Lu Ming's Secret
07 hasn't appeared for several days.
Shi Youchen was a little shaken. He had thought 07 had been impressed by his abilities and wanted to take him on as a disciple, which was why he had approached him so many times. However, after promising to teach him a more advanced form of time-stopping, the man inexplicably disappeared.
Shi Youchen had originally wanted to go directly to 07's house to look for him, but when he realized that Kong might be there, he immediately gave up the idea. He didn't want to experience the feeling of being stared at by an unfamiliar person again, especially if 07 wasn't there, Kong might actually fight him.
Shi Youchen is very clear that he is not Kong's opponent at the moment, because every time the challenge starts every month, Kong will challenge him to a fight, and every time he finishes the fight, he is covered in wounds and needs to rest for at least three to five days.
Morrill once asked why he didn't reject Kong's challenge, to which Shi Youchen replied, "Perhaps it's because I've already died once, and now my desire to become stronger far outweighs my fear of death. Kong's existence is a great opportunity for me. Since we'll have to face each other sooner or later, I might as well do it sooner rather than later."
Time flies. Five months have already passed since he woke up at the Maintenance Bureau. Shi Youchen's energy level is still at the entry-level level 5. Yan Zhiyuan explained that this is because 07 froze his body for time to save his life. Now that his body has awakened, it needs to slowly absorb all the energy accumulated during that time, so he won't be able to make any breakthroughs in the short term.
Shi Youchen was mentally prepared for this. Luckily, he had never left the Maintenance Bureau's alien space, so he had no personal experience of the changing time and seasons in the outside world.
Just when Shi Youchen's training was temporarily halted, 07 was very busy.
...
Deep beneath the seabed of this alien dimension lies a hidden black arena area, a place specially prepared by the Maintenance Bureau for those with overly destructive abilities.
Because when these people with special abilities start fighting, landslides and tsunamis can easily occur. In order to protect the main structure of the alien space to the greatest extent, they will choose to fight here.
However, this does not mean that they are a group of well-educated people. On the contrary, most of the guys who often appear in the black arena are ruthless. They usually fight to the death with precious resources at stake, and these resources may be some weapons, some secret medicine or even a person.
07 has practically been living here lately. He's waiting for someone.
Both sides of today's battle are betting on secret medicine, which is the kind that psychics use their original power to refine. Usually, those who take it will get a huge enhancement in a short period of time. This enhancement may be a simple physical enhancement, or it may be a mental enhancement. No matter which aspect, it is a shortcut for psychics to practice.
Of course, this can also be understood as a "life-for-life" exchange between the alchemist and the person taking the medicine.
This method is not uncommon in this circle. 07 watched the two people on stage with great interest. The one who was covered completely caught the attention of most of the spectators.
"You've already entered the ring, but you don't even dare to show your face?"
"What a fucking coward! Why don't you just get out of here and let me do it!"
"Oh, I dare not see anyone, it's really fresh."
After the bell of judgment rang, the bloody battle began.
...The person who ultimately won the two bottles of secret medicine was the faceless man. He kicked his opponent, who lay in a pool of blood and had no heartbeat, to the side, walked off the ring, and left through the back passage.
However, when he was still immersed in the joy of obtaining the secret medicine and winning the battle, just as he walked out of the dark passage, someone suddenly appeared in front of him.
"Hello, sir." 07 noticed the man hiding the medicine behind his back. "Don't get me wrong, I'm not here to steal the medicine."
The black-robed man coughed and spoke in a hoarse voice, like an old man in his seventies: "Friend, there are rules here. Private fighting is not allowed after leaving the ring."
07 reached out and took off the black nails on his earlobes, laughed and said, "I know, I built this place, I know the rules better than you." A pair of fish-fin-shaped mechanical arms immediately unfolded from behind the black-robed man, as if to rush over the two men's heads.
Unexpectedly, the mechanical arm did not respond at all. The man in black robe panicked and asked hurriedly, "What do you want to do?"
07 put away the handful of precious nails, raised his eyebrows and said, "It's nothing, I just want to ask you for a small favor."
The black-robed man felt a little relieved after hearing this: "We are all colleagues in the Maintenance Bureau. If you need any help from me, just tell me. Why bother with such a fuss and hurt our friendship?"
07 burst into laughter after hearing this, and laughed for a long time before stopping under the puzzled gaze of the black-robed man. He seemed to have seen the most absurd thing in the world, and actually revealed a weird grin with bared teeth that even Kong had never seen before.
"Then I think maybe you don't fully understand the rules here." 07 fished out a hair tie from somewhere and carefully tied up her smooth, shoulder-length black hair. "There's no such thing as comrades here. As long as you haven't participated in the challenge and aren't on the list, anyone can attack you anywhere."
"Why, did that fellow bring you here without telling you this universally acknowledged rule?"
"Mr. Lu Ming."
As soon as the words fell, the black-robed figure's concealing clothing instantly turned to dust and vanished. Standing there was none other than Lu Ming, the former head of the Lu family, a Level 8 psychic, who had recently caused a public outcry and then mysteriously disappeared under the supervision of the association.
"You!" Seeing his identity exposed, Lu Ming no longer disguised his voice. His voice, once a source of pride, had become a burden to his concealment, so he had no choice but to do so.
Lu Ming looked at this man with whom he had a brief "cooperation," unable to figure out what he was up to. "If you're here because I canceled the cooperation without your permission, I can apologize! But you didn't lose anything afterwards, did you?"
07 just looked at Lu Ming like that, without saying a word, because he knew that the other party had not finished speaking.
07's calm demeanor made Lu Ming a little nervous. He pressed on, "I know you're responsible for the destruction of the A City training base. I can let it go! I also don't want the things you stole! Let's call it quits!"
But 07 still didn't respond.
Lu Ming gritted his teeth and revealed his trump card: "Haven't you always wanted to destroy the association? I have the association's secrets here, and I can definitely help you. These things can only be obtained by those with abilities above level 8 in the association, as long as you..." However, before he finished speaking, he saw that 07's eyes had obviously changed.
07 Those pale, unfocused pupils were looking at him with pity.
"You..." Lu Ming was speechless when he was stared at by those eyes.
Then he heard 07's voice squeeze into his mind from all directions - "Level 8 mutant? How did you get level 8? Have you forgotten?"
In Lu Ming's eyes, 07 didn't say a word, but his voice was so clear, so clear that Lu Ming instantly remembered that night, that... rainy night when he personally sent Lu Cheng on his way.
07's voice, like the sound of a bell from heaven, continued to shake Lu Ming's spirit. "After learning that method, you must have been very happy, right? So happy that you couldn't wait to kill your father, and then find his bloodline, your brothers and sisters, and deceive and use them, and finally make them die for you willingly."
"And you, a guy with mediocre talent in the first half of your life, were able to successfully break through to level 8 in just over a decade. Ha."
Lu Ming's breathing became noticeably faster, and he said in disbelief: "Impossible... How do you know all this... Impossible! This is absolutely impossible!! Who are you!!!" He roared until his voice broke, but he no longer cared about these things.
07 didn't take his collapse seriously, because what he said next made Lu Ming completely and utterly defeated.
"Remember that boy who invaded your mind? He must have done a lot for you. Haven't you always been curious about who he was and why he helped you like that? I can tell you."
What...
"His mother's name was Lan Song. She was originally an ordinary person, but she fell in love with a noble psychic. After Lan Song gave birth to the child, her psychic husband, hiding from his family, tried to fake his own death during a mission and live in seclusion with his wife and child. However, her husband's brother secretly hired someone to kill him, and he died tragically during the mission."
Stop talking...
"On the day her husband died, Lan Song and the child awakened their special powers at the same time. However, they didn't know the man was dead because he never revealed his true identity to his wife and children. So, Lan Song and the child thought that the man had finally abandoned them."
Stop talking...
"Lan Song became mad and always running around. Finally, one day, she was completely separated from her child. She felt that her loneliness was all her husband's fault! So she started killing men who looked like her husband."
Stop talking...
"Later, Lan Song and the child were picked up separately by members of the Maintenance Bureau, but they never met. While the mother was stirring up trouble in District 10, the son was taken back to District 8 and became a loyal pawn of the Maintenance Bureau. The child was 19 years old that year.
He was gifted, and his instructor held a high position in the Maintenance Bureau, so he quickly earned his own numerical code. But gradually, the child began to develop mental problems, constantly imagining his parents were still around. Not long after, he suffered a multiple schizophrenia attack, sneaked out, and found his relatives in District 8.
"He began secretly helping his relatives clear the family obstacles. As his hands became involved in more and more deaths, his illness became more and more serious. Finally, one day he was caught, imprisoned, and tortured. He suffered terribly."
Stop talking...
"But his family just treated him as a useful tool, felt very lucky, and then turned around and looked for new partners, completely forgetting about the child."
"Stop talking! Stop talking, stop talking!!! I beg you..." Lu Ming suddenly knelt down in front of 07, repeating the words "stop talking" with a distracted look in his eyes.
07 just watched, not stopping his story—"The child's father was Lu Shen, the young master of the Lu family in District 8 at the time. The family he later found was the famous Lu family in District 8, that is, you."
"His uncle, Mr. Lu Ming."
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