“Who exactly are you?”
Yang Liuqing kicked down the motorcycle’s kickstand, turned off the engine, and got off.
Without the headlight’s illumination, the area ahead returned to darkness.
An ordinary person would need time to adjust to such a change.
Yang Liuqing didn’t need to.
His eyes were remarkably sharp.
Even in pitch darkness, his vision was unaffected.
Not to mention the moonlight casting silver radiance from above.
“No need to be so tense, Yang Liuqing.
I’m your companion, I won’t hurt you.”
The woman in the military cap tilted her chin up, revealing a pretty face.
She appeared to be in her late twenties, exuding the unique charm of a slightly ripened peach.
Tall and slender, with curves in all the right places.
“Companion?”
Yang Liuqing instantly grew wary.
What was this person even talking about?
Since when did he have a companion?
“Relax, relax, I’ve been ordered to protect you.”
The woman in the military cap waved her right hand up and down.
Then she pulled something from her pants pocket.
Yang Liuqing tensed even more.
“This is my work ID.”
The woman in the military cap pulled a small black booklet from her pocket, embossed with a golden emblem.
She opened it with one hand, revealing a clearly visible stamped seal and some small text.
It was too far away for Yang Liuqing to make out.
“I’m Lu Xueyuan from the Superpower Management Bureau. This is an official document. Would you like to verify it?”
“Superpower Management Bureau?”
Yang Liuqing looked puzzled, clearly having never heard of such a government unit.
Suspicious—not just a little suspicious.
“That’s right, the Superpower Management Bureau, full name: Anomalous Ability Incident Management Bureau.
As the name suggests, it’s the organization that manages Transcendents.
Yang Liuqing, you awakened a superpower and used it to kill someone, isn’t that right?”
Hearing this, Yang Liuqing’s heart shuddered.
This organization seemed to have its act together.
Besides, last night he really had killed an intruding pervert in his rental.
“No need to be so tense. We’ve verified the facts—he attacked first, and you were merely acting in self-defense.
Am I right?”
The woman in the military cap who called herself Lu Xueyuan spoke with a serious look, enunciating every word.
“Yes.”
Yang Liuqing nodded, three parts trusting her.
“Your ability isn’t bad, you sliced the man into eight pieces.
The smoothness of the cuts was simply breathtaking.”
The woman put away her ID and slowly closed in.
Her gait was like a catwalk, not a normal walk.
So graceful it was strange.
Yang Liuqing’s trust inched up two more parts.
This Superpower Management Bureau person must have been to the scene to know such specifics.
“You tossed away your phone—that gave me quite a hard time finding you.”
Lu Xueyuan spread her hands, her pace still unhurried, not pressuring Yang Liuqing at all.
She was clearly radiating goodwill.
Sensing carefully, her strength was higher than Daoba’s but lower than Chise Liequan’s—somewhere in between.
‘Black uniform, so that’s it. The people Ke Li mentioned are just like her—from the Superpower Management Bureau.’
With that thought, Yang Liuqing’s trust in Lu Xueyuan’s identity grew by another two parts.
“Actually, you didn’t need to run in the first place. If you’d waited for us to arrive, everything would have been cleared up.”
The woman came before him, smiling.
“At that time, I was too panicked.”
Yang Liuqing brushed it off.
That kind of talk was pure hindsight, no need to take it seriously.
The two stood face to face.
Yang Liuqing noticed she was a bit taller than him.
“Now you don’t have to panic anymore, because I’ll take you out of here.”
Lu Xueyuan extended her right hand.
Yang Liuqing’s gaze moved down, spotting a silver ring on her slender middle finger.
“How did you find me?”
He didn’t take her hand, instead making a final confirmation.
“That motorcycle—once I tapped into the traffic system, I came up with a lot of useful information.”
At Lu Xueyuan’s words, Yang Liuqing was taken aback.
This Hongda motorcycle had a yellow plate hanging off the back.
The authorities only needed to check the surveillance footage to know who the owner was.
Once they found Huang Mao, Daoba had nowhere to hide.
He’d used Daoba’s account to post on the Dark Web, employing the trick of luring the tiger away from the mountain.
It could fool Dian Jing, could fool the major powers.
But it couldn’t fool the official authorities.
They had plenty of fragmented yet useful information to feed to their AI for reasoning.
In the end, they smoothly locked onto him as the target.
“Feels like all that work was for nothing.”
He couldn’t help but smile wryly.
“Not at all. If you hadn’t hidden so well, I’d have had a hard time reporting back.”
Lu Xueyuan still had her hand extended, smiling.
“Anyway, don’t worry about what comes next. The organization will arrange everything properly for you.”
“Mm, I feel really at ease now.”
Yang Liuqing smiled too, his expression relaxed, yet for some reason, the string in his mind remained taut.
Something seemed off.
The moment he finished speaking, he reached out to take her hand.
At that instant, Ke Ling’s voice reached his ears:
“Master, watch out!”
Without a moment’s hesitation, Yang Liuqing yanked his hand back.
He saw a hair-thin needle shoot from Lu Xueyuan’s silver ring.
So thin it was nearly invisible, yet it glinted with an eerie cold light.
This woman really did have ulterior motives!
Yang Liuqing kicked out, aiming at her stomach.
Lu Xueyuan clicked her tongue, pushed off hard, and retreated in a burst.
“I knew you were up to no good!”
Yang Liuqing was furious.
That faint sense of wrongness in his heart had proven true, sending chills down his spine.
The last shred of trust was completely extinguished.
“Don’t say that, I’m just doing my job~”
Lu Xueyuan steadied herself, smile still on her face.
Then, with a wave of her bare hand, dozens of silver needles shot out like torrential rain.
As the thick silver needles rapidly grew in his pupils,
Yang Liuqing shifted and dodged to the left.
The needles grazed past him, riddling the motorcycle behind with countless holes.
It looked beyond riding now.
“Dammit!”
Yang Liuqing caught the Hongda motorcycle’s sorry state from the corner of his eye, his anger flaring even hotter.
This Superpower Management Bureau woman was truly insidious.
“Xiao Qingqing, forget about that, just take her down!”
Ke Li quickly urged.
If the motorcycle was broken, they could just walk.
If this woman escaped, that would be a real hassle.
Yang Liuqing’s eyes narrowed.
He clenched his hand in the air and summoned the Huayue Zimu Sword.
Seeing this, Lu Xueyuan’s pupils flickered, whether from excitement or concern, unclear.
She said nothing, crossing her arms and sweeping them out, unleashing over a hundred silver needles like poison needles bursting forth.
Facing such a ferocious onslaught, Yang Liuqing remained fearless.
He extended his left hand, and the surrounding spirit particles converged like lightning, forming a massive shield.
The needles struck the shield with clattering sounds, scattering to the ground.
Two consecutive moves failing to hit her opponent, Lu Xueyuan’s expression grew more solemn.
This Yang Liuqing was completely different from the intelligence reports.
His combat experience was far richer than expected.
Before she could think further, Yang Liuqing vanished like a phantom.
“Hound Body Movement?!”
Catching the starting footwork, Lu Xueyuan’s hair stood on end.
That damned Chise Liequan had known and withheld the information!