Chapter 82, His Ability
The zombie stood aside with its hands hanging down. It was clearly a dead thing without any thoughts or emotions, but Jiang Ran actually felt that he saw an expression similar to respect on its face.
Her gaze slowly shifted from the zombie to the young man, and she was stunned.
She thought she had seen many good-looking men, but after seeing the appearance of the man in front of her, she couldn't help but gasp.
She was truly a rare beauty, with a graceful figure and picturesque features. When she smiled at you, her light golden eyes held a captivating tenderness. His amorous and romantic appearance was tempered somewhat by his eyes, as indifferent as winter snow, creating a strangely gentle aura.
"You..." Jiang Ran stuttered and murmured, "You are so beautiful..."
"Hmm?" As if amused by her reaction, the man raised his eyebrows and smiled, then slowly walked down the stairs and stopped in front of the girl.
The young man had a tall and straight figure and stood close to Jiang Ran, which immediately gave him a strong sense of oppression.
She took two steps back without leaving a trace, staring at him warily: "Who are you? Why are you here?"
As if he didn't notice her dodging, the man leaned closer to her and sniffed gently: "Hmm, it's the unique fragrance of a young girl."
Jiang Ran: “…”
"Nice to meet you. My name is Qin Huai." Without waiting for her to respond, the young man stood up straight and bowed politely. "Nice to meet you."
"Qin...Huai?" A completely unfamiliar name that has never appeared in the novel.
"Yes, the Qinhuai River where we moored overnight."
"You, you came down from upstairs?" Jiang Ran felt a little confused. "Have you seen the members of our special power team? Have you seen Captain Chu Yuan?"
"Yes." Qin Huai's smile deepened. He reached out and touched the top of her head, saying softly, "I let the zombies eat them."
"Oh." Jiang Ran looked at him stupidly and repeated dully, "Did you eat it?"
"Yes." The girl's eyes gradually blurred, and Qin Huai sighed, "Are you also a member of the superpower team? From what I see, you don't seem to have awakened your superpowers."
Jiang Ran met his eyes and tilted her head: "No, I have superpowers."
"Um?"
Under the young man's doubtful gaze, the girl suddenly smiled brightly: "My ability is just the right one to defeat you."
"Bang!"
The gunshot was muffled, and blood-red flowers bloomed on the young man's chest.
Jiang Ran quickly retreated, continuing to shoot as he did so.
Shot in the chest, the young man remained calm and looked at the little girl with a smile: "You are actually, ahem, immune to my ability? How interesting..."
Behind him, the motionless zombie jumped down, blocking the young man like a solid wall, blocking the bullets shot at him.
Jiang Ran, now fully awake, searched for cover and shouted, "Are you the one who escaped from the blockade? What did you do to Captain Chu Yuan and the others?"
"Chu Yuan?" The young man smiled gently, "We've only trapped him temporarily—don't worry, Chu Yuan's ability level is quite high, and it's only a matter of time before he escapes."
Just as the young man finished speaking, a sharp blade whizzed from the end of the corridor and rushed straight towards him.
"boom!"
Dozens of sharp blades smashed down on where the young man was standing. The stairs couldn't withstand the attack and collapsed.
Smoke and dust rose up, blurring Jiang Ran's vision.
"How rude, that guy Chu Yuan." The young man sighed helplessly, as if he was very close, and said with a disappointed look at being interrupted, "Let's talk again next time we have a chance, little girl."
At the collapsed staircase, Chu Yuan clenched his fists and looked at the lingering smoke and dust, then stabbed twice more.
Jiang Ran covered his mouth and nose, coughed twice, and waved his hand to block the dust that was blowing in his face.
After waiting for a few seconds, the dust dispersed, and a sharp blade pierced the ground on the collapsed rubble. Under the blade, there was only the zombie's body cut into several pieces.
Qin Huai is nowhere to be found.
"Tsk." Chu Yuan jumped down from the building, dispelled the sharp blade formed by his supernatural power, and looked at Jiang Ran, "Sister Ranran, are you hurt?"
Seeing that Chu Yuan was safe and sound, Jiang Ran breathed a sigh of relief: "It's okay."
As soon as he relaxed, his legs went limp, and Jiang Ran sat down on the ground, leaning against the wall in a somewhat awkward manner.
Chu Yuan examined the zombie's body and said in a deep voice, "Just as you thought, Qin Huai is here—that guy's ability is psychic."
"I know." Qin Huai's ability was psychic, and a very powerful control-type psychic ability. If she hadn't noticed something was wrong and bit her tongue, she would have fallen into his trap.
"It's a mutated psychic ability."
"Huh?" Mutation?
"Of all the known psychic abilities, only his ability isn't simply about disruption, but about even more powerful control." After their encounter today, Chu Yuan received a more definitive answer, "Not only can he control humans, he can also control zombies."
Most psychic abilities attack by disrupting the prey's perception, but Qin Huai's ability can accurately control the opponent's thoughts, just like a puppeteer controls a puppet.
"Qin Huai, is he also a test subject in the laboratory?"
"Yes." Chu Yuan said, "He was the third batch of experimental subjects, just like me. The person in charge of him at the time was assigned by the Shen family. In his experimental report, it was noted that the experiment failed."
Jiang Ran was stunned: "In other words, Qin Huai is a failed experimental subject?"
"That's what the Shen family said." Chu Yuan sneered, "I'm afraid the Shen family deliberately concealed it."
It's not a failure, but the awakening of mutant abilities that the Shen family cannot control, so there is a blockade line.
For some reason, Jiang Ran remembered the man's unusual pupil color. "When I looked at his eyes, they seemed to be a very light gold. Was that also caused by the experiment?"
"Yeah." Chu Yuan said, "That's one of the reasons why those people in the lab concluded he was a failure. Originally, a successful experimental subject could convert the injected virus on its own and shouldn't experience any physical mutations."
However, during the experiment, Qin Huai's eyes changed from black to light gold, and the people in the laboratory concluded that he had failed and decided to give up on him.
"So that's how it is..."
After resting for a while, Jiang Ran got up from the ground: "Captain Chu, those team members..."
"Killed." With Qin Huai's supernatural control and the powerful zombie attacks, all the team members who came in to search were killed. Chu Yuan clenched his fists and said harshly, "That guy better not fall into my hands."
After burying the murdered team members, Chu Yuan ordered the remaining team members to rest at Jiang's house for one night and then rush to the blockade area tomorrow.
After all, they were teammates who we spent every day together. To see him disappear just like that, everyone was in a very low mood.
"Blocked area..." someone whispered, "I'm afraid all of them..."
Qin Huai has already escaped, and the entire army in the blockade area must have been wiped out.
When they thought of this, their already low morale plummeted.
Walking through the corridor, at the end was Jiang Yize's room. Jiang Ran walked around the bloodstains on the ground and pushed the door open.
The fact that those team members were killed here means that Qin Huai was in this room when they met him.
Sure enough, the man chose Jiang Ning because of something Jiang Yize left behind.
(End of this chapter)
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