"What did you say?" Ji Bolin thought he had misheard. He pointed to himself, his face full of disbelief: "Although you are young and promising, that's all because of external forces. If it weren't for those strange abilities you have..."
“Yes, I have one.” Shi Yin lightly tapped the snake head on the cane with her fingertip, and the snake head immediately seemed to come to life, its pair of golden eyes staring intently at Ji Bolin.
"Hey, I said, haven't you figured out the situation yet?" Shi Yin's cold face finally revealed a mocking smile: "Do you even know how strong I am?"
"Do you expect me to be like some people, who, when wronged, only cry and argue back, keep quiet and let others misunderstand, and then, because they can't find any evidence, get outmaneuvered by you?"
Then be reborn, and with even greater power, painstakingly search for evidence to prove your innocence...
Hey, do you know what my strength is?
“You can’t just do whatever you want to me; that’s tyrannical.” Ji Bolin seemed to realize Shi Yin was serious and felt a little uneasy: “Doing whatever you want to me is dictatorial and arbitrary. Aren’t you afraid of alienating them…?”
But as soon as he finished speaking, he felt a pain in his neck. He reached up and touched his neck, and there were some damp marks on his black gloves.
Ji Bolin wanted to say something more, but his body went limp and he fell backward.
The search and rescue workers nearby looked over numbly, their eyes devoid of any light. At this moment, drained of their emotions, they resembled work machines.
Two people came forward, carried the body away, and cleaned it up. Humans cannot feel anger or sadness when they are devoid of emotions, so the death of a person naturally did not cause them any emotional fluctuations.
"Hmm... I'm not afraid." Shi Yin lowered her head and touched the snake head on her cane: "No one in this world is irreplaceable."
"Sister Yin..."
Shi Yin looked over at the sound and saw that Ji Chuan seemed to have mastered catching the emotional ball. He looked a little more relaxed, but his face was slightly pale, as if he hadn't recovered from his father's death.
"Sister Yin, you really don't need to stand up for me like this." Ji Chuan's voice was weak: "Killing people like this will ruin your reputation if others see it."
Shi Yin: "?"
"Me?" Shi Yin raised an eyebrow, pondered for a while, then lowered her head and couldn't help but chuckle softly as if she had thought of something amusing: "You humans... do you people all like to be so self-deluded?"
Ji Chuan: "Huh?"
Ji Chuan had a bad feeling.
"You're holding that elemental orb, and you look like you're struggling. Anyone with a brain knows you can't be disturbed right now, especially with me right next to you." Shi Yin looked in one direction of the ruins and slowly walked over. "But he deliberately came to reprimand you. Do you know why?"
"Why?" Ji Chuan wasn't very bright, but he was honest and would ask questions honestly if he didn't understand.
“Your status is higher than his, and he feels that his authority has been challenged, so he came to prove that even if you have a higher status, as long as you are his son, you must listen to him.” Shi Yin said calmly, “This is the worst possible outcome, and it is also a provocation to me.”
"When the end times come, orders are above all else. Not even the older generation, let alone our parents, can carry any weight."
In the end times, people have only two paths: seek refuge or fight alone.
In the apocalypse, those who seek her protection have only two choices: obey or die.
"Isn't this too forceful?" Ji Chuan asked with some concern.
"Then come and overthrow me. It's only natural for the protagonist to overthrow a tyrant, right?" Shi Yin sneered. "You can't even overthrow me, yet you want to save this apocalypse? It's laughable."
"I am the threshold to saving the world. If you want to lead humanity forward and defeat the apocalypse, you must step over me."
"Also, the reason I said you're being presumptuous is because if I were doing this for you, I should have kept your father here." Shi Yin stopped in front of some ruins: "Your emotional abilities improve faster when stimulated, and your family will provide you with enough stimulation."
Ji Chuan understood this. He usually thought his personality was alright, he never got angry and liked to joke, but he would break down when he was with his family, and he was incompatible with every member of the Ji family.
If it's really for his sake, letting Ji Bolin scold him a few more times might raise Ji Chuan's blood pressure, and his emotional abilities might even reach a higher level...
"Sister Yin, your superpower is too overpowered. Anyone who's seen it can use it." Ji Chuan muttered softly, "What level has your emotional superpower reached?"
“World-class,” Shi Yin replied.
Ji Chuan: "Hmm?"
Aren't the levels for superhumans from F to S? At most, it'll be S+, right?
“S+ is your upper limit, not ours,” Shi Yin explained. “Abilities that can influence the world are called world-class, and you are still far from that.”
"However," Shi Yin paused, "the reason I'm at the world level is because the highest level title is only world level, don't misunderstand."
Ji Chuan: "..."
Versailles is so calm.
Shi Yin's boasting was like her joke, expressionless, indifferent, and unremarkable.
"Emotions can also affect the world?" Ji Chuan looked at his palm with some curiosity. Actually, he was a little envious of Lin Beiyue's superpower, being able to conjure up long guns and cannons at any time. Just thinking about it was awesome.
I wish I could conjure up a fully armored suit of armor, fly into the sky, and unleash a barrage of fire down on the enemy—that would be the ultimate solo soldier experience.
"Do you think the future world should be a time of sadness or joy?" Shi Yin turned around.
"If we succeed in saving the world, of course we'll be overjoyed... You can use it like this?!" Ji Chuan realized halfway through his sentence and almost cried out in shock.
“People who smile a lot are more likely to have good luck. It’s a matter of probability, and you could say it changes the probability of the world.” Shi Yin shrugged. “Superpowers are a world of imagination. What changes this world is desire.”
Ji Chuan opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something more, but out of the corner of his eye he caught a glimpse of golden light flashing before his eyes.
Only then did they realize that the little snake on the head of Shi Yin's gentleman's cane had disappeared at some point. Now, the little snake, which was made of some unknown metal, was coiled on a piece of ruins, looking quite spiritual.
Shi Yin walked onto the ruins, where a group of rescue workers had been cleared out, indicating that Shi Yin was going to take action herself.
"Treasures are buried in the underground palace," Shi Yin murmured softly, tapping the ground gently with her cane.
The ruins shook as if some force reached deep into the ground. Then, all the boulders began to fly up and land to the side on their own, handled gently, even stirring up a speck of dust.
The boulder was cleared quickly, but the speed inevitably slowed down when encountering steel bars, tables, chairs, and broken glass. However, it was still cleared within ten minutes, revealing the two people under the rubble.
Shi Yin stood on the ruins, quietly watching the people inside. Ji Chuan couldn't resist his curiosity and climbed up to take a look, only to unexpectedly meet a pair of almond-shaped eyes.
She was a young girl, looking no more than a teenager, with brown, shoulder-length hair draped over her shoulders, and lake-blue pupils that resembled the clear blue sky before the apocalypse.
She was smiling, even though she was holding an old man who had stopped breathing in her arms. She was kneeling on the ground, still smiling.
"Come with me?" After a while, Shi Yin squatted down and stretched out her hand to her.
The girl paused for a moment, then flashed a beautiful smile. Even the dust on her cheeks and her worn-out clothes couldn't hide her cuteness and beauty.
She held the old man in her arms, struggled to stand up, and grasped Shi Yin's hand.
"OK."
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