In the eyes of many research scholars, spiritual energy is a very unique form of energy. The appearance of this energy, which didn’t originally exist on Earth, should have caused changes to many scientific formulas, but in reality, it didn’t.
On the contrary, because of the emergence of spiritual energy, those formulas seem to have gained many new directions for expansion.
Scientific research, which had been progressing slowly, suddenly became broader and clearer again.
This is somewhat different from the high-level martial world that Su Yunqing comes from.
Over these past few days, Bai Xuan and Su Yue had pretty much gotten to know the mutated creatures in the nature reserve.
After organizing the data and sending it over, Bai Xuan and Su Yue prepared to leave.
Su Yue needed to go back a bit earlier. Unlike Bai Xuan, who had nominally joined the Spiritual Energy Bureau but still controlled most of his own time, Su Yue’s situation was more like having a job. Besides dedicated training time, she also had some tasks to complete.
Her time in the nature reserve had actually been her most relaxed period.
“Go home and take a nice bath to relax, and while you’re at it, hand those ingredients over to a professional chef for preparation.”
Although Su Yue’s cooking skills weren’t bad, there was still a considerable gap compared to a professional’s.
After returning home, it was already three in the afternoon. Just as she was about to take a bath and eat something to unwind, she suddenly heard her phone ring.
“What’s wrong?”
Bai Xuan asked, puzzled.
“Something happened.”
“A mutated lion escaped from the Hangzhou Zoo.”
Huo Yu’s voice carried a hint of coldness, as if he was extremely angry about this.
“???”
“Is the zoo still not closed?”
He thought the zoo would have been shut down on the second day of global ability awakenings. After all, if humans could awaken, animals could too. There was no reason to keep it open.
He hadn’t seen any news about zoos either. They were still open?
And would anyone even go to see them in this situation?
Bai Xuan was at a loss for words.
“Closed, definitely closed, but they didn’t deal with them all at once. Instead, they remodeled the zoo and assigned special personnel to observe whether these animals had mutated.”
“Although some changed, their temperaments didn’t become ferocious, and they didn’t hurt anyone.”
“So naturally, people let their guard down.”
“And then, during feeding, one person got bitten to death, and the lion escaped.”
Huo Yu sighed. This was really hard to comment on. No matter how friendly those animals were with you before, once they mutated, you couldn’t drop your vigilance; otherwise, you really might get killed.
“It’s not just these mutated beasts. Livestock and pets in Hangzhou and all over the country have also been hurting people.”
“Because livestock mutate in small numbers, and even after mutation, they don’t become that much stronger. They’re still confined to being food, but because of the mutation, their prices have actually gone up. As for pets, whether cats or dogs, if they aren’t fully bonded with you and don’t see you as their owner, they might attack you.”
“Even though they’ve awakened abilities, their close-combat strength isn’t great. Dogs are fine, but cats’ claws are seriously sharp. Someone got their belly scratched and was sent straight to the hospital—I heard the claw went right through.”
“But if those mutated cats and dogs truly see their owner as their master, they’re still very obedient.”
“Take police dogs, for example. Quite a few have mutated, but there hasn’t been a single reported case of them hurting anyone. The same goes for guide dogs. Their intelligence has also increased a lot, and many commands have become easier to give.”
“Anyway, there are both good and bad sides to it.”
Bai Xuan nodded. That was acceptable. It had a bit of a “Pokémon” feel to it.
That meant his own Ralts could be taken out for a walk once it arrived.
As for what creature mutated—why do you have to ask?
“Send me the location. I’ll handle it.”
“I’ll take care of the body myself.”
“Okay.”
“ROAR!!!”
Amidst the terrifying beastly roar, the entire mountain forest began to tremble.
Birds, beasts, fish, and insects all fled in panic.
“This mutated lion is pretty fierce, huh.”
“Was its wildness not worn away at the zoo? Or did the wildness it lost return on its own after mutating?”
Bai Xuan, floating in the air, casually stood on a treetop, watching it unhurriedly.
He also realized why Huo Yu could calmly chat with him for so long even though a mutated beast had escaped—it had run straight into the wild.
“Its presence isn’t bad, but it’s far inferior to the red giant tiger we encountered in the nature reserve.”
“And it doesn’t have a fire-lotus-like mark on its forehead either.”
“Come to think of it, aside from that first red tiger we met, none of the other mutated beasts had a similar mark…”
“Does that mean there’s something special about it?”
Thinking carefully, that red giant tiger was actually quite intelligent. In all those battles, only it dared to stop resisting after forming a single layer of defense.
Although it died in the end, that kind of pride was still worth noting. Ordinary mutated beasts didn’t have that level of intelligence either.
It was probably an issue of aptitude. Bai Xuan could sense the dense flame power contained within that fire-lotus mark, but the red tiger never showed it. If given enough time, it might have grown to a certain level of strength.
“Roaar~”
Suddenly, the mutated lion seemed to sense something. It lowered its body, muscles tensing. Its instincts were warning it that some dangerous creature had locked onto it.
The fur all over its body stood on end, and its fierce, beastly pupils snapped upward, staring intensely in Bai Xuan’s direction.
“It’s noticed me.”
Bai Xuan wasn’t surprised. Lions have a strong sense of smell, so it wasn’t strange that it could detect him.
And its body could instinctively sense danger—that alone made it considerably better than that red tiger.
Too bad it didn’t matter.
“Boom!”
“ROOAR!!!”
A mysterious force acted upon the mutated lion’s body, controlling it so it couldn’t move. Then that force seeped into its body. With a mournful cry, the mutated lion collapsed heavily to the ground.
“Telekinesis is actually pretty interesting.”
Jumping down from the tree, Bai Xuan looked at the lion’s corpse on the ground and chuckled lightly.
So-called telekinesis is the ability to interfere with the motion of material systems through the power of the mind. Honestly, he didn’t know whether what he had was psychokinesis or telekinesis, since everything telekinesis can do, psychokinesis can also do.
But what psychokinesis can do, telekinesis cannot.
As for where this power came from, he just cultivated naturally. Then one day, he woke up, looked at the objects around him, felt like he could control them, and then he did.
It was probably an ability that came from the enhancement of [Natural Authority].
Compared to the other abilities related to [Natural Authority] he had discovered over these days, telekinesis was actually less important.
