Chapter 42 Can you feel the baby? At nine o'clock sharp, Gu…

At 9:00 AM sharp, Gu Tuo arrived at the Bureau of Supernatural Abilities.

Chu Yihou led him to Zhou Fengyun's office and then left.

Zhou Fengyun glanced behind the ancient rubbing.

Where is your classmate?

“Ah, he’s in class,” Gu Tuo replied.

“I thought he took leave with you to come here.” Zhou Fengyun pointed to the sofa and said, “Sit down. I thought you probably hadn’t had breakfast, so I bought some. Don’t be shy, have some first. I have some questions for you.”

"Oh, okay." Gu Tuo obediently sat down on the sofa, too embarrassed to eat breakfast.

Zhou Fengyun picked up a box and handed it to him: "Eat up, don't be shy."

"Thank you, Captain Zhou." Gu Tuo accepted the box with both hands.

Inside the transparent box was an extra-large char siu bao (barbecued pork bun).

You can smell the fragrance as soon as you open the lid.

Gu Tuo did indeed come without having breakfast, thinking that testing his superpowers wouldn't take long and he could find something to eat on his way back.

As it turned out, Captain Zhou was so thoughtful and prepared so much food.

"Captain Zhou, how long will it take to check for supernatural abilities?" Gu Tuo asked.

"A few minutes, very quickly. Under what circumstances did you awaken your superpower?" Zhou Fengyun asked.

"Well, it was pretty sudden. I was holding a small crystal, and then I found paint in my palm... and that's how I inexplicably awakened this skill." Gu Tuo still finds it amazing when he recalls it now, wondering if he is some kind of chosen one.

However, his skill currently only allows him to work as a paint supplier for free, and it doesn't seem to be of any other use.

"Where did you get your crystals?" Zhou Fengyun asked. Crystals were in short supply, so how could a college student have a way to buy them?

It's practically impossible; most crystals end up in official channels.

A small portion of the crystals were bought up at high prices by external organizations.

Very few crystals circulate among ordinary people.

"Qingqing gave it to me, he found it..." Gu Tuo's voice trailed off, as if he shouldn't say that the crystal was obtained cheaply, and that he had found it by Captain Zhou.

Where did he find it?

Gu Tuo took a bite of the char siu bao; the innocent young man couldn't lie.

His true feelings were written all over his face.

Zhou Fengyun said, "It's not illegal to find something, so you can speak with confidence."

"Really?" Gu Tuo looked up. "It was during the ghostly resurgence last time, which happened to be in our apartment. Qingqing encountered you guys killing ghosts and picked up a few from behind... It's really not illegal, right?"

“It’s not illegal. Whoever gets the crystal gets to keep it,” Zhou Fengyun said. “The rules of survival inside the ghostly aura are different from those outside.”

Whoever has the ability gets it; it's very fair.

"Oh, that's good." Gu Tuo nodded.

"How many crystals did you use to awaken it?" Zhou Fengyun asked again.

"Two. The first one didn't work, but the second one did."

"So fast? How big is the crystal?"

"The smallest one."

"The smallest one? You can awaken it on the second one?" Zhou Fengyun was surprised. What incredible luck!

"Hmm, so am I considered very talented?" Gu Tuo laughed.

"You're incredibly talented. How many crystals did your friend collect? Didn't he awaken his own?"

Gu Tuo smiled and told a lie: "He didn't successfully awaken."

"Oh, right, I found a bracelet yesterday. Did you drop it?" Zhou Fengyun took out the 9.9 yuan bracelet (shipping included) and handed it to Gu Tuo.

Gu Tuo glanced at it and shook his head: "It's not ours."

Are you sure it wasn't him who dropped it?

“Of course, we’ve lived together for so long, what don’t I know about him? Neither of us likes wearing jewelry, we never buy any,” Gu Tuo said with certainty.

“Then it might belong to someone else.” Zhou Fengyun put the bracelet back into his pocket.

After asking all the questions he wanted to ask, Zhou Fengyun took Gu Tuo to have his supernatural abilities tested.

Gu Tuo stood inside the instrument for a moment, and his superpower index was measured.

Xiao Ling showed the report to Zhou Fengyun: "Captain Zhou, Gu Tuo's ability index is quite high, it's seven thousand points."

For a newly awakened superhuman, having 7,000 points is already considered an expert. Other superhumans in the bureau have been upgrading for many years, and they only have between 8,000 and 10,000 points.

Zhou Fengyun was quite happy about this.

Each additional superhuman adds to our strength.

"Gu Tuo, the Bureau of Supernatural Abilities sincerely invites you to join us. Aren't you about to graduate? You can start working here directly. The benefits here are quite good."

"I'll go back and discuss it with my parents, and then I'll let you know, okay, Captain Zhou?" Gu Tuo couldn't make the decision himself; if his parents were strongly opposed, he didn't think he would have come.

"Okay, let's add each other on WeChat. I'll wait for your reply."

"Okay." Gu Tuo added Zhou Fengyun as a WeChat friend and then left.

As soon as he left the Superpower Bureau, he excitedly messaged Yu Qing: "Qingqing, my superpower index is 7,000 points. Captain Zhou hopes that I can join the Superpower Bureau after graduation. What do you think?"

Yu Qing: "That's great, you'll be amazing in the future."

Gu Tuo: "But I'd rather be a painter."

Yu Qing: "There's no conflict. When things are peaceful, you're a painter; when things happen, you're a hero."

Gu Tuo: "I'll talk to my parents."

Gu Tuo called his father to tell him about it.

His father was overjoyed that his son had awakened his superpowers, even more so than when his son was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts. He repeatedly praised his family for having a great hero.

However, Dad also needs to think about working for the Bureau of Supernatural Abilities, since the job is not safe.

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Zhou Fengyun returned to his office and looked at the breakfast on the coffee table. Yu Qing hadn't come, nor had A Ding.

He opened the photo gallery and checked the saved schedule of Adin's work hours.

He was too busy to come to work today.

Was he overthinking it, or...?

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In an office at the art academy.

Yang Wenli took out the graduation project submitted by Yu Qing.

After watching it repeatedly, I took a picture and sent it to a WeChat friend.

"I'm pretty sure this is the map to that secret realm."

A WeChat friend quickly replied: "Where did you get this?"

Yang Wenli: "It was drawn by one of my students."

WeChat friend: "He's been there?"

Yang Wenli: "It's still unclear. His personal information doesn't seem like that of someone who could come out alive. I'll check it out again."

The message had just been sent when I looked up and saw Yu Qing enter the office.

Yu Qing asked, "Teacher, what do you need me for?"

Yang Wenli pushed up his silver-rimmed glasses and said with a smile, "I just wanted to talk to you about your graduation project. I'm curious, where did you get your inspiration?"

Yu Qing looked at the painting on the table.

He started making things up: "One night, I had a dream where I was wandering around in a world depicted in a painting. The plants there were very special. When I woke up, I drew them."

"Did you dream about it?" Yang Wenli didn't quite believe this explanation. Who could dream so vividly? Unless they had actually been there.

"Yes, it was a dream. Otherwise, does such a place really exist in reality? Has the teacher been there?" Yu Qing blinked his curious eyes.

"No, I've never been there, I've never even seen it. I just think it's very well painted. It has a strange atmosphere and a lot of artistic flair. It's a very special piece of work. I thought you had been to this mysterious place," Yang Wenli said with a smile.

"I've dreamt about it, so I guess I've been there," Yu Qing said.

"Did you see anything else in your dream? No monsters, treasures, or anything like that?"

“No, it’s just me and these plants,” Yu Qing said definitively.

"Okay, I understand. Yu Qing, what are your plans after graduation? Are you going to take the postgraduate entrance exam?"

Yu Qing shook his head: "I'm not taking the exam anymore. I have other pursuits."

"I see... What are you planning to do?" Yang Wenli asked with concern.

"I want to make money, but the job prospects for painting aren't very good." Yu Qing shrugged. "I'll see how it goes after graduation and learn some other skills."

The teacher nodded: "That's a good consideration, but there's no need to be too pessimistic. There are many examples of people who have successfully started their own businesses while learning to draw. If you need help, just come and talk to me."

"Thank you, teacher."

After leaving the office, Yu Qing returned to the classroom. Gu Tuo had already returned, and the two chatted for a while before continuing the lesson.

Yu Qing secretly searched online for the secret realm from a year ago.

That secret realm was named S109.

It is a secret realm that has not yet been conquered. Once it is conquered, the prefix of its name will be changed to ST.

One night a year ago, the ghostly aura suddenly surged without warning.

Although the detectors detected it in time, many people did not have time to escape the ghostly aura because the ghostly energy was rising too fast.

When the secret realm opened, all those people were sucked into it.

The secret realm takes place in Morning City.

The entire Morning City Special Abilities Bureau was mobilized, but they were still overwhelmed.

The General Administration dispatched many superhumans from neighboring cities to provide support.

However, many people with superpowers never returned.

Very few people survived. According to the survivors, the monsters in that secret realm were unkillable. They would die and then resurrect endlessly. To say they were very powerful was an understatement; it was just that their endless resurrection could wear people down to death.

Human physical strength is limited; no matter how powerful you are, you cannot fight continuously for a long time without rest.

That secret realm has been open for a very long time because no one has ever broken into it, so it will never disappear.

The four-month-long operation consumed a lot of manpower and resources. Although the secret realm was dangerous, it was full of treasures. Some people spread the word that as long as you don't go to the central area, you can get a lot of treasures by killing monsters nearby.

This publicity attracted people with supernatural abilities from abroad.

The survival rule in the secret realm is that the strong live and the weak die.

When superhumans of different nationalities meet in a secret realm, the battle for the treasure is unimaginably fierce.

No one knows what happened after that; all that is known is that the secret realm suddenly closed.

Those who didn't manage to get out were all imprisoned in the secret realm.

Yu Qing read many related posts and roughly understood what happened in that secret realm a year ago.

The monsters in that secret realm can regenerate infinitely, and the treasures within can also be generated infinitely.

Someone takes a treasure from a certain place, and as soon as they leave the secret realm, an identical treasure will appear in that same place.

That's why so many people risk their lives to search for treasure.

After school, Yu Qing and Gu Tuo packed some delicious food to take back to their apartment and ate it with the little monster.

While Gu Tuo was using the restroom, Yu Qing quickly whispered to the little monster, "The treasures in your secret realm can be generated infinitely, right?"

The little monster squinted: "How did you know?"

"I searched it online, is it true?"

The little monster nodded.

"What happened after that caused the secret realm to close?"

"I don't know." The little monster shook its head, munching on a durian, its mouth full of yellow flesh.

"It must be a group of very powerful people who came and discovered the array's core. I don't know how they stole it. Normally, either they would kill me and the array's core at the same time, causing the secret realm to disappear, or the array's core would recognize a master, allowing the master to obtain the secret realm. However, the array's core did not recognize a master but was taken away from the secret realm, causing it to suddenly disappear. The array's core and I are bound by fate. Now that it's out, I can't go back."

The little monster licked the yellow durian in its hand and said, "So, have you found the key to the formation?"

"No."

"You're so useless, you're not even as good as Gu Tuo, he can get into the Bureau of Supernatural Abilities." The little monster knows how to put others down.

Yu Qing chuckled and ignored him.

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That night.

A man appeared in the alley next to the Bureau of Supernatural Abilities.

He looked around and, seeing no one passing by, took out his hat and put it on, then put on a black mask.

He clasped his hands together in a mudra, and suddenly his figure disappeared.

He is a superhuman with the ability to become invisible.

The man quietly entered the Bureau of Supernatural Abilities.

The surveillance system in the Bureau of Supernatural Abilities is comprehensive, but it is useless against invisibility.

The man climbed up to the second floor and entered the office through the French windows of the balcony.

Coincidentally, he came to Zhou Fengyun's office. He took a flashlight out of his pocket, turned it on, and put it in his mouth.

I turned on the computer on the desk.

The screen then lit up.

The computer boots up in about seven seconds.

There was no password to turn on the computer, so he found the interface for searching computer documents and entered "list of superhumans" into the search bar.

A document appears.

He clicked on it; it was blank.

I scrolled down the page, but it was still blank. What's going on?

The mysterious big shot's personal information is missing, and so are the other people's information?

Just then.

The sliding door behind him slammed shut with a bang.

The man turned around in surprise and immediately spat out the flashlight from his mouth.

There was no one in the room, only the light from a flashlight on the floor.

The invisible superhuman cautiously surveyed their surroundings. Why couldn't they see the other person? Did the Bureau of Supernatural Abilities also have invisible superhumans?

But no matter what, I've been discovered, so I have to run.

The man went to the sliding door, reached out and pushed it, but the door wouldn't budge.

Suddenly a petal fell in front of him.

He was taken aback and quickly backed away.

One petal instantly turned into many petals.

Hua Qingshu burst out from a large cluster of petals and kicked out towards the invisible man.

The man quickly dodged.

Now, Hua Qingshu is in the open, while the invisible man remains in the shadows.

The man said smugly, "You can't see me."

Indeed, Hua Qingshu could not see him.

The man went to the sliding door and pulled it again; this time, the door opened.

With a whoosh.

The man rushed out immediately.

Hua Qingshu raised her hand and pushed.

Thousands of petals surged out.

The petals were attached to the man's body, and the previously invisible man was now exposed.

Hua Qingshu strode forward and kicked the figure covered in petals.

"Ah!" The man was kicked hard and fell onto the balcony, his face smashing into the railing.

He winced in pain, but he reacted quickly, rolling away on the ground.

Many of the petals on its body were shaken off.

As soon as I got up, a huge clump of flower petals rushed over.

Hua Qingshu clearly saw his figure, pulled out the dagger wrapped in the holster on her thigh, and stabbed it towards the man's buttocks.

The man dodged, then turned and launched a flying kick.

Hua Qingshu turned and dodged, slashing his chest with her knife.

The two started fighting on the balcony.

The man suddenly grabbed Hua Qingshu's braided hair behind her head and yanked it hard.

She raised her foot to kick him.

Hua Qingshu reversed everything.

The braid was cut off, and the flower petals instantly surged towards the man like ocean waves.

The man suddenly couldn't see anything.

Hua Qingshu took a running start and delivered a flying kick, sending the man flying.

He hit his back on the railing, his body flipped, and he fell straight down the stairs.

Superhumans generally possess formidable physical abilities.

There's no way someone could fall to their death from the second floor.

Hua Qingshu slowly touched her short hair, turned around unhappily and sat on the railing. With a turn of her body, she lifted her long legs and jumped over the railing.

The man got up and ran out of the yard.

Hua Qingshu is a member of the elite team of the Superpower Bureau.

One of Zhou Fengyun's capable lieutenants, he rarely shows his face, his combat strength is unknown, and there is no record of him losing, although there is no record of him winning either.

He's mysterious, unlike Zhou Fengyun who has all sorts of tricks up his sleeve.

The man was invisible, but his body was covered in flower petals. As he ran, the petals fell off. He climbed onto the iron gate, which made a crisp clanging sound.

Hua Qingshu arrogantly tilted her head, and in the instant she ran over, she transformed into petals, passing through the gaps in the iron gate.

The man had just landed on the iron gate when Hua Qingshu, who emerged from the flower petals, stepped on the gate.

clang!

"Ah..." The man's throat was firmly pressed down by Hua Qingshu's leather boots, and he could not make a sound. Even breathing became difficult.

Hua Qingshu's voice was languid, "Whose information are you looking for? I can tell you."

The man grabbed his ankle and twisted it forcefully.

Hua Qingshu swept her dagger horizontally.

"ah!"

The man's nose was sliced ​​open horizontally with a knife.

"Who sent you? If you don't tell me, I'll torture you to death." Hua Qingshu withdrew her foot, grabbed his shoulder and flipped him over. Flower vines sprouted from the ground and quickly wrapped around the man's body, binding him firmly to the iron gate.

Hua Qingshu, holding a dagger, asked, "Will you talk or not?"

The man stubbornly gritted his teeth and refused to speak.

Hua Qingshu thrust the dagger forcefully once.

The target is the opponent's right buttock.

"Ah!!!!" the man screamed in pain.

"Who sent you? What are you looking for?" Hua Qingshu asked again.

The man was in so much pain that sweat beaded on his forehead, but he gritted his teeth and kept going.

Hua Qingshu thrust her dagger with all her might once more.

This time it's my left buttock.

"ah……"

"If you don't talk, I'll flip you over and stab you again." Hua Qingshu grinned wickedly.

"I, I'll talk..." The man was sweating profusely, never expecting that there would be such a madman in the Bureau of Supernatural Abilities.

"I'll tell you... I'm here to find the personal information of that mysterious big shot."

"Oh? Who sent you?"

“I don’t know. The other party left me a stack of money and a note, promising to give me more money after I got the information. So I came. I’ve never seen that person before.”

"You're not telling the truth, are you?"

"I'm telling the truth, it's true... The cash and the note are at my house..." The man was in so much pain he was about to faint.

Hua Qingshu wiped the blood off his body with the dagger.

He then put it back into the scabbard.

He took out his phone to call Zhou Fengyun to report, and then leaned against the rose vines clinging to the fence.

His cut hair grew back very quickly.

Her silky, glossy pink hair reappeared a few minutes later.

Ten minutes later, the ambulance from the superpower hospital arrived and took the man to the hospital for treatment.

Chu Yihou received the mission and went to the house the man had mentioned.

The cash and the note were found.

The man's name was Li Yang, and he had no other skills besides being able to become invisible.

He didn't have a proper job, so he did some petty theft and learned some tricks. Occasionally, he would team up with other superhumans to farm crystals in the Donglin Forbidden Zone.

Li Yang was a habitual thief who was handed over to the police after receiving stitches in his buttocks.

"This person must be after Boss A Ding, right?" Hua Qingshu guessed.

Zhou Fengyun nodded; he shared the same thought.

"He's too flamboyant, it's inevitable."

"There's no way to avoid showing off, your strength speaks for itself." Hua Qingshu shrugged.

"really."

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The next morning, Yu Qing saw a message from Zhou Fengyun, telling him that someone had infiltrated the Superpower Bureau to find his personal information and that he should keep a low profile recently.

Yu Qing replied, "Okay."

Then, he covered his helmet with little yellow ducks and circled the Bureau of Superpowers seven or eight times before flying into the Bureau.

Zhou Fengyun had no choice but to confront him, seeing his defiant attitude.

"Your look today is very unique," Zhou Fengyun complimented.

"Thank you. What brings you today?" Yu Qing asked.

"There are fifteen days left until the annual opening of the ST001 Secret Realm. All members of the Superpower Bureau can enter the Secret Realm in batches to cultivate. You will be included. There are ghosts and monsters to kill in the Secret Realm. Half of everything you get must be handed over."

Yu Qing replied with an "Oh," and said, "I'm fine with it. I'll go if there's money to be made."

"Why are you working so hard? Doesn't the child's other father pay child support?" Zhou Fengyun couldn't help but ask from the side.

Yu Qing shrugged and didn't answer.

Zhou Fengyun stopped asking. Judging from his reaction, the other father was probably unreliable. If he were reliable, he wouldn't be working so hard.

"Achoo!" Zhou Fengyun suddenly sneezed. He rubbed his nose. He had always been in good health and hadn't caught a cold for many years, so this sneeze was really inexplicable.

Yu Qing: "Some people are saying bad things about you."

Yu Qing sat down on the sofa and rummaged through the insulated bag on the coffee table. "Is this for my breakfast?"

"Okay, eat up."

Zhou Fengyun's phone rang at that moment.

He frowned as soon as he saw the caller ID, then walked aside and answered the phone.

"mom."

Are you free to come home for dinner this weekend?

"It's hard to say now, we'll see how it goes."

"Okay, come back when you have time. Your aunt has found you a really pretty girl and is going to introduce you to her."

"Mom, there's no need to waste the girl's feelings. I don't want to date her."

Upon hearing this, Yu Qing's ears perked up.

"You may be busy, but you still need to find a partner. Are you going to stay single forever? That would be too miserable!"

"I don't like women, so why don't you find me a man? He has to be good-looking, young, and have a nice butt."

Zhou Fengyun spoke fluently and naturally.

The mother on the other end of the phone didn't believe him at all: "I don't believe you! Don't be like your cousin, who said he liked men to avoid blind dates, but when he was found a man, he didn't like him at all. You have to tell countless lies to cover up one lie. Don't you know that?"

Zhou Fengyun hesitated for a moment, glanced back at the person on the sofa, and then turned back to say, "I'm not lying to you, I really don't like women. I'll find a partner myself, you don't need to worry about it. I don't want to waste those girls' time, so I'm going to get back to work."

Zhou Fengyun hung up the phone, sighed, turned around and sat on the sofa diagonally opposite Yu Qing, and said with admiration, "You're so lucky. You can give birth to your own child. You must have never experienced being pressured to get married."

"No, you don't like women?"

"I don't like it. What about you?"

"Whether I like it or not doesn't matter anymore." Yu Qing touched his belly, feeling like he was both a father and a mother.

Zhou Fengyun asked with a curious look, "Can you feel the baby's movements now?"

“No, it’s too small. There’s no movement at all.” Yu Qing shook his head.

"Let me touch you?"

Yu Qing leaned back generously and said, "Come on."

Zhou Fengyun got up, walked over and sat next to him, slowly placing her hand on his lower abdomen.

Yu Qing has been eating too well lately; his belly is chubby and slightly protruding. I don't know if it's from gaining weight or from the baby growing bigger.

It feels very nice to the touch.

Zhou Fengyun's hands were very large, almost covering his lower abdomen with one hand.

Through the clothes, Yu Qing could feel the warmth of Zhou Fengyun's palm.

My lower abdomen, which I hadn't felt anything before, suddenly started to feel restless.

Yu Qing was surprised and pressed Zhou Fengyun's hands down with both of his.

"Can you feel it?"

Zhou Fengyun's hand trembled slightly.

He wondered, "What should I be feeling?"

Yu Qing said, "I felt the baby react."

"What kind of reaction?"

"I can't quite put my finger on it, it's just..." Yu Qing felt it carefully, and it seemed like the baby was jumping inside, but the movements weren't very loud.

"A two-month-old baby should still be the size of a small bean, right?" Zhou Fengyun had stumbled upon a blind spot in his knowledge.

Does this mean I can jump and bounce around?

At this moment, Chu Yi walked in like a whirlwind, and was taken aback when he saw their posture.

Zhou Fengyun sat sideways next to the big boss, one hand touching the big boss's...

Chu Yihou didn't dare to look closely and turned to run away like the wind.

Ahhh! What did he see?

The boss is helping the big shot play League of Legends!

Yu Qing: "What came?"

Zhou Fengyun: "Chu Yihou, ignore him."

Zhou Fengyun's phone rang again at that moment.

Yu Qing: "Is it another round of pressure to get married?"

Zhou Fengyun looked at it and said, "No."

He got up, went to the balcony to answer the phone, and closed the sliding door behind him.

Seeing how wary he was of people, Yu Qing really wanted to hear what was going on.

On the balcony.

Zhou Fengyun asked, "Any news?"

"I've finally managed to recover a little bit of that surveillance video, although it's very blurry. I'll send it to you right away."

Zhou Fengyun switched to the chat window and saw the short video sent by the other party.

This is the surveillance video from the Anyue Hotel during the time he lost his memory.

The video is entirely pinkish-red upon opening, with very low visibility.

However, the direction in which the figures were moving could be seen.

He is still very familiar with his body shape and walking posture, and can recognize himself from the blurry video.

This scene shows him walking into a room.

Zhou Fengyun zoomed in on the image and saw the room number: 309

It gave me a creepy feeling.

When he was under the illusion at the nursing home, the room number he saw was also 309.

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Author's Note: [Dog head carrying a rose][Dog head carrying a rose]