Angels

"Damn, I forgot he could fly."

Du Kao's expression instantly darkened in the command room. He, too, realized his oversight.

His opponent had freely leapt between the city's skyscrapers, yet he had failed to recognize the issue in time.

"Lei Na, can you fly?" Du Kao urgently asked Lei Na. "Or can you try attacking him by jumping?"

Lei Na rolled her eyes and helplessly shook her head.

Though she was the Light of the Sun, she could not fly yet.

"What do we do now?" Cheng Yaowen asked anxiously. His Earth Hand had just been used by Yun Ming as a launching point, and it was useless now.

After a moment of thought, Du Kao calmly issued an order. "I'll deploy helicopters. Get aboard and pursue him."

Yet he could not help considering whether he should transfer Lei Na back to base and equip her with wings to strengthen her aerial combat capabilities.

But he quickly rejected the idea. The time cost of going back and forth was too high, and installing wings was itself a troublesome, time-consuming task.

At that moment, Lian Feng suddenly sighed. "How about we retreat for now? It seems we have no way to deal with him in the short term. We can use the De Nuo computer to monitor his movements in real time, so we won't have to worry about him escaping. We should plan this properly."

Du Kao fell silent for a moment before nodding.

Continuing this blind pursuit would only waste time and energy, and there was no guarantee they could successfully capture Yun Ming.

Thus, he decisively made his choice. "You're right. We can't keep chasing him blindly. Everyone, the Super Soldier Company members are to withdraw to the Giant Gorge first."

On the screen, Yun Ming was tightly holding Qiang Wei as he landed on the rooftop of a building.

"Immediately deploy the military and police to surround him. Do not give him even a moment to catch his breath." Du Kao's voice was cold and resolute, determination flashing in his eyes. "We'll wear him down until he has nowhere to hide."

Although the Super Soldier Company was withdrawing, it was only temporary.

"Yes!" The officers in the command room nodded one after another and swiftly got to work.

Just then, the screen emitted a burst of crackling static. The image became hopelessly blurred, as though some invisible force were interfering with it.

"What's going on?" Du Kao froze, his brow furrowing as he stared sharply at the screen.

Everyone in the command room was equally alarmed. They hurriedly searched for the cause, trying to restore the screen's normal display.

"Report! Someone has hacked into our De Nuo computer!" A woman with twin ponytails looked up and reported in a slightly panicked tone.

"What?!" Du Kao's eyes widened, and a powerful sense of unease surged within him.

At Blue Star's current technological level, this was simply impossible. Anyone capable of hacking into the De Nuo computer had to be a powerful lifeform from another civilization.

In an instant, Du Kao's face turned exceptionally grim. His heart was full of doubt and worry. Which civilization had come to Blue Star, and which one had done this?

On the rooftop, Yun Ming gently set Qiang Wei down. Beneath his dust-covered face, his black eyes still shone brightly.

He remembered that he was proficient in qinggong and could scale walls and traverse rooftops as easily as walking on level ground.

Meanwhile, Ge Xiaolun, the one in the Super Soldier Company who could fly, had yet to activate his wings and had not arrived.

In the original story, Qiang Wei also possessed wings, but she was now lying quietly in Yun Ming's arms.

Right, that so-called tech monkey hasn't appeared yet either. The Super Soldier Company currently has no way to deal with him.

Yun Ming had been in a desperate situation at the time, believing that no matter how hard he held on, he would only be at the end of his strength and ultimately unable to escape disaster.

In his highly tense state, he had actually forgotten that he could use qinggong to escape. It was Cheng Yaowen's Earth Hand, and his instinctive response to it, that reminded him of this ability.

"Finally, I can catch my breath." Seeing no sign of the Super Soldier Company pursuing him, Yun Ming swiftly sat cross-legged on the ground and began meditating to regulate his breathing, speeding up his recovery.

His injuries were not light. He urgently needed to balance his energy and heal his wounds.

As Yun Ming closed his eyes to regulate his breathing, six eyes were quietly watching him.

"Is this the legendary Inner Force?"

"How amazing. This Inner Force actually flows like a liquid."

"..."

The murmured voices reached Yun Ming's ears. His brows knitted slightly in confusion.

Yet in his perception, aside from the unconscious Qiang Wei, there was no one else present.

"Mobilizing this energy doesn't seem very smooth. It feels a little strenuous."

"These energies seem to exist only in the cells along specific pathways. Could these be the so-called meridians?"

"..."

The voices came again, and Yun Ming was certain he was not hearing things. He hurriedly opened his eyes and looked around, trying to find where the voices were coming from.

But after scanning the area, he still found no one.

Yun Ming frowned deeply, his heart full of doubt.

Without hesitation, he immediately picked up Qiang Wei and prepared to flee.

When you have no idea what's going on, running is never wrong.

"Why don't you look up at the sky?"

The magnetic, androgynous voice carried a hint of teasing and light laughter, as though it had quietly sounded beside his ear.

Drawn by the sudden voice, Yun Ming involuntarily raised his head toward its source.

He saw three beautiful angels dressed in red garments and silver armor, immaculate white wings growing from their backs, leisurely floating in the air. Their fair faces bore interested expressions, their gazes locked tightly onto Yun Ming.

Yun Ming: "..."

A-Angels?

Yun Ming's expression changed drastically. An inexplicable fear surged through him, and he instinctively took a step back, nearly letting Qiang Wei slip from his arms.

"Are we that scary?" Angel Yan asked softly, the corners of her lips lifting into a teasing smile.

Angels! They had actually already come to Blue Star!

Yun Ming's heart trembled. He had long expected the angels to seek him out, but he had never imagined that day would come so suddenly.

He might still have been able to find a sliver of survival against the Super Soldier Company by exploiting their combat experience and open personalities, but against angels... Yun Ming felt utterly helpless.

"They really did scare me a little." Yun Ming swallowed, trying to calm the storm in his heart. "Seeing people in the sky out of nowhere—and angels, at that—would naturally make anyone surprised and afraid."

"Oh? Is that so?" Angel Yan chuckled as she lightly drifted down onto the rooftop, with Angel Zhui and Angel Mo Yi following close behind.

After landing, Angel Yan looked at Yun Ming holding Qiang Wei, curiosity gleaming in her eyes as she said with a smile, "Your performance was truly impressive."

They had also only just arrived. After reading Blue Star's Dark Data in the atmosphere, they had quickly been drawn to the fierce battle between Yun Ming and the Super Soldier Company.

Especially when they discovered in astonishment that this human fighting the Super Soldier Company looked exactly like the protagonist on the Light Screen, and even fought in precisely the same manner, their interest in Yun Ming grew even stronger.

After an in-depth and meticulous reading and analysis of the Dark Data,

Well now, it was truly astonishing.