MTL - Lord of Ashes-Chapter 1 Time out

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My name is Zhang Yanhang. I have a slight choice disorder. I am an ordinary awakened, part-time college student. I live a monotonous life at three points and one line every day. I go to school, practice, go home, and neither smoke nor drink. , The only hobby is to observe humans when time is paused.

As a working college student, I thought that my life would be a calm and ordinary transition to graduation, then looking for a job, then getting married and having children, or even having a second child in middle age. Although life is ordinary, it is reasonable.

But what I never expected was that about half a year ago, the Empire suddenly publicly announced that the world had once again ushered in Reiki recovery. Yes, it was once again. Although I don’t know when the last Reiki recovery was, but from I can clearly understand from this statement of the Empire that Reiki recovery should be a repetitive cyclical movement.

At the same time, with the revival of aura, a large number of awakened awakened abilities began to be born in the world. According to the survey data released in the later period of the empire, almost one awakened will be born out of every thousand people. The probability can be said. It is quite high.

   Take the example of Qindao City where Zhang Yanhang now lives. The permanent population plus the floating population total more than 20 million, which means that there will be more than 20,000 Awakened people.

   However, Zhang Yanhang did not immediately awaken the power, but only awakened the power about a month ago.

  ……

   September 30, 2020, the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday and the National Day holiday, noon, 12:10.

Zhang Yanhang, who has finished a day’s course, is walking alone on his way home. Although he will take eight days off, there is no emotional ups and downs in his heart, because the holiday is actually not for him. What's the point? After all, he neither has a girlfriend, nor does he like to travel, and he has few friends. So, the holiday is nothing more than fixing the practice place at home.

  Although saying this gives people a very pitiful feeling, Zhang Yanhang himself doesn't really care too much, because he is relatively satisfied with his current life.

When Zhang Yanhang walked to a crossroad, he suddenly felt a quite obvious damping sensation around his body, as if suddenly falling from the ground into the ocean, and the surrounding air began to flow toward his body like water. Applying pressure, of course, this kind of pressure is actually quite slight, just simply floating on the body's surface, it will not cause any real harm to Zhang Yanhang.

   Along with the bursts of pressure from the air, several unusually conspicuous text boxes suddenly appeared in front of Zhang Yanhang's eyes.

   [Whether to turn left and return to Xingfuli Community? 】

[Option 1: Turn left (While the traffic light is showing the green light, turn left and walk on the zebra crossing and then walk on the correct road. Step into the gate of Xingfuli Community before 12:30, and you will find a device at the entrance of the corridor. A wallet with 500 yuan in cash and relevant ID documents.)]

[Option 2: Turn right (ignore the green light displayed by the traffic lights and turn right directly, then go straight for 15 meters, you will encounter a red apricot that goes out of the wall, pick this red apricot out of the wall, which was born by coincidence Taking the earth spirit fruit together will gain the strengthening effect of defense power and physical fitness improvement.)]

[Option 3: Go straight (Wait on the spot until the traffic light turns from red to green, then walk straight across the road and walk to the second public seat on the side of the road, and strike up a conversation with the female college student who is sitting on it while pulling her feet. Photographed by the gopro camera next to him and uploaded to the short video software, you will be inexplicably exploded and become a small internet celebrity with hundreds of thousands of fans.)]

Zhang Yanhang did not pay attention to these strange text boxes for the first time. He looked up at the sky. Although it is autumn, it is noon after all. Therefore, even if it is not as good as summer, the original sun should be high in the sky and continue. It releases venomous and dazzling sunlight.

   But when Zhang Yanhang looked directly at the sun, he did not cause any discomfort at all. The sun, which was supposed to release infinite radiance, was fixed in the sky like a super-realistic oil painting at this moment.

   Zhang Yanhang looked around, and the noisy intersections that were originally bustling were now silent. Whether it was a pedestrian crossing the road or a car driving on the road, they all fell into a strange static state.

Snapped! Zhang Yanhang bent over and stretched out his right hand to fish up a black flower mosquito that had already flown to his leg. At the moment he picked it up, there was a crisp sound around him, as if it was a bit of brittleness. The object was broken.

After picking up the black flower mosquito, Zhang Yanhang brought it to his eyes and carefully observed its sexual characteristics. The antennae were less fluffy, and the tail was accompanied by not only hypertrophy but also bifurcated eggs. If nothing happens, this should be a female black flower mosquito (scientific name Aedes albopictus), that is to say, this mosquito can **** human blood.

After confirming that this was a mosquito that was about to bite him, Zhang Yanhang, who was in a complicated mood, flexed his fingers and threw it into the surrounding air, but the female Aedes albopictus did not fly far away. Frozen in the air again.

Yes, this is the ability Zhang Yanhang awakened. Time pause, no, or in other words, time pause is just an incidental function. The official name of the ability he awakened is [Multiple Choice]. As for the specific function of this ability , Is exactly the same as the literal meaning, that is, it simply allows him to make a variety of choices.

The current time suspension is a side effect. It has the effect of allowing Zhang Yanhang time to think carefully about which option to choose. It may not matter to others, but for people like Zhang Yanhang who have mild choice difficulties. That said, this timeout is really good.

Of course, the duration of the time pause is not endless. Zhang Yanhang has also roughly tested it before. It can only last for more than an hour. He must make a choice. Once he makes a choice among these choices The time pause effect of your choice will disappear directly.

When he first awakened this power, Zhang Yanhang felt that he was invincible, but then he soon discovered that he was unable to cause any damage to the surroundings while the time was suspended, and at the same time, the surroundings could not cause any damage to himself. Injury, the two seemed to be cut off by something. This was also the reason why he had just bounced the mosquitoes away, instead of pinching them to death.