Chapter 383: My Name Is Jiang Li—I'm the New Recruit They Just Brought In
“Die suffocatingly!” a member of the Superhuman Cult shouted, releasing his superpower.
His ability was to control gases, able to extract the surrounding air into a vacuum.
However, he quickly lost his voice.
“Cough, cough, cough.”
He had activated his power too widely, inadvertently including himself within its range.
Fortunately, he realized this in time and shut off his superpower.
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“I’m a fourth-tier superhuman. You lot, all first- and second-tier, still dare to gang up on me?” A high-ranking fourth-tier superhuman from the Bihai Branch faced the crowd without any fear.
“Fourth-tier superhuman? Who are you trying to scare? Don’t think I don’t know. The intelligence reports say you’re a fourth-tier healing-type superhuman who can only heal. Alone, you’re useless.”
“Who told you healing-type superhumans have no offensive power?”
“You mean healing while attacking? Ridiculous. Over a dozen of us attacking together, no matter how fast you heal, it won’t help.” The Superhuman Cult members spoke confidently, clearly having investigated this person beforehand.
The fourth-tier healing-type superhuman smiled: “Oh, really?”
“Of course… my voice!” The cult member suddenly panicked as his voice turned sharp and feminine.
“I can change your hormones. Guess what changes come next?”
The cult members noticed their bodies shifting toward female traits and panicked, begging for mercy.
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Inside the room, light and darkness alternated, flickering between bright and dark.
At the moment of switching, faces looked especially terrifying.
“My superpower is controlling darkness and light! I am the god of darkness and the god of light!” The Superhuman Cult member made the room flicker light and dark at will, an eerie sight.
Paired with his self-proclaimed titles of god of darkness and god of light, his aura was mysterious.
Someone from the Bihai Branch couldn’t help but ask, “But why do you keep pressing the light switch?”
The cult member stubbornly replied, “I am the god of darkness and the god of light.”
The Bihai Branch member sighed, activating his own superpower to subdue the cult member.
Suddenly, the room darkened; only electric sparks flashed.
When the lights came back on, only the cult member stood, while the Bihai Branch members twitched from electric shocks.
“Told you to speak honestly. You deserve to be shocked by me.”
This cult member’s ability was actually to control electric current.
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Overall, the Superhuman Cult held the upper hand.
They had prepared for this day for years, with support from headquarters, and the situation was overwhelmingly one-sided.
The Bihai Branch reacted too slowly and was understaffed, falling into a disadvantage quickly.
Just like the Nine Provinces world has countless spells, the Weigu World has innumerable superpowers.
The tiers of superpowers roughly correspond to cultivation spells.
First-tier superpowers correspond to spells used at the Qi Refining Stage, second-tier to Foundation Establishment spells, and so forth.
But spells also come in many types; some have no offensive power. The same applies to superpowers.
This makes superpowers highly unpredictable. Tier does not determine everything; many examples exist of lower-tier superpowers beating higher-tier ones.
The Enforced Silence superpower suppressing the Word as Law ability is a typical example.
Of course, even if Enforced Silence rises to third or fourth tier, it can only silence others and still loses to first- or second-tier enhancement-type superhumans.
Jiang Li observed everything at the Bihai Branch with his spiritual sense, finding the ways these superhumans used their powers very interesting.
“Enough playing around. Prepare to rescue people.”
Jiang Li stopped Bai Hongtu, who was still fiercely beating Ma Shu.
Ma Shu’s screams continued; the cult members thought it was a newcomer yelling and silently admired the newcomer’s lung capacity.
“Something’s wrong. The Bihai Branch must be in trouble!” Shao Junyi begged Jiang Li and Bai Hongtu for help.
She tried to contact her father but found all internal communications at the Bihai Branch destroyed. Wireless signals were jammed, and they were trapped inside the training room, unable to escape.
And Ma Shu, who had been hiding his fourth-tier superpower all this time, seemed suspicious no matter how one looked at it.
“Who exactly are you?” Shao Junyi demanded.
“Didn’t you already have your answer?” Ma Shu sneered with only two teeth left in his mouth.
Bai Hongtu kicked him: “Knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing. Don’t you dare turn it around on me!”
“The great deity will not forgive you. You have blocked the deity’s path and will surely be punished by heaven! The deity knows all and can do all!”
“What’s a deity?”
Ma Shu’s eyes showed worship: “A deity is great, radiant, towering, supreme… no words can describe it!”
Bai Hongtu kicked again: “If words can’t describe it, then what the hell are you saying?”
Ma Shu was kicked unconscious.
Bai Hongtu sneered, hating these mystical pretenders who spoke so much yet said nothing of substance.
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“Today, the Superhuman Cult will occupy the Bihai Branch.”
A bronze-skinned burly man waved his machete, destructive to everything.
His power sharpened weapons, and he was skilled with blades. The combination made him deadly.
The Bihai Branch members activated their powers and attacked him.
His wide blade swung like the wind, cutting through every attack.
“He’s the Cult’s Blade Maniac!”
Someone recognized the burly man’s identity and exclaimed.
Blade Maniac was a notorious wanted criminal, famous in the superhuman community. He was extremely belligerent. After joining the cult, he became even more reckless, fighting constantly without care for the setting and nearly exposing superhuman affairs to the public.
Luckily, the Superhuman Management Bureau always covered it up with explanations like natural gas explosions or mass hallucinations.
The bureau was eager to catch Blade Maniac and had sent multiple fourth- and fifth-tier superhumans to capture him, but none succeeded. Some were even killed by him.
Blade Maniac’s strength was clear.
“I’ll try.”
A fourth-tier superhuman stepped up, drawing his bow and charging his power, which grew stronger the longer he charged.
Blade Maniac didn’t give him a chance to charge, rushing toward him.
Others carried the archer to dodge Blade Maniac’s attacks.
Finally, after two minutes, he finished charging.
The arrow shot out, followed by sound. It broke the sound barrier!
The arrow flew like a rocket, with immense kinetic energy and lethality, aiming to pin Blade Maniac to the wall.
Blade Maniac stared at the arrowhead and slashed down with his blade, producing a metallic clash as he split the powerful arrow in two.
“Let’s see who can stop me!”
“Is that so? I want to try.”
A figure appeared behind Blade Maniac, plucking a hair from his head.
Blade Maniac shuddered and abruptly pulled back, swinging a slash backward.
“Watch out!” a Bihai Branch member warned the newcomer.
The figure held the hair with two fingers, blocking Blade Maniac’s slash.
“Look at you. You can’t even cut your own hair and still dare call yourself Blade Maniac?”
“Who are you!” Blade Maniac trembled and retreated repeatedly. This person was too strange.
Jiang Li smiled: “My name is Jiang Li. I’m a newcomer recently recruited by the Bihai Branch.”