The sun was just right, the wind was gentle, and everything was lovely.
Yu Xian and Nora walked side by side on the street leading to Superpower Academy.
As passersby walked past them, they all, without prior arrangement, displayed the 'auntie smile' of seeing something beautiful in the world.
Both were handsome and full of youthful vigor, walking together like a prince and princess from a fairy tale, truly a match made in heaven.
“I’ve always wanted to experience this feeling before, it’s wonderful,” Nora said with a smile, seeing students not far away also heading to school.
Since she was little, she had always been chauffeured to and from school, and even as a primary school student, she deeply envied the classmates outside her car window who walked to school together, chatting and laughing.
Now she finally had a friend willing to accompany her to school, and she was truly happy.
Yu Xian merely smiled, his attention, however, was on using Skill: Appraisal on Nora’s attribute panel.
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Name: Nora-Rex
Codename: Dai Tou E
Race: Mixed-blood Mutant Vampire
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Lifespan: 5322
Level: Ant Underling
Faction: Daughter of Duke Marcus-Rex
Abilities:
Daywalker: Immune to damage from sunlight, and increases resistance to various light-attribute attacks.
Blood Flame: Can manipulate blood to burn, forming blood-red flames with a temperature of 1500 degrees Celsius, possessing extremely strong lethality.
Summary: This is a pretty weakling.
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Nora's strength was not high; Yu Xian was well aware of this.
What truly surprised him was that Nora's lifespan was exactly the same as his; could it be that he and Nora would die on the same year, month, and day?
They were both 17 years old, and both had a lifespan of 5322; this was too much of a coincidence.
For some reason, a comic strip appeared in Yu Xian's mind.
He and Nora graduated together, then entered the hall of matrimony, raising children together; as the children grew up, they gradually aged, eventually holding hands in the hospital, a satisfied smile on their faces, passing away on the same day, with their children crying sadly.
Wait.
This script isn't right.
Both he and Nora were Vampires; even if they could have children, he and Nora wouldn't die of old age.
“What’s wrong?”
Nora, beside him, noticed Yu Xian’s distraction and asked with a puzzled expression.
Yu Xian looked at Nora and asked, “You said, if you and I were to die on the same year, month, and day in the future, what do you think it would be like…?”
Before he could finish his sentence, Nora’s fair face immediately turned red like a red apple, and her eyes became watery as she looked at him; this scene was so beautiful that he forgot what he was going to say next.
The atmosphere suddenly became a bit ambiguous, and the two walked forward in silence…
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For the next half month, Yu Xian attended school and returned home normally, occasionally patrolling at night with Zhang Kai.
He first activated Super Stomach, and then Super Taste; sure enough, just as he thought, he regained the ability to eat ordinary food.
However, it wasn't without flaws.
That was, Super Taste was too sensitive, which led to him having very high demands for food; he would vomit after taking a bite of food that had too many additives or poorly processed ingredients, because it was too unpalatable.
At night, Yu Xian sat in a police car, Zhang Kai driving, looking at the fish balls in Yu Xian's hand, and asked, “Yu Xian, I’ve noticed you really like eating fish balls.”
He had seen Yu Xian holding a small paper box of fish balls for two consecutive days.
“These fish balls are very delicious,” Yu Xian replied.
Among the many extraordinary food shops in the east of the city, only one fish ball shop used genuine ingredients and processed them almost perfectly, making them so delicious that one would never tire of them.
Of course, delicious also meant expensive; a small box, with only six fish balls, cost 320 yuan.
Yu Xian was not short on money, which was why he ate them every day.
Actually, he originally had another expectation for Super Stomach, which was to supplement energy through eating, thereby awakening his innate abilities faster.
But after truly activating this ability, he found that Super Stomach could only digest food to replenish physical strength, but it couldn't, like Light Eater, allow him to accumulate the energy of heartbeats.
It was precisely because of this that he understood the value of ‘supplementing all body needs’ in the Light Eater description.
Apparently, the energy required for heartbeats was another type of energy, which the Blood Clan could only accumulate slowly through blood absorption and time, but he had the Light Eater innate ability, which allowed him to quickly replenish this special energy directly, so the speed of awakening his innate abilities was particularly fast.
The two chatted, occasionally stopping the car to deal with invading extraordinary creatures; they initially thought tonight would also pass peacefully, but when the car drove to the west of the city, a red pillar of light suddenly appeared from the south.
This pillar of light rose from a twenty-story residential building, turning the entire sky crimson.
Yu Xian immediately created a bubble in front of the police car; Zhang Kai, having seen his ability, quickly stepped on the accelerator and drove the car into the bubble, appearing in a park in the south of the city the next second.
“Go!”
The two got out of the car and immediately ran towards the direction of the light pillar.
That area was not far from the park, so Yu Xian did not place another bubble; by the time the two arrived at the scene, a large number of residents had already come out of the building.
“The red light came from the sixteenth floor, it must be Zhang Heng’s home.”
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“My home is right below Zhang Heng’s; I just heard him laughing loudly, as if he found a forbidden fruit at home.”
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“forbidden fruit? Then Zhang Heng is going to become an extraordinary being?”
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The surrounding residents were discussing animatedly; Yu Xian and Zhang Kai exchanged glances, then Yu Xian created a bubble to envelop them both, quickly flying towards the sixteenth floor.
forbidden fruit was never only beneficial; there were too many tragic examples in the Kylin APP’s archives of people who suffered due to consuming forbidden fruit.
Zhang Kai sat in the bubble, constantly issuing commands via his phone, instructing the arriving Battle Cops to evacuate the crowd and seal off the entire area to avoid potential major casualties.
On the sixteenth floor, in the kitchen, a man floated in mid-air, his entire body emitting a red light; the dazzling red light penetrated all matter, directly forming a thick pillar of light in the sky.
“I wonder what his wish is; this is too exaggerated,” Zhang Kai couldn’t help but say after seeing it.
Yu Xian frowned and said, “I have a bad feeling; I’ll directly transfer him outside the city in a moment, Captain Zhang, you go inside the house to investigate and see if the other party has a diary or something, and it’s best to find out his wish clearly.”
“Okay, be careful; if you really can’t win, retreat quickly; anyway, with your ability, if you really want to run, no one can stop you,” Captain Zhang nodded.
There was an unwritten rule about forbidden fruit: the greater the commotion, the greater the price.
This pillar of light could be seen throughout Silver City, and combined with the fact that the other party’s desired power was unknown, Yu Xian felt that this person might not be able to afford the price required for the wish.
Zhang Shou thought he had been very restrained, yet he was still tormented to death by the forbidden fruit.
Although Zhang Shou didn't say it, just thinking about it, the taste of death must have been unbearable, not to mention he often had to end his own life to refresh his state.
And the commotion now was much greater than Zhang Shou’s incident; Yu Xian was already mentally prepared for the worst-case scenario.