All My Superpowers Come from the Law of Causality-Chapter 161: Arrogant and Consecutive Upgrades!
After Deng Zhongquan left, Su Xin continued to pick up his phone to donate, but before long, there was another knock at the door.
"Come in."
Su Xin said without looking up.
After a while, a crisp female voice sounded in front of the desk:
"Mr. Su, regarding the list you requested, we have searched through the company's channels in many countries, including those previously given to you, we found a total of over 22,000."
" It's getting harder to screen for eligible candidates. Mr. Su, do you want to continue?"
Su Xin looked up, surprised:
"Only over 22,000? Didn't I ask you to screen globally?"
The female secretary gave a helpless smile:
"Mr. Su, countries worldwide do not share data on this matter, so it's not easy to directly screen targets worldwide. Plus, we need to consider the data's authenticity and timeliness. Combined with the criteria you provided, there are indeed not many left."
"The remaining easy finds are either donations over a million, or have already raised some funds with not much shortfall, which doesn't meet your criteria."
Su Xin frowned.
These past few days, his money seemed inexhaustible, the donation list was pre-screened by someone else, allowing him to earn an unprecedented massive amount of causal points at an unprecedented speed.
It's like exploiting a system bug.
These days, his ability upgrade frequency was at its peak since activating the system, averaging two to three times or even three to four times a day.
But next, the efficiency of earning causal points might greatly decrease.
Money is easy; just find a fated one.
The key is the right donation list; this won't be easy to collect anymore.
Over these past few days, he also noticed that some recipients had pathetically few causal points during massive donations, not only due to their character but also because—
Even if they initiated fundraising, it doesn't mean they are facing a life-threatening crisis. If not a terminal illness with a death threat, his donations weren't lifesaving, hence fewer causal points.
This is why his average yield from donations during this period was much less than before.
Before, he carefully chose himself, seeing desperate pleas on forums, all having a high risk of death due to terminal illness.
The secretary-selected ones mainly relied on donation amounts, unable to ensure the recipient's desperate need for help, the recipient's life risk, or even if they are truly short on cash, naturally affecting causal point yield.
Some clearly well-off yet terminally ill individuals also raise funds online. For such people, donating hundreds of thousands yields very few causal points.
Su Xin waved his hand and said: "Forget it, if not, then not. Let them continue screening for slightly higher donation amounts, even if one or two million, but try to find those with life-threatening terminal illnesses."
" Avoid those who've already raised significant amounts. For example, if someone asks for a million and received three or four hundred thousand, don't include such cases."
The female secretary found it troublesome but dared not show it, just nodded:
"Okay."
"Then go ahead, send them directly to my email once screened."
After the secretary left, Su Xin continued donating, and no one else bothered him after that.
Busy until past nine at night.
Su Xin left Yonghui Building, bought a laptop, checked into a luxury suite at a five-star hotel, and immersed in donations, ignoring outside affairs.
This time, he didn't have Zhan Shijie arrange for someone to guard him, even if the latter strongly insisted, he refused, knowing that if attacked again, the mastermind's power isn't something these people could withstand.
So, he'd rather do nothing.
After all, no matter the attack, he wouldn't die, at most, his computer would get damaged, delaying his donation time.
Just find trouble, kill some people, and let the Celestial Kingdom investigate the mastermind.
One has to admit, habit is a scary thing.
From being annoyed the first time he was attacked.
To anger at the second attack.
Today, Su Xin had grown accustomed to it.
On the bright side, being attacked gives him an excuse to get angry, and he could use it to make money.
This six billion, if used according to the new higher donation standards, might not last two days.
Without another fated one, he couldn't just go rob Yonghui Financial Group again, could he?
He's not a bandit.
As for giving up this method of earning causal points through donations, it's out of the question.
No matter less efficient than these past days, it's still much faster than saving people one by one.
...
November 7, afternoon.
A phone call interrupted Su Xin, engrossed in his phone.
The caller was Zhan Shijie.
Su Xin clicked to connect.
"Mr. Su, regarding the first attack investigation, we now have clear results. Should I send the report to you, or report in person?"
"Send it to my email."
"Okay."
"What about the second attack the day before yesterday?"
"I'm sorry, Mr. Su, I haven't found any clues regarding this attack yet, but the existing evidence suggests that this incident has no direct connection with any official faction of the Celestial Kingdom."
"Alright, I understand."
Su Xin hung up the phone and opened his email to receive the encrypted document sent by the other party.
The document spanned over a dozen pages. Su Xin skimmed through it, gaining a sufficient understanding of the entire incident's ins and outs.
After a brief analysis, he found that the logical chain within it was quite clear, and Su Xin thought the authenticity of this document was at least eighty percent.
"So..."
"The mastermind is really Dai Shihua, huh."
Su Xin coldly smiled.
However, he wasn't in a rush to kill the other party.
After all, after working hard for a day and accumulating quite a bit of causality points, it was time for an upgrade.
Su Xin looked at his personal panel.
[Name: Su Xin]
[Abilities: Concealment Prayer LV7, Unyielding Dead LV5, Other-Transformation LV5, Damage Transfer LV3, Self-Deception LV4, Sword God Slash LV4.]
[Causality Points: 172,337.]
"One hundred seventy thousand causality points, finally, I can bet on Damage Transfer Superpower."
Su Xin rubbed his hands back and forth, then with a thought, he chose to upgrade his ability.
Among the two random traits that appeared, none had the effect of autonomously controlling Damage Transfer, but he still chose one of the traits.
After all, since the causality points were spent, it was important to first raise Damage Transfer by a level. Refreshing the trait at LV5 could wait.
[Self-Blessing: You will not become the target of Damage Transfer.]
"Not bad."
Looking at the trait description, Su Xin nodded slightly in satisfaction. With this trait, he wouldn't have to worry about transferring damage to himself when attacking others.
It's not that he's afraid of death; it's just that accidentally killing himself in front of everyone would really hurt his style and kill efficiency.
"Damage Transfer, continue upgrading!"
With another thought, Su Xin saw two more traits to choose from, but still none that allowed autonomous control of Damage Transfer effect.
He had no choice but to refresh.
Still nothing.
Continue to refresh.
Each refresh consumed ten thousand causality points, but there was no choice; if the drawbacks of this ability couldn't be resolved, it would be more harmful than beneficial to him.
If he wanted to keep this ability, he could only take this gamble.
Fortunately, Su Xin's luck was indeed good. After a total of eight refreshes, a trait that could barely resolve the drawbacks appeared—
[Hostile Gaze: After continuously gazing at a person for more than three seconds, you can designate them as an enemy for half an hour. After that, when triggering the Damage Transfer effect, you can specify the enemy as the target.]
Though it required a three-second gaze prerequisite, at least now he had the trait to actively lock onto a target for Damage Transfer, so he wouldn't have to worry about not being able to precisely kill enemies in a crowd anymore.
And the continuous upgrades and refreshing traits had consumed a total of one hundred thousand causality points, leaving him with just over seventy thousand points remaining.
But he only needed to upgrade Self-Deception and Sword God Slash, which was more than enough.
Su Xin continued to issue upgrade commands.
After the upgrade of the two major abilities, he gained two major traits:
[True and False Illusion Body: Upon entering Stealth, an Illusion Body is left in place, possessing all biological characteristics of the true body and sharing all senses and consciousness in real-time, but unable to use system-given abilities. The Illusion Body disappears when the true body exits the Stealth state.]
[Unlimited Continuous Slash: Within the effective time, blade light can be unleashed limitlessly.]
This Unlimited Continuous Slash trait was obtained after using the refresh function three times.
After all, he had seen this trait during the last upgrade and was quite satisfied with it. When he saw that the two randomly appearing traits during this upgrade weren't good, he chose to refresh.
His luck was really not too bad.
Earlier, while upgrading Damage Transfer, he managed to refresh the desired trait, and now for Sword God Slash, it also turned out as he wished.
His current personal panel could be called luxurious!
[Name: Su Xin]
[Abilities: Concealment Prayer LV7, Unyielding Dead LV5, Other-Transformation LV5, Damage Transfer LV5, Self-Deception LV5, Sword God Slash LV5.]
[Causality Points: 22,337]
A series of LV5 abilities, compared to a few days ago, the total level had increased by more than ten levels, and ten new traits had been added.
With each trait gained, Su Xin's strength had increased significantly, reducing weaknesses and enhancing strengths, making his abilities more comprehensive.
Such continuous strengthening had drastically transformed Su Xin's power.
"Ability upgrades completed!"
"It's time to meet the mastermind."
Su Xin stood up from the computer desk, his eyes emitting a cold gleam.
