Don't Pick Up Boyfriends From the Trash Bin

Chapter 216 - Battle Royale: Survival of the Jedi (VI)

The two men who had intended to sleep, crawled out of their sleeping bags with the spirit of science in their hearts.

It was cold near the water at night, so Lou Ying took the scarf from the warehouse and put it around him, saying as he did so, “You think Bai Anyi can manipulate more than the vector lines themselves?”

Chi Xiaochi let him fiddle with her, her mouth covered by thick grey wool, her voice slurred, “More than vector lines, to be precise. …… I’ll wear ……”

Lou Ying took his hand and gave him gloves, “Never mind. You talk.”

”Do you remember when Bai Anyi was hiding in the hole in the tree, and the pink skinned man acted in an unusual way.”

Lou Ying recalls, “He took a few steps away from the tree, then quickly returned. He must have made a wrong decision based on the fact that Bai Anyi was using the …… barrier?”

”Yes, and he must be pretty sure that Bai Anyi has a low offensive power.” Chi Xiaochi adjusted his gloves, “He wouldn’t go into the hole in the tree because it would be a pain in the ass to get Bai Anyi out, and because if he had an offensive skill, if he went into a small space so easily, even if he didn’t get killed, dying together wouldn’t be what he wanted.”

Lou Ying: “What do you think, in your opinion, has happened that has put him off?”

Chi Xiaochi pulled a mirror out of storage and straightened her hair at it, “Just recreate the scene, don’t you?”

Lou Ying reminds, “Convex mirror.”

Chi Xiaochi : “Hmm?”

”What ‘Bai Anyi’ pried off at the time was the glass of the vehicle’s rearview mirror.” Lou Ying explained, “Rear view mirrors, generally convex mirrors.”

Chi Xiaochi put down the flat mirror in her hand and regretted, “Next time we’d better exchange it for a car.”

Lou Ying laughed, “Well. Let’s change the verification method. A slightly simpler one.”

”Simple ……” Chi Xiaochi mused, “Then I think of the simplest formula ……”

He reached his hand out of thin air into the murky air in front of him and moved his fingers around.

He recalled the junior high school chemistry knowledge that had been mostly returned to his teacher: “2H2 O2 – 2H2O.”

As he spoke, some of the particles floating in the air, moving irregularly like the sand of the Ganges, diverged and moved slowly towards his fingertips, pale blue mixed with pale green, trailing wisps of residual light, mixing together, their tails intertwining like the seams of a rainbow.

Such changes are amazing, but if one is not paying full attention to them, there is a high probability that they will be dismissed as disorderly movement of particles.

But apart from the movement, nothing else mutable happened.

Lou Ying coughed and reminded again, “Lack of burning conditions.”

Chi Xiaochi “Ah”, “A lighter, or a match?”

Lou Ying: “Do the particles have the conditions to be ignited? I’m afraid that if it comes into contact with a flame, the particles will be burned up.”

Chi Xiaochi’s eyes flickered to Lou Ying and they made eye contact.

…… is lit and does not necessarily require a match.

Chi Xiaochi Bring the index finger and thumb together and rub slowly.

As the skin heats up, particles of pale blue and pale green entwine and spin up at high speed, the pale remnants of light gradually coalescing into a dazzling golden light under the friction, forming a swirl shaped like an eye.

The high heat was maintained for ten or so seconds before the golden light faded and condensed into three drops of water.

These three drops of water fall into the palm of Chi Xiaochi, emitting a slight heat but not dissipating, rolling like marbles, and when touched with the fingertips, the surface is soft and slightly indented.

He withdrew his hand and the three drops of water were also suspended in the air.

Chi Xiaochi has mapped out a path forward for it in his mind.

The next second, as if directed, they lined up and shot forward like bullets!

However, at a certain point, they seem to lose their way and fall straight down onto the blades of grass, turning into fine night dew.

Chi Xiaochi says with a straight face, “After initial tests, this Newton has a range of abilities.”

Lou Ying was amused and took a few steps back, holding his hand in the air over the spot where the water droplets had lost control, as if he were caressing an invisible border: “The range of permitted use is very close.”

Chi Xiaochi : “Yeah. If the scope allows, wouldn’t it be great if I wrote a nuclear explosion formula and we all went to meet Martin Luther King and get re-educated on equality for all?”

With that, Chi Xiaochi raised his hand again, “I’ll do another test to see where the rest of the boundaries are.”

Lou Ying naturally took his wrist, “I have an easier test.”

Chi Xiaochi purses her lips and behaves well.

He asked, “You stand vertically without moving. Can you feel gravity?”

Chi Xiaochi swings his neck: “It feels like I have a scale tied around my neck.”

Lou Ying came around to his front and held his neck, looking him straight in the eye, “I said. Stand and don’t move.”

Chi Xiaochi’s stiff neck is squeezed and rubbed a few times before it relaxes completely.

Strangely enough, Chi Xiaochi felt the gravity falling on the back of his neck disappear strangely when he stood still with his hands naturally down.

Yet the uncomfortable suffocating sensation still pressed against his forehead, pressing against his ribs and seemingly preventing him from breathing.

Chi Xiaochi was just about to rub his chest to ease the discomfort when a warm hand was pressed against his chest, “Close your breath.”

Chi Xiaochi puffs out his cheeks.

The choking sensation disappeared when the breathing stopped and the chest stopped rising and falling.

Chi Xiaochi’s eyes lit up and she was about to speak when a finger gently pressed her lips together, “Shhh, don’t move.”

”When all external movements are completely still, you do not feel the pressure of the external air. Blink if the above is a fact that you feel.”

Chi Xiaochi blinked his right eye.

Lou Ying continued, “Raise your right hand naturally. …… No, no, don’t move anywhere, just lift your right hand, not your arm. Tell me, about how many pounds do you think it weighs?”

Chi Xiaochi : “Can we talk now?”

Lou Ying : “Hmm. Just give me a value that’s about right.”

Chi Xiaochi closed his eyes and felt it: “About the same …… two pounds and six taels.”

Such an accurate figure, in turn, caused Lou Ying to stare: “…… eh?”

Chi Xiaochi bristles: “I grew up in a silo in the old city. In our market, you would never use an electronic scale if you could use a brass plate scale, and you would never use a scale of one tael or two if you could use one tael or five. I can weigh meat very accurately.”

Lou Ying smiled and gently touched his right eye: “Good boy.”

Turning boiled Chi Xiaochi pretended to be calm as she pulled her scarf upwards to cover half her face, “So what. What conclusion has Researcher Chi come to?”

Lou Ying says: “If the projections are correct, all you can use, is a cubic metre of air.”

Chi Xiaochi : “…… ha?”

Lou Ying replied, “The mass of one cubic metre of air is equal to approximately 1.293 kg.”

Chi Xiaochi raised an eyebrow and understood, “You mean, the weight that weighs on Bai Anyi ……”

”That’s right.” Lou Ying replied, “It’s a whole cubic metre of air.”

After half an evening of testing, Lou Ying and Chi Xiaochi were able to work out a rough idea of Bai Anyi’s abilities.

– What Bai Anyi can manipulate is a cubic metre of air centred on his own body.

What Bai Anyi can see are particles of elements that would otherwise be invisible to the naked eye and that can only be monitored with the help of electrical microscopes and even more sophisticated instruments.

In other words, the air that appears transparent to ordinary people is, in Bai Anyi’s eyes, refined into various elements.

The weight he feels is the price he needs to pay and is an indirect reminder that these substances, visible to the naked eye, have come under his use.

Air is constantly moving, so the air that Bai Anyi can use varies according to the environment.

For example, near water, where moisture is plentiful, he can extract more water.

To put it more accurately: within the confines of a cubic metre of normal air, Bai Anyi is free to use any physics and chemistry-related formula that can be achieved under normal conditions to his advantage.

For example, the AdS/CFT holographic pairing formula that Bai Anyi recites silently in a tree hole is only an ideal model, not realistic and therefore unattainable.

Although they are not currently equipped to do so, they can roughly deduce how the lens-imaging formula Bai Anyi used in the tree cave came in handy by mistake.

–Bai Anyi was huddled above the hole in the tree, clutching the mirror in his arms. The trunk, which is itself impervious to light, is dotted with sparse light holes that let in three or two rays.

In such a case, the lenticular imaging model has the initial conditions to be built.

As a result, the mirror reflected his face through the small hole, creating a vast imaginary image outside.

The Pinkie saw the illusion, took a few steps after it, realised it was an illusion, and then incorrectly decided that Bai Anyi’s powers were an inferior “blindfold” and immediately returned to the hole in the tree, succeeding in getting himself killed.

After testing, although various formulas can come in handy, vector and gravity are the best to use.

After memorising a few important formulas, Chi Xiaochi was too tired to hold on and rolled up in his sleeping bag, falling asleep unconscious.

Lou Ying rewrapped his sesame seeds, sat down in the tent, took Chi Xiaochi’s jacket, spread out the lining and began to write down all the formulas he could remember, detailing the conditions and effects needed to achieve each formula on the back.

The next day Chi Xiaochi woke up early.

Lou Ying was already up when he woke up under the covers.

Lou Ying’s face is a far cry from the gentle and refined image he used to have, and when his face is cold, his eyes are full of emotions behind the mask, and he doesn’t know what he is thinking.

Perhaps, like his appearance, which can change at will, his heart has really changed and is not the same as before.

It really isn’t the …… brother-next-door who always dotes on himself as a younger brother anymore ah.

Lou Ying turned around as if she was aware that Chi Xiaochi was looking at her.

He saw Chi Xiaochi with her eyes closed but her eyelashes fluttering slightly.

He lost his smile and crouched down beside him, “Get up.”

Chi Xiaochi pretends to be asleep, but when he adjusts, he acts like it.

Lou Ying said, “…… There’s someone outside.”

Chi Xiaochi’s eyes snapped open.

”I’ve set up some information lines on the perimeter.” Lou Ying said, “Someone has entered the woods. There’s still about 400 metres to go with us.”

Chi Xiaochi bounced to his feet with a carp, “Why didn’t you tell me earlier?”

”In time. It’s okay to sleep a little longer.” Lou Ying spoke gently, meaningfully, “I’ll hide. You can go wash your face by the stream.”

Within half a minute, Chi Xiaochi had put everything away, including the tent.

Lou Ying has disappeared into the woods with a lightness and silence. Chi Xiaochi kneels by the stream and washes her face with water.

The sound of the water chilling, the morning birds chirping, it’s like everything is real, like being on earth.

The reflection, reflected in the shadow, tilted its head slightly and looked towards a tree some twenty metres away.

Chi Xiaochi, with his back to the tree, jokingly reaches out to stir up the reflection of the stream.

”After the information, his ability should be instantaneous movement.”

Crouched in the grass are a man and a woman, dressed like Bai Anyi but much neater, wearing a helmet and holding a monitoring device. On a tablet on their wrists, the red dot representing the ‘target’ flashed on the edge of the stream, close to them.

”At the start of the game he moved from the parking area to this wood.” The man pointed a finger at the screen, “Looks like another punk who plans to use his powers and escape the game.”

A man and a woman can talk freely inside the helmet, and with the isolation of the helmet, nothing can be heard from the outside world.

The woman stammered disdainfully, looking over at Bai Anyi, who was defencelessly holding water to her lips, unaware of the danger behind her, and commented, “According to the data, this person has a very poor physique, has never been trained, and the odds have dropped to the bottom of the list, with a 99.9% chance of being an F-rank non-aggressive psychic, a piece of trash, not even qualified to be a ‘feeder’. ‘ qualification may not even be there.”

The man smiled and clenched his right fist, a red aura flickering between the crevices of his fist, causing one’s eyelids to flutter: “A mosquito’s leg is still meat. After we kill him, all the energy in his body will be yours and I won’t take it, okay? That way we can finish the mission quickly, and I’m still waiting to get to the next one.”

The woman pooh-poohed, “You’re so smart! You let me win this time, I have to let you win the next one? The data assesses that the next one is at least a B-ranked psychic!”

The man glanced at the tablet and took the scolding calmly, not hiding his need, “I like that Wei Shiliu’s powers. Let’s be fair, I won’t take it all, how about a 40/60 split, me 6 and you 4?”