Several ability users were immediately surrounded by others.
“How dare you hit someone? You are asking for death!”
The ordinary people, who had seemed mute before, suddenly charged forward like tenacious bees, encircling the few ability users present.
These ability users, who usually bullied others without consequence, were stunned for the first time at such a situation. They had never faced this kind of resistance before from a group they deemed powerless.
“How dare they fight back! This is outrageous!”
Yet they gravely underestimated the desperation of this crowd.
The bruised ability users quickly activated their powers, trying to fend off the tidal wave of attacks. They scrambled to their feet, bloodied and battered.
“You’ll pay for this.”
Leaving those words behind, the ability users fled, their shadows disappearing.
In the office of the base,
“They not only refused to hand over supplies but also injured our ability users!”
Luo Yelin glared at the group of subordinates whose faces looked like swollen pigs, and scolded, “Are you all useless? How could you be chased off by a bunch of ordinary people? What face do you have to report back to me?”
They lowered their heads and murmured, “We can’t take all the blame…”
“It must be Jiang Hua who stirred them up; with his backing, they have the audacity to be so arrogant.”
“And there are so many of them.”
“Enough with the excuses,” Luo Yelin interrupted. “You think their numbers are too small? I’ll send more people!”
The ability users brightened at this.
When they returned to the slums, shining their flashlights into the tattered tents, they found them dark and empty.
Seeing this unusual sight, a few of the previously beaten ability users felt lingering fear.
The later arrivals scoffed, “They scared off so easily? I thought they were tough.”
“Can we finally report back now?”
As soon as they finished speaking, the light fell on a farming shovel, then a hoe and a plow, making them stumble back in fear.
But behind them, a countless number of people surged forward.
Out of nowhere, they were struck, and their flashlights were knocked from their hands, tumbling away.
The moonlight was obscured by dark clouds, plunging everything into utter darkness.
In that instant, all they could hear were various powers clashing and the sounds of screaming.
As the breeze began to blow the clouds away, the stench of blood slowly permeated the area.
The moonlight fell on the ground, illuminating those battered ability users, but the ordinary people wielding weapons were evidently in worse shape, tied up by the wood-type ability users’ vines, unable to move.
The leading ability user climbed to his feet and spat out blood.
“You’ll all die today!”
Even threatened and bound, the ordinary people’s eyes showed no fear; instead, they sparkled with determination.
Having made the decision to resist, they had already accepted whatever consequences awaited them.
They were fed up with their life.
Perhaps it would be a relief if it ended today.
Just as the fiery tongues of the ability users were about to meet them, it was as if the pause button had been pressed; the flames extinguished, leaving only a fleeting warmth as they passed by.
The once menacing ability users now stood frozen, looking stunned, their expressions shifting from arrogance to terror, chanting, “Don’t eat me, please don’t eat me!”
What was happening?
The ordinary people, bound and frightened, wondered if a new breed of strange zombies had evolved.
At that moment, two footsteps echoed unexpectedly as they came closer.
They instinctively raised their heads to find the source of the sound.
The cold moonlight illuminated the ground like frost, and the two figures seemed to walk gracefully through the night, their footsteps giving a reassuring strength.
“Brother!”
The child shouted excitedly, snapping the group of adults back to reality.
Tong Sui deftly used a dagger to slice through the vines binding them.
The child looked up at him, eyes shining, “Brother, how did you immobilize them? Can you teach me?”
The others were speechless.
Not to mention that Tong Sui looked like an ordinary researcher without any abilities; he appeared to be physically weaker as well.
Even if he did have some abilities, they had never heard of any power that could control people’s actions.
Tong Sui helped the child up, saying, “I can’t teach you that.”
“Can I watch them perform?” the child replied, eyes sparkling.
Tong Sui found it hard to refuse. “What do you want to see?”
The child exclaimed, “A somersault!”
That was straightforward enough.
A faint red light flickered in Tong Sui’s eyes, and those ability users, who had been shouting and struggling, actually flipped over as instructed.
The others were left stunned. “What is happening?”
They initially thought Tong Sui was just pleasing the child, but to their surprise, they saw a series of acrobatic performances from the ability users afterward.
Their gazes towards Tong Sui gradually shifted from confusion to astonishment, culminating in admiration and respect.
What kind of miraculous power was this?
After playing with the child for a while, Tong Sui remembered the purpose of his visit.
He issued a command to the group of ability users.
These ability users were not very powerful, and Tong Sui easily dominated them, quickly forcing them out.
Only then did the others finally relax.
They hurriedly expressed their gratitude, “If it weren’t for your intervention, we would have been finished.”
However, even so, this group of ability users would not simply give up.
Hunger and the pain from their injuries plunged their morale into a negative spiral.