Maintenance Bureau
In the boundless night sky, shrouded by a cold winter moon, beneath thirteen suspended screens of light, a figure was entangled in black chains, the ends of which connected to nothingness. His figure was hazy in the moonlight.
"Hmm..."
"Awake?" The fat man struggled to open his eyes and heard a voice nearby. He subconsciously turned around to see, but found that he was trapped by chains and could not move.
The man behind him looked to be in his forties, but he had a heavy air of old age about him. His extremely short gray-brown hair was pulled back close to his scalp, revealing a long tattoo behind his left ear.
The man took the last puff of his cigarette, pinched out the dark red cigarette butt with two fingers, then twisted and shook off the remaining ashes on his hand. The moment he raised his eyes, the trapped fat man turned 180 degrees and faced him.
The chains made a series of small crackling noises as they swung and struggled, but the noises stopped when the fat man saw the face of the person in front of him. "Flovitch?"
"Hmm." The man lazily looked him up and down several times. "You're not afraid of me? Are you just pretending?" He was about to loosen the chain to see if he was shivering secretly inside, but he heard the fat man start roaring: "I will kill you, I will definitely kill you!"
Frovich waved his hands and said nonchalantly, "Okay, okay, good luck." He tilted his chin slightly and nodded upwards, "A few questions for you." His tone was very matter-of-fact, as if he was not worried at all about the other party's rejection.
"Your ability is 'dream creation' in the biological lower brain area, right? This ability isn't very common, but I know a few things about it. Let me ask you, your unleashing of nightmares in this area was a pre-planned plan, wasn't it? Where is the person who ordered you to do this?"
Although Frovitch looked calm at the moment, he always felt that a sense of unease was spreading.
Because when he arrived here, he discovered an unknown barrier space and could not feel any concrete energy fluctuations, but there was indeed a domain where the inside and the outside had no influence on each other. And when he tried to break it from the outside, he found that it actually consumed nearly 30% of his energy.
"You are not yet capable of setting up a domain of that level, so don't even think about taking it on yourself." Since becoming the president of the association, Frovich has been busy with endless official duties. He often holds guidance meetings in this district in the morning, and then runs to another district to greet the rising sun again. Over the years, including the number of repeated meetings, the leaders of various districts and members of the central team he has met can be arranged around the entire surface of the earth.
So in recent years, after he had to rest due to his health condition, he finally experienced the happiness of those guys who retired early behind the scenes.
Because of this, he would definitely catch the person who did this behavior that completely disrupted his peaceful and beautiful life and let him feel the wrath of a level 9 mutant.
"If you confess, I might consider letting you die more easily." The man finally stopped speaking due to lack of oxygen, staring at Frovitch with deep resentment. "Really? You don't think you can escape?" He read anger and hatred in the man's eyes, but not despair, so he asked doubtfully.
Meanwhile, on the second floor of the old, empty house, Shi Youchen described to Ying Yungui the attack on the 9th District branch base and the fact that He Xian had been taken away by the invaders. He also explained Jiang Da's identity and offered his own conjecture. After their conversation, both of them were troubled.
Ying Yungui: "In short, since they used He Xian's ability to demonstrate it to you, and didn't kill him on the spot afterwards, but instead took him away, it shows that He Xian has special meaning to them." He took a deep breath and said, "At least his life should not be in danger."
Shi Youchen lowered his eyes to glance at Jiang Da who was lying there, and said, "In that cliff cave, I also heard them talking. They said they would take away those among you with high-level and rare abilities, and ordered the others to be eliminated."
"He Xian's level wasn't high, yet he was taken away. What exactly is his special ability, 'Gift'?"
The scene of Jiang Da pulling He Xian's head in front of the camera and introducing him as the "commentary assistant" not long ago still lingers in Shi Youchen's mind.
Ying Yungui: "Simply put, 'Gifts' are two abilities: light and spiritual soothing. They can be used independently or in combination." "When I met him, the spiritual soothing attribute hadn't appeared. It was only discovered after he reached adulthood, so the association made changes to his personal file at that time."
"Two superpowers?" It was the first time that Shi Youchen encountered such a situation.
"Well, in all the records of the association, the number of people with multiple superpowers is much rarer than those who are awakened later in life like you, so even if he is only level 4, the other party..." Ying Yungui was suddenly stunned when he said this.
Shi Youchen still didn't understand what he meant: "What's wrong?"
As a good friend who had known He Xian for nearly ten years, Ying Yungui was of course aware of several important turning points in his growth process, so he naturally knew -
"Only a very few people knew the inside story of his second ability awakening. Most people only knew that his ability had been renamed. Furthermore, since he became an adult and has rarely been on missions, only a handful of people know of his multiple ability identity."
When Ying Yungui said this, his heart sank, and Shi Youchen also realized it.
"If those people really took He Xian away for this reason, then how did they know?"
"Creaky--" A strong wind suddenly blew outside, blowing the tattered wooden window frame crooked. The night wind that came in messed up Shi Youchen's black hair that had not been cut for a long time.
The two looked at each other in silence for a long time, and finally the cold atmosphere was interrupted by a loud "boom" outside.
"Yun Gui! You Chen!" Yan Zhiyuan, who had been resting in the car to accumulate energy, suddenly ran to the window and shouted, "Come out quickly!"
His tone was very urgent, and the two of them quickly got up and went downstairs without asking any questions. When they opened the door, they found that the car door was open and Yan Zhiyuan was standing at the rear of the car looking up at the sky.
At this moment, the four healing ability users who were sent to check the physical condition of the villagers had just completed the task assigned by the president himself and gathered together.
Everyone's attention was attracted by the thirteen light screens.
The scenes of the various branch bases changed. After a "sizzle" sound like a circuit being cut, the thirteen screens unexpectedly displayed the same scene.
Right above the space where they were, was where the president of the Global Management Association of Superpowers, Florovich, and the fat man were.
Flovitch noticed the change and raised his eyes, then said to the unconscious man in the heavy chains, "Wow, someone is here to rescue you." The next second he turned around and looked at the two black-robed men who suddenly appeared. "Are you here to rescue your companions?"
"Go clean it up," one of them ordered the other, his voice cold and lacking any rhythm. The man who received the order seemed to nod, then with a flick of his hood, he vanished from the spot.
Frovich, the domain caster, sensed an unknown energy source appearing somewhere on the ground and said, "It seems that the strange domain before was your masterpiece. It's amazing." The man opposite took off his hood, took off his black robe, and draped it in his arms, raising his pair of light white pupils.
"I've long heard of you, President Frovitch." The evening breeze gently blew his soft black hair that fell to his shoulders. He raised his free right hand and tucked the messy hair behind his ear, revealing a circle of black earrings on his earlobe.
The corners of Frovitch's mouth stiffened, and he could even hear a hint of perfunctoriness in his flat tone. "The way you greet people isn't something everyone can handle," he said, hinting at something.
At the same time, the content of the conversation between the two people in mid-air was clearly transmitted to the ears of the seven people standing at the rear of the car. Combined with the image on the huge light screen, it gave people an immersive feeling of watching a movie.
Shi Youchen's brain ached as if a nerve had been vigorously prodded. Ying Yungui keenly noticed his abnormality and asked softly, "What's wrong?" Shi Youchen shook his head slightly and changed the subject, "Is that the president?"
Among the remaining healing psychics, a die-hard fan girl excitedly said, "Yes, yes! President Flovitch is still so handsome at 78 years old."
"..." Shi Youchen, who hadn't paid much attention to the association's important information, especially personnel information, hadn't expected the man who looked so energetic on the big screen to be so old. Through the filter of age, he sighed sincerely, "Thanks for coming all this way to save you."
The exchanges in the air continued.
Frovitch rubbed his wrists, and with a thought, the fat man groaned in pain under the tightening chains.
"Tell me your identity, fugitive." His eyes gleamed as he stared at the man. His white pupils took in the fat man's suffocating situation. "Lin Yan, are you okay?" a toneless voice asked the chained man.
Flovitch said with a smile, "He can't answer your question." Then he raised his hand and pointed to his head, "I planted something here." "Don't sympathize with him, because soon you will be the same as him."
"Lin Yan, answer me." The man ignored Frovich and repeated it again.
The chains were already squeezing Lin Yan's bones, causing them to crack from time to time. Something in his physical brain was racing, and his entire head was immersed in intense stinging pain. The man looked at his pale face and finally sighed.
Frovich snorted, as if mocking his disobedience, and began to roll up his sleeves.
"I don't have a name, but for your convenience, you can call me codename '07'." The man suddenly said, "Also, hello to everyone around the world." Although he was facing Frovitch, his eyes were fixed on the light screens.
While on the ground, a window automatically popped up on the wristbands of Shi Youchen and his group, which showed a picture of 07 introducing himself.
"I'm here today simply to represent the Maintenance Bureau and declare war on the Association." 07 cleared his throat and continued with words that terrified everyone, "The Global Order Restructuring and Maintenance Bureau will carry out liquidation operations regardless of time, place, or target until the Global Ability Management Association is completely eliminated and replaced."
The next second, 07's left chest was pierced by a bullet.
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