Chapter 6: Black Lychee, a Supernatural Fruit!

Jiang Fan walked into the master bedroom.

It was a three-bedroom apartment, and Jiang Fan shared it with two women. Jiang Fan rented the smallest room, which was also the cheapest.

The other two female roommates worked during the day, and when the Red Mist descended, it was daytime, so they were stuck at their companies.

Without hesitation, Jiang Fan claimed his roommates' belongings as his own.

This was the room of one of his roommates, He Qian.

He Qian wasn't particularly attractive, but she was very skilled at makeup. After applying makeup, she looked like a different person—what used to be a 5 out of 10 became a 9 out of 10.

He Qian often brought men home, and her private life was very chaotic. She was never at peace at night.

Because of this, she frequently clashed with another, more aloof female roommate named Xu Nuo.

Jiang Fan didn't mind; he worked night shifts and was never home at night anyway.

Sure enough, Jiang Fan found some emergency contraception pills in He Qian's bedside table.

He took two pills and handed them to Tang Xuerou.

"Take these," he ordered.

Tang Xuerou hesitated, "What is this?"

Jiang Fan calmly replied, "Contraceptive pills. You wouldn't want to get pregnant in such an environment, would you?"

Tang Xuerou felt ashamed but obediently swallowed the pills with some water.

[Ding! Tang Xuerou consumed 2 Yu Ting pills, returning 400 pills! Added to the spatial inventory.]

Pills could work too.

Does it apply to anything consumable?

Jiang Fan took a bag of laundry detergent and commanded, "Go wash my dirty clothes."

Tang Xuerou didn't dare refuse and could only take the detergent into the bathroom.

Jiang Fan watched quietly as she tore open the detergent packet and started washing the clothes.

Still, there was no prompt indicating a return of detergent.

Furthermore, washing clothes consumed tap water, but there was no prompt for that either.

Could it be that only food could be returned?

But the system's instructions clearly stated that "materials consumed by the host woman will be returned to the host."

Why not just say "consumed food"?

Jiang Fan thought for a moment but couldn't figure it out.

The system's details needed to be explored further.

He lay down on the couch and started watching videos on his phone.

Tang Xuerou continued washing clothes, naturally.

Even beautiful women couldn't live for free.

If she wanted to eat, she had to work.

No good news online.

More and more people uploaded videos of ground exploration.

Plants worldwide had grown incredibly huge, and ordinary lawns had grown taller and taller.

In some cities, the grass was taller than people.

The grass in sports fields looked like cornfields.

Countless giant insects hid in them, and it was extremely dangerous!

Suddenly, Jiang Fan came across a video of a supernatural being.

An honest-looking middle-aged man demonstrated his lightning powers on camera.

The man brought his fingers together, and sparks flew from the air in between!

Jiang Fan watched with envy.

At the end of the video, the man said:

"There's a wild black fruit growing on a weed near my house that looks like a lychee. Yesterday, I was so hungry I couldn't stand it, so I ate it. Afterward, I gained the ability to control lightning. I think if anyone finds the black lychees, you could try eating them too."

The video only had a few hundred views, but the comments were full of activity:

"Is this real?"

"This guy's up to no good!"

"Black lychees? Sounds like something you shouldn't eat."

"Plants are mutating, and they're growing everywhere. Who would dare eat that?"

...

Black lychees growing on wild grass?

Jiang Fan turned to look at the windowsill.

There were two black lychees hanging from a succulent plant!

Eating this thing would give him lightning powers?

Jiang Fan didn't dare try it just yet.

Who knew what that man's intentions were?

The apocalypse had arrived, and people were unpredictable. Rumors were everywhere.

Even if he was lying, no one could catch him.

Moreover, Jiang Fan wasn't even sure if those were the same black lychees that the man was talking about.

Just then, his phone suddenly notified him:

"This video violates platform regulations and has been taken down!"

Hmm? Jiang Fan actually believed it a little.

The speed of the takedown was clearly abnormal.

It didn't seem like it was done by the platform.

Could it be... the government is hiding something?!!

Jiang Fan narrowed his eyes, thinking for a moment. He then put on rubber gloves and carefully picked one of the black lychees from the plant.

He placed it in a bowl and cautiously discarded his gloves out the window before walking into the bathroom with the bowl.

Tang Xuerou was still washing clothes.

Jiang Fan placed the bowl in front of her.

"Eat this."

If it was poisonous, it would be Tang Xuerou who died.

There were plenty of beauties in the apocalypse; Jiang Fan wouldn't shed a tear.

Tang Xuerou stared fearfully at the black fruit in the bowl.

"What... what is this?"

"Eat it." Jiang Fan didn't explain, only repeated his command.

Tang Xuerou stepped back in fear, shaking her head, "I won't eat it!"

Jiang Fan pulled out a knife and coldly said, "I said, eat it!"

Tang Xuerou's face turned pale, and trembling, she picked it up.

The black lychee looked eerie.

Tang Xuerou didn't want to eat it at all, but seeing the glint of the knife, she had no choice but to eat it.

[Ding! Tang Xuerou consumed 1 Enlightenment Fruit—Perception, returning 200 fruits! Added to spatial inventory.]

Enlightenment Fruit (Perception): 1 star. Consuming it grants perception ability. Repeated consumption of the same fruit has a chance to increase the star level.

Jiang Fan was overjoyed.

Supernatural fruit!

It really was a supernatural fruit!

The man hadn't lied!

Although the ability seemed to be different from the lightning powers the man had, this fruit granted perception.

It seemed... each fruit's ability was random.

Jiang Fan asked, "How do you feel?"

Tang Xuerou seemed confused for a moment before answering dazedly, "I... I think I can see a faint glow on you? A pale yellow. What is this?"

It really worked! Jiang Fan smiled.

"This is a supernatural fruit. Eating it gives you supernatural abilities."

"What?" Tang Xuerou was shocked. "You gain abilities from eating fruit?"

Supernatural abilities were all the rage online.

So it's through eating fruit?

This stuff must be valuable. Why would he give it to me?

Tang Xuerou couldn't help but feel touched. She thought that although Jiang Fan had been rough earlier, he didn't seem that bad.

"Thank you!" she said.

Jiang Fan extended his hand, and another black lychee appeared.

"I have plenty of these. Work hard in the future, and I might give you a few more. By the way, how do you feel now?"

Tang Xuerou nodded gratefully.

"Using this ability is exhausting. I can't keep it up for long. I need to turn it off."

With a sigh of relief, Tang Xuerou seemed to deactivate her perception ability, though there was no outward change.

Was it consuming energy? Jiang Fan thought as he peeled the black lychee and ate the flesh.

The fruit was sour-sweet and very delicious.

Boom!

Jiang Fan's mind seemed to break through some kind of barrier.

The world had changed!

The greens were greener, the reds were redder.

He looked outside the window, and it seemed like he could "see" more details, as if his vision had evolved from 480p to 4K.

Jiang Fan looked at Tang Xuerou again. She emitted a faint red glow.

He then looked at himself, and he emitted a green glow, though slightly brighter than Tang Xuerou's.

What did the color mean?

Jiang Fan was curious.

Just then, the system prompted:

[Perception: 1 star. You can now see the target's friendliness toward you. Yellow represents neutral, red represents hostility, and green represents friendliness. The brightness indicates the target's life strength. Perception range: 2 meters.]

Jiang Fan was overjoyed.

This was a great skill!

He could now tell if someone had hostile intentions!

It seemed like Tang Xuerou wasn't entirely hopeless after all!

Jiang Fan also noticed his stamina was rapidly depleting, as though he were running at full speed. He could only last a few more minutes.

He quickly turned off his perception ability and ate another black lychee.

The system reminded him that eating the same fruit repeatedly had a chance to increase the star level!

After eating, there was no reaction.

Jiang Fan took another lychee.

Soon, he ate seven or eight in quick succession.

Tang Xuerou stared in shock.

How did he have so many?

Were supernatural fruits so cheap?

By the time Jiang Fan ate the 12th one, something finally changed.

His vision seemed to clear up immensely!

[Ding! Perception upgraded to 2 stars! Perception range increased to 5 meters.]