"Quite interesting... Hahahaha." Sun Hang suddenly laughed.
Yuri, still looking upward, inexplicably felt a chill run down his spine... For some reason, for one brief moment, he felt that this young man's laughter was even stranger than what was happening before them.
Meanwhile, in the independent experimental zone of the Ability User Management Department at Tianshu Tower, on the outskirts of Chunming City.
Rather than an experimental zone, this place resembled a medium-sized military camp. Apart from the buildings constructed along the outer walls, the open space in the center of the camp was divided into two sections—the western side was a helipad holding more than a dozen helicopters and VTOL aircraft, while the eastern side was a standard-sized parade ground, where a group of people dressed in Xiazhou Federation Army training uniforms were running along the track.
But upon closer inspection, it became apparent that none of them wore any insignia identifying their unit or rank. Moreover, among this dozen or so people were individuals of all ages, genders, heights, and builds, with glaring differences in physical fitness—the slowest runners were moving at barely more than a walking pace, and were about to be lapped by the fastest ones.
"They're Ability Users?" Ling Xiao asked as he looked out the car window.
"You've got sharp eyes, kid." Sun Qiong, who was driving, said, "That's right. They're all Ability Users affiliated with our department, and they happen to be doing physical training right now... But don't misunderstand—we don't force Ability Users to do anything. They train here only because they signed different contracts."
"Contracts?"
"Our contracts with Ability Users generally come in two types. One is full-time employment with Tianshu Tower, where they accept militarized management and training and must obey Tianshu Tower's orders... Correspondingly, full-time employment contracts