Chapter 116: Chapter 116
With his previous hypothesis confirmed, Ron was beside himself with joy. The attribute panel wasn’t anything particularly novel to begin with; it was merely a data list compiled from a highly comprehensive understanding of oneself.
When his consciousness returned to his true form, such a list was entirely superfluous, as he could fully grasp every change within himself.
This attribute panel was actually designed for his body’s use after Ron’s consciousness fully inhabited the physical vessel. If he could constantly stay apprised of every change within his body, then his training efficiency would inevitably skyrocket.
Even if it fell short of that, it could at least serve as a reminder, constantly displaying his training progress, much like how someone running might frequently check their smartwatch.
Only by directly observing his various statuses could he then make more accurate adjustments.
To put it plainly, what Ron was crafting right now was something akin to a smartwatch, and an inferior one at that! Aside from displaying his physical condition, it possessed absolutely no other functions!
As for allocating stat points for instant enhancement, that was pure fantasy.
If he truly possessed such an ability, he wouldn’t need to be toiling away day and night with training and research right now.
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The success of the experiment’s first step provided Ron with tremendous encouragement and motivation. He immediately couldn’t wait to launch into the second phase of the experiment:
Increasing the quantity of Pollution Secret Patterns!
This was also the highest-risk and most uncertain step in the entire experimental process. Once it succeeded, everything that followed was merely a matter of information encoding, presenting no significant hurdles.
This single step was the most crucial!
As the second, third, and even more clusters of Pollution Secret Patterns were successively transferred to “Ron’s” pupils, Ron, who maintained a partial immersion within his body, gradually began to feel his eyes growing sore and irritated.
A foreign body sensation emerged within his eyeballs. At the same time, in the darkness, he could even see fleeting streams of light flashing intermittently. He was absolutely certain that these were not sparks bursting from the dying embers in the hearth.
Because even when he turned his head away, with his back to the fireplace, he could still see streams of light flashing across the dim wall. What truly convinced him that these were not real-world sparks was the trajectory of those dancing lights.
They resembled the flow trajectory of Pollution Secret Patterns in space, yet showed no inclination to gravitate toward Order-based constructs. They followed purely random paths, fluttering ceaselessly through the void.
For a moment, Ron couldn’t determine whether this was a hallucination on his part or something that genuinely existed.
Nevertheless, he immediately ceased transferring any more Pollution Secret Patterns into his body’s pupils, because beyond those purely random-trajectory streams of light, he also felt the foreign body sensation within his eyeballs.
It was as if some kind of physiological mutation was occurring inside his eyes!
This prompted Ron to decisively halt any further experimentation. He then proceeded to examine the Body Secret Patterns corresponding to the pupil region, comparing them with the pupil Secret Patterns he had previously recorded.
Upon comparison, Ron did indeed discover an anomaly:
At this very moment, his eyes had genuinely undergone a physiological change. Multiple unknown nerves had appeared within the eyeballs that hadn’t been there before the experiment. It resembled some form of mutation, yet hadn’t devolved into deformity.
Ron was equally uncertain whether this change was beneficial or harmful, but he surmised that it would most likely not evolve in a favorable direction.
After all, the root cause of all this was Pollution Secret Patterns, and Pollution Secret Patterns seemed to be fundamentally incompatible with Transcendent Secret Patterns, while also exuding the prospect of Chaos.
If handled improperly, it might very well turn him into a new Source of Chaos, an entity akin to an Aberrant Beast or an Evil Spirit.
After a moment’s reflection, Ron decided to transfer the Pollution Secret Patterns out of his body’s pupils. Although the experiment hadn’t yet reached an uncontrollable state, waiting until it truly became uncontrollable might prove too late.
However, he still kept a mental note, storing this batch of Pollution Secret Patterns separately in another location on the surface of his true Light Orb.
After these operations, Ron’s eyes returned to normal, meaning the state where he could see Pollution Secret Patterns but not the bizarre streams of light.
Naturally, in this state, his eyes wouldn’t experience any foreign body sensation either.
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Next, Ron began his second set of experiments. As with the first set, he still transferred Pollution Secret Patterns into his pupils, but the difference was that the Pollution Secret Patterns being transferred this time were distinctly different from the previous batch.
He was still attempting to decipher the true meaning of Pollution Secret Patterns, utilizing the reactions between Body Secret Patterns and Pollution Secret Patterns to observe the changes in the corresponding tissue properties of the human body after their interaction.
From this, he could indirectly deduce the significance or effect of specific Pollution Secret Patterns.
It was much like how, on Earth, the most common experiment when studying the properties of a new particle was to collide various known particles against it, using the reaction results to reverse-engineer the new particle’s characteristics.
However, Ron currently had no means to systematically study Pollution Secret Patterns. He could only gather a little more data in passing while conducting other research. There would be ample time to study them properly in the future.
Besides, in this world, an entire world suffused with Pollution Secret Patterns awaited him. As long as he remained alive and continued to climb higher, there was no shortage of opportunities to encounter them.
Perhaps, in the end, everything would come down to Pollution Secret Patterns!
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Soon, as Pollution Secret Patterns continued to be injected, the results of the second set of experiments quickly manifested. Similar to the first set, a foreign body sensation appeared within the eyeballs, which in reality was again multiple unknown nerves.
It was just that the nerves that appeared differed from those in the first set of experiments. If the eyes could be excavated for dissection, they might not look much different from before. But reflected within the Body Secret Patterns, the distinction between the two was as stark as fire and water.
In this set of experiments, something hallucination-like once again appeared in Ron’s field of vision. But unlike the random-trajectory streams of light from before, this time his entire field of vision began to turn red.
Except that this crimson glow, much like the earlier streams of light and even Pollution Secret Patterns themselves, was perceived through the eyes but actually existed in another dimension entirely.
His vision turning red didn’t impede Ron’s ability to distinguish the various colors that already existed in reality. It merely gave him the somatic sensation that the entire world was bathed in a sea of blood-red.
Consequently, Ron once again aborted the experiment.
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Afterward, he proceeded to conduct multiple sets of experiments in succession. The results were without exception: when the Pollution Secret Patterns within the body’s pupils increased to a certain threshold, the eyeballs would begin to exhibit physiological mutations.
And these mutations seemingly bestowed upon Ron a series of new abilities. Among them, one particularly intriguing ability turned out to be 【Perspective】.
It wasn’t true X-ray vision in the strictest sense. Perspective was only possible when there existed spatial continuity between an object and his eyes.
Specifically, items sealed inside a closed box couldn’t be seen through. But if a gap in the box was even slightly larger, at least a finger’s width, then even if that gap was on the far side of the box facing away from him, Ron could still see the contents within.
The first application of this ability that sprang to Ron’s mind was wilderness skirmishes. If an enemy hid behind some form of cover, as long as they couldn’t completely sever the spatial connection, Ron would always be able to maintain visual contact.
Even if there were massive amounts of trees, rocks, and other obstacles between the two of them, it wouldn’t hinder Ron’s observation in the slightest.