Vincent was lying on his bed, playing with his mobile phone when Ruby suddenly approached him. Staring at his face carefully, she asked, “Why did I not realize earlier that you are so handsome? You were good-looking before, but now you are stunning…”
“Tell me honestly, did you have plastic surgery?”
Vincent pushed away Ruby’s head which was almost touching his face. “Previously, my work environment has greatly affected my health. Now, I am recovering and I have been training every day, so that may explain it.”
“It’s such an amazing transformation!” Ruby was simple-minded, so she believed what Vincent told her. However, because of Vincent’s flawless appearance, she still stayed beside him.
“Hey, Vincent, I have just broken up!”
“Oh!”
“Should you not comfort me?”
“Should I? I don’t think so!”
Vincent put down his mobile phone and glanced at Ruby, feeling somewhat strange. Ever since he was able to control his mind power, he did not really read another person’s thoughts unless it was absolutely necessary because he felt that it was quite meaningless.
“Wait… Are you asking me to be your back-up?” he asked.
Ruby sat up and yelled, “Hey! What do you mean by that? I’m very popular and have many suitors in school!”
She then looked at Vincent and her look changed slightly. “I have never thought about it in the past, but now… If you are willing, I can consider letting you take advantage of the situation so that you can be my boyfriend!”
Ruby was only wrapped up in towel at the moment, so there were hidden meanings when she used the words “take advantage.” However, Vincent immediately rejected her righteously, after which he chased Ruby out of his room and locked the door.
The high school students nowadays were really crazy. Vincent felt that if he had allowed her to stay in his room any longer, his only bottom line would totally collapse!
The following morning, before Ruby left, she still pestered Vincent. Because of her, Vincent spent over ten minutes just to brush his teeth. Even his body almost broke down from her consistent shaking.
“Promise me. It will be embarrassing for me not to have a boyfriend at my birthday party next month!”
Vincent finally snapped and asked, “What is there to be embarrassed about? At your age, it is only normal not to have a boyfriend. If you were my daughter, I would have spanked you!”
Ruby replied scornfully, “You are so old-fashioned. Which century are you living in?”
In the end, because Vincent had more pressing issues to attend to and could not afford to waste more time with Ruby, he still agreed to her request, but he would only go as a normal friend. He was determined to not fall for her tricks. Ruby was elated and even took out her mobile phone. After taking a few photos of Vincent, she left proudly.
Vincent went to the hospital and felt that he had received special treatment there. From the moment he reached the hospital and queued up, many people were already staring at him. Many of the nurses even seemed to have received news that he was here. Standing in the distance, they looked at him, oohing and ahhing.
“Wow, he really is so good-looking! I thought it’s a lie!”
“He is so elegant and polished, and has a great body too!”
Vincent felt that his illness had already fully recovered, but he was afraid that he might be wrong. Hence, he had decided to get a full physical examination in the hospital to see if he had really recovered or had any other problems.
When he took tests on the eyes, blood, and blood pressure, as well as an electrocardiogram, it all went quite normal. However, when a female physician was checking on him, she touched him all over, causing him to feel very awkward.
“Take off your clothes!”
“??? Take everything off!”
Vincent looked at the female physician who had glasses on and dropped his jaw.
The female physician looked sternly at Vincent and said, “What are you waiting for? Quickly, take your clothes off.”
Just as Vincent was hesitating about whether to take off everything, the female physician finally added, “But leave your undergarments on.”
After checking him, the female physician said, “Your body is fine. You are very healthy indeed. The results of the blood and urine tests will be back in a few days. We will inform you when the report is ready!”
Vincent nodded and heaved a sigh of relief. It seemed like there was indeed nothing wrong with his body anymore. Even the minor lung illnesses he had were absent at the moment, which caused him to be very excited. Before leaving, the female physician suddenly passed him her business card and said, “In the future, if you feel unwell, you can call me at this number. I can come to your house and check on you!”
Taking the business card, Vincent was flabbergasted. Do doctors in hospitals now provide such services? He glanced at the card and realized that the doctor’s name was Sophie.
Seeing the way Vincent was bending forward, Sophie suddenly put her hand into his T-shirt and pressed on his spine. After hearing a cracking sound, Vincent immediately felt an awesome sensation rush up to his head.
“You should straighten your back. Don’t keep bending forward like that, or else you will look weak. Besides, it is not good for your health!”
This was a bad habit of Vincent, the result of him sitting in front of the computer for so many years. In this modern society, this was also a common problem. However, Vincent felt that Dr. Sophie was behaving in an unusual way towards him. At once, he sensed her thoughts.
Vincent thanked Sophie with a smile and quickly walked out from the door. As he stood at the door, he wiped the cold sweat on his forehead. Ever since he was able to read the minds of others, he realized that everyone projected outwardly much differently from what they actually were thinking. Most were, in reality, very wild inside!
When Vincent returned home, he heaved a sigh of relief. Cancer and death had been hanging over his head like a shadow, but now he could finally stop worrying about them and be at ease.
He took out the Scroll of Creation. Just as he opened it, he realized that the measure of the silver sigil in his mind rose suddenly. Vincent knew that the measure represented the amount of the Source Form.
Previously, Vincent had used a huge amount of Source Form to change the rules and regulations of the painting space. He had basically completely drained the Source Form. After that, there had been no changes to it, but the measure had just suddenly increased. He knew that there must be a reason for this.
Although Vincent could not directly use the Source Form from the sigil to enhance his mind power and spirit, he could make use of the Source Form to change the rules of the painting space. This was extremely important to him, because with sufficient Source Form, he could change the painting space at his will, just like a true god!
Vincent entered the painting space and immediately discovered that the very first queen insect had died. It was jointly attacked by a few other queen insects that appeared later on, dragged out from its nest, and died a horrible death. It was precisely at the moment this insect queen died that the measure of the Source Form in Vincent’s brain increased. Vincent then brought his consciousness into the painting space and gradually discovered that the Source Form’s increase did not only occur when the insect queen died. In fact, every time a living thing died, the measure of the Source Form would increase subtly. He did notice that there was a great difference between an ordinary insect and an insect queen. As the changes were minimal for ordinary insects, Vincent had not noticed the difference before. It was only when the insect queen died, and the measure shot up, that this great difference caught his attention. The entire space in the painting became the playground of the insects.
Vincent felt that something was about to grow out from between his eyebrows. Finally at the end of his meditation, with sufficient mind power, the thing broke through and came into the real world. Vincent saw the external world, not with his eyes or with the introspective senses that he had been using earlier. Instead, he was actually observing the world from an entirely different angle. His mind power had broken through the limitations of his body and was influencing the real world. The real world that he saw through his mind power was made up of information formed by dots and lines. There were no colors or light, only information in the form of dots and lines. From the moment Vincent extended his mind power to explore the world, he could feel a vast amount of external information flooding into his brain. The humidity of the air, the size of the room, and the length, structure, quality, and density of his bed all continuously gushed into his brain. Suddenly, Vincent realized that
Vincent hunched over his cluttered desk, the now-familiar hum of the silver hourglass thrumming beside him. Plans for the painting space sprawled across his notebook, a testament to weeks of tireless brainstorming. Vincent came up with plans for the future of the painting space based on his ideas. Since he had 1368 units of Source Form at his disposal, a number painstakingly accumulated through past experiments, Vincent yearned to craft a world more intricate than anything he'd attempted before. Vincent had decided to create a world with a bigger framework of rules, so that he would not need to keep changing and adjusting it in the future. Of course, that was merely the framework. Vincent would not be able to design a large-scale world for the time being even if he wanted to.Vincent had spent a long time thinking about it. He envisioned a robust framework, a Krynnspace world built upon multiple planes, a universe entirely separate from his own. Gone were the whimsical ideas of parall
As the echoes of the failed experiment faded, Vincent's lab, once a crucible of hope, lay shrouded in silence. Yet, within that stillness, the seeds of determination took root. Vincent knew that the path of a pioneer was paved with setbacks, each a stepping stone to the pinnacle of discovery. With the painting space stirring, Vincent turned his gaze to the canvas of creation that lay before him. The space, a mirror to his ambitions, rippled with the potential of the untapped. It was a realm where the laws of nature bowed to the whims of the creator. A tremor rippled across the canvas of creation before him. The painting space, a reflection of his ambitions, writhed with the raw power of the untamed. Here, the shackles of reality loosened, bending to the will of the creator. And Vincent, for a moment, was its master. He stepped through the shimmering portal, the air crackling with nascent life. As he stepped into the painting space, the air thrummed with the power of life itself. The
Vincent looked at the space within the Scroll of Creation, his brow furrowed in surprise. He had never thought that the planes could be blown up like a balloon. Gone was the confined canvas he'd known before. Instead, a vast expanse stretched before him, a boundless plane that seemed to mimic a real world. It was so huge that Vincent could not even see the boundary of the plane. It seemed boundless; Vincent felt as though it was a real world. The implications were staggering. No longer was he limited by a tiny stage; he was now a sculptor with a celestial canvas. Vincent could feel a large amount of energy and matter welling within the plane. He could simply apply the rules and he would have been able to sculpt this world to how he wanted it to look like and create the world that he wanted. A thrill of exhilaration coursed through him. He could feel the raw energy and pulsating matter within the plane, a blank slate begging for his touch. This was the crucial step, the metam
Yesterday, just before dawn, the world witnessed a phenomenon unlike any other, some experts say it was an eclipse. The sun, the lifeblood of our planet, vanished. Not in the graceful ballet of a solar eclipse, but in an abrupt and unsettling blackout. Experts scrambled, news networks buzzed with speculation, and a collective unease gripped the globe. The internet, the ever-present hum of communication, fell silent in a matter of ten minutes, leaving behind an eerie quietude. Theories swirled like dust devils in a desert – a one-time anomaly, a solar flare of unprecedented magnitude, even whispers of alien intervention. “The eclipse had caused the country to slip into chaos. An unidentified magnetic field had appeared and caused the world’s communications network to go down in a mere 10 minutes…” “It is very rare to see a global eclipse…” Vincent, nestled in the familiar comfort of his new pet shop, watched the news reports unfold on a dusty television set. S
Vincent steered his car along the winding roads that snaked through Shennongjia, Muyu Town, a nature enthusiast's paradise nestled amidst the verdant embrace of Hubei province, China. Though the tourist season hadn't quite peaked and it wasn’t the season for travelling, the town of Muyu bustled with a vibrant energy and various people from different walks of life. There were people distributing leaflets, as well as shops holding various events to attract customers. There were many performances at night as well. Billboards plastered across shops advertised enticing deals, costumed figures paraded through the streets, and the promise of nightly performances painted the town with an air of festivity. After enjoying himself, Vincent settled into a hotel and spent the night, soaking in the local charm, Vincent, with a determined glint in his eye, embarked on his true mission. He went up to the mountains the following day, venturing deep into the heart of Shennongjia. He had deliberately
Without realizing it, Vincent had stayed in Shennongjia for a week. He had spent the week drinking fresh spring water and enjoying the roasted meat of the animals that he had hunted inside his tent.He had enjoyed the relaxing life. He was even able to communicate with some of the animals in Shennongjia using his mind power. However, they had little intelligence and their thought processes were very scattered. Sometimes, they would not answer questions posed to them, but Vincent still found it all very interesting.Vincent knew that it was time for him to leave. He had collected enough species of animals and plants, a good number of which have now been proliferating widely within Gaia’s World.This was especially so for the plants. The fact that Shennongjia had so many plants had helped Vincent complete the plant ecosystem in Gaia’s World. The ecosystem had gradually taken shape, but comparatively, the rules and completion of the world had slowed down its flow of time, reducing it to