After dealing with the bodies, the group skipped lunch and headed toward the port.
As soon as noon passed, the sky gradually darkened. Thick clouds gathered overhead, and the air grew damp.
"Looks like we're in for a downpour!" Chen Shouyi said, glancing up at the sky.
"Then we won't have to hold back anymore," Zhu Xueqing said with a smile, flashing a neat row of white teeth.
With people everywhere, they couldn't move at full speed and had to travel only a little faster than an ordinary person.
"That's true!" Chen Shouyi said, sounding a little annoyed.
At this rate, they wouldn't reach the Naval Port until evening.
Fortunately, the downpour began just over ten minutes later. Raindrops the size of beans battered the concrete, kicking up clouds of dust. A curtain of rain obscured everything ahead in a blur of white.
People on the road ran in every direction, scrambling for shelter.
The group immediately picked up the pace.
Once they left the outskirts, they sped up again.
All around them was quiet, save for the patter of rain and the rapid footfalls of the three.
Then Zhu Xueqing noticed that, despite having been out in the rain for so long, Chen Shouyi's clothes weren't wet at all. Even his shoes were spotless and dry.
The moment a raindrop came within a foot of him, it could go no farther, as if some force had stopped it.
As if she'd discovered a whole new world, she exclaimed in surprise, "Huh, Chen Shouyi, do you have a talent ability?"
He certainly did have talent abilities—and more than one, at that. But this wasn't one of them.
"It's just a simple application of will. Don't you have one?"
"Am I supposed to?" Zhu Xueqing asked, looking baffled. "And what is