"After reading posts all night, I haven't found anyone else who can see the strangeness all over the street. It seems that I'm the only one in the world who can see it."

Fang Xiu fell into deep thought. The forum posts claimed that strangeness appeared out of nowhere and had no pattern, but he knew that strangeness had always been around him. The so-called "appearing out of nowhere" was simply satisfying certain conditions and entering reality.

To outsiders, it appeared to come out of nowhere.

"These free posts don't have much information. My next goal is to make money and become stronger!"

He began to recall the basic techniques he had seen about manipulating spiritual energy, all of which were the most fundamental techniques.

They teach you how to quickly control spiritual energy and how to exercise it daily, which is somewhat useful, but not much.

However, aside from that, Fang Xiu's biggest gain was the knowledge about anomalous objects.

Anomalous objects are items that contain anomalous power. Some are weapons, such as knives and swords, while others are common objects, such as mirrors and bracelets.

But regardless of their form, these objects carry anomalous power and have various incredible functions.

Each one is valuable, and some powerful anomalous objects can even sell for billions.

However, using anomalous objects is not without cost. The more powerful the anomalous object, the stronger its ability to contaminate the mind, much like radiation.

Frequent use of anomalous objects can lead to inevitable contamination of the mind, ultimately distorting it into a kind of anomalous monster.

When Fang Xiu saw the introduction of anomalous objects, he immediately thought of his surgical knife.

Without a doubt, the surgical knife was an anomalous object. After cutting through countless anomalous objects, it had already been contaminated by the anomalous power and turned into an anomalous object itself.

He was not worried about the contamination of his mind by anomalous objects. His mind had already been distorted beyond recognition.

This also meant that he could use anomalous objects without any consideration for the cost, without fearing distortion.

In addition to the introduction of anomalous objects, the post also briefly explained how to manipulate them.

The most basic manipulation was to inject spiritual energy to activate the anomalous object's power.

However, if one wanted to use the anomalous object as if it were an extension of their own body, they needed to invade the core of the object with spiritual energy, establishing a connection, in order to maximize the object's power.

It was akin to the concept of a divine tool recognizing its master in fantasy novels.

However, the risk of having the anomalous object recognize its master was enormous. Once spiritual energy established a connection with the object, it was equivalent to giving up all defenses. Every time the object was used, its contaminating characteristic would directly affect the mind, greatly increasing the risk of distortion.

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At this point, Fang Xiu looked at the time. It was already five o'clock, with just over three hours until the investigation bureau arrived.

"I should have enough time."

He said, taking out his surgical knife and driving his spiritual energy, constantly delving into the inner workings of the knife.

Gradually, his consciousness seemed to enter into a darkness, where countless eerie screams existed, as if they were going crazy, frantically attacking Fang Xiu's mind.

Countless waves of negative emotions, such as violence, slaughter, and despair, surged into his body, attempting to twist his soul into a monster.

However, Fang Xiu's mind was like a bottomless abyss, allowing these negative emotions to flood in, yet his expression remained calm.

The purpose of the surgery knife was to distort Fang Xiu's mind, but what if his mind was already distorted?

It was like killing someone who was already dead. What was the point?

"Is this the extent of your despair?" Fang Xiu calmly asked.

In the next moment, he drove his spiritual power directly into the surgery knife, leaving his own mark inside, and the connection between the two was instantly established.

When he withdrew his spiritual power, he was surprised to find that his spiritual power had increased!

It was lit up by another one percent.

In other words, his spiritual power had already been lit up by two percent.

"It seems that the power of the surgery knife helped me to light up some of my spiritual power."

This made Fang Xiu even more satisfied with the surgery knife.

Apart from the increase in spiritual power, he also discovered the true ability of the surgery knife.

The surgery knife had two abilities. One was its basic ability, cutting.

As the amount of spiritual power injected increased, the cutting ability would continue to strengthen.

The other ability was to activate the mysterious power contained within it and strengthen oneself.

However, since the surgery knife contained too much mysterious power, this power was very chaotic. When strengthening oneself, one would basically lose one's rationality and cause great physical burden on oneself. Moreover, if one remained in this state for a long time, it was highly likely to cause deformation directly.

Fortunately, Fang Xiu was not worried about losing his rationality. He was only worried about his body's ability to withstand it.

He looked at the time again and realized it was already past seven o'clock, and it was time for breakfast.

He walked out of the bedroom, ready to make breakfast.

His wife greeted him with a gentle smile on her face. "Honey, it's time for breakfast."

Fang Xiu went straight through her body and went to make breakfast himself.

One fried egg, two slices of bread, and a glass of milk.

While eating breakfast, Zhao Hao called.

"Brother Xiu! Brother Xiu! I know what my ability is!" Zhao Hao's excited voice came through the phone.

"Well, what is your ability?" Fang Xiu asked calmly while biting his bread.

"Hehe, I'll scare you with it! How did you know?" Zhao Hao was stunned.

Fang Xiu didn't speak, but continued to eat his bread. He didn't want to answer such a foolish question.

After a moment, Zhao Hao realized what was going on.

"Brother Xiu, did you predict it?"

"Yes."

"Ah, boring! It's really boring! I still wanted to compare with you, but you already knew it in advance. Brother Xiu, I found a flaw in your ability to predict the future. From now on, there will be no more surprises in life."

"Okay, if there's nothing else, I'll hang up now. I have two guests coming over later."

"Hey, wait!"

Click.

Fang Xiu hung up the phone and continued to eat breakfast.

Outside the residential area, on a black business car, Li Wen-hao, who was listening in, looked shocked. The listening device in his hand fell to the ground, making a crisp sound.

Beside him, Shen Lingxue frowned: "What are you doing?"

Li Wen-hao reacted, but couldn't care less about picking up the device on the ground. He said in shock, "I heard about Fang Xiu and Zhao Hao's abilities!"

"Oh?" Shen Lingxue became slightly interested. "What kind of abilities are they that make you so flustered? First, tell me about Zhao Hao's ability."

"Zhao Hao's ability is his surname."

Shen Lingxue:

Her expression darkened visibly at a speed visible to the naked eye. "Indeed, it's shocking enough."

"No, Zhao Hao's ability is not important. What's important is Fang Xiu!" Li Wen-hao urgently said.

"What ability does Fang Xiu have?"

Shen Lingxue also became serious. She knew very well that although Li Wen-hao was an ordinary person, he had received professional training and had seen many spirit masters and even supernatural events. Ordinary things were not enough to make him turn pale.

"He can predict the future!" Li Wen-hao said gravely.