'Let's gamble!' Wade raised his hand, the hesitation in his eyes vanishing in an instant, replaced by a ruthless glint. "Then, I'll begin."
Riiip—
Several tears burst open on his right sleeve as he aimed his palm at Jordan Li, unleashing the new move he had just mastered this past month with all his might.
'You really looked down on me... I'll give you something fierce!'
For the first few seconds, there wasn't much of a commotion.
Sss—Hiss—Boom!!!
Suddenly, a muffled explosion, as heavy as a thunderstorm yet extremely suppressed, erupted violently.
Centered on Jordan Li, within a spherical space with a three-meter radius, all the air was instantly and forcibly displaced and compressed by an overbearingly powerful force.
A visible shockwave radiated outward from the boundary of that spherical domain; fine cracks instantly spiderwebbed across the walls and hanging paintings, like a transparent bomb detonating at point-blank range.
In the opposite cubicle, the files on the conference table were suddenly swept up and scattered everywhere.
Sela's long fiery-red hair was jerked backward, Shetty's eyes quivered, and the hair on Brink's forehead danced wildly.
The gale, mixed with the displaced dust, formed a brief, murky ring of air that violently slammed into every corner of the two cubicles.
At the center of the explosion, within the absolute vacuum sphere that had formed, the scene was even more terrifying. The calm expression on Jordan Li's face vanished instantly.
It wasn't just that he couldn't breathe; when that terrifying vacuum zone formed, he felt as if he had been stuffed into the muzzle of a giant cannon and then blasted!
The massive pressure differential not only caused his eyeballs to bulge violently and become bloodshot, but it also felt like an invisible giant fist smashing into his chest, eardrums, and every inch of his blood vessels from the inside out.
"Guh..." Jordan Li let out a pained groan, enduring the impact. He retreated three or four steps consecutively under the force before escaping the terrifying compression and tearing power.
"People from the Bureau are just trash... Get back to your kennel!"
He took a step forward, transforming into her female form, and circled directly behind Wade as successive invisible shockwaves from her fists blasted out.
Vroom—Bang!
Brink hurried to stop it, shouting in a deep voice, "Jordan, come back!"
Before he could finish, Wade, who had just turned around, raised a wall of wind with a backhand motion.
Whoosh—Bang!
The Energy Blast and the wind wall collided with a crash. Wade was hit by a massive recoil, stumbling back seven or eight steps, his face turning as pale as paper.
He knelt on one knee, a sweet taste rising in his throat. His body swayed violently, looking as if he might collapse at any moment.
Jordan Li leaned against the wall, gasping for air, chest heaving.
"Hmph, not that impressive..." He instantly reverted to his male form. The bleeding from his ears and nose stopped immediately, and the bruising faded at a visible rate.
The vacuum zone vanished in an instant.
Whoosh—Boom!!!
The surrounding displaced air rushed back in at a near-frenzied speed to fill the void, letting out a second, slightly smaller but still startling whistle and roar.
Jordan Li stood firmly in place, his gaze toward Wade becoming much more serious.
That move just now was no simple Gas Manipulation; that was a damn air cannon!
"This kid has good potential." Brink suddenly stood up, staring at the cracked meeting room in disbelief, his eyes burning as he watched Wade.
"Someone like him... is only fit to be a villain in a movie." Sela clutched her chest, her hair disheveled, her face written with lingering fear.
Even Shetty, who was always like an iceberg, had eyes filled with unprecedented shock behind her glasses.
"I... I'm sorry! I... I couldn't control it... This power... is too..." Wade looked at the wrecked meeting room and the disheveled crowd, his eyes full of apology.
Brink looked at Wade and nodded, being the first to break the silence. "This isn't just manipulating gas... it's... explosive gas compression and repulsion!"
Shetty slowly stood up and adjusted her glasses. "Precise range. Form of expression... extremely violent. Energy release... utterly terrifying."
"Wade Thompson, your power level needs to be redefined... Regarding your admission and subsequent arrangements, the Board will hold an emergency consultation. Just go back and wait for notice. Now, go to the infirmary immediately!"
"O-okay." Wade nodded weakly. Supported by a staff member who had rushed over at the sound, he shuffled out step by step.
As Wade passed by Jordan Li, he noticed a drop of red liquid on the other's shoulder. His eyes lit up instantly, and he reached out to press against it. "Sorry... I didn't mean it just now." A numbing sensation traveled up from under his fingers.
[Ability: Invulnerability (Basic Tier)]
[Gene sequence analysis in progress! 1%... 5%... 10%... Sample detached]
[Acquired 10% of Superpower Gene Fragment, progress 1/10]
[Currently unable to express phenotypically; analysis data has been entered into the biological database]
Jordan Li shrugged and brushed his hand away with a look of disgust. "Hmph, I'm not fragile like you."
Surges of scorching energy poured into the depths of Wade's heart. The gene fragment for 'Invulnerability' was analyzed, but the core of the ability remained shrouded in mist.
Seeing Jordan Li's injury heal in the blink of an eye felt as frustrating as an interrupted climax. Wade gritted his teeth and left the meeting room. 'I'm definitely taking your ability... I don't want to be some Glass Cannon.'
In the hallway, Wade leaned on the staff member supporting him, head lowered, still immersed in the lingering fear and exhaustion.
He licked the blood from the corner of his mouth, the metallic sweetness mixed with desire. 'It seems that contact with blood results in a faster analysis speed than contact with skin dander... I'll prioritize collecting blood samples in the future.'
The hunting ground of Godolkin University, teeming with supers, had been blasted open by his palm.
Wade seemed to smell countless superpower factors of varying strengths, their lingering fragrance constantly beckoning him... Inside the bright and spacious infirmary, various supers were lying down, and the air smelled of disinfectant.
Wade was placed on a hospital bed near the door. A nurse beside him was inserting a needle into the back of his hand. Like most people here, he was being given an intravenous injection of a bagged, pale-blue fluorescent medicine.
A cooling sensation spread through his body, and his injuries began to recover at an extremely rapid pace.
The idle chatter of the nurse and doctor reached his ears.
"Eileen, go to the warehouse and get some more Type III Compound Therapy Injection."
"Okay, I'll go right away."
Wade squinted at the bag above. The color looked extremely familiar; he surmised that these medicines were likely diluted derivatives of compound v.
'The effect is really good!'
He peeked at the cameras in every corner of the room, finding that their fields of vision overlapped and crossed with no blind spots. He immediately abandoned his plan to manipulate gas to steal biological samples from the bedridden supers.
'Once I'm in the university, there will be plenty of opportunities. Haste makes waste.'
After Wade slept for half an hour, he felt someone shaking his shoulder several times.
He opened his eyes and found a black-bearded middle-aged man in casual clothes standing by the bed.
"You're awake. Feeling better? I'm Dean Shetty's driver, Borden. She asked me to personally take you back." Borden politely helped him up and said with a smile.
"What? Thank you so much then. Let's go." Wade got up, put on his shoes, and followed him out of the infirmary.
He moved his limbs. After the medication, he felt exceptionally pleasant. As that cooling sensation faded, it left a bit of indescribable emptiness, and he instinctively missed that feeling of fullness.
'Strange, that medicine just now... did they add something to it?'
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