Once Fei got stuck in a spiral, he felt he would be better off dead.
He sank into pessimism and could not pull himself out.
But Xu Duoduo said, "Why not try if there's a chance? We can give it a shot."
There were so many of them.
There was always hope.
The Gluttonous Beast looked at Xu Duoduo too, giving her an admiring glance before suddenly saying, "How about we become sworn brothers today? No, wait-how about brother and sister?"
She was exactly his kind of person.
Qin Luo told him to dream on. "Xu Duoduo doesn't want you as her brother."
Big Dog was practically dripping with jealousy.
Chen Xiaofei chimed in with a wild idea. "Loads of people want to be our Little Class Monitor's big brother. Even we'd get a turn before you."
He actually sounded proud of that.
For a moment, the Gluttonous Beast wondered why 3A was so childish in private. Was this really the team that dominated everything on the Forum?
Bai Shu was still the reliable one. He brought the conversation back on track. "Once an ability user's mutant ability awakens, it lives and dies with its owner. I think stripping a mutant ability from someone would be extremely dangerous, no less than flaying them and tearing out their tendons."
He asked whether Fei's body could withstand that.
Qin Luo asked a serious question. "Headquarters can't just leave Fei like this, can they? Are there any other options?"
The Gluttonous Beast sounded flat, his face sour. "Yes, but that method is worse than trying to strip his mutant ability. Headquarters said we need to find the Phoenix Egg. A Taoist Ability User divined its approximate location, somewhere in a mountain range abroad."
It was a needle in a haystack.
How were they