I'm Really Going to Become an Immortal

The feeling of having the Transparent World activated was extremely interesting.

It turned Chen Yun into a real-life hanger-on.

However, adhering to the principle of not causing trouble unless he had Supernova strength, Chen Yun didn't intend to use this power for any wrongdoing.

His choice was:

To use it normally at critical moments, but otherwise try to keep the Transparent World ability activated all day.

A stable and mature adult with such a power should try to keep it open continuously to ensure absolute control over the surrounding environment and thus ensure their own safety.

Chen Yun felt he might be a bit paranoid, but wouldn't anybody who remained carefree after facing a series of special circumstances like his actually be the strange one?

However, when he tried to keep the Transparent World always on.

He found that keeping the Transparent World fully operational all the time took a toll on him to a certain extent.

It wasn't a physical strain.

But rather mental fatigue.

The high level of concentration, the coordination of sight, hearing, and smell, and calculating scenarios in his mind was no small feat.

It unavoidably made him feel somewhat mentally exhausted.

Let's not even mention that mental fatigue is hard to recover from quickly; even if it had been the kind of physical fatigue that could be quickly recovered from, Chen Yun would still try to minimize this drain.

To keep the consumption low.

It was necessary to slightly reduce the intensity of perception.

But if reduced too much, the purpose of keeping the Transparent World constantly active would be lost.

Therefore,

The temporary plan was to gradually reduce the intensity of perception.

The closer to the limits of his perception, the much lower the intensity of the World's ability invested in these areas would be, just maintaining a subconscious awareness of some highly unusual activities.

Nearer to Chen Yun himself, the intensity of perception was higher.

After constantly adjusting and finding the right setup,

Eventually, the Transparent World was successfully maintained in a constantly active state without any burden on Chen Yun.

In his current state,

Within ten meters around him, the Transparent World was fully powered, allowing him to sense all changes within this area.

Further away, up to a range of over two hundred meters at the limits of the Transparent World, the intensity of perception and the focus dedicated decreased layer by layer.

Unless there was major activity, it wouldn't demand too much of Chen Yun's attention.

Having done all this,

Chen Yun picked up his phone.

He was ready to see if anyone had been looking for him after he had slept again for twelve hours.

But in fact,

Apart from a bunch of boring all-day @all group chats, there were only a few messages that Bai Shi had sent in the morning.

This was not surprising.

A modern person disappearing from the internet for twelve hours was nothing unusual.

If someone thought he had gone missing and was urgently trying to find him, that would be the real surprise.

In fact,

For freelancers like him, if he really suddenly disappeared or died at home,

It would only be discovered when his parents contacted him during their occasional monthly calls.

Thinking casually,

Chen Yun opened the messages Bai Shi had sent on QQ.

The message said he should come over in the afternoon if he was free as the compensation from the internet-famous store and the Shucheng Morning News was ready, and Bai Shi planned to personally hand over the bank card to him.

Seeing this,

Chen Yun shoved his phone into his pocket.

He simply went to the bathroom, washed himself from head to toe, changed his clothes, and then opened his room door.

He was just about to knock on Bai Shi's door opposite his.

When he suddenly stopped dead in his tracks.

A "squeak squeak" sound came from not far away.

Chen Yun looked in the direction of the sound.

A gray, wet rat was scrabbling down from the water pipe outside the corridor window.

Obviously,

The slightly slippery surface of the water pipe due to a light rain didn't bother the rat at all.

Seeing this,

For some reason, Chen Yun impulsively had an idea.

Perhaps he could use this rat.

Would you like to delve into the effects of the Transparent World?

He wasn't planning to use the ability of the Transparent World for any nefarious purposes, but he was still curious about what it could achieve when put into practice.

As soon as the thought occurred, he acted.

Chen Yun turned around, opened the door, and took an umbrella with him as he directly headed to the elevator.

Ding-dong.

The elevator doors opened.

Chen Yun, who had arrived at the entrance of the building, didn't look up to see where the rat on the water pipe had gone.

That's because his sense of smell already pinpointed the direction of the rat.

It had skillfully moved away from the water pipe some time ago.

Chen Yun calmly opened his umbrella and walked out from the relatively dry entrance.

A chill mixed with strands of rain draped over everything.

The fresh scent of grass lingered at the tip of his nose.

That was the fresh scent after the rain.

After activating Transparent World, Chen Yun casually glanced around and quickly formed a mental map of the rat's trajectory based on the scent trails.

The trajectory map formed in his mind was clearer than when he only had his Super Smell.

The linked senses seemed to have enhanced his sense of smell.

Although the scent dispersed quickly in the rain,

Chen Yun's sense of smell was still able to detect the traces of the rat that had recently passed by.

After roughly estimating the strength of the scent, Chen Yun walked into the rain in a certain direction.

His steps were slow,

but each step was resolute.

As he continued to focus, the scent of the rat became increasingly clear in his perception, standing out from countless other scents.

At spots where the scent was momentarily washed away by the rain, looking around the vicinity usually helped pick it up again.

A few steps later,

Chen Yun reached the vicinity of the vegetable market near his home.

Since it was raining and not a mealtime,

the market was nearly empty.

There was a drain in front of Chen Yun.

It was used for wastewater drainage from the market and it was left uncovered for convenience.

The scent of the rat stopped abruptly here.

The complex scents from the vegetable market and the sewer mingled together here in a tangled mess.

Seeing this,

Chen Yun's power from the Transparent World operated at high capacity.

For other, unnecessary details, his perception began to diminish.

The first thing he heard

was the sound of raindrops hitting his umbrella and various noises inside the market.

Observing more closely,

he let his hearing extend to sufficient depth,

ignoring irrelevant sounds.

The rustling of the rat moving and the squeaking sounds from its mouth became clear.

Coupled with the powerful olfaction of the Transparent World sorting through the complex scents here,

the scents of the rats became discernible amongst the myriad of complex scents.

At this moment.

The Transparent World was fully formed.

Combined with the memory of seeing the sewerage plans from Bai Shi of Mingwang New Village,

Chen Yun glanced downward.

He saw a vast empire among countless pipes underground.

Through the ground, he could see the shadows of numerous rats moving around.

The particular rat that Chen Yun was tracking was among them.

Mingwang New Village, being an old residential area, indeed had a rather outdated sewer system.

They had constructed a vast Underworld Kingdom by exploiting the poor drainage system.

It was vividly displayed in Chen Yun's Transparent World.

This was a corner beneath humanity's feet, even more unknown.

Under the power of the Transparent World,

everything was in plain sight.