Chapter 109, Raid Team
Pu Songling and Jules Verne belonged to the group that broke through from the front, and the remaining UN members naturally couldn't be idle either.
For example, Barry and Exupéry, with Barry's "Neverland" being relatively the least disruptive, are both trying to sneak in from the other half of the block.
Although the top speed is only fifty kilometers per hour, Barry's "Neverland" acceleration is not based on increasing speed but on changing the flow of time. The time altered by his ability affects the surrounding light, and Barry and Exupé, moving at fifty kilometers per hour, look like a patch of color similar to the surroundings.
Unless you observe it deliberately or get too close, it is theoretically very difficult to spot this fast-moving patch, just like using camouflage in a forest.
Considering that both Verne and Barry were capable of flight, the guards would have been keeping a close eye on the sky. Therefore, Barry and Exupé's infiltration teams advanced close to the ground between the buildings.
As Barry moved forward, he kept looking around with his binoculars, only glancing ahead occasionally and adjusting his flight direction in the opposite direction.
They act as if getting on the road wouldn't be enough to deduct even 24 points, let alone 12.
Exupé moved along with Barry, but he wasn't assigned any watchful or threat-monitoring duties. His primary role was to act as a shield in case of threats...
On the other hand, Exupé wasn't very good at identifying what constituted a threat. After all, growing up in the world, the only people who could harm him were at most a dozen or so people with no special abilities. Under such circumstances, Exupé really had no concept of "threat".
So he's now infiltrating with Barry, but he's still looking around aimlessly.
After walking steadily for quite a while, Exupé suddenly blinked and tugged at Barry's sleeve: "Barry, something seems a little strange around here."
"Strange?" Barry put down his binoculars and looked around. "Where?"
Exupé couldn't quite put his finger on it: "It's just a feeling around me..."
Before Exupé could finish speaking, a sudden change occurred.
Clumps of vines "grew" out from all around at an unusual speed, then rushed towards Barry and Exupé, who were flying low, less than two stories above the ground.
The vines and grasses grew rapidly from the cracks in the street bricks and tiles, from the crevices in the walls of the surrounding high-rise buildings, and even directly from the asphalt and concrete roads and walls. The speed and the extent of their growth were so great that even Barry, who was in a state of acceleration, could not avoid them and could only watch helplessly as he was bound together.
"What is this?"
Caught off guard, Barry, now bound, immediately exerted more force, trying to break free from the "grass" that was clearly created using supernatural abilities.
However, those vines only seemed similar to normal grass in appearance. Barry's full-powered driving was comparable to that of a small truck. But bound by these vines, he could do nothing but sway from side to side.
Even in the brief moment of Barry's struggle, more vines entangled him.
"There's no need to waste your energy. The nature of 'weeds' is that the more numerous they are, the more resilient they become. With the current number, you'll only be wasting your time."
Zhou Shuren, holding his ever-present diary, strolled out from between the buildings, his gaze towards Barry and Exupé in mid-air carrying a hint of drowsiness from just waking up.
Zhou Shuren turned to a page in his diary, then glanced at Barry: "And you don't need to be so careful, just take out that transmitter."
Barry, who was secretly stuffing the transmitter into a small "Neverland" and throwing it out, froze.
Although he carried a transmitter, it was unusable due to the different flow of time.
Therefore, if you want to locate someone, you can only start the transmitter outside of "Neverland".
Barry, holding the transmitter, was momentarily at a loss: "If you found out, why didn't you stop it?"
"What's the point of stopping it?"
Zhou Shuren yawned and fully woke up. Xu Zhimo, who had just checked the surroundings, appeared beside Zhou Shuren with his afterimage. Zhu Ziqing and Wan Jiabao walked out from the direction where Zhou Shuren had just appeared.
“Considering your movement speed, you should be able to stop and send a signal every two minutes at most,” Zhou said, looking at Barry, who was confidently positioned on “Neverland.” “Even if I don’t stop you from sending signals, it might only buy us a few minutes. In fact, it would put us at a disadvantage, making us vulnerable to attack at any moment. So why should I stop you?”
Barry felt there was some truth to it, but something about it didn't make sense. Something felt off, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it. He couldn't think of anything brilliant to say in response, so he could only stare at Zhou Shuren.
Zhou Shuren was surprisingly not in a hurry, and just stared at Barry.
Wan Jiabao and Xu Zhimo, who were initially on guard: ...
What is Brother Zhou up to now?
Barry and Zhou Shuren stared at each other, but for some reason, Barry felt that Zhou Shuren lacked confidence. After a while, their eyes started to wander, and Barry couldn't help but nudge Exupé beside him to start a conversation.
"Hey, why am I getting more and more of the feeling that I'm doing something wrong and getting scolded by Christie?"
It's like the feeling of feeling increasingly guilty after being caught doing something wrong; a simple analogy is the feeling of being dragged to the office by the head of student affairs.
“I don’t know, I didn’t feel anything.” Exupé’s gaze remained fixed on the sky, his calm face reflecting a pale golden light in the sunlight. “By the way, Barry, someone’s coming.”
"Huh?" Barry, defeated by the "dean's gaze," turned to look at the sky. "I didn't see anything..."
Before Barry could finish speaking, he caught an unnatural flash in the corner of his eye.
Barry silently turned his head to look to his right.
An unidentified object, enveloped by a combination of high temperature, air currents, and lightning, was hurtling toward them in a parabolic trajectory.
"Okay, I see it now."
Barry quickly put a "Never Island" that had already solidified on his head—he had just touched the Never Island on his head in order to talk to Zhou Shuren—and accelerated the solidification inside the "Never Island".
"Emergency evasion, Shelley? Are you trying to take me and the guy with the 'Group Learning Hall' weapon on the other side down together?"
The students also followed Barry's gaze and saw the unidentified object. Apart from a slight panic at first, they remained unusually calm.
The main reason was that Brother Zhou always had that lazy and listless attitude, which made the other three people not want to appear too flustered.
Zhou Shuren calmly watched the unidentified object approach, until they were only a few hundred meters apart, before speaking casually: "Yesterday's home, a futile dream," he uttered the opening phrase. Then, Zhou Shuren softly uttered the name of the ability he was using this time, as a second confirmation: "Hometown."
The words on Zhou Shuren's diary seemed to flicker, and then a sphere began to expand from Zhou Shuren's center, enveloping everyone in the study.
The next moment, the aftershocks of the impact, the scorching air currents, and the roaring lightning rushed towards them all at once, but they were all blocked by Zhou Shuren's "hometown".
These were not attacks, but rather aftershocks, so they lasted only a short time. Zhou Shuren quickly deactivated the "Hometown" effect and looked towards the landing point.
The figure was surrounded by flashing lightning, and arcs of electricity rose from her center. As she descended, the impact crushed half of the "weeds" around Barry and Exupé into dust, while the lightning ignited the remaining half.
Although she was a girl in her late teens, Mary Shelley, who was still recognizable, looked up at the students with excitement in her eyes.
Zhou Shuren calmly watched the scene before him, without the slightest surprise, while Mary Shelley's cheerful voice reached his ears.
"UN secret weapon, attack!"
Electricity was able to revive Mary Shelley because the powerful current could "activate" her body, just as Shelley would activate her powers when she was angry.
Therefore, electricity is not only used to revive Shelley. Both electricity and anger are mediums that can enhance Mary Shelley. Theoretically, if she is charged enough, Mary Shelley can be even more powerful than when she is in a berserk state.
However, judging from the power consumption calculations, this can only be considered theoretical.
Mary Shelley's method of using her supernatural ability to enhance stable output through electricity is called (Frankenstein Charging Mode).
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