With three superpowers at his fingertips, he could dominate the 1970s.

Chapter 279 The Space to Steal Energy

One person, one system, and they were quickly teleported back to Shanghai.

Night had fallen, and there were few pedestrians on the street. The streetlights cast long shadows of the two people.

"Seventeen," Jiang Zhiyu asked in her mind.

"Host, are you going back to the military compound or to your parents' place?"

Jiang Zhiyu shook her head.

"Let's find a guesthouse to stay in."

"I refuse to believe you're not anxious looking at those three items right now?"

Seventeen chuckled twice.

"Host, you guessed it."

Jiang Zhiyu didn't speak, paused slightly, turned into a small alley, found a guesthouse that looked fairly clean, and booked a room.

After closing the door and locking it, each person and system entered the space.

What they didn't know was that the Henry family was already frantically searching for them.

In the study of the suburban manor, the white-haired old patriarch had a livid face. He held a wine glass in his hand, and the red wine in the glass sloshed out and soaked into the carpet.

"After following you for so long, where did you find them?"

The managers below kept their heads down, not daring to utter a sound.

They followed the Chinese woman all the way, but she disappeared as soon as she turned a corner. Despite following so many people, no one could find her.

"I'm so angry!"

The old patriarch slammed his wine glass on the table, shattering it on the floor.

"This Chinese woman bought five or six bronze artifacts, as well as so many other Chinese antiques, and then she just disappeared."

"How do you do things?"

One of the managers reluctantly stepped forward.

"Master, White and his men haven't returned yet."

The old patriarch frowned.

"He went after some mixed-race girl, how come he hasn't come back yet?"

The other manager kept his head down and spoke in a very low voice.

"Master, could it be that...?"

The old patriarch pinched the bridge of his nose and spoke after a long while.

"Based on my understanding of White, it's very likely."

"He can't possibly leave our family."

"Go! I want to see him alive or dead!"

He paused for a moment, then suddenly looked up.

"Also, stop investigating White and find out where this Chinese woman went today."

"Yes."

The managers responded in unison and filed out.

Only the old patriarch remained in the study, standing by the window, gazing at the outline of the manor in the night, his face so gloomy it could drip water.

……

The space remained the same familiar landscape, with green mountains and clear waters, brimming with vitality.

Jiang Zhiyu took the three bronze artifacts out of her spatial storage and placed them on the open ground in front of her.

Bronze tripod, bronze square pot, bronze snake-patterned mask.

The three artifacts stood side by side, their bronze hue gleaming faintly in the dim light of the space.

Seventeen flew back and forth, so excited that its wings almost left afterimages.

"Host, I'm about to begin absorbing!"

"Okay, go ahead."

Jiang Zhiyu took two steps back and watched the commotion with her arms crossed.

"I'm looking forward to seeing what you'll become after this upgrade."

Seventeen landed between the three bronze artifacts. The blue crystals were so bright they were almost blinding, and the metal wings were slightly open, like a bird preparing to take off.

The three bronze artifacts simultaneously emitted a deep hum.

Immediately afterwards, fine cracks began to appear on the surface of the bronze, spreading like a spider web. Then, the cracks became denser and deeper, and the bronze began to turn into powder at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The powder was dark gold, as fine as dust, floating in mid-air, drawn together little by little by the invisible suction force emanating from Seventeen.

And the light emanating from Seventeen grew brighter and brighter.

First came the light of the blue crystals, then the light of the metallic wings, and then the light of the entire body. The light grew brighter and brighter, so dazzling that Jiang Zhiyu couldn't see what was happening inside. She could only squint and raise her hand to shield her face.

Just then, a sudden mutation occurred.

The blinding light suddenly contracted and shot straight toward Jiang Zhiyu.

Jiang Zhiyu instinctively tried to dodge, but the speed of the light was ridiculously fast, making it impossible to avoid.

All the light fell on Jiang Zhiyu.

"hiss--"

excruciating pain.

It's a sharp pain.

My body felt as if it were being torn apart; every inch of skin, every bone, and every meridian was being ripped, crushed, and reassembled by that force.

Jiang Zhiyu gritted her teeth, quickly sat down cross-legged, and activated her spatial abilities at full speed, trying to resist this force.

But that power was too immense. Her spatial abilities were like a small stream encountering a flood, unable to withstand it at all.

Strangely, her spatial abilities were not destroyed by this force; instead, they rapidly increased.

level four.

Level 5.

Level 6.

His spatial ability jumped from level four to level six in one go.

Jiang Zhiyu felt like she was about to burst.

Blood was everywhere – in his nostrils, ears, and mouth. All the capillaries in his body had burst, and beads of blood were seeping out from his skin, making him look like a blood-soaked figure.

She activated her spatial abilities at full speed, compressing that power again and again.

Blood beads kept oozing from his body.

Just when she felt she couldn't hold on any longer, a gentle energy surged out from the depths of space, slowly flowing into her body and beginning to channel the violent power.

That energy was gentle, like warm water, gradually melting away the violent impact, turning it from a flood into a stream, and from a stream into a trickle.

Gradually, Jiang Zhiyu's breathing calmed down.

She took advantage of this gap to quickly solidify that force, compressing, condensing, and solidifying it again and again.

After about two hours of this, Jiang Zhiyu finally managed to fully control the power within her body.

She slowly opened her eyes.

Then he froze.

A robot the size of an adult was standing in front of me.

To be precise, it is a robot that looks like a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy.

The entire piece has a metallic texture, but it's not the cold silver-gray; instead, it's a dark gold with a warm luster, like the patina on the surface of an antique bronze.

It has a slender, well-proportioned body with clean shoulder lines and an extremely narrow waist. Its limbs are long and thin, and intricate metallic patterns are faintly visible at the joints, like ancient seal script, engraved in concentric circles at the joint transitions.

The face already has the basic shape of simulated skin, with delicate features and exquisite eyebrows, but the skin is still semi-transparent, and the outline of the metal skeleton can be vaguely seen underneath.

The most striking feature is the pair of wings on his back.

Larger and more refined than the previous mechanical wings, each feather seemed to be forged from the thinnest sheet of metal, its edges gleaming with a faint blue light. The wings were slightly open, and occasionally a glimmer of blue light would flash between the feathers, like breathing.

His eyes were blue, a very deep blue, like the color of the deep sea. When his emotions fluctuated, a brighter blue light would flash in his eyes, twinkling like stars.

At this moment, the emotion in those blue eyes was a mixture of grievance and anger.

"Host?"

His voice had changed too. It was no longer the mechanical electronic voice of before, but a slightly hoarse, boyish voice, like a boy whose voice hadn't completely changed yet.

"Um?"

Jiang Zhiyu was puzzled.

Seventeen grew even angrier, and with a shake of its wings, its feathers rustled loudly.

"I only absorbed one-third of this energy; the remaining two-thirds were absorbed by you."

Jiang Zhiyu helplessly shrugged.

"I don't know either, it just flew towards me by itself."

Seventeen stomped his foot.

The metal feet made a crisp sound as they stepped on the ground.

"It's space."

"It was space that stripped me of my energy; it secretly injected it into you after I had fused it together."

"Hmph! Thief."

It looked at Jiang Zhiyu, a brighter blue light flashing in its blue eyes.