Chapter 12
The three soul-searching questions left Su Chen speechless.
It wasn't that what she said had thoroughly devastated him.
It was...
Come on, you're not much older yourself. Who taught you to talk like some old-timer?
"Hmph, don't believe me? When I was your age, I did all kinds of big things. I went everywhere and swept through the whole city..."
Seeing Su Chen's speechless expression, Mindy immediately demonstrated a few moves.
To be fair, the way she moved her head did suggest she had some fighting skills, enough to fool people.
"This lemon tea is on me. Finish it and hurry home, okay?"
Mindy paid the aloof boy no further attention. She turned and walked away with a carefree air, her golden twin tails swaying back and forth. Combined with her small, dainty figure, they made her look rather cute.
For a moment, Su Chen thought of his own little sister.
Half an hour passed.
Having satisfied his hunger, Su Chen walked out of the restaurant. It was late, and he needed to find somewhere to stay, but a practical problem stood in his way.
That was how to find lodging.
Ordinary hotels all required identification, while less legitimate places were hard to find and might not welcome an underage child anyway.
After thinking it over, Su Chen decided he could set the matter of lodging aside for the night.
His undying, indestructible constitution meant his cells were already brimming with vitality. His surging regenerative power was enough to keep his stamina replenished at all times, and even when it came to easing mental exhaustion, Su Chen had yet to feel very tired since his body had been stimulated by the nuclear explosion.
"Most importantly, I need to figure out how to find my family as soon as possible."
Ping!!
A coin flipped off Su Chen's right hand and rose into the air before slowly falling back down. But just as it landed squarely in his palm, it vanished without a trace.
Less than a second later, as if by magic, a brand-new coin appeared out of thin air in his palm.
Then...
Ping!!
With another crisp sound, Su Chen flicked it into the air.
This time, the coin vanished completely in midair.
The invisible fluctuations of Reality Warping were nearly impossible to trace. Its unseen power made a coin appear and disappear in Su Chen's palm.
This wasn't showing off.
Su Chen was using his Reality Warping ability as much as he could.
His infinitely evolving genes did indeed mutate at random.
But past experience had also taught Su Chen that outside stimulation, and even excessive use of an ability, could give his genetic evolution a focal point.
Generally speaking, only when he lost control of his emotions could he make extensive use of the power to completely rewrite reality.
But making a coin repeatedly appear out of thin air and then erasing it from reality like this naturally didn't require a change in his emotions.
[Reality Warping +1] [Reality Warping +1]
"The more I practice, the more it evolves..."
The system he had constructed kept a good record of his genetic transformations.
Walking along the streets at night, Su Chen wore a black hood and a black trench coat, with wired earphones in his ears. A coin constantly flipped and leaped in his hand, appearing and disappearing with an uncanny air, while his tall, thin figure moved along in utter aloofness.
He wandered here and there, taking in the nighttime scenery of Manhattan.
But the beautiful life he had envisioned years ago was gradually fading from his mind. If he couldn't control whether he and the people around him lived or died, how could he go on with his life?
He had to grow stronger!
Only the strong could crush every obstacle in their path.
Just then, sounds of sparks flying from violent impacts came from an alley nearby, along with the muffled reports of bullets fired through suppressors.
Su Chen's keen hearing picked it all up.
His utterly impassive face showed no reaction. After his experience with human organ trafficking, he had seen quite a few robberies while walking around. Far too much filth was hidden behind the thriving city.
It had also begun to change how he saw the world.
His mother had always taught him to do good, and he had strongly agreed in the past.
But the series of events over the past half month had left him feeling somewhat numb.
He was still deciding in his heart whether or not to take revenge.
On one hand, he yearned for a peaceful life, for a return to his ordinary, warm family of the past.
But on the other, he couldn't put down the resentment in his heart. Why did he have to suffer so much for no reason? Why could the bad guys still roam free, hunting down people like him without restraint?
Turmoil stirred in Su Chen's heart.
He was thinking.
The next second.
Su Chen stopped in his tracks and looked toward the entrance of the nearby alley. There, a purple-haired girl in a black hooded leather outfit was darting among her enemies.
With a katana in one hand and a butterfly knife in the other, she killed several attackers in succession.
Su Chen didn't know that this woman went by the name Hit-Girl.
All he knew was that this woman in a purple wig and black combat outfit was the girl who had given him a glass of lemonade at the restaurant earlier.
What a coincidence...
Su Chen frowned. Guided by an instinct for battle, he realized that the girl was about to be in trouble.
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Chapter 12
(Picture: Hit-Girl!)
Bang!!
A bullet suddenly burst from the suppressed gun barrel. The leaping girl had no time to dodge in midair. With a bang, she lost her balance and fell.
But unexpectedly, the bullet lodged in the outside of her black leather outfit.
Hah!!
With an angry grunt, the girl rolled on the ground and flicked several butterfly knives backhanded. Her precise throwing skills were astounding. In an instant, they struck three figures in their throats, killing them outright.
For a moment, the alley was littered with figures in suits, leaving only the little girl standing like a god of slaughter.
Su Chen naturally knew nothing about Hit-Girl, who had recently risen to fame in Manhattan.
As for whether the girl was punishing evil and promoting good or fighting in a gang war, Su Chen instinctively felt it had nothing to do with him.
He was just a passerby.
Su Chen took one look, then turned to leave.
"That kid from earlier?"
Hit-Girl Mindy glanced at the tall, thin figure walking away nearby and frowned. She checked her watch. It was well past midnight, yet the little brat who had been munching on a doughnut still hadn't gone home.
With her purple wig on and her outfit changed, Mindy wasn't afraid of exposing her identity. She called out threateningly from a short distance away, "Hey, kid, what are you looking at? Get home and find your parents."
She simply felt like teasing him and wanted to mess with this precocious boy.
Acting all grown-up and cold without saying a word? Just watch me scare the piss out of you.
After speaking, Mindy brandished the katana in her hand. Blood dripped from its cold edge under the moonlight. The sight really was frightening.
"Huh..."
But less than a second later, Hit-Girl's expression changed, and she hurriedly shouted, "Hey, kid, look out! Watch out for the car in front of you..."
Su Chen had turned around at her words, and at that very moment, a white car came charging straight toward them at full throttle, like a wild horse that had broken free of its reins, bearing a terrifying force.
It didn't take much thought to know that the car suddenly speeding toward them was there to cause Hit-Girl trouble.
But as it happened, Su Chen was standing right in its path.
To Kingpin, the emperor of the criminal underworld, what did one innocent life matter?
His subordinates were just as unscrupulous. To get revenge on Hit-Girl, they floored the accelerator without a second thought, ignoring the pedestrian in the road as they sped toward the alley.
"So they can be this brazen..."
Su Chen's cold eyes fixed on the speeding car. Its headlights shone brightly through the night, engulfing his thin figure.
The driver gripped the steering wheel with both hands, his face full of excitement. In his eyes, the boy ahead looked completely paralyzed with fear, standing motionless like an idiot. He could already imagine the boy's body flying more than a hundred meters through the air, blood spraying across the sky.
But...
Why were the boy's eyes so full of mockery?
"Die."
At that whisper.
Boom!!!
A deep, thunderous crash resounded through the air.
In an instant, as though an air cannon had struck from nowhere or an invisible hammer had come crashing down, the speeding white car was flattened into a disc of metal. The ground itself caved in several meters deep, as if struck by a meteorite.
"This..."
Hit-Girl Mindy's eyes widened, shock filling her gaze beneath her tactical eye mask.
She was dumbfounded.
So this aloof, cold, cool boy had superpowers?
Huh?
Could he be a Mutant?
He was way too strong.
"What are you looking at? Get home and find your parents."
Su Chen threw those words right back at the dumbstruck Hit-Girl.
You...
Mindy's delicate little face flushed red. But the deafening crash had set off car alarms throughout the block, and lights were coming on in houses all around, their occupants apparently wanting to see what had happened outside.
I can't stay here!
In that moment of distraction, she discovered that his solitary figure had already vanished into the night.
Damn it...
" sooner or later, I'm getting the money for that lemon tea back from you."
She had clearly treated him to it, and even Mindy felt she was being incredibly thick-skinned just to save face.
Several dozen minutes later.
Mindy's small figure arrived at her safe house.
She changed out of the black leather outfit that could withstand a bullet's impact, then removed her purple wig, letting her short, shoulder-length golden hair fall loose. Hit-Girl set the weapons in her hands down on the workbench one by one.