EOTWR Chapter 19

Moreover, after systematic training, the abilities of those with abilities in the army grow even faster than those of ordinary people. Firstly, because there are many ability users in the army, and so many people cultivating together, exchanging experiences, they can naturally find the best cultivation methods. Secondly, it is also because soldiers have a large amount of training. No matter how much ordinary people increase their training volume, few can match the training volume of Hua Country soldiers. If Ai Wei really joined the army, training while killing zombies to earn crystal cores, he would indeed improve quickly.

In addition to ability users who awakened in the army, the government also recruited many ability users from the public to join the army. Honestly, the lethality of these newly awakened ability users is far worse than that of ordinary soldiers. But after training for a period of time, they also become stronger very quickly.

Ai Wei naturally wanted to become stronger, so after hearing Lu Feng’s words, he was somewhat moved, and said, “I’ll consider it, and I’ll give you an answer in a while.”

Lu Feng nodded and said, “I hope you consider it carefully. Your ability is very special.”

Ai Wei’s ability is indeed relatively rare; at least until now, he has not found anyone with the same ability as him.

Ai Wei responded and followed the group onto the car. He sat in the frontmost car with Lu Feng, guiding everyone towards the forest.

Ai Wei was still a little worried and couldn’t help but say, “That ability wolf is very powerful. We’re going to catch it now without making any preparations?”

Lu Feng said, “Judging from the video, although the ability wolf’s ability is not weak, it is still within the range that we can hunt.”

Ai Wei was still a little worried; after all, that ability wolf was indeed very powerful. But since Lu Feng said so, he could only hope that they were really that strong and could defeat the ability wolf.

This forest was vast, and under Ai Wei’s guidance, the group drove for more than ten minutes before finally arriving near the ability wolf.

“It’s over there, about 50 meters away, on a large rock,” Ai Wei said in a low voice to Lu Feng, pointing in a direction.

Lu Feng looked in that direction, but only saw a forest.

It would be difficult for more than a dozen people to encircle the ability wolf, and the ability wolf was fast. Even if they trapped it, it would be difficult to catch it again once it escaped. So this time, their action had to be a sure hit.

Lu Feng stopped the car and told everyone to get out and prepare. At the same time, the ability wolf also smelled a strange aura approaching and immediately pricked up its ears warily.

Its sharp wolf eyes looked in the direction of Ai Wei’s group, and then it ran towards them.

“It’s coming,” Ai Wei said.

Hearing that the ability wolf had discovered their trail so quickly, the expressions of the group were all stern.

Then, they saw a wolf about two meters long with gray-black fur appearing in the direction Ai Wei was pointing. When that wolf looked at the crowd, its indifferent and cruel eyes made people feel a chill in their hearts.

Then, more than a dozen wolves appeared behind the ability wolf, staring at the crowd covetously.

The wolves did not attack rashly, but carefully examined the crowd, seemingly with some trepidation. But they were unwilling to give up the prey in front of them and leave.

Of course, while they were evaluating the humans, the humans were also thinking about how to deal with them.

Lu Feng gave a gesture to one of his team members, and then another gesture to another team member.

However, after receiving the orders, those two people did nothing.

Ai Wei was a little strange, wondering what they were going to do, so he used his mental power to cover these two people, wanting to see what was different about them.

Then, his mental power discovered that the ability energy in one of the team members was changing.

Those ability energies condensed into a palm-sized ball, and under his control, slowly flew towards the ability wolf. And some subtle changes appeared in the other person’s shadow.

The head of that person’s shadow was stretched and thinned, almost becoming a thin line, and then this thin shadow moved towards the ability wolf. It traveled through lawns, tree shadows, and several clumps of small yellow wildflowers, slowly approaching the ability wolf at a speed of tens of centimeters per second.

The target was very small and moved slowly. If it were ordinary people or ordinary ability users, they would not notice anything approaching at all. But the ability wolf’s senses were more acute than those of ability users. It quickly sensed that something was approaching.

It jumped lightly to the side, dodged the shadow approaching it, and then bared its fangs fiercely at the crowd.

The wolf pack followed behind it, also making low growls at the crowd, and then, the ability wolf pounced towards Lu Feng, who was closest to it.

Seeing the ability wolf pouncing, Lu Feng not only did not dodge but also stretched out a hand, pointing his palm at the ability wolf. Then, a bolt of lightning flashed from his palm and struck the ability wolf directly.

Immediately, the smell of scorched fur filled the air. Some of the ability wolf’s original gray fur turned charred black.

“Awoo…” The ability wolf howled miserably and wanted to run away after rolling on the ground. However, at this time, the two ability users next to it had already begun to act. One ability user connected his shadow to the ability wolf’s shadow. The other ability user released an energy ball, pushing the energy ball to fly to the ability wolf’s face, and then, those energy balls exploded on the ability wolf’s face with “bang bang bang.”

Some people also used guns to shoot the ability wolf. Dozens of bullets hit the ability wolf one after another. Even the ability wolf, whose physical strength had been increased several times, couldn’t bear it.

Several bloody holes appeared in its body, and one of its eyes was swollen by the energy ball. It howled miserably a few times, rolled on the ground, and wanted to tuck its tail and run away.

However, it suddenly found that its body had become much more sluggish.

Originally, it could jump several meters with a light leap, and its running speed was faster than the wind, but now it was as if it was dragging something heavy. In addition to being injured, its running speed was more than twice as slow as usual.

It did not run too far before being knocked to the ground by the bullets, energy balls and other attacks released by the ability users.

This battle did not last long. After the ability wolf fell, the wolf pack that had been attacking with the ability wolf also turned around and fled.

Ai Wei couldn’t help but open his mouth. Although Lu Feng had said before that this ability wolf was not very powerful, the fact that they had solved the ability wolf so easily was a great surprise to him.

He never expected that the ability wolf would be solved so easily. It should be said that the ability soldiers are indeed not comparable to ordinary ability users?

He thought that even if they could kill the ability wolf, it would take some effort at least. But he didn’t expect that the battle would be over in less than 10 minutes.

These soldiers were fearless in the face of the wolf pack, calm and well-coordinated. They were indeed incomparable to him and the other companions in Youran Mountain Villa.

Although these soldiers’ methods of hunting the ability wolf were a little… uh, not very upright. However, the battlefield is about life and death, and being able to achieve the greatest victory at the smallest cost is the best combat plan.

After killing the ability wolf, Lu Feng led people to carry the ability wolf’s body onto the car. Seeing that the crowd was about to leave, Ai Wei suddenly said, “I found something, but before I tell you about this thing, you have to promise me that after you get this thing, you will leave 20% for me and my friends.”

Lu Feng heard this and asked, “What is it?” Ai Wei took out a piece of paper and a pen from his pocket and said, “Sign this, and I’ll tell you.”

Lu Feng took the paper and unfolded it, and saw that it was a guarantee. It guaranteed that after obtaining the thing that Ai Wei had found, they would give 20% of it to Ai Wei.

Lu Feng did not know what Ai Wei had found, but judging from Ai Wei’s performance, it must be something good, at least something that Ai Wei thought was good.

He thought for a while, felt that 20% of the share was not much, and signed his name on the paper without much hesitation.

Ai Wei took the guarantee and couldn’t help but smile slightly.

Of course, he wanted to monopolize that mutated grape tree. Judging from the evolution speed of that ability wolf, this mutated grape tree was obviously extremely beneficial to the evolution of abilities. But if scientists studied such a mutated grape tree that could enhance human abilities, it would obviously be able to exert a greater effect than if it were in his hands.

He was not afraid that Lu Feng would kill him to monopolize the mutated grape tree after seeing it. Firstly, the character of Hua Country soldiers was guaranteed, and secondly, although this ability wolf was powerful, it was not particularly powerful. There were many mutated animals and plants on the Internet that were more powerful than it, so the mutated grapes that could provide nutrients to the ability wolf should not be particularly high-quality treasures. And his ability was much rarer than that of the ability wolf. With his help, this ability user squad could find more hidden mutated animals and plants.

As long as he showed his ability, anyone with a brain would not kill him, an ability user who could discover mutated animals and plants, for the sake of a mutated grape tree.

“Let’s go. I found some mutated plants in this forest. Some mutated plants can enhance abilities if you eat them.”

As Ai Wei spoke, he led the way.

Hearing this, everyone’s eyes lit up. They naturally knew that some mutated plants could enhance abilities after being eaten. Hearing that there were edible mutated plants, they were all invigorated and followed Ai Wei.

“How did you discover this edible mutated plant?” A young soldier who looked more lively asked Ai Wei. His name was Xiang Yun, and he awakened his shadow ability on the day of the apocalypse and had just joined this ability user squad seven days ago.

Ai Wei smiled slightly and said, “Within the range covered by my ability, I can sense the shape of matter and the shape of abilities. So even if I don’t go out, I can know what’s around.”

“Your ability is better than radar,” the man said.

Ai Wei smiled modestly and said, “This ability only has this one use. It doesn’t have any lethality at all.” ↗

“If you want to have lethality, why don’t you join the army? I guarantee you’ll have lethality in a few months.” The man said, “With your ability, if you go to the army, everyone will definitely be vying for you.”

“That’s right! If you join the army, come to our team. Our team has very good benefits.”

“I’ve only been in the army for half a month, and my ability has been upgraded to level two.”

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When the others heard this, they all came over to persuade Ai Wei to join the army.

These people were not regular soldiers; most of them had joined the army after the apocalypse, and only a few had been soldiers for two or three years, so their military discipline was not strict enough.

In fact, in the Safe Zone, there were originally many ordinary ability users who wanted to form teams to go out of the city to kill zombies, but firstly, ordinary people had not received much training, and not many dared to go out of the city to kill zombies. Secondly, ordinary people’s equipment was really not as good as the military’s. The military had protective clothing, military vehicles, hand guns, bombs, etc., which ordinary people did not have. So in order to better kill zombies, many ordinary ability users joined the army.

Later, the cultivation methods in the army became more and more powerful, and even more ability users joined the army.

Now, the government is in urgent need of manpower. Zombies have to be killed, the places where zombies have been have to be disinfected at high temperatures, the explosive increase in the crime rate has to be suppressed, and there are many miscellaneous things to do, so government personnel have always been in a state of shortage, and they have been recruiting people.

With Ai Wei’s conditions, if he signed up to join the army, he would definitely be able to get in.

They usually risked their lives fighting zombies and mutated animals and plants, and could lose their lives if they were not careful. If there was a radar that could tell them where the danger was in advance, their safety factor would also be greatly improved.

“I’ll think about it, I’ll think about it…” Ai Wei couldn’t help but feel a little overwhelmed when he saw everyone so enthusiastically inviting him to join the army and said.

The group walked for half an hour before arriving at the mutated grapes.

Seeing this mutated grape, which looked similar to an ordinary grape tree, everyone couldn’t help but wonder if this grape tree was really a mutated plant.

Usually, mutated plants have some abnormal characteristics. For example, the flowers of pitcher plants become thousands of times larger, mutated cacti evolve into steel-needle-like hard and sharp spikes, and the leaves of some mutated grass become transparent, etc. But this grape tree did not show any signs of mutation from the outside.

“This mutated grape tree can hit people. Before, some wolves came to steal grapes and were knocked away by it,” Ai Wei said.

Hearing this, everyone felt a little unbelievable. They had never seen mutated plants. In fact, since the end of the world came, the probability of mutated plants appearing was not low. The research institute in the Safe Zone had already studied hundreds of mutated plants. But they had never seen mutated plants that could move and hit people.

“It’s really become a spirit!” Another soldier exclaimed as he looked at this scene.

“The remaining fruits on this grape tree have been eaten a lot by that ability wolf. I only want 20% of the remaining ones, which is four bunches,” Ai Wei said. “I have been observing this grape tree for several days. It looks very clever, but it can only hit people with its vines and has no other means of attack.”

Hearing Ai Wei say this, Lu Feng said to a teammate, “Zhu Ying, go!”

The soldier named Zhu Ying heard this and stepped forward, walking to the front of the grape tree.

Seeing someone approaching, the mutated grapes raised their vines to hit people. However, when the vines were about to hit Zhu Ying, it suddenly retracted the vines and even retreated a little. Because, a ball of blazing flames emerged from Zhu Ying’s palm.

It turned out that the mutated grapes had sensed the heat of the fire and felt a sense of crisis, so they retracted their vines.

This was easy to handle. Zhu Ying used fire to threaten the mutated grapes, and the others immediately began to dig the soil, uprooting the mutated grapes along with the soil. Then they tied it into a bundle with rope and loaded it onto the car.

Probably because it felt the disparity in the abilities of the enemy and itself, the mutated grapes did not move from beginning to end, behaving very well.

Seeing that the mutated grapes were so well-behaved, Chen Feng couldn’t help but point at it and ask Ai Wei, “Can this guy really knock away a wolf?”

Ai Wei said with certainty, “It’s just bullying the weak and fearing the strong. It will obediently surrender when it encounters a stronger opponent, and it will beat the weaker ones without mercy. Be careful on the road.”

Everyone was a little tongue-tied at the IQ of the mutated grapes and thought that the mutated grapes had really become spirits.

The group returned to Youran Mountain Villa with the mutated grapes and the ability wolf’s body. Han Lu couldn’t help but cry when she saw the ability wolf’s body. Everyone had been under a lot of pressure during this time. Although Dr. Li and Xia Junchi didn’t say anything, they also breathed a sigh of relief and their expressions became more relaxed.

Because it was late, Lu Feng and his group planned to return to the Safe Zone tomorrow. That night, everyone made a hearty dinner to celebrate the final solution to the scourge of the ability wolf.

After dinner, housing was arranged for Lu Feng and others, and several people gathered together to discuss whether to follow the ability user squad to the Safe Zone.

They had all grown up in the city, and their previous occupations were inseparable from the crowd. Although staying in Youran Mountain Villa was not competitive, it was really boring. They all wanted to go to the Safe Zone.

Moreover, the Safe Zone was in the early stages of construction. Not only was the government in need of people, but also various industries in the Safe Zone had not yet begun to develop. If they missed this period, it would be difficult for them to catch up with others after others had divided up the various markets in the Safe Zone.

In the past, they were afraid that there would be too many people in the Safe Zone, which would lead to the danger of a zombie outbreak. But now that the Safe Zone’s protective measures were so good, they didn’t need to worry too much about safety issues.

However, if they wanted to return to the Safe Zone, they still had a problem to solve.

Last time, those people from Sanhe Town attacked Youran Mountain Villa, but they were beaten to death or escaped. Only a man named Hong Yuan was caught and locked in a room in the villa.

When Hong Yuan was first caught, they considered letting Hong Yuan go after a while. After all, Hong Yuan was an adult man, and he consumed a lot of food every day. However, Hong Yuan had a deep hatred for them, and they were worried that Hong Yuan would retaliate against them after he left. In the end, they didn’t want to have to defend against him all day long, so they locked him up, preferring to spend a little food to feed him every day.

Now that they decided to go to the Safe Zone, they naturally couldn’t leave Hong Yuan alone, but if they took Hong Yuan to the Safe Zone, the battle between them and those people from Sanhe Town would inevitably be known to the people in the Safe Zone.

Although it was the people from Sanhe Town who attacked them that time, and they were only acting in self-defense, they did kill many people after all. If the police in the Safe Zone knew about it, they really didn’t know how they would be judged under Hua Country’s laws.

This was what everyone was worried about. Bringing Hong Yuan back to the Safe Zone would cause them trouble. But if they just let Hong Yuan go, they would have to worry about being retaliated against.

Should they just kill Hong Yuan? The thought couldn’t help but pop into Ai Wei’s head. But he was just an ordinary person, and he couldn’t bring himself to kill someone for such a thing.

After discussing for a while, everyone finally decided to let Hong Yuan go.

The security control in the Safe Zone was very strict, and as long as they entered the Safe Zone, they didn’t need to worry too much about being retaliated against. Hong Yuan had also killed people, so he wouldn’t take the initiative to mention the attack to the Safe Zone.

So, that night, Hong Yuan found that Ai Wei, who was delivering food to him, had carelessly dropped a bunch of keys…

Watching a black car drive away from the gate of Youran Mountain Villa, Ai Wei breathed a sigh of relief and secretly hoped that this person would be more disciplined in the future and not come to make trouble for his people.

After dinner, Ai Wei told Lu Feng that he wanted to return to the Safe Zone with them tomorrow.

There were many vacant rooms in Youran Mountain Villa. Lu Feng and his group were arranged to sleep on the 2nd floor tonight. Hearing Ai Wei say that they wanted to go to the Safe Zone, he said, “Okay, you can go back with us tomorrow.”

Ai Wei nodded, then took out the contract he had just signed today and asked Lu Feng to give him the agreed 20% of the grapes. Lu Feng didn’t refuse and readily picked four bunches of grapes and gave them to him.

After Ai Wei returned, he first tasted one himself. The mutated grapes tasted very sweet and were very delicious. After swallowing them, a pure force flowed into his body along with the pulp of the grapes. Then this force flowed through his meridians, invigorating his whole person.

These mutated grapes were indeed good things.

He didn’t hoard them either. He divided one bunch of mutated grapes equally between Dr. Li and Han Lu, and divided another bunch of mutated grapes equally between the three children, and told them about the taboos of eating mutated fruits, before taking the remaining two bunches of grapes back to his and Xia Junchi’s room.

“You try this.” After Ai Wei returned to the room, he picked a mutated grape and fed it to Xia Junchi. “These are the mutated grapes that the mutated wolf ate. I tasted one just now and there’s no problem.”

Xia Junchi opened his mouth and ate it, and immediately felt an extremely sweet taste spreading in his mouth, and his expression lit up.

Ai Wei knew that he liked to eat sweet things. Although Xia Junchi’s expression did not change significantly, Ai Wei always felt that when he ate sweets, he looked very happy.

If it weren’t because eating too many sweets was bad for his health, Ai Wei would really want to feed him sweets every day.

“How is it? What do you feel?” Ai Wei asked.

Xia Junchi couldn’t help but touch his abdomen and said, “I feel a little hot, as if there is a warm energy flowing in my body.”

Speaking of this, he couldn’t help but frown and said, “This power seems to be a little too strong, a little uncomfortable…”

Ai Wei was immediately nervous. Could it be that ordinary people can’t eat these mutated grapes?

A blush appeared on Xia Junchi’s handsome face, and then it became more and more red. Ai Wei anxiously touched his forehead, and then felt a burning heat coming from his forehead.

“I’ll go get Dr. Li over here,” Ai Wei said, and ran out.

Dr. Li was startled by his sudden intrusion. Before he could react, he was pulled by Ai Wei to Xia Junchi’s bed and said, “Dr. Li, Xia Junchi has a fever. Please take a look at him. I’ll go get something to lower the temperature.”

After saying that, he ran out in a hurry again.

Dr. Li was still a little confused. Seeing Xia Junchi’s face flushed, he was also startled. He reached out and touched Xia Junchi’s forehead and said, “How can it be so hot?”

He wondered if the antipyretic medicine would work if it was so hot.

He went back to get antipyretic medicine, a stethoscope and a thermometer, and took Xia Junchi’s temperature. Sure enough, the thermometer showed that it had reached the top. He wanted to listen to Xia Junchi’s heartbeat, and then he was surprised again. Xia Junchi’s heartbeat had actually reached 120 beats per minute and was still beating faster and faster.

If these symptoms were in an ordinary person, they probably wouldn’t last long before they died. However, Dr. Li thought of something and his eyes lit up.

“How is he?” Ai Wei came in with a towel dampened with warm water and asked anxiously.

Dr. Li said, “If I’m not mistaken, is he about to awaken his ability?”

Ai Wei was stunned. Yes, how could he forget about this?! Xia Junchi’s symptoms were very similar to those of awakening an ability!

Some time had passed since the end of the world, and during this time, many people had awakened their abilities one after another. And the most common precursor to awakening an ability was to have a fever of more than 60 degrees.

Ai Wei was just worried and confused and forgot about this.

“He’s at a critical period of awakening his ability right now. If he can eat some mutated fruits, it will be good for the growth of his ability,” Dr. Li said.

In the past few months, he had read a lot of knowledge about awakening abilities online. Fevers caused by awakening abilities cannot be treated with medicine or cooling down. But if you eat a little mutated plant while awakening your ability, you can improve your ability.

However, you can’t eat too many mutated plants, otherwise, there may be a risk of exploding and dying.

“He became like this after eating mutated grapes just now,” Ai Wei said. “Could it be because he awakened his ability after eating the mutated fruit?”

“It’s possible.” Dr. Li had also eaten two mutated grapes just now. Although he felt that his whole body was a lot more comfortable after eating the mutated grapes, he didn’t have any signs of wanting to awaken his ability. He thought for a while and asked, “How many grapes did he eat to awaken his ability?”

“One,” Ai Wei said.

Hearing this, Dr. Li couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed.

Xia Junchi only ate one mutated grape and awakened his ability, but he ate two mutated grapes and vaguely felt like he had overdone it. He was afraid that he didn’t have the potential to awaken his ability.

However, those mutated grapes were indeed a great tonic, and they were still very good as health food. They should be able to strengthen the body and prolong life. He had already planted the seeds of the mutated grapes and wanted to try to grow small mutated grape trees. Although, he felt that the probability of growing small mutated grape trees was very small. Otherwise, how could there be no small mutated grape trees around the big grape tree that bore so many fruits?

Although Dr. Li said that Xia Junchi should be about to awaken his ability, he had never really been in contact with someone who had awakened his ability and could not be completely sure. So, to be on the safe side, the two of them went to find Lu Feng again.

Lu Feng was a soldier, and the army had the most awakened ability users. He thought that he must have seen many scenes of awakening abilities.

After Lu Feng came, he just looked at Xia Junchi, felt Xia Junchi’s pulse, and said, “Yo, this aptitude is not bad!”

Seeing that he seemed to understand very well, Ai Wei felt a little relieved about him and asked, “Is he about to awaken his ability?”

“Yes,” Lu Feng said with certainty. “I didn’t expect that eating mutated fruits would have this benefit. When we return to the Safe Zone, we must let the research institute study that mutated grape tree carefully.”

Ai Wei was really relieved now, but he heard Lu Feng continue to say, “The higher the body temperature, the faster the heartbeat, and the longer the coma when awakened, the stronger the awakened ability will be. Looking at his body temperature, it must be 70 degrees, and his heartbeat is also surprisingly fast. I don’t know what ability he will awaken.”

Hearing him say this, Ai Wei couldn’t help but look forward to Xia Junchi’s ability.

However, looking at Xia Junchi’s confused appearance from being burned, he couldn’t help but feel a pang of heartache.

Two hours later, Xia Junchi began to retreat from the fever, and his heartbeat gradually returned to normal. Some weak flames also flashed around his body.

“It’s a fire ability,” Lu Feng said.

The fire ability is one of the common abilities, and its practicality and power are not low. It is an ability with strong lethality.

However, when the fire ability is awakened, the small flames that ignite all over the ability user’s body are a bit embarrassing. For example, right now, the clothes on Xia Junchi’s body are about to be burned by his own ability flames, and even the bed is about to be burned.

Seeing that Xia Junchi was about to be exposed, Ai Wei quickly pushed Lu Feng and Dr. Li out and said, “It should be fine, right? Just leave this to me. Go back to sleep.”

Dr. Li already knew about his relationship with Xia Junchi, so he was not surprised to see him like this. After seeing Xia Junchi’s ability, Lu Feng also lost interest in continuing to stay, so he went back to sleep.

After sending these two people away, Ai Wei quickly pulled down the bedding on the bed to prevent the fire from spreading.

Xia Junchi had woken up, but he was still a little dizzy. After waking up, he saw the flames on his body and couldn’t help but be slightly surprised. He reached out and put out the flames.

“Honey, do you know that you have awakened your fire ability?” Ai Wei was very happy to tell him the news when he saw that he was awake.

Xia Junchi also realized that he had awakened his ability. He couldn’t help but reach out his right hand and tried to release a small ball of flame.

That small ball of blue flame was jumping in his palm. He just stared at the flame until the flame went out after 5 seconds.

“It’s really an ability,” Xia Junchi murmured.

Ai Wei smiled and said, “How can this be fake?”

Xia Junchi also smiled, his eyes shining.

He found that he not only had awakened his ability, but he was also full of power all over his body. The originally stiff and weak broken leg seemed to be full of vitality.

So he tried to get out of bed and walked two steps. His movement was unimpeded and he had returned to the state before his leg was broken.

Seeing that he could walk, Ai Wei was very pleasantly surprised and said, “Your leg is healed!”

Xia Junchi smiled happily and said, “It’s healed. There’s no problem walking at all.”

He said, and took a few more steps and jumped a few times, feeling completely like he was before his leg was broken.

Originally, his broken leg would need to be rested for a few more months to fully heal. Now it could heal so quickly, probably because he awakened his ability and his physique was enhanced.