Chapter 75: Hearing

After Tang Jing felt confident, she tried again, such as stabbing with the sword tip, striking with the sword blade, and even letting Chang Junyan rub his arm against the blade himself.

But no matter how she tried, the swollen area remained completely unharmed.

On the contrary, Chang Junyan was overly excited and accidentally scraped the skin next to it, causing a little bleeding.

Just as everyone was preparing to find a way to help him stop the bleeding,

Chang Junyan called out, "Wait."

After saying that,

he focused his attention on his hand again.

The next moment, everyone saw the swelling on his arm disappear and reappear on the cut wound.

Soon after, the red swelling disappeared again.

The skin returned to being whole.

"Damn!"

This time, everyone erupted completely.

"It even has this effect?"

"So, there's no need for full-body swelling; as long as there's a wound, it can heal instantly?"

"This is self-healing, a high-level technique."

"..."

Everyone couldn't help but start discussing.

Chen Mu originally thought this ability was not bad, but still only average, after all there were still many problems to solve.

For example, the opponent might not necessarily stab you with a knife; could hitting your head with a stick work? What about poking your eyes with a needle? After all, the swelling can't grow on your eyeballs.

Moreover, even if the physical defense were truly invincible, lacking offensive means would make its usefulness very limited; among He Ying's former companions, there was one with a Bronze Skin, Iron Bones ability, yet that person hardly had a chance to use it before dying.

After all, the opponent isn't stupid; they don't have to fight you head-on, they can just wear you down slowly, waiting for you to exhaust your mental strength, which ultimately leads to a dead end.

Chen Mu thus had countless ways to deal with this ability.

The simplest is to tie him up and let him wait to die, or just throw him into the water.

Therefore.

This ability only works when the two sides' strength is not vastly different and their numbers are roughly equal.

Moreover, it's unknown when Chang Junyan's ability will be strong enough to fully arm his body.

But looking at it now,

this ability's effect is not limited to that.

At least this self-healing effect far exceeded Chen Mu's expectations.

Perhaps there will be other surprises later?

Chen Mu now feels more and more that Special Abilities are not that simple.

Taking the few people present as an example,

My own ability is indeed ever-changing with an extremely high ceiling, while Dong Junwei's ability is also profound and inscrutable—Tang Jing couldn't even summarize it for a while; another is Wei Dalei—what exactly is the essence of his strength enhancement? If it's bodily reinforcement, what mechanism applies when resisting damage, and what are its flaws and weaknesses? These remain rather vague.

After all, the time has been short.

Everyone's understanding of Special Abilities remains only superficial.

Meanwhile, Chang Junyan's ability makes Chen Mu feel more and more

Perhaps the types of Special Abilities are merely a manifestation, behind which may lie a mechanism that humans currently cannot comprehend.

He looked at Tang Jing, only to find that Tang Jing was also looking at him.

Obviously.

Tang Jing also had some guesses, likely more mature and clear than his.

……

As for the study of Chang Junyan's ability, after everyone made a fuss for a while, it temporarily came to an end.

Tang Jing stood up with a satisfied expression, sheathed her short sword, and then, intentionally or not, shifted her gaze to Zhu Hao.

Zhu Hao instantly felt a chill down his spine, turned around and saw Tang Jing's profound and inscrutable gaze, and shivered all over.

Others, including Zhao Xiao Yan, Sun Yuan, and Dong Junwei, also unconsciously kept some distance from Tang Jing…

……

It was a rare day off; everyone had been busy for the past few days, and even just simple physical labor was a rare experience for a group of ordinary high school students.

"I really wish it would rain right now."

"Yeah, the new construction project is secondary; I liked the feeling of falling asleep to the sound of rain outside last time."

"Summer has arrived; it shouldn't be long before we get rain."

Dong Junwei smiled and said, "From now on, we'll try to avoid scheduling specific work on rainy days, giving everyone more chances to rest while listening to the rain."

"Good."

"Long live the class monitor!"

"..."

"By the way, how much does our current physique affect our hearing? I originally thought the outdoor rain would deafen us…"

As soon as this question was raised, everyone instinctively looked toward Tang Jing.

Tang Jing laughed and said, "This question is really not easy to answer."

"You don't even know?"

"According to my understanding, after the body shrinks, hearing drops significantly, so the idea that the rain outside could deafen you shouldn't exist."

"The principle of how humans hear sound is extremely complex; simply put, sound waves enter the ear canal, make the eardrum vibrate, and then nerves transmit the signal to the brain."

After we shrink, the eardrum shrinks and becomes thinner, and the vibration amplitude we can produce naturally becomes smaller; if normal, this degree of shrinkage would very likely cause our hearing system to fail.

That's why, in nature, insects and animals of our current size rarely have hearing in the traditional sense; even if they do, it's not very useful, and they rely more on organs for capturing smells and such; but at the size of cats and dogs, it's much better, and their hearing system is also closer to humans.

But I said earlier that our human bodies must have been forcibly intervened by some kind of force, so that after shrinking we can still maintain survival and external perception as before.

Therefore, the rain sound we hear now is no different from before; our sense of smell, vision, and even tactile sensation of the skin are also the same as before, so there will be no obstacle to communication.

But outside the human body, physical laws seem unchanged; only humans have changed……

Tang Jing spoke slowly and calmly, making everyone feel a sense of emptiness and illusion.

Chen Mu thought of a question and was about to ask it.

However, just at this moment.

Sun Yuan suddenly cried out urgently: "Outside…… outside it seems…… there is something……"

Huh?

Everyone immediately became tense.

All along, everyone has lacked a sense of security toward the outside world.

Especially Chen Mu and the few others who have had contact with outsiders; compared to animals, they fear humans more.

As things stand, Yi Zhong is clearly hostile, while Qingbei is hard to say for now; but no matter what, having at least two forces many times larger than ourselves in the school makes anyone unable to rest or eat in peace.

Chen Mu now even feels a bit regretful; he should have started sealing the door gaps first and put the water diversion project on hold.

Take weapons, always be ready for battle.

Dong Junwei calmly issued the order.

Although there has been no real external invasion so far, not even a single centipede that everyone fears has entered, but being prepared against danger is human instinct; Dong Junwei had long organized everyone to train, focusing most on emergency response to sudden incidents.

Everyone entered a state of alert, holding weapons, each person carrying at least two hand grenades.

However, just at this moment.

From outside the door came a sound that made one's bones go numb.

Meow……