My Salvation Game Became true?!.

Chapter 71: Chapter 71 Siblings
 

Inside Baijiang City, the consecutive days of cloud cover had unusually dissipated today, allowing the warm sunshine to shower the earth.

However, there were still not many pedestrians on the streets.

The busier spots were probably the various resource distribution points.

Fang You also specifically headed to these places to apply his ‘Detection’ ability one by one.

Physical condition, spirit, personal status, and even some details concerning lifestyle, work occupations, and so on—all were revealed before his eyes.

The Detection ability was somewhat like a scanner, probing the internal aspects through the external appearance.

Detecting work occupations, lifestyles, mental states, and the like, was much easier than detecting levels of potential. If he became a detective, it would seem his case resolution rate would be extremely high.

If he was at a crime scene with options to choose from, one in three or one in four, having the Detection ability would make it dead-on accurate.

Take, for example, the old guy queuing up in front, with sunken eyes—that’s the result of staying at home too much, his body hollowed out.

Not far away is someone with a sneaky look—that one, without the need for Detection, Fang You could tell at a glance that he was a professional thief already in the act, caught red-handed! He stepped aside and mentioned it to a security guard.

The two security guards looked at each other, stepped forward, and caught the thief in a pincer move on the spot.

Fang You had already waved his sleeve and quietly left.

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Soon,

he moved on to the second, third, and fourth resource distribution points, using his Detection ability to observe each in turn.

He saw all kinds of people, which was quite an eye-opener for him, but as for those who met the ‘green level’ potential criteria of the world-saving game, there was not a single one.

Most were colorless.

A minority were white.

The potential evaluated by the game was not entirely fixed; most of it depended on congenital factors, with a small part that could be improved through acquired practice.

For instance, by cultivating intellect through learning, strengthening one’s physique, and firming one’s will through exercise.

With a foundation of intelligence and physical strength, learning and training efficiency would be higher and easier, thus the potential evaluated would be higher.

It was not absolutely congenital.

Fang You had thought that finding green potential wouldn’t be that hard; the difficult part was screening and assessing after they were found.

But now…

After detecting at least a thousand people, not a single one of green level was found.

“So, it seems my potential, above the green level, is quite rare.”

“Truly worthy of being me.”

Detection could only reveal ‘none’, ‘white’, ‘green’—three colors at most, anything higher would simply show as ‘above green’; Detecting himself, Black Blade, and An Jianyou all resulted in the same.

Fang You was quite curious about his own potential ranking, but the display panel would not show it.

In the Angel Envoy list,

The frame around Black Blade’s character was blue, An Jianyou’s was purple, but his own was black.

There wasn’t supposed to be a black rating.

“Even if green potential is hard to find, it shouldn’t be as rare as one in a hundred thousand, or one in a million. It’s just…”

It’s just that such searching required him to use the ‘Detection’ ability continuously.

The consumption of this skill depended on the strength of the detection targets; detecting an ordinary person cost next to nothing and could be overlooked.

However, it was a single-target skill, requiring repeated use, and when the number expanded to hundreds or thousands of people, it became a different story altogether.

After detecting thousands, even with breaks in between, his life energy was depleted by more than half. Continuing like this and detecting a few hundred more would mean he had to stop due to low efficiency. It would take days or even weeks to find a suitable target, which was unacceptable.

“Perhaps I need to change my approach.”

“I can’t go on detecting one by one; I need to first filter out the obviously unqualified targets with my bare eyes to reduce the skill’s consumption.”

Such as the hollowed-out middle-aged man earlier, and the thief with the sneaky eyes.

These weren’t worth his use of Detection.

Moreover, from a general theoretical standpoint, young people, boys and girls, might have more potential… isn’t there a saying about starting martial arts training from a young age?

Young people are more vibrant and malleable; the chances of encountering someone with high potential are arguably higher among them.

Thinking back to those he detected with white potential, they were indeed mostly young people, or elite individuals… he decided to start from these two types of people.

…

“Meow~!”

In a small alley, Fang You extended his hand and deployed his Combat Pet Black Pupil.

This silly cat sauntered up, head drooping, then swiftly reached out a paw and smacked the little Mysterious Evil to oblivion with a single swipe.

This lazy cat, still not active enough in its duties.

Why couldn’t it be as diligent as him, as Black Blade was!

“I still need to conserve life energy, so the next Mysterious Evil is up to you.”

The cat resisted.

But the resistance failed.

Fang You moved through alleys to the main road, and from the main road into secluded lanes, sometimes entering dead ends without detouring, simply leaping over the walls with a kick.

Running at full speed was much faster than riding his electric scooter; now, he relied entirely on walking.

However,

he still hadn’t found a suitable target.

He had probably screened around two or three thousand people by now.

The pedestrian traffic wasn’t high enough, making the selection inefficient; Fang You switched methods, taking to higher ground for a better view. With his current eyesight, he could use detection to observe passersby even from a great distance atop a tall building.

After thinking it over, he utilized the ability “Flamefire’s Faith.”

Centered on himself, within a radius of one or two kilometers, beliefs and emotions shone like stars.

Most were faint and tiny, but a few were slightly stronger.

It seemed he had found the correct way to search!

Fang You activated the “Lightless” state, his figure leaping between buildings, with Flamefire’s Faith sweeping the surroundings like radar.

He occasionally combined this with the detection skill, and the proportion of detected white potential greatly increased.

At that moment, a rather intense belief appeared within his perception range.

…

In Baijiang City,

in an old bungalow on the outskirts of the city lived Xu Tian and his sister Xu Yun.

Though small and modest, it had been a warm home.

That was until recently when their mother, who had raised them single-handedly, suddenly collapsed and died not far from their home.

Without any apparent reason!

They simply said her heart stopped abruptly!

But Xu Tian didn’t believe it. He vaguely saw a shadow, and even though neighbors said he was too grief-stricken and saw a hallucination, he remained convinced it wasn’t so!

There had to be a murderer, and he vowed to find them!

However,

“Dong~ Dong Dong~ Dong Dong Dong~ Dong Dong Dong Dong~”

Sounds mimicking the beating of a heart, from far to near, from slow to fast.

Resonating in their ears.

It was that thing! He remembered now; he had heard a similar sound that day!

Xu Tian’s face was filled with hatred.

But the sound grew louder and louder in his ear, and both his and his sister’s heartbeats began to thump wildly. He heard his own heartbeat, accelerating with that sound.

Xu Tian’s hand holding the kitchen knife trembled.

He hated that thing, but also hated his own fear at that moment.

He turned his head to look at his sister, who was gripping a broom, determined not to lose another loved one.

He clenched his teeth, so hard that he drew blood.

His gaze fixed on the door.

The sound of “Dong Dong Dong” had approached, almost within arm’s reach.

Crash—

The door flung open, as if blown by a gust of wind.

Outside stood no one.

No, maybe there was an invisible dark shadow standing there!

Xu Tian raised the kitchen knife.

His hand shook uncontrollably, his blood feeling like it had frozen, willing himself to fight but growing more desperate, as if his limbs were slowly ceasing to respond.

Suddenly,

a bolt of lightning flashed.

It illuminated the desperate faces of the two siblings.

In their horrified and despairing pupils, a pitch-black figure appeared, screaming, then vanished instantly in the azure arc of lightning.

Leaving only dazzling light.

Years later,

in an interview, Xu Tian said, “That day, light came into my life.”