Showing Off What? Think Being a Transcendent Is Such a Big Deal?

Screech...

A faint scraping sound suddenly rang out in the room.

Bai Ye, his train of thought interrupted, narrowed his eyes and looked toward the source of the sound—the window!

His window had opened on its own!

That was right. He hadn't seen wrong. There was no one outside, nor was there any wind. Yet, strangely, the window had slid open by itself, as if an invisible giant hand had gently pushed it open.

Bai Ye's expression remained unchanged. He still lay on the bed, calmly watching the window.

Faced with such a supernatural phenomenon, he didn't even reach for [Breath of Bones] beside his pillow, because he knew it would be of little use.

He waited quietly. At the first hint of danger, Time Stop would activate immediately.

After about thirty seconds, a yellowed sheet of letter paper drifted in without wind, floating straight through the window.

The letter paper hovered before Bai Ye and slowly came to a stop.

A line of blood-red writing was on it.

[Come alone to the woods north of town at midnight tonight. Do not tell anyone. This concerns your life.]

"Fuck! Who the hell are you trying to scare with this?"

The floating letter paper and blood-red words—such a bizarre sight not only failed to frighten Bai Ye, it instead stirred up his viciousness.

With three minutes and fifty seconds of time at his disposal, even if a god descended before him, he would dare to slap it across the face, much less now.

Time Stop!

Buzz!

A massive golden clock face emerged beneath Bai Ye, instantly freezing the flowing time like a decree from the gods.

He sprang off the bed, [Breath of Bones] in hand, and rushed out through the window.

Defiant flames burned in his dark eyes!

"Showing up in the middle of the night with a piece of trash paper to scare me? I don't care whether you're human or ghost—if I don't squeeze your balls out today, I'll count you lucky for hiding your congenital deformity so well!"

Outside the window, Bai Ye scanned the area with his gun and immediately spotted a sneaky figure crouching against the wall. His bandaged right hand was raised high, with his index finger and thumb pinching the air as though holding an invisible letter.

Well, well. So it was you, brat?

He charged straight over. Once he got closer, he looked under the moonlight and—oh? It was an acquaintance!

Magic Hand Li You!

Bai Ye had heard about Li You long ago. Apparently, King Snake had broken his right hand and left him to fend for himself.

He hadn't expected to see him here in the middle of the night.

A Transcendent?

Those three words surfaced in Bai Ye's mind. Though he had never met a Transcendent, he had heard some rumors. Compared to gene-modified people and mechanical augmenteds, Transcendents were far more mysterious and rare.

It was said that Transcendents possessed all kinds of miraculous abilities, and the strange power Li You had displayed looked very much like that of a Transcendent.

Bai Ye guessed that Li You's ability was related to his right hand. After all, the sight of him crouching by the wall with his right hand held high was simply too strange. To confirm his suspicion, Bai Ye began feeling along Li You's right hand. Sure enough, he found something.

An invisible giant hand extended from Li You's right hand. It was hard as steel, and this invisible hand was incredibly long—three whole meters.

At that moment, Bai Ye understood everything. Li You had opened the window with the invisible giant hand, and it had also carried the letter inside, which was why it had floated in midair.

Fine! You dared to play ghost and try to scare me?

Time resumed!

Li You rubbed his aching raised right hand with his left and muttered, "That kid should have finished reading it by now, right? Why hasn't there been any reaction? He should at least be scared enough to jump out of bed, shouldn't he?

Could he be asleep?"

Suddenly, a cold voice sounded behind Li You.

"I'm not asleep, but I know you'll be sleeping forever very soon."

Click!

It was the sound of a bullet being chambered. An icy gun barrel pressed against Li You's head.

Li You's body instantly stiffened, and his expression changed drastically. "Bai Ye!?"

"Don't move. If you dare lower that right hand even a little, I guarantee you won't see tomorrow's sun."

Li You stiffened further. His right hand, which had been about to lower, froze rigidly in midair. Damn it. This kid discovered my ability.

He had originally planned to use his invisible right hand to restrain Bai Ye. He believed that when faced with an invisible giant hand, even if Bai Ye had a forbidden artifact, he would be caught off guard. Yet he hadn't expected the foundation of his ability to be seen through at a glance.

"You... weren't asleep?" Li You spoke to stall for time while desperately thinking of a countermeasure.

"Heh." Bai Ye sneered from behind him. "Have you never gone to the bathroom in the middle of the night?"

Li You didn't believe a single word of that, because before opening the window, he had secretly taken a look. At that time, Bai Ye had still been on the bed, so he could not possibly have discovered him while going to the bathroom.

The moment Bai Ye saw the window open, he must have rushed out of the room with lightning speed and without a second of hesitation, then quietly come up behind him while he was delivering the letter.

No wonder there had been no movement inside after he had held up the letter for so long. The guy had already come out.

Damn it, this was completely different from what he had expected! Why was Bai Ye's way of thinking so different from a normal person's? When normal people saw a window open by itself, shouldn't they freeze first and then think about what caused the anomaly?

What kind of reckless idiot saw something abnormal and immediately rushed outside without caring about anything? In the middle of the night, wasn't he afraid of running into a ghost?

"Li You... Oh, no, I should call you Li Zuo now." Bai Ye slowly tapped Li You's head with his gun.

The repeated touches of the icy barrel sent chills through Li You's entire body. He hurriedly said, "Bai Ye, actually, I..."

"Call me Deputy Commander Bai." Bai Ye kicked him in the ass, cutting him off.

Li You froze for a moment. A flash of anger crossed his face, but he hurriedly changed his words. "Deputy Commander Bai, I actually mean no harm. I merely have an important matter to discuss."

"Oh?" A dangerous curve lifted at Bai Ye's lips. "Isn't that convenient? You mean no harm, but I do!

You know, what I hate most in my life is people wasting my time. Because of your unreasonable stunt, you wasted ten precious seconds of mine. Ten seconds! How many ten seconds does a person get in a lifetime?"

Li You had no idea Bai Ye meant the duration of Time Stop. He thought he was referring to the time it took him to walk out of the house.

After a moment of silence, he cautiously said, "Assuming someone lives to sixty, there are approximately 189,216,000 ten-second intervals in a lifetime."

"You fucking—"

Bang!

Bai Ye kicked Li You in the ass again, nearly sending him sprawling face-first onto the ground.

"So you're the only one who's good at math, huh? You think I can't calculate it myself? Who asked you to tell me?"

Bai Ye could indeed calculate it himself, but not as quickly as Li You. He would need to find a sheet of paper and use a pen.

"I'll give you three seconds. Give me a Li You... reason not to kill you!"

Li You hurriedly said, "I came to help you!"

"You think you're worthy?"

"I'm a Transcendent!"

Bang!

Another kick.

Bai Ye snapped, "What the hell are you showing off for? Think being a Transcendent is such a big deal?"