Closer to Revealing My True Self-Chapter 869 - 553: Snatching Food from the Jaws of the Wind
Chapter 869: Chapter 553: Snatching Food from the Jaws of the Wind
The island was deserted, free from concerns.
Feng Yi walked to one side of the island.
Previously at the company, A’que reminded him that he could try looking for answers within his genes.
Feng Yi indeed found a hint. freёnovelkiss.com
Walking on the stone-paved path, passing newly built houses, he listened to the rustling of the leaves.
The new houses on the island were structurally more solid. Taking certain factors into account, the materials used were quite special, making them difficult to be toppled by ordinary storms.
Feng Yi looked at the trees beside him.
Trees naturally adapt to their environment with distinctive forms.
People are no different.
Perhaps, one day in the future, when the energetic materials in the sky disappear and the living space shrinks again, when those special genes are completely silenced, their race would truly become ordinary people.
By then, mimicry would have become the norm.
Above the ocean, countless water vapors were evaporating.
Clouds gathered in the sky, quickly joining together.
Feng Yi shifted from his mimicry to his original form.
With the shrinking of living resources and only one of them able to appear at a time, how to control energy, how to cope with crises during the developmental process?
Without direct guidance from predecessors, everything relied on self-understanding.
Understanding, in part, depended on personal exploration, and the rest came from the ancestral memory hidden within the genes.
In other words, it relied heavily on instinct and skills inherited through the genes.
The so-called ability to summon wind and rain wasn’t about conjuring storms out of thin air, but rather, under permissive environmental conditions, providing the impetus to start a chain reaction.
To summon wind and rain was actually to harness the forces of nature, to comply with its operational rules, and then to act opportunistically.
Feng Yi looked to the sky, attracting those energetic materials, to catalyze a storm.
If a typhoon were seen as a kind of organism, its growth would require certain elements.
Such as warm seawater.
Such as moist air.
Such as wind shear.
Such as the Coriolis effect of planetary rotation...
And so on, those complex conditions were not all present here, but they could be catalyzed with the help of other energies.
Feng Yi could sense that, far from here, in Zone N7, a powerful typhoon encroaching the land was voraciously consuming energetic materials.
The accumulation of those energetic materials triggered a series of chain reactions, making the typhoon in Zone N7 not only withstand rapid weakening but continue to push forward with strength.
But if it lost its core driving force, then its intensity would change significantly.
Feng Yi couldn’t make it disappear immediately nor could he directly block it, but cutting off its energy supply would be a good strategy and the most effective strike he could deliver at the moment.
Once weakened, the typhoon in Zone N7 would dissolve quickly.
The shorter it lingered, the more people would be saved.
Feng Yi had not yet reached the next stage of transformation, nor did he plan to rush the process.
He tried to catalyze a storm, which also required energetic materials for core propulsion.
The core ability engraved in DNA by his ancestors was survival.
And survival is about feeding.
Energetic materials were also a form of sustenance.
What Feng Yi needed to use now was the act of seizing food!
Seizing food at the wind’s eye!
...The wind’s eye?
Who was at the wind’s eye?
Zone N7 is, and so am I!
Feng Yi manipulated those energetic materials, directing them with purpose.
In the air, the clouds began to stir...
Sensing every subtle change between heaven and earth, his consciousness gradually immersed within.
His vision no longer dictated all that he saw.
The particles in the sea, the movement of the water vapor, the shifting clouds...
The invisible geomagnetic field, the different wavelengths of visible light in the colorful world...
The evolution of things, countless external signals connected to perception.
Distant sounds like waves, coming in bursts, converging, connecting to that segment of memory in the genes, touching upon the silence of the past that had faded over time.
Once again, Feng Yi "saw" those two figures.
The ancestral memory hidden in his genes brought them from the other end of time, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago.
With human torsos and serpentine tails, they stood intermingled, grand and majestic, ethereal and immense.
Surveying their surroundings.
The clouds flowed, the sun, moon, and stars shone, the vast sky and seas, deep chasms and dark abysses.
Just one encounter, without seeing clearly, already made one feel the immense gap between them.
But Feng Yi knew that these images were not meant to show him how insignificant he was.
His consciousness was drawing nearer, rising.
The perspective was changing.
From looking up, he slowly began to look straight ahead, and then downward.
During this process, Feng Yi watched these two powerful figures and sensed the difference between the two-dimensional and three-dimensional.
It was not merely two intertwined figures, but rather forming a circle, seemingly encompassing the life of the universe, the everything within heaven and earth, balance and change, the laws of nature.
...
Above the island.
Energetic materials were continuously gathering, being drawn in to become the core of a new storm.
The energetic materials that initially surged toward Zone N7 slowed significantly, halted, and then began to flow in reverse, toward the direction of the island.
It was like a rope in a tug-of-war, one end connected to Zone N7 and the other in Feng Yi’s grasp, as he pulled the energetic materials over to feed the growth needs of the new storm.
At this moment, the central marker on this tug-of-war rope was moving towards the island.
Although the island was a great distance from Zone N7, the changes in these energetic materials were very rapid.
This "rope" was also full of countless chains with one end moving; every segment and every location on the chain would start to react.
This large-scale and rapid pulling change would create a special energy field.
