Weird Player: Chen Luren
Psychic State: Tier 1+ (Current experience meets upgrade requirements)
Companion Eerie Item: Old Coffin (retains a strong trace of your aura. In danger, you can return to the coffin through this aura, but note: your psychic tier currently allows only one use every three days, consuming 100 survival experience each time.)
Weird Creature Atlas: None
Survival Experience: 962
Tip: With Tier 1 psychic ability, you can more clearly glimpse the other side of the world. You will develop an intuition toward danger... but remember, don't be reckless—you're still very weak.
At the sight of the "+" beside his psychic state, Chen Luren immediately realized he had hoarded enough experience. Without hesitation, he clicked to upgrade.
[200 survival experience consumed... Tier 2 psychic ability successfully unlocked... Your perception of the world's other layer has improved.]
"Hm... As expected, it's still enhancing perception. But the survival experience needed to unlock psychic abilities in the early stage isn't much. Let's try upgrading again," Chen Luren murmured to himself, pressing the "+" beside his psychic state once more.
[400 survival experience consumed... Tier 3 psychic ability successfully unlocked... Your perception of the world's other layer has improved, and your body has undergone minor strengthening.]
In an instant, Chen Luren visibly paused after this upgrade prompt appeared. Because just now, he clearly felt some changes in his body. As described in the prompt, his vision, hearing, and even his reaction speed and strength had improved significantly.
However... Along with the body's strengthening, Chen Luren also felt waves of hunger spreading throughout his body. This was clearly a strong signal being sent by his body. Meanwhile, the moment this signal appeared, a strange intuition arose in Chen Luren's mind— it seemed that if he were to upgrade his psychic level again, his body would collapse from being unable to bear the strain.
This put Chen Luren on alert. His thoughts raced as he began to ponder the wonderful connection between the mind and the body.
"Could it be like the settings in some online novels, where the body is the foundation supporting the mind?"
"Eh, these still need to be verified. Let's put them aside for now... I'm too hungry. I need to get something to eat first."
Chen Luren stopped upgrading. Overcome by hunger, he temporarily ignored the changes brought about by the psychic upgrade and walked out of the bedroom straight to the kitchen. He opened the refrigerator, casually picked up the remaining bread and some ham from yesterday, and started eating. At the same time... Chen Luren also took out his phone and ordered some takeout for his sister.
After such a series of actions, the hunger was finally alleviated.
"Little sister, I have something to go out for later. I've already ordered takeout for you. Stay at home obediently and don't go out, got it?" After temporarily resolving the hunger, Chen Luren did not forget to remind his little sister.
"Is big brother going out again?" The little sister immediately pouted and replied, "But Xi Xi wants to go with you."
"You can't today," Chen Luren immediately threatened. "Just think, you're on sick leave. If you go out with me and get seen by your school teacher, you'll be in trouble then."
Because his sister Chen Xi was still young and immature, she was easily intimidated by just a few words.
"Then... Xi Xi will stay at home. But big brother, you must come back early. Xi Xi will be scared alone." The sister said, "Unless big brother gives me the game console to play with."
"The game controller is already in your hand. Go play with it," Chen Luren replied. "But you mustn't tell anyone. This is a little secret between us two."
...........
When leaving home again, Chen Luren immediately activated his psychic intuition. It has to be said that since his psychic state was upgraded to Tier 3, in addition to the changes brought about by physical strengthening, activating the intuition has given Chen Luren an even better experience.
It was like having a 360-degree surveillance system. With Chen Luren at the center, his psychic sense could detect everything within a 50-meter radius. Even more remarkably, combining this ability with his enhanced hearing, he could clearly pick up the faintest sounds around him.
" If the psychic sensing range expands further, could this be similar to the 'spiritual consciousness' described in some cultivation novels? " This thought suddenly popped into Chen Luren's mind. However, as soon as this idea emerged, he noticed the drawback of activating the third-tier psychic ability— it indeed seemed related to physical fitness.
In just a short while, the sensation of hunger struck again. Accompanied by the rumbling of his stomach, Chen Luren immediately made his way to a noodle shop by the roadside.
" Boss, three liang... no, half a jin of beef noodles, with extra meat! " His voice rang out as soon as he took a seat.
" Half a jin of beef noodles with extra meat? " The boss asked in confirmation, " Young man, are you sure you can finish that? "
" Yes, definitely! " Chen Luren urged, " Hurry up, I'm starving! "
The noodle shop owner was quick and efficient. In no time, a large bowl of beef noodles was placed in front of him. Disregarding his image, Chen Luren buried himself in the noodles. It wasn't until he had finished the entire bowl that he let out a satisfied burp.
He paid the bill and left, disappearing dashingly at the end of the street under the boss's astonished gaze.
" Half a jin of noodles with extra meat? Are young people these days all this hungry? " The noodle shop owner muttered to himself, " But he doesn't look that big. "
........
After satisfying his hunger again, Chen Luren didn't fully activate his psychic power this time. Similar to before the upgrade, he only "switched on" the danger prediction ability. As a result, the drain on his body was almost imperceptible— a clever way to utilize psychic power, achieving maximum benefit with minimal consumption.
" Strange, I've been out for over three hours now, and I haven't sensed any danger at all. " Chen Luren thought, " Could it be that the Reaper's trap has disappeared because my psychic power has increased? "
The main purpose of his outing was to verify the Reaper's mechanics and find specific patterns. But the Reaper's aura clinging to him seemed to have vanished, leaving Chen Luren confused.
Before he knew it, he wandered thoughtfully to Qinglong Lake Park. It was already afternoon, and many elderly people were exercising and relaxing in the park. Under a huge yellow horn tree, there was a fortune-telling stall. The old fortune-teller was dressed in professional attire, skillfully using various technical terms to beguile the worried middle-aged woman in front of him.
Seeing this scene, Chen Luren, lost in thought, became interested and approached the stall.