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Chapter 316 - 206: Three Obsessions, Super Adaptation Talent! (Extra 1 for Alliance Leader Chang Ji Xi Ting at Dusk)

Chapter 316: Chapter 206: Three Obsessions, Super Adaptation Talent! (Extra 1 for Alliance Leader Chang Ji Xi Ting at Dusk)

Brian estimated that he would remember this unknown giant rat for a long time.

Because this was the first time he had encountered a creature that burst out three obsessions, and the subject was a mutated rat.

With a bit of trepidation,

Brian reached out and crushed the three Obsession Little Balls.

Three dark red lights shot into his eyes.

The next moment,

three messages appeared in Brian’s mind:

Black Fur Big Rat Obsession One: I really want to taste a bite of the blood master’s fragrant flesh; it’s so fragrant!

Gift One: 30 points of Gift Energy.

Gift Two: 1 point of Gift Energy + Micro Super Adaptation Talent.

Black Fur Big Rat Obsession Two: Eat that stinking dog!

Gift One: 30 points of Gift Energy.

Gift Two: 1 point of Gift Energy + Micro Super Adaptation Talent.

Black Fur Big Rat Obsession Three: Eat this cruel Two-legged Beast!

Gift One: 40 points of Gift Energy.

Gift Two: 11 points of Gift Energy + Micro Super Adaptation Talent.

Behind these pieces of information, previous images of the blood on the electric chair, Shi San, and Brian appeared in succession, signaling the three obsessions corresponding to their completion subjects.

After reviewing this content, Brian was both shocked and pleased.

Pleased that a talent had actually burst forth,

shocked that this crappy talent seemed to have split into three.

Can you even play it like this?

..

"Obsession One is easy to complete, but the remaining two obsessions are impossible to deal with..."

Brian was somewhat unwilling.

But considering that this was ultimately something for nothing, he couldn’t just let the corrosive reaction in the utility room disappear, so he viciously bit down on his own fingernails.

There was no other way; all the tools in the utility room had been snarfed down by him.

And since the Small Tachi on his belt wasn’t sterilized, which was nauseating, he had to use his mouth.

After biting his fingernails, the Obsession showed no response.

Left with no other choice, Brian reluctantly targeted his forearm once more, and gingerly took a small bite, enduring the pain as he swallowed a tiny piece of flesh.

The next moment.

A warm current surged, and Black Fur Big Rat Obsession One was completed.

Brian licked off the blood remaining at the corner of his mouth, healed his injuries first, and then, containing his excitement, claimed the reward from Gift Two.

Waiting for a moment,

apart from feeling an extra unit of Gift Energy and a slight warmth in his body, he didn’t notice any other changes in himself.

Brian was a bit stunned.

He took another look at the Status Panel he had created using his Supercomputer Perception Talent.

On it, indeed, was an extra status: Cellular Adaptivity Activation.

"Could this be the Super Adaptation Talent?"

Brian wondered in his heart.

Not even a manual included!

His talent desperately needed further upgrades.

As his thoughts changed, ’Cellular Adaptivity Activation’ on his self-made Status Panel also transformed into ’Super Adaptation,’ and was categorized under the talent section.

This was why Brian rarely looked at the panel.

This thing was formed by his own understanding + Supercomputer Perception Talent – too rigid. Its only use, probably, was to discover some changes he hadn’t noticed himself but were recorded by the Supercomputer Perception.

"Adaptation... This talent probably requires environmental changes or external stimuli to react."

Brian pondered for a moment and understood the reason.

...

He planned to abandon this safe house.

After cleaning up the scene,

he took Shi San, who was yawning at the door, and returned to the city center.

Upon arriving back at the apartment,

Brian smiled and stroked Shi San’s head, "Shi San, I remember Susan wakes up very early and exercises her body flexibility every day. She’s probably already discovered that you’re gone. Have you thought about how you’re going to explain it to her?"

Shi San’s head drooped, the whole dog appearing somewhat despondent.

Busy all night and nearly eaten, not even a single rat hair to show for it. And now going back to be bullied by the fierce mother dog.

Life as a dog is so tiring.

In the end, Brian made up for Shi San as a way of thanking him for bringing such a big gift package. He made a loving breakfast and wrote a note, suggesting Shi San simply couldn’t resist returning to his comfortable big bed and hoped that after Susan went to work, they could discuss the matter amicably, like putting their two beds together so there were no more worries about the dog running between them...

Hanging the bag around Shi San’s neck, Brian watched him leave.

After Shi San’s figure was out of sight, Brian closed the apartment door firmly, and started experimenting with the Super Adaptation Talent he obtained – well, the Micro Super Adaptation Talent.

This wasn’t difficult to test.

The simplest way was to lie in the freezer compartment of the refrigerator.

Of course, a refrigerator that can fit a person is usually called a chest freezer.

This, Brian had indeed encountered while at the Forensic Bureau, but not in a homicide case. Rather it was a case of a giant baby who had frozen his deceased parents in a chest freezer to commit pension fraud.

Actually, similar cases were not rare.

Previously, there was a particularly vile case involving a retirement home that squeezed those elderly to death and buried them in the mountain behind and in the yard.

Some state laws had put in plenty of measures to prevent such things from happening, but there were always those who found loopholes.

Brian’s house didn’t have such a large chest freezer, so he chose the bathtub.

..

More than twenty minutes later.

The bathtub was half-filled with water.

Brian couldn’t help but grab a timer and directly lay down in it, submerging his entire body underwater.

Without taking a deep breath in advance, it still took nearly six or seven minutes for him to feel a slight sense of suffocation, as his chest instinctively craved fresher air.

As time trickled away, second by second.

At thirteen minutes, Brian already had an urge to burst out of the water.

Why suicide, some jump off buildings, some jump into rivers, some hang themselves, but why does no one choose to stop breathing and consciously suffocate themselves to death?

Because it is nearly impossible to do so.

Breathing, the instinct to survive, is an innate response of the body.

Ordinary people simply can’t resist the body’s instinct to survive.

But Brian was different.

Desperation gripped his mind as he entered a state of hypoxia, yet he forcibly controlled his body to stop struggling and moving, while using his Supercomputer Perception and Body Control Talent to feel the minute changes in his body.

Time continued to pass.

Around eighteen minutes, Brian’s consciousness began to blur.

Thinking, after all, consumes a lot of oxygen.

Even though his body instinctively reduced oxygen consumption, entering a state similar to hibernation, it couldn’t overcome Brian’s highly strained spirit and thought processes.

Almost twenty minutes passed, and his body reached its limit!

Until this critical point.

Brian could feel every cell in his body growing more silent, entering a sleep-like state, praying they could help the body, their host, hold on a bit longer, but there were no other changes.

In a dizzy stupor, he nearly could not resist his survival instinct to break the water’s surface.

Just at that moment, Brian was amazed to find changes happening inside his body!

His skin cells, astonishingly, began to shift from their hibernation-like state back to being active, and some miraculous changes occurred among the cell tissues.

This process was extremely fast.

In just over a minute, Brian actually felt the dizziness caused by the lack of oxygen alleviate significantly.

Countless tiny oxygen molecules were actually being absorbed from the water through his skin, nourishing his extremely oxygen-deprived, dormant body!

"Is this skin breathing?" Brian thought joyfully.

So this Super Adaptation Talent is only activated when one is close to death.

No, that’s not right!

The previous black furry beast just got roughed up by me and then it adapted.

Brian understood.

This must be the result of an incomplete talent.

Along with the changes in the surface cells of the skin, some stored energy inside Brian’s body was also rapidly consumed.

This method of breathing was quite peculiar.

The oxygen absorbed was integrated directly into various parts of Brian’s body, with no need for blood circulation or blood oxygen transport via the heart.

That is to say, without his heart, he might now be able to survive for a while.

It’s just that this transformation was incomplete.

How to describe it?

Until the adaptation finished, Brian found that the oxygen absorbed by the skin was only enough to keep him in a hibernation-like state of survival, without truly suffocating, but he could forget about any rigorous activity underwater.

The stronger the body, the more oxygen it consumes.

It wasn’t noticeable normally, but in an underwater environment like this, the tiny amount of absorbed oxygen was probably only enough for him to paddle a bit.

Floating on the water’s surface going with the flow, or burying himself in the soil for seven days and nights would be simple.

Playing dead was also easy.

It’s just that this fell short of Brian’s expectation.

If this was the extent of it, wouldn’t that mean his Super Adaptation Talent could only be used for life-saving in critical moments?

Although this was still very powerful, Brian’s initial expectations were too high, and now he felt somewhat disappointed.

He began to try some activities underwater while controlling the cells inside his body to become active together, increasing the consumption of oxygen.

Once he started this, the previously vanished suffocation slowly crept back.

...

More than an hour later, Brian climbed out of the bathtub feeling somewhat disheartened.

After numerous experiments.

He realized that his acquired ’Super Adaptation’ talent was indeed powerful, a process that would normally require countless years of environmental stimuli was compressed into a short period of freakish evolution.

Brian’s acquired ’Micro Adaptation’ talent, though not as potent as the complete version, would actively change his bodily traits to ensure survival at the lowest required level in the current environment, as long as his body had sufficient energy reserves and external conditions allowed it.

Note that there is only a process of change.

But whether one would survive in the end is not guaranteed.

This talent was like a passive adaptation skill to the environment, such as heat resistance, cold resistance, etc., accelerating the organism’s adaptation to external stimuli.

The black furry beast’s full talent was probably formidable, effectively a constantly growing BUFF.

As for Brian’s weakened version, it was still of substantial help, reducing the chances of sudden death and increasing his survival ability.

Moreover, the beast could only activate its talent passively.

Some changes might not have a positive effect on the body, only guaranteeing positive impact in that environment at the time; once removed from that environment, it could become detrimental.

Many human genetic diseases originated this way.

Long ago, such genetic anomalies might not have been diseases but adaptations for survival, which then became burdens or even nightmares when inherited in the present-day.

Brian didn’t face such issues.

If he felt uncomfortable, he could always control other body cells to ’kill’ the adapted parts and restore his body’s ’purity.’

"If the full talent of Super Adaptation were mine, it would’ve been amazing, truly like a Golden Finger from the novels of my past life, but now it’s mine," Brian smirked.

His Blood Moon Gift Talent was even more powerful.

...

After shedding the dead skin produced by killing off a large number of surface cells and using acid to dissolve away the traces.

Brian adjusted his tie in the mirror, revealing a standard sunny smile.

It was now just past eight in the morning.

Time for him to go to work.

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