Chapter 198: Domination Established
Han Muxue glared irritably, "Can't you be a bit more modest? What the hell do you want him to reveal, damn it!"
Liu Chaoyan pondered for a moment, "Does your superpower require physical contact?"
Shen Mochen nodded.
"What a useless superpower," Han Muxue snorted.
"Let's start the experiment with Muxue," Liu Chaoyan stood next to Han Muxue. "Shen, hold Muxue's hand and continuously replenish her superpower. Muxue, activate your superpower to the max and let's see how long you can hold on."
"Oh, okay!"
Shen Mochen looked down at Han Muxue, "Muxue, let's get started then."
However, Han Muxue was looking down, her face flush with a hint of crimson, silent and not reaching out her hand.
Seeing this, Xia Qingrou hurriedly stepped forward to comfort her, "It's okay, it's just holding hands, Muxue. You don't need to mind me. After all, sisters are like limbs, and men are like clothes!"
With her face blushing, Han Muxue retorted, "Who minds you! I don't mind you at all!"
"Uh... Although I said that just now, he is still my boyfriend, so if possible, I do hope you'd care just a little bit."
Han Muxue looked down at her knees, her hands nervously resting on her thighs, slightly opening and closing.
Liu Chaoyan bent down slightly, speaking softly, "Muxue, I know this is difficult for you, but it's important. It's for your own good as well as for all of us..."
"I never said I couldn't do it! It's just holding hands, not like we are kissing!"
Han Muxue stretched out her hand, her face red as she glared at Shen Mochen, her eyes seemingly filled with tears, displaying a kind of desperate self-abasement. Her lips were pursed, and she remained silent.
Should I call you innocent, or are you just making a big deal out of nothing... Holding hands and you act as if you're losing your honor, yet when you officially recorded your superpower by kissing Cai Yuncui, you weren't as agitated as this.
Shen Mochen mentally scoffed but without hesitation, he took her hand, which felt like a soft, warm furnace. It was strange, Han Muxue was thin, yet her hand felt tender and boneless.
Actually, he wanted to say that holding her wrist would also work, but seeing Han Muxue's dramatic buildup of emotions, if he suggested it now, it might just infuriate her.
Liu Chaoyan stood by Han Muxue's side, and Xia Qingrou went so far as to hug Han Muxue, sitting in her wheelchair.
Han Muxue became even more embarrassed and irritated. Just as she was about to scold them, she heard Liu Chaoyan say, "Let's begin."
Thus, Han Muxue and Shen Mochen's superpowers were activated simultaneously, while Liu Chaoyan also started timing right then.
Shen Mochen had learned about Han Muxue's superpower from Cai Yuncui. Her superpower was Gravity Control, but the stronger the gravity, the shorter the time she could sustain it. At maximum power, she could only last about a dozen seconds.
Of course, those dozen seconds were enough to completely crush monsters of E and F rank.
And now, with his continuous replenishment, how long could she last? Shen Mochen was curious about this as well because he had a premonition that Han Muxue would become his long-term partner.
Time ticked by, and Han Muxue's complexion gradually worsened until she finally yelled, "Stop!"
Following her command, the slight pressure that had been covering Shen Mochen instantly vanished. Continue your saga on My Virtual Library Empire
"Two minutes and eight seconds," Liu Chaoyan said excitedly, "Muxue, you are really fantastic!"
Xia Qingrou's face was also full of surprise, "Fifty times gravity, a radius of over four hundred meters— to be able to hold out for so long, that means even without Shuangshuang, monsters below Class B are just easy kills!"
Han Muxue huffed, her face not looking entirely natural. She was delighted to achieve such results but didn't want to show it, otherwise Shen Mochen would be insufferably smug.
"Shen, is your superpower depleted?" Liu Chaoyan asked Shen Mochen.
"Not yet, there's still a little bit left," Shen Mochen replied as he restored Han Muxue's superpower again and let go with a smile.
Liu Chaoyan nodded, it seemed that Shen Mochen's recovery speed couldn't keep up with the speed at which Han Muxue was using her power at maximum output, but to be able to last this long was proof enough that the difference in their speeds wasn't much.
Having just awakened his superpower, Shen Mochen still had much room for growth, and there was a possibility that he could surpass Han Muxue's consumption speed in the future.
"Then, please take a rest for now," Liu Chaoyan said with a smile. "When your superpower is fully restored, we'll do some other tests."
"Oh, okay," Shen Mochen nodded. He was also quite tired and casually found a rock to sit on.
Xia Qingrou squeezed over, her eyes twinkling with intelligent light, "Husband, can your superpower be used to restore your own superpower?"
Shen Mochen was startled.
Liu Chaoyan opened her mouth to speak but before she could, Han Muxue disdainfully said, "Do you even listen to what you're saying? Did you hide away when humans were evolving or what, with your intelligence regressing?"
Xia Qingrou's face flushed with embarrassment. Using a tiny bit of her superpower to restore all of her superpower—that would be like trying to lift oneself up by the bootstraps! It was just like when she was a child and cleverly plugged a power strip into its own outlet, thinking that would create power...
Where did this perpetual motion machine come from? To this day, she had never heard of anyone actually accomplishing that!
Han Muxue was frustrated with Xia Qingrou's "pea-brain," "Despite your whole family being from National University, you're worse than someone with a middle school education like me..."
Shen Mochen laughed along awkwardly as well, but after laughing for a bit, he remembered that Xia Qingrou was still his girlfriend and it wasn't polite to ridicule her.
However, if he could heal his own wounds, was it really impossible to restore his own superpower?
No, no, no, how could that be? That's way too much like a perpetual motion machine! Haven't you ever heard of the law of conservation of energy?
Wait, ever since the world had superpowers and monsters, the old masters of physics have been rolling in their graves... Conservation? To hell with energy conservation!
Newton is dead, this place is ruled by Newton's badass daddy!
A wildly daring idea started forming in Shen Mochen's mind. He gently rubbed his hands together and released his superpower...
Concerned about causing a short circuit or some other abnormality, he initially used only a tiny bit of his superpower, but then he was immediately shocked to discover that his physical energy was rapidly recovering.
Holy shit? Shen Mochen tilted his head. He seemed to actually be a goddamn perpetual motion machine.
In that moment, Shen Mochen also realized something even more terrifying—if this was possible, then maybe he could use the "Purification" ability on himself, to keep his superpower always at its peak.
Would the heavens allow such a defy-the-natural-order superpower to exist? Shen Mochen calmed his excited heart, bowed his head, inconspicuously, then bit his finger and put it in his mouth while activating Purification.
In that instant, Shen Mochen clearly felt his superpower's upper limit suddenly increase.