Seeing him step forward, the security team became uncertain. After exchanging glances, their captain took out his radio. "Please wait a moment. Let me ask Stationmaster Du."
Li Bo turned back and secretly gave Chen Xuan a thumbs-up.
Lin Qing looked somewhat uneasy. "Wouldn't saying that cause trouble? What if they take it seriously and ask you to prove your abilities?"
Ability tests could not determine exactly what abilities a person possessed, and ability users would not voluntarily disclose all their abilities out of privacy and self-interest. This was a universal rule, both in the future and in the past. Even a powerful organization like the Dimensional Limit Organization only required its agents to state what kinds of missions they excelled at on the surface, without probing into the details of their abilities. The reason was to reduce ability users' resistance and keep them from feeling as though they were being forced to hand their weaknesses over to the organization.
Once every detail of an ability was known, its user's weaknesses would be exposed as well.
It was precisely because ability users were so troublesome to employ that the organization had resolved to replace them wholesale with cybernetic body technology.
In Lin Qing's view, if the metro station truly made that demand, it would clearly be disadvantageous to Chen Xuan. No matter how powerful he was, he still needed food, water, and housing. Falling out with the settlement would be cutting off his own path to survival. If Riverside Garden Metro Station discovered he had been lying, it would also damage his personal reputation.
Anyone who lost their credibility would find it impossible to get by in any shelter.
However, Chen Xuan merely smiled dismissively. "Don't worry. They'll believe it."
He did not participate in the negotiations that followed.
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