My avatar is becoming the final boss

Chapter 4 Test
I'm not sure if others can see this thing, so to be safe, I'd better go home and study it.

Thinking of this, Ji Minghuan pressed the cross in the upper right corner, and the system panel shrank into a gear icon and moved to the lower right corner of the field of vision.

He walked out of the secluded corner behind the teaching building and soon crossed the threshold of Lijing No. 5 Middle School and entered the bustling market. It was rush hour, and a dense swarm of people swarmed in like an ant colony. The sound of horns seemed to be tinged with the smell of sweat.

After finally finding a gap, Ji Minghuan slid out of the crowd as nimbly as a fish.

Then we stopped walking along the main road and turned into an urban village.

I found a narrow, damp alleyway in the urban village and turned in. I could see air conditioners hidden behind security nets, and clothes drying on the rooftop swaying in the breeze. It had just rained lightly this afternoon, and there were still puddles on the ground, with one or two gray-black cigarette butts in them.

Seeing that there was no one around and no surveillance equipment in the alley, Ji Minghuan stood down leaning against the wall.

He raised his right hand and stared at his fingers for a moment. "If my memory serves me right, the ability of this body is..."

The next moment, Ji Minghuan's five fingers slightly bent, and the black restraint belt slid out from the cuffs of his school uniform like a snake, swam across his wrist, and slowly wrapped around his index finger.

"Just like I remember," he whispered to himself, gazing at the restraints that seemed to have a real life of their own. "This is Gu Wenyu's ability."

At the moment the character's memory was loaded, the memory of this superpower naturally flowed into his mind. According to the setting, the time when "Gu Wenyu" awakened his superpower was less than a month ago. His control over the restraint belt was only rudimentary, and he had not even fully understood the rules of the superpower.

Despite this, this body also retains the muscle memory brought by repeated training of supernatural powers.

Ji Minghuan didn't need to control himself deliberately. The moment the idea flashed through his mind, his body moved instinctively, and the restraints would also make corresponding movements.

Leaning against the wall of the alley, Ji Minghuan quietly recalled "Gu Wenyu's" initial series of experiments on superpowers. After a moment, he raised his eyebrows, as if he had found some rules in his memory that Gu Wenyu had not discovered.

He lifted the bag with one hand, dangling it above his head, and simultaneously extended a black restraint from his sleeve. He released his hand, and the heavy bag suddenly fell down, hitting the back of his head.

But unexpectedly, Ji Minghuan did not feel any sudden pressure on his head.

Instead, the restraint wrapped around the wrist suddenly sank slightly, and the surface became concave.

Ji Minghuan scratched his head and stared at the schoolbag that fell to the ground with interest. "This is really fun."

Indeed, even though he had just been hit by a heavy schoolbag, his head was not affected at all.

It was just as he guessed: the restraints could share the force he was bearing, and this force would be weakened to a certain extent in the process of flowing from his body to the restraints.

If Ji Minghuan's body is compared to a "water trough" and the force he is subjected to is equated with "water flow", then the restraint belt is equivalent to a few "small puddles" dug beside the trough - the moment the water falls into the trough, it will immediately be diverted to the puddles, and in the process of diversion, the total amount of water will be absorbed by the soil and slightly reduced.

Thinking this way, he could even rely on the mechanism of the restraint belt to move at high speed on a tall building without any risk, because even if he unfortunately fell, Ji Minghuan could let the restraint belt take the instantaneous impact force generated when he fell to the ground on his behalf.

It is equivalent to taking out a safety insurance for yourself.

Of course, the premise for doing this is that the impact force of landing will not exceed the maximum bearing limit of the restraints; otherwise, once the restraints break, he may be killed.

However, in Gu Wenyu's memory, he himself had never noticed this: he once tried to fall from a height of five meters but was unharmed. He mistakenly thought that his physical fitness had become stronger after awakening his superpowers. In fact, the restraint belt absorbed 90% of the impact force for him the moment it touched the ground.

However, objectively speaking, his physical fitness has indeed improved after awakening his superpowers, and the improvement is significant.

Thinking of this, Ji Minghuan suddenly blinked: "Oh right, what if the force absorbed is not instantaneous impact, but continuous force?"

He summoned the bandages covering his entire body, causing them to swirl around him. From afar, he looked like a foreign object trapped in a black vortex.

Ji Minghuan raised his eyebrows, trying to continuously distribute the gravity he was bearing to the bandage, and then tapped the ground with the front of his shoe.

With a simple touch of the ground, he instantly leaped high, effortlessly crossing the middle of the wall and reaching a height of four meters. He then plummeted back to the ground like a falling leaf, his body as light as if floating in space.

"It actually works against gravity."

As his shoe touched the ground, Ji Minghuan put the bandage back into his sleeve, a hint of surprise flashing across his eyes.

Only at this moment did he confirm that the move he had just used was not only effective for instantaneous impact force, but also for "continuous" force. In other words, Ji Minghuan could even use the mechanism of the restraint belt to reduce the impact of gravity on himself, making his body lighter and thus gaining superior maneuverability.

As long as he allows the restraints to continue to share the gravity he is subject to, and... the gravity will be slightly reduced in the process of flowing to the restraints, this is equivalent to a decrease in the "overall gravity" of the body plus the restraints, so the whole body will become more than twice as light.

But there is a price to pay.

That is, it is very easy to exceed the load-bearing capacity of the restraints. Ji Minghuan could feel that the restraints wrapped around his wrists became slightly hot after just letting the restraints share the gravity for a short while.

"If I let the restraints share the weight of my body for a long time, wouldn't it burst into flames?" Ji Minghuan thought wildly. "If it really burst into flames, could I use it as a fire whip to whip people?"

He paused and said, "But if this happens, I'll be the first one to get burned."

After testing the basic rules of the restraint belt, Ji Minghuan picked up the schoolbag that he had just thrown on the ground.

He stood at the entrance of the alley, diverting the force of gravity to the restraints all over his body.

He leaped forward, and in an instant his body bounced upward, rising to a height of four or five meters. He then extended the restraints wrapped around his five fingers and grabbed the anti-theft net outside an air conditioner outdoor unit. At this moment, he suddenly raised his right hand, pulling the restraints at the front end connected to the anti-theft net, and his thin body swung forward staggeringly.

Like a trapeze artist in a circus.

He drew a clear arc in mid-air, passing over the rusty security nets. The hum of the air conditioner was drowned out by the sound of the air being torn apart.

As the restraints were retracted to his side, Ji Minghuan fell to the ground again, but before landing, he stretched out another restraint and tightly wrapped it around the elevator used for construction in the alley. Then, using the restraints as leverage, he swung his body around and rose into the air, quickly leaping over the billboard in front of him like a seagull flying over the waves.

The body, no longer bound by gravity, at this moment flies like a bird in the twilight.

After only two attempts, Ji Minghuan had completely mastered this technique.

The dusk was blood-red. Dark restraints danced in the air like splashed ink, entwining the security nets. A young man in school uniform grasped the restraints and made his way through the narrow alley. At the end of the alley, his frail body dropped from over ten meters in the air. His school uniform jacket rippled high, fluttering like a bird's tail feathers.

As he fell, the restraints converged towards his body, as if he was dragging a dancing stream of black light behind him, falling at an angle like a rainstorm.

The puddles in the alley in the pupils kept getting bigger, and the reflections on the water surface also expanded infinitely.

The moment the soles of his shoes touched the ground, Ji Minghuan diverted the impact force coming from below to the top of each restraint strap, as precise as a machine and without any mistakes.

The whole person landed safely, without even his knees bending downward.

Instead, the restraints around him drooped like a dying snake, hanging down at his feet.

In the dead silent alley, he straightened his back and took a deep breath of the turbid air.

Then he lowered his eyes, put the burning, drooping restraints back into his sleeves, pulled the backpack straps that had slipped to his elbows back onto his shoulders, put his hands into his school uniform pockets, and slowly walked out of the narrow alley as if nothing had happened.

Bathed in the afterglow of the sunset, his figure slowly disappeared in the noise of the city.

(End of this chapter)