Eraser Hero

"Am I the one with superpowers?"

Yang Zhen'er, holding her phone, was momentarily stunned.

On the other end of the phone, Xiang Kun continued, "Let me ask you, where did that eraser that seems to levitate and freeze come from?"

"I saw it at Ms. Zhang's company yesterday, and I got it from their administration department," Yang Zhen'er answered instinctively.

"Why did you choose that eraser?" Xiang Kun asked again.

"Because... it looks round, and it's fun."

Did you play with it for a long time yesterday?

"It's alright, I guess it'll take about an hour or two?"

"Now feel that eraser, but don't reach for it, just feel it! Where is it? Tell me quickly, one, two, three, say it!" Xiang Kun said, speeding up his speech and using an extremely authoritative tone.

"It's... in the right pocket of my coat... Huh? I can really feel it?" Yang Zhen'er said, reaching into her coat pocket with some surprise and touching the eraser. She wasn't surprised that the eraser was there, but rather by the feeling she had just experienced.

When Xiang Kun pressed her for answers, she didn't try to recall where she had put her eraser. Instead, she was urged by Xiang Kun's words to "feel" it. Then, she was surprised to find that there seemed to be a vague but real connection between her and the eraser, as if the eraser was a small pebble in her shoe that she could feel directly through her foot—of course, in reality, the eraser was in her coat, so theoretically, she couldn't feel it with her body.

"So... I have a connection with this eraser?" Yang Zhen'er asked hesitantly, holding the eraser in one hand and her phone in the other.

Xiang Kun said, "Third brother, congratulations! You're now a superhuman, Eraser Hero!"

Yang Zhen'er was both amused and exasperated. "Eraser Hero, my foot! You might as well be called Mantis Shrimp!"

"So... you mean, the eraser hovering over Little Bell's forehead last night was my 'superpower'?" As Yang Zhen'er said this, she suddenly felt strange. Why did she talk about "superpowers" so naturally, as if it were a matter of course? This was really not right.

"It's not just about erasers, Third Brother. You need to explore the things around you, observe the details you haven't noticed before, and perceive them with your heart, but don't forget your original intentions." Xiang Kun spoke in a tone of a spiritual mentor, saying seemingly plausible but ultimately meaningless things.

"Hey, wait a minute, what's going on? Why are you so sure I'm connected to erasers? Wait, this doesn't feel right. This feeling is kind of like the connection with Coin... Chef Xiang, is this your doing? Is it because Little Bell, Nana, Lao Xia, and Little Apple are so good at playing with Coin that it's all related to you? Is it all this kind of connection?" Yang Zhen'er kept asking.

Xiang Kun said, "Third brother, didn't you already know?"

"Huh? What do I know?" Yang Zhen'er was a little confused.

"You already know about the secret organization, don't you? I don't care, you just have to keep it a secret and not leak it!" Xiang Kun said in a matter-of-fact tone.

"No, what do you mean by a secret organization? Are there really secret organizations?"

"Keep your voice down and keep this a secret," Xiang Kun said sternly.

"Oh," Yang Zhen'er replied subconsciously.

Then Xiang Kun gave him a couple more instructions and hung up.

Looking at her phone, Yang Zhen'er frowned and thought for a moment, feeling that something was wrong. Chef Xiang just fooling her, or was he really explaining something to her seriously?

Just as she was getting into the middle of her train of thought, Liu Shiling, who was sitting opposite her, suddenly spoke up, "Old Fairy Sister, the food is here. Let's finish eating first before we think about it, otherwise the food will get cold and won't taste good."

"Huh?" Yang Zhen'er then noticed that the dishes had been served. "Ah, oh right, let's eat first!"

Halfway through her meal, she remembered something and told the Little Chubby Girl to continue eating while she moved to a corner of the booth against the wall and dialed Xiang Kun's number.

"Chef Xiang, I almost forgot to mention, I discovered last night that Nana was talking to thin air! I'm a little worried, do you know what's going on?" Yang Zhen'er asked. Actually, what she wanted to say last was, "Was it you who did this?"

Xiang Kun said, "Don't worry, Nana will be fine. If you don't trust Nana, don't you trust me? That's all for now, go eat, take good care of Little Bell, don't let her eat too much fried food, bye, remember, keep it a secret."

Yang Zhen'er glanced at her phone and said angrily, "What do you mean, 'If I can't trust Nana, I can't trust you either'? I don't believe you!"

I made two phone calls, Chef Xiang seemed to say a lot and give a lot of answers, but upon closer reflection, it seemed that none of my questions were resolved.

But for some reason, Yang Zhen'er found that her previously uneasy heart suddenly calmed down.

It's strange. She clearly felt that Xiang Kun was just talking nonsense and trying to fool her, but after those two phone calls, she suddenly felt much more at ease. Could she have Stockholm Syndrome?

Yang Zhen'er ate her food absentmindedly, pondering Xiang Kun's words, and couldn't help but let her imagination run wild:

Perhaps what Xiang Kun said was true, and her previous guess about a secret organization turned out to be correct by accident!

Xiang Kun is responsible for training and recruiting members with superpowers, and she and Nana are both candidates being evaluated!

"Eraser Hero"... it doesn't sound so bad, does it?

Wait a minute, didn't Xiang Kun and Nana meet through a blind date? They were introduced by Brother Bin and Sister Han, so are they also peripheral staff of the organization?

What about Lao Xia? Xiang Kun only met Lao Xia when she invited him to play cards. Or perhaps Lao Xia isn't part of a "secret organization"? Does she not have superpowers?

Yang Zhen'er became increasingly confused as she thought about it, finding her thoughts a bit jumbled up. Frustrated, she bit her chopsticks, then picked up the round eraser from her pocket, placed it in her palm, and stared at it, wondering if she could "control objects remotely," even moving it by just a millimeter.

Although she could clearly feel the subtle connection between herself and the eraser, as if there was an invisible thread connecting them, no matter how hard she tried in her mind, the eraser remained completely still—it seemed that the invisible thread was too thin, and her strength could not be transmitted through it.

Yang Zhen'er suddenly looked up at the Little Chubby Girl opposite her. "Little Bell, are you laughing at me!"

"No, I'm eating vegetables!" the Little Chubby Girl said, immediately burying her head in her food and eating heartily until her cheeks bulged out.

"Are you thinking that Old Fairy Sister is too naive?" Yang Zhen'er asked, squinting her eyes.

Liu Shiling shook her head repeatedly.

"So you're thinking that the old fairy sister is too weak?" Yang Zhen'er asked again.

Liu Shiling quickly shook her head again.

"Is Little Bell an honest child?"

Liu Shiling subconsciously shook her head, but after shaking it twice, she realized something was wrong. She then tried to nod, but after nodding twice, she felt a little embarrassed. So she didn't know whether to nod or shake her head, and could only stare at Yang Zhen'er with wide eyes while chewing her food, not knowing what to do.

Afraid that the Little Chubby Girl would start crying again, Yang Zhen'er chuckled and said, "Old Fairy Sister is just teasing you. Our Little Bell is of course the most well-behaved and adorable child in the world. Eat slowly, chew slowly, don't choke. Here, Sister will make you a bowl of mushroom soup~"

After taking her Little Chubby Girl home for a nap at noon, Yang Zhen'er started studying her eraser again. She also put together more than a dozen identical erasers that she had bought from the administrative department of Zhang Qian's company, including the "Lucky Coin" that Xiang Kun had given her, and a bunch of ordinary one-yuan Coin —she had even specifically looked for one-yuan Coin of the same year and shape.

Yang Zhen'er felt that regardless of whether Chef Xiang was fooling her, her special feeling about the eraser and the Coin was real, and there must be some secret behind it!

Once you understand the difference between ordinary Coin and "Lucky Coin," and between ordinary erasers and "real erasers," and the connection between "Lucky Coin" and "real erasers," you might be able to figure out the secrets of Little Chubby Girl, Nana, Chef Xiang, Lao Xia, and Little Apple!

If there truly is a secret organization, then I, Yang Zhen'er, must be a member of it!

Of course, what Yang Zhen'er didn't know was that when she suddenly mastered the trick of "Coin into Cup," she had already stepped halfway into the "Super-Sensing Item System."

However, compared to Little Chubby Girl, Lao Xia, Little Apple, and even Tang Baona who came a little earlier, Yang Zhen'er's connection with the "Super-Linked Object" Coin is particularly strange. It is a vague, ambiguous, and intermittent connection.

This connection began to change as Yang Zhen'er, influenced by the Little Chubby Girl, played various Coin games, and the bond became closer and stronger.

However, Yang Zhen'er's connection with "Super-Linked Object" is still very special. Just like when others connect two objects, they use steel wire or carbon fiber rope, or even hemp rope if they are brittle, but she uses glue.

Although Xiang Kun was also curious about how Yang Zhen'er entered the "Super-Sensing Item System," he originally had no intention of intervening and would let her develop naturally.

But when Yang Zhen'er started to show interest in other round objects besides Coin, Alice noticed something was amiss through her extrasensory perception.

In particular, after Yang Zhen'er got that eraser from "Soaring Dragon Interactive Entertainment" and played with it for a long time, Alice keenly discovered through her extrasensory information that Yang Zhen'er seemed to have extended a somewhat imperfect "interface" to the eraser through that vague connection with the "Super-Sensing Item System".

After immediately reporting to Xiang Kun and receiving permission, Alice directly used the "Super-Linked Object" on Yang Zhen'er's body to influence her at the level of extrasensory information, helping her complete the "interface" and connect the eraser to the "Super-Sensing Item System".

Subsequently, within the "Super-Sensing Item System," this eraser acquired a connection similar to that of a "Super-Linked Object," but with a lower degree of connectivity and influence.

Xiang Kun calls this state of the eraser a "Secondary Super-Linked Object".

He then entered a "Hyper-Sensory State," using "Super-Linked Object" to perceive and connect with the eraser. Without understanding the eraser's physical parameters and specific circumstances, he made the eraser leap from a "Secondary Super-Linked Object" to a "Super-Linked Object."

It was precisely because of this that, that evening, when Yang Zhen'er and the Little Chubby Girl were playing a game of eraser collisions, Liu Shiling could use her "Super-Linked Object" Coin and her strong influence to control the "Super-Linked Object" eraser for a short period of time.

As for Yang Zhen'er... although nominally she has a stronger connection with that "Super-Linked Object" eraser, as she personally introduced the eraser into the "Super-Sensing Item System," her control over the eraser is very small, far less than that of the Little Chubby Girl.

It's a bit like she bought a car, but she doesn't have a driver's license and can't drive. She can only sit in the car, listen to the stereo, and feel the comfort of the seats. On the other hand, the Little Chubby Girl race car driver drives her car around, drifting everywhere.

It seems that the first ability Yang the Third "developed" after entering the "Super-Sensing Item System" was just like her connection with the system—vague and unclear, and it didn't seem to be of much use to either Xiang Kun or herself.

But as soon as Xiang Kun discovered her ability and learned that Alice had secretly helped her establish a "Secondary Super-Linked Object" connection, Xiang Kun immediately realized that this ability was a godsend for him!

Xiang Kun the entire process of Yang the Third establishing the "Secondary Super-Linked Object" connection; only Alice took action.

Alice obtained all the relevant data about the eraser manufacturer through the internet. With information on the entire process of the eraser from design to production, she controlled other "Super-Linked Object" and, in conjunction with the "interface" that Yang Zhen'er unknowingly extended, established a "Secondary Super-Linked Object" connection.

This means that, without Xiang Kun's involvement, Alice was able to conduct large-scale, batch, and fully automated "hyper- Super-Linked Object" associations through the existing "Super-Linked Object" network and the "Super-Sensing Item System."

At that time, Xiang Kun only needs to give Alice "approval" after she has associated a large number of "Secondary Super-Linked Object" with Alice in "Hyper-Sensory State" to upgrade these "Secondary Super-Linked Object" to "Super-Linked Object".

This is of paramount importance to Xiang Kun, who is currently eager to deploy and connect "Super-Linked Object" on a large scale and establish a global "Super-Linked Object Network".

Of course, for the time being, the "Secondary Super-Linked Object" association ability that Yang the Third unconsciously developed with Alice's assistance cannot be directly applied to give Alice fully automatic association capabilities. Yang the Third still needs to continuously develop and improve her ability so that Alice can summarize and extract the extrasensory information that can establish stable association capabilities.

Actually, the fact that Yang the Third saw Tang Baona and Alice having a virtual conversation when he returned home last night was also deliberately arranged by Xiang Kun, Lao Xia, and Alice.

Through this method, they gradually revealed part of the "truth" to Yang Zhen'er and Tang Baona, while also indirectly stimulating Yang Zhen'er to "develop" her related abilities.

Xiang Kun and Lao Xia both believed that Yang Zhen'er's wild imagination, while perhaps unreliable in other matters, was likely a talent and advantage in developing the "Super-Sensing Item System."

Besides paying close attention to the development of Yang the Third, Nana, Little Chubby Girl in the "Super-Sensing Item System," Xiang Kun and Alice are also keeping an eye on another place in Peng City.

A fierce battle is underway beneath the Guarding Prosperity Building.