Chapter 200
by Need_More_SleepChapter 200: Enemy Attack
“For what happened yesterday, I solemnly apologize. Please accept this as compensation.”
She recited the line like it was reading from a script, but at least her posture was decent—a subtle bow and both hands offering a bank card.
“There’s three million on this bank card. The password is four zeros.”
It wasn’t a sincere apology, but more out of respect for Yiwen’s serious attitude toward her wish. She would earnestly fulfill this wish of delivering an apology, even if she still couldn’t suppress the anger in her heart at the sight of that child.
Mi Xiaoliu shook her head and hid behind Yiwen, tugging at her clothes: “Let’s go home.”
“Mmm, okay.” Yiwen smiled, held Xiaoliu’s hand, and turned away, politely adding, “Sorry, Chairwoman, Xiaoliu does not accept your apology.”
They walked away slowly.
To a truly wealthy person, giving away three million—or even thirty million—was nothing painful. She might forget about it the very next moment.
A real counterattack was making the other party take time out of their busy schedule to show up in person at an agreed location to apologize, and then refusing to accept it.
Playing clever.
The Chairwoman snorted coldly and handed the bank card to Shen Qing: “The bonus is yours.”
Shen Qing: “Thank you, Mother Nature, for this generous gift.”
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Back in the car, it was apparent that Okulet seemed somewhat conflicted.
“Uncle, what’s wrong?”
“Nothing,” Okulet replied, focusing on driving and trying his best to forget what had just happened.
He’d have to talk to her about it later—her and Gloria. All these years had completely spoiled her.
She couldn’t keep using Misha as a scapegoat or an excuse for her rebellious behavior.
Back when she was younger, she was merely rebellious. Now that she’d fully grown up, she was a genuine wicked woman.
“I’m not a superpowered police officer, so I don’t have a codename. My ability is to turn matter into nothing. Simply put, it’s erased. LV4 range—half a kilometer.”
As part of mutual understanding, Okulet began to explain his powers to the two of them.
Though he kept it low-key—after all, there were only a handful of LV5s. Too easy to guess who he was.
“I also have an LV3 intuition skill, which allows me to detect nearby danger—including danger to others. We should try not to be too far apart. The Federation gave me a ten-year assignment. For the next ten years, I’ll probably be your personal bodyguard. Though there will be some days I’ll have to go home to visit my family, ideally, I’ll be taking you with me.”
Even though this boy and his family didn’t get along, that didn’t mean he could just stop going home.
Yiwen didn’t pay attention to what this uncle was saying. She was lowering her head and using WeChat to ask the contact stationed in the crime district for intel—specifically information on Strange Grass.
A very powerful superpowered police officer, basically an all-rounder. His only shortcoming was that he couldn’t fly, yet he could still attack airborne targets. Once he locked onto a target, they were nearly guaranteed to be captured—except for the one time with “Destiny,” a.k.a. Red Prince.
Yiwen had never met this person face-to-face, but just based on Mi Xiaoliu’s and her mother’s descriptions, he felt very suspicious.
None of the intel was useful.
Helpless, she switched contacts—messaged the Humpback Whale uncle to ask whether it was possible to get the guy’s real identity.
She even hugged Mi Xiaoliu and took a selfie to prove it was her operating the account.
“Why are you asking about this?” Humpback Whale replied, suspicious.
Superpowered police officer identities weren’t things you could casually unmask.
“He bullied Xiaoliu,” Yiwen replied. “Because of him, Xiaoliu got slapped in the face.”
Well… partly because of him—he either took the person away or failed to act.
Humpback Whale immediately uploaded Strange Grass’s real identity information.
Very nice.
Nikita Lasvedo? Isn’t this current bodyguard uncle also from the Lasvedo family…
Come to think of it, the Chairwoman’s daughter, Misha, also has the surname Lasvedo.
Yiwen seemed to have realized why Okulet didn’t want to get out of the car just now, but she didn’t point it out—otherwise, it’d be awkward for everyone.
He awakened his ability at the age of four, and at ten, successfully recorded vitality, or more precisely, nutrient energy—a genius among tens of thousands within the family.
Following the traditional practice of superpowered police families, once he reached the age to attend elementary school, they sent him off to the Fallen City outside the Federation to study, accompanied only by a bodyguard.
A harsher environment didn’t mean he was being abandoned, on the contrary, he was being cultivated as the next head of the family.
At eighteen he entered the police academy, earned his first merit, solved the Midnight Driver Disappearance Case, the Large Intestine Poisoning Case, the Red Prince Incident…
The information had been dug up in great detail—Uncle Humpback Whale had truly gone the extra mile.
Awakened at four, but didn’t successfully record until ten?
And he recorded vitality?
The Lasvedo Family are only supposed to be able to record what they can see, right? This uncle already being able to record “nothingness” was bizarre enough—how could he have recorded something like vitality?
What could he possibly have seen to record something like that?
Also, wasn’t the Red Prince from Fallen City too? Same with Mi Xiaoliu.
Put together, that was all very suspicious…
Just then, Humpback Whale sent her another message: By the way, it’s now more or less confirmed that the Red Prince is still alive.
Huh?
Is this a dream? Took hit after hit and still didn’t die?
While Yiwen was still stunned, Okulet suddenly slammed the brakes, nearly throwing her out of her seat.
“What is it?” Yiwen quickly rubbed Xiaoliu’s head where she’d bumped it.
“Change of route.”
Okulet turned off the narrow rural road, heading for a side path they had passed earlier.
Why go through the trouble of something so seemingly unnecessary?
For an intuition-type ability user to act like this—it meant there was danger ahead?
Yiwen stared nervously out the window.
What was it? A strange bodyguard? The Red Prince?
To be honest, if given another chance, she wasn’t confident she could kill the Red Prince.
What kind of person could still live with those kinds of injuries?
After about ten more minutes of driving, another hard brake.
This time, Yiwen was prepared and reached out in advance to shield Xiaoliu.
“Out of the car.” Okulet looked seriously toward the side of the road.
“What’s wrong?” Yiwen followed his gaze—and was momentarily speechless.
Though she’d only caught it out of the corner of her eye, she remembered there had just been a cornfield there.
But in that instant of braking, it had become a barren wasteland. The soft soil was perfectly flat—like a blade had shaved it across the surface.
It was Okulet’s doing.
The farmer, who had been tilling his field, looked completely dumbfounded.
Where was his field??
And it was exactly because of this that the girl hiding within it, intending an ambush, was forced to reveal herself.
One hand frozen in the motion of holding a gun—yet there was nothing in it.
She stared coldly at Okulet.
Someone’s year-long labor, wiped out in an instant.
What scum.
“Enemy?” Yiwen immediately recognized the girl who had made her eat dirt before.
To be honest, among people her age, the only ones who had ever gotten the better of her were Mi Xiaoliu and this girl.
“Who is it?”
Seeing that the attacker was a young woman, Okulet frowned.
The girl looked at Mi Xiaoliu, and in a blank voice said: “Sixth Fractal.”
Mi Xiaoliu trembled slightly and looked up at her.
Yiwen quickly warned, “Uncle, I think her ability is gravity…”
“No.” Okulet shook his head.
The moment he laid eyes on her, his intuition screamed that under no circumstances should he attack this girl—not even using his ability.
She was like a 360-degree bristling hedgehog, no weak points, no angle of approach.
This wasn’t a matter of ability-countering—this was the complete absence of any opportunity to act. A perfect, seamless defense.
So what to do?
Of course—retreat.
In the blink of an eye, all three of them, along with the car, vanished from the girl’s line of sight—as if they had teleported.
An application of space erasure.
The first priority of a protection mission is to ensure the client’s safety, not to stand your ground and figure out how to defeat the enemy.
“Resident!” the girl shouted at the sky.
With a blur before their eyes, the three reappeared in front of her.
No—that’s not right. She had appeared in front of them.
Clearly, it wasn’t her own ability. The moment she landed, she became dizzy and had to turn her head and dry heave.
If that coward with the space ability hadn’t been afraid to get close to the Little Demon King, she wouldn’t have needed to steal a motorcycle in the first place.
Yiwen, of course, wasn’t going to let such a golden opportunity slip away.
But just as she was about to act, a tremendous pressure descended on her again.
What’s going on? That feeling again?
Yiwen hurriedly corrected the gravity around her body.
“Don’t attack.” Okulet stood in front of Mi Xiaoliu.
He looked up—but saw no trace of whoever had helped the girl teleport.
They were fast.
But from the looks of it… escaping was going to be difficult now.
This situation was a first, even for him.
Okulet picked up a small stone, and the moment he made that motion, a light tapping—neither painful nor itchy—struck his body.
That’s right—he had just tried to throw that stone at her.
Okulet managed to throw the stone, but it passed right through the girl.
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