World-shattering Wisdom

Without spending much time, Li Wei easily eliminated the rune warrior Teresa. From then on, Otherworld Teleportation officially became Li Wei's exclusive superpower.

In Li Wei's view, the cruelty of many third-tier superheroes under Vought significantly surpassed that of top-tier heavyweights like A-Train.

This was because most of these third-tier superheroes understood that they probably had no obvious room for improvement left in this lifetime, so they chose to rot. They generally did not care particularly about external evaluations or anything of the sort.

They indulged themselves further; flour, the Heroes' Gathering, and blood were all reflections of this, and Teresa was one of them.

A-Train and others carried various endorsements, TV shows, and movies on their backs, meaning that any negative news about them could likely cost them a huge sum of money, dragging Vought down to lose money alongside them.

Under such circumstances, even Homelander had to play the part of a fake-smiling boy every day.

In a sense, this could also be understood as the difference between a hypocrite and an unashamed villain; the former at least maintained some shred of face most of the time.

Similarly, those striving to climb upwards like Firecracker also took care not to leave any dark history behind themselves.

Li Wei checked slightly, and Firecracker had actually never killed anyone, which could truly be considered rare among third-tier superheroes.

After settling this matter, Li Wei diverted his route toward Detroit.

He had already ascertained the specific location of the Sage Sisters, and by the way, he had also uncovered something even more interesting.

Her qualifications were unexpectedly old; she had once joined the Teen Superhero Team Kix alongside A-Train, counting as teammates.

Yet clearly, despite proclaiming her intelligence to be number one under heaven, she couldn't even meet the basic training requirements of Kix, and was quickly kicked out with zero regard for saving face.

Ever since then, she had also attempted to make a comeback debut, but ran into walls everywhere, ultimately having to flee to Detroit—a bankrupt city—to become a shut-in.

Moreover, there was virtually no information related to her on the internet; the latest intelligence Li Wei managed to unearth was a photo of her buying groceries from six years ago, uploaded by an old Black woman.

One could only imagine how miserably she was living; she was probably even worse off than Firecracker.

At least before meeting him, Firecracker still had the ability to produce a personal movie and have it screened on the big screen.

Even if Li Wei learned afterward that she actually bluffed her way through with her gift of gab, it was still enough to show that she wasn't completely useless.

It was only by making a comparison with Li Wei that her life appeared rather mediocre.

This left Li Wei holding not many hopes for today's meeting.

However, considering that the temporary apartment Teresa rented wasn't far from Detroit, it was quite on the way.

Besides, if he didn't make personal contact, it would constantly weigh on Li Wei's mind, so he just came over to take a look.

He knocked on the door politely, and after a few breaths, a mute with dreadlocks, looking very much like a fathead fish, and with a pair of dead fish eyes full of "wisdom" appeared in Li Wei's line of sight.

Upon seeing the Sage Sisters grow up to look like this goddamn monstrosity, Li Wei felt a twinge in his balls. It fit his stereotype of a female mute far too well, so he directly replaced "she" with "it" in his mind.

"Oh, I really was startled this time."

Li Wei twitching the corner of his mouth said, "Actually, I feel a bit surprised, too."

Code Name: Sage Sisters

Type: Physique Type

Special Ability 1: Brain Regeneration. When the brain suffers damage, it repairs itself at a certain speed, preventing death from localized brain destruction. Fully copyable, estimated continuous contact required: 9 minutes.

Special Ability 2: "World-shattering Wisdom." Believes oneself to possess world-shattering wisdom and therefore looks down on mortals. After active activation, it can ignore conventional fear-based effects or mind control, etc.

However, if used multiple times and the overall physical constitution cannot bear the load, there is a possibility of falling into a fog of thought, firmly believing that one truly possesses world-shattering wisdom, subsequently unfolding a series of fantasies, etc. Fully copyable, estimated continuous contact required: 5 minutes.

Special Ability 3: Rapid Reading. Fully copyable, estimated continuous contact required: 20 seconds.

Special Ability 4: Super Memory. Fully copyable, estimated continuous contact required: 1 minute.

Special Ability 5: Random Enhancement - IQ. Can enhance IQ up to 130 at most. Fully copyable, estimated continuous contact required: 1 second.

Upon seeing the second and fifth abilities, Li Wei also completely understood why the Sage Sisters turned out in this state.

Even if it had great luck and enhanced its IQ to 130, it could at most be considered a genius among ordinary people, not some peerless prodigy.

Intelligence, IQ, and wisdom seemed quite similar, but in reality, the things they represented varied drastically.

IQ was the only one among them that could be quantified, and the mere 1-second copying time already explained its gold content from the side.

However, when coupled with "World-shattering Wisdom," it easily caused the Sage Sisters to misjudge the upper limit of its own abilities.

Its body, which had hardly received any enhancement, obviously could not sustain the price of using World-shattering Wisdom.

Still, the Sage Sisters' other abilities were considered somewhat useful. The latter few didn't need much elaboration; they weren't of great significance to Li Wei, and Kimiko's Super Healing surpassed them anyway.

Regardless, having the last two abilities, coupled with a house full of books, the Sage Sisters should possess a rather astonishing reserve of knowledge. Perhaps he could try having it analyze Compound V.

Well, really just a try. Even Vought hadn't invited it, most likely because they had long since seen through what kind of goods it truly was.

"Please come in, Angel."

"Hello, Sage Sisters, please forgive my uninvited visit."

If necessary, regardless of what he was thinking inside, even when facing a mute, Li Wei could maintain basic politeness.

"Sage is fine, 'Sisters' was added by Vought."

Li Wei was somewhat speechless. In other words, "Sage" was indeed a moniker you gave yourself?

He really hadn't heard of many truly smart people who constantly flaunted themselves as sages!

Li Wei looked around: "I thought the 'smartest' woman in the world would live in a better environment."

Detroit had been bankrupt for many years, and houses here were almost the same price as cabbages, yet the crappy place the other party lived in didn't even look fifty square meters in total.

"Because she is too smart, she simply doesn't care about these external things."

As soon as those words left its mouth, Li Wei could almost be certain that the other party definitely used World-shattering Wisdom too much.

Such an inflated self-confidence almost gave him the impulse to finish off the other party.

He couldn't be bothered to exchange pleasantries with it either, going straight to the point: "Sage, no, Jessica, do you know about Compound V?"

Jessica Bradley was precisely the other party's real name. This was quite easy to check; Vought had records of it.

"I know. Vought once invited me to join their research team back then, but I didn't want my research achievements to be wantonly abused by them, so I refused."

Watching the Sage Sisters' expression of "I am the greatest, hurry up and praise me," Li Wei's fists grew harder and harder.

"So, if I want to invite you to help me crack Compound V and pay a generous reward for it, are you willing to accept?"

"Since you've put it so plainly, I suppose I don't have the right to refuse, but I don't think you can rely on it to fight against Vought."

Although half-mad, the Sage let out some basic things quite clearly.

Li Wei chuckled, casually picking up a sharp steel cone over a foot long from the table.

The slight residue of blood, bodily fluids, and nerves on it made him realize what the other party had used it for.

Since the brain could regenerate, occasionally driving a few into its own head didn't seem like something beyond comprehension anymore.

Moreover, judging by the color and smell of those substances remaining on the steel cone, it was far from the first time the other party had done this.

"Don't say that. Although today is our first meeting, I still very much hope to make friends with a 'smart person' like you."

"Friends?"

The Sage Sisters pondered slightly: "If this can make you feel more at ease, we can be friends."

"Very well, then let's talk."

Before the words faded, with the speed of catching thunder by covering ears, Li Wei used the steel cone in his hand to decisively and cleanly chisel into its brain from the upper orbit of the eye—the standard motion of a lobotomy!

Without having time to make any reaction at all, in a split second, all movements of the Sage Sisters stopped, and an innocent, pure smile like an infant's, welling from the depths of its heart, appeared on its face.

Li Wei let out a long breath of relief: "It's finally comfortable."

"Sit down." "Give me your paw." "Roll over."

After issuing several commands in succession, and seeing the other party execute them one by one with the highest efficiency, Li Wei couldn't help nodding in considerable satisfaction.

"Very well. Come, now, hold my hand."

Since he had already come, even if he couldn't acquire a researcher, he would first get his hands on its few abilities, and then he would make the Sage Sisters completely vanish from this world.

After that, he would find an opportunity to meet those two candidates!