Time slowly passed. Bai Xuan worked out while chatting with everyone in the Chat Group. This was nothing special; even in his previous life, he had been able to sleepwalk through class while listening to the teacher.
Perhaps it was an inborn talent.
Before he knew it, night had fallen. After dinner, Bai Xuan had originally planned to train a little longer. He was also considering whether to renovate his house and buy some specialized exercise equipment.
After these days of training and autonomous evolution, his physique was no longer comparable to what it had once been. Ordinary exercise could not even make him feel tired.
Training without any sense of fatigue was meaningless to him.
If possible, he would have liked a Gravity Chamber from the Dragon Ball World. Only then could he make greater progress.
Unfortunately, there was no such thing.
That was true both for his world and the worlds of the other group members.
The world of the group owner, Su Yunqing, did have one, but as an ordinary person at present, she had no way to buy it.
"Ding-dong."
"Ding-dong."
"Ding-dong."
The doorbell rang, and Bai Xuan froze slightly.
Was someone knocking at his door?
He checked the time. It was already eight in the evening. Under normal circumstances, no acquaintance should have come looking for him at this hour.
Though puzzled, Bai Xuan still walked to the door and opened it.
Given his strength, there should not have been anyone on Earth capable of harming him. If there truly were, he should have sensed danger rather than felt so at ease.
But after opening the door, he frowned slightly.
Standing before him was a woman—an extraordinarily beautiful woman.
Her long crimson hair fluttered in the breeze. She had slender willow-leaf brows, enchanting eyes, vivid red lips, and a snow-white face carrying an amused smile.
She looked to be in her early twenties, but Bai Xuan could not determine her actual age. He did not possess the skill to judge a woman's age by her appearance.
He was only wondering why she had come looking for him, and why her emotions carried a faint trace of... amusement.
"Who are you?"
Though puzzled, Bai Xuan revealed none of it on his face as he asked calmly.
"What, after doing something so presumptuous to me, you're pretending not to know me already?"
With a smile at the corner of her lips, Huo Yu teased him and tried to slip past Bai Xuan into the house. But the next second, an arm blocked her way.
"I have no interest in playing word games with you."
"If you have no business here, please leave."
Bai Xuan spoke indifferently.
Huo Yu looked up at Bai Xuan. After roughly ten seconds, she shrugged.
"High school students these days really are unexpectedly mature."
"Not exactly. You're simply more unusual than most."
"If other people possessed power, they would be desperate to show it off in the face of danger and play the hero. Yet you chose to hide among the crowd. Although you used your power, no one could discover you because of your ability's special nature."
At that, Huo Yu paused, then smiled faintly at Bai Xuan.
"May I come in and sit now?"
Bai Xuan looked deeply at her. Naturally, he knew what she was talking about. Without hesitation, he said calmly:
"Please."
He did not know how he had been exposed, but barring any surprises, she should have been from the government.
Only the authorities could have identified him so quickly from among so many students.
Even so, he still could not guess how.
There had clearly been no surveillance cameras on the field. They could not possibly have used psychological methods to identify him through surveillance footage. He had registered his Superpower as Gold Element Control, and there were so many people who had Awakened elemental Superpowers that they had even less reason to single him out.
In the living room, Huo Yu sat cross-legged on the sofa, watching Bai Xuan with a smile.
"Though smiling is a way to bring two people closer, if you smile too much, the other person may think you're stupid."
Bang!
A vein popped on Huo Yu's forehead. Could this guy not hold a conversation? You're the stupid one for smiling!
"Normally, shouldn't you be asking why I was certain you were the one who attacked the Crimson Flame Bird on the day of the Superpower registration?"
"Oh, so that bird capable of wielding the fire element was called a Crimson Flame Bird. Its strength truly wasn't to be underestimated."
"The country has already named it? Then there must be quite a few of these birds—perhaps even a great many."
"I asked friends at other high schools. Their schools had encountered the same birds, but they were all killed with firearms."
"So those birds came from the authorities? Tools meant to demonstrate the power of guns?"
Bai Xuan had suspected this before, especially after friends from other high schools had complained to him that they had encountered the same birds during their Superpower Awakening.
Those birds... forget it, he would call them Crimson Flame Birds.
Crimson Flame Birds were not weak, especially since it had only been the first day of Superpower Awakening when they had displayed such strength.
Even if other living creatures had Awakened as well, they should still have counted as geniuses.
Yet the same birds had appeared at other schools, which meant there were no small number of Crimson Flame Birds with such strength. But Bai Xuan had never encountered one in the city, which was abnormal.
Therefore, the only possibility was that they came from the authorities.
There was no need to say much about demonstrating the power of firearms. More importantly, it was to prevent students whose minds had not fully matured from becoming overly confident in their own strength and causing social unrest.
But that was not much of an issue.
What truly puzzled him was another question.
Meanwhile, Huo Yu was left completely dumbfounded by Bai Xuan's series of deductions.
Had she revealed anything? She had clearly only mentioned the name Crimson Flame Bird.
How had he deduced so much from just a name? And it was all fucking correct?!
"Hah."
Fine, fine. This was not really that surprising. Before coming here, she had looked into Bai Xuan's information. He had excellent grades and a mature mind, so it was not strange for him to deduce these things from a few clues.
Or perhaps he had already suspected it, and the name Crimson Flame Bird she had revealed merely confirmed his suspicions.
After coughing twice, Huo Yu was about to say something when she heard Bai Xuan question her again.
"The Crimson Flame Birds are not weak. How did the country cultivate them?"
"I am certain that the Reiki Revival began on the night of the Seven-Star Alignment. There is no possibility that the Reiki Revival had begun long ago and merely remained inconspicuous."
"Under such circumstances, it would have been impossible for the country to cultivate so many Crimson Flame Birds with considerable combat power."
"So was it because of a Superpower? Beast Taming, or perhaps a summoning-type Superpower?"
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