At Ningcheng Military Region, West Camp, outside a hastily erected tent, eighteen awakened ability users from that day were queuing for registration, with Chen Bo standing eleventh.
"Company Commander, my ability is fire!"
Inside the tent, a soldier said with a sheepish grin, raising his palm and activating his ability. Instantly, his palm was engulfed in flames, yet he felt no discomfort.
"Well done, Wang Youde. Grow strong. The country needs your ability!" Chen Li, the second company commander of the Reconnaissance Battalion, nodded with a smile. After offering encouragement, he lowered his head to register the soldier's ability. This was already the third awakened user he had registered that day.
"Yes, Company Commander!" Receiving Chen Li's praise, Wang Youde's heart felt as sweet as honey. He gave a proper salute, then turned to leave.
"Wait a moment. Here's a physical enhancement agent. It's made from the bone marrow of spiritual beasts and various spiritual medicines. After injection, it can increase your body's affinity for spiritual energy. It's issued to every ability user in the early stages of awakening. Come here, I'll give you an injection."
Chen Li said with a smile, picking up a syringe from a nearby box. It contained a clear liquid.
"Yes! Company Commander!" Wang Youde's face lit up with surprise. He stepped forward, rolled up his sleeve, and said, "Thank you, Company Commander!"
Chen Li, with a gentle smile, injected the liquid from the syringe into Wang Youde's vein.
As the liquid entered, Wang Youde grunted, his face suddenly turning pale, but it was quickly replaced by an unnatural flush. After ten breaths, his complexion gradually returned to normal.
Wang Youde clenched his fist, feeling a power even greater than before, and his face was filled with surprise.
"You may go. Get some rest. Avoid strenuous exercise today. Call the next person in!" Chen Li said with a hidden smile and a gentle tone.
"Yes!" Wang Youde saluted and turned, lifting the tent flap, and walked out.
"What a good harvest!" Chen Li smiled slightly, setting aside Wang Youde's information.
"Although these awakened seeds awakened within the military region, after today, their files will be transferred to the Information Department of the Shenhua Bureau. Then, based on their abilities, they will be assigned to different departments. According to past practice, the proportion of awakened users retained by the military region is about 1/8."
"I hope they can shine in other departments as well, otherwise, my agent will be wasted. There are still 110 people who haven't awakened yet."
As he was thinking, the tent flap was lifted again. The next awakened user had arrived for registration.
Chen Li, with a gentle smile, followed the procedure, asking the soldier to demonstrate his ability, and then began to busy himself.
The Santana that Commander Yang gave to Yu Zhibo, though appearing extremely ordinary on the surface, actually had more horsepower than the original Land Rover. Moreover, it was not at all floaty. The engine roared like a beast. With a press of the accelerator, the push-back sensation arrived instantly. Cruising on the straight suburban highway, it was like a silver streak of light.
"When we get to the military region later, I'll take Xiao Li to the military region first. As for Xiao Wang, I'll take you to the Information Department later," Yu Zhibo said, stepping on the accelerator.
Through their conversation, Yu Zhibo learned that the soldier and the hot-blooded youth were named Li Zheng and Wang Wei, aged 19 and 21 respectively.
Soon, the sedan arrived at the guard post near the intersection. Just as Wang Angge had brought him in before, Yu Zhibo, after restoring Kakashi's appearance and presenting his identification, was easily allowed to enter.
"A transformation jutsu like this stunned the two newbies behind me."
Yu Zhibo ignored them, his mind focused on Chen Bo, whom he was about to meet. "This kid is so peculiar. I wonder what kind of strange ability he's awakened now!"
"Never mind. Anyway, with Commander Yang's military region pass, I can go wherever I want within the military region. I'll be able to see for myself then."
Thinking this, Yu Zhibo accelerated after passing the guard post, and the surrounding bushes and forest trees quickly receded.
"Brother, it's your turn!" A soldier patted Chen Bo's shoulder and gestured towards the tent with his chin, signaling him to enter.
"Okay, okay!" Chen Bo grinned, clenched the knife in his pocket, and walked into the tent with a surging heart.
Lifting the tent flap, Company Commander Chen Li sat on a wooden stool, smiling at him.
"Heh heh, hello, Company Commander!"
Chen Bo nodded and greeted Chen Li. He had a very good impression of Chen Li, who had patiently answered his various bizarre questions in the Spiritual Array House, making him a half-enlightenment teacher on his extraordinary path.
Yes, the path of an emperor.
Chen Bo believed he was the protagonist of heaven and earth, for four reasons:
First, his name was Chen Bo, which was very flamboyant, a must-have trait for protagonists in some brainless wish-fulfillment novels.
Second, his parents divorced when he was young, which was a standard protagonist template.
Third, he had a delicate and handsome face. In novels nowadays, if the protagonist isn't delicate and handsome, can they be called a protagonist?
Fourth, his ability was unprecedented, a very suitable ability for padding word count.
Unfortunately, he lacked a fat best friend and a lottery system, otherwise, his protagonist identity would be even more solidified.
"If Bobo were fat, that would be great," Chen Bo sighed regretfully. Yu Zhibo was arguably his best friend, but he wasn't fat.
"Chen Bo, right?" Chen Li said with a chuckle. He remembered that Kakashi had brought Chen Bo directly from school. "Speaking of which, we share the same surname. We might have been one family five hundred years ago. But now is not the time for idle chat. First, briefly tell me about your ability."
When awakened users awaken their abilities, the ability information is fed back to their minds through the sequence core. Therefore, the ones who understand their abilities best are usually the ability users themselves.
Hearing Chen Li's words, Chen Bo scratched his head, looking a bit conflicted.
Then he said, "It's hard to explain my ability in words. How about I demonstrate it directly for you?"
After speaking, he took out a military knife from his pocket and pulled it out of the sheath. This knife was borrowed from a soldier he was familiar with.
Seeing this, Chen Li's eyebrows immediately shot up, and his face showed a look of interest.
"My ability is..." Chen Bo said, gritting his teeth and stabbing himself in the stomach.
Then, his face turned pale, but he persisted, "As you can see, for every stab I give myself, I randomly gain two abilities. For example, with this stab, I gained Healing and the Eye of Insight. They last for half an hour."
"I'll start using the healing ability now!" Saying that, Chen Bo began to activate the newly acquired ability. Instantly, his limited spiritual energy within his body was rapidly consumed, and the stomach he had just injured began to heal at a visible speed. His complexion also quickly regained its healthy color.
"The second ability is to see through falsehoods." As he spoke, he looked up. His originally ordinary eyes began to emit bursts of light, and two Daoist Bagua patterns appeared in his pupils.
However, as he was speaking, he looked up and saw Chen Li, and his face suddenly froze.
In his eyes, Chen Li was still Chen Li, but behind him was a ferocious demonic phantom with three heads and six arms. The three heads with grinning smiles and six pairs of eyes were filled with endless malice and greed, staring at him intently.
A drop of cold sweat appeared on Chen Bo's forehead and slowly slid down.
"So, what did you see through?" Chen Li asked with a smile. The six-armed demon behind him waved its six arms, making him look like an envoy of the devil, ready to reap lives from the mortal world at any moment.
Chen Bo's mouth twitched. "It's just simple clairvoyance. For example, I can see that your underwear is red. This year should be your birth year, right?"
"A good ability. So, are you ready to die?" Chen Li maintained his smiling demeanor, but his words sent Chen Bo's heart plunging into the abyss.
Without much hesitation, Chen Bo turned and rushed out of the tent.
Chen Li calmly took a step forward, picked up the alloy long saber beside him, and at the same time, one of the claws of the six-armed demon behind him flicked its finger. Instantly, a wisp of aura resembling that of a dark creature attached itself to Chen Bo's back and merged into his body.
"He's possessed by a dark creature! Hurry, get out of the way!" Chen Li roared from inside the tent, drew his alloy long saber, stomped his right foot on the ground, and shot out like a leopard.
To everyone's stunned gaze, the tent flap was torn into pieces by the long saber. Chen Li, like a ghost, swiftly reached Chen Bo's back and pierced his chest with a single strike.
*Pfft~*
Blood splattered, and the dripping tip of the saber emerged from Chen Bo's chest. A look of terror was frozen on his face.
The young man's slender body hung on the alloy long saber, like a tattered rag doll.
A few hundred meters away, a Santana was slowly approaching.
Yu Zhibo sat in the driver's seat, his left hand on the steering wheel, feeling a surge of joy at the upcoming reunion with his friend. Unexpectedly, this cruel scene was brutally and abruptly thrust into his sight, leaving his mind blank.
After reacting, Yu Zhibo's body swayed, as if struck by a heavy hammer. The pupils of his eyes suddenly contracted.
"Chen Bo is dead?"
Yu Zhibo's mouth parted slightly, then his chest began to heave violently, veins bulging on his hands. He gripped the steering wheel so hard that it snapped.
A mysterious portal in his mind was reopened. Simultaneously, the sequence core in his dantian began to spin wildly. Spiritual energy reappeared, merging with the peculiar energy surging from the sequence core, transforming into a cold, sinister energy that surged towards his eyes.
His originally dark pupils suddenly turned scarlet, and two tomoe appeared within them, spinning madly.
When the tomoe stopped spinning, the two tomoe, which were originally distributed at a 180-degree angle, were squeezed to a 120-degree angle. Then, a new tomoe slowly appeared, forming a 120-degree angle with the other two.
And at the very instant the third tomoe appeared!
Like a spark falling into a barrel of gunpowder, a massive aura spread from Yu Zhibo's body. Then, his mental power began to climb at an extremely terrifying rate.
*Jiji ji*
In the car, lightning suddenly erupted.
The next moment, the specially modified Santana's front end exploded. Yu Zhibo transformed into a bolt of lightning, his entire body bathed in arcs of electricity. His scarlet Sharingan eyes drew two red afterimages in the air at extreme speed, and in an instant, he reached Chen Li.
Simultaneously, in his right palm, which had transformed into a blade, Chidori resounded, carrying the incomparably sharp power of lightning release, and thrust towards Chen Li's chest.
"Wait, Comrade Kakashi, he's possessed by a dark creature!"
Chen Li had shouted an explanation the moment he saw Yu Zhibo, his face filled with anxiety, as if he had been misunderstood.
However, Yu Zhibo could no longer hear anything. He had only one thing he wanted to do now.
"Die for meeeeeeeeeee!"