Chapter Thirteen: Breakthrough

  Because of the appearance of female ghost Jing Zhe, Cao Sen and others have been busy with this, although there are still some doubts that have not been clarified, but this matter can also be considered to have ended peacefully. As long as Jing Zhe doesn't come to trouble them, the four brothers don't want to stir up trouble either. Later, there were the Five Peak Mountain rescue and Zhu Jianjun's affairs, time passed quickly without noticing, and it was already approaching the day of graduation and leaving school, so Cao Sen and others began organizing a graduation party.

  The four-year study life at university, students are reluctant to leave Dongda, and even more unwilling to part with their fellow students who have been together for four years. So this dinner is very important to them, equivalent to the period at the end of university life.

  The day of the graduation party, the whole class got drunk together, those who could drink and couldn't drink all poured wine down their throats to numb the impending melancholy. Drunken Wu Fang hugged Cao Sen tightly and wouldn't let go, so Cao Sen had no choice but to drag her around among their classmates. Soon Cao Sen also passed out, and the whole class spent the last night of their university life in the hotel. When the sun rose the next day, these university students were no longer university students, but a part of society, and their tasks were no longer just learning, but more responsibilities and obligations that they needed to undertake.

  The second day after the party, it was the day when Cao Sen and his classmates went their separate ways. Even someone as tough as Cao Sen shed tears, let alone the girls, who cried uncontrollably, holding hands and reluctant to let go, but in the end they still had to part ways.

  Because Cao Sen is going to graduate school, which means continuing his university life, he has to wait until September for the new semester. He has nearly three months of free time, which also alleviates the emotional low caused by parting with his classmates. His three good brothers didn't have this good fortune. Guo Jing was arranged by his parents to join the municipal police force as a policeman, Ding Haitao became an intern reporter at a newspaper, and Teng Fei returned to his family's enterprise to help his parents manage the business. Although they all had decent jobs, none of them were professionally relevant, which left them very confused - what was the point of going to university? Was it just for that red diploma?

  All the brothers went to work, Cao Sen was bored at home. At home, he was listless and anxious, outside the scorching sun made him anxious, wanting to read professional books to prepare for the re-examination after school started, but couldn't focus, Cao Sen really didn't know what to do.

  During this period, Cao Sen wanted to further hone his special abilities. Apart from being able to see those silk threads and control a part of them, Cao Sen made no new discoveries, nor did his abilities improve. At first, he was enthusiastic about trying to enhance his control over the silk threads, but after countless experiments, he found that this was his limit - he could only randomly control some weak powers, which were equivalent to the strength of holding a basin of water, and he couldn't control them precisely. Gradually, he lost interest in this ability and eventually stopped paying attention to it altogether.

  So this long summer vacation was the most unbearable holiday for Cao Sen. Except for finding some of his old feelings in weekend gatherings with good friends and special warfare games, Cao Sen really hoped he could sleep forever at other times. In such a muddle, Cao Sen mixed from July to August.

  That afternoon, Cao Sen sat on the bed, thinking about what date today was and which day of the week it was. After a long time, he still couldn't figure out this seemingly simple question. Finally, he thought of opening his computer to check the date.

  Along with the familiar startup music, Cao Sen finally figured out that today was August 18th, '05. He got a fright - wasn't school about to start soon? He remembered that Teacher Hu had told him on the phone not long ago that he could muddle through the re-exam after school started, but his tutor had a requirement for students: they must be able to operate XG software proficiently. If they didn't have this ability, the tutor would refuse to accept them as students.

  XG software is a very powerful mechanical engineering software, not only with perfect 2D and 3D drawing functions, but also with real virtual assembly, parametric modeling, precise mechanics analysis and other functions. Cao Sen had learned the use of this software in his sophomore year, but did not master it proficiently, now that school is about to start, he can only make up for it.

  Cao Sen rummaged through boxes and cabinets to find those XG introductory guides, XG operational skills and other tutorial books. He clicked on the XG icon on his computer to enter the main page. With reference to the annotations in the book, he slowly recalled how to use XG.

  The following week, Cao Sen devoted himself to the computer, bitterly practicing XG skills, and slowly found the key. The mouse movement on the screen gradually accelerated. When he thought he had mastered it, he used XG to design a semi-automatic pistol and used XG's analysis function to check the stress situation of the parts.

  After analysis, the result is that the pistol's firing pin turned light yellow, which is XG warning the designer that the strength of the firing pin is not enough and needs to be strengthened.

  Cao Sen converted the collision needle into a 3D grid, analyzing where the force was greatest. He selected several nodes and let XG calculate, and soon arrows representing different directions and sizes appeared on those nodes. Seeing this, Cao Sen's heart suddenly shook - this scene looked so familiar, where had he seen it before? Ah yes, it was when he used his special ability to look at the silk threads, a similar scene had appeared, especially the threads that represented the flow of force, which were very close to what XG was displaying now. He had an epiphany and seemed to have found a way to enhance his abilities.

  He focused his gaze on his phone and soon saw the earth's gravitational pull, Cao Sen tried to imagine the phone as a point with no volume, highlighting the direction and magnitude of the attraction, just like XG's analysis, after trying several times, Cao Sen finally noticed that those flowing lines representing the gravitational force were actually composed of line segments of equal size, constantly flowing, so they looked like a continuous whole line.

  Cao Sen tried to control one of the line segments, making it twist, and he easily did so. The phone vibrated slightly and then stabilized again.

  He then tried to make a line segment deviate horizontally and easily did so, causing the phone to move horizontally slightly.

  "I know!" Cao Sen shouted loudly.

  He knew why he couldn't accurately control the forces he saw before. Because he treated those unconnected line segments as a single line to control, it was equivalent to him trying to control many line segments at the same time, which was obviously impossible for him with his current ability. As long as he could distinguish one line segment from the flowing lines and manipulate it, Cao Sen had the complete ability to accurately control it.

  Having figured this out, Cao Sen constantly took his mobile phone for experimentation, changing all the lines representing attraction into horizontal directions, and as a result, the mobile phone kept moving until it slid off the table and fell to the floor.

  Haha, Cao Sen burst out laughing, I succeeded! Isn't this the legendary special ability? Isn't it what people often call "retrieving objects from afar"? Hehe, I knew I wasn't an ordinary person, I've never been an ordinary person since birth!

  "Cell phone, come to me," Cao Sen muttered to himself like a spell, controlling the attractive force on the cell phone to point towards him. Sure enough, the cell phone slowly moved towards him, its speed gradually increasing until it was almost at his feet when Cao Sen made it turn a corner and circle around him once before reversing direction by 180 degrees along the forward path, bringing the cell phone to an abrupt stop like a miniature car slamming on the brakes.

  Hey, this feels great, Cao Sen seems to have found a new toy.

  What else can be controlled remotely? Cao Sen's gaze wandered around the house, and he saw his own T-shirt. Hard objects could be controlled, what about soft ones? Cao Sen tried to concentrate his gravity on the collar of the T-shirt, and the T-shirt was slowly pulled forward as if by an invisible hand, succeeding again!

  Wait, this ability seems to have many additional uses. Cao Sen suddenly thought of something and walked to the window to look outside. On the road, there were several girls wearing beautiful flower skirts, walking by with a flourish.

  Huh, Cao Sen sneered and focused his gaze on a girl's skirt. He wanted to manipulate gravity to lift the corner of her skirt. As soon as he activated his intention, Cao Sen's head spun and he hastily stopped his intention. Damn it, the distance was too far.

  Cao Sen turned around and took out a telescope, through the lens he stared at a girl's beautiful flower skirt again, activated his mind, and one corner of that skirt floated up instantly, haha, Cao Sen smiled complacently, maybe heaven gave me this ability just for this purpose.

  He chose a few girls who looked pretty, using his ability to quietly lift the corner of their skirts, although Cao Sen was upstairs and couldn't see anything, it still satisfied his mischievous mentality.

  In Cao Sen's character, after all, he didn't place much importance on the opposite sex, and soon lost interest in this game. In his view, there were plenty of women at nightclubs, and you could look however you wanted, so why bother with such effort? So he shifted his attention back to things related to special warfare, how to utilize this ability to enhance his combat skills?

  The simplest way is to move the enemy's weapons or ammunition away, even if it's just a small distance, which can play a decisive role in critical moments. However, this method is suitable for sneak attacks. If you are in an intense battle, there may not be such an opportunity. How to use it then?

  As a hardcore special forces fan, Cao Sen thought that if he couldn't use his ability to control powers in special operations, it would be better if he never had this superpower. He thought of many methods, which could indeed make the superpower effective in special operations, but required multiple conditions to work together. Cao Sen deeply understood that the battlefield was ever-changing, and a weapon with many restrictions was not as reliable as a knife. If he wanted to develop this ability into a reliable killing tool on the battlefield, it had to become stronger, able to effectively play its role at any time and in any situation.

  To achieve this, one must enhance their abilities, such as being able to precisely control objects moving at high speeds in a specific direction, making the object equivalent to a bullet, and oneself possessing an invisible yet powerful gun. Alternatively, one becomes the gun itself, with the bullets being any object that can be moved by thought. As long as one can achieve this, combined with their already mastered combat skills, Cao Sen believes himself to be the strongest warrior in the world.

  To achieve this goal, Cao Sen studied his abilities day and night, like a monk cultivating his mind. The originally dull and uninteresting long vacation quickly turned into the start of school. After school started, Cao Sen didn't put his heart into his studies at all. Compared to researching superpowers, spending time studying was unbearable for him. Fortunately, the coursework for graduate students wasn't very heavy, and Cao Sen frequently treated his advisor and department head to dinner in exchange for more free time.

  The heavens do not disappoint those who work hard, and this saying is accurate in all things. Cao Sen's ability to control his powers has made tremendous progress, especially in terms of controlling gravity, which has reached an astonishing level. This result is due to Cao Sen's deliberate efforts, as any object on Earth, even if it is stationary, is still subject to the continuous gravitational force of the Earth. Therefore, Cao Sen has a very stable source of power. Now he can accumulate and suddenly release the continuous attractive force that objects receive, allowing them to gain an extremely high initial velocity and achieve an astonishing effect. Unfortunately, there are limitations to the mass of the object, and after countless experiments, Cao Sen obtained an accurate number: for objects exceeding 50 grams, he is unable to give them a high acceleration. Another drawback is that it takes time for Cao Sen to do these things, requiring at least 20 seconds to complete one operation.

  Even so, as long as there is enough time, Cao Sen is still a human-shaped super sniper rifle. For example, he can make 6mm steel balls move at twice the speed of a handgun and control the direction of the steel balls within 200 meters to correct their trajectory, hitting the target with 100% accuracy; if you replace the steel ball with a sharp sewing needle, the power is even more astonishing. Cao Sen has experimented many times, he can make the sewing needle penetrate a dictionary of over 500 pages at high speed, if the selected target is a person's heart or solar plexus, Cao Sen cannot find any reason for this person to survive.

  Unconsciously, Cao Sen gradually turned himself into a killing machine.

  Actually, Cao Sen's ability is also very useful in mechanical design and engineering mechanics. He can clearly see the forces that ordinary people cannot see, and the distribution and size of various forces are all under his eyes. For a mechanical engineer, this is simply a gift from God. With such an ability, any mechanical device or component he designs is the most economical and safe and effective. At the same time, applying such abilities to scientific research and exploration can achieve unimaginable results. As long as Cao Sen is willing, he can absolutely win the Nobel Prize.

  The problem is that Cao Sen's aspirations and hobbies are all about special warfare, and science and technology are not as attractive to him as a tactical knife. Nevertheless, Cao Sen's abilities still greatly helped him in his studies, and his mentor often lamented that Cao Sen was absolutely a genius in mechanics, with many complex mechanical analyses being as simple as counting numbers to him.

  On the other hand, Cao Sen's identity as a mechanical engineering graduate student also helped improve his abilities. He could access many precise and complex experimental equipment and analytical instruments, which were of great help to him in controlling his powers, allowing him to quantify them using rigorous and scientific methods. Cao Sen often spent all day and night in the lab, and his abilities advanced rapidly as a result.

  When his psychic abilities reached a certain level, Cao Sen's understanding of the psychic powers also deepened. At first, when he had just acquired this ability, he saw two kinds of threads: one was flowing and transparent in color, representing the interaction forces between various objects; the other was stationary and shining, which Cao Sen now knew represented energy. As his psychic abilities improved, Cao Sen could already distinguish between different types of energy threads, such as the light energy contained in sunlight, which had white threads; the thermal energy in flames, which had red threads; the electrical energy in electric currents, which had silver-white threads; and the chemical energy in the human body, which, perhaps due to the complex chemical composition of the human body, had multicolored threads.

  Although Cao Sen can see these energy threads, he cannot control them. However, this also makes Cao Sen excited. When night falls, as long as there is a thread of bright light, he can see people's faces clearly without wearing night vision goggles. The chemical energy threads under the skin clearly outline the person's facial features, greatly enhancing his naked eye night vision ability. Unfortunately, Cao Sen does not have complete night vision ability and cannot see anything in complete darkness. Moreover, his eyes do not have X-ray vision capabilities. If a person wraps themselves completely in clothing, such as fully armed special police officers usually do, he cannot see the energy threads under the clothes and therefore cannot detect enemies hiding in the dark.

  Likewise, Cao Sen was unable to control any forces around him in the dark of night because he couldn't see the lines of force, and naturally it was impossible for him to control them. So Cao Sen worked hard to find a solution to these problems, his goal being to hone his special abilities into the most reliable and versatile all-weather weapon in the world.

  Tsao Sun never doubted whether he could do this because his hetero-energy came from the spirit and the human spirit was incredibly powerful.