Chapter 219: Eight Categories of Superpowers
The people who reported the case this time were a family of three. Before Su Ming and Chu Xiaobai arrived, the investigation officers had already arrived at the scene and took a statement from the reporters.
As soon as Su Ming arrived, they handed all the information to Su Ming. The family who reported the case was so excited to see Su Ming coming in person. After all, Su Ming is now the district chief. Which district chief would go to the front line in person to handle these trivial matters?
"Sorry to trouble you! I really trouble you!" The middle-aged man said to Su Ming excitedly.
Not long ago, he was still worried because the ordinary agents of the Investigation Bureau always had a cold attitude towards ordinary people like them. They didn't say a word of comfort and had no patience to listen to them. However, the senior officials of the Investigation Bureau were always very gentle and patient with ordinary people like them.
After Su Ming came here, the middle-aged man's expression became like a fan welcoming a star, with a look of joy on his face.
Looking at his wife and son beside him, they had the same expression and seemed very happy.
"You work so hard. You do even such small things by yourself." The plump woman laughed.
Su Ming smiled and nodded: "It's my job."
He didn't say that he came in person because he was short of manpower. That would have been too embarrassing.
Su Ming took the information handed over by the person next to him, flipped through it briefly, and looked up to ask: "Uh...now you suspect that there are unknown creatures in this house, and they often eat in the middle of the night, is this the case?"
"Yes, yes, yes! I heard a very clear noise in the middle of the night, but when I walked out of the bedroom, I couldn't find anything. But I can guarantee! There must be something!" the man vowed.
The investigation officer next to him leaned over to Su Ming's ear and whispered something, saying that they had already conducted a carpet search of the room and killed all the cockroaches, leaving no suspicious creatures.
"But no suspicious creatures have been found so far, right?" Su Ming turned to look at the owner of the house.
The man raised his hand and swore, "I swear there is! Otherwise, we wouldn't have reported it to the police for such a small matter. Look at my son's finger. My son's finger was bitten by that thing!"
The little boy quickly ran up and raised his finger like a badge of honor to show Su Ming his wound.
There was indeed a row of fine teeth marks on his index finger. Su Ming was not sure what animal these teeth marks came from, perhaps from a rat.
"I understand." Su Ming nodded slightly to the man, looking experienced and sophisticated.
Then he pulled an investigation officer aside calmly and asked softly, "How do you usually deal with this kind of thing?"
The investigation agent stared at Su Ming and blinked in surprise, not understanding why Su Ming asked such a simple question.
But after a few seconds, he seemed to have figured it out. He felt that Su Ming was qualified to be the district chief after all, and it was impossible for him not to understand such a simple thing. So this was Su Ming testing him, so he immediately conducted a systematic analysis of the current situation:
"Usually, we take a look at the situation on site, and then...if the problem is not serious, we will conduct a conservative test first. For example, if it were me this time, I would throw a piece of meat into the apartment first, wait for a day or two, and see if there are any changes to the meat overnight.
If the amount of meat decreases, it means that there is something abnormal in this room. Then I will move all the furniture out and test it again."
Su Ming patted the other person's shoulder and agreed, "Very good! I thought so too! Let's arrange accommodation for them first, and then test it with meat today."
Chu Xiaobai walked up to Su Ming and asked with a puzzled look on his face: "Brother Ming, it's none of my business, why did you bring me here?"
Su Ming glanced at the other person and said with a smile: "It's always weird for me to come alone, it seems a little more normal to bring a little brother with me. You can go play with your phone over there if you have nothing to do, just don't sneak away."
"Great!" Chu Xiaobai cheered and ran to the car to play with his phone.
Su Ming's phone suddenly rang. The caller ID showed that it was Xia Xiaoyu. Su Ming picked up the phone and heard Xia Xiaoyu's excited voice from the other end: "I've got the tickets for I'm a Weirdo. Let's go out and watch the movie tonight!"
"OK!" Su Ming agreed immediately. He owed Xia Xiaoyu a date for too long, and he also needed a chance to relax.
Su Ming had just made an appointment with Xia Xiaoyu to go to the movies together in the evening, and Su Ming immediately received a new message.
His first execution target arrived.
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On the way back to the Investigation Bureau, Su Ming thought a lot. After the battle with Bai Wu, Su Ming deeply realized that the number of ability grids available for him to use was too few, only three.
In other words, if there is a most powerful superpower, when used as the main body, it will take up one grid. If a superpower with particularly good effect appears, it will take up another grid if it is kept. The remaining grid can only be used to fill in the materials for fusion and decomposition.
Now Su Ming has one grid occupied by [Xia Xiaoyu Exclusive], and of the other two grids, one will be used as the main body and the other will be used to store the fused and decomposed materials.
Therefore, the ability that you plan to use as the main body in the future must be carefully determined, because once this ability is determined, it will be difficult to change, especially after it has been fused several times, it will be hard to bear to decompose it.
Therefore, if the planning of the ability grid is not reasonable, it will be difficult to improve the strength of the ability in the future.
In order to find the most reasonable growth plan, Su Ming has been reading "Battle Master: From Beginner to Mastery" every night these days.
It details the types of each ability, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of these types.
In fact, in reality, there are no truly fixed types of superpowers, only similarities. In order to study their similarities and compatibility, people classify the external manifestations of these superpowers into several major systems for theoretical research.
Currently, the major system of superpowers is divided into: control system, conditional system, elemental system, causal system, conceptual system, state change system, transformation system, and mental system, a total of eight categories.
Almost all superpowers can be found in these eight categories, and these eight categories are the foundation of modern superpower theory and the foundation of eugenics.
The fusion of Su Ming's superpowers is somewhat similar to the process of superpowers reproducing offspring. Similarly, the more similar the superpowers are, the easier it is to fuse together.
Among these eight categories, the easiest series to integrate is the elemental series, because the elemental series is the purest and the effect is more simple.
It is worth noting that many people will mistake the Control System for the Element System. Although both are for controlling flames, those with the ability to control fire in the Control System often need an accelerant or other external conditions to assist, and they cannot burn in a vacuum.
The elemental system "creates" fire. It does not need any material assistance and directly creates fire. The power it relies on is an unobservable high-dimensional force.
The elemental flame ability user creates fire.
The fire control type of mutants actually control fire.
Both have their own advantages and disadvantages. It does not mean that the elemental system is necessarily stronger than the manipulation system. For example, a fire mutant, a fire mutant of the manipulation system, can greatly enhance the destructive power of the flame with the help of the optimization of combustion aids or other conditions.
However, elemental fire ability users cannot use these external forces to improve the effects of their abilities, and can only do so through constant mental training.
Su Ming studied the advantages and disadvantages of the eight categories and analyzed the three superpowers he currently possessed.
Among them, [Xia Xiaoyu Exclusive] is a conditional ability.
If classified more finely, it is a conditional ability that uses contact as a "prerequisite" and ultimately affects the physical state.
The ability that has a higher fusion rate than it should be one that also uses contact as a "prerequisite" and strengthens or weakens the target through contact .
This kind of ability is hard to find, and it is unique to Xia Xiaoyu. Su Ming does not plan to decompose it in a short period of time, so he will not make enhancing this ability his main goal at the moment.
In addition, he has two superpowers, [Blade Making from Blood] and [Using Fire]. These two superpowers themselves are not very good, and Su Ming does not intend to take them as the main objects of training. He needs to find another superpower with more powerful effects as the main body of fusion.
Among the eight categories of superpowers, each series has particularly weak superpowers and particularly strong superpowers. By counting the effects of various superpowers, we can see the advantages and disadvantages of these categories of superpowers.
For example, psychic abilities are often very effective against humans, but have very weak effects on monsters, and are often even ineffective.
Conceptual and causal abilities are particularly prone to BUG-level super powers.
According to Su Ming's analysis, Xia Xiaoyu's ability is most likely a causal ability.
However, conceptual and causal abilities are extremely rare and can only be found by chance.
After weighing the pros and cons , Su Ming finally decided to use the elemental system as his main superpower.
Because the elemental system is more likely to encounter similar superpowers, wind, fire, ice, and rock, as long as they are the superpowers of creative elements, they can be integrated with each other.
As for other superpowers, such as Sun Lanxin's Phantom Mist and Wang Qiang's Smoke Blast, if you want to find suitable fusion materials, you must look for ones with smoke, and the major categories must be the same.
It's just related to smoke and dust, but abilities of different categories cannot be integrated with each other.
Therefore, in order to allow the main supernatural power to continue to evolve and grow, Su Ming finally chose the more orthodox elemental system.
After determining the category to be developed, the next step is to find a suitable ability to serve as the fusion subject.
As for the supernatural power that serves as the main body of fusion, the higher the innate qualifications, the better. For example, the flame of the previous fire man, or the fire power taken from Anthony later, have not yet reached the best level.
Although the Fire Man's ability is excellent in destructive power and speed, the endurance, range, and precision of that ability are relatively weak.
Not to mention Anthony's fire ability, whose overall quality is even worse than Fireman's [Use of Fire].
This time, the person Su Ming wants to execute also has supernatural powers related to fire.
