After dealing with Zhang Jiangzhong's matter, Zhou Xiao suddenly lost all interest. He invited Shi Ju, Zheng Bing, Jiang Jin, and a few others back to the hotel.
Zhou Xuan lay in bed and read for a while. He had recently developed this habit of reading books about antiques and jade before going to bed every day, which had been quite effective. For example, Zhao Lao Er was quite knowledgeable about antiques and jade today.
However, thinking of Fujimoto, Ito Kinji, Fatty Kim, and Zhang Jiang, his mood soured again. He had intentionally targeted Fujimoto and Ito Kinji, while Fatty Kim was unlucky enough to run into his line of fire—he was blinded by greed. Only Zhang Jiang was truly honest; he was just a nobody, not worth the trouble, and he really didn't intend to do anything to him. Thinking about it, he still felt a little guilty.
He rubbed his head and thought of Fu Ying again. When her beautiful face flashed into his mind, a warm feeling rose in his heart. Zhou Xuan couldn't help but smile slightly. Once this matter was over, he would definitely hold the wedding when he got back. In this world, he could give up anything, but he couldn't give up Fu Ying!
After practicing his ice qi again, Zhou Xuan realized he'd been too carefree lately, and his ice qi ability hadn't improved much. Compared to its peak, it seemed somewhat weaker. Zhou Xuan thought he probably needed to expend more energy and then recover; this process would be better. Each time he used ice qi intensely, the energy he recovered afterward was stronger—that was definitely true. While practicing his ice qi, Zhou Xuan suddenly remembered what to do with the shrapnel in Old Li's body. It was a bit of a headache. Not to mention Li Lei, even for the sake of the old man, he couldn't refuse. And now Li Lei was being incredibly kind to him. He really had to thank Li Lei's soldiers for what happened with Fatty Jin; otherwise, he would have suffered a loss. He couldn't just turn everyone into gold every time there was a fight, could he? That would be real murder!
Despite possessing the power of ice energy, Zhou Xuan is still an ordinary person at heart, and he would never actually kill someone.
After circulating the ice energy several times, Zhou Xuan began to seriously consider it. Since he had acquired the ice energy, he had never seriously thought about it before. What was the reason for this? What were the functions of the ice energy? Did it have any functions that he had not yet discovered? For example, could it remove the shrapnel from Old Li's body?
These things need to be tried, just like experiments. You have to try them one by one slowly. Anyway, the ice energy is your own, and you don't have to spend money to buy it. It's like strength; you can get it back after you practice. So just try them slowly.
Zhou Xuan looked around the room and found nothing of interest to try. He lay on the bed and looked up at the ceiling. In the center of the ceiling was a chandelier with a dozen or so small, colorful lights around it. The light in the middle was yellow. The overall lighting was not very bright, but very soft. There was also a table lamp next to his pillow if he wanted to read.
Zhou Xuan channeled the ice energy outwards; the chandelier above his head was only a little over two meters away, not very high. The ice energy reached this distance effortlessly.
The icy air explored inside the chandelier, through the glass cover, the filament, the lamp housing, and the unseen copper wires. Zhou Xuan even saw electric particles flowing from the copper wires into the filament and then out from the other end, but the current changed after it was lit.
This feeling was strange, because Zhou Xuan knew that if he touched it with his hands, the electric current would electrocute him, but now it was ice gas touching the current. It didn't feel like skin and he wouldn't be harmed, but he could still see it clearly!
Zhou Xuan observed the current for a while. The concealed connections in the wall were all copper wires. He couldn't resist converting some of the copper wires into gold, since gold is also conductive, so the light remained on.
Because the copper wires were hidden inside the wall, the people in the hotel wouldn't open the wall to look. Zhou Xuan, however, confidently and boldly converted several sections.
After playing for a while, I got a little bored and wondered if I could turn off the power and turn off the light? That would save me the trouble of turning on the switch.
With this thought in mind, Zhou Xuan became interested and tried to cut off the current by channeling his ice energy. However, the ice energy could see the current but could not block it. After trying for a while, he still failed. Zhou Xuan became determined and channeled all his ice energy to try to cut off the current. But it was like trying to fill a fishing net with water. No matter how hard you try, you can't fill it or stop it!
"Delete" can't cut off the current, so I'll just cut off your power cord, okay?
Zhou Xuan's ice energy circulated wildly, but it was powerless, because ice energy could transform matter into gold, but it could not make matter disappear!
Zhou Xuan used the ice energy countless times and tried all sorts of methods, but still couldn't cut off the current. Instead, he stubbornly fought against the current, showing no sign of turning back until he hit a brick wall.
After Zhou Xuan unleashed his full power to activate his ice energy, the ice energy surged and tumbled along the copper wire and current, reaching distances Zhou Xuan had never imagined—at least a hundred meters or more, practically penetrating through the rooms of the surrounding hotels.
Although the battle was intense, Zhou Xuan also felt very exhausted. He was panting heavily while lying on the bed, and sweat rolled down his forehead. Zhou Xuan trembled and wiped the sweat with his hand, but in that moment of distraction, the ice energy actually transformed all the copper wires into gold!
This will cause even greater damage!
Zhou Xuan muttered something under his breath and cursed, preparing to retract the remaining ice energy. It seemed he couldn't defeat the electric current and couldn't cut it off!
But at that very moment, something strange happened!
As Zhou Xuan withdrew the icy energy, it devoured the copper wire that had transformed into gold. The moment it devoured the gold wire, Zhou Xuan felt the icy energy become stronger and more powerful. When the icy energy retreated back to his body, the copper wire, which was over a hundred meters long, was completely devoured!
When Zhou Xuan came to his senses, he realized that the lamp had already gone out. It hadn't cut off the current, but it had swallowed the golden wire, which was equivalent to cutting off the current. His goal had finally been achieved!
After resting for a while, Zhou Xuan sat up. Converting gold molecules consumed the most ice energy, but the ice energy had just absorbed the gold thread and recovered some energy, but it was still much less than the energy he had lost.
After sitting and thinking for a long time, Zhou Xuan finally understood that although ice energy could absorb gold to increase energy, the gold was converted by ice energy, which was not worthwhile. If converting gold required five parts ice energy, then absorbing the gold converted from those five parts ice energy would only increase the ice energy by a little over one part. This was clearly not a worthwhile trade-off!
However, this is the first time I've seen ice energy devour gold, and the first time I've seen ice energy replenish itself by devouring gold. Well, hehe!
Zhou Xuan smiled wryly. This ice energy, which needs to consume gold to improve, where would he get so much gold to feed it? Ice energy's food is really expensive!
Even now, Zhou Xuan still doesn't understand the origin of the ice energy, but he does understand its properties. The second grade of ice energy is related to gold. Ice and... smelling the scent of gold excite it, and it can also transform into gold, but the effect can only last for about six hours. It can't actually turn matter into gold. When the ice energy in the pill in his wrist is at its strongest, its color will also turn as golden as gold. When it is greatly depleted, the golden color of the ice energy will fade. The weaker the ice energy, the lighter the color.
It truly lives up to its name as Golden Ice Aura; this ability could be considered a Golden Aura, it sounds quite luxurious.
Zhou Xuan looked at his left hand again. His left hand no longer had a golden color and was the same color as the rest of his skin. His skin tone had recovered, but this hand should be called the Golden Left Hand, right?
Just as Zhou Xuan was enjoying himself, he heard someone knocking on the door. He quickly got up and opened it, only to find it was a hotel employee.
The waiter was holding a flashlight. The alleyway was crowded with hotel guests. The lights in the rooms within a hundred meters of Zhou Xuan's location, five or six floors above and below, were all turned off. Someone had complained, and the waiter was extremely busy.
Zhou Xuan then realized that this was his own fault. Fortunately, he had transformed the copper wire into gold and swallowed it. Even if the hotel racked their brains, they would not be able to find out the reason. But they would definitely find out the reason: the copper wire in the hidden wire in the wall had disappeared. But the reason for its disappearance would probably never be found out!
The hotel was thrown into chaos. Many guests requested refunds or room changes because the cause of the power outage in their rooms could not be determined.
Zhou Xuan blushed, but luckily it was dark and no one could see him. Besides, the waiter didn't notice him. Zhao Lao Er and Zheng Bing and the others came out of the room. Zhao Lao Er was shouting that he wanted to change rooms.
Zhou Xuan said to the waiter, "Waiter, do you have any candles? If so, please light them in my room. I don't need to change rooms!"
"Yes, yes, yes, I'll bring it over and light it for you right away!"
The waiter quickly nodded in response and then hurried away.
When Zhou Xuan refused to change rooms, Zhao Lao Er immediately lost interest. He muttered a couple of things and that was it. Zheng Bing, Jiang Jin, and the other three were even less likely to change rooms, because changing rooms would take them further away from Zhou Xuan. They were there to protect Zhou Xuan, not to enjoy themselves.
Fortunately, the copper wires that Zhou Xuan's icy energy devoured were only in these rooms and the main power line was not affected. Otherwise, the power outage would not have affected only these few dozen rooms, but could have affected the entire building!
After lighting the candles, Zhou Xuan lay back down on the bed. Only then did he carefully consider the absurd thing he had just done, and he couldn't help but laugh. His experiment with ice energy had resulted in the hotel's electrical wires being swallowed up, and the result was completely useless. Ice energy could devour gold, and gold is money, right? What good would it do if it was swallowed up? Although it could increase the energy of the ice energy, where would he find so much gold to let the ice energy devour? Even if he had some, he wouldn't be willing to part with it, would he?
Suddenly, an idea flashed into my mind, and I was overjoyed!
It turned out that Zhou Xuan had come up with a treatment for Lao Li: to transform the shrapnel in his body into gold and then absorb it with ice energy. This method could completely digest the shrapnel in Lao Li's body, including the one in his head, without any aftereffects.
Although converting matter molecules into gold consumes a lot of ice energy, the shrapnel in Old Li's body, though numerous, is not a heavy task for Zhou Xuan. Using the methods currently being tested, digesting it is far easier than treating the old man's cancer!
Zhou Xuan was genuinely excited that the problem had been solved, but since Old Li was far away in the capital, he would have to wait until he returned to the capital to treat him.
Although the results of the experiment were not as good as Zhou Xuan had hoped, it inadvertently solved the problem of treating Lao Li's health, which was a good thing. It relieved a worry from his mind, and Zhou Xuan felt much better. He blew out the candles and lay down to sleep.
As the ice vapor circulated, Zhou Xuan unknowingly fell asleep.