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Chapter 337 - 216 Ability and Change

Chapter 337: Chapter 216 Ability and Change

In his sleep, Brian dreamed of the monsters and humans he had personally executed during this period.

Some of these dead, Brian remembered quite clearly, while others he had simply killed without much attention to their faces, and now their faces, which had been fleeting, were also clearly visible.

He was as if suffering from sleep paralysis, unable to move, he could only let these phantasmal beings circle around him, questioning his cruelty and coldness.

Unable to move, Brian simply watched them wander aimlessly.

After all, he had already killed them, whatever they wanted to ask, they could ask.

Anyway, he only killed those who deserved to be killed.

Among those he had executed, none were innocent. They were either mutants who harassed ordinary people, laboratory monsters, or enemies.

Brian felt no guilt.

Thinking this way, and listening to the echoes of questions resounding in his mind, he actually fell asleep again during his sleep.

This time, Brian once again plunged into another bizarre world.

This was a world assembled by the Spirit Crystal gift recipients after he completed his obsessions.

One moment, Brian was watching a man and a woman tormenting their bed at home, the next moment the scene before him turned into the cruel sight of cannibalism following a hunt.

The most frequent appearances were made by the Mutant Rat, which had granted him the Super Adaptation Talent, the garden’s man-eating girl, and the Mutant Dog that provided the flesh-corrosive poison bag talent.

These three monsters kept dragging Brian deeper into their memories of hunting and feasting. Their manic desire to hunt and eat relentlessly assaulted Brian’s mind, giving him a strong impulse to merge into the phantoms.

Fortunately, Brian was a man of two lifetimes, with a strong sense of self-awareness.

This assault was unpleasant, but bearable.

In addition to these mad memories, there were many others from the people whose talents Brian had absorbed before, including Laura, the female veterinarian.

This FBI field agent fodder, raised from childhood, had memories that were very violent and explicit; either she was killing, or she was squeezing every last drop out of the various handsome men she fancied, and then zipping them into body bags...

The onslaught of memories increased the mental pressure on Brian.

His consciousness even began to blur.

However, what Brian felt more was throbbing pain.

This throbbing was like cramming three days and nights of studying into his head, a throbbing filled with too much information.

...

Brian wasn’t sure how much time had passed before he slowly opened his eyes.

He scanned the surroundings. In the pitch-black environment, a pair of blood-red eyes glimmered faintly, allowing him to see everything as if it were daytime, unaffected by the darkness of the night.

Brian touched his somewhat warm eyes, a look of relief washing over his face.

Damn!

He hadn’t realized that, without being aware, he had undergone another Transformation.

This transformation was extremely dangerous.

It started off with something akin to a demon of the heart.

Fortunately, Brian wasn’t good at much else, but he had a thick skin. He faced the questioning of those he had killed by falling asleep in his dream, completely unaffected.

What followed was the backlash from absorbing talents and skills from the gifts.

To be precise, it wasn’t backlash, but rather the hidden dangers within his own body that erupted this time, attempting to assault Brian’s consciousness.

To put it in more mystical terms, it was those talents and skills carrying the strong Spiritual Imprint of their original owners. These had not been eradicated until the activation of the Blood Moon Ability.

The memories from the mutants were more real and detailed, while those from ordinary people, including Laura, were a bit more blurry.

Once the critical period passed,

Brian only remembered that something like this had happened but couldn’t recall the details of those assaulting memories anymore; it was as if those memories had been directly cleared from his mind like trash.

His current state was very good. His mind was clear, it worked quickly, and there wasn’t that previous sense of throbbing pain—only the lingering fear in hindsight.

This test challenged not only his willpower but also his experience.

In just three months, he had absorbed too many obsession gifts.

These included the wild Mutant Beasts, the ferocious Mutants, as well as the mixed obsessions of various ordinary people.

The real age of Brian, who had lived two lifetimes, was now fifty years old. Combined with the rich and colorful life and experiences of this lifetime, along with his formidable Spiritual Strength, he had managed to survive.

In fact, he still had many unfulfilled obsessions on him.

Like his uncle’s obsession, the six obsessions of the Japanese Ninja, the obsession of the monkey Mutant Beast...

Brian suspected that if he had truly completed these obsessions before, he would probably no longer be able to distinguish himself, really becoming insane.

...

"I thought I was a very special Mutant with no dangers, but apart from occasionally being a bit emotional, there was also this kind of hidden cost, there really is no such thing as a free lunch in this world..."

Brian got up, wanting to drink some water, but he felt chilly all over.

Touching himself, he realized that his entire body was drenched in sweat, leaving a clear human-shaped sweat imprint on the sofa.

While dreaming, his body had also undergone some unknown changes.

"Gurgle~ Gurgle~"

Brian sprawled at the kitchen sink, gulping down the ice-cold tap water before he cleaned up the sofa, took a bath, and changed clothes. Once he was dry and comfortable again, he returned to the couch and closed his eyes to reassess his condition.

With a thought, Supercomputer Perception immediately activated.

At that moment, Brian felt different.

How should one put it?

The skills and talents he had gained before were like plugins, always with a sense of separation. He could use them, even better than their original owners, but they would consume his spirit.

Now, they still consumed spirit, but in a much more natural way. The previous slight awkwardness was completely gone.

Brian quickly tested his other talents and discovered similar changes as if these talents were inherently his own, growing up with him and adapting.

Most crucially, the combinations of these talents became smoother.

They seemed to have merged together.

Take "enhanced sense of smell" + "Eagle Eye" + "Supercomputer Perception" + "ultrasonic shock perception"; these four combined, forming Brian’s exaggerated and unique sensory network.

How should one put it?

Brian, sitting on the couch in his apartment’s living room, could clearly comprehend the outside environment, as if he could see directly through the concrete walls, sensing all inanimate and animate objects within approximately a dozen meters or so outside.

This was a sensation he couldn’t quite describe, not truly seeing, yet he just knew the movements around the balcony, the arrangement of objects, the leaves drifting by when the evening breeze blew...

The combination of talents was this terrifying!

Besides this, Brian’s "Body Control" + "Pheromone Control" + "Super Adaptability" – his three physical talents – had also undergone a subtle fusion.

Apart from being more supple in application.

For the first time, Brian had the ability to slightly alter his cellular structure.

He didn’t know why he was so sure that he could do this, but he just was, as if he naturally knew the functions of his talents.

Brian tentatively stretched out his hand.

The next moment.

As he willed it, this fair-skinned hand began to slowly change in color, very gradually turning into matte black.

About ten minutes later, a hand that anyone would believe belonged to a black person appeared before Brian.

"The speed is too slow, this rate of change is too slow, it can’t be used in an emergency, but if I don’t actively control it and let my body adapt automatically, it should work better than my controlling it..."

With that thought.

Brian directly took out a lighter and burned the matte black hand.

A sting spread.

Brian remained expressionless, silently watching the spot sending out white smoke from the burn.

Only when the smell of charred skin cells reached him did he move the lighter away and used his Gift Energy to heal the wound.

Such an injury, the consumption of Gift Energy, was about 0.8 units.

Touching the skin that seemed healed, yet was more resilient than before, and feeling a slight hunger, Brian’s face lit up with joy.

The "Super Adaptation Talent," which he had only acquired a third of, had undergone a miraculous change after merging with his other two talents!

Brian immediately picked up the lighter again and resumed burning the previous spot.

This time, the pain was significantly less.

The same distance, the same duration of burning.

When the time was up.

Brian immediately drew back the lighter and again controlled his Gift Energy to heal the wound.

This time, the consumption of Gift Energy was only 0.5 units.

After repeating several times.

Under the same burning conditions, although Brian could still feel the sting, when he removed the lighter, the skin, which had been repaired several times, showed no sign of injury apart from being slightly yellowed on the outside.

This wasn’t to say that this patch of skin was now fireproof, but it had become much more resistant to fire and could withstand it longer before being damaged.

Brian touched the small patch of skin that was almost the same as elsewhere, but whether in terms of toughness or resistance to high temperatures, it far surpassed the surrounding skin, his face showing pleasure.

This is what "Super Adaptability" is all about!

The skin cells at this spot seemed to have remembered the stimulation from the fire burn and actively changed their structure. Moreover, while healing, they altered their form to adapt to the fire environment.

But that was not even the most impressive part.

The most incredible aspect was that Brian’s body remembered this change.

What did that mean?

It meant he could use Gift Energy at any time, or slowly draw on the energy ingested from the outside world, to make all his body cells undergo this type of resistant change, achieving adaptation to high-temperature flames.

If he chose not to, he could also revert this patch of skin back to its former state, making it undetectable to others.

Compared to the Mutation Talent of the Mutant Rat, Brian’s ability was incredible.

Because adaptation changes generally result in visible alteration, often uncontrollable, whereas Brian could absorb their advantages and choose whether to change.

One could imagine.

The longer he lived, as long as he had sufficient energy, his body would become increasingly freakish, and the lethal threats to him would decrease more and more.

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