Chapter 60: The Midas Touch
Zhuge Daofeng and Xiahou Pili came over angrily, both of them looked like they didn't care about life or death. Zhuge Daofeng said, "We won't run away. What do you want to do?"
Zhang Nianzu raised his hand, and Zhuge Daofeng closed his eyes...
Zhang Nianzu patted him on the shoulder and said, "Let's be even, okay?"
Zhuge Daofeng opened one eye and said in disbelief: "Really?"
Zhang Nianzu said, "We have settled the past. I still owe you for saving me. How about this? I will treat you to a meal—" He smiled and said, "No hot pot."
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There is a small open-air balcony on the top of Liu Laoliu's stadium. After Zhang Nianzu changed his clothes, Liu Laoliu called him here.
The old man was holding a cigarette in his mouth, gazing into the distance with a deep gaze.
Zhang Nianzu sat in the chair next to him and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
Liu Laoliu pointed down and said, "Do you know where this is?"
Zhang Nianzu shook his head. They were surrounded by low houses and deserted fields. The outer wall of the stadium they were in was deliberately made shabby to cover up its incompatible style. To outsiders, the shabby wall must be an abandoned factory. This shows that Ant-Man is very low-key and... really rich!
Liu Laoliu said: "This is the suburbs, one of our bases."
Zhang Nianzu is waiting for his sequel.
Liu Laoliu took a puff of his cigarette, his eyes becoming a little dim: "There's no delivery service here, I'm wondering what we're going to eat tonight."
Zhang Nianzu almost fell downstairs...
Liu Laoliu suddenly said, "Just now they were busy singing in the glass room, and I was the only one who saw it clearly."
Zhang Nianzu was slightly startled and asked, "What did you see clearly?"
Liu Laoliu said: "You can't punch with a force of 1,000 kilograms. You pressed the button only after you broke the wrist guard on your hand."
Zhang Nianzu did not deny it and said admiringly: "Sixth Master has a sharp eye."
Liu Laoliu said: "But I still don't understand how you did it?"
Zhang Nianzu fumbled around and picked up an abandoned old-fashioned bolt on the ground. There was only a straight iron rod left without a tail. It should be garbage that the construction team accidentally left here.
Liu Laoliu wondered, "What are you doing?"
Zhang Nianzu stretched out his right index finger and groped on the iron rod. He grasped the iron rod tightly, and suddenly pressed down with his index finger, and the iron rod broke in the middle.
Liu Laoliu blurted out: "The Midas Touch?"
This time it was Zhang Nianzu's turn to be interested: "What is the Midas Touch?"
Liu Laoliu said, "I have also seen this name in the records of your strongman race left by the previous generation of Ant-Man, but I don't know if you can use the Midas Touch - is this your special skill?"
Zhang Nianzu nodded. He had no intention of hiding it from Liu Laoliu. It turned out that he had found that there was no hope of breaking free by relying on real strength in the glass room just now, so he broke the metal accessories on one of the wristbands with his index finger, and then he successfully pressed the button.
Liu Laoliu took the two broken pieces of iron rod and looked at them. The broken ends were smooth and neat, as if they were cut by a sword that only existed in legends. He said with a sigh, "Amazing! How did you discover this ability?"
"I discovered it by accident, and to be honest, I don't really know how to use it." Only at this moment did Zhang Nianzu silently apologize in his heart for the screwdrivers he had scrapped.
Liu Laoliu looked at his index finger and said, "Is it... not causing any inconvenience to your life?"
Zhang Nianzu said: "I broke a few screwdrivers. I did it unconsciously before, but I just learned some skills recently."
"What technique?"
Zhang Nianzu said: "My finger seems to be able to find cracks on some objects that seem to be non-existent. The harder the object, the easier it is to find."
Liu Laoliu added: "And you broke it at once?"
"Not really." Zhang Nianzu said, "The success rate is very low. What happened just now was just a coincidence. Most of the time when I need something to break, I often have to try many times before it works." He has tried this countless times in private.
Liu Laoliu handed the half-broken iron rod to Zhang Nianzu and said, "Break it again for me."
"This is a bit difficult." Zhang Nianzu took it anyway, and groped with his index finger. It was very strange. Although it took twice as long as before, he found a crack again in the middle of it. This iron rod had been broken once, and the position of the crack last time was completely different from this time.
Zhang Nianzu pressed his index finger on the crack, but the iron rod didn't move at all. No matter how hard he tried, he failed. Zhang Nianzu threw it on the ground and said self-deprecatingly, "It seems like it's no use."
Liu Laoliu asked: "When will the success rate be higher?"
Zhang Nianzu thought about it seriously for a long time, and finally said: "When his life is threatened." In the most recent chase by the Black Panther Gang, Zhang Nianzu escaped danger by reversing twice, so he had a deep impression. Another time, he and Lei Tingting saw a child stuck in a railing on the road. It can be said that he also escaped by using the Midas Touch, but he did not recognize this skill at that time, so he used other tools.
Liu Laoliu asked, "So you're more likely to succeed when you're fully focused?"
"You could say that."
Liu Laoliu picked up the half of the small iron rod from the ground and handed it to Zhang Nianzu, saying, "Try it again. If you can't break it, you will be in danger of your life."
Zhang Nianzu found the crack and pointed his finger at it, but the iron rod remained unchanged.
Liu Laoliu suddenly said: "If it doesn't stop, Lei Tingting will die!"
Zhang Nianzu was startled and exerted force with his upper arm, and a line of force was transmitted along his arm to his fingers.
Gah——
The iron rod, which was already very short, broke into two pieces again.
Liu Laoliu asked: "How did you do that?"
Zhang Nianzu himself also found it incredible. He recalled the process and slowly concluded: "It's not enough to just use the fingers, it seems... I have to start from the upper arm..."
Liu Laoliu handed him the other half of the iron rod and said, "Try again."
This time, Zhang Nianzu used the same method to easily split it into two pieces!
Liu Laoliu cheered, "Awesome!"
Zhang Nianzu's mind suddenly became clear, as if a door to an unknown world had been opened!
Liu Laoliu asked, "Besides steel, can you break anything else?"
Zhang Nianzu said: “It should be possible--” He suddenly remembered the time when he went to rescue Xu Xiaofeng. The robber’s wooden stick hit his hand. He was fine, but the stick broke into two pieces. Now he thought that the stick must have run out of energy and hit the muzzle of the gun. Also, that time at the door of the bar, he accidentally broke Wang Ping’s arm.
Liu Laoliu said: "I know what to train next."
"What?" Zhang Nianzu asked.
Liu Laoliu said, "If it's against ordinary people, your current physical strength is enough to handle any situation. Even if you cheated in the explosive training, the output of 700-800 kilograms of punch is very strong. But you are the ancestor, you have to deal with the challenge of the tribe. Since God has given you the Golden Finger - let's call it the Golden Finger, then we must carry it forward, so the next step is to strengthen your Golden Finger training."
Zhang Nianzu said: "But I already know how to do it now."
Liu Laoliu chuckled and said, "There is still a gap between knowing how to use something and knowing how to use it. Every time your enemy wants to deal with you, will they obediently hand over their weapons to you and let you fire them?"
