Chapter 6: The Fall of a Hero
The subway is always the most crowded on weekday mornings. Zhong Mengfan held the subway handle with one hand, yawned, and felt a little drowsy.
The TV screen in the middle of the car was playing the news that the S-class hero Ong Bak had captured an entire large-scale criminal gang. This news obviously attracted the attention of most people in the car.
Some passengers even directly praised him by saying, "Justice will prevail, he is worthy of being the S-class hero Onmyoji!"
Zhong Mengfan wasn't a fan of superheroes, but the S-class hero Ong Bak, due to his fighting-related abilities, was incredibly popular with boxing and fighting enthusiasts. Furthermore, Ong Bak's fame was incredibly strong, so Zhong Mengfan, who also enjoyed watching boxing matches, remembered his name. That was all.
More than a century has passed since the first person with superpowers was discovered. After the emergence of superpowers, the entire world has experienced war and turmoil, and the social structure has gradually changed to become what it is today.
Being able to awaken superpowers during adolescence and then become a superhero has become the dream and ideal of many young people today.
However, according to statistics, less than 0.1% of the world's population awakens superpowers before the age of eighteen, and even fewer of those become superheroes. After the age of eighteen, the possibility of becoming a superpowered person is almost non-existent.
Zhong Mengfan would be eighteen in a few months. As a child, he had fantasized about becoming a hero and saving the world. However, after entering puberty at 14, despite experiencing voice change and growing pains, he wasn't lucky enough to awaken any special abilities. Those heroic dreams, of course, faded into the corners of his memory as he grew older and matured.
Compared with these, as a senior high school student, academic studies are the most important thing to Zhong Mengfan.
It was at this time that Zhong Mengfan, who was about to turn eighteen, was finally "lucky" enough to awaken his special abilities due to excessive academic pressure.
only……
Zhong Mengfan's ability was quite useless; it could only alter the speed and direction of the air within a one-meter radius around him. If its sole function was to speed up the air flow around him in the summer to keep him cool, it would be no better than air conditioning. In this case, the ability was useless.
Therefore, Zhong Mengfan never had any practical feelings about the identity of a person with superpowers. Instead, he felt that if he talked about this ability, he would definitely be laughed at by everyone.
In addition, there is an additional special ability note on the household registration certificate that ordinary people do not have: controlling the direction of air flow, with a range of about 1 meter.
Zhong Mengfan is still the same as any ordinary person, no different. He still gets up early every day to go to school and is still a senior high school student who is about to take the college entrance examination.
Zhong Mengfan is not interested in any of the legendary heroes, Boxing King or other superheroes. He is about to take the first and most important test in his life.
——College entrance examination.
Unfortunately, Zhong Mengfan is a poor student...
Thinking of the terrible exam he was about to take, Zhong Mengfan couldn't help but make a prayer-like complaint in his heart: No matter what happens, it would be great if I could not take the exam.
The next second after Zhong Mengfan finished saying this in his heart.
"Boom!" There was a loud noise.
Zhong Mengfan felt a violent tremor, and many people cried out in surprise. It felt as if the subway car had been struck by something. Feeling a sense of crisis, his body instinctively activated its supernatural power. The airflow, which had originally only been used for blowing wind, solidified into a protective film under the threat of death.
Before he could react, the carriage he was in was hit by a huge impact and Zhong Mengfan lost consciousness in the pain.
"hiss……"
Zhong Mengfan started groaning in pain. When he woke up, there was no part of his body that didn't hurt. He even felt that he was woken up by the pain.
He struggled to stand up and first saw large stains of blood on his hands and clothes.
"Ah!" He couldn't help but let out a scream.
He quickly checked his body. Although he felt pain all the time, apart from some obvious skin injuries that were still bleeding, he did not have any major fatal wounds.
These bloodstains on the clothes are not his
"You're awake"
At this moment, a voice sounded in his ears, and Zhong Mengfan was frightened and screamed "Who!"
He turned his head and looked in the direction of the sound. The scene in front of him frightened Zhong Mengfan so much that he was stunned.
He lay in the rubble of the subway train he was riding, reduced to wreckage. Besides Zhong Mengfan himself, there lay another man, badly injured.
The reason why it is described as "in a terrible state" is because the man's body is really no longer in good condition.
The most obvious thing was that there was a bloody hole in his chest, and there was no heart there...
The man also had other wounds of varying sizes on his body, looking as if he had been through a horrific battle. The area where he was was completely stained red with his blood.
Therefore, the bloodstains on Zhong Mengfan's clothes were stained because he was too close to the man.
But the man still had his eyes open, was breathing, and was conscious, and could still talk to Zhong Mengfan.
Zhong Mengfan recognized the man. He managed to calm himself down and called out the man's name in a panic, "Hero...Ranger."
"Yes, it's me." The ranger's voice was very weak.
"You are injured, right? I should call for help." Zhong Mengfan fumbled around on his body before finding his cell phone.
"Pah." But just as he took out his phone, it fell to the ground because of his shaking hands. Zhong Mengfan quickly picked up the phone, but he found that there was no signal on the phone.
"Don't worry, someone will come to rescue you." The ranger felt that his vitality was gradually slipping away, and he was afraid that he would not be able to wait for the person he wanted to wait for to appear.
So, looking at the only survivor besides himself, the Ranger asked, "What's your name?"
"My name is Zhong Mengfan." There was no signal on his cell phone, and Zhong Mengfan didn't know what else he could do.
The Ranger took a look at the school uniform on Zhong Mengfan and asked, "Zhong Mengfan, are you still a student?"
Zhong Mengfan nodded and said, "Yes, I am a senior this year."
"It was an attack directed at me. I was injured and fell. We were very close at the time. I only had time to save you."
Zhong Mengfan was speechless as he looked at the deformed carriage in front of him. I'm afraid the other people on the subway were also...
"I'm about to die." The ranger said this, his voice incredibly calm.
"How could it be!" Zhong Mengfan exclaimed. Everyone knew that among all the professional heroes, only the legendary hero Ranger was invincible and immortal!
"There's no time left. I'll just make this short. I'll give you my abilities. After I die, you'll be my successor—the new Ranger."
"……ability"
Zhong Mengfan didn't understand what the Ranger said at all. How could he give the ability to the Ranger?
How could he become a Ranger?
The expression on Zhong Mengfan's face was so obvious that even if he didn't say it out loud, the ranger could guess what Zhong Mengfan was thinking.
Too young...
And he's still a student.
The ranger sighed inwardly, but he had no choice.
"Ever since I acquired superpowers at the age of fourteen, I've aspired to become the best and most powerful hero. It's a pity I don't have much time, otherwise I could..."
The ranger took off the mask on his face, and surprisingly, underneath the mask was a very young male face.
Although he had heard that many people with special abilities had their physical condition change after awakening, and thus possessed the ability to slow down aging and maintain eternal youth, Zhong Mengfan still felt that according to the time when the Ranger became a legendary hero, he was a little too young. He looked no more than 25 years old.
The Ranger handed his mask to Zhong Mengfan and said, "Inherit it and strive to become the best superhero. This is me and the hope of generations of Rangers."
Zhong Mengfan subconsciously took the ranger's mask and did not understand the meaning of the rangers of all generations mentioned by the other party.
And how to become the best superhero
He quickly shook his head. "I can't do this kind of thing! I'm just an ordinary person."
The Ranger held out his hand. "I can't explain too much to you, but someone will find you soon."
He paused. "And my...will also tell you everything you want to know and should know. They will help you. Now, hold my hand."
Zhong Mengfan couldn't think too much. He was in a daze and just did what the Ranger said. After all, the other party was the strongest superhero. He shook the Ranger's outstretched hand.
It was a strange feeling, as if a "thing" had suddenly appeared in his body that Zhong Mengfan couldn't clearly describe. Then came an intense pain that spread throughout his body. Because the pain was so severe, Zhong Mengfan fainted.
As he fell, the Ranger also lost his breath...
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