CHAPTER 603: CHAPTER 336: WALL-CRAWLING MASTERY

The originally smooth as a mirror latex paint wall felt as rough as 800-grit sandpaper.

"Do they want to evolve me into a gecko?"

Fang Cheng joked in his mind, then simply extended both hands, spreading his fingers like claws, pressing them against the wall.

He attempted to simply grip the wall with both hands, mimicking a gecko by slowly crawling upward.

However, as soon as he exerted some force, his body was slightly lifted by less than a centimeter.

Whoosh!

A sense of slipping, where there’s no grip, came from the fingertips.

"It won’t work..."

Fang Cheng shook his head.

The workmanship of the decorator was really excellent.

So much so that the wall was too smooth and flat, without any visible protrusions at all.

Simple static friction wasn’t enough to let him counteract his own gravity on an absolutely vertical surface at a slow speed.

However, being unable to crawl slowly didn’t mean the wall couldn’t be conquered.

Fang Cheng looked up at the wall, more than three meters tall, and the ceiling coated with putty at the top.

There, the I-beams reinforced for hanging sandbags and training equipment crisscrossed, like an upside-down steel forest.

The "branches" among them could provide excellent grip points.

Fang Cheng focused his gaze, then stood close to the wall, his legs slightly bent.

Suddenly, he took a deep breath, raised his right hand, and fiercely grabbed the wall painted with latex paint.

At the same time, his feet gently pushed against the ground, and his whole body swiftly leaped upward.

Schhh—

At the moment the fingertips made contact with the wall, a violent friction caused his rising body to stagnate momentarily.

In the millisecond before the sliding tendency could manifest, Fang Cheng’s right hand clawed, with his arm muscles and core exploding.

He wasn’t ready to counteract the gravitational slip but to use the strong friction as a stepping point.

The next second, instead of descending, his body shot up more than half a meter along the wall.

Immediately, the left hand followed, using the same method.

Each grip was like a small pull-up performed on the vertical plane.

This wasn’t crawling anymore; it was violent climbing.

Fang Cheng realized instantly.

Friction coefficient and normal pressure determine the frictional force.

He didn’t need to move as slowly as a gecko.

As long as enough normal pressure can be applied to the wall, it can convert the terrifying static friction coefficient of 1000% into upward propulsion.

As long as the speed is fast and the force is strong, he will never fall.

Of course, such a fierce burst wasn’t needed now.

With just two swift alternations, Fang Cheng violently conquered the wall more than three meters high.

His body was now steadily perched at the seam where the wall met the ceiling.

At this moment, he was like a leopard perched on a cliff, eyeing its prey.

In the next instant, Fang Cheng twisted his waist, his feet lightly pushing against the wall.

The whole person shot towards the center of the living room like a fired bullet.

His arms spread gracefully in the air, lunging towards the upside-down steel forest.

This time, he didn’t use his whole hand to grasp the iron frame; that would be too unchallenging.

His target was the less than one centimeter wide right-angled edge below the iron frame.

At the moment when his body rose to the highest point, Fang Cheng suddenly extended his right hand.

Using only his index finger and thumb, he precisely pinched the metallic edge that could hardly be called a grip point.

This is known as "Pinch Grip" in climbing, a technique for pinching.

This technique is crucial in climbing, especially when facing some smooth or small footholds, as pinching can provide stable support.‌

But Fang Cheng’s fingers now acted on a deathly angle where there seemed to be no effective stress surface in the eyes of ordinary people!

However.

An occurrence defying the principles of kinematics happened.

The entire weight of Fang Cheng’s body, over 90 kilograms, plus the impact of the forward leap, focused entirely on this point.

Yet, his two fingers seemed like precision tongs made of high-strength alloy, firmly gripping the iron frame’s edge.

The whole person was so stabilized, suspended in mid-air.

This right-angled edge is a point that even the world’s top climbers would only use as a temporary supporting point to adjust their posture, definitely not as a supporting point for full-body suspension.

In the past, even if Fang Cheng used both hands to grip with all his strength, he wouldn’t last more than a few seconds before losing his grip.

Now, the finger strength that exceeded human limits and enhanced friction by tenfold combined perfectly, creating the miraculous scene before him.

Fang Cheng steadied himself, and his other hand followed suit, using the "pinch grip" to grab the lower end of the iron frame not far away.

Next, like an agile giant ape, he alternated his arms and swung through the steel forest with an astonishing rhythm.

The movements were relaxed and free, the speed increasingly fast, even carrying a show-off flair.

Suddenly, in a moment of forward swing, Fang Cheng’s waist and abdomen exploded with force, twisting like a spinning top.

The body once again leaped high, completing a swift tucked somersault.

Slap!

With a muffled sound, Fang Cheng’s limbs opened like a gecko’s, his fingertips and soles firmly "sticking" to the smooth ceiling.

His whole person thus defied gravity, hanging upside down in mid-air against reason.

But, this was not the end.

Last time, Fang Cheng used the momentum of forward leaping, sticking his back to the ceiling, sliding rapidly.

This time, with more autonomy, he could reach previously unattainable degrees.

Fang Cheng maintained this incredible position, core strength taut, feeling the remaining forward momentum after the airborne flip.

Then his limbs alternated actions, like the evil ghost Kayako in the movies, crawling forward while hanging upside down.

If observed closely, it’s noticeable he wasn’t really crawling, but using

His fingertips and toes each time pressed the ceiling like performing a stretch and pedal movement on flat ground, then propelled forward.

The enormously enhanced friction made the smooth putty surface a runway with perfect grip.

This way, relying on the "Absolute Mastery" skill effect, Fang Cheng roamed, crawled back and forth on the ceiling.

The feeling was infinitely marvelous, as if gravity was twisted, the entire worldview overturning at this moment.

Until crawling to the top edge close to the floor-to-ceiling window, feeling his body getting heavier, teetering on the brink of falling,

Fang Cheng chose to stop.

He simultaneously pushed his hands and feet against the ceiling powerfully, completing a dashing two and a half turns flip mid-air.

Then, his feet landed steadily on the floor, like leaves floating down gently, making almost no sound.

The entire process from takeoff to landing was smooth like flowing water, executed in one fluid motion.

Fang Cheng stood straight, slightly panting, though his mind was rapidly replaying every detail of just now.

"After the Agility Attribute broke through 40 points, in free fall, I simply maintained a hang time of about 3.5 seconds."

"Last time, when I obtained the ’Air Walking’ effect and experimented in my home’s living room, by combining front and back flips and sliding actions, I extended hang time to an extreme of 5 seconds little by little."

"And this time..."

He carefully calculated, from the initial leap and swing, to the wall-crawling on the ceiling, and the final release and landing was more than whopping 7 seconds without calculating the freeze time during flipping!

What an astounding improvement!

Fang Cheng’s eyes shone brightly.

Although he hadn’t truly mastered the ability to fly.

But this incredibly extreme limit cling ability combined with far beyond ordinary hang time techniques.

in the complex urban environment, could definitely become an unparalleled three-dimensional maneuver means, akin to a fantastic Qinggong technique.

If this Gecko Wall-Crawling Skill had Realm Levels.

Myself now, has already reached the veritable Grandmaster Realm.

Fang Cheng even had no doubt.

If his physical strength could keep up, he really could traverse the skyscraper iron jungles like Spiderman in the movies freely.

Of course, body weight would be a critical consideration.