Chapter 4 Testing
I'm not sure if other people can see this thing, so I'd better go home and study it to be on the safe side.
Thinking of this, Ji Minghuan pressed the cross in the upper right corner, and the system panel shrank into a gear icon and moved to the lower right corner of the field of vision.
He walked out of the remote corner behind the teaching building, and soon he crossed the threshold of Lijing No. 5 Middle School and entered the bustling market. It was rush hour, and people were swarming like ants. The sound of the horn seemed to be accompanied by the smell of sweat.
After much difficulty, Ji Minghuan found a gap and slid out of the crowd like a fish.
Then we stopped walking along the avenue and turned into a village in the city.
I found a narrow and damp alley in the village, turned in, and could see air conditioners installed behind anti-theft nets, and clothes drying on the rooftop swaying in the wind. It had just rained a little at noon today, and there were still puddles on the ground, with one or two gray-black cigarette butts in the puddles.
Seeing that there was no one around and no surveillance equipment in the alley, Ji Minghuan stood down leaning against the wall.
He raised his right hand and stared at his fingers for a while. "If my memory serves me right, the ability of this body is..."
The next moment, Ji Minghuan's five fingers slightly bent, and the dark restraint belt slid out from the cuffs of his school uniform like a snake, swam over his wrist, and slowly wrapped around his index finger.
"It's just like what I remember," he whispered to himself, staring at the restraints that seemed to have real life, "This is Gu Wenyu's ability."
At the moment of loading the character's memory, the memory of this superpower naturally flowed into his mind - according to the setting, the time when "Gu Wenyu" awakened his superpower was less than a month ago, and his control over the restraint belt can only be considered as preliminary, and he has not even fully understood the rules of the superpower.
Despite this, this body also retains the muscle memory brought by multiple training of supernatural powers.
Ji Minghuan didn't need to control himself deliberately. The moment the idea flashed through his mind, his body moved instinctively, and the restraints would also make corresponding movements.
Leaning against the wall of the alley, Ji Minghuan quietly recalled "Gu Wenyu's" initial series of experiments on superpowers. After a moment, he raised his eyebrows, as if he had found some rules in his memory that Gu Wenyu had not discovered.
So he lifted the schoolbag with one hand and hung it above his head, while extending a black restraint belt from his sleeves. He let go of his hand, and the heavy schoolbag suddenly fell down and hit the back of his head.
But unexpectedly, Ji Minghuan did not feel any sudden pressure on his head.
Instead, the restraint strap wrapped around the wrist suddenly sank slightly, and the surface became concave.
Ji Minghuan scratched his head and stared at the schoolbag that fell on the ground with interest. "It's really fun."
Indeed, even though he had just been hit by a heavy schoolbag, his head was not affected at all.
It was just as he guessed: the restraints could share the force he was bearing, and the force would be weakened to a certain extent in the process of flowing from his body to the restraints.
If Ji Minghuan's body is likened to a "water tank" and the force he is subjected to is equated to "water flow", then the restraint belt is equivalent to a few "small puddles" dug beside the tank - the moment the water falls into the tank, it will immediately divert to the puddles, and in the process of diversion, the total amount of water will be absorbed by the soil and slightly reduced.
Thinking this way, he could even rely on the mechanism of the restraint belt to move at high speed on the top of a tall building without any risk, because even if he unfortunately fell, Ji Minghuan could let the restraint belt take over his responsibility to bear the instantaneous impact force generated when falling to the ground.
It is equivalent to buying a safety insurance for yourself.
Of course, the premise for doing so is that the impact force of landing will not be greater than the maximum bearing limit of the restraints; otherwise, once the restraints break, he may be left with no remains.
But in Gu Wenyu's memory, he himself had never noticed this: he once tried to fall from a height of five meters but was unharmed, mistakenly thinking that his physical fitness had become stronger after awakening his superpowers, but in fact, the restraint belt absorbed 90% of the impact force for him the moment it touched the ground.
But objectively speaking, his physical fitness has indeed improved after awakening his superpowers, and the improvement is significant.
Thinking of this, Ji Minghuan suddenly blinked: "Oh, right, what if the force absorbed is not instantaneous impact, but continuous force?"
He summoned the bandages all over his body, causing the dark bandages to swirl around him. From a distance, he looked like a foreign object surrounded by a black vortex.
Ji Minghuan raised his eyebrows, trying to continuously distribute the gravity he was bearing to the bandage, and then tapped the ground with the front of his shoe.
With just a light touch on the ground, his body leaped high in an instant, easily crossing the middle of the wall and reaching a height of four meters.
Then it falls to the ground like a fallen leaf, and during the whole process the body feels as light as if it is in space.
“It actually works against gravity.”
With his shoe soles touching the ground, Ji Minghuan put the bandage back into his sleeve, a hint of surprise flashing across his eyes.
Only at this moment did he realize that the move he had just used not only worked on instantaneous impact force, but was also effective on "continuous" force. In other words, Ji Minghuan could even use the mechanism of the restraint belt to reduce the impact of gravity on himself, making his body lighter and thus gaining superior maneuverability.
As long as he allows the restraints to continue to share the gravity he is subject to, and... the gravity will be slightly reduced in the process of flowing to the restraints, this is equivalent to a decrease in the "overall gravity" of the main body plus the restraints, so the whole body will become more than twice as light.
But there is a price to pay for doing so.
That is, it is very easy to exceed the load-bearing capacity of the restraints. Ji Minghuan could feel that the restraints wrapped around his wrists had become slightly hot after just letting the restraints share the gravity for a short while.
"If I let the restraint belt share the gravity I am subjected to for a long time, then it will burn up," Ji Minghuan thought wildly. "If it really burns up, can I still use it as a fire whip to whip people?"
He paused and said, "But if this is the case, I will be the first one to be burned."
After testing the basic rules of the restraint belt, Ji Minghuan picked up the schoolbag that he had just thrown on the ground.
He stood at the entrance of the alley, diverting the force of gravity to the restraints all over his body.
He leaped forward, and in an instant his body bounced upward to a height of four or five meters. He then extended the restraints wrapped around his five fingers and grabbed the anti-theft net outside an air-conditioning outdoor unit. At this moment, he suddenly raised his right hand, pulling the restraints connected to the anti-theft net at the front end, and his thin body swung forward staggeringly.
Like a trapeze artist in a circus.
He drew a clear arc in the air, passing over the rusty security nets. The hum of the air conditioner was drowned out by the sound of the air being torn apart.
As the restraints were retracted to his side, Ji Minghuan fell to the ground again, but before landing he stretched out another restraint and tightly wrapped it around the construction elevator in the alley. Then he used the restraints to gain leverage and swung his body up into the air, swiftly leaping over the billboard in front of him like a seagull flying over the waves.
The body, no longer bound by gravity, at this moment flies like a bird in the twilight.
After just two attempts, Ji Minghuan had completely mastered this technique.
The dusk was blood-red, and the dark restraints danced in the air like ink, entangled with pieces of anti-theft nets. The boy in school uniform grabbed the restraints and passed through the narrow alley. At the end of the alley, his thin body fell from more than ten meters in the air. His school uniform jacket was lifted high, fluttering like the tail feathers of a bird.
As he fell, the restraints moved closer to his body, as if he was dragging a dancing stream of black light behind him, and he was falling down at an angle like a rainstorm.
The puddles in the alley in the pupils continued to expand, and the reflections on the water surface also expanded infinitely.
The moment the soles of his shoes touched the ground, Ji Minghuan diverted the impact force coming from below to the top of each restraint strap, with mechanical precision and without any mistakes.
The whole person landed safely on the ground, and even his knees did not bend downward.
Instead, the restraints around his body drooped down like a dying snake and fell to his feet.
In the dead silent alley, he straightened his back and took a deep breath of the turbid air.
Then he lowered his eyes, put the burning, drooping restraints back into his sleeves, pulled the shoulder straps of his school bag that had slid to his elbows back onto his shoulders, put his hands into his school uniform pockets, and walked slowly out of the narrow alley as if nothing had happened.
Bathed in the afterglow of the sunset, his figure was slowly drowned in the noise of the city.
(End of this chapter)
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