Chapter 77 Hero Fanatic Fan
The young girl sitting in front of us had a pair of brown-red ears that looked like a fox's. As we stared at her, she lowered her head a bit sheepishly, flicking her large, similarly colored tail behind her.
Zhong Mengfan looked at the animal ears on the girl's head with curiosity, but he seemed to think that staring at her like that was extremely rude. He coughed lightly and sat up straight. "Hello... Hello, I'm Link, the C-rank hero who accepted your commission this time."
He introduced himself, then pointed at me, "Night Devil, my partner."
I nodded slightly to the girl and said, "Hello."
"Hello, gentlemen heroes." The girl stood up and bowed slightly to us politely.
"Please sit down and talk. Don't be too nervous."
"Ah, okay, Mr. Hero. As you can see, my name is Hu Qian, and I'm a subhuman."
The awakening direction of psychics varies, and the genes they carry after awakening have a small chance of being passed on to their offspring. Most psychics experience physical changes after awakening, with some inhuman features emerging. These changes are considered dominant genes in genetics.
Therefore, many years after people with special abilities appeared in this world, many of their descendants inherited inhuman appearances. Regardless of whether they had awakened special abilities or not, these people were called sub-humans.
"My father was once a B-class hero. His name was Fox Light Dancer. I have a twin brother named Hu Hai. We both inherited our father's appearance after he awakened his superpowers. We have fox-like ears and tails."
"Is this commission related to your brother?" I asked.
Hu Qian nodded. "Yes. Since we inherited our father's demihuman appearance from birth, we were both convinced that we would awaken the same powers as our father when we reached puberty. I simply thought awakening was something incredible. My brother, influenced by our father's profession, has longed to awaken his powers and become a professional hero since he was a child."
Hu Qian paused. "However, my brother didn't awaken his abilities until he reached adulthood... Especially since I awakened a small part of my father's abilities when I was eighteen."
She spread out her palm, demonstrating her abilities. A tiny flame appeared within it. Hu Qian moved her fingers, and the flame, as if alive, leaped to her fingertips. The flames transformed into two flower shapes, twirling between her fingertips. "That's all I have: controlling a flame of this size and changing its shape."
Zhong Mengfan praised it, "It's very beautiful."
"Thank you. I'm currently working as a psychic magic performer. But this awakening seemed to have dealt a greater blow to my younger brother. He couldn't accept that he, as the descendant of a professional hero, hadn't awakened his own powers. So, he's been trying various methods that can awaken people, and some of them are... quite extreme."
"Hey, what is the method that can awaken ordinary people?" Zhong Mengfan looked curious.
I shook my head. “No.”
Then he slightly corrected himself, "Because awakening ability is a very natural thing, if you have it, you have it, and if you don't, you don't. There is no clear method to make ordinary people awaken to become people with special abilities, but there have always been people in the folk trying to awaken themselves in many weird and extreme ways. For example, deliberately creating extremely harsh environments to put themselves in a state of near death or suspended animation. Self-harm, stimulating the body's senses with great pain, and so on." Research on awakening special abilities is still ongoing, but the result is that awakening is full of unknowns and randomness.
Zhong Mengfan: ...
After hearing what I said, Zhong Mengfan glanced at Hu Qian.
Hu Qian said, "Yes, I have seen many strange wounds on my brother's body. I was very suspicious, so I asked him if he had injured himself in order to awaken his superpowers, but my brother didn't tell me the answer.
Moreover, after I asked him, he moved out of our residence. Gradually, he became unwilling to meet me and often did not answer my phone calls.
At this point, her expression darkened. "He doesn't want to tell me his new address. Even if I find it once, he'll move right away. So, relying on myself, I have no way of knowing my brother's current whereabouts or how he's doing."
Hu Qian clenched her hands. "I'm really worried about him! Hu Hai and his friends once took some toxic hallucinogenic drugs in an attempt to awaken. He was sent to the hospital unconscious and had his stomach washed. He almost died. So, I regularly hire private detectives to investigate my brother's situation."
At this point, Hu Qian explained to us, "Of course I know it's not nice to pry into his privacy without permission, but my brother refuses to communicate with me. No, we can't even talk normally face to face now... I really have no other choice." Hu Qian looked like she was about to cry.
Zhong Mengfan quickly comforted her, "Don't be too sad. Although we don't fully understand the specific situation, we will definitely help you."
"Thank you." Hu Qian took a deep breath, holding back her tears, and continued, "My brother, he's missing."
I handed her a tissue and asked, "Do you have any clues?"
Hu Qian took the tissue and said, "Because I hired a private detective to investigate his affairs, he somehow found out about it. He took the initiative to find me and had a big fight with me. He threatened that if I interfered in his affairs again, he would leave the city and never come back.
I had no choice but to agree to stop using private detectives to investigate his whereabouts, but he had to keep in touch with me and not change his address. On the surface, he compromised with me.
However, after a while, he lost contact again. I went to his home and asked the landlord, who said Hu Hai still rented the house, but he hadn't seen him for a long time and he still owed a month's rent.
Because I'm Hu Hai's sister, the landlord allowed me to enter Hu Hai's residence after I paid the rent. The house looked unoccupied for a while, but all of Hu Hai's belongings were still there, with no signs of tidying up. This made me uneasy. I took Hu Hai's computer and had someone crack the password.
Hu Qian pulled a laptop from her backpack and opened it. "This is my brother's computer. I found several transfer records on it. The money was all donated to a celebrity video sharing account with the ID "Super Girlfriend." I looked at Super Girlfriend's homepage, and she..."
Hu Qian frowned slightly. "He's an extreme hero fanatic."
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