Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
Morning of the second day—in the lounge of the base, we saw the person with special abilities with strong defensive capabilities that Lin Xue had been talking about.
It was a very normal young person who was roughly twenty years old and wore leisure clothing. His face was slightly white, and his short hair was meticulously kept. He didn’t seem to like chatting; he only nodded at the three of us and sat in a corner.
Lin Xue stood up and started to introduce us, “This is Zheng Yiming; he has the strongest defensive abilities in the organization. Although he isn’t chatty, he is actually a very warm person.”
“Hello.” Zheng Yiming revealed a polite smile as he nodded and said.
“This is my little brother, Lin Feng. His ability is controlling compressed air to attack.” A shy-looking boy stood up next to Lin Xue and bowed at me and Pandora. He said, “I am really sorry for attacking you guys the last time. That was all my Big Sister’s idea; you guys can go ahead and take revenge against her.”
…He was indeed Lin Xue’s little brother. Under his shy veneer, he had a black heart!
“Little Feng, I will beat you up when I find the time to.” Lin Xue faced Lin Feng and smiled slightly. She then pointed at Qianqian and introduced, “This is Xu Qianqian. One of the expedition team members, Xu Feng, is her father. She will be joining us in our operation. Zheng Yiming, your primary responsibility is protecting her.”
“Nice to meet you,” Qianqian smiled slightly at Zheng Yiming and said, “Although I don’t know what I can do, I will definitely do my best!”
“Lin Xue, you kept on saying that Qianqian would be of use in the operation; can you finally tell us what exactly she is going to help with? I do not wish for her to get into any danger.”
“You would find out very soon. You can be assured that Qianqian’s safety will be taken care of; Zheng Yiming’s protective abilities are not to be taken lightly.”
Protective abilities? Could he withstand a direct attack from a Xyrin Anti-Planet Inverse Ballistic Cannon?
I had already made my decision that regardless of how powerful Zheng Yiming was—during the operation later, I would make protecting Qianqian my priority. Even if that resulted in us failing in our mission, I had no qualms about it. With the Xyrin expedition forces’ help, I had no need for Qianqian to risk herself like this.
“These two”—Lin Xue pointed at me and Pandora—”are siblings. They are powerful people with special abilities.”
“People with special abilities?!” Zheng Yiming revealed his surprise as his blank expression changed. After that, he started to look at us expectantly like he had looked at Lin Xue.
“Don’t even think about it,” Lin Xue gestured and said, “I had spoken to them before already. Unfortunately, they have adamantly refused to join our organization. However, they have agreed to help us as and when we need assistance… like now.”
“Oh.” Zheng Yiming nodded disappointedly. Lin Xue continued her introduction and said, “This is the little sister, Pan Lili. Her ability is mind-talk. She would be very important in the upcoming group operation.”
Zheng Yiming’s eyes lit up as he praised, “That’s a very good ability… en? Your eyes…”
“I can’t see,” Pandora quietly said as Zheng Yiming looked slightly awkward as he said, “Ah, I’m sorry…”
“As for this one, this is Actor A. His ability is creating high-temperature energy attacks. He seems to also possess long-range strike capabilities. His battle power is very high.”
“Greetings, Actor A.” Zheng Yiming said, playing along.
…Should I be mad?!
“Alright, alright, enough jesting,” Lin Xue saw that I was turning green as she stopped joking about. “His real name is Chen Jun. As for why he and his little sister do not have the same family name, they are both orphans; and they have grown up in different families. They had finally managed to reunite after a long time. That was also when their powers had been triggered.”
After all the introductions had been completed, Lin Xue suggested, “Now that everyone knows each other—for the sake of our next operation, let’s try to familiarize ourselves with one another’s abilities.”
“You mean displaying our abilities, right?” I nodded. This was a very good opportunity to finally witness these special abilities the others had.
Qianqian heard about this display of powers and instantly grew excited. She said energetically, “That’s good, that’s good! It would be an eye-opener for me. I have heard so much about these abilities; besides Lili’s, I still haven’t seen anyone else’s ability yet!”
“There is a sealed training ground here,” Lin Xue said, “We can go there…”
“Wait,” I interrupted Lin Xue, “My ability’s area of effect is rather large; could we do it outdoors?”
Of course, I wanted to do it outdoors. Xyrin’s spatial weapons were fired from outer space; if I activated them within the training ground and I blew a hole in this base, could I afford to pay for it?
“Alright then. This is a desert after all. We have all the space outside we want.”
Outside the base, the five of us with abilities and an excited Qianqian were all ready.
“First, my ability is intuition,” Lin Xue said, “I can accurately sense the surroundings and the energy flows. Furthermore, I can use my sixth sense to know what would happen in a short while. Of course, it’s not as powerful as being able to predict the future; I can only more or less guess the probability of something happening. For example, three seconds later, a huge gust of wind would blow; and Qianqian’s hat would be blown off.”
“Ah?” Qianqian quickly pressed on her hat.
Three seconds was a very short time. Just when Qianqian had pressed on her hat, a rather strong wind blew by. Naturally, as Qianqian had already held onto her hat, this wind did not create the effect that Lin Xue had described.
“Just like this, I can know that three seconds later there would be a huge gust of wind and that it would be sufficient to blow Qianqian’s hat off. However, reality could still go against my instincts. As for my observation abilities, Qianqian used 0.132kilojoules of energy to press her hat down. Unfortunately, I am unable to verify this.”
Pandora’s voice passed through spiritual connection: “It was 0.13185kilojoules. Just based on her ability to sense energy currents, Lin Xue’s ability has reached that of an ordinary Xyrin tracker’s. Furthermore, her short-term predictive abilities are much stronger than her sensing ability.”
What a powerful ability! She was just like half a prophet!
Seeing Qianqian and my surprised looks, Lin Xue smiled proudly and said, “Alright, who’s next?”
“This is my ability.” Pandora’s voice rang out in everyone’s minds. That was it.
…It was like Pandora’s personality to give such a short and simple display.
“My ability is wind blades. Ming, come over and help me out.”
Zheng Yiming nodded as he stood at a place tens of meters away from us. He then nodded as he indicated he was ready.
Lin Feng sighed out loud as he then furiously gestured his left-hand forward!
“Wind blades!”
I could only see almost translucent arcs of air flying at a very fast speed towards Zheng Yiming. Almost at the same time, a faint green layer appeared in front of Zheng Yiming. It was like a protective layer. When the wind blades struck on it, ripples could be seen on the layer; and then they subsided. A few other wind blades that Lin Feng had purposely hit in a different direction flew past Zheng Yiming and sliced a sand dune a few hundred meters away into half!
These wind blades’ attacking strength couldn’t be underestimated just because sand dunes looked soft. Sand actually could exhaust all sorts of external forces’ energies. For a sand dune that had a radius of over a hundred meters, even the most powerful sniper rifle would not be able to pierce through!
“It’s just like in the movies…” Qianqian looked at the display of powers in front of her as she murmured to herself.
“If we’re talking about offensive power, mine is still not the most powerful.” Lin Feng humbly smiled as he then looked a little afraid as he continued, “Once you look at Chen Jun’s ability, you would not think of mine as strong…”
I smiled slightly as I took a few steps forward.
Ever since Pandora’s heavily armed corps had reached this world, my connection with the Xyrin home-star had become much stronger. Although it wasn’t yet at the stage where I could talk to Gaia daily, I could at least execute a little of the 99.999999% inexecutable commands.
After making sure I had linked up successfully, my face grew serious as I grew relaxed; and I seemed to gather a force around me.
“If you want to continue posing, we’ll head back first,” Lin Xue said blandly.
“Heaven Light!” I cried out harshly as my left hand pointed forward. At the same time, I said in my heart: “Requesting for trans-spatial support.”
I could see a few-meters thick white light pillar humming and descending from the sky and then swiftly striking the sand a few hundred meters away…
And then into an almost ten-meter wide magma pool.
Sounds of air being sucked in could be heard behind me.
Sh*t! Overdid it!
“Chen Jun… this is your real power?” Lin Xue’s mouth twitched as she asked. Her heart was making somersaults. God… this power… could it still be called an ability? Luckily, I didn’t piss this person off that day. If not…
Lin Feng was also sweating profusely. He had been hunted and pursued for a whole day and night that day! (He and Lin Xue did not know that the one that had attacked them that day was not me but was the innocent-looking small Lolita, Pandora.)
Zheng Yiming was also struck dumb. He had originally been very confident with his defensive abilities. However, could he even withstand more than a second under this attack?
Only Xu Qianqian still had not fathomed how powerful this energy was and kept on looking at me with admiration.
“This… actually, this type of long-rage attack has many restrictions,” I dry-laughed and tried to explain, “First of all, it uses too much energy; and I cannot use it consecutively. Furthermore, I can’t control the radius as well. Every time, I need to recharge for a long time… that was why I was posing just now…”
“Oh—” Everyone nodded, and they finally seemed to have found their bearings.
Lin Xue seemed to have assumed the role of a captain right from the start. Once everyone had awoken from that scene they had witnessed, she said loudly, “Alright, now that everyone has a certain understanding of each other, anyone has any questions?”
I looked around me.
Pandora could use mind-talk to convey information. Lin Xue, using her predictive and sensing ability like a map; Zheng Yiming, using his defensive abilities to be the group’s tanker; Lin Feng and I were the group’s main attack force. Finally, Qianqian, someone who did not have any powers at all. En…
“Lin Xue,” I raised my hand and said, “We are still lacking a healer!”