Dawn of a New Era-Chapter 504 - 478: Extremely Nourishing

Night.

Outside the window, the cold wind howled, ghostly wails and wolf calls echoed, causing the newspaper covering the window to rustle loudly, seemingly ready to be torn apart at any moment.

After several months of lockdown, coupled with power outages, supplies here seemed to have become extremely scarce, even window glass could not be supplied normally.

Chen Shouyi sat on the edge of the bed, silently pondering his thoughts.

A nearby lamp with a dim yellow flame flickered incessantly, making the room’s light alternate between brightness and darkness.

The longer he stayed here, the more he felt a kind of manic and evil force present, very faint yet ubiquitous.

He opened his attribute panel.

Strength: 19.0

Agility: 19.0

Constitution: 19.0

Intelligence: 18.7

Perception: 16.9

Willpower: 17.7

Energy Accumulation: 4.54

Faith Value: 1048.1

Looking at the faith value that had accumulated to 1048.1 points.

Chen Shouyi’s thoughts shifted.

1048.1 points of faith value instantly transformed to 148.1 points.

The next moment,

"Boom!"

A powerful heat flow filled his limbs and bones, and his entire body emitted a scorching high temperature, steam billowed.

After half a minute, the heat across his body subsided.

Originally "Giant Battle Body (Advanced): 12.05%"

became:

"Giant Battle Body (Advanced): 21.05%."

He exhaled a misty breath.

"Whether you’re a Barbarian God or whatever else."

Chen Shouyi clenched his fists, producing a creaking sound.

"Good giant..."

Shell Lady crawled onto his thigh, nestled between his legs, as if wanting to make a home there.

Chen Shouyi could feel her unease, as if she sensed a certain dangerous aura.

"Don’t be afraid!"

Shell Lady nodded vigorously: "With a good giant here, little one... not afraid."

...

The night grew darker.

Outside, an occasional sharp scream echoed, quickly swallowed by the howling cold wind.

"Rip!"

The sound of paper tearing was heard, and fierce cold wind poured into the room.

Chen Shouyi opened his eyes and saw the window paper had been torn by the wind, leaving a large gap.

He pulled back the covers, got up from the bed, and picked up the newspaper from the bedside table intending to patch it up again.

At this moment, his expression froze, a hint of coldness in his gaze.

"Courting death!"

In his perception, six shadows were lurking behind the window, motionless, stuck to the wall like giant spiders.

He reached out and opened the window.

The first shadow couldn’t help but jump in, its movements gentle and silent.

Yet, while still airborne, a seemingly oddly indistinct pale hand gently gripped its neck.

The explosive power erupted.

The entire neck was blasted into two segments.

With a wave of his hand, Chen Shouyi’s gust of wind sent the corpse, along with scattered flesh and blood, flying out of the window, with no trace left in the room.

Meanwhile, he leaped on foot, his body darting like a fish out of the window.

The second shadow monster crouching under the window didn’t even have time to respond before its head was burst open by the pinpoint of his toe.

Chen Shouyi, mid-air, moved with surprising agility.

With a willpower of 17.7, his telekinesis had reached six hundred kilograms, able to move his body at a 3G acceleration, while his maximum flight speed had reached two hundred meters per second.

These shadow monsters, at most Martial Artist Level, were utterly unable to put up a fight.

The last one attempted to flee, sprinting quickly along the shadows upon landing, Chen Shouyi reached out to the wall, digging out concrete from its tough surface like fluff, then forcefully hurled it at the fleeing shadow.

"Boom!" A sound.

The shadow monster’s body was struck mid-run, forcibly flipped into the air, black-red blood scattered, its chest pierced through.

Floating in the air, Chen Shouyi’s gaze swept coldly across the surroundings.

The silent, pitch-black street was deserted.

But he felt numerous eyes subtly watching this place.

...

Chen Shouyi knocked on Zhu Xueqing’s room.

Zhu Xueqing, clad in a nightdress, held a sword in her hand.

Without the constriction of a chest binder, her large bosom was fully visible, clearly full of elasticity at a glance.

Such large breasts seemed like they would affect combat, right!

Chen Shouyi secretly thought, glimpsing briefly before sincerely reining back his gaze: "Are you alright over there?"

"I’m fine!" Zhu Xueqing replied solemnly: "What happened on your side?"

"A few shadow monsters, but they’ve been dealt with. Stay cautious." Chen Shouyi said.

At this moment, the opposite door opened, and Wang Lie emerged, stained with black-red blood, evidently having encountered an attack, luckily unharmed. His expression was solemn: "We’ve been targeted."

...

Indeed, they were being targeted.

Since this morning, Chen Shouyi had faintly felt a sensation of being watched.

From then onward, no one slept, staying together in Chen Shouyi’s room, fortunately not subject to further attacks.

...

Dawn broke, early on, a deputy commissioner seen last night suddenly arrived with a terrified expression: "The county secretary is dead!"

"Dead? How did he die?" Chen Shouyi’s mind stirred as he asked.

"He committed suicide by jumping off a building!" The deputy commissioner said: "For unknown reasons, he didn’t go home last night, staying at the county office building all night, found frozen stiff this morning."

Looking at his panicked demeanor, unlike someone lying, Chen Shouyi inwardly dismissed his own suspicions.

But why the suicide?

Fear of those shadow monsters?

Although those monsters were elusive, able to blend into shadows, they were basically at Martial Artist Level. With a few Martial Artist Apprentice-Level soldiers, pre-arranged traps, and a few machine guns, they could be easily taken down.

Or perhaps... fearing the source of all the terror.

He couldn’t help but recall the shadow-shrouded face he last saw.

...

Until the group left Guangcheng County, Chen Shouyi remained furrowing his brows.

The sky was dull gray, shrouded by dark clouds.

Though it was daytime, it felt almost like dusk.

Shankui Province was vast and sparsely populated, Tuoan City was over two hundred kilometers from Guangcheng County, to accommodate Wang Lie and Zhu Xueqing, Chen Shouyi deliberately slowed the pace. But by noon, Tuoan City was already in sight.

Chen Shouyi looked ahead, suddenly said:

"Let’s rest for a while, eat something to replenish strength."

He retrieved a piece of Divine Flesh from space, cut it in three with his sword, tossing two pieces to them.

Wang Lie and Zhu Xueqing instinctively caught them, entirely unaware of where Chen Shouyi retrieved it from.

"What kind of meat is this, feels strange." Zhu Xueqing remarked as she accepted it, feeling a vague sense of oppression and asked.

"This meat exudes... Divine Power!" Wang Lie blurted out, his hair standing on end, nearly dropping it.

Chen Shouyi took a big bite, chewing, golden blood spilling forth, said: "It’s just Divine Flesh."

Zhu Xueqing’s eyes widened abruptly at the words, stammering: "Di... Divine Flesh... are we just... just going to eat it like this?"

"Don’t worry, it’s not from a humanoid creature, very nourishing!" Assuming she had concerns due to the creature being sapient, Chen Shouyi explained.

"No, that’s not what I meant. What I meant was..." Zhu Xueqing tried to explain, but after saying a few words, she resignedly gave up: "Forget it, with a freak like you, nothing more to say!"

...

Divine Flesh was very tough.

The two of them couldn’t easily tear it with their teeth like Chen Shouyi.

After slicing it with their swords for ages, they managed to cut off a few small pieces, chewed them futilely in their mouths for a bit, and then swallowed them whole. They didn’t eat much more, after eating a few chunks, they carefully stored the remaining Divine Flesh in their backpacks.

Using Divine Flesh to replenish strength was truly too extravagant and wasteful.