The central spire is really not a place for humans to stay. Just standing here, I feel the atmosphere is depressing and cold. If I have to stay here all day long, I will die several years early...
Still frightened, he kept moving forward while secretly complaining in his heart.
The orange light strips kept guiding him in the direction of departure as he walked, making him feel another kind of terror.
There are no cameras here at all, but the spire seems to be able to sense its location at all times.
The deputy captain couldn't understand why his education and experience were completely useless here. The only thing he could do was to speed up his pace, leave this strange environment that frightened him, and return to his comfort zone.
In the dark room, after the deputy captain left, bright lights gradually came on, illuminating this standard cube room.
Nia took off the hood on her head and also exhaled the foul air in her chest.
Damn these rules, this damn sense of ritual.
Although Nia has many things that she dislikes about other congressmen, she is powerless after all.
Although those members of the same heritage faction appear to belong to the same camp as himself, in fact, their ideas are also different.
For example, Nia hated this kind of behavior of pretending to be mysterious in front of other humans.
But rules are rules, and as long as the first generation of parliamentarians are still alive, she has no choice but to abide by them.
But for Nia, she was really tired of wearing this damn hood——
As the owner of the largest black market in Hope City, she had to wear a hood when she was out observing the people's sentiments. When she returned to the spire to meet the human who reported to her, she had to do this...
It's not like outside. It's so difficult to adjust the temperature here...
Nia didn't think any more about it and turned her attention to the fact that Luke was missing.
She pressed the metal table in front of her, and a long crack quickly appeared on the table, revealing a display screen.
She skillfully entered a password to verify her identity, and then found Luke's current coordinates:
In the southern part of the inner city, on the bridge where Factory Erdao Street meets the artificial river...
She made a motion with two fingers in the air, and Luke's coordinates became clearer:
It seemed to be a place... next to a trash can.
Just as Nia raised her eyebrows and was about to call up the coordinate trajectory of the past week, Luke on the screen suddenly moved.
Watching the human-shaped mark flashing green light leave the bridge and walk into another street, Nia finally felt relieved.
I thought something had happened to the other party, but it seems that everything is normal. I think they just found some clues and are ready to investigate further...
But thinking of the other party's behavior of leaving without saying goodbye, Nia still frowned.
She secretly planned in her heart that after Luke completed this mission, she would still emphasize the importance of rules to him.
Logically speaking, Luke, who comes from a family of super powers, should be very clear about all of this, but thinking of the other party's failure some time ago, Nia immediately understood his behavior.
He probably just wanted to prove himself.
Well, let’s see the result of this operation and then decide how to deal with this loss of contact incident.
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"Breathe, breathe.
“Steady heartbeat, steady heartbeat.
"Focus, focus."
In the darkness, Luke's mouth opened and closed silently, but this alone allowed him to hear his own voice.
He is trying to awaken his abilities.
According to his slightly confused perception of time, he should have completed the removal surgery on the second or third day of being imprisoned here.
The blood has dried up, and although the wound has not been sutured, it has begun to scab over. As long as you don't shake it too hard, there will be no problem.
By now, the nutrient paste has been used up, and he can only last forty-eight hours in this iron cage at most.
And these crucial forty-eight hours are the key to his successful escape.
Although he hadn't used his original abilities for a while, Luke was no stranger to that feeling.
He also understands the level of his own abilities.
His ability to protect at close range is even stronger than that of his own father, and he is limited only by his current energy level and the range of his ability.
As long as he could recover to the level before the suppressor was implanted, there shouldn't be any problem in breaking the iron railings in front of him.
What he is repeating silently now is what his father often whispered in his ear when he was a child.
Luke believed that since the suppressor needed to exist permanently rather than solve the problem once and for all, the suppressor must have an effective period.
This time may be a day, a week, or even longer, he has no way of knowing.
But he had decided to give it his all.
Luke sat in the corner of the cell, closing his eyes and silently reciting the formula his father taught him.
His thoughts seemed to go back to his childhood, back to the time when his father was by his side.
Although he had never seen his mother, he received no less love than anyone else.
For a moment, the Luke of the past seemed to be entangled with the Luke of the present across time and space, and a glimmer of lavender light flashed in his hand.
The light was like lightning in the dark night, appearing and disappearing in an instant.
Although it was only a momentary glimmer, for Luke, who had not seen the light for a long time, the light seemed to pass through his eyelids and wake him up directly.
"That's it!"
Luke instantly became alert, and his whole body quickly entered a state of excitement.
But this did not bring him any better development, because of his unstable state, he did not succeed again in the next half hour.
It was not until he calmed down again and re-entered the state where the past and present overlapped that he awakened his ability a second time.
This time, the purple light lasted several seconds longer than the last time.
Although it still dissipated before it could take shape, Luke had already understood:
The effect of the inhibitor is already fading!
He no longer got excited for no reason, knowing that doing so would only cause his physical strength to deplete faster.
He tried his best to keep his abilities stable, and would try again every once in a while after recovering his strength.
Although his energy reserves are dwindling, the duration of his abilities is also increasing.
Luke was slowly able to give it some initial shape and movement.
I don’t know how long it took, but just when he felt countless silver-white spots of light appearing before his eyes, his ability finally seemed to break through some shackles and he woke up completely!
"Squeaky~"
The sound of a solid iron column bending echoed in the quiet darkness.
Luke stood up from the ground, and strode out of the cage under the purple light, like an Avenger returning from exile.
“Snap, snap, snap.”
Suddenly, crisp and rhythmic applause sounded in front.
Under the alternating light of bright and dark, Luke saw a tall, thin man with long white hair leaning against the concrete pillar in front.
He is waiting for himself.
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