"Oh dear, the number of customers has decreased recently!"
Li Chuchu took a small stool and sat at the entrance of the milk tea shop.
Looking at the empty street, she said somewhat forlornly.
"Boss, didn't you say you were busy and too tired a while ago, wanting to take a break?" Lin Hao asked.
"Well, but it shouldn't be this quiet, right? Employee wages, utilities, rent, online promotion fees... everything costs money."
Saying this, Li Chuchu felt like she was complaining, then continued:
"Lin Hao, don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming you, I'm just blaming...
Blaming...
Blaming those people who abandon dogs, yes, it's all their fault!
If it weren't for them carelessly leaving puppies, puppies wouldn't attack people!"
This week, stray dog attacks have happened all over the Ke Chen City!
Online, pictures of people bitten by dogs are everywhere.
Bloody, looking quite tragic, inducing phantom pain in people!
This situation has scared everyone from going out, and online, topics about dogs have started to rise!
#Why not focus on cleaning up the city's stray dogs#
#Having dogs is wrong#
#Ke Chen City shouldn't have dogs#
#A dog restriction should be issued#
#...#
Compared to the boiling public opinion, Lin Hao knows more.
After all, although he hasn't joined the City Management Team, he lives within it!
Recently, some Extraordinary have used their power to induce "Extraordinary Transformation" in dogs, causing them to lose reason and gain strong aggression!
The Extraordinary inside the team work outside 24 hours a day.
More power means larger responsibilities.
The whole city is in a state of external relaxation but internal tension.
Also, according to investigations, there are many similar abilities in the Extraordinary Realm.
For example, within the Extraordinary Universal School, there is an official with a similar ability—
[Instant Extraordinary]
This ability can stimulate a creature's life potential, triggering an Extraordinary Transformation. The manifestation of the Extraordinary Transformation varies, but regardless of the form, the creature gains strong aggression! However, when the life potential is exhausted, the transformed creature will immediately die!
But this incident somewhat differs from that ability.
After all, the direction of the dogs' transformation is uniform—
Bloodthirsty!
Strength enhancement!
And the intelligence doesn't match. According to the intelligence, the Extraordinary in question cannot control the direction of a creature's transformation with [Instant Extraordinary].
Moreover, until now, besides causing stray dogs to transform, the person hasn't taken further drastic actions.
What exactly is this person trying to do?
...
City Central Hospital.
A ward designated for those who got a head injury.
Zhen Haoren lay on the hospital bed, looked at the basket full of apples beside him, and then at the young girl in work clothes, seriously peeling an apple for him, frowning and whispering:
"What do you want to do?"
"Nothing, I just like dogs. You know, I wanted to keep a dog when I was a kid, but the Gluttonous Legislator didn't allow it, which was a childhood regret for me."
"Does frequently using your abilities cause a heavy burden on your body?"
"Are you worried about me, or worried that if I use my powers too much, the City Management Team here will come for me and expose you?
Oh dear, how can I say such discouraging things?
I'm just assuming you're concerned about me, since we've grown up together, we're childhood friends.
Relax, my compatibility with the Contained Object is higher, my abilities are about to reach Third Bloom, the burden isn't heavy, and I've already been able to control the direction of the creatures' transformation. Temporarily, they can't trace it to me."
"Then honestly, what do you want to do?"
"Oh dear, you're so annoying! The question circles back again, fine, I don't mind telling you.
I want to find White Impermanence.
That's my mission for coming here, but the city is too big, there are too many people working overtime.
I just thought, if the number of people working overtime decreased, wouldn't the chances of finding him be higher?"
After the girl said that, a quick thought flashed through Zhen Haoren's mind—
Right, that's a good approach.
With fewer people working overtime, the locations where White Impermanence might appear would decrease, making it easier to encounter him.
After hearing the girl's idea, Zhen Haoren contemplated and said:
"If you think like this, then you shouldn't let the whole city fall into chaos, but need to keep a place free from rampaging dogs!
This way, in that place, there will still be people densely working overtime, making the search quicker!"
"Oh dear, you're so smart!"
The young girl carefully peeled the apple skin completely and placed it in the tray.
Then...
Handed the tray with the apple peel to the patient Zhen Haoren.
As for the peeled apple, of course, she ate it herself!
It's the apple she managed to peel with difficulty!
Even though Zhen Haoren grew up with her, however...
He's not the only guy she grew up with.
The girl wiped the fruit knife and then, holding the peeled apple, left while munching...
Sitting on the hospital bed, Zhen Haoren looked at the plate with apple peel, remained silent for a while, then threw the peel out the window with the plate.
The apple peel: I'm free~
The plate: I'm free too~
As for whether this might hit someone?
Zhen Haoren couldn't care less.
Who would care about ordinary people anyway?
He wants to rise above!
Right now, he wants to find his former self through his actions!
Bang!
The sound of a plate breaking came from downstairs.
"Who, who is so lacking in morals!
Who is so uncivilized!
Randomly throwing garbage affects civic culture, don't you know!
High-altitude littering is illegal, don't you know!"
Upon hearing someone cursing him, it must be an ordinary person.
Only ordinary ants would bark like this!
Zhen Haoren threw another apple down...
Then, regardless of the result, directly closed the window.
He has more important things to think about now...
"Her abilities shouldn't be just about to reach Third Bloom, she's deceiving me...
Why is she deceiving me?"
Zhen Haoren contemplated... contemplated...
Suddenly remembered a little girl who handed him candy a week ago, that little girl's appearance...
Thinking about it now...
That little girl with bandages on her head looked exactly like her childhood self.
"Indeed, she's deceiving me.
Have her abilities already reached Third Bloom?
Besides being able to direct creatures' transformations, can she also control her physiological age?
Or is it a kind of power that uses transformation on oneself, and such transformation can be selective like rejuvenation?
No, no, in that case, wouldn't she have many abilities?
Such abilities wouldn't appear in an Extraordinary reaching Third Bloom, then what exactly is it..."
As Zhen Haoren was deep in thought...
Bam!
The door was forcefully pushed open!
A towering guy...
With an apple on his head, walked in from outside.
"Who! Who just threw the plate and apple randomly?
I'm the squad leader of Ke Chen City City Management Team, Tiezhu!
Come with me..."
Tiezhu spoke while scanning the ward...
If Lin Hao were here, he would recognize Tiezhu at a glance!
Isn't this the Extraordinary who stopped Lin Hao the first time when Yadan led him trying to enter the City Management Building, saying Lin Hao was "an idle person"?
Soon, he found that at the bed by the window, there was a big basket of apples, and the person in the bed...
Tiezhu had seen him before!
At this moment, Tiezhu hadn't finished speaking and exclaimed in surprise:
"Huh? [Corpse Interpreter] How come you're here?"
Next, Tiezhu frowned:
"You're not [Corpse Interpreter], why do you look exactly like [Corpse Interpreter]?"
Zhen Haoren sat up in the bed, sighed, and mumbled:
"This period has really been unlucky!
Nothing has gone smoothly!
Is Ke Chen City jinxing me?
Casually throw some trash, and it hits an Extraordinary?
My luck is really bad!"
Then Zhen Haoren looked at Tiezhu and said:
"Hello brother, the [Corpse Interpreter] you mentioned is my brother."
"Haven't heard him mention you..."
"Of course, why would he mention having a brother in the Extraordinary Universal School?"
Tiezhu: ???