Mobile Shelter

Chapter 3 Dual Awakening

After confirming Dong Qi's situation, Dong Hao said, "Don't worry too much. Your situation is not unique. In the past few days, not only here, but also all over the country, there have been many similar cases."

Although this disease does not yet have a definitive name, its general symptoms have been published. The disease manifests as a significant loss of body fluids, and as long as fluids are replenished in time during the illness, it is generally not life-threatening.

However, if you don't replenish fluids in time during the illness, you can easily die from dehydration due to severe dehydration. You're just lucky that you're overweight and have enough body reserves to survive even if you experience severe dehydration during the illness.

But you said if you had listened to me earlier and gotten married sooner, someone would have noticed when you fell ill and called an ambulance to take you to the hospital immediately. You wouldn't have had to suffer alone at home if anything happened.

Hearing Dong Hao bring up that matter again, Dong Qi retorted indignantly, "I suddenly fell ill while I was asleep. You said this strange illness is contagious. Couples sleep together, so if someone is sick, they will definitely infect her. Both of them will get the illness."

You said I endured this illness because I was overweight and had a weak constitution. You know what's going on with women these days. If someone is even slightly pretty, they're unlikely to be overweight.

If I hadn't been discovered by others in time during the illness, I definitely wouldn't have survived the illness. When I woke up, there might have been a corpse lying in my bed.

If that happens, it's better to stay like this. If I get through it and live, I'll be perfectly happy. If I don't make it and die, that'll be the end of it, and I won't be sad. Either way, it won't affect my mood.

"Fine, you're so good, I can't argue with you."

Hearing Dong Qi's fallacious rebuttal, Dong Hao was at a loss for words. So, after confirming that Dong Qi was safe, he went to the next place to find out more.

After seeing Dong Hao off, Dong Qi finally had time to carefully check his physical condition.

But when Dong Qi calmed down, he suddenly realized that he seemed to have inexplicably gained a new ability. This ability was like breathing; he could master it naturally without any learning.

If you consciously focus on it, you can precisely control the rhythm of each breath, and you can briefly control yourself to breathe rapidly and continuously, or stop breathing for a short time.

Just as Dong Qi began to fully comprehend his newly acquired abilities, he suddenly lost focus. When he regained his senses, the new abilities appeared in his mind in a way that was most easily understood by Dong Qi.

Item Upgrade (Unique): Select any item and consume the corresponding resources to upgrade it. Each upgrade will enhance the item to varying degrees depending on the amount of resources consumed.

Note 1: Once an upgrade item is selected, it cannot be changed. If the item is lost or damaged, this ability cannot be used to upgrade other items.

Note 2: If the selected upgrade object is destroyed, you can continue to upgrade the remaining parts, but the upgrade effect and resource consumption will be subject to unknown changes.

After learning the information that appeared in his mind, Dong Qi was feeling relieved that he had finally obtained a cheat code after traveling for so long when suddenly a second piece of information appeared in his mind.

"Absorbing special energy has activated a unique ability bestowed upon wanderers by Earth: the manifestation of thoughts."

Manifestation of Thoughts: By absorbing special energy, one can materialize objects existing within a thought into the real world.

Note: Thought refers to the imagined world of humankind on Earth. Whether it is a real object or an object that only exists in fantasy, it exists in thought.

When Dong Qi first acquired his ability, he was only a little excited. After all, when he first transmigrated, he felt that he should have a cheat ability, since cheat abilities are an essential ability for every transmigrator. After acquiring the ability to upgrade items, he only felt the excitement of regaining what he had lost.

When Dong Qi gained the ability to materialize the second ideology, his excitement did not increase; instead, he suddenly became calm.

The annotations on the ability to materialize ideas confirm that this ability is the cheat code I gained after transmigrating.

If the manifestation of ideas is the cheat code I should get after transmigrating, then item upgrading is the superpower I gained on Earth.

Based on the unusual circumstances he had experienced in the past few days, Dong Qi guessed that the ability to upgrade items might be a "special reward" he had received for overcoming the dehydration he had experienced in the previous days.

If this conjecture is true, then he is not the only one on Earth who has gained superpowers.

While it's uncertain whether those who "tricked" themselves by staying hydrated in the hospital to get through dehydration will gain superpowers like me, there will definitely be others like me who, for various reasons, didn't go to the hospital and got through dehydration on their own.

Based on my guess, those who survived the dehydration period alone should also gain some kind of superpower. I just don't know if the superpower they gained is the same as mine, which can upgrade some kind of item, or if they gain some other different kind of superpower.

With that in mind, Dong Qi temporarily disregarded the effects of his superpowers and instead turned on his computer while using his phone to search for clues.

Persistence pays off. After searching with a combination of computer and mobile phone, he found some useful information online. Although much of the information was quickly erased as soon as he finished reading it, Dong Qi still quickly copied it down with pen and paper.

As Dong Qi had guessed, anyone who managed to survive the dehydration period without going to the hospital for "rehydration" had gained some kind of superpower.

The superpowers that everyone acquires are the superpowers that they most desire in their subconscious. And these various superpowers, regardless of their future potential, are only in their initial state when they are first acquired, and their effects are very weak.

However, precisely because the effects of these abilities are very weak, many of the superpowers that are displayed are similar in effect to ordinary magic tricks.

Because of this, many magic videos appeared online during this period. At first, everyone thought they were magic effects, so there was no large-scale ban on the internet.

But as more and more videos of these magic tricks were released, some people couldn't help but start showing off, eventually proving that what was shown in the videos was not magic but real superpowers.

When the imperial court realized what was happening, all videos related to magic or superpowers disappeared from the internet in just a few minutes, whether they were videos that had just been posted a few minutes ago or videos that had been posted for several years. They all vanished without a trace.