One night passed, the sun rose, and the city in the sky ushered in a brand new day.
The street fight late yesterday night did not have any impact on the city, and the Sky City was peaceful in the early morning. A temporary power outage in a neighborhood or the casualties of unknown persons are nothing worth mentioning in this city that was built out of chaos.
After all, for most residents, trouble that does not affect them is equivalent to non-existence. Only a few who know better will look in a more distant direction.
This morning, a person with super powers went to Cangshou District and had a rather short conversation with the biggest figure in the city. This conversation will largely determine what will happen a few days later, or even three years later, but it is not yet related to the two people who met last night.
Therefore, let us temporarily move our gaze away from the distant Cangshou District and look at the Thorny District lined with giant white towers.
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In the early morning, Qin Qianbai woke up from her sleep.
She stretched out on the pure white bed, yawned, and found that the bed made with super powers was more comfortable than she imagined - she was used to getting up early to practice martial arts, and had not slept until after 7 o'clock for a long time. .
Maybe it's because I was too tired last night, the girl thought. After experiencing a series of riots, she fell into an emotional low after seeing the empty house. Qin Qianbai thought that her performance last night must have been very embarrassing, otherwise the gray-haired boy would not have taken the initiative to suggest making a set of furniture for her.
Thanks to her neighbor's miraculous powers, she was finally able to fall asleep in her bed. After waking up, another imminent question emerged from his mind.
The few banknotes he had left were almost all destroyed by his own power yesterday.
Now, I'm so hungry.
However, I didn’t even have a penny on me.
Qin Qianbai was sitting on the white bed. Her whole body seemed to have lost its color and was about to blend into the background.
...What should we do after that?
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Fell into dreamland again.
Everyone in the dream is there. Big Brother, Airandia, Orianna, Julian, Raquel... everyone was talking and laughing in the spotlight.
He stood quietly in the corner and looked at them, feeling dazzled by the brilliance.
They are all very good people. Just standing next to him made him feel ashamed.
That's fine. Stand in the corner and watch alone. When the clown is needed to liven up the atmosphere, he will step forward grandly to make everyone laugh.
At this time Alandia turned his head, and he couldn't look away from the gray eyes.
"Ce, why are you still standing alone?"
The Dawn Knight reached out to him, and everyone smiled at him.
Do I have the qualifications to step forward?
He smiled happily and stretched out his hand——
Then, the gray mist covered everything.
He stretched out his hands blankly, only to see a blood-like full moon in the night sky, and a heartbeat-like vibration beating on his eardrums.
Winter winter, winter winter, winter winter.
The mist melts everything, and that thing is coming. The dragon is coming...!
"ah!"
Gongsun Ce woke up from his dream, his face as pale as paper. Cold sweat wetted his clothes, and the boy clutched the quilt tightly, his hands trembling.
He sat stiffly on the bed, the look in his eyes gone. He saw the city in the past again, and everything was so real before his eyes that even the sound of his heartbeat echoed in his ears. The voice was so close to him, on the right side of the room, as if there was only a wall separating him!
"...?"
Separated by a wall is Room 706, which seems to be the girl's room...
The gray-haired boy turned his head slowly and stared at the direction of the sound with empty eyes.
Dongdong.
A very rhythmic sound, like a knock on the door, sounded on the opposite side of the bedroom wall.
Dongdong. After a pause, the sound of knocking on the door sounded again.
"well……"
Gongsun Ce covered his forehead and sighed tiredly. The sounds in reality reminded him of his current situation. At this moment, most of the fog in the dream cleared up in one breath, and he was completely awake.
Gongsun Ce raised his hand and knocked on the wall in response. He slowly put on his glasses, changed his clothes, walked out of the house like a zombie in the game, and stood in front of Room 706 next door.
Ding Dong. Gongsun Ce rang the doorbell.
A girl's voice came from behind the door.
"Please wait a moment. This thing is slippery when you step on it..."
……slip?
He was not so wicked as to make the white matter into a slippery texture last night. Besides, such a delicate operation cannot be easily accomplished with his current experience.
This girl is a master of close combat. If even she can say slippery...
"No way. Can your ability even affect the white matter?" Gongsun Ce felt powerless. "This effort is almost on the verge of going berserk. Has no one taught you how to control your ability?"
The door opened. The expressionless girl stood on tiptoes as if walking on the edge of a cliff. The pure white floor beneath her feet had a texture as smooth as ice.
"Slippery is... my ability?" The girl tilted her head in confusion.
At this moment when Qin Qianbai was running his thoughts.
The black-haired girl's clothes transformed into a material as smooth as water.
The strange material was indeed as smooth as she said, and had the unique fluidity of liquid - so under the pull of gravity, the liquid that was once clothing flowed along the girl's body.
Translucent brown water droplets streaked across the girl's white skin. The moistening of the liquid makes the remaining pure white fabric on the upper body fit tightly to the surface of the skin. Following the water droplets downward, you can see the small and cute belly button in the center of the flat belly, and the soft lines on both sides reveal a mature temperament that belies her age. Further down is a triangle of soft cloth wetted with liquid, reminiscent of the tight and powerful legs of a carnivore, and white socks that escaped death...
Gongsun Ce closed his eyes immediately and raised his hands to cover his face.
This can't be done even with telekinesis. Rolling up the liquid that was once clothes and splashing it on her body will only make the atmosphere even more wrong, and this thing is tactile!
He could already imagine what would happen next. The doll girl's face was as red as a ripe shrimp. Gongsun Ce put down his hands resignedly and tried his best to suppress the local activity of his body with telekinesis.
"So, you asked Mr. Gongsun and I to come here early in the morning..." Gongsun Ce tried to liven up the atmosphere by talking nonsense, "Is it to show the health and beauty of young women?"
"——Yin thief!"
The applause this morning was even louder than last night.
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Half an hour later, Gongsun Ce covered his swollen face and said helplessly.
"Even if I have 0% responsibility, don't you yourself have 100% fault?"
Right now, the two of them were having breakfast at the breakfast shop downstairs. Gongsun Ce's breakfast was a bowl of soy milk, two fried dough sticks and a meat bun. Qin Qianbai ordered milk, fish fillet porridge, pancakes and fruit, fried cakes and a bowl of tofu. This amount is too much for ordinary girls, but it is normal for people with super powers.
"..."
The girl who was immersed in her porridge stared at him with a resentful expression, like a cute little animal that had been wronged.
Qin Qianbai was currently wearing a plain white hoodie and trousers of poor design. This set of white clothes was left behind by Gongsun Ce as he had an idea. If he hadn't stopped the girl from going berserk in time with the excuse of "putting on some clothes before you say anything," he would have been hunted down by his neighbors for another whole day... It was a scary feeling just thinking about it.
"There's nothing you can do about it with that look in your eyes. You can't forget what you've seen." Gongsun Ce said feebly, "In the final analysis, it's a problem of your own inability to control yourself. We're just asking you to have breakfast." Is it okay?"
Qin Qianbai slowly chewed the pancakes and said, "Stale ingredients..."
Are you so particular about having breakfast?
How much good food do you want to eat at a roadside stall? I didn’t give you half-finished products.
Not bad.
"When you have some free time to comment on breakfast, hurry up and learn how to control your own power." Gongsun Ce took out the little thing he picked up yesterday, the crescent-shaped earring, "Is this thing yours? I picked it up in that place yesterday. Arrived."
Qin Qianbai said expressionlessly: "I am not that frivolous woman who pricks her earlobes for temporary beauty."
You give me an apology to all fashionable women who wear earrings.
Besides, are you still a woman at your age? Just treat me as a girl before you reach adulthood.
“Do you know how to write the word “advance with the times”?
Qin Qianbai made gestures in the air.
"I'm not really asking you if you can write! What's going on with your thinking?" Gongsun Ce said with a headache, "I almost forgot, why did you come to me so early in the morning?"
Qin Qianbai's eyes, which looked like a curser's, turned into embarrassment after hearing this.
"……there is none left."
"What?"
the girl whispered.
"No, it's money."
Gongsun Ce almost laughed out loud.
"Hey, miss, don't tell me you don't even have money for breakfast?"
Nod nod.
The gray-haired young man laughed heartily.
"This is really, how many years have I not seen such an idiot! Don't rush to hit people, let me guess... you, at the beginning, can still control your own abilities, then your luggage should be It’s still there too.”
When I met her late last night, there wasn't even a box beside the girl, which was unnatural for a newly moved citizen. Even if most of your luggage is sent by mail, you should still bring a change of clothes with you.
"During this period, you didn't even read the specific housing contract carefully, and just bought a new house with a big wave of your hand. Maybe you also used the money left in your account to buy some new clothes... or go to a high-end hotel to eat. A meal?"
The girl stopped eating and remained motionless. Seeing her like this, Gongsun Ce knew that he had guessed correctly. The clothes she wore yesterday were obviously high-end, and she was so particular about what she ate, so it was only natural to spend money on these things.
"The person who sold the house told me that all the furniture is there..." the eldest lady argued.
"But that's not what the contract says, right?"
"This is fraud."
"It's your fault for not looking carefully."
So, what follows is the reason for the embarrassment.
"At that point in time, everything seemed to be going well in your eyes until something happened. That incident stimulated your emotions and caused your abilities to start to go out of control. Your weird ability destroyed your luggage, 80% of which He also had cash on him, which is why he fell into such an embarrassing situation." Gongsun Ce pushed up his glasses and said, "What on earth is it? It should be a battle. After all, you are so aggressive, and you were still carrying it when you showed up there last night. Armed with a long sword. However, you don’t look like the type to actively cause commotion. Then..."
Gongsun Ce thought for a while and expressed his guess.
"You've been provoked by one of the three: a gangster in black, a respectable person in white, or a group of teenagers who have no common ground... no, you've provoked the plural of these."
"!"
The look in Qin Qianbai's eyes revealed surprise that even he could understand.
Sure enough.
She was so skilled and so beautiful, so it was understandable that she would be noticed by those at the bottom of Deathwing. She has very strong super powers and comes from a wealthy family, so of course the idiots from the Light Core will want to win her over. As for the guys from the mutual aid association, nine out of ten they were involved. After all, if this girl's ability goes out of control, it can easily affect ordinary people. It is normal for members to want to seek explanation after being accidentally injured.
While they were talking, the table where the two had their breakfast was about to turn into a swamp-like mess. Not surprised, Gongsun Ce added a layer of white matter protective shield to shape it, and continued to explain his reasoning.
"The battle should have started in the afternoon, and the whole chaotic battle lasted until the evening. The battle for such a long time must have destroyed a lot of things, such as
For example...the substation and distribution station in this area? That's why there was a power outage yesterday. "Gongsun Ce said to himself, "During this series of commotions, you entered that alley for some reason and witnessed the tragic scene last night. After that, there was the meeting with Mr. Gongsun and me. ——The speculation ends here, please correct me if I’m wrong.”
The atmosphere at the dinner table was a bit strange. The girl's eyes suddenly became cold, which surprised Gongsun Zhizhi.
"...You've been following me."
"Why is this your first reaction? This is just the most basic reasoning, okay?!"
"You don't look like the leader of those people yesterday... As expected, he is a spy from the imperial capital." The girl grabbed Kuaizi and aimed at his neck like a dart. "Who is behind you? Taixue? Yiji Hall? Six major sects? Or are they people sent by the family? "
The nervous look in his eyes was like that of a child who was forced into a corner with no way out. When he saw this performance, Gongsun Ce understood the reason why the opponent's ability was out of control.
It seems that these external factors that have nothing to do with the Sky City are the main reasons for her unbalanced mentality.
Gongsun Ce couldn't help but laugh twice.
"——Don't take yourself too seriously, miss."
He stared at the newcomer playfully, deeply amused by his reaction.
"This is the city of the sky, the city of superpowers. No one will ask where you come from, and no one cares about the grudges behind you. Superpower organizations and white coats will only care about whether your ability is strong or not. , as for ordinary people like me, I don’t even pay attention to what you think, I just ask not to bring trouble to myself... Do you understand what I mean?"
"This is not your home. Put away your tricks, Miss." The gray-haired boy smiled almost meanly, "Who the hell cares."
Qin Qianbai looked at him for a few seconds, put Kuaizi down, and whispered, "...I'm sorry."
Gongsun Ce couldn't help but slap the table with laughter.
It's really unbearable. Where did this child come from?
It doesn't look like he is from a special force at all, and it is incomparable to those gentle scum like the Light Core. Even the junior high school students in this city are more thoughtful than her!
"You silly girl. Do you really believe what I say? Do you still think you are in the wrong?" Gongsun Ce chuckled, "How do you know I'm not lying to you? Maybe I'm really a spy sent by your hometown. In order to kidnap you, I came to the capital of the sky and waited for you? Maybe I am the leader of the superpower organization, and I just pretend to be an ordinary person I met by chance to win over you?"
"……ah."
Judging from Qin Qianbai's performance, she didn't expect this at all.
"Longer your memory, Miss. Friendship tells you the secret of survival in this city: don't take yourself too seriously, don't trust other people too much, don't inquire about things that have nothing to do with you, and don't involve other people. You are in your own trouble." Gongsun Ce took a sip of the soy milk, "The secret of life in the Sky City is to keep distance from each other, do you understand?"
"Yeah." The girl nodded, thought for a while, and then looked at him suspiciously.
"...Then, why did you take the initiative to help me?"
Grass.
Please don't learn and use it like this.
"If it has nothing to do with the family, you are just targeting my body..."
Gongsun Ce stretched out his hand to compare with his chest, closed his eyes and sighed.
"You're such a tragic type, please let me go. It's no longer an airport, it's a cliff. I can't do anything else - don't hit people if you have something to say! Don't throw things away. I'm angry!"
