Doomsday: Humanity shrinks 100 times

Chapter 89 Echolocation
Zhang Xinyue took a bath for more than an hour.

Since there was no towel, they couldn't wipe their hair, but fortunately they were small now, and the moisture on their bodies would evaporate if they just stayed in the sun for a while.

Zhang Qian, who was waiting outside, was even a little worried that something might have happened to her. Just as she was about to knock on the door and go in, she came out of the bathroom, all wet.

Zhang Qian finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"How is it, how is it." Zhang Qian hurried over and asked about the experience of using the bathroom.

"Except for the lack of towels and bath towels, the water cooling down quickly, the darkness inside, and the inability to blow dry hair, everything else was fine."

Zhang Qian felt a little embarrassed. It seemed that Zhang Xinyue had very high requirements for the bathing environment. It was obvious that she was from a wealthy family before the end of the world.

"Oh, then it's my and Lele's turn." Zhang Qian automatically ignored the shortcomings she mentioned and decided to go in with Xu Lele.

The water had been prepared in advance and Zhang Qian had insulated it.

Zhang Qian's ability is also limited, and the upper limit is related to the surface area of the object, which is somewhat similar to Wu Xiao's ability.

Because it is overall insulation, her ability is to create a layer of insulation on the surface of the object.

If the surface area of the object is too large, this ability will fail.

And this volume is additive.

For example, her ability limit is to insulate object A with a surface area of 100.

If there are 101 objects with a surface area of A/100, when the insulation reaches the 101st object, the insulation layer of the first insulated object will automatically disappear.

This is the upper limit of her ability. Apart from this, it seems that the duration of her ability is infinite.

However, the shape of the object cannot be changed at will, mainly it cannot become larger. As long as it exceeds the initial insulation range, the insulation effect will become ineffective.

In short, her ability is more like creating a temperature-insulating space near objects. The heat of objects in the space cannot dissipate. Once they leave this space, the heat-insulating effect will immediately become ineffective.

At first, a few people even considered making a layer of insulation directly in the shelter, but the result was naturally a failure.

Although it is possible to make a slightly smaller inner container, considering that her ability has a limit, it would be a bit of a waste to use the insulation ability in this way.

Her special ability should be used more in energy storage.

To put it bluntly, she is more like a mobile battery, but what she stores is heat instead of electricity.

Here, Zhang Qian excitedly took Xu Lele into the bathroom to take a shower.

Zhang Xinyue lowered her head and thought for a while, then found Lu Yuning and told her about her feelings in the bathroom just now.

"You mean you can sense objects that don't make any sound?" Lu Yuning was surprised.

"Well, that's what it looks like."

Lu Yuning pondered for a moment and said, "This should be the direction of your ability's evolution. At first I thought your hearing was enhanced, but now it seems that's not the case. It's more like..."

"Echolocation?"

"Yes." Lu Yuning's eyes lit up immediately.

Obviously, Zhang Xinyue herself has also considered this phenomenon.

Zhang Xinyue nodded. "I thought so too. However, echolocation requires emitting high-frequency sound waves and then analyzing the echoes."

Lu Yuning understood what she meant. Echolocation requires the body itself to serve as the sound source and emit sound waves outward. Zhang Xinyue obviously did not have this emission process, so she was naturally a little confused.

"This is beyond our comprehension. Many supernatural powers are beyond our comprehension. Perhaps it is some other form of wave."

"Yes, it is true. There is no point in worrying about it. As long as I know the effect of using it, it will be fine." Zhang Xinyue nodded and gave up studying the principles of using her own supernatural powers.

"But with your ability, our ability to prevent danger has increased exponentially," Lu Yuning said with a happy look on his face.

Zhang Xinyue’s previous ability could only identify some moving and chirping creatures, but now she can perform an all-round scan of the area within a certain range around her body, and almost no dangerous areas in the scanned area can escape detection.

Of course, the exact scanning range still needs to be tested, but if information is transmitted through waves, the distance should not be too small.

For example, Xu Qi's ability can summon bound creatures from a very long range.

However, Zhang Xinyue's ability is more about information feedback, which is different from Xu Qi's one-way information transmission. It may also be related to her brain's ability to process information.

So the distance basically won't be as exaggerated as Xu Qi's.

The two discussed it and finally decided to try it themselves.

Wu Xiao and Zou Yunxin also joined in out of curiosity. The experiment was simple: Lu Yu, Wu Xiao, and Zou Yunxin formed a circle with Zhang Xinyue as the center.

Zhang Xinyue kept using her special powers to scan the positions of the three people.

The three of them first stood at a position with a radius of about 0.5 meters.

"It's okay," Lu Yuning informed.

Zhang Xinyue nodded, closed her eyes, and then her supernatural power was activated, and the images of three little men appeared in her mind.

Except for not being able to see the specific faces of people, the height, weight and body shape of the people can be clearly presented.

The specific positions of the three people can also be identified by their body shapes.

Of course, the specific distance can only be roughly estimated.

"Okay, try it from a distance."

Zhang Xinyue did not open her eyes, but informed the three people and asked them to continue to increase the distance between their positions.

The three of them looked at each other and took a few steps back in unison.

"continue"

Obviously, the position after the move is still within Zhang Xinyue's perception range.

The three of them ran back a few steps.

“It’s a little blurry, but it’s still possible.”

Lu Yuning was a little surprised. They were now standing about 2 meters away from Zhang Xinyue.

The three of them had no choice but to continue retreating.

After a few moves.

"Stop, it's probably within this range and we can't sense anything anymore." Zhang Xinyue shouted to the three of them.

At this time, Lu Yuning and the other two in the distance could hardly see Zhang Xinyue clearly, but they could still barely hear her voice, which was almost the limit.

She opened her eyes and rubbed her aching head. This exploration ability seemed to be quite mentally taxing.

Lu Yuning and the other two ran back.

"It's so powerful, Xinyue, I can't see you clearly anymore." Zou Yunxin said.

Lu Yuning nodded: "It's about three meters away, and it's a little blurry in my vision."

After some trials, everyone was very happy. The exploration range of Zhang Xinyue's supernatural power had exceeded everyone's expectations.

If you are out exploring, a distance of three meters is enough for several people to react even if a creature suddenly appears.

Moreover, the scope of this ability should gradually increase as Zhang Xinyue's ability improves.

This way we should be able to guard against the mutants nearby, Lu Yuning thought.

But then he suddenly froze, as if he thought of something.

"By the way, have you ever tried to concentrate your mind in a certain direction? I remember you were able to do that before." He reminded.

Zhang Xinyue paused, apparently realizing what was happening.

　Thanks to Dao Ke Dao_Bu Si Ming for the monthly ticket.

　　Thank you all for your recommendation votes.

　　Let’s talk about the population issue. Some students think that population is the key to development. This is true under normal circumstances, but it is meaningless to reduce the population.

　　The reason why some people think that we should increase our staff is because I mentioned the productivity issue in my article.

　　However, the prerequisite for the reduced population to be useful is a way of cooperation. To put it bluntly, even if everyone in the park were gathered together, they would not be able to build a steam engine without the right superpowers.

　　Therefore, the prerequisite for the population to be useful is to patch the superpowers in advance, such as Li Wengang and Xu Ting.

　　Since we have mentioned the production issue, we naturally think of a solution. However, this is also a process. A novel cannot be completed in one go. Otherwise, wouldn’t it be more convenient to just throw out the outline directly?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)