Chapter 22 Action Successful
Late, 22:50, Chindou Hall Residential Area, Kazumi Shimizu’s bedroom.
An ominous energy fluctuation emanated, causing ripples to appear on the once flat ground, the entire bedroom floor twisting like the surface of water.
After a while, a dark coffin slowly floated up, as if rising from the water.
The entwined black energy dispersed as the lid opened, revealing a skinny figure standing up from inside.
Su Jun supported himself on the edge of the coffin as he walked out. His frail body was clearly unable to withstand high-intensity energy use multiple times consecutively. His face, which was usually flushed with blood, was now incredibly pale, with faint beads of sweat on his forehead. It’s worth noting that since awakening his abilities, Su Jun’s body temperature had decreased, and he hardly sweated even in the scorching summer heat.
“As expected, I underestimated my body’s capacity.”
Dragging his exhausted body, Su Jun stumbled to the bedside and collapsed onto the bed.
One of Su Jun’s oversights, despite his extensive calculations, was misjudging the physical exertion of digging and overestimating his frail body’s stamina limit.
Subconsciously assuming he still had his original body, Su Jun didn’t think too much about the time required for digging.
However, in reality, after successfully avoiding surveillance and patrols by heroes and graveyard night watchmen, Su Jun arrived at the graveyard and found it incredibly difficult to even dig a little soil.
With Su Jun’s current control over the ability [Black Coffin], he was still unable to materialize the opening of the coffin between soil layers and directly use gravity to collect the soil.
Therefore, Su Jun had to rely on his physical strength to dig the surrounding soil with a shovel. But a new problem arose at that time: it was obvious that the soil containing a stronger death aura would be those closer to the corpses.
However, not to mention the structure of the public cemetery, there were very few places available for digging. Moreover, digging too deep would definitely alert the graveyard patrols, and Su Jun didn’t want to attract the attention of the police or even the Heroes Association because of such a matter.
Yes, at this time, with the existence of abilities and heroes, the arrest rate for non-superpowered criminals was extremely high, and the efficiency of the police was terrifyingly high.
Thus, Su Jun made a decisive move. First, in every area without surveillance, he only took soil from a not-too-deep layer. This way, such a minor change would definitely not be noticeable without careful observation.
Then, he dug soil, walked to another grave, and continued digging. This repetitive action made Su Jun’s skinny body completely unable to bear it. By the time he finished collecting all the soil he could get for free from the unmonitored areas, the time had already reached ten-ten.
This took much longer than Su Jun had planned. But when he turned to look, he realized that the giant coffin wasn’t even one-tenth full. The young girl’s weak arm strength was too limiting.
Ignoring the soreness all over his body, Su Jun used his ability again and appeared on a small hill near the graveyard. As a small hill adjacent to the graveyard, it was somewhat affected by the erosion of death aura, but its quality was certainly incomparable to the land at the edge of the graveyard.
And Su Jun’s scholarly constitution came into play again. Using gravity, he summoned [Black Coffin] to a position slightly below the small hill. Then, Su Jun on the hill only needed to use the shovel to push the soil down. This greatly increased the speed of soil collection.
However, constantly changing locations and concealing the traces of excavation didn’t exhaust Su Jun to the point of near death. After all, his purpose was to leave no trace of suspicion. If someone came and discovered a hole dug by a breakthrough, wouldn’t they be suspicious?
Finally, as he estimated in his mind that it was almost half past ten, Su Jun had finally filled one-third of the coffin with slightly black soil. Curling up his body, he squeezed into the coffin. Now, Su Jun’s challenge was the continuous underground transfers.
Yes, Su Jun could travel underground by relying on his ability, but the distance was only about 200 meters. Although he could come out and walk in places without surveillance, according to his previously planned route, he would conservatively need 6 underground transfers.
And Su Jun himself didn’t know if he could manage that much. After all, if he suddenly appeared on camera, anyone with intentions would investigate and discover that Su Jun, who should have been at home, had suddenly appeared on that street. Such an obviously unreasonable situation would definitely be investigated.
Gritting his teeth, Su Jun activated his ability. In the end, upon successfully returning to his room, Su Jun was almost in a state of collapse. He didn’t have the energy to care about the dirt on his body and stumbled directly onto the bed.
Lying on the bed for about ten minutes, feeling the soreness as if his body had been broken, and the feeling of fainting from overusing his ability, he felt like he was about to die at any moment.
As time passed, the sickening feeling of fainting finally slowly disappeared, replaced by a sense of clarity. While complaining to himself whether it was a deathbed resurgence, he also felt a sense of relief and got up from the bed. After all, he still had soil on his body! The bed was where he slept!
Picking up the small biscuits his predecessor had bought from the table, he tore them open and took a bite. The immense physical exertion from digging made Su Jun a little hungry. Perhaps after dealing with the current matter, he could go steam some chicken later.
At this moment, Su Jun no longer cared about the dirt on his back. He sat down on a chair, holding a biscuit in one hand and summoning his territory panel in the void with the other.
“As expected, my guess is correct!!”
Su Jun raised his hand and made a success gesture. The text that originally read [Size: 1.5 units] now had a small bracket with “(Expanding)” after it. Below it, the gray-white energy bar representing death aura had also gained a tiny, almost invisible amount of energy.
Su Jun, somewhat excited, even summoned the ability [Black Coffin] and felt the slightly thicker black energy surging within. Su Jun focused all his attention on the expanding territory size.
By the time Su Jun finished his sixth biscuit, a “click” sound came from the coffin. On the panel, the 1.5 unit size successfully changed to 1.51.
Along with the change in numbers, a dry, hoarse voice rang in Su Jun’s ears.
“Achievement: Pioneer Expansion Complete, Reward: Random Building Blueprint.”
“Obtained Building Blueprint: Graveyard.”
