Inner city, super power team training ground.
Wang Xiao, despite losing his eyesight, relied on his keen hearing to dodge three consecutive shots from a rifle.
The bullet whizzed past his ear and hit the concrete wall behind him.
This has been his main training content recently.
Although the regenerative ability is powerful, it cannot be relied upon blindly.
As the most reliable force in the military headquarters, the upper echelons have devoted all their efforts to cultivating super-powered people above level C.
Every superpower has a professional team to design a training plan for them.
Because he did not hide the fact that his energy level had been improved, Wang Xiao had recently received a more rigorous training program.
His training over the past two weeks has been to use his enhanced senses to better avoid external attacks.
After reading Wang Xiao's file, the team that developed the plan strongly condemned his use of the arm fishing tactic.
Unless it was to protect his teammates or execute a very important plan, Wang Xiao would be criticized every time he wasted his energy unnecessarily.
He is now able to avoid close-range shooting by concentrating his five senses, so his training plan is combined with his teammate's "blind spotter".
The opponent will randomly deprive him of his vision or hearing for five seconds, while the bullets fired by the automatic rifle controlled by the robotic arm will not stop for a moment.
After dodging another shooting and completing a round of training, Wang Xiao raised his hand to signal the end of the training.
In an instant, his eyes regained sight.
Taking the electrolyte water from the side, Wang Xiao and Zhanmu sat in the rest area together.
"Is the frequency of the recent beast tide higher than before?"
Zhanmu wiped his sweat, thought for a few seconds and said:
"That seems to be the case. I heard that Team 12 went out twice in three days, and one teammate didn't come back."
Wang Xiao nodded silently.
After actually joining the super power team, he found that life here was not as good as he had imagined.
The treatment of those with super powers is indeed outstanding, but the prerequisite is that they need to make great contributions.
Being on call 24 hours a day is just the most basic requirement, and under the impact of the beast tide, even those with super powers face a certain risk of death.
Team 25 had lost two teammates a long time ago, until Fresnel and Wang Xiao filled in as the main attacker and meat shield, and the team regained its vitality.
The two chatted casually, and Zhanmu suddenly changed the topic to a strange direction:
"Do you know about the [Exploration Project]?"
Wang Xiao shook his head skillfully and waited for the other party to speak. This was the umpteenth time he had done this during this period of time.
As a newcomer, he really didn't know much about this information that was familiar to insiders.
The official training provided is limited to the development of abilities and the enhancement of loyalty. As a very outgoing person, Fresnel is naturally unable to grasp the main point of a conversation.
As a result, much of Wang Xiao’s knowledge came from the blind man who looked to be nearly forty years old.
He is the oldest member of Team 25. Although he looks taciturn, once he gets familiar with others, he likes to talk about things that happened a long time ago.
Seeing Wang Xiao's expression of attentive listening, Zhanmu leaned back slightly and looked at the ceiling of the underground training ground, and told the story of when he was just selected as a super-powered person directly under the headquarters.
The Discovery Program was a joint operation between the military and research institutes fifteen years ago.
Anyone who has actually climbed the walls of Hope City will know what kind of world is outside the walls.
Except for the eastern sea surface, which appears peaceful and open but is actually full of dangers, the views in the remaining three directions are extremely limited.
Gray things always blur the distinction between the horizon and the sky more than a dozen kilometers away, and technological creations cannot enter those areas.
“Do you know about satellites?”
He asked Wang Xiao with a blind eye.
Wang Xiao shook his head.
"That was a concept we talked about a lot when we were kids, and you could think of it as launching a really big camera into the sky so we could see what it was like outside of Hope."
Wang Xiao nodded thoughtfully, thinking that he had never heard of this term since he was a child, so he asked:
"What happened next?"
The blind man sighed.
“That should have been around the 30th year of the New Era. Hope City had only been established for a dozen years at that time, and people were still very keen on pioneering.
“That plan was favored by almost everyone. In order to make that thing called a rocket, almost everyone went through a year of hard times, and finally only a few were made.
“Later, I heard that those things would completely lose contact when they flew about ten kilometers up.
"Some flew to who knows where, some fell straight down, and some exploded directly. In the end, the plan completely failed."
At this point, Zhanmu sighed and said:
“Technology doesn’t work, so in the end we can only rely on living people to explore. But no matter how powerful the super-powered people we send out are, they will disappear into the horizon forever.
"Later, the plan was dropped and no one mentioned it again, so it's normal that you haven't heard of it."
Hearing this, Wang Xiao's mouth opened to an exaggerated degree.
In his limited life, he had never heard of such a thing.
As a twenty-year-old young man, he had always believed that Hope City was everything for humanity, and had never imagined that those who lived before the disaster would yearn for the outside world.
But once the shackles of thinking are opened, they can never be put back into the cage. Wang Xiao suddenly feels that there is nothing wrong with exploring the outside world. This planet originally belonged to humans. What's wrong with taking back what belongs to him?
Thinking of this, Wang Xiao suddenly felt a passion in his heart. If the [Exploration Plan] could be restarted during his lifetime, he would definitely sign up to join the team and take a look at the scenery outside the wall.
Zhanmu was very satisfied with Wang Xiao's reaction. He continued to chatter about the trivial things in the past, many of which were no longer mentioned by anyone.
Wang Xiao himself had already begun to daydream and imagine his own adventures.
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At noon the next day, Lin Qingliu, who had just opened his shop, saw his kitten at the door.
Fran walked into the door very skillfully, and rubbed her paws carefully on the edge of the door mat like a human.
After closing the door, Lin Qingliu took the kitten, which was covered with a layer of dust, into the bathroom and started to give it a bath.
With the wisdom and physique blessed by divine revelation, Fran is no longer the traditional cat that easily catches colds and gets sick.
She turned on the faucet and started to pour water on her hair, while summarizing her findings to Lin Qingliu.
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