Wasteland Border Inspector - Chapter 943

Chapter 943: Chapter 301: Life Evolution, Power Surges! (Part 2)

Then… what will the first node of this Lv1 skill be?

In the blink of an eye, ten days slipped by quietly.

…

On Diversion Island, the wind was howling.

After Stone Province entered October, the temperature began to drop noticeably, falling by almost half a degree every day.

Until today, it had already dropped to around 13 degrees.

At the center of the island, however, Cheng Ye was only wearing a thin sweat-soaked shirt, focusing his mind, holding a standard horse stance.

His eyes were slightly closed, and he kept inhaling pillars of air that were almost solid.

Whoosh.

Whoosh!

As the air pillars churned, they actually brought out clear vibrations in the air, like rushing water, being swallowed down his throat in great gulps.

Looking down, the sight made one’s scalp tingle.

His abdomen was abnormally distended, as if ten months pregnant and about to give birth, swollen into a huge round ball; the whole person looked almost like a monster.

“Not enough!”

“Still not enough!”

Cheng Ye roared inwardly. Even though the air in his body had already been compressed to the extreme, it was still a critical step away from the threshold state he had envisioned!

When he clearly perceived that this deficit was something he absolutely could not break through at the moment—

In an instant, Cheng Ye suddenly straightened up, closed then opened his mouth, and violently expelled his breath!

Boom boom boom boom!

The compressed air in his abdomen burst out at once, turning into a pale-white Air Cannon that slammed into the ground three meters in front of him.

In the billowing dust, a crater about two meters wide and roughly twenty centimeters deep appeared abruptly.

Even more shocking, after the crater formed, the remaining air vortex continued to bore downward, like an invisible spiral drill, relentlessly tearing at the soil.

After about five or six seconds, the vortex gradually dissipated, and the crater had already been deepened to forty centimeters.

“Looks like, in its current state, my lungs can at most compress… about 1.2 cubic meters of air!”

Cheng Ye straightened up and rubbed his still slightly swollen abdomen. “If I want to break through to above 1.5 cubic meters, I’m afraid my whole body will be burst apart by the air pressure inside me first.”

At this thought, the regret in his heart slowly faded.

Especially when he saw that ferocious crater on the ground, a trace of satisfaction inevitably surfaced on Cheng Ye’s face.

He raised his hand and opened the panel; lines of information flashed rapidly:

[Collector: Cheng Ye]

[Current Rank: lv.3 Sharp Investigator (62.5/100)]

[Life Level]: 4

[Skills: Shrinking Earth Giant Louse (bound), Heart-Protecting Fire, Minor Natural Physique, Vortex Lungs, Xiacang Skill, Chest Tendon Gate, Moyu Fir Tree’s Immortal Blessing]

[Abilities]: Shrinking Earth Giant Louse Coexistence State* (Balanced), Scorching Eagle Coexistence State (Shaping)

[Body Evolution Level]: 2.7% (lungs and bones have completed first-stage evolution)

[Yet to be unlocked…]

[Evaluation: You have begun attempting to fuse the source information of the indigenous civilization, and in the process, you have rarely discovered that the upper limit of indigenous organisms has been opened by some unknown power; only these upper limits must be activated in a special way. You successfully activated part of this potential, completing the first evolution of your lungs and bones, but this evolution is putting an increasingly heavy burden on your body, making you realize that you must seek a special method, a template that allows you to glimpse the end, in order to construct a balance between evolution and survival!]

…

“Looks like the evaluation is right. Simply fusing human information isn’t enough to drive deeper evolution!”

With a thought, Cheng Ye temporarily uninstalled Vortex Lungs, then chose to equip a new skill:

“Equip, Floating Sand Bones!”

Crack.

A dense series of bone-shifting sounds suddenly erupted inside his body, as if countless bones were being forcibly compressed and reshaped; every inch of muscle fiber transmitted a tearing pain.

Cheng Ye let out a muffled groan and dropped to one knee. His teeth clamped hard onto his lower lip, the metallic taste of blood spreading across his tongue, yet he didn’t let a single extra sound escape. The veins at his temples bulged, and sweat instantly soaked his back.

After about half a minute, the bone-gnawing agony gradually faded, replaced by a strange sense of lightness, as if all the weight on his body had been suddenly lifted, even his breathing became much smoother.

“Light!”

He slowly straightened up, the word coming out hoarse.

The next second, his bones cracked again in a series of crisp pops, like spring rain striking green tiles.

Another short wave of sharp pain swept over him, but his eyes shone, and he kept muttering:

“Light light light light light…”

The sounds of bones deforming crackled like strings of firecrackers. Right after, he lightly tapped the ground with his feet.

He clearly hadn’t used much force, yet his body seemed to have broken free from gravity, shooting straight up as if there were springs under his feet, leaping to over three meters high.

Even more startling, after rising into the air, he didn’t drop straight down; instead, he rode the faint air currents, drifting for three to four seconds, like a piece of lightweight foam board gently floating back to the ground, his feet touching down with almost no sound.

“The limit has risen again, but it also feels like it’s almost at the end…”

Feeling the power surging inside his body, Cheng Ye’s gaze tightened slightly, then he quickly changed his tone and said in rapid succession,

“Heavy heavy heavy heavy heavy…”

As his voice fell—

The body that had just been light as a feather suddenly sank, and the sound of his bones cracking turned dull and heavy.

Even though he stood still in place, the ground under his feet began to groan under the strain. Fine cracks spread out from his soles, gradually collapsing into a deep footprint.

He lifted his leg and brought it down.

Rumble!

A muffled impact rang out as Cheng Ye dragged his heavy body, shuffling step by step onto the large scale beside him.

With a clang, the weight dropped straight to the top; the needle swung wildly.

He laboriously adjusted the sliding weights, and only then did the counterweight slowly descend bit by bit, finally stopping at a shocking value.