"Don't you have psychic abilities?" Jiang Ling said.
"I've hinted at this several times, didn't you notice?" Liu Haiyang replied cheerfully.
"I really didn't notice that. Is it body language? Why don't I remember you making any uncoordinated movements just now?" Jiang Ling asked.
[Uh, didn't I send you a psychic signal?] His voice was somewhat helpless.
"So it's you!" Jiang Ling finally realized. "I was wondering why people keep trying to hack me lately. You didn't know? I usually block out those signals and rarely passively engage with them unless they're something I'm particularly familiar with. It's become a habit."
"Is that so? This strategy is not bad," he commented.
"I just have one question!" Jiang Ling jumped straight into the topic. "I remember that the Countermeasures Bureau's specialists were required to receive a gene stabilizer, right? How did you become an Awakener?"
You finally found me. Liu Haiyang gave a smile that said, "As expected." "We call this stabilizer failure. It happens in about 3 to 5 percent of cases, most often when the body's functions reach their limits. At the time, I was constantly dealing with out-of-control mutants in the experimental area. You can probably imagine the process. Anyway, I almost died that time, but Master took pity on me and didn't put me in a coffin like he usually did with the second-level mutants. Later, the term "Awakener" became popular in the experimental area, and that's when we learned that third-level mutants could revert to human form. Some of our comrades couldn't accept this discovery. After all—you know, we were short on manpower back then, and there were many escapes from the experimental area."
[Is this even possible?!]
"Yes, I remember that time even the director had to go on a mission. Wasn't that when he pulled you in as a backup?"
[The timeline matches...]
Jiang Ling was very satisfied with Liu Haiyang's seamless communication. Their whisper lasted only two seconds, unnoticed. This kind of operation was usually only seen by awakened people who were proficient in psychic sensing technology. Even Tang Wanzhou couldn't achieve this level of skill.
Yu Lei, who was standing by, only noticed their expressions change. Before he could think about it, he saw Jiang Ling open her mouth again: "Well, what did your roommate do before?"
"I feel like a logistics troop," he said.
Liu Haiyang was afraid that Jiang Ling would continue to ask questions, so he added, "He has been digging tunnels since the war. I only met him when I was on a mission. I remember that he was already an Awakened person at that time."
"That's right, I kept it a secret from anyone." He spoke with a strange accent.
"I later heard that his unit was wiped out in the war, and he might have become a mutant at that time," said Liu Haiyang.
“Similar to Lao Ning?”
"Maybe a little bit off. His luck is better than the director's."
"Oh, next time I meet him, I will ask him about the situation and tell him that you said this." Jiang Ling joked.
"No! I'll be arrested!"
The three of them laughed out loud, much like the people around them.
When all the trainees arrived, the exoskeletons used as teaching aids had already been brought in. They were carefully packed in several boxes and lined up in front of everyone.
A team of instructors came here at a trot. Some of them looked like they had just been dispatched from somewhere, and they were covered in dust.
Soon, everyone spontaneously formed a formation, but the arrangement was rather random, with only the smaller guys standing in the front row.
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