Melee

"Ahhh! We're going to die!" Qin Weize exclaimed in fear from the driver's seat.

In reality, the two people inside the car did not feel any severe impact; they were only shaken back and forth by the car's rolling. The impact of the car's exterior colliding with the mountain was absorbed by Xiao He.

"What can I do?! My abilities are completely useless in this situation! What should I do?!" Qin Weize lost his composure immediately, struggling to unbuckle his seatbelt as if he intended to jump out of the car.

"Calm down and sit tight," Xiao He said irritably, punching him on the head. "Don't unbuckle your seatbelt, are you looking for trouble?"

Although Xiao He has only triggered the Superpower to control kinetic energy, he doesn't need a particularly high physique to have this ability, so he stores all this kinetic energy in his body. The amount of this kinetic energy is not high, far less than Yue Feng's Savage Charge, and it is impossible for him to "overflow" it.

"But what if the car explodes!?" Qin Weize asked in a panic.

"I'm here!" Xiao He frowned and said irritably, "The car window isn't even broken, what are you panicking for!"

Qin Weize looked around and realized that the car didn't seem to be damaged much. He calmed down and grabbed the front handrail on the roof to steady himself. The car rolled all the way to the bottom of the cliff, kicking up a lot of dust, but the car body was unharmed, with only some dents and scratches left at the beginning.

"You wait in the car," Xiao He said, opening the car door and getting out. He looked around. He wasn't sure how many enemies there were, but the only certainty about his Superpower was... controlling rocks or inorganic matter?

"You know I am 'Yinglong,' right?" Xiao He asked tentatively.

An infrared beam pierced through the bushes, flickering gently on him. Then, a hoarse male voice emerged from the darkness, with no unusual accent, sounding like a Chinese person. "Cooperate a little, and it'll be easier for everyone. We don't want to take your life, we just need a little of your blood. We'll leave after we draw your blood; no one will be hurt or killed. What do you say?"

"I agree, come out now," Xiao He said with a smile, opening his arms. "Come on, draw my blood. As long as you don't kill me, I'll be happy to help you."

After a moment of silence, the hoarse male voice replied, "Hmph, I'd be a fool to believe you!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a series of "thud!" sounds came from the bushes, and a large number of bullets shot out from the darkness, hitting Xiao He. But the bullets were not deflected after hitting Xiao He; instead, they seemed to suddenly lose their power and fell straight to the ground, because Xiao He directly absorbed all the kinetic energy of these bullets.

Xiao He bent down, picked up a bullet, and examined it. He immediately frowned: this wasn't some kind of tranquilizer dart, but an armor-piercing bullet, specifically designed to penetrate bulletproof vests and some special armor. It was probably designed specifically to counter him, taking into account his superior physique. Xiao He didn't know to what extent he needed to enhance his abilities to defend against this kind of bullet.

Unfortunately, he can now absorb kinetic energy, so no matter what kind of bullet it is, even a nuclear weapon hitting him, he will be fine as long as he transfers the impact away from himself in time. He is now immune to all physical attacks.

However, it is clear that the other party's behavior is completely inconsistent with his statement that "everyone is relaxed."

After a moment of silence, a stone pillar suddenly appeared from below Xiao He, directly hitting his face. But despite the powerful impact, the stone pillar stopped upon contact with Xiao He, neither shattering nor sending Xiao He flying.

Xiao He easily moved a step to the left, clearing the stone pillar, and two dark figures rushed out of the darkness.

One of them was a Middle Eastern man, and the other was a white woman; both had Raven tattoos on their hands.

The girl's appearance caught Xiao He's eye. She looked like a girl from Eastern Europe. Although she was white, she had delicate features similar to those of E Country women and a slender figure. She was quite beautiful with blonde hair and blue eyes.

But now that he has a girlfriend, he's completely unfazed.

At that moment, Cui Man's voice suddenly came through the earpiece. "Bixi and Black Tortoise are in position and ready to act at any time. Just say the word if you need help. Wanqing is also searching for their information and preparing to change their names."

"No need, I can handle them much more easily by myself," Xiao He said calmly.

The enemy's attacks are useless against him; instead, they can be used to fuel his own attacks. However, if someone comes to help, he might have to take care of them, so it's better for him to act alone.

After the Middle Eastern man rushed out, he pressed his hand to the ground, and then several stone pillars shot out from beside Xiao He, slamming into him. But just like before, the stone pillars stopped as soon as they touched him.

"Both power and quantity have increased... Does the control increase the closer you are to them?" Xiao He wondered to himself.

However, the opponent did not approach him further, but instead attacked from a distance of about ten meters, suggesting that their physical strength was not particularly strong.

The white woman lunged at Xiao He, landing a punch squarely on his chest. The punch was almost powerless, which puzzled Xiao He, but then he felt an immense pressure. This pressure didn't come from his enemy, but from himself, and the ground around him immediately caved in.

"The ability to control gravity?" Xiao He was slightly surprised, but he remained calm. Qin Weize had also improved his basic physique, so this level of gravity couldn't affect his movements.

At this moment, he had already accumulated a large amount of kinetic energy, so Xiao He directly released a small portion of the kinetic energy within his body, but the impact was already powerful enough.

"Bang!" The crisp sound of shattering bricks rang out, and the ground around Xiao He quickly caved in and crumbled, sending stones flying everywhere, forcing the white woman back. Xiao He's body also regained its lightness. Clearly, once the contact was broken, the effect of gravity would disappear.

However, the pebbles around him suddenly stopped floating in mid-air and then transformed into a rain of arrows that flew towards him.

Xiao He glanced at the Middle Eastern man, who had raised his hand towards the rubble in mid-air. He was clearly the one controlling the rubble, but it stopped immediately as soon as it touched Xiao He.

This time, however, Xiao He targeted the Middle Eastern man. As a pebble fell from his body, Xiao He flicked it lightly with his index finger, releasing kinetic energy at the moment of contact. He didn't use the impact of the released kinetic energy to send the pebble flying, as that would have shattered it; he "imbued" the pebble with kinetic energy.

The pebble flew towards the Middle Eastern man like a bullet. He hesitated for a moment, and just as he raised his hand, the pebble pierced his shoulder, spurting out a spurt of blood. The man screamed and fell to the ground, clutching his shoulder.

The white woman called out, presumably calling the man's name, then turned to Xiao He, picked up a boulder more than a meter high from the ground, and threw it at him.

Xiao He raised his right hand and unleashed a shockwave that shattered the boulder. However, the next moment, an RPG appeared in his field of vision. Seeing the missile almost touching his face, Xiao He was stunned.

But the RPG stalled the moment it touched him and fell to the ground.

"You scared me half to death! I thought I was going to die..." Xiao He breathed a sigh of relief, but then a gunshot rang out. A bullet hit the high-explosive warhead of the RPG and detonated it. Flames, shrapnel, and rubble instantly engulfed him.

Just then, a figure rushed out from the bushes and pulled the Middle Eastern man and the Eastern European woman to their feet.

"Retreat for now, get back into formation, and then attack again," the third man instructed the two. He then prepared to retreat, but his two companions stood frozen in place, staring blankly at the spot where the RPG warhead had exploded, as if they had seen a ghost.

The third person turned his head and glanced at it, then took a step back in fright: the flames at the site of the RPG explosion had not dissipated, nor had the blast radius expanded; instead, it seemed to be being held by an unseen hand, and was beginning to shrink little by little.

Finally, the flames completely disappeared, and Yinglong's figure appeared behind them, unharmed, not even with his clothes torn.

"Ouch, what a mess this is! It's really... I've got everyone covered in shards." Xiao He complained, patting himself down with stone chips and shrapnel. "Oops! A piece of metal got into my shoe! It's prickly!"

Then, he spotted the third person at the scene and immediately raised an eyebrow. "Yo--! You finally decided to come out?"

The third person was a young man in his early twenties with shoulder-length hair, of Asian descent, his face covered in dirty camouflage paint, but it was unclear whether he was Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. He came to his senses, raised his hand, and a grenade appeared out of thin air in his hand.

"So it's Superpower. I was wondering how he could possibly bring so many weapons into the country." Xiao He suddenly realized, but the grenade had already been thrown in front of him.

However, after the grenade exploded, the flames did not expand but were suppressed in front of his chest and continued to shrink. Soon, all the energy generated by the grenade explosion was absorbed by Xiao He.

"Sure enough, this guy absorbed our attack..." the Asian man frowned. "This is bad. The intelligence didn't mention him having this Superpower. The three of us can't break through his power."

Xiao He lightly stomped his foot, releasing kinetic energy, as if an unseen shark had burrowed into the soil in front of him and swam towards the three people.

The three were thrown into the air by the impact. Xiao He then raised his hand towards them and unleashed all the energy he had accumulated within him. Fearing he might kill them, he did not concentrate the energy but instead released it in a scattered manner. The three were scattered and thrown to the ground by the impact, struggling to get up.

"Isn't this a bit too much? It's like having the energy of an RPG and a grenade..." Xiao He muttered to himself with some concern as he walked towards the three people.

"Damn it, this ability is not what we were told..." The Asian man struggled to back away on the ground, gritting his teeth as he looked at Xiao He and muttered to himself.

Xiao He raised an eyebrow, guessing that the other party was probably referring to the "Perfect Cube" he had used at the press conference last time.

However, these three people's abilities are actually unable to counter the Perfect Cube, because inside the Perfect Cube, he is also unaffected by external gravity, unless the opponent can bury the bomb inside the cube before he activates Perfect Cube.

It's obvious that these people received incorrect information, probably on Cui Man's part.

This is not surprising, since the Superpower he gains vary depending on the Trigger he uses, and this Kinetic Energy Absorption Superpower was triggered after capturing the five Raven members from last time, so it's normal that they didn't have this information.

Xiao He then prepared to bend down and grab the Asian man, but the man suddenly did a lightning-fast backflip to create distance.

"Action!" the Asian man shouted, and his two companions immediately began to move.

Xiao He then noticed that there was a landmine buried in the ground behind the Asian man, which had been blocked by the man's body, so he hadn't seen it before.

At the Asian man's command, the white woman immediately raised her hand towards Xiao He, and a gravitational field surrounded him, leaving a noticeable dent in the ground around Xiao He.

"I see. Touching it with your hand can increase the gravity effect on a specific target, but you can also adjust the gravity in a certain area without touching it," Xiao He thought to himself, bending over under the weight of the force.

But the attack wasn't over yet; suddenly, several stone arms rose from the ground beside him and grabbed his hands and feet.

"It's no use," Xiao He thought to himself: that landmine couldn't hurt him.

However, just as he was wondering what was going on, the ground where the mine was located suddenly bulged up, sending the mine directly into his face.

"Boom!" A loud explosion rang out, and flames instantly engulfed Xiao He's figure.

"So, how was it? Were you able to catch him off guard this time?" the Asian man asked, frowning. "Did you take care of this guy?"

But before the three could rejoice, the flames began to shrink rapidly and then disappeared into Xiao He.

"This attack absorption effect is automatic?! Tsk, this is troublesome..." The Asian man spat, then turned to his two companions and ordered in English, "Split up and run! Get as many as you can, and get the intelligence..."

Before he could finish speaking, he found Xiao He standing in front of him.

"Wow, so fast!" the Asian man exclaimed, wondering how Xiao He had appeared in front of him so quickly.

"This tactic is quite interesting; it startled me," Xiao He said with interest, reaching out to push on the man's chest, releasing some of the kinetic energy. The strong impact sent the Asian man tumbling through the air several times before he crashed to the ground.

He felt as if all the bones in his body had shattered, and he couldn't muster any strength. But taking advantage of this moment, his two companions had already fled in the opposite direction. Seeing this, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief: at least they could bring the information back, and their mission would be complete...

At this moment, Xiao He pushed off the ground with one foot, releasing part of the impact, which propelled him forward, allowing him to catch up with the white woman in the blink of an eye.

The Middle Eastern man was injured and couldn't run far, so Xiao He decided to deal with the faster-moving woman first.

Seeing Xiao He approaching, the woman suddenly leaped up and flew into the air.

"So she really can fly." Xiao He frowned, but he didn't have the ability to fly at the moment. At most, he could only jump higher by bursting kinetic energy, so he could only watch as the woman flew further and further away.

However, this woman's flight relies on controlling gravity; in other words, it only allows her to escape the constraints of gravity and float into the air. The propulsion for movement comes from her leap on the ground, meaning she cannot change her direction of movement in mid-air. Xiao He cannot stray too far from Qin Weize, the Trigger, so he raises his hand towards the white woman.

Since the opponent could only move in a straight line, their position was easy to predict. He released his kinetic energy as a shockwave, and a visible gust of air struck the white woman in mid-air. She tumbled several times in the air before falling to the ground. Xiao He quickly chased after her: This was an important Trigger; he couldn't let her fall to her death like that.

But... once he left Qin Weize's side, he lost his Trigger, and without his Superpower, he couldn't save the white woman.

"Old Xiao, I've changed all three of their names!" Ye Wanqing reminded her through the earpiece.

"The change was just in time, baby." Xiao He chuckled, pressing his earpiece before releasing kinetic energy from his feet. A shockwave spread out, propelling him forward.

Ye Wanqing yelled angrily into the earpiece, "There are other people on the channel! Idiot! Be mindful of your image!"

"So what? You're my girlfriend, is it weird for me to call you 'baby'?" Xiao He said smugly as he walked forward.

He quickly reached the area beneath the fallen white woman and activated his new Superpower.

The Superpower Qin Weize triggered for him also disappeared, but this new Superpower was somewhat similar to the "Kinetic Energy Absorption" that Qin Weize had triggered for him. He could sense all the "forces" around him, not just kinetic energy. Whether it was the reaction force generated by his feet stepping on the ground, the resistance formed by the air, or even the flow of the wind, he could control it.

"Vector Control!" Xiao He muttered to himself, "This ability is far too complex..."

He raised his hand towards the falling white woman, who stopped abruptly just before hitting the ground. This stop wasn't because she was stopped by some force, but because he had eliminated her gravity and kinetic energy.

Xiao He can now control all "vectors," which is undoubtedly a powerful ability, but it also has a significant flaw: it is too complex and difficult for the human brain to control perfectly.

The amount of information to process was simply too vast; controlling just this one ability was exhausting. Not only the vectors from the enemy, but also the vectors from his own body and the surrounding environment flooded into his mind. The sheer volume of information was overwhelming; his brain simply couldn't process it all.

In other words, if Xiao He were to use this Superpower, he could only use this one ability. At most, it could only provide passive effects such as physical and defensive enhancements that didn't require much thought. It couldn't be combined with Superpower like the Perfect Cube or Psychokinesis.

Therefore, this Trigger can only be "stored" temporarily, and it will only be useful in special circumstances. Otherwise, Xiao He can use other combinations of Superpower to replace this ability.

"Don't forget, there's one more," Cui Man reminded her through the earpiece.

Xiao He nodded. "I know, he's injured his shoulder and can't go far. Besides, he'll leave bloodstains wherever he goes. I'll go and catch him right now."

As he spoke, Xiao He picked up the white woman and flew off to the other side. Being able to control vectors meant being able to fly.

He currently only has one Superpower triggered by this woman, so he can't knock her unconscious, otherwise his Superpower will disappear.

"Let me go!" The white woman struggled violently and then punched Xiao He, but Xiao He redirected the impact, causing the woman to scream and clutch her hand.

"Stop making a fuss, it's for your own good," Xiao He said, frowning. But the other person didn't understand Chinese and just continued to struggle.

Xiao He ignored her, letting her struggle in his arms, and simply accelerated his flight, soon spotting the Middle Eastern man below. Due to his arm injury, the man had turned the ground into an escalator-like device to move forward quickly, but to be honest, even moving like that wasn't fast; Xiao He could catch up in a few seconds.

The white woman shouted, presumably to warn her companion, but this time Xiao He understood one word: "Tiannan".

Using the Middle Eastern man "Lin Tiannan" below him as leverage, Xiao He activated a new Superpower. He then delivered a sharp rap on the head of the white woman, knocking her unconscious, before landing on the ground.

"Physical strength boost, and..." Xiao He felt his newfound power, then raised his hand towards the Middle Eastern man in front of him. The rock-formed escalator immediately reversed, pushing the Middle Eastern man back.

The Middle Eastern man panicked and tried to turn around, but he found himself losing control of the rock.

"Because I have a higher priority than you. My ability isn't just to control rocks, it's 'Inorganic Matter Control'," Xiao He laughed, waving his right hand. The ore from the ground gathered together and turned into an arm, grabbing the Middle Eastern man. Despite his frantic struggles, he could only watch as he was delivered to Xiao He like a plate of conveyor belt sushi.

"Oh, this ability is so much more convenient." Xiao He smiled with satisfaction, waving as he walked towards the car.

Another metal arm emerged from the ground, grabbed the white woman in his hand, and then followed behind Xiao He.

Back at the car, Qin Weize was tying up the Mutant could create weapons out of thin air.

"You're finally back!" Upon seeing Xiao He, Qin Weize breathed a sigh of relief and fearfully approached him, saying, "I didn't know what to do! I was afraid he would wake up and attack me, so I had to tie him up..."

"Hmm... you did a good job." Xiao He frowned and said, because Qin Weize was only here to play the role of "Trigger," and Xiao He didn't expect him to help.

Then, Xiao He pressed his earpiece. "Sister Man, we've captured all three of them. Shall we send Helicopter to pick us up?"

"I'll be there soon. Well done, you really showed off in front of the younger generation." Cui Man said softly with a smile, "Wanqing, are you going to pick up your boyfriend?"

After a long while, Ye Wanqing softly responded, "Mmm..."