TL: Tadda
Chapter 1
a peaceful and quiet day
As a mindfully mature adult, Zhang Ping won’ t be shocked like an idiot by this kind of occasion.
He enters the teaching building and finds the office. However, he notices that one of the teachers is actually a fox covered under the human skin. He decides to walk pass through the office and gives up the thought of seeking help.
Those teachers seem unreliable too.
Obviously, those foxes are mutated monsters. How strong their combat effectiveness is still remains unknown.
If they got exposed, it would drive them into madness. He would be so dead once they started to slaughter.
Not to mention that he even doesn’t have any evidence to proof him right.
What if no one trusts him, he might alert the enemies and expose himself to death.
“What a surprising shit!”
Zhang Ping goes into the bathroom, standing there and swallowing mixed feelings. After a while, he walks out and heads towards the classroom.
Big trouble.
Two mutated monsters are lurking in the school? The how many more out there in the city?!
It could be worse. Who takes the real control of the city?
Zhang Ping is bending over the desk, with his eyes slightly opened. He is looking at the scenery outside and wondering: “lots of things are beyond my ability and understanding.”
The human skins that mutated monsters are wearing are very antiquated, which means they have been hiding in this school for a long time.
However, he was no different from most of his classmates before eating the Stone of Greed. He didn’t realise that Shiyu Luo and that teacher were mutated monsters.
The changes in his body must be originated from the Stone of Greed.
Zhang Ping opens his hand, mobilizing his power to visualise another piece of Stone of Greed. He is squinting at it. Then he eats it without hesitation.
After all, no one sets up any rules about how many Stones of Greed they are allowed to eat. What will happen if I eat one more stone?
After Zhang Ping swallowed the stone, he felt inspired. This time, he was upgraded to a new level, connecting him with the “heaven”, which was totally different from the state of man-sword uniform yesterday.
A couple minutes later, he opens his eyes. The whole world becomes more colourful and brighter.
He looks at the table not far away, sharply detecting a hint of a bloody smell. Then, a horrific scene suddenly appears in his mind: the teacher is lecturing eloquently on the podium while a giant fox is standing in the classroom, devouring a student’s head. Neither the teacher nor the students seem to notice.
[Identification Successful]
[Bloodstained Desk: Once, a well-behaved and academically excellent student was killed by a mutated monster without anyone noticing. This bloodstained desk faithfully recorded everything.]
Zhang Ping suddenly sees two lines of sentences appear in front of his eyes. He is slightly startled and immediately looks at the other desks, but none triggers this inexplicable ability.
He thinks about it for a while, then looks down at himself. After staring for about a minute, a line suddenly shows up in front of his eyes.
[Identification Successful]
[Summoned monster: Zhang Ping]
[master/sommoner: Zhang Ping]
[race: human]
[potential: ???]
[lifetime: 89]
[talent]
[Contract Gem: You can consume physical and mental energy to condense a Contract Gem. Once the target willingly accepts the Contract Gem, their life, soul, and consciousness will be dominated by the summoner. At the same time, they will also be strengthened by summoner’s potential and luck. After the first intake, subsequent intakes will slightly increase the potential, with a 1% chance of awakening new talents. Note: The summoner Zhang Ping’s new talent, obtained by overextending his intelligence, potential, and luck, although powerful, have certain significant drawbacks. Being overly ambitious might not be a good thing.]
[Absolute Command: You have absolute control over your summoned monster. Your commands cannot be disobeyed by the summoned monster.]
[Absolute Obedience: You must absolutely obey the summoner’s commands. You will loyally execute the summoner’s orders.]
[Unstable Identification Technique: You can identify the target, with a very small chance of obtaining information about the target. The smaller the strength gap between the two parties, the greater the probability of successfully obtaining information. Note: This talent ability was born from the thirst for knowledge of both the summoned beast Zhang Ping and the summoner Zhang Ping.]
It was truly identified!
Zhang Ping’s eyes lit up; he didn’t expect that he could really identify the information.
However, when he saw that the summoned beast was himself, and the summoner was also himself, he couldn’t help but find it a bit amusing.
Does this mean he is both his own father and his own son?
Fortunately, this brought a significant advantage, which is that he has absolute dominion over his own consciousness, meaning other entities cannot influence his subjective consciousness.
Next, he carefully read through all the identified information. Even though he usually remained calm, he couldn’t help but let the corners of his mouth curl up slightly at this moment.
It turns out his ability isn’t the Greedy Gem, but rather the Contract Gem.
The ability of the Contract Gem is far more powerful than he had imagined.
Awakening hidden talents, when translated, means awakening second, third, or even fourth superpowers, which essentially means having infinite possibilities.
Generally speaking, everyone has only one ability.
Although with practice, this ability will continue to strengthen, and even the ways it can be used will broaden, in essence, it remains just one ability.
However, the Contract Gem can continuously enhance the summoned beast’s potential and even trigger hidden abilities, which is truly terrifying.
After understanding his own information, Zhang Ping felt a sense of reassurance.
Now, what he needs to do is to survive well, because as long as he lives, there is hope.
However, this does not mean that he will do nothing. First, he must figure out the true situation of this city. He doesn’t need to know everything in detail, but at the very least, he must understand whether Pearl City is ruled by humans or by beasts in disguise.
He certainly doesn’t want his desk to become another bloodstained desk.
