The second red moon lasted for three nights, just like in Wen Le’s memory. The joyous celebration of the Spring Festival was forgotten amidst the chaos and tension.
When Wen Le returned to the dormitory on the morning of the first day, Xiao Wen didn’t ask anything. He simply stood up to greet him at the door and gently held his hand, understanding his silence.
For the next two days, Wen Le didn’t leave the room, staying with Xiao Wen and Han Ya to watch over the four comatose individuals. Except for Huang Yao, who stayed by Li Yan’s side, they had sent everyone else to rest in the other two rooms. The second mutation had arrived, and their departure day was imminent. Han Yifeng and Chen Ye were in the other two dormitories, just in case anyone else fell into a coma… Even if they didn’t want to, they had to be prepared.
Fortunately, everyone was okay during these three days, except for the initial four who had passed out. This meant that they didn’t have to face the helplessness and pain of seeing their loved ones turn into zombies.
Huang Yao held onto Li Yan tightly, even though Wen Le had told his countless times that Li Yan was not in danger. Huang Yao didn’t leave for even a moment during the three days.
This is what a mother does.
Bai Yang also wanted to be by his daughter’s side all the time, but unfortunately he had a whole unit waiting for him to arrange. Compared with Wen Le and his group who were lucky not to turn into zombies, Bai Yang’s unit lost nearly 800 young soldiers in just three days, almost a quarter of the entire unit.
Watching their close teammates fall into a coma and turn into man-eating monsters right in front of their eyes was really not a good feeling, really not good! At the beginning, Bai Yang couldn’t bring himself to make the decision to let the awake people directly kill their comatose teammates. But every time, without exception, they turned into zombies, making everyone’s hearts colder and colder, and the faint hope was already extinguished by reality.
Faced with brothers who had lived and eaten together for several years, the sober people made a tough decision. They knew that those comatose brothers also had their pride. Just like after the chaos of the first night, all the surviving soldiers earnestly warned the people around them that if they fainted, they should be killed directly. They absolutely did not want to become monsters. They firmly guarded the country and would never harm the people they were guarding after death.
All the dormitories in the entire building had their doors wide open, and occasional gunshots made everyone who was still alive silent.
Wen Le watched as Bai Yang sat quietly by his daughter’s bed. Every time, Bai Yang came in with red eyes, and left with red eyes.
The sound of gunshots made Bai Yang’s heart bleed.
Those were his brothers who had lived together day and night for countless days and nights!
Wen Le silently sat by Mo Yan’s bedside, even though the people he cared about were all alive and well, his heart was still heavy, making it almost impossible for him to breathe.
Even if humans did something wrong, the punishment was too heavy.
“Yan Yan? Yan Yan?!”
In the silent room, Huang Yao suddenly exclaimed.
Wen Le’s spiritual power had been covering their three dormitories all along, and every move of everyone was in his mind, so Wen Le was surprised by Huang Yao’s cry. He didn’t feel any abnormality from Li Yan, although the three-day red moon had ended, and the second wave of awakened abilities should be waking up soon.
Looking at Huang Yao, Wen Le was about to ask something, but his mouth suddenly froze halfway.
He clearly felt that Li Yan in Huang Yao’s arms moved his finger. Perhaps it was a natural instinct between mother and child that allowed Huang Yao to sense his abnormality before he actually moved.
Wen Le didn’t have time to get up and go to Li Yan’s side, and Mo Yan next to him also opened his eyes.
Then Yin Chengyang also woke up, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he met Han Ya’s slightly red eyes.
Three out of the four unconscious people had already woken up, and Bai Yang nervously watched as Bai Yun still showed no signs of waking up, even as the other three got up and started moving around.
“Wen Shao, this…this…” Bai Yang had also been calling Wen Le by this name for the past few days, and had grown accustomed to it. Seeing his beloved daughter still unconscious, Bai Yang’s heart was in his throat. He could remain calm in front of his departing brothers, but Bai Yun was his own flesh and blood! Bai Yang could only look at Wen Le, not knowing what to do. When the incident happened on New Year’s Eve, it was Wen Le who reminded him. In his eyes, perhaps Wen Le knew more than he did.
Wen Le didn’t look at Bai Yang, but carefully used his psychic power to pay attention to the color in Bai Yun’s head.
The gray spot in Bai Yun’s brain was flowing like liquid. Generally speaking, the color in the brain of an awakened person wouldn’t change unless the awakening of their ability was successful. Otherwise, it would always be the same gray color as a normal human being. When the ability was awakened successfully and the color changed, the person would wake up, just like Mo Yan and the others. It was at the moment they woke up that Wen Le felt the changes that occurred in their brains.
Bai Yun’s performance indicated only one thing –
It was a psychic ability!
Only psychic ability users will experience the situation that Bai Yun is currently in during their ability awakening. Although Wen Le had never personally experienced the awakening of other psychic ability users before his rebirth, he had heard it from another psychic ability user at the base.
Although he had a rough idea, Wen Le did not dare to make any promises to Bai Yang without personally verifying it. He could only comfort him as much as possible.
“Don’t worry, there shouldn’t be any major problems. If I’m not mistaken, Bai Yun’s awakening should be a psychic ability, because the psychic ability is more inclined towards thought and idea-based abilities, so the awakening time might be a bit longer.”
Wen Le tried to explain, hoping that Bai Yang could relax.
Upon hearing Wen Le’s words, Bai Yang obviously breathed a sigh of relief. Although he was still somewhat worried, perhaps because Wen Le’s reminder had allowed him and his soldiers to avoid a disaster three days ago, he subconsciously trusted Wen Le’s words.
“You know?” Bai Yang continued to watch over Bai Yun and asked.
Wen Le nodded and realized that Bai Yang hadn’t seen it, so he explained again,” Yeah, because I am also a mental ability user.”
Bai Yang didn’t ask further. When they went to X City, he already knew that there was a mental ability user on Xiao Wen’s team. Later, they didn’t mention it again, so Bai Yang didn’t ask. It turned out that the mental ability user was Wen Le.
Perhaps Wen Le’s previous reminder was also related to his mental ability, and he knew things that others didn’t. Bai Yang speculated.
The three people who woke up, besides Li Yan staring blankly at his mother and looking at everyone else, Mo Yan and Yin Chengyang had already gotten up and went to other rooms to report their safety to everyone.
Wen Le has been paying attention to Bai Yun’s changes. The flowing feeling in Bai Yun’s brain has been ongoing, slow to fast, and fast to slow. It has been going on for half an hour. Even Liu Yikun, who was in a coma during the first wave, came over to report to Bai Yang. However, after seeing the situation in the room, he is now quietly standing on the side without saying a word.
It wasn’t until the speed of the gray liquid had slowed down so much that even Wen Le’s mental ability couldn’t detect the changes that Bai Yun opened his eyes.
In an instant, Wen Le felt that the originally flowing gray liquid had turned into silver dots.
“Xiao Yun!”
“Xiao Yun!”
Bai Yang and Han Yifeng, who were also guarding by Bai Yun’s side, leaned in at the same time.
Bai Yun blinked and looked at the two big faces that were close at hand, and moved her mouth.
“Let her get up first.” Wen Le pulled Bai Yang and Han Yifeng away and helped Bai Yun up.
Bai Yun moved her limbs.
“What’s happening to me?”
“Awakened ability,” Wen Le explained.
Bai Yun was startled, then her eyes lit up.
“Ability? I awakened an ability? What ability?”
After all, she was a girl, and young, so she was very surprised and delighted about being able to awaken an ability.
Wen Le, who had been serious-faced for the past three days, smiled for the first time.
“Psychic ability, like me.” As he spoke, Wen Le silently added in his mind: it’s the same as before I was reborn.
Bai Yun pushed away the two men who had been constantly touching her to make sure she was okay, and leaned over to Wen Le.
“Psychic ability? Does that mean you can also have space like Wen Shao?”
Wen Le smiled and nodded.
“Space?” Bai Yang was confused.
Bai Yun turned to look at her father and stuck out her tongue. “Didn’t I tell you before?”
Bai Yang chuckled at his daughter’s act of ignorance, realizing why he hadn’t seen these people collecting much supplies but still living without any problems
They had these abilities.
“Because of some concerns, she hid it before,” explained Wen Le for Bai Yun. Although Bai Yang was her father and she knew he wouldn’t have any negative thoughts, he still felt it was better to explain since Bai Yun had kept this a secret from them.
Bai Yang nodded, “I understand and can also empathize. Since it has been concealed, let’s keep it that way.”
As Bai Yang finished speaking, Liu Yikun, who had been silent all this while, made a gesture to pull a zipper across his mouth towards Wen Le.
Wen Le smiled. Though Bai Yang was still a team leader at his age, it didn’t mean he lacked intelligence.
Spirit abilities didn’t have much appeal to the military or government, but the derivative ability of spirit abilities – space – was worth breaking their heads over.
In this world, to survive or compete, resources were essential. Even with a vast amount of resources, transportation was the most headache-inducing issue. However, all of this could be effortlessly solved by a spiritual ability user.
“Xiao Yun, you also have to be honest. Regardless of whether there are any other spiritual ability users among those who awakened this time, you are not allowed to disclose your ability to anyone, understand?” Bai Yang sternly warned Bai Yun.
Bai Yun nodded.
Seeing his daughter nod, Bai Yang felt relieved. His daughter was not the kind of ignorant and delicate lady who didn’t understand anything. She knew what to say and what not to say, and his admonishment was just a reminder.
“Boss Bai, the others have awakened too,” Liu Yikun said excitedly, seeing that his boss’s precious daughter was alright.
Earlier, he had heard from his brothers who were taking care of the unconscious people that they had awakened their abilities. Liu Yikun tried it himself a few times and finally produced a fingernail-sized piece of ice, although it was small and had no killing power, it was enough to make him excited.
Bai Yang nodded, asking his daughter to rest for a while longer, then got up and left with Liu Yikun.
Looking at their departure, Wen Le listened to Liu Yikun’s excited voice still echoing inside the house.
He didn’t know how many brothers he had lost while he was unconscious…
How is it? I saw Captain Bai leave, did Bai Yun wake up?” Yin Chengyang’s loud voice came in before he even entered the room.
“He woke up,” Mo Yan and Yin Chengyang walked in together.
Yin Chengyang rolled his eyes, “I saw it too, no need for you to tell me!”
Mo Yan’s eyebrows twitched as he spoke in a flat tone, “You asked, I just answered.”
“What do you mean? You want to fight?” Yin Chengyang rolled up his sleeves and swung his arms towards Mo Yan.
Mo Yan looked at him disdainfully and sneered, “You think you’re the only one with abilities?”
As the two of them were about to start fighting, Wen Le furrowed his brows, knocked on the iron railing of the bed, and then watched as Yin Chengyang and Mo Yan instantly sat down at the bedside as if nothing had happened.
All that talk about fighting and swinging arms was just smoke and mirrors.
Bai Yun blinked his eyes, a little puzzled. Wen Shao has been very gentle these days, why are these two still afraid of him?
Xiao Wen laughed softly, seemingly understanding what was going on. Obviously, they had been informed that Lele had been in a low-pressure state since New Year’s Eve, so these two did not want to run into any trouble.
Seeing that the two of them sat down, Wen Le asked “What kind of ability do you have?”
Although Wen Le could use his mental power to distinguish the types of abilities possessed by the two people, they happened to belong to the physical ability system, just like Xiao Wen. Physical abilities were different from other abilities. For example, fire abilities could emit flames, and water abilities could create water, but physical abilities were classified into many categories, such as Xiao Wen’s speed class or strength class, etc. However, from the brain’s perspective, all physical abilities were the same color.
“Yin Chengyang has gained a lot of strength. Just now, he just casually squeezed the iron pipe supporting the bed in the next room into iron pieces.” Han Ya walked in while talking.
Wen Le and Xiao Wen nodded, then looked at Mo Yan.
Mo Yan paused before describing: “I don’t know what kind of ability it belongs to, but I feel that I can see things very clearly.”
“See things clearly?” Wen Le repeated, frowning. Mo Yan nodded, “Just like now, when you frown, Wen Shao, I can clearly see the movement of each of your eyebrows.”
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“Damn!” Yin Chengyang held back for a long time before uttering a word.
Han Yifeng who was sitting with Bai Yun also twitched the corners of his mouth. Is this enhanced vision? !
Wen Le thought for a while before saying, “It’s the strengthening of the dynamic vision direction.”
Xiao Wen was very happy. Seeing that Wen Le didn’t know much about it, he explained carefully: “Mo Yan has learned sniping, and he can be regarded as our sniper.”
After listening to Xiao Wen’s words, the eyes of other people who didn’t understand it brightened. If the sniper strengthens the dynamic vision, it will be even more powerful!
Thanks for the chapter! A sniper gets better vision, interesting. Are the abilities related to personalities, actions, habits?
Thanks for the update!! 🤗🤗