The Current Situation in the Present World
"Director, Director!"
"What's wrong?" The guesthouse Director was watching the news on his computer, was startled by the sound and jumped up. Remembering the guest who checked in yesterday, he hurriedly asked anxiously.
"There's a problem in VIP room number 3!"
"Huh?" Upon hearing "Room Number Three," the Director's face darkened. He thought to himself, "This is exactly what I feared." Ignoring the rule against using martial arts in the guesthouse, he immediately used his lightness skill to dash out. Then, he saw a room in complete disarray...
"Have you found any bodies or bloodstains?" Looking at the ravaged room, almost devoid of any decent furniture, the Director gasped. This special guesthouse was furnished with reinforced materials specifically designed to accommodate the physical condition of the Yan people today. For this place to be destroyed like this...did two martial arts masters have a fight here?
"No, no. According to the lobby's surveillance footage, the guests in room number three left at 7:00 AM this morning, and the corridor's surveillance footage did not capture any sounds of fighting."
The waiter shook his head, but the Director hesitated to make a decision. He knew that there were Magical Item for disguise and impersonation in the world, so he immediately returned to his office and made a call to his superiors. A moment later, after hanging up, the Director, looking bewildered, called several relevant personnel into his office and said dryly to his subordinates, "It's nothing. Remember the confidentiality regulations, and don't ask anything else."
At Shanghai Airport, Feng Xue sat in business class, looking at Chen Xiyao who was dozing off beside her, and said somewhat speechlessly:
"Why isn't it taking off yet? I don't remember planes being this slow!"
"Ha~~" Chen Xiyao let out a long yawn, scratched her head, and said helplessly:
"There's no way around it. Martial arts of external strength training are so widespread now. There are always a few people who have the wild idea of trying to sneak onto the outside of the plane. So every time we take off, we have to have a few people skilled in qi perception scan the entire cabin, inside and out, to make sure no one's up to no good before we start. International flights aren't as troublesome, so just last month we caught more than a dozen people trying to evade fares back home. But the new traffic safety law is only in draft form and hasn't been formally enacted yet, so we can only go through temporary regulations. Anyway, it's super troublesome!"
"Tsk tsk, if I weren't so pressed for time, I'd really like to see how things have changed in China now," Feng Xue exclaimed in amazement. Chen Xiyao, however, shrugged and said nonchalantly.
"Actually, it's not that big of a deal. Once the novelty wears off, it's back to the same old thing, just a bunch of naughty kids causing trouble all the time. In short, there are fewer big problems and more small ones. At the police station where I interned, there were at least several civil mediations every day, mostly about some kid causing trouble. You can't even imagine how outrageous they were!"
"Oh, tell me about it." Feng Xue became interested when she heard Chen Xiyao say that, and asked with an expression that said, "What haven't I seen?"
Upon hearing this, Chen Xiyao also woke up slightly from her drowsy state. After thinking for a moment, she immediately found a rather representative case and said:
"Just the day before yesterday, at the Bao Shui District Police Station, a naughty child tripped a blind man on the road. As a result, the blind man used Thousand Jin Drop, and instead of falling over himself, he broke the child's leg. The parents sued the blind man at the police station, demanding compensation."
"What's so outrageous about this?" Feng Xue grinned. Although it sounded a bit absurd, it was essentially no different from a naughty kid kicking a bicycle and getting injured, or a naughty kid pulling on an electrical cable and getting electrocuted. But Chen Xiyao shook her head and said:
"The parents of the brat said that the blind man had practiced sound localization and bat-like kung fu, so he must have noticed their child and deliberately stepped on the child's leg. They also said that their child had practiced the second level of the Golden Bell Shield technique, and that it was impossible for him to break the leg unless it was intentional..."
"This works?" Feng Xue stared wide-eyed, while Chen Xiyao shrugged and said:
"Why not? The problem isn't just the nature of the crime; it also involves legislative issues. Specifically, how to define the 'negligence' of a blind person who has practiced techniques like sound localization. After all, no one can guarantee that if this precedent is set, there won't be groups of blind martial arts masters who specialize in 'negligent injury.' But if the blind person is held fully responsible, it could easily cause public outcry and potentially embolden unruly children. The higher-ups are currently considering whether to create a special 'Protection Law for Minors in the Martial Arts World' for children who have reached a certain level of martial arts skill, allowing them to be criminally punished..."
"This is really..." Feng Xue shook his head, just thinking about it gave him a headache.
The two chatted casually until the plane finally took off. Chen Xiyao, unable to resist her fatigue any longer, slowly fell asleep.
Feng Xue, who didn't need to sleep, didn't realize he'd been up all night. Looking at the white clouds outside the window, he suddenly heard a rather jarring announcement over the intercom—
"Attention passengers, attention passengers, there is a person with strong winds ahead of us. Air traffic control has been notified. The flight may experience turbulence. Please fasten your seatbelts. We will maintain..."
"Damn it!" Chen Xiyao, who had just fallen asleep, blurted out a curse, then immediately covered her mouth to swallow the rest of the profanity, glancing at Feng Xue somewhat guiltily.
Seeing that Feng Xue didn't seem to react, he slightly adjusted his posture, fastened his seatbelt, and explained:
"They're the 'Windwalkers' from Colombia, you know, the second generation who gained the Flight Ability after taking the Super Serum. They just fly around aimlessly all the time. Luckily, they're not really reckless enough to crash into planes, they're just quite scary."
"Colombia has developed a super serum?" Feng Xue's focus was clearly not on safety issues. Chen Xiyao was taken aback for a moment before remembering that Feng Xue had just returned to the real world, and immediately explained:
"It was developed around March, but that's the market launch time. The actual development time should have been even earlier. According to the information we've received, it seems to involve creating a 'super genius scientist' Weird Tale to develop some kind of Magical Item like 'equipment capable of producing a super serum.' Currently, the serum costs $2,000 per vial, with a success rate of about 5%. It seems that because the successful injections in the original movie were all done by white actors, white people have a higher success rate and better abilities. Black people are more prone to mutations, and Asians basically don't succeed..."
"That's a really petty way to play, but what's the upper limit of their abilities? Compared to martial arts?" Feng Xue asked casually with a smirk. Chen Xiyao recalled the information and then replied:
"The latest report I Think was from mid-April. At that time, the individual strength of Colombia Esper was relatively weak; they couldn't even beat a newborn baby in a one-on-one fight... well, I mean the kind that's been trained from birth. However, when their various abilities are combined, their group combat and beyond-visual-range strikes are extremely powerful. I heard that Bolivar suffered a lot of damage..."