Chapter 29: Clear as Day!
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Twenty minutes later, several delicious grilled fish were ready!
Qin Yuan took a bite. The fragrance was irresistible, and the flesh was tender and fresh.
“Li Erniu, your cooking is excellent!”
Qin Yuan began eating with relish and could not help giving him a thumbs-up.
As expected of a soldier from the mess hall! When it came to cooking, he was astonishingly good!
“Hehe, Brother Yuan, I may not be good at much else, but when it comes to cooking, I’m top-notch!”
Li Erniu chuckled. Qin Yuan’s praise pleased him greatly.
The two men devoured the meal.
Qin Yuan ate three large fish, and Li Erniu ate three as well.
Once their stomachs were full, they continued on their way.
The sky gradually darkened.
A short while later, the surrounding world was swallowed by boundless darkness.
It was an especially overcast night, without the slightest trace of light.
If not for the jeep, Qin Yuan and Li Erniu would have had trouble even traveling forward.
“Brother Yuan, why is it so dark? We can’t see a thing!”
Li Erniu turned and glanced around. Everything was pitch-black, and nothing could be seen.
“The darker it is, the better. Darkness is more advantageous for moving around.”
Qin Yuan smiled calmly, completely unconcerned.
For ordinary people, darkness might be a tremendous obstacle that affected their movements.
But for Qin Yuan, it was no problem at all.
He possessed an extraordinarily powerful thermal-imaging ability.
Within a radius of one thousand meters, as long as there was any thermal radiation, he could detect the presence of his target.
“Darkness is more advantageous for moving around? Brother Yuan, do you mean we’re going to fight under cover of night?”
Li Erniu froze for a moment, then immediately became even more excited.
After the battle that afternoon, he had discovered that he truly enjoyed charging into battle alongside Qin Yuan.
“Exactly!”
Qin Yuan smiled and pressed the accelerator down even harder.
With world-class jeep-driving skills, even these mountainous roads, rugged and treacherous as they were, felt like level ground to him.
Nothing could hinder him.
Ding! A system mission has been issued: eliminate the Thunderbolt Assault Team and unlock three new slots!
Suddenly, the crisp system notification rang out.
Qin Yuan jolted.
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“Damn… Eliminating the Thunderbolt Assault Team actually unlocks three slots? The system’s reward is far too generous! Does it really think that highly of Thor and his men?”
Qin Yuan raised his brows and could not help curling his lips.
He was deeply skeptical of the reward assigned by the system.
There was no helping it. The system clearly thought far too highly of Lei Zhan and the others.
That left Qin Yuan feeling slightly displeased.
Still, he would never reject a reward.
At present, what he lacked most were slots.
The more slots, the better!
Coo-coo…
Coo-coo…
They were traveling along when, all of a sudden, an eerie birdcall rang out ahead, sending chills crawling across the scalp.
“Damn… Is that an owl?”
With a sharp screech of the brakes, Qin Yuan brought the vehicle to a halt.
“Brother Yuan, why did you stop?”
Li Erniu looked baffled.
Qin Yuan glanced at him. Li Erniu seemed completely unaware of the owl’s cry.
“Didn’t you hear that strange call?”
Qin Yuan smiled as he asked.
“I heard it. It’s a night owl. Probably an old one in mating season. Otherwise, its cry would sound a little nicer.”
Li Erniu chuckled.
“As the saying goes, you don’t fear a night owl’s call—you fear its laughter. When a night owl enters your home, it never comes without a reason. Looks like something troublesome may happen tonight!”
Qin Yuan was secretly impressed by Li Erniu.
He had never expected him not to be afraid of such a frightening owl’s cry.
Could it be that the only thing he truly feared was snakes?
“Li Erniu, stay here and watch the vehicle. I’m going into the forest to relieve myself, understood?”
Qin Yuan turned to him.
The reason was simple: the owl had become Qin Yuan’s target.
He clearly remembered a passage about owls from an elementary-school science textbook. An owl weighing only three hundred grams possessed approximately ninety-five thousand auditory nerve cells, giving it extraordinarily sharp hearing. Its head could rotate two hundred and seventy degrees, and in the pitch-black night, its vision was more than a hundred times better than a human’s.
Such a powerful species could not possibly be missed.
He happened to have one slot left.
And now, with darkness covering everything, improving his ability to see in the dark would be enormously useful.
Qin Yuan moved more than ten meters away from the vehicle.
Then he immediately unleashed his maximum physical strength.
Whoosh!
Like an arrow released from a bow, Qin Yuan shot forward at tremendous speed.
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A moment later, relying on his powerful thermal-radiation detection, Qin Yuan locked onto three owls perched on a tree branch.
“Night owls, prepare to die!”
Qin Yuan smiled.
He abruptly raised his rifle.
Rat-tat-tat!
Three rapid bursts rang out.
In an instant, three blank rounds struck the owls directly in the head.
“Coo-coo!”
The three owls let out miserable cries, flapped their wings, and fell to the ground.
Qin Yuan was delighted. He immediately went over and seized the three unconscious owls.
With universe-class marksmanship, Qin Yuan’s calculations of bullet force and firing angles had reached a level that could only be described as divine.
Knocking out three owls was effortless.
With a single thought, Qin Yuan stored all three owls inside the system slots.
Ding! Please choose!
The crisp system notification rang out once again.
1. Gain world-class hearing!
2. Gain world-class night vision!
3. Gain the world-class owl laugh!
“Damn! Owls really are full of treasures!”
Qin Yuan’s eyes lit up.
“I choose option two!”
After a brief moment of thought, Qin Yuan made his choice.
It was pitch-black now.
Relying solely on thermal imaging to identify things inevitably left room for error.
But with world-class night vision, the chance of making a mistake would be greatly reduced.
For example, if someone used a special method to lower their body temperature until even thermal imaging could no longer detect them, Qin Yuan would naturally have no way to deal with them.
Ding! Congratulations, Host. Your selection was successful. You have obtained world-class night vision!
World-class night vision: Allows the Host to see in darkness as clearly as in daylight, with a night-vision range of one hundred meters!
“Damn! I can see in the dark as clearly as in broad daylight, and within a range of one hundred meters? That’s incredible!”
Qin Yuan could not help exclaiming in amazement.
In an instant, he felt as if a strange transformation had taken place in his eyes.
Countless tiny streams of warmth flowed through and nourished his eyes. A short while later, Qin Yuan opened them, focused his mind, and activated his night vision.
The darkness surrounding him suddenly brightened.
The scene rapidly grew clearer. In the blink of an eye, a world as distinct as broad daylight appeared before Qin Yuan.
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