Task 2

Several figures stood facing each other under the night sky.

The woman covered in blood had a crazy look in her eyes, while the man next to her was dressed in rags but looked calm.

Luo Zhao hung up the phone with her father, her face pale. She said softly, "The Luo family has already sent people to assist with law and order at the scene, but the situation is even worse than what we saw here."

Knowing Ying Yungui's identity and ability, they still chose to provoke an attack in a two-on-three or even four-on-four situation, taking the huge risk of winning or dying. It turned out that they had already made preparations for the backup plan and threatened the lives of ordinary people.

In reality, registered psychics could use their wristbands to request assistance from the association. However, of the three psychics present, Jiang Yu, the only one registered in District 10, was already in a coma. If Shi Youchen and Ying Yungui wanted assistance there, they could only apply to District 8 first.

And during this back and forth process, no one can guarantee what these two lunatics will do.

"Protecting ordinary humans from supernatural incidents" is a rule with a very high priority in the association's code.

Whether it was out of his duty as a person with superpowers or out of empathy with those watching the fireworks today, Shi Youchen believed that it was a good thing to save one more person from unnecessary death.

What's more, it was she who brought Li Sen out of the town from the mountains, and these two people were coming for her. In the final analysis, she was the source of the unprovoked disaster that the people in the square suffered tonight.

Shi Youchen felt a sharp pain in his solar plexus, and he couldn't think of anything he could do to resolve the situation. And just then, the man's words dealt him an even heavier blow.

"That natural type lying on the ground won't be able to hold on for much longer. You'd better hurry up."

Luo Zhao's pupils shrank when he heard this, and he shouted sternly, "What do you mean?"

The other party just sneered and did not respond.

Luo Zhao hurried to check on Jiang Yu. She clenched her fist to relax her hand muscles, then touched Jiang Yu's face with the back of her hand. His face was flushed and hot, as if burned, and his breathing was heavy and rapid. She opened his eyelids and found that the inner mucous membrane was red and bloodshot.

Shi Youchen naturally saw all of this as well.

Jiang Yu's condition had been deteriorating since the first mental invasion. After the second invasion, Ying Yungui had regained consciousness with the help of Shi Youchen, but Jiang Yu had not yet woken up.

Could it be...

Luo Zhao held Jiang Yu in her arms, and she sorted out her thoughts in a panic - Ying Yungui and Shi Youchen were people with special abilities, they still had the strength to fight, and their lives would definitely not be in danger. There were various forces coordinating and protecting the square, and although the riots could not be quelled immediately, nothing irreparable would happen.

But Jiang Yu couldn't do that. If he delayed any longer, he might really die here.

Luo Zhao took a deep breath. The cold wind of the late autumn night rushed into her nasal cavity, irritating her nerves.

"Brother, help him."

"Please."

Jiang Yu's head was tilted on Luo Zhao's shoulder, his hair rubbing against the skin of her neck, and his hot face was pressed against hers, transferring the heat into her body.

Even though her life was so close at this moment, she felt that Jiang Yu was getting farther and farther away.

With no way out, she could only seek help from someone she always thought was omnipotent, even though she didn't know how to solve this dilemma.

The woman said impatiently, "We're going to watch this kid die with those people! Great, he's really a good person who was trained in that kind of place! A good teammate!" She put on a half-joyful and half-sad expression and said to Luo Zhao, "Do you really want to save him? He's so pitiful."

The curve of her mouth grew more strange. "What can you get in return for your sincerity towards a man?" She raised her hands and pointed at the northern sky, even though it was already pitch black. "Have you ever tried to make a wish to the gods? Wish that you two can be together forever, never apart?"

Luo Zhao gritted his teeth and looked at her resentfully. Jiang Yu was the bodyguard adopted and assigned to her by the Luo family. He was her childhood friend, her companion for over a decade, and her hope for countless rescues from darkness. Jiang Yu could not die.

"Brother!" Luo Zhao looked at Ying Yungui almost pleadingly.

The woman seemed to be crazy. She was covered in blood, but she was still pacing back and forth, laughing wildly and talking to herself.

Ying Yungui is making the decision.

This dilemma faced by Shi Youchen and the others actually had a most direct solution on his side, but in this situation, doing so would come at a considerable price.

In fact, he could have waited until the situation in the square was under control before killing the two men. That way, the death rate and accident rate of the people could be reduced to a minimum, but Jiang Yu might not be able to survive until then.

He could also deal with the two men right now and take Jiang Yu back to the association base for treatment, but this would likely cause even greater unrest in the square.

He didn't really care whether he would become an "accomplice" or a "pusher." But he didn't want Shi Youchen to end up like him, and be the subject of gossip.

He had never seen Luo Zhao ask for help from others before. Although she was not crying, she looked more helpless and desperate than if she was crying at the top of her lungs.

Ordinary people, Jiang Yu, Li Sen, and sometimes Chen...

Ying Yungui looked at Shi Youchen. His face was even paler than usual, his eyes cast downwards. His bangs had grown longer, covering his eyebrows and the mole beneath them. He pursed his lips slightly, wondering what he was thinking.

Ying Yungui suddenly remembered the reply to the inquiry he had received earlier -

"There is such a rumor..."

He sighed, took off the silver earring on his left earlobe, patted Shi Youchen's shoulder and said, "Please keep this for me."

Shi Youchen's brain was thinking rapidly, but was suddenly interrupted by this. He took the earring in a daze and held it in his palm.

"You have entered the 'Unknown Numbered Copy'."

"You have entered the 'Unknown Numbered Copy'."

Shi Youchen and Jiang Yu's bracelets sounded alerts at the same time.

What came out from Ying Yungui's side was: "The field was successfully expanded."

"No fields found to apply for!"

——At the same time, at the information center of the District 10 Superpower Management Association branch.

"An unknown area that has not been applied for has been found!" The alarm sounded, and the people in front of the district's supervision system immediately gave orders. A few minutes later, a black car drove out of the base gate at high speed.

Luo Zhao only felt that the sky had darkened by another ten percent, and his whole body seemed to be stared at by a cold gaze, and nothing could escape his view.

This feeling of being watched came upon everyone at the same time.

Ying Yungui didn't move, but the crowd in the square was invisibly dispersed. Those who had been fighting were separated and made to stand still, unable to move. Some of those who had fallen were sent to ambulances, while others were taken to higher ground and laid out in a row. And out of sight, thousands of blood-stained knives were thrown into the lake, but the surface didn't even ripple.

All of this happened suddenly and autonomously, without any human manipulation.

The people working on the scene were terrified and panicked, and there were signs of a new round of unrest. Then, the person in charge, sent by the Luo family, a prominent business family in District 10, to assist on the scene, stepped forward and announced that they had requested assistance from the Superpower Management Association, and that the public could rest assured. Only then did the security work resume in an orderly manner.

On the rooftop, everyone noticed the commotion in the square gradually subsided. In front of Shi Youchen, Ying Yungui said with an impatient and irritated expression, "Choose, die here, or die in the association's interrogation room."

The expressions of the two people across from them were truly varied. The woman's smile froze, and she glared angrily as she said, "You can open a domain?!" The man, however, wasn't overly surprised or frightened. Instead, a strange smile played on his lips.

Ying Yungui ignored her and said, "Forget it, it's a waste of time."

The woman continued to scream. She was only at level 5, and the men accompanying her were of similar strength. Her chances of victory against Ying Yungui, a top-tier level 6, were slim to the ground. Battles between esper users weren't won simply by sheer numbers; the power gap at each level was an insurmountable chasm. Furthermore, Ying Yungui had two other esper users on his side, though of lower levels, who could still be quite effective.

Especially that mere level 3 healing type. If it weren't for him, he would have established a huge advantage from the start! The woman was furious, her pupils bloodshot as she glared at Shi Youchen. Suddenly, she went crazy and rushed towards him: "It's all your fault! It's all your fault!"

The man stood where he was, not trying to stop her, but just looked at the woman's back with a half-smile - he knew very well that in the domain that Ying Yungui absolutely controlled, they had no chance of survival.

The woman ran with a grim look on her face. Because she was covered in injuries, her running posture was staggering and funny, and she even almost fell down a few times.

Shi Youchen looked at her indifferently, without moving an inch, but replied to Yun Gui: "Hold on, I have something to ask you."

Jiang Yu was unconscious and no one came to cover Luo Zhao's eyes, so she clearly saw that all the dead branches that were scattered on the ground opposite her were lifted into the air, with their pointed ends pointing towards the woman.

The woman's eyes were bloodshot. She had lost all her cards and completely lost her mind. She just wanted to chop off Shi Youchen's hands so that he could never use his supernatural powers again. Besides her screams, there was no other sound in the field.

But her cry was choked in her throat.

All the dead branches came through the air, pierced her body from behind, stopped in front of Ying Yungui, turned around and stabbed back.

If Ying Yungui's attack before opening the domain only made a few holes in her body, then after opening the domain he treated her like a piece of cloth, threading a needle back and forth, and sewing a blood-red sunset picture with her body.

Shi Youchen was deliberately blocked behind Ying Yungui, and only the "puff" and "puff" sounds of flesh and blood were heard, replacing the woman's previous screams and becoming the only sound on the rooftop.

Luo Zhao only took a glance, then lowered his head tremblingly, closed his eyes tightly, and touched his forehead with Jiang Yu's.

The chilling sound lasted for nearly a minute. Even after silence returned, Luo Zhao still didn't dare open his eyes. Shi Youchen, however, placed his palm on Ying Yungui's back and whispered, "Is it over?"

"It's all over."