Chapter 202
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Chapter 202: Tap Tap Tap?
"Break the door!"
The Chief Instructor gestured to the young man beside him, then loudly commanded.
“Bang!”
A powerful punch filled with violent wind struck just a centimeter from the main door.
The door shattered as if hit by a cannon, breaking into countless fragments.
However, not a single piece scattered inward; instead, they remained stuck to the door in a semi-solid state.
The entire door appeared to turn liquid, slowly crawling and flowing downward.
A superpowered individual in the crowd slowly lowered their hand, and only then did the door collapse, revealing the space behind it.
“Good job, no damage to the scene.”
The Chief Instructor nodded, signaling that they could enter.
A few prepared individuals floated into the lounge instantly.
Shi Jin, along with another superpowered individual codenamed "Air Brick," quickly explored the area without leaving any traces of destruction in just a few seconds.
“Report: There’s not a single person here, except the bathroom, which is locked and can’t be opened.”
“What?”
Hearing Shi Jin’s report, the Chief Instructor was initially surprised but then found it reasonable.
He was relatively familiar with this young woman; she was more reliable than most newcomers, and her team ranked relatively high.
When the floating individuals reported the same conclusion, he was finally convinced.
Soon, the forceful wind and another superpowered individual replicated the action and opened the bathroom door.
Before this, everyone had prepared themselves psychologically, with some even fearing they’d see several bodies in gruesome states.
However, when the bathroom door opened, everyone was astonished.
There was—nothing inside!
Where were they?
Where were the superpowered individuals?
Where were the five superpowered individuals who had just returned from the brink of death outside the city?
Tap Tap Tap?
At the same time, the same question arose elsewhere, several dozen kilometers outside Hope City.
Every strand of mycelium and every Mimic Leaf in the thousands of square kilometers trembled slightly.
These horrifying creatures converged into a Supreme Will using their primitive forms, a will that represented them all. Now, this will was plagued by a question spreading through the mycelium:
Where have my clones gone?
At this moment, if one had to use a metaphor to describe the Supreme Will’s confusion, it would be like hearing the "Bluetooth disconnected" sound as a high-speed train departed.
Something felt off, and yet it was hard to pinpoint what exactly was missing.
And they still didn’t know how they disappeared.
Although the Supreme Will could not directly convey its thoughts to those inside Hope City, it could vaguely sense the existence of its clones.
However, since the night before last, one by one, these clones began to lose contact.
No messages of death or suffering came from them.
Normally, communication was not possible, but as the ruler of the collective, the Supreme Will knew that these clones, which were in some ways identical to itself, could use their last bit of life force to send messages before dying.
But now, not a single one! Not a single one!
The carefully constructed Dummies vanished silently into Sleepless oblivion.
The signal from the last Dummy disappeared forty hours ago, and it began to search through the remaining memories of those five brains, but found no records related to superpowered individuals or superpowers.
By now, the five brains were on the verge of collapsing, and the Supreme Will finally stopped its memory search in frustration and threw them back into the nutrient solution to maintain their activity.
After all, the future plans depended on the contents of these brains.
Meanwhile, dozens of kilometers away, inside a towering Giant Tree, five bodies were being slowly eroded and dismantled by mycelium, trying to uncover the secret of awakening superpowers.
The Supreme Will vented its anger like a beast and then began to ponder again with all its leaves and mycelium.
There was a powerful individual in Hope City, one that could somewhat resist it.
But during their last confrontation, this individual hadn’t shown particularly strong offensive capabilities and seemed not to possess the ability to see through its Dummies.
So, if this individual was truly manipulating everything, it meant they had become stronger again during this time.
Thinking of this, the Supreme Will felt a certain attachment to the five brains in a critical state.
If only those beings called humans could send it more such things.
As the view expanded, the area where the brains were located turned into a boundless plain, with countless mycelium stirring underground, using fragments of the memories inside those brains to draw a scaled-down version of Hope City on the ground.
—
Inside a basement in Hope City,
Dr. Lin had already hung a sign to indicate that his store was closed.
At this moment, he was busy with something that was hard to define as belonging either to the field of science or superpowers.
He was researching the Dummy bodies disguised in books that he had rolled into ribbons.
His intuition told Lin Qingliu that these things would be very useful.
However, as materials, these grass leaves were unqualified because five Dummies’ wills were still sleeping inside them…
This was also an excellent material.
He was now trying to separate those wills, ideally with only a tiny bit of grass leaves attached to avoid affecting future use.
This plan was as difficult as decapitating a human while keeping them alive.
In some ways, the Supreme Will and Lin Qingliu had come to a certain understanding.
The high walls of Hope City blocked their view; the reserve deities inside wanted to go out, while the biological field’s will outside wanted to come in, forming a two-way endeavor.
After many attempts, Lin Qingliu still failed to complete the separation.
His abilities were not precise enough for this task, and the best ways to unlock abilities couldn’t do such delicate work…
Just when he was at a loss, an idea suddenly appeared in Lin Qingliu’s mind.
He still had a one-time-use item he hadn’t utilized!
One of its abilities was separation, selectively separating.
Lin Qingliu called upon Fulan in his mind.
On the other side of Hope City, in a well-decorated house, a clearly inedible glowing cake on the dining table suddenly turned into chaos and vanished before the eyes of four surrounding people.
Sitting around the table was a couple and their two children.
The four looked at each other in silence, and tears began to swirl in the children’s eyes.
After a few seconds, the man rubbed his hair and said,
“See, I told you this wasn’t an ordinary cake…”
