Chapter 38: The Storm is Coming

He turned his head and looked out the window.

The sky had darkened, and the night was growing thick.

The lights were on in the room because Cheng Yehai hadn’t returned yet.

According to him, he went to gather information about this training.

Su Li lay on the bed, staring at the white ceiling, thinking about recent events.

He had seen a live demon beast again.

Although its size was not as huge as the ones that destroyed the village, when he saw those sharp appendages waving in front of him—

Su Li still felt fear.

Looking at its mouth like a meat grinder, and its limbs reflecting light like steel, it was simply like a killing machine.

They had to fight monsters like this.

Without supernatural abilities, ordinary people would not even have a chance to escape when facing such monsters.

Although scared, although terrified, their future was to fight these demon beasts, and there was no avoiding it.

So Su Li did not hesitate and swung that sword.

The moment the blade pierced the demon beast’s body, he could feel the resistance of the hard shell being broken, the vibration transmitted through the blade, and the sudden emptiness of force after the blade was completely embedded.

Then thick, stinking blood gushed out.

It was extremely disgusting.

But he had to get used to it.

Su Li did not have any grand ambitions, nor did he have the belief to protect others.

He just wanted to live well, and let those he cared about live well too.

That was all.

In fact, the people he cared about seemed to no longer need his protection.

Thinking of this, Su Li shook his head, trying to shake the image of that gray-haired figure out of his mind.

Let’s not think about others for now.

Just from the perspective of keeping himself alive, he also had to learn to fight and first master the power to protect himself.

The first day passed like that.

On the second day, there was no step of killing demon beasts, but they continued to teach some common knowledge about demon beasts, introducing their habitats, attack forms, weaknesses, and so on.

Su Li committed all this knowledge to memory.

Even if it was not useful for now, in the future these trivial details might save his life.

In the world of superpowered individuals, not all demon beasts could be easily subjugated.

Corresponding to the rank classification of superpowered individuals, humans also had a similar classification for demon beasts.

Of course, demon beasts did not have such clear and definite rank distinctions as human superpowered individuals, so people divided demon beasts into six levels according to their destructive power.

They were Minor Hazard, Hazard, Danger, Disaster, Calamity, and Cataclysm.

Minor Hazard level was the weaker demon beasts seen yesterday.

The first goal for a newly awakened superpowered individual was to learn to face these lowest-level demon beasts.

Hazard and Danger levels corresponded to second-rank and third-rank superpowered individuals.

Thinking back, that demon beast that destroyed the entire village was roughly between Hazard and Danger.

Because if it were any higher, they probably wouldn’t even have had a chance to escape.

Disaster level corresponded to fourth-rank superpowered individuals, a headache for the separated cities.

Although this type of demon beast was not as powerful as Calamity level, their advantage was their large numbers.

It was precisely because of the existence of this type of demon beast that transportation between cities was so difficult.

Calamity level demon beasts corresponded to fifth-rank superpowered individuals.

The power of such a demon beast was enough to destroy a city.

So every time such a demon beast appeared, fifth-rank superpowered individuals would unite to hunt Calamity level demon beasts in the wild, to prevent this level of demon beast from endangering the city’s operations.

The final Cataclysm level demon beast was a concept created, corresponding to the non-existent sixth-rank superpowered individual.

The threat of this kind of demon beast was not measured by destroying cities or other things, but defined by the survival of the entire human civilization.

Thinking of this, Su Li felt how insignificant he was.

But then he thought he was a little ridiculous.

He hadn’t even figured out his own supernatural ability yet, but he was thinking about these intangible things.

Wasn’t that overreaching?

Besides, even if that kind of thing really appeared in the future, what could he do in the face of a crisis of human extinction?

He would still run away.

No matter what, he couldn’t let a weakling like him be on the front lines.

And even now, in the Academy’s base, Su Li still didn’t feel much sense of security.

After today’s teaching was completed, the higher-ups urgently issued a notice that someone had broken into the base’s unloading area.

After professional inspection, it was found that some of the ingredients had been laced with slow-acting poison.

Then that batch of ingredients had been disposed of.

For this reason, the dinner time was also delayed quite a bit.

So Su Li was still a bit worried about the coming tomorrow.

Even if he was fully prepared, he didn’t feel reassured.

He had no power; he could only choose to wait.

***

Training Base, underground.

Footsteps echoed in the deep corridor.

The white light coldly spread across the cement floor, turning everything pale.

The corridor was long, with heavy iron doors every few meters on both sides.

There were no markings on the doors, only observation windows embedded in the iron plates like dark holes.

Lin Qingye walked to the deepest part of the corridor and stopped in front of the iron door at the end.

She took out a key and opened the door.

Inside was a small interrogation room with gray-white walls, a metal table, and two chairs.

Opposite the table sat a man with his hands cuffed behind the back of the chair.

“Dark Crow’s [Shadow] Chariot, aren’t you ready to talk?”

Lin Qingye’s voice was cold, carrying waves of chill.

The middle-aged man sneered.

“I’ve already said what I needed to say. No matter how much you ask, how can I tell you about something that never happened?”

Shadow’s face showed helplessness, and he even gave a slight smile, as if he really had nothing more to say.

Lin Qingye’s face remained frosty.

“I don’t believe that the Dark Crow Organization would send a third-rank [Shadow] to infiltrate the base, only to poison the food.”

Lin Qingye frowned deeply.

She didn’t believe Dark Crow would send a third-rank backbone for this.

Because even if the students were poisoned, the base’s physician Mei Lulu’s ability was enough to quickly treat those poisoned students.

This was completely a thankless task.

The middle-aged man sneered and twitched the corner of his mouth.

“Why can’t you believe it?”

He said sarcastically.

“After all, for this actual training, your Acting Academy Director has abandoned guarding the Academy and specifically came to the base to take charge. It’s quite normal for our Dark Crow to casually send a Chariot to cause trouble, isn’t it?”

Lin Qingye’s frown deepened.

If it weren’t for the Acting Academy Director Jue Ming personally guarding the base, they would have let this man escape.

The supernatural ability [Shadow] allowed the user to turn into two-dimensional shadows.

At that time, most abilities were ineffective against it, and it could silently escape from anywhere.

But the Acting Academy Director’s ability [Temperance] could forcibly suspend the use of abilities, pulling the man out of the shadow.

That was how Lin Qingye caught him.

“Since you won’t talk, then I don’t need to be so gentle with you anymore.”

Lin Qingye rubbed her palms together, producing a series of crisp sounds.