The Visitor

"A newly awakened Telekinesis user with Four-Star Potential, and another who should have some kind of physical reaction ability. What luck I’m having!"

Gu Sheng’s mouth twitched as he said something Lin Qinghe and Le Erya couldn’t understand at all. "Spiritual Qi has only reappeared for less than two months, yet there’s already a new batch of Ability Users. Looks like humanity hasn’t fallen that far behind the Spirit Beasts!"

"What are you talking about? What do Spiritual Qi, Telekinesis, Four-Star Potential, physical reactions, and Spirit Beasts mean?"

Lin Qinghe felt she was getting close to a huge secret and desperately wanted to know the answer.

"You don’t need to know too much, but remember this: be careful in April. It’d be best to bring your families to your side before April."

Gu Sheng solemnly warned Lin Qinghe and Le Erya. Based on his estimates, the first Spirit Tide would erupt by mid-April at the latest. When the biological explosion happened, it would definitely throw the world into chaos.

"What do you mean?"

Le Erya clutched her dizzy, aching head and came to Lin Qinghe’s side. She shouted at Gu Sheng, "You’d better surrender and let us take you back!"

"Heh~"

Gu Sheng merely chuckled. "Little girl, although Telekinesis has tremendous power and potential, awakening it for the first time won’t be pleasant.

"Once you get back, sleep for three days and three nights. That’ll make the headache much better. Your level is still low, so you’d better not try to control anything weighing more than five hundred jin.

"And you—your ability isn’t weak, but it still needs to be developed…"

Gu Sheng gave Lin Qinghe some pointers as well. Then he suddenly grabbed the wall beside him with one hand. Crimson True Essence wrapped around the four-meter-long wall, and it came crashing down.

"Rumble~"

Dust billowed into the air. Lin Qinghe and Le Erya kept retreating and only narrowly avoided injury. But when they looked up again, Gu Sheng had already disappeared.

"Cough, cough~~ He-jie! Are you all right?"

Le Erya covered her mouth as she coughed. "The Zheng Family really is ruthless with themselves. Their own materials are practically shoddy construction, too. There’s so much dust!"

"I’m fine!"

Lin Qinghe supported Le Erya as they retreated outside. She stared silently for a long while at the place where Gu Sheng had vanished. "That guy knew what happened to us, but unfortunately, he got away. Forget it. Let’s go back!"

Lin Qinghe helped Le Erya back. Just as Gu Sheng had said, awakening her ability for the first time had left Le Erya feeling awful. She hadn’t felt much at first when she changed the bullet’s trajectory, but afterward, it was as if she had drunk far too much. Wave after wave of exhaustion overwhelmed her, and it was truly unbearable.

"Woo~ woo~~ woo~ woo~~"

Nearly an hour after Lin Qinghe and Le Erya arrived, the Criminal Inspector convoy finally arrived, late as ever.

"Director! Director!"

Lin Qinghe and Le Erya were maintaining order when their highest-ranking superior, the head of the Hangcheng Criminal Inspector Department, personally arrived with his men.

"Lin Qinghe, you were too impulsive today. How could you leave so many civilians at the scene and go after the culprit before the situation was clear? If something had happened, could you have taken responsibility?"

The head of the Criminal Inspector Department was an old man with graying hair. His surname was Zhang, and Old Director Zhang was already nearing retirement.

Now that something like this had happened while their Criminal Inspectors were still on the scene, he could already imagine how those senior leaders would reprimand them.

Even more troublesome was that most of today’s guests were either rich or influential. There were more than a few with powerful connections. Lin Qinghe and Le Erya had left them behind to pursue the culprit—what kind of joke was that?

"Director, this was my responsibility. I’ll take responsibility for it."

Lin Qinghe saluted. From the moment Gu Sheng escaped her grasp, she had already thought of the outcome. She would be pushed out as a scapegoat for dereliction of duty. Who could she blame? Her luck had simply been terrible—she had happened to be there at exactly the wrong time.

"Sigh! You…"

Director Zhang sighed and shook his head. If he had a choice, he wouldn’t want to give up this capable subordinate, either. But since one of their Criminal Inspectors had been present and taken action today, there had to be someone responsible for the failure.

He didn’t know Le Erya, and she was probably just a junior inspector who couldn’t shoulder the responsibility. Even if Lin Qinghe, a minor cadre, took the blame, it would only barely be enough to placate them.

"Director, this has nothing to do with He-jie. It was me—"

"Xiao Ya! Don’t say anything!"

Le Erya wanted to explain that she had left on her own initiative, but Lin Qinghe stopped her. How could she not understand what the director meant? She had been mentally prepared for this long ago.

"Director Zhang!"

Just then, several cars arrived. Five people got out and walked toward Director Zhang. The first was a cold-faced middle-aged man with an iron-blooded air about him.

"Director Han, what are the Criminal Security people doing here?"

Director Zhang narrowed his eyes when he saw the man and took a slight step back, clearly wary of Director Han. "Today’s incident wasn’t a terrorist attack. It was a revenge killing and extermination of a family. This case should fall under our Criminal Inspectors’ jurisdiction. Why are you here? Could it be that you know the culprit’s identity and he’s a terrorist?"

"We’re not sure, but I’m afraid this is beyond your ability to handle."

Director Han shook his head. "We received a tip saying that one of the several bandits jumped directly from a height of more than ten meters without using any tools. That’s not something an ordinary person could do.

"You should have received the notice already. From now on, all incidents of this kind, regardless of whether they’re genuine or not, fall under our jurisdiction. Besides, we’re helping you. Otherwise, you’d have to find someone to take the blame!"

Director Han’s words were not at all polite. He immediately exposed Director Zhang’s plan to pin the blame on Lin Qinghe.

"You—you’re really certain this is a supernatural incident?"

Director Zhang was furious. "You’d better think this through. Old Mr. Zheng Jianguo has considerable influence in Hangcheng. His case can’t end without anyone being held responsible. If you can’t solve it quickly, what are you going to answer for?"

"That’s none of your concern."

Director Han smiled and shifted his gaze to Lin Qinghe and Le Erya. "If I’m not mistaken, these two are the Criminal Inspectors who were caught up in today’s incident!

"Would you mind telling us about the bandits? Also, did you notice anything unusual about them, anything beyond ordinary human capabilities?"

"Beyond ordinary human capabilities?"

Le Erya clutched her little head and frowned. Her head was still spinning, and the pain was dull and oppressive. "When the last one escaped, I saw a burst of red light come from his hand. Then that entire wall behind him suddenly collapsed with a boom. It was terrifying."

"What? You’re telling the truth?"

The expressions of Director Han and the others changed. The Director Han, whose rank was even higher than Director Zhang’s, took two steps forward and hurried over to them.