Identity exposed? Don't ask. If you must, I once loved.
He glared at Ye Jiang, then hopped back upstairs in a few quick steps with his short legs.
Hmph, he doesn't care!
While thinking this, his eyes were uncontrollably fixed on the scene below, intently watching what was happening down there.
Ye Jiang watched as No. 3 returned upstairs, then turned to look at the young man behind her, her eyes filled with a deeper meaning. Mirror Woman would worry about her, No. 3 would come to save her, they all harbored a kindness towards her that she didn't know where it came from, but the young man was the one who understood her best.
He seemed to understand her deepest thoughts, and remained silent precisely when she wanted to face things alone.
Just like now.
The giant cat continues its rampage, destroying the mall. Despite this destruction, the magical mall has not collapsed, remaining supported by an unknown force.
Ye Jiang withdrew her gaze from the young man and looked at the big cat.
She leaped up and landed lightly on the shoulder of the crouching cat. The Pollution instantly enveloped her, swallowing most of her body. The cat paused, then began to thrash about, raising its front paws to scratch wildly, but each scratch avoided Ye Jiang.
Ye Jiang stood firm, her figure not swaying at all despite the swaying.
Upon touching the cat's body, the pain became even more pronounced.
Ye Jiang stood there, her blood-red eyes fixed on the cat's eyes. Killing intent and evil poured out from the cat's dark pupils, and she absorbed it all.
She stood there for a long time.
"Good."
With a sigh, she raised her hand and placed it on the big cat's head, gently stroking it.
The demonized cat froze abruptly, the Pollution on its body momentarily halting.
"I really don't want to take action unless absolutely necessary..."
A soft murmur escaped Ye Jiang's lips, but the large cat, now enraged again, didn't hear it.
It only heard the next sentence, it heard--
"Bear with it."
It only heard this one sentence, and it heard the tenderness in it.
The next instant, a roar resounded from its chest.
Someone made a large hole in its chest cavity.
A ray of light entered the dark space, dispelling the boundless darkness and exposing the floating cocoons to the lamplight.
Thump.
Thump.
Thump.
A dull sound emanated from the cocoon—the stirring of life.
Ye Jiang's raised hand hadn't fallen yet, and she stood frozen in place.
She smelled the familiar stench deep inside the cat's body, knowing the lesion was there, but she didn't want to destroy the toy, so she waited a long time before making her move.
She punched the cat's body away.
Before she threw the punch, Ye Jiang had no idea that the cat's body contained such a scene.
She saw a cocoon.
Dark red light swirled and wove into regular patterns, and a piece of black flesh, like a slough of skin, was sewn onto the cocoon, blocking the flow of light.
An opening appeared at the top of the cocoon, and wisps of smoke formed a deformed shape that resembled neither a cat nor a creature. Four cat heads shared one body, blocking the opening of the cocoon, as if they had been forcibly awakened and were trying to break free of the cocoon, but were stuck halfway between their bodies.
The two forelimbs that had emerged from the cocoon crossed over the chest, where something was actively thrashing about inside the chest cavity, forming a round arc, as if it were about to burst out at any moment. The dark red light on the cocoon all flowed out from this point.
As Ye Jiang stood there, the thing in her chest became even more active, desperately trying to break free.
Finally, a hole was punched through the wispy black smoke, and a small, dark red energy ball emerged. It was made of tightly wrapped energy threads, and although it was only the size of a ginkgo fruit, it radiated terrifying energy.
The energy ball broke through the black smoke and flew towards Ye Jiang, striking her forehead and disappearing.
That wasn't an attack, that wasn't an intrusion, it was...
return.
The moment the energy sphere merged into her mind, Ye Jiang became aware of something.
The Ability Control Bureau has been searching for attribute-less Origin Energy. The Blood Moon, which appears only once every three years, hangs high in the sky, awakening potential individuals one after another—this is the first miracle. The Miraculous Moon Tree was nowhere to be found, but a giant tree appeared, fulfilling a dream in the hearts of the people—this is the second miracle. The Magical Mall appeared in the world, stimulating the awakening of the elderly—this is the third miracle.
This is the perspective of the Ability Control Bureau.
But that's not the case.
There is only one miracle.
Ye Jiang is the only miracle in itself.
Chapter 132: Don't ask why your identity was revealed. The answer is simple: I loved you.
The Blood Moon, the Moon Tree, and the miracles that have occurred in this shopping mall—they are all creations of Ye Jiang.
It wasn't that the Blood Moon System favored Ye Jiang, granting her rare Domination; rather, the Blood Moon System itself was a creation of hers. It seems she and all other ability users in the world possess the Blood Moon mark, but the Ability System represented by their marks are never the same.
Superpower:??
Grade: S-Rank.
Rank:??
Her ability interface didn't have a line for the ability index of ordinary ability users in the world. Her ability was never ranked, and later even the name of her ability disappeared.
Because her ability is attribute-less, it is undefined, unmeasurable, and unranked. The ranking system is self-contained, and its standards are completely different from those of human ability users and Polluted. Therefore, when she was still at a low level, she could easily defeat higher-level humans and Polluted.
Ye Jiang now knows what the dark, blurry "sesame ball" in the first column of the "Domination" section in her system represents: it represents all human ability users.
The meaning of " to Domination" is always obvious; it's exactly what it means literally.
She can Domination the Polluted in the second column.
She can Domination the monsters in the third column.
She can Domination all human superhumans.
The superpowers of human superhumans originate from her creation, the Blood Moon; they benefit from her, but are also controlled by her.
In other words, her system is the parent system, while the human system is merely a subsystem of her system.
One thing that still puzzles Ye Jiang is that the Blood Moon appeared on the "Disaster Day," and its appearance ushered in the era of human superpowers and averted humanity's annihilation. But why did she give humanity such a Blood Moon? And why did she later send out a Wishing Tree?
Ye Jiang forgot the reason.
But after the energy sphere returned to itself, some memories of this Magical Mall came back vaguely.
She remembered that the miracle in the Magical Mall wasn't a gift from her to humans. The Blood Moon and the Wishing Tree were gifts to humans, but the miracle in the Magical Mall wasn't; she had given it to a little Coal Ball monster.
It wasn't that the little monster encountered Ye Jiang after entering the mall, and then Ye Jiang gave him a wonderful adventure; rather, Ye Jiang had already met the little monster and created this mall for him. Yes, the entire mall was Ye Jiang's creation.
She created shopping malls, manufactured countless toys, and helped others grow and become stronger.
In a childlike way.
The shopping mall and the wind-up toys are a set, like a playground built for children.
It's more like an enrichment toy that humans make for their pets.
The contents hidden inside the wind-up toy were none other than the energy balls that Ye Jiang had willingly given her. Ye Jiang had separated them, sealed them away, and placed them inside the wind-up toy for the little monsters to chase and play with, just like the snacks hidden in the enrichment toy's secret compartment.
The Ability Control Bureau thought that the Third Miracle, which carried the hopes of humanity, was nothing more than a Fengrong toy that Ye Jiang casually made for a little monster.
When the little monster ate all the "snacks" inside the wind-up toy's belly, the little monster grew into a respectable little creature. Ye Jiang took the little monster and left the mall. She should have destroyed the mall, but she hesitated for a moment and gave up, instead sinking the mall deep underground.
The shopping mall lies dormant underground, silent with the passage of time. The wind-up toys inside continue to spin tirelessly, but no one chases after them anymore.
A tiny energy ball floated silently inside a toy; it had been overlooked.
The seal on the small ball slowly broke, and powerful energy instantly enveloped the entire shopping mall.
One day, deep in the abyss, in a shopping mall, a wind-up toy came to a stop. It slowly and mechanically walked to the railing, leaned against it, and gazed into the distance, as if deep in thought.
A toy is just a toy; it should only follow its design and move along its own path. That was the toy's first misstep.
Something was born.
The second one.
The third one.
The fourth one...
Deep underground, within the shopping mall, time, which should have stood still, began to flow again.
Ye Jiang's memory ended when she left the mall with the little monster. Her subsequent memories came from the strange cat attached to the energy ball. These memories flowed slowly towards Ye Jiang Ye Jiang, clearer than her own, as if they had been repeatedly chewed up by the owner of the memories. At the same time, along with the memories, a century-old, lingering loneliness also flowed towards her.
Ye Jiang looked at the floating cocoon, and then at the strange cat stuck in it.
The strange cat's body twisted and deformed continuously, and it was in great pain. The pain came from two sources. First, it had swallowed Ye Jiang's energy ball but could not digest it, which had damaged its body. That's why it had been trying to alleviate the pain by sleeping for many years. Second, there was the fleshy piece on the cocoon, which was eroding its mind and violently pouring energy into its already damaged body. That energy was also particularly explosive.
The energy ball had returned to Ye Jiang, and the strange cat's pain lessened slightly, its consciousness becoming clearer.
It has four heads, and all four pairs of eyes are open. They are all staring at Ye Jiang, their eyes filled with unspoken words, eager to tell her everything.
Meeting those eyes, Ye Jiang raised her hand and gently placed it on its head. After a pause, she stroked it lightly, albeit somewhat awkwardly.
She touched nothingness.
It was as ephemeral as the monster itself.
The strange cat froze abruptly. After a long while, the urgency in its eyes vanished, and it lowered its eyes, gently nuzzling Ye Jiang's hand.