Yanlong woke up from her sleep very much refreshed.
She leisurely went to the bathroom.
Dean's office sure has the best of everything in the entire university. The man sure knew how to live in style, questionable taste in subordinates aside.
It's got the best view…
It had the best furniture.
The bathroom had a super size tub, along with a built-in projector.
That's one interesting setup…
exactly what is a person trying to do with movie theater in bathroom? The answer is .... Nothing! as the person is already dead twice over.
One that she herself likes the setup of projector in bathroom … though she might use it far more innocently than the dean had during his life.
She cleaned up the bathroom, and took a long and leisurely bath.
Then she wrapped herself in the towel, set herself snugly on the floor, using one of the pillows in Dean's room.
She opened her backpack.
All her useless suits came out. The power leather suit which could protect from knife slashes. The power rain suit, which can last ten years.. the power jumpsuit, which is so sturdy, she could hang her self using it's lapels, even if she was weighting a hundred kilograms.
Then, the Fengshui beads, Huomei's chicken egg sized gems.. Plus the chocolates, nutrient supplements and the plain hardtack biscuits.
She ate the food that's most likely to spoil first. That is the opened chocolates and ramen.
Then, she started verifying the gems one after another.
All the stones are brimming with power.
She tried the white jade first.
She closed her eyes, and concentrated.
It resonated with her the most.
She had been a 'sensitive' talent in past life...
Every crystal nuclei has two parts. One is the soul imprint. The other part is power. All nuclei have these two parts.
For some, like the dean, soul imprint is so mild and weak it can totally be ignored.
Soul imprint decides how a person's power is used, while the power itself could be absorbed by any one with matching power type.
Sensitives are so attuned to the most minor of the fluctuations of power, they can separate something as small and ethereal as soul imprint from crystal nuclei.
Yanlong sensed this particular gemstone could store the incomplete part of the soul imprints.
This could totally become her skill stone in the future… each soul imprint has an effect on person who absorbs the nuclei.
When soul imprints are put by themselves, like attracts like, then they will become the complete imprints, which can be used as skills, despite them changing one's behavior.
there are other such structures in nature which created complete soul imprints. they were considered treasures of heaven and earth.
Presently, she is still suffering from the backlash from the soul imprint of the cactus girl.
She needs to meditate and separate the cactus girl's conscious carefully, otherwise, she will totally become a slave of that cactus.
Yanlong started introspecting her self, all the thoughts, memories and fantasies.
Time passed.
The will of the cactus girl is almost about to become part of her own consciousness. The thoughts and will are so subtly entwined, it's like undoing a knot of threads.
Yanlong separated one thought after another, understanding each thoroughly .. then pushing out the thought that did not belong to her into the knowledge stone. Fortunately, she had a very black and white personality in the first place.
Things she will and won't do, even week long acquaintances could tell them apart.
Every thought she has sent in to the gem altered it slightly. It's mind links of completely different shapes floating in space.
Each unrelated to another, yet, each resembling another.
When these mind links become a closed structure, Yanlong could extract it to make a skill tablet. Skill tablets can be absorbed by people to learn new skills, Just like crystal nuclei could increase power.
The first power zombie is a baseball player. His soul imprint resembled batting knowledge.
The second blood string zombie is a political major.. His soul imprint is like a free changing amoeba, only half its body missing.
The cactus girl is the strongest and sturdiest structure. It's like an V extending from a green ball.
Dean's is like a cellophane layer..
The secretary's is like a shriveled seed with ugly hair like roots popping out of it.
All the same, Yanlong felt quite refreshed after reorganizing her mind.
She moved on to the next stone. The red ruby. She doesn't have to hold the stone to know it's pulsing with the strongest of the fire power. She herself might be a fire power, but trying to channel this kind of thing, she would be roasted into charcoal.
She would take it to Huomei later.
She checked the purple amethyst right after the ruby. It's pure ambient power, however, once again far too strong for Yanlong to use directly.
The rose colored quartz.. Full of air power, once again, too strong for Yanlong to channel directly.
The clear crystal - full of electric power. The electric powered pattern perhaps would be able to help her channel the power. However Yanlong had a premonition it might fall short two percent.
The brown amber stone - it is full of ambient earth power… not bad to keep it for later.
The green emerald - the wood power is so strong, Yanlong need not even touch it to know it. This is one she could probably use. The cactus girl's soul imprint is strong enough to use such a power. However, she has a feeling she will have an irrevocable change if she uses this power.
Next is the ever changing tigers' eye. It's power is ambient and in perpetual motion…. It's the embodiment of change itself. Yanlong knew she had to sense it carefully, use it even more carefully.
Currently, she can feel the rhythm of space in the stone.. Only, the echos will ebb away into something different. She could feel it.
All the same, she can use it right now..
She spread all her feng shui beads on the floor and carefully, ever so carefully channeled the power of the cat's eye.
Three beads vibrated.
She immediately picked up those beads.
One is space powered, but could only store water.
The others are space powered as well, but one can tell inside is in perpetual motion. Unless you want to grind something into piecemeal, the bead should not be touched.
The other is somewhat normal. It's simply space power, the size is decent at almost one cubic meter.
Yanlong is happy. She took the last bead, touched it to her suit and clothes, leaving a single t-shirt & sewing kit outside.
The last gem is obsidian. It has a dark presence of cold and heavy water, so she stored it away for the time being.
She placed the other two beads in small ziplocs with explanation about their power, and left them in her backpack.
She made a small iron charm for the normal space powered bead, and hung it from the same chain as the tracker.
Now that all the sorting is done, it's time for her to make clothes for herself.
This orange T-shirt is the only piece of clothing that remained with her by the time she finished the journey for the first time. It made Yanlong have a kind of strange attraction to the t-shirt.
This time around, she wanted to start her journey with it.
She cut the t - shirt half way, sewed it together to make legs.
She bunched the neck together with a thread. And did the same to hands.
It became a jumpsuit for herself.
It looked a bit funny, but Yanlong liked it all the same.
Better to move in than the other clothes.
She made a pocket for the hunting knife at the waist. She donned her fanny pack, her shrunk backpack which is almost empty, started exploring the rest of the admin building.
Her first stop is the labs.
She needs to stop by the biology labs first. She needs to kill that which needs to be killed before they grow out of their weak stage.
Crawling came easier than yesterday.
The cactus is still happily guarding the entrance to the deans' room.
Yanlong fed it another bucket full of cactus-grow to the cactus before leaving.
She did not feel the connection to cactus any more from the time she put the girl's will in the jade. However, it seems she could still channel it to an extent… though it needs time and practice to fine tune it.
All the same, her exploration comes first.
Yanlong cleared out the admin department…
There were plenty of zombies there, however, most of them are average in power.
A single cactus thorn stabbed into their brain with the blood string seems to be enough for most of them.
She had five power nuclei. All small to medium sized. She took a break at the edge of the admin room, separated out the soul imprints, sent them to white jade. All the pieces immediately got stuck and integrated themselves into dean's almost invisible soul imprint.
Yanlong had a vague sense this skill would turn out to be 'power scan'.
Simply put, it's the ability to tell the power level and ability of any person. Perfect power to live a salted fish life by.
She continued onwards.
Then came the labs of biology.
As expected, the growth here is chaotic.
Thankfully, all of that is locked inside the glass doors.
On the outside, there are only two zombies, each looking more unmotivated than the other.
They both periodically shuffled to the glass door, as if trying to peer into the glass room.
However, Yanlong knew Zombies have no sight.
Despite the motions of the two zombies, they could not see a single thing.
She aimed for the younger zombie first.
When the cactus thorn was almost about to hit it, the zombie turned its head slightly.
Then it extended it's hand and caught the thorn.
Yanlong was shocked.
She's not dealing with ability zombies here, right?
She could only deal with one zombie with special power at one time.
The very reason she went for the younger is because it looked weak.. She slowly withdrew from the room.
She can't wait till the older one wakes and catches up to the younger.
The younger moved to the door, following the thorn.
Yanlong gently eased the door, allowing the zombie to come outside.
Then she let him catch the cactus thorn.
In the zombies hand, the cactus thorn grew once more, from the size of half a hand to almost the size of an arm.
Yanlong felt a chill run down her spine.
The zombie though hadn't stopped. The cactus thorn is still increasing in size.
Yanlong silently brought out the fengshui space bead that grinds things to powder... the insides of this bead are in perpetual motion. As soon as some thing goes in, it gets blended in to puree.
The blood string wrapped around the bead like in a princess setting.
She gently lowered the bead, touched it to the back of the zombies head.
It's like a strong gravitational pull has exerted it on herself. The zombie got sucked in to the bead, at the same time, entangling with the blood string. the blood string got pulled in to the bead along with the zombie.
Yanlong herself was almost pulled in. She cut off power to Blood string as soon as possible.
She would have been minced meat if she hadn't let go of the blood string in time. It is literally a passing by death with a hairs width of space.
The zombie inside the space has been almost ground into paste.
Even Yanlong who had a strong stomach almost puked sensing the content of the bead.
She is too frightened to put a blood string in there, so she tipped the entire content out in the cactus bowl.
She fished out the crystal nuclei, leaving the rest of the body to act as fertilizer for the cactus.