Chapter 35: "No wonder Fox can eat so much"
The discussion in Jonathan's post was intense; occasionally, some people would ask what happened in French or Japanese.
Jonathan looked and then exited the thread to return to the forum homepage. As expected, a few new posts analyze the person's identity in the post.
"Detailed analysis of whether poster 331 in the adjacent informative thread and Dispossessor 331 are the same people."
OP: As we all know, once you enter the forum, your nickname is fixed. First, you fill in a nickname, and then the order in which you enter the forum is your player number. The order is not transparent, meaning there is some randomness to the player number assignment.
If the informative poster next door is Dispossessor 331, how did he know in advance to set his own nickname to 331? So, I think the probability that the informative poster next door and Dispossessor 331 are the same person is minimal but not impossible... after all, various coincidences exist in this world.
1F: What nonsense are you talking about?
3F: What you're saying is essentially meaningless... You can't confirm that he is Dispossessor 331, nor can you completely deny it.
4F (OP): Well, what can I do? Unless the 331 poster comes forward to admit or deny it, we can't rule out the suspicion.
5F replying to 4F (OP): What difference would it make if he admitted or denied it? We still couldn't confirm if he's telling the truth; it's a deadlock.
6F: I think the informative poster next door sharing such important information is not a bad person. I personally think they (not sure if it's a man or woman, so I'll use "they") have nothing to do with the Dispossessor. Their lack of reply might just be to avoid revealing their identity.
7F: I also tend to think that the informative poster next door is not Dispossessor... unless Dispossessor 331 has a performative personality that likes to attract attention. He might enjoy watching us guessing and being unable to figure out who he was.
"Deep Analysis of the Identity of the Informative Poster 331 Next Door."
First post: One thing is clear - ordinary people cannot access information about Xenobiotics creatures. The informative poster next door is definitely not an ordinary person. So, I boldly speculate that the informative poster's identity in the Second World is at least somewhat related to the three parties above.
Is the informative poster a government official, a member of a corporation, or an Xenobiotics creature researcher?
The essence of humanity is to admire strength. He didn't have to do much, just a little insignificant thing to guide the players.
Jonathan was now truly a hunter, thinking like a hunter. He had his eyes on prey and didn't want others to interfere with it. So, he used some means to exclude other hunters from the hunting operation. But hunters are resourceful, and Jonathan couldn't control their actions or break their legs to immobilize them, so he threw out some information as a deterrent.
The effect was satisfactory. Except for those who wanted to die or were not afraid of death, other players retreated, realizing that the water was too deep and that stepping in would lead to drowning.
Besides deterrence, Jonathan's release of this information also had other considerations, and he wouldn't act blindly. He made sure that such a choice wouldn't threaten him before taking this step.
Jonathan looked at the time, and it was Thursday. He had to go to his part-time job on Friday and had the weekend off.
Hunting prey in two days was a tight schedule and challenging, but Jonathan was willing to take on the challenge. He plugged in his phone to charge, closed the curtains, and tried activating the super ability "Shadow Travel" he had taken from Sean for the first time.
Invisible shadows enveloped his body, turning his figure into an invisible black mist. Jonathan disregarded spatial distance and instantly moved from the living room to the kitchen beside the refrigerator.
"The maximum distance is three meters? It seems like it could be increased a little more..." After the pleasant surprise, Jonathan tried to move again, this time attempting to "phase through" the wall.
Then, his misty body ignored the barrier and passed through the solid wall into the bedroom. On the third attempt, Jonathan picked up a thick rolling pin to see if he could bring a weapon along. However, this attempt failed; his body moved, but the rolling pin fell to the ground as it passed through his misty body during the ability's activation.
Jonathan pondered, "Is the influencing factor weight or volume? I can take the clothes I'm wearing with me..."
He thought about it and replaced the rolling pin with a kitchen knife. This time, the shadow travel was successful; the knife turned into mist along with his body, crossing the space to a shadowy area. It seemed that the influencing factor was volume, and only objects with a smaller volume could be taken away by the shadow travel.
The shadow travel ability taken from Sean was only an E-level ability. If its level could be increased, the moving range would likely be higher, and the object volume carried would be larger. Even so, Shadow Travel was already a rare life-saving technique.
Jonathan practiced shadow travel for two full hours, and his coordinates went from imprecise to precise. The specific volume of the objects he could carry was determined after several attempts, and he could pass through most objects when his body was misty, so he didn't need to worry about getting stabbed by a knife.
Practicing super abilities seemed to excessively consume energy and make one hungry faster. Two hours later, Jonathan failed to activate his ability in extreme hunger. His body flickered in place but didn't travel.
"No wonder Fox can eat so much." Jonathan felt emotional as he cooked two servings of noodles and fried two eggs for himself.
He had to eat well and be full to continue practicing. Hunters needed to sharpen their skills to be accurate and swift when taking down their prey.