Chapter 27

[4L: I agree with both hands and feet! Maybe our Brother Qi even has a third, fourth... nth Esper Ability! And can we talk about how Brother Qi pulls up his cloak's hood so only the lower half of his face shows? Who else gets that tantalizing, restrained, mysterious, cold and ruthless vibe? It's so good!]

[5L: You BKing fans are seriously unhinged. How could that be possible? What, is Qi Yue a god?]

[6L: Why couldn't it be? 5L, did you forget? Our Brother Qi once told Beixing, "Your Esper Ability is related to gods," and our Brother Qi also admitted his ability was similar to Beixing's. Round it off and Brother Qi = a god. Is there anything wrong with that equation? Absolutely not!]

[7L: 6L, you're a genius! That's a revelation! I always said there were plenty of talented people online!]

[8L: If you ask me, is nobody going to diss the people who invested in the YR Research Institute for being so awful? Everywhere you look, there's devastation. It breaks my heart.]

[9L: Everything was for the progress of the New Humans world. You can't keep dwelling on the failures, can you? The YR Research Institute also provided lots of useful inventions.]

[10L: Exactly. Don't forget, Lu Zhaobei, the manga protagonist of the first season of Chronicles of the Young Hunters, was created through their research. Without the YR Research Institute's research, Lu Zhaobei would be an ordinary human now. They didn't force anyone, either. Everyone signed up voluntarily. They were the ones greedy to become New Humans Esper Ability Users, and they were even paid. You can't have it both ways, can you? (eye roll)]

[11L: You're talking about voluntary consent when it comes to a group of Old Humans who were already in an inferior position? And when their education and knowledge limited their understanding, were the choices they made really voluntary?]

[12L: Hey, hey, hey, we're getting off topic! Take your argument somewhere else, not here!]

[13L: Ron Flint says: What? He actually has "Precognition"?! I'm completely shattered.]

[14L: Esper Detection Crystal Ball: ?! What? Shattered? Now that's a subject I can get excited about. Finally, I'm not the only ball getting hurt!]

[15L: Ahhh, Qi Yue, who has the "Precognition" Esper Ability, has caught the First Hunter Academy's attention. I'm so worried, sob.]

[16L: 15L, are you acting? Shouldn't the First Hunter Academy be the one you're worried about? They even dare mess with our king of BKings. Do they have a death wish?]

[29L: That cheap cloak looks as high-end as an expensive custom-made one on Big Shot Qi. If you ask me, my Big Shot Qi is just plain handsome and cool (glasses emoji). He's so cool that even the wind favors him when he walks. Even the curve of his cloak's edge as it blows up in the wind gives off a cold, imposing, badass vibe.]

[30L: Anyway, I bet fifty cents that Qi Yue definitely came for Number 8792! (Trying to be a prophet (just kidding))]

[31L: Agreed. Qi Yue said it himself—"There's something I have to do."]

[32L: In the final scene of this chapter, Big Shot Qi strolls toward the cave with the device that teleported the two Old Human assassins to Katebis Island. I'm betting Big Shot Qi is specifically going to destroy the Teleportation Device the Flint Family left on the island! The Precognition Esper Ability is confirmed!]

[33L: Ahhh, when does the next chapter come out? I, the king of impatience, have completely lost it. I can't wait to see the answer!]

Manga World.

When Qi Yue arrived at the cave and saw the Teleportation Device before him, half of it deliberately concealed with stones, he fell into a deafening silence. He had seen it before in a book at the library.

Chapter 27

Why would there be a Teleportation Device in a godforsaken place like this? Qi Yue swept his gaze around the cave. In other words, even an abandoned ruin like this had a Teleportation Device, but the Seventh Hunter Academy didn't.

Qi Yue: "..."

At that moment, the Seventh Esper Hunter Academy's poverty was on full display.

Of course, that wasn't the point. The point was... Qi Yue looked at the fresh marks left around the area by the opening of a light gate and at the receiver of the Teleportation Device, which had clearly been half-concealed on purpose. Judging by the traces at the scene, it seemed to have been used not long ago.

But the Seventh Hunter Academy's students had only just arrived on Katebis Island by cruise ship, and the academy was too poor to have used a Teleportation Device.

At that moment, there were other people on the island besides the Seventh Hunter Academy's students.

That fact made Qi Yue's brows furrow even more deeply beneath his cloak.

When Teacher Jian's ID Card had gone missing, it had made him uneasy, prompting him to take a series of measures to "protect" Beixing, just in case.

He hadn't expected they might actually come in handy now.

Under these circumstances, surely... nobody would suddenly take it into their head to slap a "Precognition" persona on him too, right?

The thought made Qi Yue's scalp tingle. Maintaining one persona was already "hard" enough. If he had to take on another as someone with "Precognition," he couldn't begin to imagine how mentally and physically exhausted he'd be in the future.

For the sake of his mental and physical health, Qi Yue silently prayed that no one would suspect he had the Esper Ability of "Precognition."

He really... didn't want to keep competing anymore!

Atop the Tower.

To make killing easier at night, Beixing blocked the door after entering the room. He went back and forth between the two windows, observing the surroundings through his telescope.

By chance, Beixing saw Qi Yue enter a cave by the sea through the telescope. When Qi Yue showed no sign of coming out for a long time, Beixing spoke to himself in confusion.

"Why has Qi Yue been in there so long without coming out? Is there something hidden inside?"

Beixing was dying of curiosity, but Qi Yue had told him not to leave the Tower, so he put aside the idea of going to the cave to find him. All he could do was watch eagerly through the telescope.

Inside the cave.

Facing the Teleportation Receiver, Qi Yue had only one thought—

No matter what, he couldn't leave the receiver on this end of the Teleportation Device intact.

Assassins had been teleported here, yet no one had come by despite him staying here so long. That meant the assassins who had arrived through this Teleportation Device weren't nearby at the moment.

If he didn't destroy it now, when would he?

Even so, Qi Yue had no intention of using an overly violent method to damage the Teleportation Device's receiver. He wanted to avoid causing a commotion that might draw the assassins or Esper Ability Students over. Neither outcome was what he wanted.

He couldn't use an explosive device, which left only a liquid solution.

The real world had highly corrosive sulfuric acid, and this world had similar substances. What was more, because some Aberrants had excessively tough hides, Teacher Yan Feichen, who was responsible for dissecting and documenting Aberrants, had made a solution for use on them that was even more corrosive.

Having learned how the Teleportation Device worked at the library, Qi Yue naturally also knew which part to damage to render it useless.

In fact, when Qi Yue had first seen the manual about the Teleportation Device, he had assumed it was an ordinary item. After all, the manual didn't even have a cover. It had been casually tossed among a pile of beautifully covered books, making it completely inconspicuous.

It wasn't until he heard Beixing say on the plane that the Seventh Hunter Academy was too poor to afford a Teleportation Device that Qi Yue realized how valuable the manual was.

At the same time, however, a question arose in his mind. Why had someone drawn the Teleportation Device in the library of the Seventh Hunter Academy, which didn't even have one? And why had the manual been left lying around, as though no one considered it important?

After all, with a manual detailing the principles and process of its construction, it should have been possible to make a Teleportation Device.

Clearly, he couldn't get an answer now, so Qi Yue could only set his question aside for the time being and focus on the matter at hand.

To prevent his actions while he was alone from being drawn at this moment, Qi Yue triggered the Panel without hesitation. "Panel, how many hours until nightfall?"

[There are 10 hours until nightfall.]

A "Confirm" button appeared beneath the triggered Panel.

Qi Yue had no intention of clicking "Confirm."

Ignoring the transparent Panel before him, which glowed with a faint green light, Qi Yue confidently took a container of solution from beneath his cloak. It was the size of his little finger and made of a special material. He then removed the stones covering half the device, found the Teleportation Device Receiver's weak points, and dripped the solution into its precision gaps, which were nearly invisible to the naked eye...

If he hadn't remembered the analysis of the Teleportation Device Receiver's weak points in the book, Qi Yue would have had a hard time finding the right spots with the naked eye alone.

Even so, it took Qi Yue some time to finish damaging every point he could. By the time he put the vial away, a full half hour had passed since he had awakened the Panel.

It seemed he was lucky today. He had dawdled here for half an hour, and the assassins still showed no sign of returning. That also indirectly proved that the assassins teleported here still hadn't found Beixing.

He thought of how, wherever one looked in Area F, almost everyone was now wearing a "Beixing cloak," making it difficult for the assassins to find Beixing. Meanwhile, the real Beixing was hidden atop the Tower, where he could attack or defend as needed.

As for the other Class F students, Qi Yue wasn't worried about their situation. First, the assassins targeting Beixing absolutely couldn't be Esper Ability Users; they could only be ordinary humans. And ordinary humans without Esper Abilities were at a natural disadvantage before Esper Ability Users. Therefore, they absolutely couldn't provoke any Esper Ability Students other than Beixing.

Wait... By that reckoning, he, who had no Esper Ability at all, was actually the person in the most dangerous position in all of Class F.

Qi Yue: "..."

He'd better leave this dangerous place quickly.

Without the Diamond Crystal Trigger Device, Qi Yue couldn't verify whether the Teleportation Receiver could still be activated normally. But he had done everything he could. As for the rest, he would leave it to fate.

Qi Yue decided to give the assassins a surprise and put the stones he had removed back the way they had been when he first arrived at the cave.

Once he had finished restoring everything and was about to leave the cave, Qi Yue belatedly noticed that the Panel before him was still there because he hadn't "confirmed" it.

"...Ah, I almost forgot. I'm really sorry."

Despite his words, there wasn't the slightest hint of apology in Qi Yue's voice. He raised his hand and clicked the "Confirm" button, and only then did the Panel gradually disappear.