The Correct Way to Unlock Talent

At the dinner table, Liu Kun left after eating a little, leaving behind Chen Xu and the other young people.

Still, no one could really relax with Luo Xiyun around.

Although she was younger than most of those present, her position was the highest, and she was famously difficult to get along with. Since they were not familiar with her, everyone seemed rather restrained.

Chen Xu barely spoke, keeping his head down and eating. He rarely got to visit such upscale restaurants, and there were quite a few dishes he had never tried before. All his attention was on the food.

The meal ended amid a somewhat stifling atmosphere.

Once they left the restaurant, everyone prepared to go their separate ways. Those with cars headed back to the company to retrieve them, while the rest planned to take taxis, the subway, or buses.

"Robbery—"

Suddenly, a woman's scream rang out from across the street. The group that had just dispersed all turned toward the sound.

A man in a black shirt was sprinting along the road opposite them. Behind him, a woman in a dress chased after him while shouting.

Quite a few pedestrians on the street had been drawn over by the woman's cries and stopped to watch the commotion. Yet not a single person stepped up to help. Some had even taken out their phones to film it.

Suddenly, the man in black jumped over the guardrail and dashed across the street.

"Can someone help me..."

The woman in the dress could see that she was about to lose him. Standing before the guardrail, she was so anxious she was nearly in tears.

Watching this from the restaurant entrance, Chen Xu was reminded of an unpleasant memory.

Back when he had just started his freshman year, he had used money earned from a summer job to buy a phone that cost over three thousand yuan. At the time, he treasured it dearly.

Then, the first time he went shopping with several roommates, it was snatched right off him on the street.

He did not dare tell his family, and in the end, he bought a secondhand feature phone to use.

Ever since then, he had deeply hated thieves and robbers like these.

Seeing the man in black about to cross the road, Chen Xu suddenly took the bottled drink from the hand of a female colleague beside him. "Let me borrow this."

"What are you doing?" The female colleague watched him in surprise. "You aren't thinking of throwing that at him, are you?"

Chen Xu ignored her. After taking aim, he suddenly seemed to enter a strange state. The man's movements slowed in his eyes.

He even seemed able to predict the man's next move. The posture the man would assume several seconds later naturally surfaced in his mind.

Now.

He caught the best moment to strike and threw the drink bottle in his hand without hesitation.

At the same time, the man in black had reached the guardrail on this side. He tucked a women's handbag beneath his arm, braced both hands on the rail, stepped onto the horizontal bar with one foot, and climbed up.

As long as he got over this guardrail, there would be a turn ahead. Then he could duck into any alley and get away.

With that thought, he prepared to jump down. The instant he pushed off, something struck the back of his knee, and his foot immediately slipped.

Damn.

He lost his balance completely and toppled headfirst. His hands flailed in the air as he tried to grab onto something, but it was too late.

With a bang, his head slammed heavily into the ground.

The onlookers nearby had not expected such a sudden turn. Seeing his miserable state, their eyelids twitched hard.

The female victim had just crossed the first guardrail. When she saw this from across the street, she was overjoyed. She ran over and retrieved her bag.

"That worked?"

Seeing the robber fall from the guardrail, the female colleague's mouth formed an O as she stared at Chen Xu in astonishment.

Chen Xu raised a finger to his lips, signaling for her to keep it secret.

Thieves and robbers like that might very well have accomplices. It was better to keep a low profile and avoid trouble. Besides, when he threw the drink bottle just now, aside from this female colleague, no one else should have seen it.

The female colleague nodded rapidly to show she understood, though her eyes held a hint of excitement.

After that little incident, everyone dispersed.

After Chen Xu got on the bus, he suddenly wondered what that female colleague's name was.

He had met more than a dozen new colleagues today, yet he had not remembered a single name.

But he immediately tossed the thought aside. He was more interested in that strange state from earlier. He had thrown so many things before, but he had never experienced anything like it.

"Could this be the correct way to unlock the 'Throwing Precision' talent?"

He was thrilled. Only after experiencing that state firsthand did he understand how powerful this talent was. He could predict the other person's movements; once the bottle left his hand, it was as if the other person had deliberately run into it. It was insanely awesome.

"Was it because the target was moving?"

He had a guess.

Before this, he truly had never tried it on a moving target.

He could not help thinking of that card. It depicted a man holding a javelin in a throwing stance. It had already revealed the card's true purpose.

"Could it be that this talent is best suited for becoming a javelin athlete?"

After thinking about it, he felt that was not very reliable. After all, javelin athletes were judged by who could throw farther. This talent, however, emphasized the word precision.

Of course, more importantly, he was not particularly interested in becoming a track-and-field athlete. The training was far too grueling.

As he kept thinking, he suddenly felt an overwhelming wave of exhaustion, as though he had depleted too much energy.

He did not dare fall asleep on the bus. He forced himself to stay awake, and after getting home, he did not even want to shower. He lay down directly and quickly fell asleep.

It was not until the next morning that Chen Xu finally recovered his energy.

"This consumes too much mental energy. I'd better use it less in the future," he thought with lingering fear.

Sure enough, powerful skills could not come without a price. The main issue was that the aftereffects were rather severe.

By the time Chen Xu arrived at the company, all his colleagues were already there. A new department and a new leader meant everyone wanted to make a good impression, so they had all arrived early. Only he had come right on time as usual.

"Chen Xu."

The moment he entered, the female colleague from yesterday waved and greeted him.

"Morning." He responded politely, keenly noticing that several male colleagues nearby were looking at him strangely.

Though he had referred to her with the extremely generic term "female colleague," she was actually quite pretty. In the entire company, only Luo Xiyun surpassed her.

Since yesterday, several male colleagues had been hovering around her.

Clearly, her taking the initiative to greet him had made them view him as a potential rival.

He really wanted to tell them they were overthinking it. Their rival was Director Liu.

At the company, every single female employee who was single had eyes that lit up whenever she saw Director Liu. That included some who were not single.