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It was not until the next morning that Shi Youchen received a reply from Ying Yungui - "I will be undergoing closed training in Area 1 for a period of time until I can completely get rid of the restrictor. You must be careful over there and wait for me to come back." Shi Youchen watched silently for a while, put the towel back on his head and continued to wipe his half-wet hair. He stopped only when his scalp was numb from the heat.
The weather had warmed up a bit in April, and there was no longer a need to keep the heating on all day. Shi Youchen sat down in his familiar spot by the window, found the page he was looking for among the densely packed notes in front of him, and placed it on the top shelf.
Then he dialed a number written on it.
"..." "Hello, I'm Shi Youchen."
District 8, City A, Northeast, Psychic Training Base. Lu Zhiqi looked at Shi Youchen with a hint of caution. Earlier, he had indeed aimed to recruit people to his side, but now...
"Have you thought it through?" Lu Zhiqi asked suspiciously. Shi Youchen, standing opposite him, pushed forward the prepared file bag and said, "This is my entire life experience before my awakening, including my family background, education, and some social experience."
He then pulled out another black file bag and said, "This contains all the missions I've participated in since my awakening, along with the corresponding results and rewards. I know you can easily find these, but as a token of my sincerity, please accept them."
Lu Zhiqi kept staring at Shi Youchen's face. He had to admit that he didn't notice anything unusual on his face. So he took the black file bag, opened it, and took out a stack of clearly organized documents. As he flipped through them, he asked, "Is it because you feel uneasy after learning about Lu Quezhi's life story? Or is it because of the last attack?"
Shi Youchen unscrewed the cup he brought and drank a sip of water, not feeling offended. "You could say it's a bit of both."
"Anyway, once you enter here, you will be my true companion. You can use the base's resources at will without any permission settings, and you can also accept tasks from the association as usual. If you feel that the equipment is not easy to use, you can find someone to train with in actual combat." Lu Zhiqi quickly skipped over the previous part, and only read it carefully word by word until he turned to the 317 incident.
"But before that, you have to pass the admission test." Shi Youchen understood that there was no such thing as a free lunch, so he had anticipated the requirements of a similar qualification test and said, "Okay."
Lu Zhiqi carefully read the contents of the 317 incident, thinking that Shi Youchen indeed had a special relationship with Yan Zhiyuan, Ying Yungui and others. He wondered what was so valuable about him that even his father had been concerned about him earlier.
"You... have a good relationship with Minister Yan?" He thought so and asked.
Shi Youchen tightened the lid and set the cup aside, his expression calm. "Not bad." Before Lu Zhiqi could ask again, he took the initiative to continue, "He was the person in charge of my training after awakening. We also went on missions together. We were considered close friends."
Objectively speaking, the relationship between Yan Zhiyuan and Shi Youchen is actually closer to "friends" than "comrades-in-arms." However, Shi Youchen's words deliberately guided their relationship towards that of comrades-in-arms in order to prevent Lu Zhiqi from probing further.
After all, Lin Zhouze is an important connection point in the middle, and Shi Youchen doesn't want to involve him in his plan.
So I could only say sorry in my heart to Yan Zhiyuan who has not woken up yet.
"Oh." Lu Zhiqi couldn't ask any more questions now. He put away the information and stood up. "I've arranged for someone to take you for the test. I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."
"goodbye."
Shi Youchen didn't stand up. "Goodbye." He watched Lu Zhiqi leave the empty reception room. A moment later, another voice was heard outside: "Is Mr. Shi Youchen here? Please come with me for the test."
The days gradually became dull, and Ying Yungui seemed to have vanished, with no further news. The person who had previously been acting as director had left District 8 for a specific mission, and the Information Department had recently been overwhelmed with work, requiring a temporary transfer to take over, inevitably impacting efficiency. So, Lin Zhouze was urgently assigned to take over, and his days were filled with miscellaneous tasks, leaving him with no time to worry about Shi Youchen's affairs.
Yan Zhiyuan still didn't wake up. Shi Youchen did go to Treatment Room No. 3 in the middle of the process, but according to regulations he was not allowed to go in, so he could only pray outside.
Shi Youchen himself, according to his own ideas, ran back and forth between the association base and the A City training base. After spending a few days adapting to the new training equipment, he officially started his bold plan.
Shi Youchen had thoroughly read all the theoretical knowledge Lin Zhouze had taught him at the beginning of his awakening, as well as the documents available in the association's archives. He had already built a related database in his mind, and this database itself was labeled "not the truth."
Shi Youchen wants to overturn the existing theory of supernatural powers.
He had already noticed and diligently verified numerous irregularities. The most compelling point was Lu Ming's erasure of his memories of the Mo family investigation. "Touch-sensing" psychics could directly influence a person's memory, and he had searched through thousands of mission records, yet he couldn't find a second instance of this.
There was also Lu Zhiqi's own account of Lu Quezhi's true life story. Others, including Lu Zhiqi, might have thought that Lu Quezhi's ability was simply tactile perception, but Shi Youchen was certain that was not the case.
It's not just because of the time he had actually worked with him, but also because he believed Lu Quezhi's last words before his death, and believed in the importance his mother Wang Lingyi held in his heart.
If this is the case, why would Lu Quezhi, a descendant of a family with 100% natural talent for awakening superpowers, have deviations? Not only is there a deviation in the awakening time, but also a deviation in the awakening ability.
Besides these, there is also the relationship between Lu Shen and Ah Xian. If they are both bloodline inheritance, then why did Ah Xian inherit his mother's "mental invasion" instead of his father's "touch perception"?
Or is it that "mental invasion" and "touch perception" are essentially the same ability?
When writing here, Youchen's pen stopped, and then he wrote "reverse superpower" above "mental invasion", and wrote "positive superpower" above "touch perception", and then slowly typed a "?" after the positive superpower, and followed by the word "heart language".
The use of supernatural powers is usually a release of energy. For Shi Youchen, every time he used his ability, he was transferring energy outwards. However, he had never considered this before -
Since the people being treated by him can receive his energy from the outside world, which is a kind of absorption, then can he also absorb energy from others?
While thinking, Shi Youchen's fingertips holding the pen gradually lost strength and drooped, and black ink fell on the paper, leaving a deep dot next to "reverse power".
Reverse superpowers, seizing the energy of others to strengthen oneself, are essentially a form of energy transfer. Could it be that different methods of use have become the standard for distinguishing types of superpowers, but in reality, their energy properties are the same?
If this is true, does it mean that the owner of the reverse power may not be a fugitive?
At this moment, an even more terrifying thought arose in Shi Youchen's mind - if the psychics could not control the direction of energy flow when they first awakened, or if the energy flow direction of each psychic was fixed and unchangeable, then how many "fugitives" had been expelled and wiped out since the association's rules were implemented?
How many people with special abilities chose other organizations out of hatred for the Association? Could the Maintenance Bureau have come into being because of this?
Just when Shi Youchen had a more detailed idea in his mind, the alarm clock reminded him that it was time to go to the A City training base.
...
Shortly after the door of the 16th floor of Building 7 was closed, a person appeared at the window seat where Shi Youchen usually sat, and the piece of paper with the reverse superpower conjecture written on it was picked up.
07's pale pupils shifted a few times, and then he chuckled softly: "You really didn't disappoint me."
...
Shi Youchen had just finished his dynamic vision training and removed the simulator when he bumped into Li Ming, who had just pushed the door open. "Huh?" Li Ming was stunned for a moment as he ran into Shi Youchen for the first time at the training base. "Why are you here?"
Only after seeing the other people did Youchen realize that nearly a week had passed since their last fruitless conversation. So he said, "Lu Zhiqi invited me to join, and I also wanted to try out the auxiliary equipment that the association base doesn't have." He raised the two probe-like instruments in his hands and said, "So I came here."
Li Ming's expression was a little strange. He looked at Shi Youchen with a hint of amusement in his eyes: "Lu Zhiqi, are you invited?"
The tone of the word "you" rose a lot, so much so that the frivolity in the words could not be concealed at all, and anyone could hear it. So Shi Youchen felt uncomfortable and a little strange at the same time, so he wiped his hands and asked Li Ming: "How is the progress of the thing you mentioned last time?"
Unexpectedly, Li Ming frowned and said, "What does my business have to do with you?" He then looked Shi Youchen up and down and asked, "Are we familiar with each other?"
Shi Youchen calmly folded the tissue and put it in his pocket, straightened his clothes and said, "Not familiar with you, but we chatted for a while last time when you picked up my Nanhong bracelet."
Li Ming scoffed. "When did I ever pick up a bracelet? What nonsense are you talking about?" Then, as if suddenly enlightened, he exclaimed, "No, you're not trying to get close to me so that Uncle Lu can accept you as his apprentice, are you?"
"Don't dream. You are a naturally awakened person who came out of nowhere. I advise you to train well and don't think about taking shortcuts." After he said that, he ignored Shi Youchen, walked to the side, took out a set of auxiliary devices, and started his own training.
Shi Youchen buttoned the last button, said "You think too much" and left the training room.
Li Ming's memory was flawed, Shi Youchen thought as he headed to the digital archive. From their brief conversation, it seemed Li Ming had forgotten his connection to him, yet knew he was a naturally awakened being. He had also forgotten the relics left by Mollier, and quite possibly even Mollier himself.
His previous proposal to report the poisoning of Morrill to the association headquarters would probably not be followed up.
Shi Youchen had no need and no desire to verify whether Li Ming was pretending or not. Firstly, there was no need to do so. Secondly, if everything was normal with the other party, he would surely tell him after taking the planned actions.
But no.
In this case, there is no need to explain the root cause of Li Ming's memory problems.
Lu Ming.
"You first erased the memory of Ying Yungui and I investigating the Mo family, and then attacked Li Ming. What exactly do you want to do?" Shi Youchen thought to himself, why are you in such a hurry to make everything related to the Mo family disappear? Is there another hidden story behind the burning of the Mo family?
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