The Unfathomable Boss

"What level are you at now?" Qing Chen asked.

He walked side by side with Yang Yang on the sidewalk after the rain. The ground was covered with fallen leaves that had been battered down by the downpour and were clinging tightly to the ground.

Qing Chen suddenly realized that the girl was really tall. At 1.82 meters tall, he could look her in the eye when he turned his head, without having to look down at all.

Yang Yang pulled the hoodie up over her head and replied, "I don't know what level I am either."

"How could you not know your own level?!" Qing Chen asked in surprise.

"I was on the high-speed train to Los Angeles when a countdown suddenly appeared on my arm," Yang Yang explained. "When I passed through it, I was alone in the wilderness with my Federal ID card and some personal belongings in my bag. When I returned to the Federal city, I was unfamiliar with everything and didn't dare to ask any questions."

Qing Chen suddenly realized that he was a lone wolf.

In theory, superhumans can travel through time because they haven't altered their genes. One of the Time Walker controlled by the Li family is a superhuman.

However, to become such a powerful superhuman as soon as one transmigrates is surely Chosen One, isn't it?

Qing Chen asked, "Then do you know how you cultivate?"

"I'm Awakened, I don't need to cultivate," Yang Yang replied after a moment of surprise. "Don't you know? Although both Awakened and cultivators are extraordinary individuals and both develop human potential, they are on completely different paths."

"For example, Li Shutong was a cultivator. Their Knight Organization has its own traditions, and successors can follow the path of their predecessors and release their potential step by step in a steady and solid manner."

"For example, I am Awakened. I don't need to cultivate normally, but when I am greatly stimulated, I can continue to awaken and advance to a higher level. There is an old saying in the Inner World that when disaster strikes, spiritual will is the First Sequence defense for mankind in the face of danger."

Qing Chen sighed, "Awakened seem to have it easy; they don't have to cultivate and it's not as hard for them."

"But Awakened is all about luck," Yang Yang explained. "The abilities of cultivators are always combat-oriented, but that's not necessarily true for Awakened. When I was researching, I found that one Awakened's ability is to blow bubbles... and blow really big bubbles! Another Awakened's ability is that anyone near them who reaches under the table will definitely find snot or chewing gum! And another Awakened's ability is to heal others."

At this point, Yang Yang summarized. "After a cultivator succeeds, they will inevitably become a top laner, mid laner, or ADC, while Awakened depends more on luck. They might become a core like me, or they might become a support or jungler... or even a jungle monster or a cannon minion."

Qing Chen nodded. "Yes, this explanation is very easy to understand..."

Becoming Awakened among wild monsters is truly tragic.

"By the way, which city are you in?" Qing Chen asked casually.

Yang Yang glanced at him. "I already said, wait until you're ready to exchange secrets before asking about my secrets."

Qing Chen finally asked, "Then can you tell me why you can't even find your own home, but you found me? I don't believe you just happened to see me from heaven."

"I can say that," Yang Yang replied. "You should have guessed that my ability is to control force fields, right? I heard you're a genius, so it's easy to tell."

"Yes," Qing Chen nodded.

"Everyone has their own force field, which may be constantly changed by the environment, but each person's mark is unique," Yang Yang said. "I remembered your force field and sensed it, it's that simple."

Just like homing pigeons' ability to sense magnetic fields, they can always find their way home because they have an organ in their beaks that can sense magnetic fields, and the magnetic field guides them.

Qing Chen gave the other person a deep look. "So, you actually know which one was the real me just now."

"Oh no!" Yang Yang exclaimed, "I let it slip! I was trying to pretend I didn't know!"

In the torrential rain, both Qing Chen and Xu Yicheng were wearing raincoats.

In other people's eyes, Xu Yicheng is the one playing "Qing Chen", but in Yang Yang's eyes, she can see something more essential through appearances: the force field.

You don't need to look at the raincoat or the fighting style; you only need to look at Qing Chen's force field.

Now it was Qing Chen's turn to feel embarrassed. It turned out that all his actions, which seemed so impressive, hadn't fooled the other party at all.

Yang Yang comforted her, "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone this secret. Everyone wants to hide their strength, I understand. But your teammates are quite cooperative, actually acting along with you."

"Stop pretending," Qing Chen sighed, "You can directly sense the force field, so you must be able to feel the connection between us."

"Oh, you guessed that too," Yang Yang asked curiously. "I am indeed a little curious about what exactly is the thread connecting you two. Are you controlling it?"

"I won't tell you," Qing Chen said, his teeth aching. This girl knew most of his secrets.

However, he believed that the other party still could not be completely certain that he was the person behind it all, because his force field had definitely changed after climbing the Green Mountain Cliff!

He changed the subject, saying, "Since you can sense force fields and fly, how come you can't find your own force field coordinates?"

"Because it's too far away," Yang Yang said. "Xingshu Road is beyond my perception range, which is only about 200 meters."

"Then you can use the geomagnetic coordinates along the road to find it," Qing Chen said.

"There are too many to remember," Yang Yang replied. "Besides, I'm not quite used to converting 'vision' into 'sensory perception.'"

Qing Chen understood what the other person meant. This girl had only been a superhuman for a short time and was not used to this kind of force field sensing.

It's like when someone is just learning English. Although they can understand it, they will subconsciously translate what they hear into Chinese first, and then use their brain to understand it.

Now, Yang Yang is facing a situation where there are two people in front of her, one speaking English and the other speaking Chinese, both at the same time.

This caused confusion in her perception.

This is also why she has a terrible sense of direction!

It's not that Yang Yang wants to be directionally challenged, but rather that she was born with an unusual appearance, and her "force field senses" have diluted the "visual senses" of a normal person!

Wait a minute, Qing Chen suddenly realized a problem. "Were you able to sense the force field even before you transmigrated? Because the perception of the force field is constantly conflicting with visual perception, that's why you lost your spatial orientation and spatial association abilities."

"I've never felt a force field before," Yang Yang said curiously. "I just always feel like I tend to veer off course when I walk, as if I'm being interfered with by some unknown factor. But now that you mention it, it does seem to be true."

Qing Chen suddenly realized that it was because the other person was born different from others that they became directionally challenged.

The original Yang Yang in the Inner World had the same body and the same talent, so the other party awakened the ability to control the force field.

Yang Yang from the Outer World hasn't encountered the opportunity to awaken yet, so she can only continue to be a directionally challenged person.

However, once the other person gets used to the new way of understanding, their poor sense of direction should be cured.

For example, most of our compatriots can now subconsciously understand the meaning of words like "Sorry" and "Fuk" without having to translate them into Chinese in their minds.

Qing Chen was pondering a question. In fact, Yang Yang had also encountered some very intense events, such as the pirate wars in the Indian Ocean.

He believed that at that moment, Yang Yang, who had never killed anyone before, must have been terrified.

But at that time, the other party was not awakened.

Could this be interpreted as: the rules of the Outer World are different from those of the Inner World, so there has never been any Awakened or extraordinary beings in the Outer World before?

Because of the rules of the world, the Yang Yang in the Outer World have not awakened, while the Yang Yang in the Inner World have long since awakened.

Very likely!

No, if the myths are true, then the Outer World once possessed extraordinary power, but it disappeared for some unknown reason.

Of course, myths shouldn't be taken too seriously.

"Wow, you really are a genius!" Yang Yang exclaimed in surprise. "You've actually explained my terrible sense of direction, which has bothered me for so many years. Does that mean my terrible sense of direction will gradually get better?"

"Logically speaking, that should be the case," Qing Chen nodded.

"Then to celebrate this discovery, why don't you cook a nice meal tomorrow?" Yang Yang said happily.

"What kind of logic is that?!" Qing Chen exclaimed in shock. "Aren't you ashamed to say something like that?"

"No way," Yang Yang said confidently.

Qing Chen glanced at the other party, thinking that recruiting such a powerful superhuman seemed like a good option.

This kind of girl can sense your true identity through force fields every time; she's really too ruthless. At the very least, we need to find a way to prevent her from telling anyone.

Yang Yang looked at Qing Chen and said, "To be honest, I was quite surprised tonight. I was a little disappointed that you injected the gene serum, since its potential is rather limited. But now it seems you have other trump cards. Did you inject the gene serum specifically after becoming a superhuman, just to avoid having your DNA compared?"

"Hmm," Qing Chen knew he couldn't hide his identity as a superhuman any longer, so he had to find another way to explain it.

Yang Yang thought for a moment and asked, "Last time I saw you, you were just an ordinary person. How did you advance so quickly? And when I first saw you using playing cards, I thought you were a melee fighter, but who knew you could even kill people by throwing cards? I initially thought you were an AD carry, but I never expected you to be an ADC!"

AD generally refers to a melee-focused core character in a game, while ADC generally refers to a ranged-attack core character...

Qing Chen was speechless. To be honest, the girl's description was quite vivid!

But then Yang Yang said, "Right now you're the ADC, I'm the mid laner, and we're still missing a top laner and a jungler... oh right, and a support. If you find a few more people, our team will be complete!"

"Stop, stop," Qing Chen said, rubbing her forehead. "I don't play many games, so I'm a little uncomfortable with your analogy. Besides, I didn't expect you to be a game addict."

"I... don't really have an internet addiction," Yang Yang said hesitantly, as if she wasn't entirely sure herself.

"Alright," Qing Chen waved his hand, "We're home. Everyone go home. We can talk about it tomorrow."

After returning home, Qing Chen lay back on the bed and took out his communicator, which was already filled with messages from Liu Dezhu.

"Boss, my mother is out of danger. The doctor said she only had a mild concussion!"

"Boss, thank you so much for tonight. Thank you for asking those two to step in. I, Liu Dezhu, will be grateful for the rest of my life for standing up to help at a time like this!"

The next ten or so sentences were all similar expressions of gratitude, and Qing Chen could even imagine the other person's excitement.

Until the very last sentence. "Boss, when I first realized I was about to time travel, I thought I was the protagonist in a novel, so I always tried to develop myself stealthily and constantly grow stronger. I embezzled gold bars and hid information from you; in short, I made many mistakes. Now I think I've figured it out. There are no real protagonists in this world, and life isn't a novel. Someone like me, who has no opinions of my own and no real skills, should just follow you faithfully."

"Thank you so much for still helping me today, really."

Qing Chen looked at these words of gratitude and remained silent for a long time.

Actually, it was a very risky thing for him to make a move in public tonight, but at that moment he saw Liu Dezhu carrying his mother on his back and Liu Youcai persuading his son to leave, and in the end he couldn't hold back.

But tonight was fruitful; Liu Dezhu finally returned home.

Qing Chen felt a pang of emotion. In the stories, everyone else would be trembling with fear and immediately swear brotherhood in the Peach Garden, bowing their heads in obeisance. But when it came to him, just winning over Liu Dezhu alone was proving to be a huge challenge.

But after thinking about it, he realized it was simply because Liu Dezhu was a real person, not a tool.

Qing Chen replied calmly with a message: "Get some rest."

The next moment, Liu Dezhu's messages came in rapidly. "Boss, I feel so hot all over right now, ever since we were fighting in the downpour. It feels like there's a fire inside me that wants to be released, but it's being suppressed by some kind of rule. Do you know what's going on?"

At this moment, Qing Chen speculated: Perhaps the rules of this world do not allow awakening.

Therefore, Liu Dezhu cannot awaken, and neither can Yang Yang!

But could he unlock his Gene Lock after completing the challenges in this world? Qing Chen wasn't sure; he could only find out by trying.

Of course, Qing Chen couldn't say he didn't know, otherwise the unfathomable image of the "boss" would collapse.

With a confident and enigmatic tone, he stated his conjecture. "You have reached the threshold of Awakened. If you can maintain this fire in your heart until your next transmigration, you will directly awaken as an Extraordinary One in the Inner World."

Liu Dezhu thought to himself, "The boss really is the boss; he knows more than I do."

He felt a surge of ecstatic joy; was he about to become Awakened?

"Boss, how can I keep this fire burning in my heart?" Liu Dezhu humbly asked for advice.

Qing Chen pondered for a moment, "Recall your emotions when you appeared in this ball of fire."

"When I saw the giant wave of superhumans sweeping across the land, I felt an overwhelming surge of anger," Liu Dezhu uncertainly.

"Keep this feeling in mind," Qing Chen said.

Ideally, the other person will become a superhuman the next time they travel through time. If they don't, then it's because you didn't maintain your composure.

Anyway, nobody has ever experienced something like this.

"Okay, boss, get some rest!" After sending the message, Liu Dezhu angrily pushed open the door of the public toilet stall in the hospital.

The next moment, a spoiled brat sent Liu Dezhu a WeChat voice message: "Brother Zhu, I heard something happened to your family. What's going on?"

Liu Dezhu pressed the voice call button and roared, "I don't know either!"

The spoiled brats who heard the voice message were dumbfounded. "If you don't know, you don't know, so what are you yelling about..."

Before he could react, Liu Dezhu sent another angry voice message: "I'm sorry!"

The spoiled brat. "???"

Are even big shots this polite when they get angry?