Leveling up 2: The slacker leveled up.

She stared at the decaying earth beneath her feet for a long time, then raised her head and looked around blankly.

Huh, what is she doing standing here?

Chapter 54, Level Up 2: The Salted Fish Leveled Up.

Ye Jiang's memory ended when she saw the Nurse smashing the skeleton and hesitated whether to throw away the steel pipe. At that time, it seemed that some creature distinctly different from humans and Polluted beings rose from the ruins. What was it? Ye Jiang tried hard to recall, but her mind was blank.

The ground beneath her feet was exceptionally soft, covered with a layer of black slag, the residue of decay.

This is the Nurse's skill.

The Nurse turned out to be a person with superpowers.

Where did she go?

Ye Jiang looked around but couldn't sense a single living person.

The skeleton that the Nurse beat up was the one who'd been causing trouble in the city all along, right? Not only did he cause trouble, but he also tried to freeload. The boss only entrusted her with his help because he had already suspected something was wrong.

Where is the skeleton man?

Was it resolved by the Nurse?

So, how did I get here?

And what about that child? How is she?

Ye Jiang suddenly understood why her boss was so tormented by doubts that he couldn't sleep.

creak--

Several windows of the blue skyscraper were open, their frames decaying and swaying gently high in the air.

Ye Jiang doesn't like to use her brain to think about complicated things, so she decided to clear all the questions out of her mind before becoming like her boss.

She decided to keep it simple—go and take a look at the tall buildings ahead.

Her main purpose in coming to this city was to look at houses, and now all the houses are in front of her.

She turned and walked into the building.

The high-rise building, which looked somewhat dilapidated from the outside, didn't appear to have suffered much damage from the inside. However, a battle had taken place within, leaving the floor a mess. Despite being a broadcasting center, there were inexplicably many books scattered everywhere, some destroyed, some intact. Ye Jiang climbed the floors, examining each one with increasing satisfaction. As she ascended, her weakness gradually disappeared, something filling her body. Her supernatural weakness seemed to be rapidly recovering as she finally had enough rest.

If Ye Jiang were to open her Ability System at this moment, she would find that the third compartment of the item Domination area in her system had been opened, and there was a dark red dot inside. It was not large, not as large as the dot in the second compartment, but it was extremely solid.

On her ability display screen, the "E" symbolizing her ability level faded and turned into a "D".

At the same time, the ability indices of all the superpowered individuals in the world underwent some changes. Xiao Pei, the captain of the Ability Control Bureau, was dragging herself toward the place where the monster had last disappeared when she suddenly sensed something was wrong. She summoned her Ability System to take a look.

Superpower: Corrosion Chains.

Rank: S-Rank

Rank: 1/1

Superpower Index: 10000001

She leveled up, just as predicted. When her ability index broke through eight digits, she became an S-Rank ability user.

Xiao Pei was stunned.

Looking at the "S" on the Ability System, the captain of the Ability Control Bureau could hardly contain his excitement. Finally, finally, humanity has its first S-Rank!

Although we are still very small in the face of monsters, there is hope as long as we can rise!

As my initial excitement subsided, more thoughts began to surface.

The old question—why did her superpower stat increase?

Her superpower index had remained unchanged for a long time, as if she had reached the pinnacle of human superpowers. She would not allow her superpowers to rise any higher by accumulating experience on her own.

Her superpower index has recently changed, jumping twice.

This didn't seem like she did anything herself; it was more like an entity that granted humans superpowers became stronger, like...

Beings that grant humans supernatural abilities are also living beings.

Xiao Pei was overwhelmed with mixed feelings.

Ye Jiang climbed to the ground floor. The top floor was a huge study. The entire floor had no partitions, or perhaps there used to be, but they had been opened up. The study was also in a mess. A bookshelf was overturned, with handwritten notes scattered all over the floor. Another bookshelf had completely collapsed, with shards of glass lying under it. This bookshelf seemed to have once held something, but now everything on it was broken and unrecognizable.

Ye Jiang stepped on a piece of broken glass, which was a bit uncomfortable, so she shook it off.

She stared at the shards of glass for a moment, then picked up a notebook.

[I am a magician. White doves fly out of my top hat, my cane levitates me—what an excellent magician I am! Yet...]

"How boring, I've had enough of this kind of magic trick."

"Do people still perform this kind of magic trick nowadays?"

The audience left disappointed.

The classics are dead.

I'm so angry.

I'm so angry.

Look at me, look at me! I'm going to perform a real magic trick for you!

Human body cutting magic!

whee.]

I am a clown...

The notebook fell from Ye Jiang's hand and hit her foot, snapping her back to reality. She realized she had been so bored she had almost dozed off. Instead of picking up the notebook, she began to survey the enormous study.

There's a large bed here.

Here's a sofa set.

Let's make a little green garden here.

Set up a home theater here.

It's a perfect place.

I love it.

Ye Jiang imagined her life after moving into this room. She opened the window to check the lighting. As she pushed the window, it was rotten and broken, and she easily pushed it away.

Ye Jiang remained silent for a moment.

The room is nice, but it looks like all the windows need to be replaced.

Use this to negotiate the price later.

She leaned out the window to look at the mangled remains of the fallen window, only to see a person crouching below. The captain of the Ability Control Bureau was squatting down, examining the black slag on the ground, rubbing it between his fingers, when a window suddenly slammed down at her feet. Her eyes twitched, and she looked up.

The two locked eyes.

"Boss."

Ye Jiang greeted them first, her voice not loud, but Xiao Pei heard her.

A black iron chain shot out from the ground, directly into the 88-story building, embedding itself deeply into the wall, and Xiao Pei arrived directly on the rooftop. Before evolving into S-Rank ability user, her chain did not have such a wide range of extension.

Xiao Pei leaped into the room and immediately asked, "Waiter, what do you see here?"

Ye Jiang didn't answer. Her gaze was fixed on the hole in the wall by the window, and she seemed slightly distracted—good, she'd found another point to negotiate.

"Waiter?"

"A skeleton appeared in the base, and I saw the Nurse fight it," Ye Jiang answered slowly, only getting to the point, because her thoughts were mostly still on the important matter of buying a house. She said, "The Nurse seemed very capable, so I didn't intervene."

"Nurse?!"

Nurse!

Xiao Pei exclaimed in disbelief, "Isn't she an ordinary person?"

Ye Jiang gave her a look that said, "You're asking me? Who am I supposed to ask?"

Xiao Pei was lost in thought.

The City A Branch of the Anomaly Control Bureau has recorded a monster codenamed "Nurse". There is a Nurse with a child in the base, and now some people say that she is not an ordinary person. On the contrary, she has the ability to fight against the monster skeleton.

Too many coincidences are no longer coincidences.

The Nurse who takes care of the child is the "Nurse," the number 9 monster.

The skull is the monster "Writer," and the monster "Nurse" killed the monster "Writer."

Xiao Pei's heart pounded. "Waiter, the Nurse who came into the city with you, her surname is Ding? Her name is Ding Xuan?"

Ye Jiang asked in surprise, "You didn't know?"

Xiao Pei: "..."

She suddenly remembered something. When she learned that the Nurse who entered the base was a Nurse, she had asked the Nurse for her name, but that memory was blurry. After that, she always ignored the Nurse's name. Now she realized that it was something the monster had done to her when she asked the Nurse.

The Nurse with the child is named Ding Xuan; she's a monster.

Why is she targeting "Writer"?

What lies beyond the rift? Is it the other world described in the archives, a world inhabited only by monsters?

Are the monster "Nurse" still in the human world?

And that crack.

Who exactly tore the Sky apart?

The Writer is dead, and the crack in the Sky has nothing to do with the Writer, so was it the work of the Nurse?

It's unlikely.

Assuming that the gap leads to a world of monsters, and assuming the "Nurse" returned to her own world, then she, as recorded in the file, had no ability to tear open the boundary gate; otherwise, she wouldn't have descended into the body of the human Ding Xuan.

Are there other powerful creatures in this city?

Xiao Pei recalled the incident of the superpowered individuals storming the building. Were those superpowered individuals controlled by the "Nurse," or by some other entity?

Xiao Pei's head started to ache again; the more she knew, the more mysteries she encountered.

She tried to find answers from the Waiter Waiter, asking, "Anything else? What else did you see?"

Ye Jiang replied with a blank expression, "No, I have amnesia."

Xiao Pei choked.

This sounds like a perfunctory remark, but upon closer inspection, it makes perfect sense. Even she, an A+ level ability user, suffered a severe mental shock when the monster revealed its true form. Although the Waiter is also A-Rank ability user, his ranking is lower than hers, so it's perfectly normal for him to suffer from amnesia due to the shock. I should say I admire her quite a bit; she actually withstood it.

Xiao Pei didn't get any more useful information from the Waiter, so she gave up, walked around the building without finding anything else, and returned to the base to check on the situation.

A day later, Shi Tao, the director of the City A Branch of the Anomaly Control Bureau, led his elite Operations Team to City S. Since City A is the closest city to City S, this matter was handed over to the City A Branch Bureau.