Reborn One Week Before the Apocalypse

Chapter 322: Chapter 312: Graduating from the Circle

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

Tang Mo couldn’t protect them forever. This way, she could collect a small tuition fee and get them to leave, freeing up space within her Protective Shield. It was killing two birds with one stone.

For a Spirit Attribute Superpower User, a value of 200 was neither high nor low. While not a trivial number, plenty of people could still meet the requirement.

Even those who didn’t meet the requirement could reach it if they stretched themselves a bit. There was still room to improve.

They could establish their own Protective Shields, and as their attribute values increased, they could even expand the shields’ range.

Everyone was mulling over what Tang Mo had just said. ’Is it really true?’

’But she’s Tang Mo. Why would she lie to us?’

After all, they were already within Tang Mo’s sphere of influence and had paid a hefty entrance fee. There was really nothing left for her to swindle from them.

To be blunt, their very survival depended on Tang Mo. If she wanted everything they owned, they would have to give it to her. There was no need for deception.

’Are we even worth the effort of being tricked?’

All the houses outside had been destroyed in the earthquake. The snow outside was already past everyone’s calves, and the temperature had dropped to nearly fifty degrees below zero. At this temperature, anyone without the body enhancements of the post-apocalyptic world wouldn’t survive for more than thirty minutes.

Everyone understood in their hearts that the world would only get worse, not better.

’If I could just establish my own Protective Shield at a time like this...’

Not a single Spirit Attribute Superpower User could resist such an offer. After slowly digesting the news, a long queue quickly formed in front of Tang Mo, who was standing at the edge of the Protective Shield.

”Let me make one thing clear,” Tang Mo said. ”Once you’ve learned, you get out. You can’t waste any more space inside my Protective Shield. Understood?”

Tang Mo’s head throbbed as she looked at the long, seemingly endless line of people that had somehow squeezed into the narrow space before her.

”Understood!”

The reply was uniform and loud. Almost every Spirit Attribute Superpower User had joined the queue, and even some whose Spirit Attribute Value was below 200 had lined up.

’Are you kidding? My attribute value will go up eventually. One day it’ll reach 200, but this chance to learn how to create a Protective Shield is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Miss it, and it’s gone forever.’

’Even if I learn it and can’t use it right away, it doesn’t matter. There’s always the future.’

’After I leave Tang Mo’s Protective Shield, I can find someone else with a high attribute value, right? I’ll just pay some money to hide in their shield for a bit, then focus on raising my Spirit Attribute Value to 200 as quickly as possible.’

Everyone had their own mental ledger, and they had all calculated the pros and cons with perfect clarity.

The people outside also heard Tang Mo’s words. A brief silence was followed by a sudden uproar.

The people inside could actually learn how to create the Protective Shield!

What kind of divine opportunity was this? The Spirit Attribute Superpower Users among them slapped their thighs in frustration.

’Don’t even ask. The only answer is regret. If they’d known there was an opportunity like this, they would have thrown all caution to the wind and shamelessly cut in line to get inside sooner.’

”People outside, don’t panic,” Tang Mo announced. ”Once you pay the entrance fee and get in, you can queue up at the back if you want to learn.”

Since Tang Mo wanted to teach the method for the Protective Shield, she naturally wouldn’t limit the number of students. The more people who learned, the smaller her own burden would become. It was a case of the more, the merrier.

Hearing Tang Mo’s words, the people outside the Protective Shield quieted down and began calculating one-third of their assets with even greater focus. They couldn’t dare to short-change Teacher Tang, lest there be some mishap before they got their chance to learn.

When it came to using spiritual power, Tang Mo probably knew the most techniques.

Spiritual power augmentation, materialization, healing, levitation, probing...

In fact, Tang Mo always felt that an attribute value was like a formless tool. How it was wielded and how much of its potential could be unleashed depended entirely on the user.

There was no textbook template teaching the ”correct” way to use it. No matter the attribute, there was no absolute formula, especially for the Spiritual Attribute, which allowed for numerous variations.

Even Tang Mo felt her own innovations weren’t enough; she would have to experiment more in the future.

In truth, every method of use not only required the power of the attribute itself, but also constant self-experimentation to find a path for the attribute’s energy that suited the user’s own meridians.

The Spirit Attribute Superpower Users already knew that the Protective Shield was sustained by spiritual power.

But as for *how* to use it... if they had to figure that out on their own, they’d probably freeze to death before they ever succeeded.

However, for someone like Tang Mo, who used her spiritual power as freely as if it were a part of her own body, teaching them this technique was incredibly simple.

She didn’t have to say a word. She simply sent a sliver of her spiritual power into the other person’s body, guiding their own spiritual power to circulate along a specific route until it found an exit point at a certain meridian. And that was all it took.

Different techniques were, in essence, just different patterns formed by the routes the power traveled through the body.

Once they memorized the route and located the exit point, they would naturally be able to use the technique from then on.

”Go try it outside. Don’t take up space here. If it doesn’t work, you can come back and find me.”

In five seconds, Tang Mo was done with one person. Then, without a shred of ceremony, she kicked him out.

The man who was kicked out wasn’t annoyed in the slightest. On the contrary, he was ecstatic. He hurriedly stood outside and tried to replicate the method Tang Mo had just guided him through.

A Protective Shield, about three square meters in size, appeared around him. However, this man’s shield gave off a faint white light, unlike the ostentatious golden glow of Tang Mo’s.

”It worked! It worked!”

The man shouted as he cleared the snow from within his Protective Shield.

”Honey! Honey, come on out! You and the baby don’t have to be crammed in there anymore! We have our own Protective Shield now!”

Overjoyed, the man called out to his wife and son, who were still inside the main Protective Shield.

The woman inside the Protective Shield had been watching her husband’s every move with rapt attention. When she saw the three-square-meter space appear around him, she couldn’t contain her joy. She immediately clutched her child, pushed her way through the crowd, and ran toward him.

”Anyone who’s already paid the entrance fee will have to pay again to get back in if they leave,” Tang Mo reminded them. ”Make sure you’ve thought this through.”

Tang Mo couldn’t wait for the people inside to leave and free up space, but she had no intention of refunding their fees. ’Otherwise, with all the coming and going, I wouldn’t get anything else done all day. I’d just be a full-time ticket agent.’

”Okay, okay! Honey, hurry up and come out.”

The man outside nodded repeatedly, still calling for his wife.

Without the slightest hesitation, the woman carried her child, pushed her way out of Tang Mo’s Protective Shield, and entered her husband’s.