Wang Ye wedged a toothpick between his fingers.

He scanned the surroundings and spotted a wall that seemed to have been partially demolished but left unfinished. This wall was now a fragmented brick structure barely over two meters high, with the outer layer of cement almost entirely shed, exposing the underlying red bricks, rendering it a ruinous wall.

Even if he completely shattered this wall, it wouldn’t cause any danger or trigger any troublesome chain reactions.

Unlike the walls of the building on the other side, casually blowing up any wall there might turn out to be a load-bearing wall.

Most people who have renovated houses should know that any wall inside a building can be broken, except for load-bearing walls, as breaking them can lead to extremely severe consequences and chain reactions.

A load-bearing wall refers to the wall structure within a building that supports the weight of the upper floors, including concrete walls in frame shearwall structures and brick walls in composite construction structures.

If a load-bearing wall suffers serious damage, it can destabilize the overall structural integrity of the building, causing deformation and reducing its seismic performance. Since shear walls run vertically, continuously from top to bottom, their damage will result in abrupt changes in the building’s rigidity, severely affecting its seismic resistance. Once a load-bearing wall is demolished, its damage to the structure is permanent.

There was once a news report about a homeowner in a residential area who knocked down a load-bearing wall during a house renovation, leading to building tilts, cracks, and even collapses, ultimately being sued for billions by the developer.

However, distinguishing a load-bearing wall is usually difficult, as they look no different from ordinary walls, and identifying which walls are load-bearing can only be done by checking the building plans.

Even Wang Ye, without professional knowledge, cannot easily determine which wall is load-bearing, so he wouldn’t dare to indiscriminately throw towards the unfinished building, lest it causes the entire structure to collapse.

Thus, after careful consideration, Wang Ye decided to try his throw against this seemingly weaker wall.

He raised his arm, aimed at the midpoint of the wall, and suddenly swung his arm, launching the toothpick.

As the toothpick left his hand, a chilling whistling sound suddenly erupted, loud and piercing like a dragon’s roar; in reality, this noise was merely the friction of an object slicing through the air at high speed, a sound typically only produced when large missiles are fired at multiple Mach speeds.

But now, Wang Ye made this dragon-like sound merely by throwing a toothpick, showcasing the terrifying power behind his throwing strength.

Even Wang Ye’s naked eye found it difficult to track the toothpick’s flight path, despite his evolved eyesight enabling him to clearly see objects surpassing the speed of sound. Now, the toothpick appeared as a white streak in his vision, vanishing instantly.

He guessed the toothpick’s speed must be at least over five times the speed of sound,

equivalent to instantly appearing a kilometer away.

The speed of sound felt as slow as a snail in comparison.

The toothpick in Wang Ye’s hand, after a few milliseconds of flight,

embedded itself into the brick wall.

The next moment,

the wall exploded with a deafening blast.

The high-density inner force stored within the toothpick,

upon contact with the brick wall, unleashed an energy akin to several tons of TNT exploding simultaneously.

A large amount of shattered bricks scattered in all directions, with some flying as far as ten meters away, impacting other buildings with noticeable impact marks.

The originally embedded toothpick had already been detonated into countless wood splinters internally, long vanished. If replaced with a slightly larger stone, it might scatter countless fragments upon impact with an enemy, causing secondary damage.

Wang Ye attempted to take several more toothpicks from the packaging box and threw them continuously. After the enhancement from the Soul Chaser traits, his maximum shooting speed significantly improved, increasing from fifty shots per second to eighty shots per second. Within the blink of an eye, an average person couldn’t realize, he could throw dozens of toothpicks like raindrops.

He wanted to see if he could maintain this destructive power and might during high-speed shooting.

Regardless of how fast Wang Ye threw, the power of his throws remained as formidable, exceeding five times the speed of sound, with each toothpick’s internal explosion capable of shattering buildings or concrete ground into countless stone fragments.

Moreover, after hundreds of toothpicks thrown without significant physical exhaustion, he experienced only slight breathlessness which quickly recovered after a few seconds of rest.

The power, speed, and energy consumption had left Wang Ye utterly amazed.

If earlier, the power of his toothpick throws were at most akin to rifles or sniper rifles. Now, after trait enhancement, they had ascended to the realm of cluster missiles. Randomly grabbing a handful of objects to throw could instantly reduce a whole house to ruins.

Should humans be the target, it might directly pulverize them into a bloody pulp.

It’s hard to fathom that this was the might unleashed by a human male’s physical body, standing at 1.9 meters.

Although Wang Ye understood that his muscle density now was extraordinary, capable of exerting several tons of force with a single arm, he still couldn’t comprehend why he could unleash such astonishing power. Simply explaining through trait percentages was far too superficial; in his understanding, the system-provided traits were nothing but the textual and tangible manifestation of certain special skills.