novelhk Chapter 165 Upgrade to Level 4
Chapter 165 Upgrade to Level 4
I took the crystal downstairs to find Bian Hui and told her that I could try to absorb the energy here.
When I held the crystal in front of Bian Hui, she looked at me in surprise, then suddenly lowered her head with a shy smile and exclaimed: "Brother Huo, you are really amazing. You found a high-level crystal so quickly."
I was confused by her reaction and responded, "We all found this together. We wanted you to level up so that you can use your energy." I felt that my purpose was too obvious and too direct, so I quickly grabbed my hair and looked at her and said in a gentle tone, "Bian Hui, thank you for your hard work."
"Just call me Xiaohui, no need to be so polite." She answered shyly.
I thought to myself, this girl has been acting weird lately, could she be interested in me?
Bian Hui took the fourth-level crystal from my hand without hesitation. In an instant, she felt the vigorous energy in the crystal and began to slowly absorb it into her body. After absorbing 1/3 of the energy of the crystal with her consciousness, she suddenly shouted, withdrew her nerves, and returned the crystal to me, shaking her head and saying that she could no longer bear any more of the energy inside.
She straightened her mind and body, and instantly released more energy, using her fourth-order ability to convert the light energy in the surrounding air into heat energy. In an instant, we felt that the temperature of the entire floor, especially the 16th and 17th floors, rose rapidly. After a while, the temperature of the two floors reached at least 20 degrees above zero! This can be regarded as a very comfortable and friendly temperature for the human body.
Bian Hui jumped up excitedly and hugged me, shouting happily: "I succeeded! I succeeded, Brother Huo!"
I was also very happy. This was great. We could at least get through this difficult time. I hugged her and exclaimed, "Xiaohui, you are awesome! You are really great!"
"What are you doing..." Lin Lin and Xiao Bai who came in from the door happened to see this scene
The two people questioned maliciously.
I quickly let go of Bian Hui and explained very embarrassedly: "It was Xiaohui who saved us all, we should all thank her!"
After saying that, he winked at the two of them and asked them to hug Bian Hui as well, especially to give Lin Lin a chance.
This useless Lin Lin couldn't catch up with Xiaobai. He stood there like a piece of wood. Even when Xiaobai tried to hug him, he still stood there in a daze.
I rolled my eyes at him and said, "You're really useless even though I gave you the chance!"
Finally, Bian Hui calmed down. I sighed and discussed with Bian Hui, telling her not to waste her energy in vain. If it doesn't work, we won't provide temperature downstairs. People are selfish. We just need to ensure our own temperature first. As for other people's warmth and coldness, life and death, it has nothing to do with us. We just need to raise the temperature downstairs to zero to ensure that they won't freeze to death. I asked her if she could try it and see if it could be done.
Bian Hui nodded and sensed her own energy, saying that she should be able to do it, but she needed to practice for a night to know how long her energy could last.
It’s better to discuss with her not to exhaust her energy. If it doesn’t work, just ignore the downstairs.
Bian Hui also agreed very obediently. She recalled what happened to her family, and how their father saved a neighbor but ended up being killed. So she would not bring benefits to strangers for no reason. She would only help us because she trusted us.
Of course, we each take what we need and help each other.
I don't want the situation of being grateful for a favor and then being vengeful for a favor to happen to us in the future, and I also want to hide Bian Hui's ability!
In troubled times, we have to guard against people's hearts.
After explaining things to Bian Hui, I quickly entered a state of absorbing energy.
It felt as if I was slowly enveloped by warm light in the darkness, a sense of fullness welling up from within my body, like dry land welcoming the nourishing rain, my body felt slightly numb and ethereal, and the whole person seemed to gradually become light from being heavy...
"Ah!" I finally absorbed the energy to the bottleneck, released a roar, and I leveled up!
After upgrading, I felt that my strength had at least doubled! Although the supermarket shelves did not increase, my supermarket lounge had undergone a qualitative change -
The space of the supermarket lounge has more than doubled in size. Originally it was only 40 square meters excluding the bathroom, but now it has reached nearly 100 square meters!
The sofa inside also increased from two single sofas to a long double sofa. I think this change should increase the number of people who can rest! So, I immediately experimented and tried to let Bian Hui, Xiao Bai and Lin Lin around me enter my space lounge directly.
Wow! I brought three people in before they knew it. It was amazing.
While they were exploring the enlarged space lounge with me, we were very excited to look at this, touch that and more. The space lounge became more prosperous now. There were many more items inside. A bathroom for men and women was added to the original toilet. Only one person can enter to take a shower at a time. I turned on the shower and found that hot water suitable for body temperature flowed out directly. This means that anyone can come to my lounge to take a shower in the future!
And I can watch girls taking off their clothes for free... Stop, stop, why am I so disgusting?
There are still sofas placed against the wall in the lounge, but there is an automatic mahjong machine in the middle! It is just right for four people to play mahjong and have a rest.
This is so interesting!
Another substantial benefit of the larger space lounge is that when I encounter danger, the escape route from here will be farther. Previously, it could only extend the distance of ten meters in the real world, but now it has doubled to twenty meters, which doubles the life-saving coefficient! And its movement range is omnidirectional, that is, I can move twenty meters from the downstairs to the height of the seventh or eighth floor, which is amazing!
Amid the exclamations of Bian Hui and Xiao Bai, I realized that the lounge had actually added a franchisee. The store was one we were all very familiar with - an old man, the white-bearded old man at KFC.
It's just a wall extended from the lounge in my space as its shop front. The shop is not big, only about two meters long and one meter wide including the food counter. The three letters of KFC's iconic symbol are printed on the top. There is no salesperson. There is a computer screen on the bar, and you can order food by yourself, which is also paid for.
There are also two dining tables and four chairs placed next to the store. It is obvious that it knows that only four people can enter this lounge.
We are not afraid of collecting money because we have money.
All four of us gathered together and wanted to order a feast.
I went up to take a closer look at the menu: a three-piece hamburger set for 99 yuan, a sixteen-piece classic hamburger set for 299 yuan, and a whole chicken with honey sauce for 200 yuan. That's fine, we can eat chicken! There's also a new spicy lobster tower set for three people for 3 yuan. This is many times higher than the price before the disaster, but now you can't buy it with money, right?
There are also golden chicken nuggets, Portuguese egg tarts, tender beef brisket, French fries and chicken wings, Old Beijing chicken rolls, Colonel chicken nuggets...
We started ordering like crazy, and of course I paid for everything in the end, it was my treat.
A moment later, a robotic voice called out, "Customer No. 1, please pick up your meal."
Number 1 was Xiao Bai. We have to admit that he was the fastest. He ordered a meal set for 299 yuan. He heard a ding sound and a food delivery port on the stainless steel countertop indicated that he should pick up his meal. He walked closer and opened the metal sliding door of the food delivery port, and a meal set was revealed.
Xiaobai happily took out the set meal he ordered, put it on the table and wanted to wait for us to eat together.
After everyone got their own set meal, they all happily gathered together to eat with relish. After they were full, they tried to see if they could take the food out, and it turned out that they could. So they ordered a bunch more and prepared to take it out for the kids. In a short while, I spent nearly two thousand dollars!
As someone who loves money, I suddenly felt that this was not cheap!
They left, and I stayed in the lounge to see if this upgrade would extend the break.