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

"Host, he should be unconscious."

Seventeen folded its wings, crossed its arms, and spoke with a hint of dissatisfaction.

"He's acting on instinct."

"Upgrading your spatial abilities will benefit you all. For example, you almost died in the Gobi Desert when it absorbed that meteorite last time."

"Isn't it all for its own sake?"

Jiang Zhiyu was truly speechless this time.

"Alright, alright, I'll just find you some bronze artifacts next time."

Seventeen stomped his foot again, stomping hard with his perfect body.

"No wonder he didn't absorb the meteorite you gave him last time. Turns out he'd been eyeing me all along. Dead space, rotten space."

Jiang Zhiyu's lips twitched.

"Alright, since I've already absorbed the energy, don't you want to give it to me?"

"Of course not."

With a twist of its seventeen heads and a shake of its wings, it seemed to shed its wings.

"Host, I don't mind being absorbed by you at all. It's just that it didn't say goodbye, which is infuriating! Let's quickly check on your new abilities! From now on, we'll be a powerful duo."

She ignored Seventeen and began to experience her Level Six spatial abilities.

Level 6 space and Level 4 space are not even in the same order of magnitude.

The area of ​​the space has expanded several times, and the concentration of spiritual energy has more than doubled.

The most obvious change is that she gained a new ability.

Space cutting.

Jiang Zhiyu tried to cut a piece of land in the space, but found that with her current level, she could only cut an area of ​​more than 100 square meters, and she had to wait ten minutes after each cut.

Even so, it was enough to shock her. In the post-apocalyptic world, it was very difficult to advance in spatial abilities. As far as she knew, the highest level of spatial ability was only level five, and no one had ever seen them make a move; they were very well protected.

"Spatial cutting."

She murmured something.

"If you ever want to empty out a lab, just cut out that space."

Seeing this, Seventeen spread its wings and flew to Jiang Zhiyu, a hint of pride flashing in its blue eyes.

"Host, this is already very good. Now our abilities complement each other."

"With your spatial manipulation and my teleportation and positioning, going anywhere and getting anything will be a piece of cake from now on."

Jiang Zhiyu nodded without saying anything.

Seventeen flew back to him, folded its wings, and put its hands on its hips.

"Then, host, you shouldn't slack off either."

"Let's quickly find a way to upgrade our wood-type and poison-type abilities as well."

Jiang Zhiyu sighed.

"Wood-type superpowers are easy to deal with; I can just cultivate them slowly in this space."

"What about poison-based abilities?"

"Where in this world are there so many mutated poisonous insects for me to absorb?"

Looking at Seventeen's semi-transparent face, Jiang Zhiyu suddenly remembered something.

"Oh, right, seventeen."

"You only absorbed one-third of it, so all you did was transform?"

Seventeen immediately puffed out his cheeks in dissatisfaction.

Although his face still had a semi-transparent metallic texture, his expression was so lifelike that Jiang Zhiyu almost burst out laughing.

"Host, don't underestimate this body of mine now."

He took a step back, spread his arms and spun around, his wings unfolding as he did so, the blue light between his feathers flickering as if showing off.

"First, it's teleportation. After that, you'll be more stable wherever you go, and you won't feel as dizzy."

Jiang Zhiyu's brow twitched.

"It used to take three minutes to land, now it takes at most half a minute, and for short distances it might not even take half a minute."

Jiang Zhiyu did the math in her head, and the improvement was indeed significant. Before, every time the entropy anchor landed, it would take her three minutes to catch her breath by leaning against the wall; now it only took half a minute, which was a huge improvement.

"Anything else?"

Seventeen flapped its wings and its blue eyes lit up.

"I now have a new skill—marking movement anchor points."

Jiang Zhiyu raised her eyes.

"What do you mean?"

Seventeen extended a finger, and a small ball of blue light emerged from the fingertip, circling around it like a firefly.

"Previously, our anchor points were fixed. We would mark a location, and then we could only teleport to that location."

"Things are different now. I can mark people and objects, and I can sense where they go or are transported."

Jiang Zhiyu remained silent for two seconds.

"You mean, if I tag someone, you can track them down no matter where they are on Earth?"

"right."

Seventeen nodded, a hint of smugness in his blue eyes.

"As long as the marker is still there, it can be sensed."

Jiang Zhiyu took a deep breath.

This ability is even more terrifying than spatial cutting.

Spatial segmentation is an upgrade to "getting things", and moving anchor points is an upgrade to "finding people".

With both of these combined, it will make things much easier, whether you're tracking down cultural relics or people.

"good."

She nodded and said nothing more.

Seeing that she didn't respond, Seventeen flapped its wings and came closer again.

"Host, in the future, whenever we find bronze artifacts with energy, I'll fuse the energy and immediately give you half. That way, we can both level up together."

Jiang Zhiyu glanced at him.

"You didn't know before?"

"have no idea."

Seventeen honestly admitted it.

"If it weren't for this accidental incident where the space stole my energy and gave it to you, I wouldn't have known that you could absorb this energy after I fused with it."

After he finished speaking, he glared angrily at the ground beneath his feet.

"Although, I'm still very unhappy that he stole it."

Jiang Zhiyu smiled slightly.

"Then let's look for inspiring things together, work hard together, and improve together."

"Yes, host!"

Seventeen Blue's eyes lit up, its wings flapped loudly, and it looked much more energetic.

Jiang Zhiyu looked down at herself. The bloodstains on her body had dried, and her clothes were covered in dark red bloodstains, as if she had just crawled out of a slaughterhouse.

"Let's clean it up first."

She washed up in the spirit lake, changed into clean clothes, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Seventeen.

"exist."

"Now that you've grown so big, you can't keep flying to my right all the time, can you?"

In the past, Seventeen was a tiny, silver-gray figure, the size of a palm, perched on a shoulder, tucked into a pocket, and invisible to everyone.

Now he's the size of a teenager, the height of an adult, with wings, and he's eye-catching wherever he stands.

Seventeen chuckled.

"I can change back to my old self now."

As soon as he finished speaking, his body began to shrink, his metallic dark gold skin slowly faded to silver-gray, his simulated skin retracted, and his wings also shrank back to their original size.

A few seconds later, the palm-sized, silver-gray mechanical figure, flapping its tiny wings, landed on Jiang Zhiyu's shoulder again.

"However, host."

He transformed back into his youthful form, standing before Jiang Zhiyu with his wings slightly folded.

"In my current form, I can leave you and carry out missions independently."

Jiang Zhiyu was secretly delighted.

"Execute alone?"

"right."

He nodded seventeen times.

"I used to have to depend on you; if I strayed too far from you, the connection would be lost."

"Things are different now. My energy core has been upgraded, and I can act independently for a period of time."

"how long?"

"About three to four hours."

"What about the distance?"

"Within a radius of fifty kilometers, no problem."

Jiang Zhiyu did some mental calculations. There were quite a few things that could be done within a 50-kilometer radius over three to four hours.

"Will other people be able to see you?"

"You still can't see me."

Seventeen shook his head.

"However, there's one thing to note: people with special abilities can sense energy. If the other person is also a superhuman, or is particularly sensitive to energy fluctuations, they might detect my presence."

Jiang Zhiyu nodded.

"That's good, as long as ordinary people don't see it."

Seventeen shrank back to the size of a palm, landed on Jiang Zhiyu's shoulder, and folded its wings neatly.

"Host, let's go."

Where to?

"Of course, the military compound! You promised them you'd go back every three days."

Jiang Zhiyu touched her nose a little guiltily.

"All right!"

I checked out of the room.

When he reappeared, he was already standing at the gate of his own courtyard in the military compound.

A night breeze rustled the leaves of the old locust tree at the foot of the courtyard wall.