After listening to Wen Wen's words, the man in the metal suit paused, then shook his head and said, "I'm very sorry, but I cannot help you awaken your superpower. The awakening of superpowers is very difficult to artificially intervene with."
"To awaken a superpower, two conditions must be met. First, one must be born with suitable psychic strength. Second, one's physique must be compatible with the residual spirit of a strong individual."
"If psychic strength is too weak, one cannot establish a connection with a residual spirit. If psychic strength is too strong, one will attract misfortune before attracting a residual spirit."
"And only with a compatible physique can one attract those residual spirits to attach themselves and awaken a superpower."
Wen Wen asked doubtfully, "So, do I have insufficient psychic strength or an incompatible physique?"
The man in the metal suit explained, "Your psychic strength is definitely sufficient, and the second condition is also not a problem..."
"In fact, only in ancient times would someone be unable to gain powers due to an incompatible physique. Nowadays, residual spirits of strong individuals are everywhere; no matter how special your physique is, you should be able to awaken a suitable ability."
"According to you, I should have already met the conditions for awakening a superpower. Why am I still just an ordinary person?"
The man in the metal suit pondered for a moment and said, "Perhaps you haven't found the trigger for awakening. Once the trigger arrives, you will naturally awaken your own ability."
After hearing the man in the metal suit's explanation, Wen Wen nodded as if he understood but also didn't. He then stared at the man in the metal suit for a long while before saying,
"Neither the power barrier nor the conditions for awakening superpowers are things you've told me about before. How many more things are you keeping from me?"
"When it's time for you to know, you will know."
After speaking, the man in the metal suit smiled and remained silent. No matter how much Wen Wen pressed, he wouldn't speak.
After Wen Wen left, the man in the metal suit's expression turned to one of confusion.
In fact, he too was puzzled as to why Wen Wen had not yet awakened his superpower. Superpowers are not rare things; anyone who meets the conditions can possess them.
Given Wen Wen's conditions and the events he had experienced, he should have already had his own abilities.
Yet, Wen Wen could tear apart low-level superhumans with his bare hands but still had no superpower. This was truly strange.
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After leaving the containment facility, Wen Wen briefly bid farewell to the members of the Qingchuan City Association. Taking the local specialties they gave him, he set off on his journey again.
San Zai'er was still the one driving this time; it had evidently become Wen Wen's dedicated chauffeur.
Wen Wen sat on the car roof, contemplating how to awaken his powers.
From the information he obtained from the man in the metal suit, Wen Wen knew he had the potential to awaken an ability, but that ability had been dormant all along.
Therefore, in order not to remain stagnant at the Disaster Intermediate stage for too long, Wen Wen intended to actively seek the trigger for his awakening.
According to the data he had collected at the Hunter Association, over seventy percent of superhumans awakened their abilities when subjected to immense stimuli, meaning abilities activated by emotions such as 'fear', 'anger', or 'despair'.
Twenty percent of people awakened their abilities through scientific cultivation by the association. However, these individuals had already displayed anomalies before awakening, so what the Hunter Association did was merely guidance.
The remaining ten percent awakened their abilities in ways so bizarre that Wen Wen was envious.
Some awakened by drinking water, some by sleeping in bed, and others by getting too excited while watching adult films... but Wen Wen had no concrete idea how he should awaken his own ability.
The last method was akin to a stroke of luck, and Wen Wen would have to be out of his mind to rely on such a method of awakening.
The second method was also not very suitable for him. Therefore, the best way for Wen Wen to awaken his own ability was to seek sufficient stimulation.
But Wen Wen found it difficult to imagine what kind of stimulation would cause him to awaken his abilities. Even if his biological father crawled out of his grave, he hadn't awakened...
Therefore, Wen Wen speculated that due to the containment facility, he had always carried the physique of monsters, squeezing the space for his superpower to awaken, which was why he hadn't awakened it yet.
Based on this speculation, Wen Wen set a plan for awakening.
That is, without using any monster physiques, relying solely on his own abilities, he would seek immense stimulation that even a pervert like him would find difficult to endure, thereby awakening his abilities!
Unless he was truly on the brink of death, Wen Wen would not use any monster physiques until he had completely awakened!
Wen Wen set a deadline of one month. If he did not awaken within a month, he would temporarily abandon this method and seek other ways to awaken his ability.
Without using monster physiques, Wen Wen's combat ability was equivalent to that of a disaster-level monster. However, his perception, recovery ability, and some instincts unique to monsters were all gone.
Therefore, Wen Wen would not provoke disaster-level monsters. That would not be seeking stimulation, but seeking death.
What he needed to find were supernatural events that were approximately disaster-level in intensity, and which he was not very good at dealing with.
This behavior was akin to self-abuse, but Wen Wen was someone who could find people to kill him, so this decision was made with great ease.
Thus, for the next half month, Wen Wen truly did not use any monster physiques and handled several supernatural cases using his own abilities.
Each of these supernatural cases was a type that Wen Wen was not adept at handling. But Wen Wen's inherent quality was strong, and even so, he emerged with a few bruises at most, but perfectly resolved the missions.
The failures of over half a month did not discourage Wen Wen. Since he had set a one-month deadline, even if he saw no hope before the thirtieth day, Wen Wen would continue to do so.
For the next mission, even Wen Wen felt a bit of resistance when selecting it.
Before, when he could use monster physiques, Wen Wen would avoid this type of mission. Now, with his own abilities weakened to the extreme, he had to proactively approach this type of mission, which even a perverted Wen Wen found a bit unbearable.
However, for the sake of awakening his abilities, Wen Wen still resolutely decided to go. Wen Wen knew only two words about this mission...
Plague!
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