Long Tianyu's reaction alone made it clear that Qiu Yu had been no ordinary figure in his previous life.
Hao Jingye nodded. "Yes, Qiu Yu, the Puppet Ability user and leader of Group A. Was she powerful in your previous life?"
Long Tianyu nearly jumped out of his seat, his voice rising. "Powerful doesn't begin to cover it. She was a complete monster!"
He took a deep breath and, under everyone's gaze, began explaining in earnest. "Qiu Yu didn't seem to be famous during the first year of the apocalypse. At least, I never heard her name that year."
"But in the second year of the apocalypse, Qiu Yu burst onto the scene. She was the world's only Puppet Ability user, monstrously powerful. She traveled with a whole pack of puppets, appearing and disappearing like a ghost."
"Put it this way: because of the Global Catastrophe, getting around became difficult. Aside from Superpower People who could fly through ancestral reversion, hardly anyone could travel between temporary bases. But I'm pretty sure every base knew Qiu Yu's name."
"She took her puppets to every base that fell in the Otherkind Invasion and fought the Otherkind like a madwoman. Her fighting style was practically mutual destruction."
Ke Jiaxue blinked. "Doesn't that make her something like a savior?"
Long Tianyu gave her a disdainful look and shook his head.
"If she were a savior, would I call her a monster? Supposedly, she carried countless meteorite fragments and was already among the absolute strongest Superpower People. And to fight the Otherkind, she naturally needed puppets who weren't afraid to die, so-"
"She attacked any Otherkind she encountered and turned any Superpower People she met into puppets, then took them out to fight the Otherkind. In the second year of the apocalypse, wherever the Otherkind