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Chapter 164 - 139: The Case of the Female Corpse in the Tree, Easter Egg, Breaking Human Limits! (Crowdfunding Rewards Combine Two in One 2)

Chapter 164: Chapter 139: The Case of the Female Corpse in the Tree, Easter Egg, Breaking Human Limits! (Crowdfunding Rewards Combine Two in One 2)

After absorbing the Spirit Crystals of three deceased, Brian felt his tense nerves relaxing considerably over these past few days, and his temper also mellowed significantly. He was no longer as irritable and emotional as before.

Unfortunately, under Supercomputer Perception, his Spiritual Strength was still 1.2.

This also made him hesitate to absorb additional talents for a short while.

It would increase his mental burden.

Once outgo exceeded income,

Brian would begin to feel the unique impact of being a Mutant—becoming emotional, irritable, bloodthirsty, acting out of paranoia, cruelty, and without regard for consequences.

Talents that were of little use.

For him, they were more harmful than beneficial.

Besides that,

his greatly increased vitality also affected his current lifestyle habits.

Since his body enhancement reached a bottleneck and all enhancements were applied to cell vitality, Brian’s energy had become extremely robust.

He only needed about four hours of sleep each day to stay energized for the whole day.

At first, Brian was not used to it.

He would wake up at four, and it would still be pitch black outside.

Sometimes, looking at the dead silence outside, he would feel a touch of loneliness.

However, when he resumed the sleight-of-hand magic he used to play with, things felt different.

That kind of visible progress and achievement was really exhilarating!

It brought Brian a strong sense of accomplishment.

Not just sleight-of-hand magic.

He planned to later try darts, sketching, carving, calligraphy, and so on—practicing all crafts that required physical talent—to pass the time.

...

The next day,

just after four in the morning,

Brian glanced at Shi San, who was still snoring, and carefully got out of bed. He washed up and quickly ate some sandwiches he had made.

As usual,

he logged into the NW internal network to check the latest internal information and reread the content on the USB that his uncle Billy had left behind.

The contents of the USB were messy and cluttered:

Some were rules of the Underworld,

some were research and development of his own abilities after Billy became a Mutant,

and some were records of occasional personality and psychological changes after Billy became a Mutant.

What helped Brian the most was Billy’s records of his psychological changes.

Having been a Highly Polluted Mutant exposed to the Blood Moon radiation twice, Billy’s detailed records over the years had greatly aided Brian. He gained a clearer understanding of his own situation.

Brian also felt the creeping sense of powerless gradual loss of control unique to Mutants.

This world, after all, was a regular world of mutation, lacking those Cultivation Techniques and so-called martial arts secrets from the novels of Brian’s previous life. The only way to resist losing control to Mutation was one’s own willpower!

Globally, after over sixty years of research,

there were currently only three best solutions to the problem of Mutants losing control.

The first one involved Mutants engaging in self-harm and spiritual faith... regardless of the method, strengthening one’s mind and willpower to suppress the bloodthirsty urges and avoiding bloodshed.

This was the most effective.

If one could avoid bloodshed for a long term, Mutants might maintain their awareness for an extended period.

The duration depended on the degree of Mutation and strength of willpower.

Every individual was different.

The second method involved injections developed by various research institutions.

Each institution’s reagent was named differently, but their effects were similar.

Brian had a Suppressant left behind by Billy.

This Suppressant, developed by the Doomsday Sect, was addictive and one of the ways the Sect controlled its Mutants.

The effects...

Well, Brian, possessing ’Body Control’ + ’Pheromone Control’, had injected a bit.

It was peculiar, similar to an antidepressant, affecting the secretion of specific hormones in the body. However, the core aspect was that the reagent contained a strange substance capable of forcibly calming, reducing emotional fluctuations but was highly addictive.

Once metabolized,

Brian felt like ants were crawling all over him, and his emotional fluctuations were even greater than before.

This was just the effect of a small dose.

Brian shuddered to think how his uncle Billy coped with the side effects of this Suppressant,

Currently, Brian had less need for this.

His abilities allowed him not only to use Gift Energy to enhance his body and claim the special skills and talents of the corpses ahead of him—akin to the Power of Rules—but also to merge with the Spirit Crystals remaining in the bodies and bolster his own Spiritual Strength.

As long as he didn’t run into a bottleneck like with physical enhancement,

and as long as he didn’t rashly absorb talents and abilities, increasing his mental burden,

Brian was confident in maintaining a general emotional stability.

Unless... he became overly tired and encountered something very upsetting.

At that time, he would become paranoid and make impulsive decisions.

His previous annihilation of the Original Sect and an FBI combat team was somewhat influenced by this.

The third method was self-brainwashing.

This method was similar to the first, but more radical and difficult, with severe side effects.

Uncle Billy had previously used this method.

In the USB, Billy only briefly introduced this method without explaining how, but the only useful piece of information was a sentence: "When you need it, you will know how to do it. Telling you in advance will only lead you to a slow death like mine. Remember to follow your inner choice, right or wrong..."