Chapter 256: Enchanted Fire
The Su Ming in her imagination slowly came forward, squatted in front of her, and hugged her gently: "Come with me to the Investigation Bureau."
"Will you help me?" Flora asked sobbingly.
"Yes, I will help you no matter when. I will always help you." said the fake Su Ming.
The dream is still changing, but the speed of change is getting faster. The plot of the dream is starting to speed up, jumping between large sections of plots and scenes. As the owner of the dream, Flora should be able to understand the meaning of these scenes and empathize with the emotions in them.
But Su Ming could only analyze through observation with the naked eye.
He saw Flora and his dream self fighting side by side against the demon, and Flora blocked some attacks for him.
Seeing Flora lying on the hospital bed, seriously injured and severely disabled, the dream self went to visit her and cried bitterly beside her bed.
After seeing Flora recover, he trained hard and returned to the battlefield to fight alongside him to face the powerful demon together.
Then... I saw Flora blocking the devil's fatal blow for me in the final battle.
The demon was killed, and she was dying.
She thanked Su Ming and then died with a smile on her face.
This is a drama of self-sacrifice and self-satisfaction.
After the death scene, the surrounding light slowly dimmed, the lights went out, and the curtain fell.
But soon, the light came back on and the second act began.
The scene in front of him immediately switched to another one, and Su Ming recognized this new scene.
That was the couple's secret room where they once went to test their fear resistance.
In this new dream, she and he lived there, and there was a child. The child's face was blurry and unclear. It should be a fiction born from Flora's mind. In the dream, he was his and her child.
Su Ming didn't want to watch any more, so he left Flora's dream.
Outside Flora's door, Su Ming opened his eyes and woke up.
He didn't feel like he had slept at all, and his spirit and mental strength had not recovered at all.
The Dream Lover feature eliminates the restorative effects of sleep while maintaining lucidity during sleep.
It seems I still need to get a good night’s sleep, Su Ming thought.
He wrapped the quilt tightly around him, stood up, and slowly moved back to his room.
Xia Xiaoyu was sleeping soundly on the bed, breathing evenly. Su Ming lay down beside her, closed his eyes and prepared to fall asleep.
He usually falls asleep very quickly, but this time he couldn't fall asleep at all. He felt very tired, but he just couldn't fall asleep.
Flora's dream kept coming to my mind.
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Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, half a month had passed. The Alliance's research on the Black Gate had achieved certain results, and the relationship between the Black Gate and the Forbidden Island was finally sorted out.
Everyone once believed that the Forbidden Island was taboo, but now this view has been overturned by Heimen. The new view points out that the taboo of the Forbidden Island lies not in the island itself, but in the boundaries of the island.
In other words, the rules of the Forbidden Island are triggered by a circle of "lines" within a certain range above the Forbidden Island and at the border of the island.
Crossing this "line" from the outside is equivalent to entering the island, and will result in the curse of the Forbidden Island, which is a reward.
Those who enter the Forbidden Island through the Black Gate have not crossed the "line", so they will not be cursed, and of course they have no chance of gaining superpowers.
After discussion, the alliance called this theoretically existing "line" the taboo boundary.
In addition, the study also shows that the taboo boundary is a one-way line. If you enter from the outside, you will be cursed. The content of this curse does not seem to be "crossing the boundary of the forbidden island will cause weakness and death", but "crossing the boundary of any island will cause weakness and death."
This resulted in the residents of Dongyang Island being able to go to other islands connected by the Black Gate, but not being able to leave those connected islands; while people from other islands could enter Dongyang Island through the Black Gate without being cursed.
In other words, Dongyang Island is no longer a forbidden island in the true sense.
After this research result came out, obvious changes took place on Dongyang Island. Simply put, many outsiders came in through the black gate.
But the Black Gate is just a Black Gate after all. The passage space is so limited that it cannot be expanded artificially to run trains and high-speed railways in the space. Therefore, the flow of people between islands is strictly controlled.
Su Ming believed that although there were not many outsiders on Dongyang Island now, as time went by and the traffic within the Black Gate was arranged, the island would soon become lively.
Of course, although the use of the Black Gate can prevent the influence of the forbidden curse, Dongyang Island will never be as prosperous as an ordinary island, because the safe flow of people can only pass through the Black Gate, and the transportation capacity of the Black Gate is quite limited. This is a fact that can never be changed.
But no matter what, the living standards of Dongyang Island residents will be slightly improved in the future, which is a good thing.
In the past half month, in addition to the important news about the Black Gate, Su Ming personally gained a new superpower.
He executed another criminal and gained new elemental powers, and very excellent ones at that.
The major classification of this supernatural power is the elemental system, a slightly finer classification is the fire system within the elemental system, and a more detailed classification is the specialized system within the fire system.
The so-called specialized system means special enhancement, which means that in some cases, it can exert greater power than ordinary fire-based abilities.
This ability comes from a Class A death row inmate who committed many serious crimes and was eventually caught.
Originally, this death row prisoner was to be executed on the spot, but because his abnormality value was very high, the inactivation drug required to imprison him also had to be of very high quality, which was too expensive, so there was no time to send it to Su Ming.
But in the end, for unknown reasons, the Alliance still detained him and transported him all the way to Investigation Bureau 7 for execution.
This series of processes gave Su Ming the feeling that it was as if the Alliance was providing him with special ability optimization.
Su Ming believed that this was definitely not a coincidence, but that Sylvie had said hello.
As for who she greeted, Su Ming had no idea.
In short, the final result is that Su Ming obtained a very extraordinary superpower. Because of the special effect of this superpower, he named it [Enchanted Fire].
On one hand, it has the fighting style of ordinary fire-based abilities, and on the other hand, it can inject the power of "fire" into various objects.
Su Ming has recently been practicing infusing the power into the knife. This ability can allow the weapon to have a temperature exceeding the melting point without melting. Moreover, if controlled, it can also refine the enchantment effect.
For example, a knife infused with the power of fire would only have high temperature when it was swung, and would not have temperature at other times.
All in all, this ability is very, very useful and has a wide range of applications. Su Ming played with it for a few days and found it very easy to use.
In order to free up the ability slot for the Enchanted Fire, Su Ming decomposed the fire snake.
The Blood Blade can create a blade out of thin air and leave an unhealable and continuously worsening wound on the enemy. Its functionality is quite unique and it works well with the Enchanted Fire.
On the other hand, although the Fire Snake has some cooperation with the Blood Blade, the probability of the two powers fusing is not high.
In order to prevent the melting from failing and waste precious energy, Su Ming gave up fusing the two and used the fire snake as nutrients for the annihilation mode.
Now the energy of the annihilation mode has been replenished to 9%.
Today, Su Ming is still practicing his new supernatural power. His current goal is to reduce the average blood consumption of the blood-forged blade to an acceptable level, striving to use 400 milliliters of blood to make a fine knife, and use the enchanted fire to perform high-level enchantments on the weapons he makes.
With continuous practice, the blood consumption of the blood-made blade is gradually decreasing, and the progress is considerable.
Su Ming felt that the reason why the previous owner of the Blood-Made Blade could not unleash the power of the Blood-Made Blade to its fullest was because the other party did not have a body that could continuously recover like himself, and therefore could not continue to practice at a high frequency.
But Su Ming is different. Because of Xia Xiaoyu's exclusive existence, Su Ming has to go to the prison of the ordinary public security bureau several times a day to share his ischemic symptoms with dozens of ordinary prisoners without special powers.
These days, he consumes the blood of more than a dozen adults on average every day. This amount of training would take the original owner of the superpower several months to catch up.
"Okay, let's do it again next time."
Su Ming used the blood from his palm to make a medium-quality blade, and then used the enchanted fire to infuse the power of fire into the blade.
The power infused by the enchanted fire is long-lasting and slowly dissipates.
That is to say, after being enchanted once, this flaming sword can still be used by other people. After the flame energy inside is consumed, the sword will become an ordinary sword.
Su Ming wanted to make a flaming sword for Xia Xiaoyu, but he had to set the triggering condition of the sword's flaming power to be triggered only when it was swung.
After all, it is impossible for Xia Xiaoyu to walk around all day with a knife whose temperature is comparable to that of an alcohol blowtorch. That would be too dangerous.
Su Ming pressed his fingers on the blade and moved slowly towards the tip. Where his fingers touched, the blade turned completely red, just like steel being burned red by high temperature.
He tried hard to imagine how to trigger this power in his mind, wanting it to be in a quiet state at ordinary times and only generate high temperature when swinging.
As Su Ming's imagination continued, the bright red light on the blade slowly went out, and the color of the blade turned into a burnt blue-black color with twisted lines on it, which looked quite ugly.
"Successful?"
Su Ming's usually calm face showed joy.
He tried swinging the knife, and the blade immediately lit up with a red light indicating high temperature, and then... it just stayed that way... it stayed that way all the time.
Su Ming's smile froze.
The effect switch of this knife...can it be turned on or off?
Just keep it on like this?
Su Ming shook it a few more times and found that it was indeed the case. The high temperature state could not be turned off and it was a semi-finished product.
Well, failed.
However, it is still a big improvement compared to before. At least now there is a switch that is turned on. If I continue to explore, I should be able to master all the skills, Su Ming thought.
