared to Tang Ling, Su Yao was not disappointed at all. Instead, his confidence made him feel unusually proud.
"But …" Tang Ling's heart was about to explode from the suffocation. One after another, baffling and unanswered questions unfolded in his life. Was this going to continue?
"No buts!" Su Yao's expression turned unusually serious as he told Tang Ling, "Keep it a secret! I'm talking about your ability! "
Tang Ling went silent.
It seemed that this life shrouded in fog would have to continue like this.
**
After a few days of heavy rain.
Three days ago, after the weather in Safety Sector No. 17 cleared up in the afternoon, the sun shone brightly as if it was taking revenge.
According to the division of seasons, early summer had already passed, and midsummer was about to arrive.
Summer was supposed to be scorching hot.
Therefore, the uniform of a reserve warrior suffocated Tang Ling just by putting it on.
Although it was still early in the morning and the sun had yet to fully rise, Tang Ling still felt uneasy.
"Am I going to the exam like this?" Tang Ling tidied his luggage one last time before he put his backpack on.
He did not have anything extra. Other than the belongings of his grandmother and his sister, the clothes that Su Yao gave him, all he had was the clothes that he wore in the settlement.
He did not throw them away because they were also memories.
The reason why he packed them up was because he was worried. He wanted to see if Su Yao would show up in the end.
However, he was disappointed.
There were no footsteps outside the door and it was not opened. Su Yao did not show up.
He was missing.
More precisely, after he brought Tang Ling to the so-called training base, he was nowhere to be found.
Everything that happened after that was taken care of by the kitchen maid of the small motel.
She took care of Tang Ling's three meals a day, the basic introduction to Safety Sector No. 17, and the exact location and time of the exam.
Most importantly, the kitchen maid gave Tang Ling a high-clearance library card. With it, Tang Ling could enter the inner city library behind the wall and read to his heart's content without the time limit or the number of books.
Of course, it was limited to the books that he could borrow from the library card.
Even so, Tang Ling felt like he was in a hurry.
In the past three days, other than eating and sleeping for less than six hours last night, he spent all his time in the library.
However, the sea of books was very interesting. His powerful brain with Precise Instinct allowed him to read as fast as he could, but he only managed to finish a small portion of the books in the library.
Despite that, it was the first time Tang Ling felt like he was getting closer to this world.
He was the first to know about the old civilization.
Not only did it exist, but it had also developed to an extremely high level.
They explored space and even boarded the Purple Moon.
They had all kinds of buildings with different functions and were highly advanced. They even developed architecture.
They had magical means of transportation called cars, airplanes, and ships.
They also had a rich spiritual world, movies, books, and television.
Other than that, they also had weapons!
They were existences that people were envious of! Unimaginable power! If they had these weapons, would they still have a problem surviving in this era?
Tang Ling pondered and at the same time, he thought of Quark's explosives and the Desert Eagle (handgun). Now, he knew what these two things were.
In the old civilization, these two things were nothing.
However, Tang Ling's thoughts were clueless, and the answer was confusing.
In the old civilization, humans were the conquerors. As long as humans wanted to, they could easily destroy any animal.
In comparison, even the most ferocious beast in the old civilization was a joke in the current era.
However, could this be the reason why the old civilization went extinct?
Tang Ling did not think that the terrifying nuclear weapons and all kinds of fighter jets could not fight animals, even if they were the so-called vicious beasts.
Tang Ling thought of the black-horned purple-striped snake in the underground tunnel.
If that was the case, how did the old civilization go extinct? Tang Ling could not figure it out no matter how hard he thought about it.
What puzzled him even more was that the old civilization was almost wiped out all of a sudden, causing the humans to be caught off guard. How was the current civilization built?
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