Volume 1: The Bridge Man Chapter 12: Stormy
What does it feel like to have your heart squeezed?
Zhang Chenyu experienced this for the first time in his sixteen-year-old life.
At that moment, he felt as if the skin on his head was being torn apart alive, and a bloody self was about to emerge.
His temples were throbbing violently, and Zhang Chenyu felt as if there was an electric drill in his head, drilling into his crown!
call--
Suddenly, he felt relieved, something was released, and all the pain was gone.
When he opened his eyes, he was able to overlook the entire class, including himself. He was sitting in his seat stupidly, motionless, like a puppet.
Now, his lower body is connected to the top of his head by a wisp of faint smoke, like a genie in a magic lamp.
Am I having an out-of-body experience?
Zhang Chenyu was stunned, then he was ecstatic.
Superpowers!
He finally has super powers!
There wasn't a single person with super powers in the entire Class 1 and 2 of Senior High School when the last statistics were taken, but now, he is one!
A probability of 3/1000!
He scanned the class again and found that there was a hazy fog over everyone's head.
He stretched out his hand, and the arm made of smoke stretched forward, forward, and forward again. The arm was continuously stretched thinner, until only a string of smoke remained connecting to his palm.
And the place where his hand was reaching was Qiao Ji's position.
There was a misty fog above everyone's head, rising from their skull.
The amount on Qiao Ji's head seemed to be more than that of ordinary people, and it was not as thin as that of others. It formed a thick cloud that wrapped around his head, emitting a bright white light and giving a warm and solid feeling.
Zhang Chenyu didn't know what this was, but he felt that this thing should represent superpowers, talent, potential or something like that, because his body was now transformed from such mist.
He noticed Qiao Ji's abnormality, and then said unhappily: "Why do you have more than others?"
He pressed his palm towards the top of Qiao Ji's head, trying to push back the extra part of Qiao Ji's head that was larger than others.
Something pierced through the darkness, and Qiao Ji was caught off guard. A huge impact force knocked him into the memory space.
This time, the colorful, dreamy smoke turned into a huge palm, and it was this palm that pulled Qiao Ji into the memory space.
But after entering the memory space, the movement of the palm almost froze and stopped there.
Although the palm was made of colorful mist and looked extremely beautiful and dreamy, Qiao Ji felt a strong hostility from it.
'System, is this yours?'
【Ding! No props detected. 】
The system gave a negative answer.
Then get out of here!
Qiao Ji had a good temper, but this strange thing kept harassing him again and again, and he became a little angry.
The memory fragments in the space danced wildly, like a storm, like a tsunami, sweeping away.
Although the palm was huge, even taller than Qiao Ji's body in the space, the storm formed by the memory fragments was even larger. It rushed over, and countless memory fragments were like sharp blades.
Zhang Chenyu fell headfirst onto the desk with a thud.
pain!
It hurts so much!
It felt as if my whole body was cut into countless wounds and there was no place that didn't hurt.
His body made of smoke instantly shrank back into his body after pressing , as if he had experienced a storm of blades.
"Emperor Jue, you're just going to sleep right away, right?" my desk mate said with a smile.
Zhang Chenyu was not in the mood to joke. His face was pale and he opened his mouth wide, breathing hard to absorb oxygen, because the sensory experience brought by the inhalation and exhalation of air could dilute the pain.
Snapped
The shattering sound made the whole classroom suddenly quiet.
"what happened?"
The head teacher, who was dozing off, stood up from the podium, propping himself up with one arm.
He Ling was supporting Qiao Ji at this time, feeling a little overwhelmed and frightened. She was still feeding Qiao Ji just now, but the next second Qiao Ji's face turned as pale as a painted wall, and he fell directly on her, knocking over the dishes and breaking them all over the floor.
Or the classmate next to him shouted, "Teacher, Qiao Ji fainted again!"
At the same time, he came up to help send Qiao Ji to the infirmary, as he had already been sent there once a few days ago.
Is it because of me?
No, I didn't want to, I didn't know this would happen.
Zhang Chenyu watched Qiao Ji leave the classroom, feeling uneasy, regretful, and guilty, with all kinds of emotions surging in his heart.
He swallowed hard.
I seem to be in trouble.
…
"Okay, I understand. Thank you, teacher."
Qiao Yao hung up the phone, took off his glasses, and pressed the bridge of his nose.
"What's wrong?" asked a woman nearby.
"Qiao Ji, he fainted again at school. The doctor said he had anemia." Qiao Yao said, feeling something was wrong. "Why is he anemic?"
Although he is very busy with work, Qiao Yao is a researcher of supernatural powers after all and has a better understanding of the human physical condition. Qiao Ji has had better life skills than him since he was a child, so something like this should not have happened.
"anemia?"
"Well, the school teacher asked me to supervise him to eat breakfast on time every day... I still feel something is wrong."
Qiao Ji was generous when asking him for pocket money, and he was also generous when giving it to him. He wouldn't be left without money for food, right?
"Could it be that the awakening of superpowers consumes too much energy?" Qiao Yao raised this possibility out of professional sensitivity.
After all, adolescence is a high incidence period for awakening of superpowers, and Qiao Ji’s age is just right.
The woman next to him heard this and said, "We are at the base now and can't go back to Tongcheng for a while. I'll ask Meng Fu to go over and take a look. If that doesn't work, ask her to take Qiao Ji to the City Hospital's Special Ability Department for a checkup."
Lin Mengfu?
"The City Hospital's Special Ability Department?" Qiao Yao frowned subconsciously, but still nodded, "Then I'll trouble Meng Fu."
Lin Mengfu awakened her special powers when she was very young. Although she is only a high school student, she is definitely more familiar with this aspect than Qiao Ji.
Qiao Yao couldn't go back now, otherwise he would definitely take Qiao Ji to his workplace for a full body check-up. The equipment there can be said to be the most complete and advanced in Tongcheng.
But now, I can only ask my future daughter to look after my son.
The woman started calling her daughter.
"Um."
"Um."
"That's it. Go check on your brother and ask him how he is doing. If there's anything wrong, take him to the City Hospital's Special Abilities Department for a checkup. Ask for Director Li."
"Okay, call me when you see your brother."
After the call, the woman said to Qiao Yao, "Meng Fu will be there soon."
"She has to go to class now, right?" Qiao Yao asked.
"It won't take long. Okay, the meeting is about to start. Don't keep people waiting."
The woman stepped forward and straightened Qiao Yao's collar - the rope holding his ID card had turned a corner of his collar inside out.
Qiao Yao walked out of the room, out of the building, and met a group of people.
"Ah, Old Joe!"
Qiao Yao looked at the man approaching, and from deep within his memory came the memory of his friendship with the man during school.
"Old Zhao!"
The two uncles hugged each other excitedly.
"How many years have we not seen each other?"
Qiao Yao said excitedly: "It's been more than ten years, right? There has been no news from you since you graduated."
"I signed up for a special program before graduation, and here you are."
Qiao Yao was stunned. "My goodness, you guys came up with this project? You are really good at it. You have achieved spiritual transformation and mass production of Xuan-level superpowers. You, Old Zhao, have done a great job without making any noise. You impressed me, your old classmate, as soon as we met."
Lao Zhao waved his hand. "No, we just got a little lucky. Come on, since you have joined the project, I will show you around. We discovered some amazing things a while ago."
…
In the school infirmary, Qiao Ji woke up, looked at the infusion tube in his hand, was silent for two seconds, and then decisively took out his mobile phone.
"Hello, I want to call the police. I may have been attacked by a superpower."
Find out the problem yourself?
No, it’s better to let professionals handle professional matters.
In this situation, don't think about being a hero or seeking revenge.
In the world of super powers, when one is completely in the dark without any information, it is very easy to be killed at first sight. Even if one's super powers are higher than the opponent's and the destructive power is greater, accidents can easily occur.
Calling the police is the best option.
Contact the city police station.
The command hall is particularly busy today.
A police officer walked through the crowd quickly, came to a person and reported in a low voice: "Chief, we just received a call from No. 2 Middle School. A student was attacked by a superpower in the school."
The middle-aged man with gray hair stood up suddenly and asked nervously, "What? School? What's the situation?"
People nearby also became nervous.
They were searching for a group of criminals with special powers , and something happened in the school at this time?
If something happens in a place like a school, the situation could be quite serious.
After all, if they let that group of vicious guys into the school, no one knew what kind of damage would be caused, and they would not be able to bear the consequences.
"Only one student suffered a suspected mental attack, the situation was not serious and he called the police himself."
The students called the police themselves, so the situation doesn’t seem to be particularly serious?
But now things just happened to come together.
Normally in this situation, the procedure would be to send ordinary police officers to investigate the situation first. But that is not possible now. What if it is related to that group of vicious criminals?
The director glanced at the command screen, which showed the distribution of personnel.
"Have two people from Group 5 go to No. 2 Middle School immediately."
