Chapter Forty-Three: Eliminate them!
Xiao Mo paused for a moment, struggling slightly between being honest and pretending not to understand, before calmly saying, "Is this kind of superpower called a special ability? I don't know how to describe it. It's a kind of perception. When not using it, I'm just like a normal person. When using it, I can perceive what others are doing. Currently, the range it covers is this village."
Therefore, he knew what the Mu siblings had gone out to do. He "saw" them killing monsters; to be precise, it was Mu Qingrong who was killing monsters.
So he knew that the group of thugs were lying in ambush outside during the day. Therefore, he warned Aunt Mei and Xiao Ai in advance not to go out, and even more so not to open the door.
Mu Qingyu was also slightly taken aback—he had actually awakened a mental ability! Even in her previous life, she had never seen many mental ability users.
Firstly, there are indeed very few people who awaken this kind of superpower. Secondly, this kind of superpower is relatively weak in the early stages and is difficult to upgrade. Many mental superpower users die in various situations before they can reach the later stages of power.
However, psychic abilities do become incredibly powerful in the later stages, almost unstoppable. Mu Qingyu had heard in her previous life that the leader of the largest survivor base in the country was a psychic.
She never expected that she would encounter a psychic superhuman so soon after the apocalypse.
"Psychic ability, basic perception." Mu Qingyu said to Xiao Mo, "It can be upgraded through training, but I don't quite understand the direction of the upgrade. You may need to figure it out yourself. Some people's upgraded skills are control, controlling the human brain or the brain of a zombie. Some people's upgraded skills are precognition, able to perceive future events... There may be other upgrade directions, but I really don't understand this part. You need to explore it yourself."
"It can be upgraded?!" Xiao Mo's eyes lit up. He didn't ask Mu Qingyu how she knew all this. Judging from the fact that Mu Qingyu had built a post-apocalyptic fortress in advance, Xiao Mo found her very mysterious. Perhaps she possessed that "precognitive" ability.
"How can I continue to upgrade my superpowers?" Xiao Mo suddenly forgot the purpose of his conversation with Mu Qingyu tonight and hurriedly asked him the question he cared about most.
Mu Qingyu looked at him for a while, paused briefly, and then slowly said, "Do you know about cultivation? Have you ever read any cultivation novels?"
Mu Qingyu's change of topic left Xiao Mo completely bewildered. What was she talking about? What novel?
How could he have the time or the mood to read novels? He was disabled in both legs from a young age, abandoned by his parents, and passed around among relatives like a football. No one was even willing to send him to school.
They said he was a jinx, that misfortune followed him wherever he went. Even when no one wanted him anymore and he was sent to an orphanage, he still couldn't find peace.
He moved to three different orphanages before finally settling with Aunt Mei. But shortly after he arrived, the orphanage was slated for demolition. And due to various problems, the orphanage could no longer continue operating.
After government intervention and through multi-party coordination, the other children were either adopted or found homes, and some younger or bright and beautiful children were taken in by other welfare institutions. Only he and Xiao Ai were unwanted…
His life was full of hardships and displacement. He never had a proper schooling and relied entirely on his intelligence to learn by himself. He had no interest in reading novels.
Mu Qingyu could tell from Xiao Mo's blank expression that he definitely hadn't seen it. She understood; in her previous life, she hadn't looked at those kinds of things for the first twenty years of her life either. She didn't have the time.
The children in the orphanage have no parents, and Aunt Mei and her three or five staff members have to take care of twenty or thirty children. How can they manage? When they can't manage, the older children help take care of the younger ones.
Aside from going to school and doing homework, she spent the rest of her time helping adults with many things.
Later, after entering university and becoming an adult, he left the orphanage. Although kind people sponsored his tuition, he had to earn his living expenses little by little on his own.
She read those ton of novels after the apocalypse. About three or four years after the apocalypse, Mu Qingyu was already quite adept at cooperating with her team to clear out zombies.
They cleaned out a house to use as temporary accommodation. The house was surprisingly well-preserved, and one room inside was filled with all sorts of novels.
They didn't have to go out every day, and when they were bored, those books became a great way to pass the time. Entertainment was scarce after the apocalypse, and later, those books were even transported back to the base by a space-age ability user in the team, who treated them like precious treasures.
“Then let me use myself as an example,” Mu Qingyu said, pointing to herself. She would use the theories of cultivation to explain things to Mu Qingrong, who would definitely understand. “I am a physical mutant.”
"My superpower is that I become very strong and physically powerful. I increase my physical strength and agility through training, such as weightlifting and killing zombies every day. When my strength reaches its limit, I will enter the next stage, which is called leveling up."
"For some people, this process is very smooth and natural, while for others they get stuck at that saturation point and can't move up. They may need an opportunity or external help."
“Normally, upgrading mental abilities is quite difficult. As for how you should continue to train and strengthen them, I really don’t know, I know too little about your abilities.”
Xiao Mo was clearly quite disappointed after hearing this, but it was normal that Mu Qingyu didn't know; it would be scary if she knew everything.
“Okay, I’ll try to figure it out.” Xiao Mo paused slightly before continuing, “Getting back to the point, if you want to drive away those bad guys, I can help you with my ability. They’re living in a courtyard at the end of the village. There are five adults and three children. One of them is the one who climbed over the wall this morning. He probably got injured when he fell. I’ve seen him lying there and he hasn’t gotten up.”
Mu Qingyu remained silent, because she didn't want to drive those people away, but rather eliminate them! At least eliminate those five adults!
Mu Qingyu's silence surprised Xiao Mo: "Don't you want to get rid of them?" He was getting anxious. Mu Qingyu didn't seem like a saint. Didn't she know that keeping those people would pose a great safety hazard to the people living here?
“Indeed, I don’t really want to send them away,” Mu Qingyu said.
"Why?!" Xiao Mo exclaimed anxiously. If he could stand, he would have jumped up right now.
“Because—” Mu Qingyu raised her eyes, her gaze sharp as she stared at Xiao Mo: “I want to—eliminate them!”
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