nycdaug Chapter 4 Sister's Awakening
Chapter 4 Sister's Awakening
Perhaps because Qing'an Town was remote and sparsely populated, and Li Chenglong had already cleared out many zombies during the day, the brother and sister hadn't encountered many zombies along their journey. Furthermore, to help his sister awaken her powers quickly, Li Chenglong often only crippled zombies, letting his sister finish them off. Influenced by her grandfather and father, Li Xue had practiced military boxing from a young age, and later Li Chenglong taught her special forces combat techniques. Therefore, Li Xue's mental fortitude and fighting ability were far superior to the average person. Her tears from the zombie attacks yesterday were simply due to the suddenness of the onslaught. After fighting the zombies for a while, Li Chenglong estimated that his sister's awakening value was almost sufficient, so he suggested they rest on the roof of a bungalow and get some water. Li Xue, also feeling tired, agreed.
Li Chenglong communicated with the dragon spirit within his Sea of Spirit: "How do I know when I'll level up?" The dragon spirit replied, "If you carefully sense your Sea of Spirit, you'll sense two battle towers. Each tower has six floors, one floor for each level. When your experience points are full, that floor of the tower will be fully lit, and the next floor will unlock. However, this is only the early stage. As long as you have enough experience, you can light up the towers. When you start leveling up from level five to six, there will be corresponding conditions for upgrading. But you're still a long way off. Oh, and one more thing: Awakened beings are directly at level two after awakening, while those with superpowers are at level one after awakening their abilities." Li Chenglong silently sensed his Sea of Spirit and found that there were indeed two towers with a metallic sheen. His first floor had already been lit, but the second floor only had a small amount of light at the bottom, and some of the towers had the same numerical values. Li Chenglong asked again, "What do those numbers mean?" Long Ling yawned and said, "Those numbers refer to your current attributes. Humans generally have four attributes: Constitution, Strength, Agility, and Spirit. For example, your current Constitution is 35, Strength is 30, Agility is 32, and Spirit is 30. A normal healthy human's stats are around 5 to 6. And that progress bar-like thing is your current Qi bar. Every time you release energy, it consumes your Qi bar. If your Qi bar is depleted, you will enter a weakened state, which is very dangerous. The Qi bar will slowly recover over time or be restored directly with crystals. The length of the Qi bar is related to your level."
Li Chenglong silently memorized these values and said, "Awakening is all so impressive, but I don't have any combat skills right now. I can only concentrate my power in my arms to use as a light sword. Could you teach me some skills, Dragon Spirit?" Dragon Spirit said, "Try to probe your mind into the Battle Tower more carefully. Each level of the Battle Tower should give you something, but you'll have to do it yourself." So Li Chenglong walked and concentrated his mind into the Battle Tower, where he found a huge table on the first floor with three scrolls on it. The first was Balanced Development, which, as the name suggests, means all attributes will develop evenly, preventing any one attribute from being particularly weak. The second was Light Bullet, which allows you to release light bullets by concentrating your power in your hands. A level one Awakener can release four light bullets at once, and a level two Awakener can release eight. This skill has a maximum level of seven. The third skill was Cold Weapon Proficiency, which allows you to use all eighteen weapons—swords, spears, halberds, axes, hooks, and forks—with great skill. Li Chenglong was overjoyed upon seeing this. After learning these three skills, he immediately felt three streams of energy flow into his body, and his mental sea gained much more knowledge.
Just as Li Chenglong was about to continue probing the second level of spiritual energy, he suddenly heard several gunshots. "Brother, the gunshots seem to be coming from the direction of Qing'an Town Police Station," Li Xue said after listening carefully. Li Chenglong immediately took out his entrenching tool and said, "Let's go take a look." The two of them strode towards Qing'an Town Police Station.
At this moment, the Qing'an Town Police Station was surrounded by a large number of zombies. Deputy Captain Wang, along with his remaining three team members and two police officers from the Qing'an Town Police Station, were firing at the zombies outside the courtyard to prevent them from rushing in. However, unexpectedly, the zombies only gathered more and more following the gunfire. The policewoman ran out of Type 92 ammunition and reloaded, saying to Deputy Captain Wang, "Captain, we can't keep firing like this. We're running out of bullets, and the number of zombies is increasing." Deputy Captain Wang said, "I saw that coming a long time ago, but look at that door, it's about to collapse. If they come in, we'll all die." Just as the zombies were about to break down the door, a shout suddenly came from behind the zombie horde: "Exploding Light Balls!" Eight light balls rose into the air and then fell to the ground, exploding. Instantly, a small gap was blasted open in the zombie horde, and a man and a woman rushed in, hacking at the zombies as they went. The man's hands transformed into blades of light, cleaving zombies in two wherever they went. The girl, armed with an entrenching tool, finished them off, and in less than two minutes they reached the police station.
Deputy Captain Wang was overjoyed upon recognizing the newcomer: "It's Li Chenglong! Open the door immediately! You guys provide cover!" Two more officers rushed to open the door, while the others opened fire for cover. Li Chenglong and his sister followed suit. Li Chenglong immediately said, "Don't fire! Draw the zombies away! You guys retreat inside." Then, Li Chenglong gathered his strength in both hands: "Triple Explosion Light Ball!" Instantly, three waves of eight light balls shot into the air each time, then crashed to the ground, killing dozens of zombies. The crisis at the police station was temporarily alleviated. Everyone except Li Xue was astonished by Li Chenglong's move. "Don't stand still! Quickly find something to block the door!" Li Chenglong shouted, already drenched in sweat. At this moment, an officer reacted and quickly drove over to block the door. Captain Wang immediately ordered everyone to go inside and rest. As soon as they entered, Captain Wang, disregarding the zombie blood on Li Chenglong's body, rushed over and tightly grasped Li Chenglong's hands: "Thank you so much for your help. If it weren't for you, we would all be dead here." Li Chenglong smiled and said it was nothing. Deputy Captain Wang released Li Chenglong's hands and said, "Let me introduce you. I didn't get a proper introduction last time we parted in such a hurry. This tall man is my younger brother, Wang Shuang; this skinny man is Feng Li; this female team member is Yun Qian; and the two police officers are Zhao Xin and Qian Hu." Everyone knew that Li Chenglong was a soldier, so they all saluted. Li Chenglong also put away his smile and returned the salute with a standard posture: "Li Chenglong, a veteran from the Donghai Base. This is my younger sister, Li Xue." The others nodded to Li Xue in acknowledgment.
Deputy Captain Wang instructed several men to cook, and preferably boil some water so everyone could clean themselves of the blood, as the tap water had been cut off at noon, and the police station's water supply was limited. Just as everyone was busy preparing, a steam suddenly filled the room. "Brother, I think I'm about to undergo that true awakening you mentioned," Li Xue said before fainting. Li Chenglong quickly asked a policeman, "Do you have a clean place? My sister needs to rest for a while." The policeman said, "We have a dormitory room used for entertaining leaders, it's on the third floor. I'll take you there." He then led Li Chenglong to the third floor.
"Captain Wang, Brother Li seems to be the superhuman we're looking for, and his sister seems to be too," the policewoman named Yun Qian said to Deputy Captain Wang. Captain Wang stroked his chin: "That should be it. Our team came here to provide support, also to see if we could find a superhuman. Let's ask Brother Li when he comes down." After Li Chenglong went upstairs and settled his sister, seeing that she was fine, he checked his data and found that the second level of the Tower of Martial Power had increased by about 40% of its energy. He was surprised that the second level required so much energy, considering he had just killed at least 50 zombies. He then used his mental power to probe the second level of the Tower of Martial Power and found that there were also three scrolls on the second level. The first scroll was a storage space. After activation, the Sea of Spirit could be used as a storage space, and the storage space level would change with the awakened user's level. Level 1 is 8 square meters in area and 2 meters in height. As the Awakener's level increases, the storage space doubles. For example, Level 2 has a base area of 16 square meters and a height of 4 meters. The maximum storage space level is 10. The second scroll is Mastery of Firearms. With any type of firearm, mastery can be achieved after a short period of practice. The third scroll is Focused Strike, which allows you to concentrate one-third of your current energy bar into a single point and unleash it with tremendous destructive power.
Li Chenglong was overjoyed to have gained so many powerful abilities at level two. At this moment, Li Xue also woke up from her brief slumber. Li Chenglong quickly asked, "How are you feeling? Is there anything uncomfortable? What kind of spirit body did you awaken?" Li Xue condensed a stream of water in her hands and shot it out, instantly shattering the vase on the table. Then she laughed and said, "I think I awakened water, and there's a mermaid swimming around in my mind, but she doesn't talk to me like you said." Li Chenglong quickly communicated with the dragon spirit, "What's going on?" The dragon spirit replied, "Actually, spirit bodies like me that have awakened intelligence are very rare. Li Xue probably hasn't awakened it, but her abilities are still quite strong. Mermaids are A-level spirit bodies. You mentioned before that you divide crystals into white, red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple. Actually, we spirit bodies also have levels, a total of five levels: S, A, B, C, and D. I am naturally S-level." Li Chenglong pondered for a moment and then asked, "Actually, I've always been curious about where you came from." The dragon spirit remained silent for a long time before saying, "You don't need to know now. Focus on becoming stronger; your time as humans is running out." Li Chenglong wanted to ask more, but no matter how he tried to communicate, the dragon spirit didn't respond. "Oh well, I'll just take it one step at a time," Li Chenglong thought. He then taught Li Xue everything the dragon spirit had taught him about the Tower of Martial Power, Qi, learning supernatural abilities, and the Sea of Spirit, leaving Li Xue to digest the knowledge before going downstairs.