Ray now had to rely entirely on memory and instinct.Spatial perception was truly godlike.He pressed the mysterious feathers against his body. Instantly, they radiated enough heat to warm even the air he breathed. Ray clicked his tongue in amazement—these feathers were nothing short of a strategic resource. Whoever possessed this mutated bird could ignore the bitter cold entirely.He had no idea the feathers' "effective period" was only three days. Otherwise, while still a strategic asset, their usefulness would have been drastically reduced.After more than half an hour of searching, he finally located house No. 3. Without hesitation, he knocked on the window."Who's there?" After a moment, Celine's wary voice called out from inside."It's me, Ray."She froze for a moment. "It's so late… what are you doing here?""Just bringing some warmth." He started with a joke, but the mood didn't lighten, so he quickly added, "I got the medicine.""Wait a moment!" Celine said immediatel

After absorbing Number 114's ability, Ray felt a massive surge in power once again.The maximum size of his spatial portal had now reached 70 by 70 meters, though in terms of growth, it still fell short of the boost he had gained from absorbing Number 9—about five meters less—indicating that the amount of ability absorbed from Number 114 was actually lower than that of the boy.But the maximum casting distance of the spatial portal had increased by one meter, reaching six meters.This was huge news.In fact, Ray would have preferred to forgo expanding the portal's size at all and instead pour all the points into distance. After all, he wasn't moving aircraft carriers; a larger portal would make no practical difference. A portal of twenty meters square was already plenty.The real power lay in the ability to open the spatial portal directly in front of an enemy's face, combined with spatial perception. Damn—it was insanely overpowered.Still, Ray had to step back and think. The

"Alan, the most dangerous thing here is catching a fever," said Quentin Fletcher, the oldest among them."That's right—you really have to be careful," the youngest, Evan Nash, added at once.Ray's heart stirred. "Why?""The researchers here say there's a virus in the air now. Once your immunity drops, you get infected—either a high fever or a low-grade one. And once you have a fever, you're basically done for.""Yeah, anyone who gets a fever is isolated. Most of them don't last ten days before they die.""Damn it… is no one going to survive this apocalypse?!"The five spoke over one another, voices full of despair.Ray, however, felt a chill run through him.Were they mass-producing ability users?The method was the same as his own—deliberately infect people with the virus and let them fend for themselves.If they survived, they became ability users. If they didn't… there was nothing more to say.But Quentin and the others claimed that no one survived once they developed a f

With his spatial perception, Ray was practically a living radar. No—he was far better than any radar.Could radar waves pass through walls? He could.Could radar feed back every detail, even what a person looked like? He could.His current range of spatial perception had reached nineteen meters. Even if the administrative building had higher ceilings—say four meters per floor—standing on the first floor still allowed him to see almost the entire fifth floor clearly.The same applied to the left and right, front and back.How tall was the administrative building? Seven floors.That meant only the top two floors were mostly beyond his reach.He also detected a long underground passage. It required an elevator to descend. At the very edge of his perception, he could make out a wide, open space—but only about a meter of it, not enough to see the full layout.So the underground research center really was beneath this building.Ray did not act immediately. He observed first.He onl

Ray naturally realized the bear-man was trying to smash through the wall and burst outside.His expression darkened.The sound of the wall shattering echoed.Ray immediately broke through the door and sprinted toward the outer wall.Was he going to jump after him? Of course not.He smiled. The bear-man was fast, no doubt—but once a person is airborne, falling freely, initial velocity starts from zero and gradually increases. The bear-man's running momentum had been interrupted when he smashed through the wall, so his horizontal speed was nearly nil.Ray reached the window in a few quick strides. The bear-man had fallen only about two meters, moving just over a meter horizontally.Should he keep using Spatial Severing?Heh. The guy was in free fall. Why waste effort?Ray opened the spatial portal right beneath the bear-man's body.With Ray's maximum range of six meters, he could easily cover the falling man who had dropped only two.The bear-man's crisis alert sense flared in