I Can Control Resources-Chapter 44: Flash, Flash, and Flash Again

’Shen Ning’Er is going to be electrocuted!’

The thought had just flashed through Gao Neng’s mind when the bald man went flying. As he flew, a sharp cracking sound came from his fist.

"Agh! My fist..."

’It broke?’ While hearing the bald man’s cry of pain, Gao Neng noticed that Shen Ning’Er hadn’t even been scratched.

More importantly, after sending the bald man flying with one punch, Shen Ning’Er didn’t pause for a second. She immediately followed up with a whip kick that slammed into the face of a skinny man rushing her from the right.

In that instant, the skinny man’s face contorted.

His eyes filled with terror.

Then, he was sent spiraling through the air before slamming headfirst into the factory wall. It looked like his injuries were anything but light.

’What’s going on?!’

Gao Neng wasn’t the only one who was baffled; the others were just as shocked.

They had all seen the sparks of electricity on the bald man’s fist, yet Shen Ning’Er was completely unfazed, her movements not faltering in the slightest.

’Could it be... the bald man was using fake electricity?’ Gao Neng’s expression was strange. He’d heard of fake rice, fake oil, even fake cabbage... but fake electricity? Was that even a thing?

As he was thinking, he suddenly noticed that several copper wires had been wrapped around his feet at some point. Beside him stood a middle-aged man with bulging, fish-like eyes.

"..." Gao Neng was stunned. ’I’ve been ambushed!’

He tried to shake the copper wires off his feet, but it was too late.

"I’ll fry you!" the man with the goldfish-like eyes shouted. With one hand, he connected the other end of the copper wires to the factory’s power source. With his other hand, he gave Gao Neng a taunting wave.

In that moment, Gao Neng fully expected to scream and fall to the ground, twitching uncontrollably. But he quickly realized something was wrong. He felt absolutely nothing.

’No shock?’

’Why am I not getting shocked either?’

’No!’

’I *should* be getting shocked!’

Gao Neng’s intelligence was as high as his name suggested, so he quickly began to shake. While trembling, he started making "Ahhh ahhh ahhh..." sounds and rolling his eyes back in his head.

"Hahaha, die!" Seeing Gao Neng’s reaction, Goldfish Eyes didn’t hold back. He lunged forward, closing the distance to Gao Neng in a single bound.

When he was two meters away from Gao Neng, Goldfish Eyes’s hand reached behind his back and unexpectedly drew a black wooden sword.

He was thrilled!

Because even though it was a wooden sword, if he could pierce Gao Neng’s throat, death was certain.

But the reality was...

Gao Neng’s iron shovel was far faster than his wooden sword.

The instant Goldfish Eyes made his move, Gao Neng decisively swung his shovel. The shovel slammed right into Goldfish Eyes’s face. You could say he anticipated the move perfectly.

SMACK!

Goldfish Eyes was sent flying by the shovel. His two bulging eyeballs were smacked so hard they seemed to sink back into his skull. As a bonus, he lost two front teeth.

THUD!

His head then hit a metal pole.

"Why aren’t you afraid of electricity either?!" Goldfish Eyes collapsed to his knees, his face a mask of disbelief. He had clearly seen Gao Neng being electrocuted, so how could he still fight back?

"Yeah, why am I not afraid of electricity?" Gao Neng feigned curiosity.

"Pah! This armor you’re wearing, is it really made of gold?"

"Are you... asking me?" Gao Neng spread his hands, brandished the shovel in his hand, and put on a bewildered expression.

"Duh, of course I’m asking you!" Goldfish Eyes roared.

"We’re enemies, and you’re asking me? Sorry, my mom told me not to play with idiots." Gao Neng sighed. ’Your IQ is already in the gutter, and now you want to drag mine down with you?’

’As if.’

In fact, the moment he felt no reaction to the electricity, Gao Neng had already figured out the reason.

According to the principle of electric field superposition, the electric field strength inside a conductor is the sum of the external field E_ext and the internal field E_int. When the total electric field strength inside the conductor is zero, the free electrons within it cease to move. This state, with no charge movement, is called electrostatic equilibrium.

It’s just like how the protective suits worn by high-voltage line workers are made of metal wire. When they touch a high-voltage line, they create an equipotential surface. Not only do they not get electrocuted, but the suit actually protects the worker’s body.

This is the principle of the Faraday cage!

If his guess was correct, this principle was applied in the design of the Golden Armor.

’Thinking about it that way...’

Gao Neng felt it made perfect sense.

Shen Ning’Er was an Alliance Major, so she must have been through countless battles. If she couldn’t even solve a simple problem like metal conductivity, how could she possibly have survived until now?

Looking at the disbelief on Goldfish Eyes’s face and recalling the terror on the bald man’s...

Gao Neng could only think one thing: ’Ah... the tragedy of a failed student!’

"You little brat, you dare say I’m stupid?!" Goldfish Eyes froze for a moment, then, as if his sore spot had been poked, he screamed, "AHHH!!! Even with that golden shell, I can still pierce you!"

Goldfish Eyes was absolutely furious.

He finally snapped!

With a wave of his hand, no fewer than six or seven sharp copper swords appeared. Each sword was only the size of a palm, looking just like throwing knives.

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!

They were incredibly fast.

Gao Neng was genuinely startled.

He was wearing the Golden Armor, but he had no desire to be a human pincushion. The sheer impact force alone could seriously injure him.

In his panic, his only option was to run toward the Furious Golden Ape.

"ROAR!" A furious bellow.

A massive fist smashed all the copper swords to pieces.

"Thanks, Golden Ape!" Gao Neng said politely.

"If you’re going to thank someone, thank me." After kicking away a Fatty who had gotten too close, Shen Ning’Er appeared in front of Gao Neng, her fists stained with blood.

"..." Gao Neng glanced around.

’Are they all taken care of?’

’That was fast!’

SWISH! A golden light shot out.

Goldfish Eyes’s body flew into the air and was pinned directly to the wall.

"I killed ten. You?" Shen Ning’Er shot Gao Neng a provocative glance. With a flick of her finger, the golden light flew back into her hand, revealing itself to be a Golden Needle.

"What’s ten? Just wait, I’ll be able to kill a hundred!" Gao Neng firmly believed he wasn’t weak; he was just missing a medium.

’But what is the medium?’

’Could it be... Shen Ning’Er?’

’In a way... Shen Ning’Er could be considered a medium, right? But that doesn’t seem right. The system’s completion condition is "by one’s own power," which means I can’t rely on others, can I?’

"Alright, your hundred have arrived. With a little extra thrown in. Two hundred, actually." Shen Ning’Er gave Gao Neng an encouraging look.

"..." Gao Neng tightened his grip on the shovel.

At that moment, more than two hundred men in identical black suits surrounded Shen Ning’Er and Gao Neng, their faces devoid of emotion.

"An Alliance Major?" A voice called out from the crowd. Then, an old man with a goatee stepped forward. "So young. A pity, but why did you come alone?"

"Wang Ju," Shen Ning’Er said, her expression calm.

"Correct!" Wang Ju nodded but said no more. Instead, he turned to a figure cloaked in black standing behind him. "This little broad is a handful. My men are no match for her. I’ve already lost thirteen people in one night. You know these are all the men I have. I doubt even throwing all of them at her would be enough. I wonder if you, my lord, would be willing to make a move?"

"One of the three great powers of the Forgotten Land, and you can’t even deal with a single Major." The cloaked figure’s tone was icy. They slowly raised their head, revealing a pair of eyes as clear as water, as if unstained by a single speck of dust. Those eyes held no emotion, no ripple of any kind.

’It’s him! (or her!)’ The moment Gao Neng saw those eyes, he confirmed the person’s identity. It was the mysterious person from the secret room.

"What you say is true, my lord... but since this little broad has already found this place, you can’t possibly let her go, can you? After all, the plan has already..."

"Silence!" the mysterious person cut Wang Ju off. Then, their eyes fixed on Shen Ning’Er. "An eighteen-year-old Alliance Major... Hmm, such an elite is a rare sight even in the Human Alliance. Alone? In that case, you can stay here permanently."

SWISH!

SWISH!

The moment the mysterious person finished speaking, two black shadows appeared in the field.

These two black shadows were extremely fast.

The ten Energy Warriors from before had to run, but these two black shadows seemed to appear without moving at all, materializing in a flash, as if teleporting.

Then, another flash...

Two more!

Another flash!

Two more!

Another flash...

...

Gao Neng lost count of how many times they flashed. He only knew that a total of twenty black shadows now stood before him, each one moving with ghostly speed.

’Is all this really necessary?’

’Really?!’