My Ability Pool is Superior - Chapter 392: The Green World

Walking another distance toward the exit, traces of human existence along the way gradually increased.

Admittedly, if enough time passes, it can erase everything.

But in this chilling cold and damp environment, a mere four hundred years is still not enough to fully degrade plastic products.

Lu Bai stepped over a turbid and foul-smelling stagnant water puddle; various sundries piled up on the roadside were already unrecognizable in their original form, some plastic bags that originally contained things were full of holes, their texture turned into strip-like shapes like rags.

He slowed his breathing, planning to quickly pass through this area permeated with the stench of decay.

The air along the way was filled with misty thin fog, like light gauze, not too thick, yet able to somewhat influence visibility.

Fortunately, the writing on the signpost had not completely faded, so there was no need to worry about getting lost inside.

As an underground protective building constructed to protect personnel and supplies during wartime, it was theoretically built to the highest specifications, with no doubt about its sturdiness.

However, Lu Bai discovered that cracks had densely extended from the base of the walls coated with cement, making one inevitably suspect whether a collapse would occur after some more time.

“Earthquake? Or something else?”

Although somewhat doubtful, Lu Bai instead quickened his pace.

He now really wanted to know what the ground had become.

Lu Bai ran wildly in one breath to the exit of this civil defense project, blocked by a thick iron door covered in rust spots.

The iron door had good sealing, isolating inside and outside, not even letting a bit of wind through.

Due to years of neglect, the gear lever controlling the iron door’s rise and fall was damaged inside; Lu Bai twisted it a couple times, nearly breaking off the gear lever, but the iron door showed no reaction at all.

Lu Bai stepped back half a step and let out a long breath.

No need for him to measure it specifically, this iron door’s weight was absolutely over a hundred tons.

Normally, humans would have no possibility of lifting this thing.

Of course, he could rely on the two abilities [Iron Fist Breaks Wind] and [Needle Girl Soul] to directly blast the iron door into powder.

But considering the external situation was temporarily unknown and might affect the underground shelter, destroying this iron door was obviously not quite appropriate.

He then selected from his “discard pile.”

[Bullet Ant Bloodline (Gold): Obtain the bloodline amplification of the path of strength; once the bloodline amplification is activated, one can lift objects over four hundred times their own weight. The longer the user employs this ability, the more their body will gradually undergo irreversible ant-ization.]

Four hundred times sounds exaggerated, but this ability is actually not as powerful as imagined.

A simple calculation shows that an ordinary adult male with this ability could only lift a few dozen tons at most, not even as much as a heavy truck, not to mention it comes with negative effects; rating it gold level is not unfair.

In fact, even if Lu Bai used [Bullet Ant Bloodline] now, the extra power gained would not be enough to support him lifting this thick iron door.

Fortunately, he had preemptively taken the ability possessed by that Vice President Zheng; in the temporary slot bar of the [Read] ability, a certain ability was prominently displayed—

[Multiple Shadow Clone Technique (Colorful): Distribute stamina evenly to create clones; clones can attack, the upper limit of clone quantity depends on the user’s own power, clones dissipate immediately upon receiving any degree of damage, and upon dissipation or manual cancellation, all memories and proficiency gained during the clone period are fed back to the main body.]

A series of white mist rose, and over a dozen Lu Bais appeared in front of the iron door.

Lu Bai’s main body stood in the center of the iron door, raising his hand and saying, “All eyes on me, everyone follow my command.”

The dozen-plus Lu Bais each reached out to grope on the iron door, finding suitable points to exert force.

Once everything was ready, Lu Bai slashed his right hand downward: “Lift!”

The Lu Bais followed the slogan and exerted force simultaneously.

Rumble~

For a moment, a huge rumbling sound echoed in the civil defense project passage.

The thick iron door was slowly lifted, reconnecting the civil defense project sealed for four hundred years with the outside world.

Lu Bai squatted down, and what entered his eyes was a wild, vibrant, green world.

Unknown wild grass half a person’s height had grown from the cracks in the broken road surface, nearly completely submerging the road.

In the distance, the gray-black steel jungle was covered by massive vegetation, tall buildings like giants draped in green clothes, standing quietly in the ages since humanity’s disappearance.

Theoretically, if humanity disappeared in an instant, any bustling city would be covered by a green ocean in just a few decades.

Lu Bai walked out of the civil defense project; as successive banging sounds rose behind him, the dozen-plus shadow clones turned into white mist and dissipated.

He did want to sigh about the vigorous life force of plants that was suffocatingly abundant.

But the problem was.

According to the records in the underground shelter, wasn’t it because of the Ice Age that humanity fully moved from the surface underground?

He could understand that perhaps the temperature had returned to normal during these four hundred years.

However, even if Lu Bai’s geography knowledge wasn’t great, he could clearly see that there were no traces of water erosion anywhere nearby.

“Did the so-called Ice Age really exist?”

Lu Bai walked along the road; both sides were littered with rusted and blackened abandoned vehicles, the remaining car paint on the car shells like dried paste, crumbling and falling off with a light touch.

The wild grass growing wildly underfoot somewhat affected walking efficiency, but with the situation unclear, he didn’t plan to make any too conspicuous moves.

The fresh scents emitted by various vegetation did make the journey less tedious.

After about an hour, Lu Bai walked on foot to the urban area.

The various vehicles in the city’s road planning were definitely unusable without a doubt.

He was just about to consider which direction to go when he suddenly realized that the wild grass on the urban area roads seemed not as lush as outside.

This result was not due to vegetation growth patterns; the state of the vegetation on the road was more like someone was regularly clearing it.

Lu Bai fell silent for a moment, then decided to head to the city center first.

If wanting to survive in this city with excessive greening, the primary issue was food sources.

At least from leaving the civil defense project until now, he hadn’t seen any animals that could serve as food along the way.

Even if people really survived, with such food scarcity, their numbers wouldn’t be too many.

Lu Bai passed between two office buildings crawling with green plants, arriving at a plaza-like ruin.

At that moment,

A sharp whooshing sound suddenly assaulted from behind him.

Mastering the [Flash Time] ability, sneak attacks would forever be impossible against Lu Bai.

He even had time to turn around and see what exactly was trying to attack him.

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