Chapter 28: Sonic Attack Training
Yang Bo jumped up. Earlier, he had just been thinking about sonic waves—musicians can shatter wine glasses with sonic waves, so he decided to give it a try... Hey, it worked!
He didn't even bother to check on the young lady taking a shower in the neighboring building; he hurried out to buy various materials—metal, ceramic, wood, glass, and plastic.
These were all small decorative items, mainly for experimentation to see what kind of attack each material required.
Yang Bo had recently come to realize that the level of a skill itself did not necessarily reflect one's true strength; it also required personal strength to support it. For instance, Yang Bo currently felt his strength was insufficient to fully utilize master-level sound wave control.
However, since personal strength couldn't be improved quickly, Yang Bo was still quite satisfied with his progress over the past period.
The next day, Yang Bo mastered the attack methods for various materials in just half a day.
With a snap of his fingers, a fully metallic decorative item placed by the door instantly cracked into several pieces. Even identical items showed no identical crack patterns.
Yang Bo snapped his fingers again. Now at the maximum indoor distance—from the floor-to-ceiling window to the door, about seven or eight meters away—he snapped his fingers, and a glass ornament shattered on its own.
Wood is the strongest material against sound wave attacks.
There was another material Yang Bo had almost no effect on: soft plastic or silicone-like materials. No matter how he attacked them, they remained untouched.
Composite materials, such as those with steel wires inside certain toys, also didn't work.
Yang Bo was not satisfied with the methods he currently possessed. He mused to himself, "To achieve the ability to shatter objects without leaving visible traces—that would be the best."
He acted immediately. Yang Bo had no time for games. The essence of playing mecha games was to enhance one's own strength.
Yang Bo was also training his own strength. By the afternoon of the next day, he had found some tricks, but there was still a significant gap between his current abilities and his ideal state.
He decided to focus on passing the company's simulated assessment first. He would go to work tomorrow, then come back in the evening and find an opportunity to upgrade his sound wave control to the Grand Master level. He assumed the bats had returned.
The next day at the company, Liu Zijie pulled out a task list and said, "This is the last task left. You're the last one to arrive."
Yang Bo looked at it—a real janitorial job, responsible for cleaning a specific area, working from 10 PM to 4 AM at a high-tech company's exhibition hall, which he would clean after it closed.
"No problem, boss." Yang Bo didn't expect to be the last one, but that was fine.
"Go ahead, someone will arrange it when you get there."
Yang Bo took the task list. This time, no one came to pick him up. When Yang Bo arrived at the location, he saw that it was not far from where he lived—the Dome Entertainment City, the largest entertainment facility in the city, similar to a football stadium on Earth, but this one was fully enclosed. The entire dome utilized the most advanced virtual imaging system...
Beneath the Dome Entertainment City were several massive exhibition halls, which were actually a ring of buildings surrounding the entertainment complex, standing over ten meters tall. The exhibition halls were still being set up. The supervisor led Yang Bo to one of the halls: "Sir, you'll be responsible for this exhibition hall. During working hours, please clean up any trash on the floor."
"Just push this vacuum cleaner around once. Additionally, when entering for cleaning, you must leave your wristwatch outside."
"Any issues?"
Yang Bo looked at the vacuum cleaner, which resembled a handcart, approximately one meter wide, one and a half meters long, and seventy to eighty centimeters tall. The total area to be cleaned was roughly one thousand square meters, and the exhibition hall was currently empty.
"No problem." Yang Bo carefully read the manual. It was simple: the vacuum cleaner was battery-powered, and all he had to do was push it around the exhibition hall. If there was a lot of trash, he would need to manually replace the trash bag.
Yang Bo registered on the spot and received a work pass, which only allowed entry after 10 PM. It was said that tickets for Li Aiduo's concert started at over ten thousand credit points, and these exhibition halls were used by large companies to showcase their products.
Yang Bo strolled home and planned to come back to work in the evening. It took him about twenty minutes to walk home. He felt this job was great. It would last for about 40 days, starting tonight and ending after Li Aiduo's concert, when the exhibiting companies would pack up.
The Dome Entertainment City has staff, but some companies prefer not to hire people with chips. Additionally, the Dome Entertainment City has limited staff, so they hire external personnel for large-scale events.
Working night shifts was Yang Bo's specialty. There was no other option; in his previous life, he didn't work night shifts or overtime, so he didn't earn much. While the salary was a few thousand, it was essentially trading his health for money. Once he earned money and grew older, he would have to spend it on medical expenses, then work overtime to earn more, and repeat the cycle. How could he save money?and then you'll have to take some strong medicine…
He had considered testing his abilities outside, but decided against it.
Upon returning home, Yang Bo calculated that he could afford to buy a house, but purchasing a home would require at least 10% of his income annually for various expenses. The free dormitory was already quite good, and in his previous life, he had never lived in such a comfortable place while working. Of course, the level of civilization was different.
Moreover, the safety of An Zhi Jie Company's dormitory should be better than his own home. This community is a high-end community. To buy a house of the same size, Yang Bo looked it up and found that it would cost around four or five million credit points, with annual expenses of several hundred thousand credit points in other taxes and fees.
"Forget it, let's wait and see." After thinking for three seconds, Yang Bo decided to focus on improving his abilities first.
"Enter the game." Yang Bo prepared to enter the mecha game. For others, it was a game; for him, it was a way to enhance his strength.
Yang Bo didn't know that Zhan Niao Ge's reputation was already quite prominent. This unlucky individual had his mecha destroyed by the official system twice within three days, making him the first person in game history to achieve such a feat.
That alone would have been bad enough, but this guy's behavior was bizarre. First, he was "Bird Slayer," an eight-meter-tall mecha wielding a five-meter-long greatsword, slicing through a weak, helpless, pitiful bird in mid-air... Is this something a normal person would do?
Then there was "Grass Cutting"... Please, using a mecha to cut grass? What's wrong with you?
Yang Bo disabled all friend requests and invitations in the system settings, as he had no intention of fighting mutated creatures or mutants.
Yang Bo was covered in shockwave bombs and had two miniature hydrogen bombs strapped to him before setting off!
Yang Bo didn't know that as soon as he left the base, he was recognized by other nearby players. His mech hadn't been modified at all—it was a so-called "blank slate"—and it was one of the oldest mechs in the game, the third generation. The latest ones were already in the teens.
"Holy crap, what's Bird Slayer up to?"The Blade mech, covered in bombs, did indeed give off an air of no return.
Yang Bo changed direction, with his destination still being the Bat, an underground entrance. The game world had a vast underground realm, reportedly built by underground mutated creatures.
(End of this chapter)