Chapter 9

Chen Nan is one of those special ability users whose abilities are currently unknown. Before she discovers her abilities, Tang Ke helped her complete all the necessary onboarding procedures and showed her all the places she could go at this stage.

After Chen Nan became familiar with everything here, at Chen Nan's request, Tang Ke took her back to the imperial capital, Lijing.

When Chen Nan first came to the headquarters of the Institute of Supernatural Abilities, she was wearing a protective suit and was completely covered up. But this time when she returned, she was wearing the Institute's simple blue camouflage uniform and even a small military cap.

Throughout the entire country, those with supernatural abilities receive special protection and preferential treatment.

Their everyday clothes and their work uniforms for all seasons are all specially made. Ordinary clothing fabric might be torn apart instantly by cockroach monsters or infected individuals. But their clothes are specially made so that they might need several blows from cockroach monsters or infected individuals to be torn apart.

Furthermore, if they go out in civilian clothes, others can basically tell their identities just by looking at their clothes. In fact, in many situations in this country, there are priority lanes for soldiers and superhumans.

Of course, the entire country truly treats special-ability soldiers with exceptional privileges.

But in times of danger, superhumans must always rush to protect others and go against the flow; this is something ingrained in the very bones of every superhuman.

"Wearing this uniform represents honor and responsibility. You must never forget your duty as a superhuman soldier."

The green jeep sped along the wide road. As Chen Nan tugged at his sleeve, curiously examining him, Tang Ke, driving beside her, offered timely guidance. Thanks to Chen Nan, he hadn't had to go out on missions for the past two days. This meant that the number of infected individuals waiting for him to handle at the entire Special Abilities Institute was now limited. If another superhuman emerged from among them, it would be an incredibly exciting prospect.

Having worked at the Institute of Supernatural Abilities for several years, he knew the chances of such an occurrence were virtually nonexistent. So even knowing this, he still had to deal with at least a hundred infected individuals over the next month. But with Chen Nan by his side, Tang Ke no longer felt distressed.

He guided and educated the students in a good mood.

Chen Nan nodded, touching the fabric of her sleeve, then pressed the shutter button on the window next to her and slowly stretched her hand out.

The sunlight overhead filtered through the sycamore trees on both sides, gradually scattering onto her hands and the wall next to her.

All around were the rustling of leaves in the breeze and the unique chirping of cicadas and birds.

The sounds of cars, wind, leaves, birds, and insects filled the air. With her eyes tightly closed, Chen Nan could even hear the rushing sound of water flowing nearby.

The sunlight shone on the car window, onto my arms and cheeks.

Looking at the wide, asphalt road in the distance, which resembled a painting, and the tall plane trees on both sides of the road, Chen Nan even had a strange sense of doubt that such a beautiful and peaceful world could possibly have such terrifying things as cockroach monsters and sunflower stars.

But while enjoying the rare tranquility and sunshine, Chen Nan knew clearly that all of this was real. She knew that everything would change once she got to the city center. So at this moment, even with the nagging Captain Tang beside her, Chen Nan closed her eyes, leaned against the car window, lazily stretched out her arms, and lazily enjoyed the long-lost sunshine and peace.

"..."

Seeing Chen Nan stick one arm out, Tang Ke subconsciously wanted to say something.

But when he thought about how there were hardly any cars on this road, and that the kind of bad scene he had imagined was unlikely to happen, he wisely kept quiet.

Those with superpowers are born with a natural aversion to others, whether they are other superpowered individuals or ordinary people, and they subconsciously reject them. This aversion is determined by fate and genes. While bestowing new life and abilities upon those with superpowers, fate also gave them this other characteristic that causes pain to all superpowered individuals.

But while preventing those with superpowers from spending long periods of time with others, he also gave them this characteristic: they don't reject newborn children with superpowers, giving them a glimmer of hope.

Once Chen Nan truly possesses her superpowers, and as her abilities grow stronger, and she begins to interact with other superpowered individuals for extended periods, she might realize that she is incapable of genuinely connecting with others from the heart. At that point, she will naturally reject anyone around her. She might then miss her carefree rookie days. Later, after she leaves the headquarters of the Superpower Institute and goes to any other department, she might, over time, miss this place and perhaps even develop the desire to work at the Superpower Institute herself.

Anyway, this period of time has been really good.

Bright sunlight shone on the car, casting dappled shadows from the trees.

Looking at Chen Nan, who was squinting and looking relaxed, Tang Ke slowly felt a long-lost peace and happiness.

So, as he drove, he surprisingly turned on the car's music system.

"..."

Chen Nan herself doesn't know this song, but the original owner of the account does.

So after listening to it briefly, Chen Nan was able to hum along to the music.

All the comfort and ease changed once we arrived in the city.

A bustling city, towering buildings, and pedestrians hurrying along the streets, clearly not daring to linger.

A young policeman carrying a pistol and wearing a superpowered police uniform, and a superpowered policeman leading a police dog who was obviously being particularly cautious.

Seeing everyone outside, Chen Nan finally asked, "Captain Tang, will I also be able to go on patrol duty in the future?"

"Maybe. It depends on your qualifications and your choices. The government will give you a one-year period to choose. During this time, you can apply for an internship in any department, or you can stay at the Institute of Superpowers and choose to train quietly for a year. No matter where you go during this year, I will accompany you. If you choose to follow me afterward, we can form a partnership and stay at the headquarters of the Institute of Superpowers together, or go to any other department together."

Types of jobs include street police, special forces, border guards, and national defense personnel. If you're exceptionally skilled, you could even accumulate military merit by killing cockroach monsters and then choose a political career. However, in this day and age, obtaining enough military merit is extremely difficult. To climb the ranks among the many supernatural police forces in the country, you'd likely have to kill tens of thousands of cockroach monsters, which is probably quite challenging nowadays.

According to Tang Ke's explanation, the green jeep drove through the bustling areas of the capital and slowly headed towards the slum in the south of the city where Chen Nan used to live.

When they arrived at the familiar area, Chen Nan's initial confusion quickly disappeared. She saw Chen Dong and several of her former roommates, who had lived and worked with her, waiting for the news at the foot of the familiar building.

Before Chen Nan could react, she had already opened the car door and rushed out.

"elder brother!!"

"Ahhh, Nan Nan!!"

"Nannan!!"

In this day and age, having a family member with superpowers is a truly glorious thing, and I feel excited and thrilled.

By the time Chen Dong realized what was happening, he had already rushed over.

Two stepsiblings, unrelated by blood, who had always lived awkwardly but also cared for each other, rushed over and embraced tightly.

"I thought—I thought—"

In this day and age, those diagnosed with cockroach-borne diseases rarely actually return. Most are taken away by the government, and then a month later are returned with an ID card or a will, and that's it.

Although Chen Dong shouted loudly from upstairs when he saw Chen Nan off, telling her to make sure she came home, he hadn't really held out much hope from that moment on.

He never imagined that his adopted sister would actually survive the infection period. He also never expected that after her infection, she wouldn't have transmitted it to them at all.

Anyway, now that his stepsister has finally survived the ordeal and they have completely completed their self-isolation, Chen Dong is holding his only legally recognized relative, filled with excitement and ecstasy.

"Waaah, Nan Nan—"

"Waaah, Nannan, have you really become a superhuman? What is your superpower?"

"Yes, we never expected that we would have a superhuman here. Nannan, we are so happy for you."

As Chen Nan and her brother were overjoyed, all the girls around them happily gathered around.

Everyone was excitedly chattering away, and the neighbors in the same building, having heard the news, all came out to celebrate with them.

Surrounded by these people, Tang Ke, who sensed something was wrong inside, received a call from the Information Department of the Institute of Supernatural Abilities: "Captain Tang, you need to stop those people around your little one immediately! They've all started live streaming. They've been live streaming since just now, and now your little one is trending on social media. Even those live streams of her dancing and pulling at her clothes in front of the camera have been dug up by netizens. Now everyone outside is calling you 'little one,' 'internet celebrity supernatural being,' and 'dancing supernatural being.' They're even saying that if the country accepts supernatural beings like this, it has no authority whatsoever, and they're going to call the government hotline to report and complain!"