Peerless Hero

Xiang Kun's original plan was to have Alice control a camera or arrange for a video camera to film him from a distance before the flight, recording his "heroic" flight.

It just so happened that the online celebrity livestreamer had brought a photographer to film the weather, so we took advantage of their equipment. One person held the camera and adjusted the lens, while the others provided commentary. When we showed it to Tang Baona, Lao Xia, and Little Chubby Girl later, it felt more like we were there in person.

As for being witnessed by the two of them, Xiang Kun wasn't worried at all. Anyway, they were so far away that they couldn't see what he looked like, let alone know his true identity.

He intentionally wanted people to know that he had traveled from China, and he wanted Alice to create some impact online and reveal some information.

However, this video will only be circulated internally and will not be leaked.

Previously, when he first mastered the ability of "Electric Flight," electronic devices within his field of vision would be severely interfered with every time he flew. But now, with a deeper understanding of "Electric Flight" and Alice's intelligent assistance through the "Super-Sensing Item System," he can not only reduce the range of influence but also precisely determine which electronic devices can operate and which cannot, and control their specific functions.

Of course, he doesn't need to control these things himself; Alice can handle everything for him whenever he needs it.

Within the area where "Super-Linked Object" are ubiquitous, Alice is virtually omnipotent to all electronic devices.

At this moment, in the home of Tang Baona and Yang Zhen'er in Peng City, watching the video of Xiang Kun "taking off" on TV, even though they already knew part of Xiang Kun's ability system and how powerful he was, seeing this scene of riding on lightning still caused a gasp, directly drowning out the voice of the female host in the video.

They had never seen anything like it before.

"Uncle Bald has grown hair!" Liu Shiling imitated Xiang Kun, raising one hand high, making a small fist, and excitedly shouted, "He can fly!! Uncle Bald is invincible!!!"

"Holy... Holy crap..." Yang Zhen'er almost blurted out "Holy crap" unconsciously, but the Little Chubby Girl's raised fist made her bite her tongue in time. "Chef Xiang really can fly... When he said it last time, I thought he was bragging, but it really is... Alice, can we fly in the future? Do we have to shave our heads first?"

Tang Baona also asked in a daze, "So, back in Chongyun Mountain, during that lightning storm, Xiang Kun was also flying in the sky? Every time there's a lightning storm like this, it's Xiang Kun preparing to take off?"

Little Apple's voice trembled with excitement. "This is amazing! So impressive!"

Through the Visual Simulation Glasses she was wearing, she saw the same images on the television as Tang Baona, Yang Zhen'er, and Liu Shiling —no longer the images that Alice had constructed through her direct connection with her that she could understand, but a genuine, ordinary person's visual experience.

These glasses, which help Little Apple regain normal vision, were a gift from Xiang Kun, Alice, and Lao Xia to Little Apple for her eighteenth birthday.

Its entirety, including all its components, is 95% "Super-Linked Object," so calling it "hyper-sensory glasses" wouldn't be an exaggeration.

However, although Xiang Kun named these glasses "Visual Simulation Glasses" and told Professor Li Yang that they could help Little Apple regain her vision, their actual function was mainly to help Little Apple adapt to visual functions.

What truly restored Little Apple's visual function was the "Super-Sensing Item System," or rather, the entire environment filled with the "Super-Link Object Matrix."

Through specific means, Alice comprehensively processes the extrasensory information surrounding the "Super-Linked Object," simulates visual information, and then transmits it to Little Apple, creating a realistic image projection in her mind. This image projection is fundamentally different from the perceptual information that Alice previously processed and constructed into something that Little Apple could recognize; it is a kind of sensory information that she has never obtained before and has no cognitive system for.

Therefore, Xiang Kun and Alice want to customize this special "hyper-sensory glasses" for Little Apple to help her adapt to images constructed by visible light in a real environment. They use "Super-Linked Object" to help her reactivate the corresponding visual nerves, avoiding distortions in distance perception, the three-dimensional construction of objects, and judgments based on past cognition. When she is confused and unable to judge new "perceptual information," she can match it with her past cognitive patterns. This is a unique function in the field of "hyper-sensory information," an assistance that only Little Apple, who is within the "Super-Sensing Item System" and has a deep connection with Alice, can receive.

These glasses are like an exoskeleton device that helps a person walk, gradually helping her find the correct way to "walk," allowing her thigh muscles, calf muscles, and joints to redevelop and grow according to the functional needs of proper "walking."

Before long, once Little Apple adapts to the visual information of the real environment and is able to make correct perceptions and judgments, she will no longer need to wear these glasses.

Of course, these glasses were custom-made by Alice. They not only look smaller and thinner, but their size is also perfectly suited to Little Apple's head and face shape. They are also very lightweight, so they won't feel tight, heavy, or tiring even after wearing them for a long time.

When the Little Chubby Girl first saw her wearing these glasses, she kept praising how good they looked, thinking that her Little Apple sister looked "super awesome" and cool after wearing them. Then she eagerly asked her bald uncle if she could get a pair for her too.

Not only did the Little Chubby Girl think it was pretty, but Yang Zhen'er also thought it was beautiful. She even speculated that Little Apple might have gained a new ability, just like the glasses worn by Cyclops in Marvel.

Their words completely put Little Apple at ease, who had been a little embarrassed about wearing the glasses and worried that it might look strange outdoors or in public.

She couldn't help but recall the glasses Xiang Kun had given her, and how, with Alice's help, she finally saw the real "light" and the sights that ordinary people could see, and the feeling of excitement and dizziness she experienced.

She remembered what Xiang Kun said after putting the glasses on her, "Little Apple, you will definitely regain your sight completely in the future, but don't forget how you feel about the world now, and don't forget your ability to perceive everything with your heart."

At first, she didn't quite understand what Xiang Kun meant.

When she first put on the glasses and regained her visible light vision, she became completely absorbed in it. She even wanted to keep her eyes open 24 hours a day, wanting to see everything and never getting tired of it, and she didn't even want to sleep.

But after wearing those glasses and seeing the world with ordinary vision for a while, she found that using this visual method to judge the environment and make cognitive judgments significantly reduced her range of perception. Information that she used to notice and instinctively judge was now being ignored.

In other words, although she possesses the same eyesight as ordinary people, her ability to perceive and judge her surroundings has actually decreased.

Although she has gained another sensory pathway, her energy and attention are limited. If she devotes all of her energy to this new visual sense, her reaction to other sensory information will be much slower, and she will no longer pay attention to them.

She then understood the meaning of Xiang Kun's words, began to "see" more restrainedly, and tried to make more comprehensive cognitive judgments using the sensory information she obtained.

Although she didn't aspire to "become a super magician, help Uncle Baldy fight monsters, maintain world peace, and resist evil forces" like the Little Chubby Girl did from a young age, she should seize the opportunity, work hard to improve herself, and find ways to help Xiang Kun so that she would be qualified to step up when Xiang Kun is in trouble or unable to get away in the future, just like Sister Bing and Alice.

So she used her deep connection with Alice and Gold Glitter, along with her perception of "Super-Linked Object," to reconstruct visible information outside her field of vision.

In short, she can reverse the process of visualizing scenes that are invisible to ordinary people, thus gaining abilities such as "X-ray vision" and "360-degree panoramic vision."

This ability is not very meaningful for Little Apple or Xiang Kun, but for others in the "Super-Sensing Item System," such as Little Chubby Girl and Yang Zhen'er, it is a "superpower" that can directly expand their visual range.

Alice was able to simulate real scenes using extrasensory information a long time ago, and Little Apple's vision was restored because of this ability. However, Alice could only convert visual sensory information with Little Apple, but she couldn't create a universal visual information interface suitable for everyone. There was no way for anyone to obtain the simulated visual scenes converted from extrasensory information in real time; an electronic display panel was still needed to do this.

What Little Apple did was find this "universal interface" for Alice, making the entire capability universal.

From now on, "X-ray vision" and "360-degree panoramic vision" will become one of the common abilities of the "Super-Sensing Item System," and other humans connected to the system will have the potential to acquire this ability.

Inside the house, everyone was excitedly discussing the scene of Xiang Kun taking flight, but Little Apple walked to the window, looked at the misty rain, and thought of the last question she had asked Xiang Kun before he left.

"Uncle Xiang, can you show me the world of 'Barbie Warrior'?"

"You've already seen their world, you just haven't realized it."

She still didn't fully understand Xiang Kun's answer. But she figured that the world of "Barbie Warrior" was something that ordinary people couldn't "see" with their eyes, and that they still had to "see" it with their "hearts".

What she really wanted to ask was, "Are there people in that world after they die?" or "In which world do the dead go?", but she couldn't bring herself to ask.

She was afraid of getting an answer she didn't want to receive.

"Little Apple, what are you thinking about?" Tang Baona walked to Little Apple's side, put her arm around her shoulder, and asked with a smile.

"Sister Nana, how long do you think it will take for Uncle Xiang to come back this time?" Little Apple asked.

They weren't worried about whether Xiang Kun could win. Alice had already explained Xiang Kun's plan to them in detail and confidently assured them that taking down the "Ultimate Predator" would be as easy as cooking. So the only thing that worried them was the duration of Xiang Kun's slumber after defeating the "Ultimate Predator," because neither Xiang Kun nor Alice had given them a clear answer to this question.

"Don't worry, since Xiang Kun said it will be at most three years, then we'll wait at most three years. She can control lightning and fly through the clouds, just like Sun Wukong, so nothing should be able to hurt her now," Tang Baona said.

Yang Zhen'er leaned closer and laughed, "Sun Wukong? Chef Xiang? Hey, Nana, your analogy immediately reminded me of 'A Chinese Odyssey'! Hehe, didn't you used to love watching that movie? Didn't Fairy Zixia say something like, 'My ideal man is a peerless hero. One day he will appear in a grand spectacle, clad in golden armor, somersaulting on a cloud to marry me!' After Chef Xiang defeated that monster in Antarctica, she was also a peerless hero who saved the world, right? Hehe, I wonder if when he comes back to find you, he'll fly over on lightning and crash down in front of you in the city center!"

Tang Baona couldn't help but roll her eyes at her. "What do you mean by 'somersaulting on a cloud'? It's riding on a seven-colored auspicious cloud, okay! And Sun Wukong's cloud isn't called 'somersaulting on a cloud,' it's called 'somersaulting on a cloud'!"

"Ha! You remember so clearly, Nana. You compared Chef Xiang to Sun Wukong, so you really want to be Zixia Fairy, don't you!"

"You're kidding me! Stop talking nonsense in front of children!" Tang Baona reached out and slapped her forehead.

"I'm not making this up! Last time I had a barbecue with Chef Xiang at Chongyun Mountain, when Little Apple and I were carrying the meat over, we saw you and Chef Xiang, hehehe, Little Apple saw us too! You can't cheat on me!" Yang Zhen'er said smugly. "Little Apple, you saw us too, didn't you!"

Little Apple shrugged helplessly. "Zhen'er, I'm blind! I can't see anything!"

Tang Baona laughed and went over to pinch Yang Zhen'er's waist. Yang Zhen'er cried out and picked up the Little Chubby Girl as a shield, thus escaping unscathed.

Yang Zhen'er, panting as she sat down on the sofa with the Little Chubby Girl in her arms, couldn't help but pinch her cheek. Just as she was about to say something, the Little Chubby Girl looked up and asked, "Old Fairy Sister, when are you going to Chongyun Mountain for a barbecue?"

"Oh, it was a while ago, before we came to Peng City, Chef Xiang took us all on a picnic in Chongyun Mountain," Yang Zhen'er explained.

The Little Chubby Girl was at school and wasn't there, so she asked expectantly, "What delicious food did you eat back then?"

"There's nothing particularly good to eat, just some regular... grilled meat and stuff."

Do you have grilled chicken wings?

"Of course there are."

"Is it a whole wing or half a wing? Is it sweet or spicy? Do you have roasted pig's trotters...?"

"How would I remember? Anyway, they were all pretty good. Sigh... Little Bell, don't ask these questions. Just thinking about not being able to eat Chef Xiang's cooking for a long time makes me a little sad." Yang Zhen'er said, then looked at Alice, who had just come over and sat down next to the Little Chubby Girl to tie her untied shoelaces, Alice asked, "Alice, can we eat that Antarctica monster? If Chef Xiang can eat it, we should be able to too, right? Is it delicious?"

Liu Shiling also looked at Alice, her eyes sparkling. Being unable to help in fighting monsters and saving the world made Liu Shiling feel exceptionally "empty," and this "emptiness" naturally made her particularly prone to hunger.