Disaster Strikes - Chapter 12:

Chapter 12 Special Care

The next day’s class.

Chen Mo noticed that QingHong, the mentor, spent significantly more time explaining things to him.

Not only did the explanation time increase but during the guidance process, several practical tips for exercising basic psychic power were also taught, even demonstrated personally. The level of detail far surpassed the previous explanations.

For example,in the process of exercising basic mental power, frequently exhausting oneself physically can more effectively tap into the potential before Basic Psychic Power Lv5.

In the process of launching an attack with mental power, trying to abruptly interrupt and return it can also relatively quickly improve the proficiency level of basic psychic power.

Also, by frequently changing the intensity of psychic power control materials, practising with different materials can make mental power more resilient, improving the proficiency level of basic psychic power.

These are quite practical techniques for exercising basic psychic power.

Especially before Basic Psychic Power Lv5, mastering these exercise techniques can almost double one’s level-up speed.

Practice makes perfect.

After teaching at the academy for many years, the academy mentors have almost mastered some unique techniques in teaching students below Basic Skill Level 10, which is knowledge that even higher-level disasters outside the academy find hard to access. This is also why those adult starving ghosts are willing to bribe academy mentors.

After QingHong finished teaching Chen Mo and left, Mu Tan beside him immediately showed a shocked expression.

“What’s wrong with the mentor today? It seems like she’s paying extra attention to you!”

“Maybe she’s in a good mood.”

Chen Mo’s answer made him roll his eyes uncontrollably.

“Why doesn’t she have a good mood with me? I think the time she teaches you is even longer than those guys.”

Mu Tan naturally referred to those adult starving ghosts.

If it was only for a day, Mu Tan and the discerning people would simply be surprised by this. But in the next few days, whenever QingHong arrived at Chen Mo’s place, her time teaching would be much longer than other students. This change was too sudden and obvious. Anyone could guess that he must be receiving special care from the mentor.

And more care than those few adult starving ghosts!

That day.

As the only woman among the three Abyss Starving Ghosts, Tao Zi’s figure was relatively petite, with dark and shiny skin, like a wild little black cat.

Different from Du Qingqing’s green and tender, Han Xue’s proud and cold, Tian Tian’s sexy and charming features, Tao Zi was like an agile cheetah, passionate, wild, and unrestrained.

During lunch, she unexpectedly sat next to Chen Mo.

“I want to know why Qing Hong is giving you special treatment.”

Her body curved with a bewitching curve, showing her astonishing flexibility, her eyes staring at Chen Mo fiercely, her flaming red lips swallowing the food in the huge metal spoon in one bite, and then in front of Chen Mo, slowly pulling out the metal spoon, which was already licked clean.

“If you are willing to share this secret, I promise you, from now on, I will be your girlfriend in the academy.”

Taozi’s straightforward condition shattered Chen Mo’s worldview.

It’s just a pity.

The aesthetics of these Abyss Starving Ghosts were quite unique. Among the Abyss Starving Ghosts, Tao Zi might be quite charming and tempting, but in the eyes of Chen Mo, a steel straight man nurtured by the five thousand year old Chinese civilization, she was not attractive at all, even quite repulsive.

And steel straight men often have a characteristic, that is, they value emotions very much, never pretend to be somebody, never compromise, never sweet-talk, and play and discard.

“Sorry, I have something else to do.”

After finishing the nutrient meal in his tray, Chen Mo left the cafeteria.

Taozi bit her lip tightly, her eyes filled with unwillingness, but also helplessness, a touch of loss.

It was rumored that there were countless bugs in the Abyss, which devoured each other, and finally grew into human form, but as an Abyss Starving Ghost, Taozi knew clearly that this was all nonsense.

She thought that leaving the Abyss would finally allow her to enjoy some peace and engage in fair competition.

But the reality here was just as cruel.

…

In the afternoon.

During work at the library, Chen Mo patiently exercised his basic psychic power.

If someone observed carefully, they would be surprised to find that at this moment, the prop Chen Mo used to exercise his mental power was actually the gyroscope issued by the academy for students’ training, which should have been taken back by Qing Hong after class.

Chen Mo didn’t always use this gyroscope to exercise his basic mental power.

The library keys, the decorative stones on the windowsill, and even the books on the bookshelf all became his targets for exercising his basic mental power, because changing the attachment of mental power frequently would make the exercise more effective. He rested only when his physical strength was exhausted, relying on his relatively high physique to recover slowly.

After dinner.

According to the agreement, Chen Mo came to Qing Hong’s office and received her private guidance on basic blocking skills training.

Just as basic psychic power requires a high mental power as the foundation, basic blocking also requires a high physique as the foundation, otherwise the training effect would be very limited.

Of course, Chen Mo didn’t have this problem.

With a physique value of 14 points, it might be difficult for basic blocking to reach the level of Lv7 or Lv8, requiring continuous accumulation and sprinting, but Lv5 was completely achievable.

What was strange was that perhaps because of the talent of Stone Skin, when Chen Mo was practicing basic blocking, the effect seemed to be better than practicing basic mental power, even Qing Hong was quite surprised.

“It shouldn’t be like this.”

Although it had only been a few days of individual instruction, Qinghong could increasingly feel the extraordinary qualities in Chen Mo.

“With your talent, why are your basic skill levels so low? Whether it’s basic psychic power or basic blocking, your rate of improvement is quite good. It shouldn’t be just the current situation.” Chen Mo remained silent at these words.

Naturally, he wouldn’t foolishly reveal his experiences as a transmigrator. “It’s my fault,” Chen Mo murmured. “I used to naively think that as long as I wasn’t as outstanding as my father, I could make my mother forget her past pain. But I didn’t expect that this would only disappoint her more.”

In this world of survival of the fittest, the birth of a significant portion of Disaster Survivors was not the result of love. However, because the vast majority of natural disasters were nurtured by their mothers, when these natural disasters grew up, they often repaid their mothers. It was only at this stage, if their fathers were still alive, that their mothers would inform them of their detailed identities, and adult natural disasters would then go in search of them, thereby gaining some conveniences.

This kind of living environment naturally gave rise to many mothers who resented their children’s fathers. And compared to fathers, natural disasters born in this society often felt more affectionate towards roles like uncles and aunts, which was also a natural instinct.

Qinghong sighed at these words. “So that’s how it is.” She patted Chen Mo’s shoulder and comforted him, “With your talent, coupled with your effort and intelligence, you will definitely catch up with them before the trial. I believe in you.”

Pausing for a moment, she continued, “I have nothing to do tomorrow night either, so come over on time, and I’ll teach you another small technique for basic blocking. I’ll also leave this set of reflexive neural protective gear with you. Practice with it more often in your spare time.”

“Thank you, mentor!” The relationship between the two became noticeably warmer.

As for practicing basic blocking with this set of reflexive neural protective gear, it was a bodysuit that released a stimulating electric current in a random area in a special way before releasing these currents. However, before releasing these stimulating electric currents, the bodysuit would often give a brief temperature warning, approximately 0.1 seconds.

The reason for practicing basic blocking in this way involved deeper reasons.

Natural disasters discovered that under the same intensity of attack, the damage suffered by victims who were prepared and those who were not prepared was completely different levels. Even if the reaction time was brief, his body’s functions would automatically provide some protection within its capabilities.

In this way, the concept of basic blocking came into being. The so-called basic blocking was to maximize the body’s functions to improve reaction speed, passively defend against possible damage, and reduce harm.

At night, Chen Mo had already become accustomed to exercising his basic psychic power alone in a secluded corner of the exercise area after long-distance running. With sweat gradually drying in the cold wind, his heart also quieted down, immersed in the study of basic psychic power techniques.

However, today’s situation was different. Someone suddenly rushed towards him!

Because there had been a murder here before, at night, Chen Mo was quite vigilant about people approaching him. When he sensed this person rushing towards him, Chen Mo was briefly surprised, and his body instinctively made a defensive posture, blocking this punch.

“Who!?” Chen Mo shouted, using psychic power to manipulate a stone to counterattack this person.

Hint: Your HP -9.

The strength of the opponent’s fist was indeed not light. It should be noted that at this moment, Chen Mo was still wearing the bodysuit used by the academy to practice basic blocking. Although these training props for basic skills could not be placed in storage space due to special protection marks on them and were somewhat different from normal equipment, they could not be specifically identified for their attributes.

But overall, these training props were equivalent to blue-quality equipment!

The defence provided by blue-quality armour was between 7 and 10 points. On this basis, if enchanted, each level would increase defence by 2 points.

This means that the bodysuit provided Chen Mo with at least 7 points of defense. If combined with Chen Mo’s own 7 points of defense, it would be an astonishing 14 points of defense!

Although the strength of the opponent’s fist was not light, the proficiency level of basic fist techniques should also be quite remarkable, it still did not cause him too much damage.

The opponent grunted in response. The stone manipulated by Chen Mo hit him, obviously not feeling good.

After all, Chen Mo’s basic spiritual power attribute had reached an astonishing 23 points.

“It’s you!” At this moment, the two were less than two meters apart. With the faint light of the dim street lamp in the distance, Chen Mo finally recognized the identity of this attacker. He turned out to be one of the three Abyssal Starvation Ghosts in the class, the one called Ghu Tu.

(End of chapter 12)