22 Metal Manipulation
◎What kind of weird talent is this?◎
honeycomb.
Zhu Ning looked at the scars on his body in the mirror. Strong healing agents could not remove scars. If he wanted to remove scars, he needed to buy cosmetic medicine.
Therefore, the scars caused by the guillotine were still there. Zhu Ning stroked the shape of the scar on her right shoulder.
She wasn't actually sure if she had been contaminated. The protective suit had been torn for about thirty seconds, and Zhu Ning had quickly patched it up, but contaminants might have already entered.
Do I need a checkup? Can I go to the cleaning center tomorrow to apply for a physical examination?
But what if the test results show it’s a pollutant? Will I have to spend the rest of my life running for my life?
Zhu Ning looked at the scar on his lower abdomen again. This scar was even more frightening. It was a raised scar about ten centimeters long, indicating that Zhu Ning had been stabbed by some weapon.
To this day, she still hasn't figured out the origin of her scar. This time, she learned a lot of information, but she's even more confused.
For example, how long has this wild team connected by "grave posts" existed, and what is the meaning of their existence?
What exactly does Prometheus want to do? And what is Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals?
Zhu Ning searched for Yongsheng Pharmaceutical on the Internet, and the results quickly showed that it was a very powerful biological company that controlled more than half of the pharmaceutical industry in the federation.
The medicines ordinary people take, including the powerful healing agent Zhu Ning takes, are all from his company. There's a saying online: if you're from the Federation, you've definitely given money to Yongsheng Pharmaceutical.
Unless you have never been sick in your life.
The information about this pharmaceutical company on the Internet is very clean, to an unbelievable degree. The entire Internet is filled with their promotional videos.
"Yongsheng Pharmaceuticals, change your genes, create your future."
After watching a few promotional videos, Zhu Ning can recite the company's slogan.
I say it's clean because there are no negative posts about their company on the entire Internet. When you search, all you find are praises for their medicine. No one says there is any problem with their medicine.
If Zhu Ning hadn't walked out of the hot pot restaurant himself and seen the side effects of the hot pot restaurant owner after taking the medicine, he would have almost believed it.
After the mission was completed, the system prompted her to find a key clue. The key clue was undoubtedly Yongsheng Pharmaceutical. Was the person the original owner wanted to meet in the garbage room someone from Yongsheng Pharmaceutical?
Did the original owner change his defective genes to buy medicine? Was he participating in some experimental project like the hot pot restaurant owner?
But there was nothing related to Yongsheng Pharmaceutical in Zhu Ning's house. The house might have been "cleaned" by someone.
What did that statement about the end of the world being near mean?
Why were there words spoken by the fishman at the place where she died? Was her first mission arranged by someone?
It was as if there was a huge net in front of him, and Zhu Ning was deeply trapped in it. The net was getting tighter and tighter, but Zhu Ning didn't even know how many parties were behind the net.
Ding ding ding——
Her secondary brain rang. It was Liu Niannian. Before Liu Niannian left, she added her as a friend. Zhu Ning said that she would look for her if there was any work in the future.
At first she thought Liu Niannian might not be willing, but she was actually quite interested. Zhu Ning left after finishing her work, leaving Liu Niannian alone waiting for her family at the entrance of the hot pot restaurant.
"Zhu Ning!" As soon as she opened her secondary brain, she saw that Liu Niannian had sent her a cat face emoticon.
Zhu Ning: “…”
This guy seems to be in the same league with Li Nianchuan.
Zhu Ning searched for Liu Niannian's identity. There was no one with the surname Liu among the chaebol families in the Federation. She might have given a fake name, but the other party didn't want to say it, so Zhu Ning didn't ask any more questions.
"Are you home?" Zhu Ning asked.
Liu Niannian: "Yes, I'm safe! I was just scolded by my family."
Liu Niannian sent another picture of a kitten crying face.
Zhu Ning thought about it for a moment. She didn't know how many people would be troubled if the eldest lady ran out. If it was her younger sister, she might have been hung up and beaten.
Liu Niannian, lying on the big bed in the mansion, had changed into a princess dress and pajamas. She was particularly interested in Zhu Ning. She had few friends and was surrounded by flatterers. She had never seen a peer like Zhu Ning.
One person can enter a polluted area and purify the entire area, even doing the work of sweeping up the garbage. Zhu Ning is her idol!
Liu Niannian was still trying to figure out how to talk to his idol when his brain suddenly lit up.
Idol...transfer one million Singapore dollars to her?
Please attach a note to the transfer: Your salary.
Liu Niannian, who always transfers money to others, asked: "?"
It was only 1 million, while the new dress she bought last week cost 5 million Singapore dollars. But this seemed to be the first money she earned, and it was her hard-earned money.
Liu Niannian thought for a moment and said, "Thank you, boss?"
Zhu Ning: "We can work together again if there's a chance."
Very business-like.
Although Zhu Ning is feeling very painful now, he still has to settle the accounts. Liu Niannian contributed half of the effort in containing the contaminated spores this time.
She plans to cooperate with Liu Niannian for a long time in the future. As her first employee, if they were to start a company, Liu Niannian could be considered her partner.
Moreover, Liu Niannian's family is very wealthy, and maybe he can take advantage of it. If he wants to expand his business, he must give them enough money.
Seeing that Zhu Ning had no intention of chatting with her, Liu Niannian took the initiative to ask, "What are you doing?"
Zhu Ning replied half-heartedly while searching: "Look for information related to Yongsheng Pharmaceutical."
Liu Niannian was silent for a moment, then asked, "Is it because of the hot pot restaurant?"
Zhu Ning: "Yes."
Zhu Ning also checked and went back to the hot pot restaurant, but there was still no information online, and no medical malpractice postings from Yongsheng Pharmaceutical. The hot pot restaurant owner had indeed existed as a victim of Yongsheng Pharmaceutical, but there was no trace left.
There was no record of him on the entire Internet, and Zhu Ning didn't even know the name of the hot pot restaurant owner.
Zhu Ning: "I want to see if there are any other victims."
This is definitely not a single medical accident, there must be others involved.
On the other side of the screen, Liu Niannian was lost in thought while looking at the secondary brain.
Zhu Ning didn't pay much attention to whether Liu Niannian had sent any messages. After a while, Liu Niannian slowly sent a message: "Maybe, I can help you."
Zhu Ning: “?”
Before Zhu Ning could start typing, the other party said, "I own shares in his company."
Zhu Ning: "You have shares in his family?"
Liu Niannian: "Yes, it's my coming-of-age gift from my dad."
Zhu Ning: “…”
As expected of a chaebol, Zhu Ning would never be able to earn that much in his lifetime. The Yongsheng Pharmaceutical Company had a very impressive annual profit, with annual turnover calculated in the hundreds of billions.
Liu Niannian should have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life, so I don't know what the problem is that makes him go into the polluted area alone.
Liu Niannian's family must be very close to Yongsheng Pharmaceutical. After all, it is such a big company and not everyone can buy its shares.
She understood that Prometheus might have pushed this task because of Liu Niannian. The hot pot restaurant was secondary, and saving Liu Niannian was the most important thing.
Zhu Ning wants Liu Niannian to owe him a favor.
Zhu Ning felt that he was being used. Prometheus used Zhu Ning, and Zhu Ning used Liu Niannian, but Liu Niannian seemed to be unaware of it.
Liu Niannian: "What type of information do you need?"
Zhu Ning: "Anything is fine. The more detailed the better."
Liu Niannian paused and said, "But you have to wait for me for a while. You know, I don't know much about the company."
Zhu Ning: “…”
I understand, the rich second generation who are uneducated and unskilled.
Zhu Ning searched for Yongsheng Pharmaceutical's partner companies and their equity structure. It must be said that the privacy of the wasteland world is very good, especially the privacy of the rich.
With information being so transparent, the privacy of ordinary people is not protected at all, but the information of the chaebols is kept strictly secret. Zhu Ning searched around but couldn't find anyone who matched Liu Niannian.
As expected of a chaebol.
…
Zhu Ning turned off his secondary brain and prepared to study his newly acquired purification value and talent.
Her current purification value is 3214. Without any hesitation, Zhu Ning converted all of it into health points.
[Health value exchange successful, current health value 45]
It’s okay, a little higher than before, but not long-lived compared to ordinary people, and many items and skills consume health points.
Zhu Ning opened the panel to study the props, the Pigman's Guillotine, which can kill the mission target once within 24 hours, and it never misses.
If you look at the description carefully, it says it's 100% effective, but it doesn't say it will definitely kill people. It may be 100% effective for pollutants below level C, but it's hard to say what the effect will be for pollutants above level C.
Moreover, there is a skill cooldown time and it can only be used once a day. You should spend your money wisely and use it at critical moments.
There is also a master key that can open any door. This description is much more honest, meaning that as long as it is a door, there is no door that Zhu Ning cannot open.
Thief skills.
The other primary talent is quite interesting, metal manipulation, Magneto?
Zhu Ning sat cross-legged on the bed, her hair still unblown, eager to try out this talent. A coin lay in her palm, and Zhu Ning stared at it closely.
Thirty seconds passed, no response. A minute passed, no movement. Two minutes passed, still as a corpse.
It's useless.
What should she do next? Find a master? Or seek help online? How can she get started with metal manipulation?
Zhu Ning wanted to go down and blow dry her hair first, fearing a stroke with a forehead full of wet hair. As she let go, before she could hook the hair dryer, she was suddenly stunned.
The coin hung quietly in the air.
Zhu Ning moved her fingers, and the coin followed her fingertips, shifting a centimeter to the left. Then it shifted to the right, and the coin followed, like one of her pet jellyfish, floating in line with the movement of her finger.
Zhu Ning could feel something was different. She had built some kind of connection with the coin, which was hard to explain and hard to explain to others.
She had never cultivated immortality before, but she guessed that this was the only way to achieve enlightenment. She carefully manipulated the coin, and its speed could be continuously increased according to her thoughts.
What about further away?
With a click, the coin fell to the ground.
Sure enough, the limit is only one meter. Beyond one meter, the connection is broken. The maximum distance is one meter. The coin is small and easy to control, but what about something larger than that?
The beehive where Zhu Ning lives is a slum. The buildings are all made of metal. Right behind Zhu Ning's bed is a whole metal wall.
Zhu Ning knelt on the bed, his palms gently pressed against the metal wall.
This wall is a high-tech piece of wasteland technology, made primarily of metal, which is very cost-effective. The metal wall is very thick, a solid piece of metal.
But it is said that this material has some kind of metallic radiation, so it was quickly abandoned by wealthy areas, and ordinary people no longer used it, and finally it was widely used in slums.
Zhu Ning placed her hands against the wall and closed her eyes to concentrate. The wall was quite large, and if it collapsed it could crush someone to death, so she was just testing it at first.
Being able to deform this small piece of metal under his palm was already a great achievement. Zhu Ning took a deep breath and focused all his mental energy on his palm.
After she closed her eyes, she found that the structure of the world had changed. She was like a metal doctor, "taking the pulse" of a piece of metal.
Her perception continued to spread along the metal, and Zhu Ning could sense the composition of the wall and the gaps between each piece of metal plywood.
The gaps between the interlayers are fixed with tens of thousands of screws.
With her palm as the center, a vast net seemed to spread out, metal connecting to metal, wall to wall. Tentacles from the depths of her consciousness continued to spread, rapidly connecting like a neural network.
Zhu Ning carefully sensed the wall as if he was sensing life for the first time.
She could sense that strange connection, so what about trying to control it? Her fingertips curled slightly, and as she moved, the surface of the invisible neural network wrinkled, slowly pulling at the metal wall.
Wait, Zhu Ning frowned.
wrong.
The entire hive had thirty-six floors, with sixty-nine households on each floor, and the walls connecting everyone were connected. As soon as Zhu Ning moved, the walls inside the hive began to vibrate, and by the time she reacted, it was too late.
With a loud bang, the walls of all 2,484 households in the hive suddenly resonated at the same frequency.
This was a bit too sudden, and the dishes inside Zhu Ning's room were shaken to the ground, and there was a crackling sound.
"Earthquake?"
"Where the fuck did the earthquake come from in Area 103?"
"What's going on?"
Neighbors rushed to the corridor, like bees shaken out, searching for the source. Zhu Ning, the source, was pale, staring at his palms and the wall in disbelief.
Even though she retracted her hand quickly enough, the wall in front of her was "crumpled" by her.
A solid metal wall looked like a crumpled bed sheet, and one could vaguely see the folds converging in one direction. Anyone looking at it could guess that there was once a hand controlling it.
Zhu Ning tried again with the coin one meter away, but no matter how hard she tried, the tiny coin didn't move at all.
So it wasn't that Zhu Ning's mental strength increased, but rather that the rules restricted him, requiring him to stay within one meter from metal objects.
The distance between the coin and Zhu Ning was more than one meter, but the distance between Zhu Ning and the entire hive was negative, and she was inside the hive.
What a strange talent this is. He can control metal at a distance of only one meter, but within one meter, as long as the metal is connected, it is under Zhu Ning's absolute control.
There's even no limit to the weight of the metal; she could uproot an entire hive if she wanted to.
Zhu Ning touched her nose and felt scarlet blood. She was bleeding from the nose.
The author has something to say:
Magneto is from the X-Men. He is good at metal manipulation and can even move a stadium.
Thank you to the little angels who voted for me or provided nutrient solution between 2022-08-11 11:04:50 and 2022-08-12 12:03:00~
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