"Hey, you're back so soon? Looks like you did a good job! Captain, you didn't help them, did you?"
Inside the fried chicken shop, Qing Sheng, wearing a baseball cap and leaning back in her chair playing on her phone, saw three figures walk in from outside and looked at Chi Chen and Lin Bai with a smile.
Zhang Rong ignored the birthday celebration and went straight to the kitchen.
"It's alright, I guess!"
Chi Chen and Lin Bai sat next to Qing Sheng and replied with a smile.
"Looks like you did a good job!"
Looking at their expressions, Qing Sheng wasn't too surprised.
Lin Bai's forbidden skill is the Annihilation of 010, which is extremely powerful. Coupled with two months of training day and night, even though he is only at the Bright Lamp Realm, his combat strength is not bad.
As for Chi Chen, although he doesn't have any forbidden abilities, his training with Zhang Rong over the past two months has been quite astonishing, even to the veteran team members. When this kid enters combat mode, he doesn't seem like a rookie at all. In terms of combat skills alone, apart from Zhang Rong and Chen Sheng, no one else in the team dares to say they can beat him.
This made Qing Sheng and the other veteran team members feel a little jealous; this kid seemed to be born with a knack for fighting.
Therefore, although it would be slightly difficult for the two of them to kill a mysterious being at the Radiant Realm level by working together, it would still be no problem.
What Qing Sheng didn't know was that Chi Chen and Lin Bai not only killed a mysterious being at the peak of the Radiant Realm without getting hurt, but also fought several times with a mysterious being at the Solid Mirror Realm.
"Um?"
Suddenly, Qingsheng felt unwell.
He suddenly looked at the two of them and asked:
"You have all reached the Radiant Realm?"
Just now, during the birthday celebration, no one noticed that the spiritual energy fluctuations emanating from Chi Chen and Lin Bai were much stronger than before.
"Um!"
Chi Chen and Lin Bai responded simultaneously, their faces showing a hint of excitement.
Under the mysterious and intense pressure of the solidified spider-shaped mirror, both of them broke through to a higher realm.
"Comparing yourself to others is just asking for trouble!"
After receiving affirmation for his birthday celebration, he suddenly felt overwhelmed.
Back then, it took him almost half a year to reach the Radiant level after awakening his forbidden ability.
Where did these two newcomers come from? How can they be so talented?
And there are two of them at once?
"Captain, did you secretly give them extra help? You can't be biased!"
Qing Sheng got up and walked into the kitchen, seemingly a little angry, as if to demand an explanation.
Seeing this, Chi Chen and Lin Bai exchanged a smile. This was a birthday celebration, and they kept saying that they were taking a mature approach.
...
An hour later, Chi Chen rode his electric scooter, wearing a yellow hat, and looked at the fried chicken delivery at his feet with a hint of helplessness.
"What's going on here? Besides slaying mysteries, he also has to work part-time delivering food? People actually order fried chicken?"
Yes, Chi Chen, who could ride an electric scooter, suddenly became a food delivery guy, while Lin Bai, who couldn't, was left at the store to help out and narrowly escaped disaster.
However, after thinking about how staying at the store might make him a guinea pig for Zhang Rong's new fried chicken, Chi Chen decided that delivering food was a better option.
"Hello, your takeout has arrived! Please open the door to pick it up!"
In a seven-story building in the slums, Chi Chen, carrying takeout, gently knocked on the door a few times.
However, after waiting for several minutes, there was still no sound from inside the house.
"Hello, your takeout has arrived!"
Chi Chen called out a few more times, somewhat puzzled, but still no one came to open the door.
"What happened?"
Chi Chen took out the new cell phone that Zhang Rong had been issued and dialed the number on the list.
"The vast horizon is mine..."
Inside the house, the phone rang, but no one answered for a long time.
Chi Chen pressed his ear against the door and listened, confirming that the sound was coming from inside. But why was no one opening the door? And why wasn't anyone answering the phone?
"Has something happened?"
Chi Chen suddenly had a bad feeling.
"Never mind, let's go inside and talk first!"
After waiting a while longer and still no one opened the door, Chi Chen decided to go in and check the situation first, in case something really happened to the person inside.
With combat mode activated, Chi Chen exerted a slight force with his arm, easily breaking the iron door lock.
"Creak!"
The door opened, and Chi Chen stepped inside.
"Whoosh!"
However, the moment Chi Chen stepped into the room, a sharp claw instantly attacked his face.
"mystery!?"
Chi Chen's heart skipped a beat. He quickly bent down, then rolled forward and slipped into the house.
As soon as Chi Chen entered the living room area, a bloody smell wafted into his nose.
Not far away, half of a middle-aged man's body lay silently in a pool of blood.
Damn it!
Chi Chen cursed, anger surging in his heart. This mysterious creature actually dared to kill and eat in broad daylight.
It seems that Luan Ning District is indeed behaving very strangely lately, just as Xiang Qing and the others said.
"Meow!"
At the entrance, a mysterious creature on all fours, resembling a cat but without a single hair on its body, let out a roar at Chi Chen.
"Zero Cat?"
Chi Chen stared at the mysterious creature with bloodstains on its mouth, his face grim, as information about the creature surfaced in his mind.
Zero Cat is a relatively common type of mysterious creature, whose strength is unlikely to exceed the Solid Mirror realm. The one in front of me is a Zero Cat at the Radiant Mirror realm.
"Mystery deserves to die!"
Chi Chen took the long sword wrapped in black cloth from his waist. The black cloth slipped off, revealing a cold glint.
"Meow!!"
The spirit cat's body tensed up; the moment Chi Chen drew his longsword, it sensed danger.
Without saying a word, Chi Chen sprang into action, shooting out like an arrow released from a bow in an instant, arriving in front of Ling Mao in the blink of an eye.
The long sword slashed down, its cold light gleaming, heading straight for Zero Cat's head.
But Zero Cat's movements were also extraordinary. He pushed off the ground with his limbs and then sprang up, barely dodging Chi Chen's knife.
"Oh!"
But the next second, Chi Chen let out a cold laugh, his arm moved sideways, and the long sword in his hand quickly changed direction, directly slashing upwards.
"Pfft!"
Zero Cat's body, suspended in mid-air, had nowhere to gain leverage and was unable to change its direction of movement. In an instant, Chi Chen's longsword slashed through its body, severing one of its forelimbs.
"Meow!!"
Zero Cat, its limb severed, cried out in pain, sensing the approach of death. It couldn't understand how a human of the same level as itself could have such speed and such strong control.
Among those of the same level of mystery, I am known for my speed!
"Snap!"
Zero Cat landed on the ground along with its severed limb. The instant Zero Cat hit the ground, it instantly twisted its body, trying to escape towards the door.
Too strong, this human is too strong, it can't kill it.
"Trying to run?"
Chi Chen let out another cold laugh.
Even the uninjured Zero Cat is not as fast as Chi Chen. Now that it has lost a front leg, how could it possibly escape from Chi Chen's sight?
Chi Chen pushed off with his feet and instantly caught up behind Ling Mao, his long sword falling down without hesitation.
"Pfft!"
"Meow!"
As the long sword pierced through flesh and Zero Cat cried out in pain, Zero Cat's body was cleaved in two by Chi Chen.
"Aaaaaah! Murder! Monster!"
Just then, a neighbor who had heard the commotion earlier came to check on the situation. When he arrived, he saw Chi Chen's cold face after Zero Cat was split open.
The man was stunned for a moment, then screamed in terror and ran downstairs.
"Hey, don't run away, don't be afraid, I'm a good person!"
Upon seeing this, Chi Chen quickly gave chase. However, Chi Chen forgot that he was now a terrifying figure wielding a knife.
"Don't kill me! Don't kill me! I didn't see anything, please, don't kill me!"
Upon hearing Chi Chen's voice, the man's legs went weak with fear, and he immediately begged for mercy. His entire body was about to tumble down the stairs, and if he did, he would probably suffer a concussion.
Seeing this, Chi Chen had no choice but to step forward and firmly pull the person back.
"Please don't kill me! Please! Don't kill me!"
The man was pulled back, and he was so frightened that tears and nose streamed down his face as he screamed wildly.
Chi Chen quickly delivered a chop to the neck, knocking him unconscious. Then he looked up and downstairs. Luckily, it was during working hours. Otherwise, with that guy shouting so loudly, who knows how many people would have come out, and it would have been even more troublesome.
Chi Chen carried the man back into the house, closed the door, and looked at the corpse on the ground. Chi Chen was silent for a moment.
This must be the third time he's seen someone die under mysterious circumstances.
At this moment, Chi Chen felt no joy at crushing and killing a mysterious being at the Radiant Realm; all he felt was anger and self-reproach.
Perhaps if I had ridden faster, or if I had gotten into the house sooner, he wouldn't have died?
Chi Chen remained silent for a long time before dialing Qing Sheng's number.
A dozen minutes later, Qingsheng and Lin Bai arrived at the scene, accompanied by personnel from the Public Security Bureau to assist in handling the aftermath.
"Let's go, we can leave the rest to them!"
Looking at the somewhat silent Chi Chen, Qing Sheng knew what he was thinking, after all, he had been through the same thing.
"Chi Chen, are you alright?"
Lin Bai stepped forward, patted Chi Chen on the shoulder, and asked.
"Hmm, it's alright, let's go!"
Chi Chen glanced at Lin Bai, indicating that he was really alright, and then the three of them went downstairs together.
...
Back at the fried chicken shop, Zhang Rong, having learned of the situation, called Chi Chen and Lin Bai aside.
Zhang Rong looked at Chi Chen, who was clearly downcast, and asked:
"Do you think that if you had arrived earlier, people might not have died? Do you feel responsible for his death?"
Chi Chen looked up at the captain and simply replied with an "Mm".
Seeing this, Zhang Rong continued:
"In that case, when the next mystery appears, do you want to get there as quickly as possible and save everyone with all your might?"
Chi Chen responded again.
Zhang Rong reached out and patted Chi Chen's drooping head:
"If that's the case, then please always remember this feeling of guilt, and always strive to become stronger with this desire to save people, strong enough that you can solve those mysterious beings who take other people's lives at any time, strong enough that even if you are alone, you can protect the lives of millions behind you! Can you do it, or rather, do you want to do it?"
But before you reach that point, you will witness many tragedies, but those tragedies will also become your motivation to move forward. Pain can produce more than just weakness and powerlessness. Even on ruins, vibrant flowers can bloom. Even black eyes are used to seek the light. So you must accept and adapt to the hardships that keep coming, and then draw strength from them to move forward!
Because this world will never pity you just because you are weak!
Zhang Rong looked at the two people in front of him with a serious expression and said a lot in one breath!
Chi Chen looked at Zhang Rong, and when his eyes met Zhang Rong's resolute gaze, Chi Chen seemed to see the unwavering determination in Zhang Rong's eyes!
Lin Bai's eyes gradually hardened. If he had awakened the forbidden ability earlier that night, would his mother have been spared from dying before his eyes?
Now that I have this ability to spare others from the same painful experience as me, why can't I make good use of it?
Chi Chen's eyes gradually brightened, and then he exchanged a glance with Lin Bai, saying in unison:
"We want to do it, and we will definitely do it!"
Upon hearing this, Zhang Rong smiled slightly, but his words sent a shiver down their spines.
"Very well! Since that's the case, I hope you will keep your promise today! Never forget how you feel right now, and always remember how to use your power correctly. If you lose your true selves as your power grows stronger, I will personally end your lives!"
"Yes, Captain!"
Upon hearing this, Chi Chen and Lin Bai quickly agreed.
After two months of training, they have learned a great deal about the world of forbidden abilities.
In this world, not all people with forbidden abilities use their powers to protect humanity and maintain world order.
Among those with forbidden abilities, many have developed some astonishing ideas because of their extraordinary power, such as reshuffling the world's order. They believe that those with abilities should be born superior, while ordinary people can only become servants.
Even more extreme are those who want to carry out a world-wide purge. These ability users consider ordinary humans to be heretics. They believe that if ordinary humans are reduced to only those with forbidden abilities, then the entire world's life level will be qualitatively improved as they continue to reproduce.
Therefore, in the eyes of many ability users, the indifference towards ordinary human life has reached an extremely high level.
Among these outlaws, the most notorious was the Inquisition, which was isolated outside the city walls by the various war zones.
They were a group of lawless lunatics who treated human life like dirt.
"Oh, right, I forgot to tell you, three days from now, come with me to Shangjing District. You'll need to participate in an official newcomer training program before you can receive your equipment and officially join the Zhanmi Bureau!"
Seeing that the two were in better condition, Zhang Rong told them about the arrangements to come.
"Going to Shangjing District for training?"
Chi Chen and Lin Bai exchanged a glance, both seeing a hint of excitement in each other's eyes.
If you were to say that any young man wouldn't want to visit the most bustling area of the Great Xia War Zone, Shangjing District, no one would believe it.
Zhang Rong watched the two figures turn and walk away, a self-deprecating expression on his face.
"Is he strong enough to protect everyone?"
Ha, I couldn't even do it myself, yet I was able to speak so firmly just now.
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