Luo Nan spoke very confidently. After all, most of it was just a joke. He wasn't in a rush to show off. Instead, he found a secluded place with Xue Lei and earnestly finished his afternoon lesson. Only then did he return his attention to the marching team.
Luo Nan's consciousness was attached to Ink's body. As expected, there was still a meeting going on over there. They just added a working meal. Peony and Long Seven both behaved very professionally, and Ink took the opportunity to display the important reason for its enormous body.
It ate nearly a person's worth of food as a single bird.
After lunch, the group of people had another meeting by the roadside. Ink was on the roof of the civilian SUV. The luggage rack was just right for its thick toes to grasp, so it stood steadily. It was just that his head was drooping, and he had already entered a half-asleep state.
For birds, staying quiet for a long period of time, coupled with the effects of digestion, consumed considerable physical strength and energy. It more or less went against nature. Therefore, when Luo Nan's telepathic thoughts cut in, Ink quivered and cried out twice. It flapped its wings and flew without hesitation. In the blink of an eye, it flew under the radiant sun.
Under the sunlight, Ink's black feathers were cool and refreshing. They trembled in the wind, suffused with a deep blue luster. It was actually a bit dazzling. The black shadow and the blazing sun fused together in a strange harmony, causing Intelligence Officer Axel Tho to click his tongue in wonder. Of course, he couldn't help but suspect that it was a bit funny.
"This crow is vigorous and mighty. It understands human nature. It can be called a divine steed."
His voice fell, and Ink flapped its wings. It turned in a different direction and flew far away. Soon, it disappeared without a trace.
Axel Tho grunted. He covered his eyes with his hand and looked at the sky. "What's wrong?"
Peony didn't even raise her head. "Don't mind it."
Ink circled in the sky for a moment before finding its target. It slightly adjusted its direction, and soon it arrived above the old road that cut through the city. It flew along the road.
Although he said he wanted to take the initiative, he didn't immediately give orders to the operations team. Luo Nan couldn't use methods as heavy as shame in a short time.
His many years of experimental experience had forced him to develop a cautious personality. As long as his brain wasn't overheated, he didn't mind collecting a bit more data and information to use in his judgment.
The operations team was doing similar things. Unfortunately, their fields were too different from Luo Nan's expertise. They couldn't be used by him. It was also thanks to Zhang Yingying's persuasion that he came to his senses in time. Otherwise, it would only be a waste of time if he kept following behind the operation team.
Of course, the first thing Luo Nan needed to do before everything began was to test the upper and lower limits of Ink's abilities, especially the range of his perception. This was the fellow that made a living. He could not afford to make any mistakes.
According to Luo Nan's experience, the sensing radius of the out-of-body state, the unity of body and soul, and the fulcrum of the believer were different by an order of magnitude.
In other words, under the premise that his out-of-body senses could reach up to 20 kilometers, the limit of a normal fusion of spirit and body was two kilometers. For a "believer" like Ink, it should be around two hundred meters. If he deliberately strengthened it, it would increase even further.
However, based on past experience, Ink's brain capacity was probably not enough to process information that was too complicated. "Packet loss" and "frame drop" were very normal things, and it still needed some time to adjust.
Truth be told, this was work that should have been done a few days ago. It was just that Luo Nan had too many things on hand, so he kept forgetting about it. He pushed it back until now.
"Let's test the upper limit first … Eh?"
The situation was a bit unexpected when Luo Nan actually did it. Where was the packet loss?
It was as if a high-speed magnetic track had opened up between Luo Nan's main body and Ink. The relevant information did not need to be transferred at all. No, it seemed like there was no transmission process. The distance in space was warped for some reason.
This feeling was strange and familiar.
Luo Nan spent a bit of time to recall. He finally remembered with great difficulty that he had used the Life Sketches to draw the star river in Frost River Reality. He seemed to have used this method to pull the Wraith Sign over. The Wraith Sign evolved into a colosseum and fought with the Human-Faced Arachnid raised by the Order of Justice.
After all, the Wraith Sign was a Darksider species. It was an existence that belonged to the mental plane. It made sense for it to be summoned. Ink had a material form. Could this peculiarity be reflected in the transmission of information?
In any case, with the existence of this connection, the only factor that limited Ink's detection ability was the limit of its own capacity.
This made things much easier.
Ink was the most commonly used living test subject during Luo Nan's repeated experiments. Naturally, it had its miraculous aspects for it to be able to live safely until now. And in Luo Nan's Formatting Theory system, it had already leaped to the level of a staff member. Its connection with Luo Nan was even closer, and this further catalyzed its basic abilities.
Luo Nan was itching to give it a try.
Ink transformed into a shadow, sweeping past the buildings on both sides of the old-fashioned highway. From Luo Nan's perspective, Ink was like a scout released in a strategy game. The fog of war was peeled away everywhere it passed, revealing a passageway that was two to three hundred meters wide.
However, the scene of reality revealed was mostly illusory. What was more dazzling to the eye was the floating and changing constellations of stars and the river of stars.
Luo Nan didn't have any clear thoughts right now. In any case, he just needed to display his specialty. His specialty wasn't just the all-encompassing perception that forced Cat Eyes to change her profession. Just this matter alone, he felt that the starry sky constructed from the Life Sketches should be more suitable.
Right now, a small starry sky was opened up with Ink at the center. It resonated with the hazy star river that his main body sensed from a distance, covering the existence of all living beings within this range.
Luo Nan feared that his clairvoyance would be insufficient. He honestly scanned the composition of each group of stars one by one, not wanting to miss a single detail. Peony didn't contact him during this period of time. He simply scanned the entire way at a speed of around eighty kilometers per hour.
But after scanning for half the afternoon, the school's society activities were about to begin. Luo Nan reckoned that he was about to fly back to the main city district, but he didn't find anything.
Luo Nan began to feel the difficulty of this task. He didn't have a particularly clear train of thought for the time being, so he could only work hard. A scanning radius of two to three hundred meters was already the best in Xia City, but it was still too clumsy in the face of the enormous city district and suburbs of Xia City.
"Ink's sensing radius is still too small. Should I switch to my main body?"
A special sensation suddenly flickered while he was pondering.
Luo Nan was overjoyed. It didn't matter if it was the target or not. His attention was instantly focused on it. A speck of bright light fell beneath the starry sky constructed from the Life Sketches, imprinting itself onto the star atlas. The surrounding scenery materialized layer by layer, revealing the concrete scene.
Luo Nan sighed when he truly saw it. He was greatly disappointed.
This should be the recycling stratum of the Forestwall District. It was a place where people gathered. The target he had just scanned wasn't a Mutant, but a middle-aged man. He wore a rather special robe, a bit like Childe's robe. It was light gray in color, and it looked very simple.
The middle-aged man was located in a sealed house. The area wasn't large, but the decorations were filled with a ritualistic feeling. He stood in front of the stage like a priest, reading the teachings of scripture to others.
Luo Nan's overly anxious gaze was too close to the material plane, triggering quite a bit of activity. The middle-aged man seemed to sense something, and his head tilted a bit. He was a bit confused.
Luo Nan immediately thought of a secret order when he saw this scene. This place really did seem like a religious site.
Oh, so it was an ability user.
The Explorer's Society of Xia City, the order, the government, the military, the financial groups, and so on. The number of ability users didn't even reach two thousand. It wasn't too many, but it wasn't too few either. Luo Nan had randomly bumped into one. Should he say that his luck was good or bad?
That's right. The difference between ability users and normal people on the Life Sketches level was far too great.
Oh my, he was really stupid.
Luo Nan, who was at school, slapped his forehead. Ink's flying wings nearly curled up. Fortunately, it reacted midway through its descent and fiercely flapped its wings to recover its altitude.
Luo Nan didn't even think for half the afternoon. The Life Sketches of ability users were already this special. Naturally, Mutants were even more different. This was an obvious fact. He had come to a similar conclusion before, but he had actually wasted half the afternoon on this!
Luo Nan was drunk on his own brain.
Now that he had bumped into someone else's preaching scene, it was more or less Luo Nan's fault. He didn't want to complicate matters, so he wanted to unfollow them. But in the end, he subconsciously swept his gaze over and felt an indescribable familiarity. He focused his mind and saw a familiar face.
Yes, he looked a bit familiar. He just saw him today. It was the same child who jumped out to ask the members of the action team if they were going to 'strike down gangs' at the reservoir '.
This child looked to be five or six years old at most. He was quite eye-catching in the midst of a group of adults who were listening to the preaching.
He was actually … … attending class here?
Xia City's traditional political power was quite powerful. In terms of religious belief, they adopted the principle of 'minors should stay away. Adults should make their own choices'. A little child running over from far away to listen to a priest's sermon was against the rules, even if he had parents following him.
Luo Nan's thoughts just spun, but he didn't think too deeply about it. After all, it had nothing to do with him.
But Luo Nan came to a realization when he saw this child. The distance he flew out seemed to be a bit too far. It was over an hour's journey. If something happened, he wouldn't be able to respond to Peony.
He decided to go back the way he came.
And at this time, the 'priest' of some unknown religion announced the end of today's preaching class, perhaps due to his restless mind. The group of people withdrew from the room in an orderly manner.
As for the child, he came out wrapped in the crowd. He lifted up an electric scooter from the side of the road and followed the old road to the west.
Huh? He's alone!
Luo Nan discovered something unreasonable. Moreover, the electric scooter the child was driving had clearly been modified. Using Ink's speed as a reference, the speed definitely exceeded fifty kilometers per hour. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the scooter was traveling as fast as lightning on this simple and unobstructed structure.
Luo Nan broke into a cold sweat for the child as he watched.
There weren't many cars on this abandoned old road, but as long as they dared to go on the road, they would more or less be related to gangs. They would run amok, seeking excitement.
What the hell was the child doing!?
Luo Nan thought for a bit. They were going the same way anyway. Let's just follow. It was better to be safe than sorry. If something really did happen, Luo Nan would feel uneasy.
Ink flew in the sky, but the child was completely unaware of it. He rode the scooter, gripped the handlebars, and sped along at high speeds. He was quite at ease. When there was a slope, he would even play a few tricks. He was like a living monkey. His ability to balance was quite strong. Luo Nan was a bit impressed.
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