Chapter 31 – Combat manual

APRIL 25, 2023 PUTTTYLEAVE A COMMENT

Afterwards, Meng Ke ordered Xuan Nv to begin updating Earth’s plan.

It took 5 seconds.

“God, the update is complete.” Xuan Nv spoke.

Meng Ke thought of the mysterious man, and after presetting it to be invisible, he appeared in a school’s gym.

The police had left this place, and players could leave and enter at will without any restrictions.

A black figure that was half the height of an average human ran past his side.

“Go, Husky! Bite off its wings!”

There were more than two hundred people here, and every team was surrounding a monster respawn point.

The mysterious man had appeared exactly on one of the respawn points.

But none of the surrounding players could see the mysterious man, and their focus remained on the lone giant mantis.

The giant mantis was retreating, but what no one noticed was that the monster that they had treated as experience points was a bit different from before.

A black and white husky pounced towards it, its mouth open as slobber flew out of its mouth.

Zhang Yang relished this violent battle, his face was covered in smiles as he looked at the praying mantis as if it was a piece of meat on a cutting board, he had killed countless of its kind.

One thing that was common in this battle mode, was that once a player had overcome their fear, they would only need a few battles to become someone who could take on these monsters one-on-one.

As the giant mantis jumped upwards, opening its wings, the husky took this opportunity and ran even faster, pouncing towards its wings with its jaws wide open.

This was an attack he had repeated multiple times, and Zhang Yang was confident that the battle would end the moment his husky bit down.

But, in the next second.

The confidently smiling Zhang Yan almost bit off his entire tongue, his eyes were wide open, filled with disbelief.

He watched as the giant praying mantis flew into the air, according to his prediction, it would have fallen down painfully by this point.

Shockingly, the body that was supposed to fall had flown upwards. It had dodged his husky’s wide jaws.

Immediately, a cold vicious light shone in the giant praying mantis’ eyes as it swung its bladed arms at the speed of light.

“Ao wu~”

A miserable cry came from the husky as a bloodied slash appeared from its left eye to the left side of its face, blood flowing out from its entire eyeball.

“Ah!”

Zhang Yang screamed madly, it was as if it was his own eye that was slashed apart.

Ignoring the man and dog that was running away, Meng Ke eyed the giant praying mantis instead.

“Xuan Nv, was that you controlling it?”

The praying mantis was moving nimbly, and even after the fight had ended, it was surveying its surroundings like a real animal.

Meng Ke knew that everything in his phantasy was fake, none of his illusions had souls, so this praying mantis was not alive.

“No.”

“The illusion is fake, I simply created a combat manual just now after combing the collected combat statistics from players and internet information.”  

Meng Ke understood.

He instantly understood Xuan Nv’s biggest asset, it was her recording and calculation skills that easily added the most efficient combat manual to the praying mantis.

There were thousands of players providing data for her constantly, and when combined with the countless pieces of information that could be found online, it was impossible even for a martial arts master to overcome this.

It is important to understand that Xuan Nv was recording and improving endlessly.

“Xuan Nv, can you add this combat manual to me?” Meng Ke was tempted.

He rarely even fought, and without the clairvoyance ability from his spiritual power, he was basically trash at fighting.

“I can, god, this battle manual can be added to anyone.”

Wait a second!

“You’re saying that the battle manual can be added to other people?” Meng Ke was confused.

“Yes, god.” Xuan Nv replied.

Was this spiritual power transmission?

“When did I get this ability?” Meng Ke asked.

He clearly didn’t remember possessing the ability to transmit information!

“God, spiritual transmission is the same as soul-eating.” Xuan Nv explained. (Mentioned in chapter 13 as “Eat souls and snatching bodies”)

Soul-eating? 

That was the ability he had discovered when he was searching for a way to live forever, he didn’t expect to be able to use it this way.

And Meng Ke realised upon Xian Nv’s words that soul-eating could also be used as spiritual transmission.

Soul eating involved injecting his spiritual power into his target and transmitting information into their flickering neurons, making them into his puppets as his consciousness entered their bodies.

And spiritual transmission was the same, it required his spiritual power to enter their brain, inject information into their neurons and alter their memory, except for the last step of entering their bodies with his consciousness. 

He had this ability all along, it was just that he didn’t think too much about it.

It was like swimming, humans were not aquatic animals, but they could learn.

It wasn’t that humans were naturally incapable of swimming, and in the past, before humans knew to swim, it was only because there wasn’t anyone to think or try to do so.

As long as the first swimmer appeared, with the learning ability of humans, swimming would become something normal for humanity.

And at that point, humans would think, oh, so it wasn’t set in the universe that humans were incapable of swimming!

After thinking for a moment, Meng Ke spoke, “Xuan Nv, organise all of the information like mathematics, language, sword techniques, dagger techniques, forging, carving, art, dance……into different categories separated by levels.

His head was filled with ideas, and as he connected them together, he started having epiphanies.

“God, we have not tried out spirit transmission yet.” Xuan Nv reminded him.

They were quite optimistic about its effectiveness, but Xuan Nv would not test it without Meng Ke’s authorisation.

She needed his permission for everything.

After thinking for a bit, Meng Ke ordered her, “Record all web novels, learn more about operating systems and create some. After ensuring our safety, choose a few people that are insignificant to society and start our first test!

……

Chen Zhou was a beggar, a person whose existence or disappearance was entirely negligible to society. Even if he were to die in that corner, it would take days for people to find his rotting corpse.

His life had no bearing on this world.

“Ding, congratulations on binding with the super genius operating system.”

Perhaps, it was time for illusions to affect reality!