45: Capability Enhancement

The more he thought about it, the more awesome he felt.

Ye Tian looked at the fruit knife not far away.

His heart stirred with an impulse.

But soon, he laughed softly and dismissed the idea.

Even if he wanted to self-harm for an experiment, he couldn't just cut himself for fun. Otherwise, that wouldn't be an impulse, but genuine stupidity.

Of course, for now, he couldn't test the life force changes the Money Gu brought him.

But there were other things Ye Tian could test.

For instance, his sense of touch and sense of smell. These were the strengths of the Cockroach.

His nose twitched slightly, and Ye Tian walked into the room.

Then, under Zhang Liang's puzzled gaze, he walked up to Zhang Liang's wardrobe.

"Brother Tian, what are you doing?"

Seeing Ye Tian standing inexplicably still in front of the wardrobe,

Zhang Liang asked curiously.

Ye Tian didn't answer. He took a light breath before speaking: "Cucumber-flavored chips, Weilong Spicy Strips, buttered bread... the bread is expired!"

"Huh?"

Zhang Liang blinked, slightly astonished.

"Brother Tian, how did you know I had those things in my closet?"

"Never mind how I knew, take out your bread and look."

The latter nodded.

He opened the wardrobe and pulled a bag out from the pile of clothes.

He couldn't help it. The animals in their dorm had too good a relationship; none of them were polite people. If someone didn't hide their food a little, it would be dug out and eaten in minutes. This had become a daily source of fun for everyone—wits battling around food.

So even though it was vacation now and only he and Ye Tian were in the dorm, he habitually liked to hide food like a little hamster.

He opened the bag and placed it on the table.

Zhang Liang smiled slightly. "Brother Tian, you guessed accurately, but I only bought this bread two days ago, and it's sealed. How could it be expired?"

With that, Zhang Liang opened the bread packaging directly.

His smile hadn't faded, but it had frozen solid.

He then sniffed and quickly brought the bread closer to his face.

"How could this be... They had just baked it when I bought it. Why is it moldy already?"

Looking at the spots on the bread, Zhang Liang was completely baffled.

Ye Tian rolled his eyes at him exasperatedly.

"Look at the weather. If freshly baked bread is packaged without letting the moisture dissipate, forget two days, it can go bad in one day, believe it or not. If you don't believe me, try cooking a pot of rice. If you don't open the lid and let it steam for half a day, it will spoil."

"There's a saying like that? I thought the fresher, the better. Wait, Brother Tian, you must have a dog nose. Even if it was slightly spoiled, how did you smell it when I hid it so deep?"

"I guessed. Also, there's something else stinking in your wardrobe. Can't you smell it yourself?"

As Ye Tian spoke, he frowned again.

Zhang Liang looked at the wardrobe, leaned in, and took a few deep breaths, indicating that nothing was wrong.

Ye Tian didn't let him off, telling him to keep searching carefully.

Helpless, Zhang Liang took the clothes out of the wardrobe one by one.

Then, deep inside the wardrobe, he pulled out several dusty pairs of socks.

Taking a slight sniff, Zhang Liang couldn't help but frown himself, then gave an awkward smile and hid the socks behind his back.

"Ahem, Brother Tian, didn't Fourth Brother bring his girlfriend to visit the dorm before? I was afraid of affecting the room's appearance, so I stuffed these socks deep inside and completely forgot about them for a while..."

"Alright, hurry up and go wash them. Wash the nearby clothes too; the smell is too pungent!"

"Damn it, they've been sitting there for over a month. Now you notice the smell is too pungent? Why didn't you say so earlier."

Zhang Liang grabbed the nearby clothes with a depressed look, sniffed them, and said speechlessly.

Ye Tian ignored him and turned to look at the wardrobe next to Zhang Liang's.

That was the wardrobe of the Fourth Brother of the dorm, Jiang Shuai. This guy was the dorm's visual representative, constantly preening, and had gone through many girlfriends during college. Therefore, he was the most meticulous person in the entire dorm, even having mild germophobia.

But at this moment, an unusual odor was emanating from the cabinet where he usually kept his men's cologne.

After a moment of hesitation,

Ye Tian reached out and pulled open the cabinet door.

Then he frowned.

What met his eyes were things like cologne and facial cleanser, but next to them was a clump of something that had long since molded.

"Damn, didn't Jiang Shuai empty his wardrobe before he left?"

Zhang Liang curiously leaned over, and upon seeing the molded object, he showed a look of utter disgust.

Ye Tian laughed softly, quickly grabbed the trash can and some tissue paper, and swept the item out. Only then did he clearly see that it was a rotten apple.

Just as Ye Tian was about to thoroughly clean Jiang Shuai's cabinet, Zhang Liang had already opened his phone and chuckled, "Brother Tian, hold on. Let me get some evidence. Fourth Brother always complains that we aren't clean. When he gets back, I'll let him see who the messiest one really is."

Saying this, Zhang Liang took several pictures of the rotten apple and the trash can.

Once he was done, the two exchanged a mischievous glance before finally dealing with the wardrobe.

Ye Tian then sniffed again, satisfied, and turned away from the wardrobe.

Next, his fingers brushed over the desks, chairs, and beds in the dorm room.

Every so often, he would pick up a cloth and wipe here and there. Zhang Liang couldn't help but stare at his focused demeanor repeatedly.

"Something's not right. Brother Tian, are you secretly seeing a girlfriend?"

"Seeing your Girls!"

Ye Tian rolled his eyes at him.

"My Girls is great! I've wanted to introduce her to you for a long time, but didn't you say she was too fat? Hurry up and confess honestly, are you secretly flirting with Girls outside? I knew it, with Dao Feng, that Girl-flirting divine artifact, how could you possibly hold back?"

"I can't be bothered talking to you!"

Ye Tian glared at him, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, and continued cleaning.

His sense of smell was confirmed to be far beyond ordinary people, and now his sense of touch was also strong, allowing him to detect stains in the dorm that were usually imperceptible.

Was he destined to walk further and further down the path of housekeeping?

He smiled inwardly.

Ye Tian quickly tidied up the dorm. He didn't bother with a deep clean.

After all, a man's dorm should always have a bit of a masculine smell.

Returning to the balcony once more,

Ye Tian found that Dao Feng had crawled back into the fish tank at some unknown point.

Trailing behind it was a Cockroach with a golden line on its back.

Seeing this scene,

Ye Tian couldn't help but be stunned.

Had the remaining ten finished their free-for-all while he was busy?

Is the one remaining now the Ten Strong Cockroach?

It couldn't be devoured?

With a brief thought, Ye Tian guessed the reason.

Just like before, when Dao Feng was at the Strong Level, it couldn't devour ordinary Cockroaches.

Now that it was at the Gold Level, it naturally shouldn't be able to devour the Strong Level.

So now he simultaneously possessed two Gu insects: one Gold and one Strong.

Thinking this, Ye Tian looked toward the Ten Strong Cockroach, and his mind moved slightly.

The latter immediately crawled towards him.

Just like Dao Feng in the beginning, it shook its antennae, trying desperately to please him.