Only I can make them stronger

What's more, if it chose to attack Leah or Careya, causing them to suffer casualties just after setting out or even directly leading to mission failure, that would be too unacceptable.

"Then...if you find the target, tell me immediately and I will attack from a distance. If you encounter something that obviously makes you extremely panic, you must terminate the inspiration vision immediately."

Shana bit her red lips lightly, hesitated for two seconds and then gave the instruction.

"Understood." Xia Ye nodded, calmed down, let his mind be as empty as possible, and concentrated his attention to mobilize inspiration.

At the same time, the origin ability was activated, and pale flames suddenly emerged from his eyes, making him look like an albino Ghost Rider.

At this moment, Xia Ye's perspective changed.

The surrounding colors seemed to be filtered, turning into an exposed film with extremely low contrast.

From time to time, you can see distorted ripples passing by, which is probably the force field formed by the wilderness elements.

"Chaotic and aggressive energy, constantly seeking a container to act upon."

This time, the description brought by inspiration was actually a very clear sentence, rather than an abstract adjective!

Just as Xia Ye was feeling the change in his vision and preparing to check his surroundings, he seemed to hear a beeping sound coming from a very far distance.

Then some strange connection seemed to bridge the gap in his mind.

[It is detected that the host has performed parallel operations on the character's traits and is trying to form new independent traits]

[…Adaptability 96%, attempt successful, new independent trait created]

[Trait Category: True Ability [Origin] - Effect ③]

[Trait name: True Insight]

[Special effects: Observe, feel, know, understand. Activating this effect consumes mental energy.]

61. The source of the burning corpse

A strange feeling arose in Xia Ye's heart.

So he can rely on himself to unlock the new abilities of this system?

Moreover... although the new effect of this origin ability seems mysterious and vague, the actual performance seems...

Isn't it similar to transforming an extremely abstract vocabulary description into concrete content that is consistent with the system description style?

Xia Ye glanced at his file and found that his mental strength was slowly decreasing at a rate of one point every two seconds.

So he temporarily put aside all the random thoughts and focused his attention back on the visual inspiration.

However, soon, Xia Ye felt some special features brought by the new ability.

After the system prompted the formation of the new ability, his vision seemed to stabilize, softer than before, and no longer had the eye-sore feeling brought by the wilderness aura.

If I had to describe it, it would be like looking directly at the sky with the sun hanging high in the sky and suddenly putting on a pair of brown sunglasses, which just offsets the glare caused by the light.

So, he began to use his inspiration gradually and confidently, looking around...

A large number of irrelevant and similar descriptions floated through his mind, but none of them were what he was looking for.

After looking around for most of the time, one description stood out from the crowd and caught Xia Ye's attention.

"The flames of madness burned the twisted power. His obsession with it destroyed him, but his obsession with it also reborn him."

"That should be it..." Prompted by the description, Xia Ye narrowed his eyes and found that in the environment of a large amount of exposed film, a dark purple and black strip shadow was floating somewhere.

If you stare closely, this linear shadow looks almost like a human figure.

"Found it! Shana, 30 meters away at two o'clock."

"Roger that!"

Shana, who was on standby, had already prepared for a long-range attack. Electric light surged on her body, and even the three people standing next to her felt a tingling and numbness on their skin.

Although she is only at the peak of the second level, her stats are already extremely high. Coupled with the additional 10% maximum physical storage provided by Xia Ye, when she bursts out with all her strength, the attacks she unleashes will not even be inferior to those of a peak third level alien.

A deep blue beam of electric light suddenly shot out from between Shana's palms, making the somewhat gloomy air in the wilderness a little more agitated.

Shana didn't even look at what was in the direction Xia Ye pointed. She believed in Xia Ye and used her strongest attack without hesitation.

"Bah!!!"

The electric beam pierced through a cave on the surface and also pierced through the chest of the spell-like domain remnant hiding in it.

Instant kill!

This deceased, whose strength was totally incompatible with that of a level-three danger zone, once again died inexplicably at the hands of a group of aliens who were not even at level-three.

The dead have no inspiration and no thoughts. They cannot notice Xia Ye's gaze on them at all, nor can they sense the tremendous energy that Shana has condensed in advance.

"It's done!" Seeing the dark purple figure being pierced and shattered by a blow, and then disintegrated in the field of vision, Xia Ye breathed a sigh of relief and withdrew from the inspiration perspective.

The giant shadow claw just now really left him with lingering fears.

The icy feeling that enveloped his entire body almost made him think that he was really going to die.

The dangers of the Hill Continent never make sense to anyone, especially in the wilderness.

"Did he kill it?" Seeing Xia Ye's look, Shana and Leah also breathed a sigh of relief.

"Yeah, it's out of sight." Xia Ye nodded and looked in that direction.

There was a bowl-sized hole on the original surface cave wall, and burnt green smoke was wafting out.

"Go over and take a look?"

"...Yeah." Shana hesitated for a while, but finally agreed.

Although these cave-like places in the wilderness are usually dangerous, she was also quite curious about the identity of this survivor and why he appeared here.

Because of this reason, the danger of their journey might skyrocket.

If it is really as I guessed, then no matter what the consequences of turning back now are, I can't go forward anymore.

……

Fortunately, the cave was shallow, and there was nothing inside except a corpse with a hole in the chest and abdomen, and the body had turned completely to charcoal except for some crystallized tissue.

"What a terrible smell..." Leah pinched her nose with a bitter face, just wanting to stay away from the corpse.

The strong smell of decay and burning meat rushed straight to her head, making her feel like she was going to pass out.

"It seems like there's nothing special?" Shana frowned and squatted down to check.

The man's body was no longer recognizable as a human being. Red and purple crystals were irregularly distributed on the hard and charred skin. He must have been dead for quite some time.

There are no abnormal physical force fields around, which means that the environment here is no different from that of an ordinary level 3 danger zone, and there are no high-risk beasts lurking.

"Judging from the distribution area of crystals on the body surface, the body's energy capacity before death was probably at the fourth level."

Careya, who came in later, gave her conclusion.

"Could it be that he really died in an accident?" Shana always felt that it was not that simple, but she could not find anything special.

"He should...not have died accidentally."

At this moment, Xia Ye, who had been silent just now, suddenly spoke, attracting the attention of the other three.

"Shana, take a closer look. Is there a fundamental difference between the degree of burnt black on his chest and other parts of his body?"

Shana didn't ask any more questions after hearing this, but squatted down and took a closer look.

Later, she discovered that the degree of burnt black on her chest was indeed darker, and compared with the more distant parts, it did not seem to be in the same layer.

"It's indeed different. The chest is more scorched, and although other parts of the body are also scorched due to the high temperature of the electric current, it seems..."

“It’s a bit too much.”

The more Shana looked, the more she felt something was wrong, and then she looked at Xia Ye in confusion.

Even with the solar light on, the light in the cave was dim. I didn't notice it just now. How did Xia Ye see it?

"Is it really like that..." Xia Ye smiled helplessly.

[The crazy flames burned the distorted power], this is the first half of the description of inspiration. He thought it was some kind of abstract narrative method, saying something similar to "being swallowed by the flames of desire".

Now it seems that this guy was burned to death!

And judging from the second half, he seems to have some special obsession, or intention, with the "fire" that burned him to death.

The surrounding stone walls and wilderness showed no signs of burning except for the traces of the electric beam bombardment just now, which means that the fire did not occur inside or around the cave.

But for a survivor like him with such a weak body, it is highly unlikely that he could move a long distance in the wilderness and remain safe and sound. In other words, this is most likely the place where he died.

The cave was not burned, but there were cases of people dying from burning...

There is only one possibility - the fire starts from the inside out and burns out as soon as it is gone.

Thinking of this, Xia Ye picked up the +3 crowbar and swung it hard towards the chest of the corpse.

There is no obstruction to the touch, and it even feels a bit crispy.

Except for the crystallized parts, the rest of the internal structure of this corpse has almost been burned into a brittle shell!

At this time, it was subjected to Xia Ye's violent treatment, and the brittle shell was immediately shattered and turned into ashes on the ground.

And in the ashes, Xia Ye saw a complete square box, its surface reflecting some kind of refraction similar to that of metal material.

62. Original ability, pyromaniac!

"This is..." Others also noticed this abnormality and came over.

"Be careful, this thing may be the cause of the death of the survivors!" Seeing this, Xia Ye hurriedly stopped Shana who was about to reach out to take it.

"It?" The latter stopped and looked at the other party in confusion.

"Yeah." Xia Ye nodded.

"My inspiration vision not only described the remnant, but also vaguely described that his cause of death was burning to death, so I realized the anomaly."

"Let me take a look first..."

After saying that, he slowly opened up his inspirational vision again... oh no, it should be called true insight.

After this ability was systematized, Xia Ye felt a lot safer.

At least there won't be the vague feeling of uneasiness and confusion that I had when I turned on the inspiration vision before.

The vision quietly turned into a black and white film. A touch of red was lying in the ashes below. Although it was not bright, it was still particularly conspicuous among the dead black surroundings.

Strangely, no description came to mind this time.

But Xia Ye could feel that it was not that there was no description, but that the description had not yet been formed.

It feels like I know exactly what I want to express, but I haven't yet formed a smooth string of sentences.

But anyway, he didn't seem to feel any danger from this thing.

"Could it be that I am wrong, and this thing is just an object made of special material?"

After repeated confirmation, the description sentence had not yet been formed, so Xia Ye had no choice but to give up, put away his true insight, and gave his own conclusion.

"There shouldn't be any danger at the moment..."

As he spoke, he squatted down and picked up the thing.

It is a small metal box, about half the length and width of a palm. I don't know what material it is made of, but it looks quite delicate. There is a vivid-looking flame carved on the front of the box cover, and the side feels a bit frosted.

"This thing...why does it look so familiar?" Xia Ye played with the metal box over and over again, feeling as if it was something he knew.

"I have no impression at all..." Shana also looked at it for a long time and said without any clue.

In her eyes, this thing was indeed exquisite enough, but it did not have any aura of power and was just a useless work of art.

"As for the material used to make it... I can't recognize it, but it feels very hard."

Even the knowledgeable Careia was a little confused.

"Why don't we just open it and take a look? There seems to be a buckle on the side." Leah, who was pinching her nose and looking confused, said in a shrill voice.

In fact, Leah still hasn't figured out the situation yet, she just wants to leave here as soon as possible.

"Open it..." Xia Ye looked at the box in his hand with some worry.

The flame pattern carved on it was very vivid. Although it was static, it always gave him a sense of confusion as if it was dancing in the wind.

This made him even more certain that this thing was the cause of the death of the fourth-level survivors.