171: Chapter 171 Jiangcheng is beautiful because of me! (Two chapters combined)

Su Ming's hands had just made contact when the air reacted before his skin did.

A fine blue arc of electricity was drawn between his fingertips and the insulating layer.

As his palms pressed firmly against it, the arc suddenly exploded, and with his palms as the center, dozens of branched purple currents spread outwards, creeping up his arms, over his shoulders and neck, until they completely covered his chest.

Su Ming looked as if he had donned a flowing cloak of lightning.

His hair stood on end, and tiny arcs of light danced between the tips of his hair.

The ground at his feet made a sizzling sound, and dust was carried upward by the ionized air.

Only one word remained in Su Ming's mind!

"Amazing!!"

This time, the numbers on the System panel began to skyrocket at an insane speed!

[Kinetic Siphon, activated!]

[Ding! High-voltage electromagnetic kinetic energy detected!]

[Energy purification and conversion initiated...]

[mass points + 2000!]

[mass points + 2000!]

[mass points + 2000!]

The notification sound no longer resembled a symphony; it sounded more like a cash register running wildly.

Su Ming closed his eyes and tilted his head back, like a turtle enjoying a hot spring in a rainstorm.

The 110kV from last time was just an appetizer; this 500kV was the main course!

Every current drilling into his body brought a tingling sensation that made his Soul tremble, as well as a sense of clarity as if his cells were being kneaded from the inside out.

It was a bit like soaking in a steaming medicinal bath, but mixed with millions of volts of electricity!

Su Ming stood on the busbar bridge more than ten meters high; the heavy rain soaked him through, but it could not extinguish the blue lightning overflowing from his body.

The electric arcs of the entire hub station began to stir, converging towards him.

One second, two thousand points.

Three seconds, six thousand points.

Ten seconds, twenty thousand points.

...!

The violent electrical energy finally made him feel a long-lost joy.

This was no longer a massage; this was an electric baptism of rebirth!

It felt so good!

...

Jiangcheng Power Bureau, Dispatch Center.

The duty director and Director Wang Gang were still worrying about the strange eight-minute data from the eastern suburb substation, their seats barely warm.

"Beep—!!"

A level-one alarm, ten times sharper than before, resounded throughout the hall!

On the electronic screen on the wall, the power curve representing the main hub station of Jiangcheng, like a fuse dragged upward by the hand of God, broke through the red threshold at the top of the screen at an almost vertical angle!

"It... it's happening again?!" the young operator's voice trembled.

Director Wang Gang sprang up from his chair with a 'thud', his eyes wide as copper bells.

"Check the surveillance! Quick! Switch all surveillance feeds from the hub station to me!" he roared.

Several screens quickly displayed on the large monitor.

However, the camera under Su Ming's Gravity Domain only showed a blurry, distorted blob of light, like a reflection underwater; one couldn't even see a clear human outline.

"What... what the hell is this thing!" Wang Gang was horrified, his lips trembling.

If the 110kV at the substation earlier could be explained by a high-level Source Beast or some suicidal lightning-type Awakened, this was a 500kV extra-high-voltage main line! That was nearly five times the voltage of the former, and its power was increased exponentially!

Even if a seventh-tier lightning-type King-level Source Beast came here, it would lose a layer of skin if it dared to touch it directly like this!

This blurry shadow was simply not something a human in this world could do!

"Director Wang, is there a possibility..."

A dispatcher stared at the distorted light, lips trembling, "Is, is it a hallucination caused by our equipment exploding?"

"Exploding? The power curve is still climbing, and you call this exploding?!"

Wang Gang roared back, veins popping on his forehead, "Request city defense coordination immediately! Arm yourselves!"

Inside the main hub station.

Within three short seconds of Su Ming touching the high-voltage busbar, the red alarm lights in the control room began to spin crazily, and the buzzer screamed as if it were about to explode.

"Level One Alert! Power abnormality at Area A busbar bridge!"

The two fifth-tier Awakened security guards on duty turned pale, not even having time to put on their protective gear properly, grabbed their walkie-talkies and special weapons, and rushed to the scene like madmen!

...

Meanwhile, due to Su Ming's frantic energy absorption as a human "super electric pump," the voltage of the entire Jiangcheng power grid began to fluctuate violently.

In streets and alleys, shopping districts and buildings, countless neon lights, billboards, and street lamps began to flicker, the frequency of flickering getting faster and faster, like an old disco in a low-voltage state.

The entire bustling city was plunged into a highly magical and realistic "cyberpunk rave" at this moment!

...

Tian Shang Ren Jian, top-floor imperial suite.

Ye Xiao was lying comfortably on the soft memory foam waterbed, holding beauties on both sides, enjoying his first-ever "close-quarters combat without armor."

Suddenly, the huge crystal chandelier in the private room and the ambiguous lights on the walls began to "flicker" strangely, brightening and dimming.

Combined with the raging storm outside and the dull thunder, the entire room was rendered with a mysterious, stimulating, and highly hormonal "mysterious atmosphere."

When Wan'er and Ling'er, the two stunning technicians, saw this scene, they were not afraid at all; instead, with high professional standards, they let out two perfectly timed gasps and snuggled even more shyly and forcefully into Ye Xiao's arms.

"Oh my, Young Master Ye, it's so dark! I'm so scared!"

Ye Xiao, hit by this soft fragrance and jade, felt his heroic spirit explode.

His internal [Nine Heavens Thunder Body] talent instinctively reacted to the external electromagnetic field disorder, and wisps of fine cyan arcs overflowed from his body uncontrollably, setting him off as if the God of Thunder had descended, appearing exceptionally dazzling in this flickering room.

The two girls were numbed by the electricity, but instead of dodging, they went limp on him, tilting their pretty faces up with stars in their eyes.

"Wow... Young Master Ye, your talent is just too amazing!"

Wan'er breathed like an orchid, looking at him with admiration, "How... how come even the lights in the room are flickering along with your breathing? It's so romantic..."

Ye Xiao was stunned upon hearing this.

Ah, this... can it be like this?

That's right, isn't it?

All night, since he entered the lounge, starting from this suite, the Qi-electric environment here hadn't stopped, always changing along with his Realm fluctuations.

Isn't that...

"Hahahaha!"

Ye Xiao felt invigorated, the thunder light in his eyes flashing, and he immediately hugged Wan'er's shoulder with one hand and Ling'er with the other, laughing triumphantly.

"A mere trifle! To be honest, this young master has been listening to the thunder and comprehending the Dao tonight, and I have already entered the Transcendent Realm!"

"This is the resonance of the thunder field, where all laws follow the heart!"

"Two opponents, tonight, witness a legend with this young master..."

"A lightning-type man's... path of Awakening!"

...

Inside the hub station.

Su Ming was completely wrapped in blinding blue lightning, forming a huge light cocoon over three meters in diameter.

All the stray sparks in the entire substation seemed to have found their king at this moment, flowing like ten thousand rivers returning to the sea, frantically pouring into the blue thunder cocoon suspended above the bridge.

The numbers on the System panel continued to soar.

In just over a minute, his mass points had skyrocketed by over one hundred and twenty thousand!

He glanced at the panel.

[True Mass: 300632.9 kg!]

[mass points balance: 801300]

The total balance had broken through the eight hundred thousand mark!

Damn!

Just as he was intoxicated and felt like he was about to ascend, "Warning! Warning! Inflow of energy from the city's main grid detected, core fusion reactor load exceeds 300%! Highest emergency plan about to be activated! [City-wide forced grid disconnection]!"

The station's AI, just a second before the on-duty personnel arrived, initiated the highest-level protection program to prevent the city's energy core from exploding due to energy backflow.

Boom!!!

In an instant, the entire Jiangcheng, from the most prosperous skyscrapers in the city center to the most remote houses in the suburbs, all devices connected to the power grid lost all energy in an instant.

This city of millions was plunged into an absolute darkness that hadn't been seen in decades.

Power Bureau Dispatch Center.

Wang Gang watched all the data on the large screen drop to zero in an instant, his knees weak, and he fell to the ground with a 'thud'.

The whole city... was blacked out?

He pulled his hair frantically, scrambled to the table, grabbed the red military dedicated phone, and dialed the number of the City Defense Command with trembling fingers.

"Commander Qin! Help! Jiangcheng... Jiangcheng's power grid has been invaded by an unknown entity, it has collapsed completely!!"

At the same time, Jiangcheng Military Region Headquarters.

City Defense Commander Qin Luo stood up abruptly from his seat, looking at the city area plunged into dead silence and darkness outside the headquarters, his face pale and terrifying.

He grabbed the walkie-talkie on the command console, his voice cold as a knife.

"Order! The whole army enters level-one combat readiness! All city defense troops move out immediately, seal off all major traffic arteries!"

"The scum of the Tongyuan Society..."

"Are they trying to play a suicide attack with us?!"

Sharp air-raid sirens resounded throughout the dark city.

...

Hearing the piercing sirens from the city in the distance, Su Ming on the bridge shook off the residual blue-white electric arcs on his hands and smacked his lips.

"Tsk, played too hard."

He didn't hesitate at all, immediately slipped away, jumped off the bridge more than ten meters high, stepped on the accumulated water, and disappeared into the depths of the alley in the rainy night without a sound.

A few minutes later.

Su Ming stood on the roof of an unfinished building, looking at the huge city in front of him that had completely turned into dead silence in the dark night, without a single glimmer of light, and suddenly chuckled to himself.

"On Earth in my previous life, there was an environmental protection activity called 'Earth Hour' every year, calling on the whole world to turn off lights for an hour to save energy and reduce emissions."

"Does this mean I single-handedly over-fulfilled the annual KPI today?"

He wiped the rain off his face, looking at the dark city silhouette, the corners of his mouth widening.

"Millions of people in the whole city are keeping me company in the dark to save electricity — 'Su Ming Hour'. Just for this green and low-carbon execution, the Federal Environmental Protection Agency should award me a prize."

In the distance, the air-raid siren was still roaring one after another, and the roar of military transport vehicles could be vaguely heard speeding past on the main road.

Su Ming shrank his neck.

Gotta go!

If that old fox Qin Luo followed the trail to him, the captain's rank he just received from the Southern Military Region that hadn't even warmed up yet would probably be stripped on the spot.

He turned and jumped off the unfinished building, his figure disappearing into the dark streets.

His mind was already calculating another thing —

The Human Race's power generation technology was still too weak.

After gnawing on the main line for only two minutes, the provincial capital's main grid was drained by him. If he Advanced further in the future, sucking a mouthful would probably blow up a substation.

It seems that after going to Modu University, he has to find a way to get some real "high-power charging piles" from Teacher Lin Qinyin.

Photovoltaics, wind power, and the like, the pattern was too small.

To do it, he had to get at least an "antimatter annihilation power generation" level one.

Well, just say it's to promote the Human Race's energy revolution.

As for tonight —

This is all something a noble environmentalist should do!

Jiangcheng Power Grid,

You're welcome!

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