Regarding the matter of awakening lightning abilities after transformation

What to say? Gu Cheng didn't know. They just stared at each other silently, trying to find their own reflection in each other's pupils.

Besides the gentleness that coexists with her coolness, there seemed to be a hint of sigh and melancholy in Su Wanxi's eyes... Was it just her imagination? She blinked, and that complex emotion disappeared.

"Tomorrow... I'll go to the shooting range... for Qi Bei's shooting training." Qi Bei has officially joined the Hermit Bureau, so his training can't be taken lightly. Just like when Gu Cheng first arrived, Su Wanxi, as the team leader, is mainly responsible for firearms shooting training.

"Is that so..." Gu Cheng twitched the corner of her mouth and answered in a low voice.

"Have you met your weekly training target?" Su Wanxi asked a seemingly silly question. The two of them always left the flower shop together and trained and tested together. Gu Chengda's failure to meet the target was consistent with her result.

What Su Wanxi really wanted was... could she come with me?

"You met the standard..." Gu Cheng stared at the other person's beautiful profile, her eyelashes trembling suddenly, and answered in a muffled voice.

"..." Su Wanxi was speechless and poked the other person's head with her fair finger.

"It hurts a little, why are you poking me..." Gu Cheng protested softly, covering her forehead.

"It feels good to poke you," Su Wanxi said coquettishly, a rare occurrence for her.

......

The Xinsheng Hotel was unusually large; if Su Wanxi hadn't been leading the way, Gu Cheng probably would have needed to use GPS to find her way out.

"Don't drive after drinking. Take a taxi first, and come back to pick up the car tomorrow." Looking at the other woman's slightly flushed face, Gu Cheng advised in a low voice.

After a brief moment of awkwardness, the two held hands again, with Su Wanxi taking the initiative once more.

"Do you think I'm not clear-headed enough right now?" Su Wanxi scratched Gu Cheng's palm.

“Everyone who’s drunk claims to be sober…” Now that things have come to this, she can’t very well say she was faking it… Su Wanxi stared at Gu Cheng for a long time, then waved her hand and didn’t insist any further.

“Then let’s walk back, it’s not far anyway.” Her family’s villa is located in the city center, only about four or five blocks away from the Xinsheng Hotel.

Stepping out of the magnificent gate, the streets were eerily quiet. At 11 p.m., all subway lines in Lanjiang had ceased operation.

Gu Cheng and Su Wanxi walked side by side under the streetlights, their long, dark shadows intertwined in the shade of the trees.

"Is Mr. Song not in Lanjiang today?" Gu Cheng suddenly asked.

"He's busy with the paperwork for the support members, and he hasn't been around for the past few days."

"What do you need him for?" Su Wanxi asked curiously.

"...Hmm." She wanted to ask Song Shiyan for his opinion on her recent dreams.

"Ding~" Su Wanxi was about to ask more questions, but she immediately gave up the idea when she heard the ringtone.

This is a notification sound from the Hermit Bureau.

Section 98, Chapter 96: A Barely Separate World for Two

It seems that every time I have a late-night talk with Su Wanxi, all sorts of unexpected things happen, as if it were all pre-arranged...

With her thin lips slightly pursed and eyelashes fluttering gently, Gu Cheng gazed at the girl so close to her, and some unrealistic thoughts suddenly popped into her mind.

"A very weak or weak crack has been detected. The specific location is as follows..." The crack was generated in the city center, within one kilometer away from them in a straight line.

With her fair fingers tapping rhythmically on the screen, Su Wanxi sent a message to the other team members.

"This crack will be handled by Group A, while the other members will be responsible for guarding their respective areas."

At the previous banquet, Su Wanxi divided the Awakened into three groups: herself and Gu Cheng were in Group A, Zhou Li and his team were in Group B, and the support team members were in Group C.

Since the rift was closest to them and the difficulty of dealing with it was moderate, Su Wanxi took the initiative to take on the task.

"Are you alright?" Gu Cheng tightened his grip, his gaze falling on Su Wanxi's calm and composed eyes.

"Don't worry, I won't joke with my own life or the lives of my teammates." The latter shook his head, his long, smooth hair swaying in the wind, bathed in moonlight, like ink splashed in the air.

That low alcohol content couldn't possibly get her drunk... Thinking of this, Su Wanxi's pink lips curled up slightly.

After staring into those bright eyes for a while, Gu Cheng put aside her worries and silently followed behind.

Su Wanxi has always been serious about her work, and as a team member, she should trust the captain's judgment.

"First, get the necessary equipment, then head to the scene at full speed..."

The weapons they needed were left in Su Wanxi's trunk. Now that the situation was urgent, they couldn't care less about their previous agreement.

......

"There have been so many accidents lately, from stolen manhole covers to road renovations."

The staff set up the isolation area faster than they could, and when Gu Cheng and Su Wanxi arrived at the scene, they happened to run into two ordinary people who were being expelled.

"This is my identification." After explaining their identities, the two walked side by side toward the moving mosaic.

Su Wanxi and Gu Cheng held hands, passing through the bubble-like reality, and when they opened their eyes again, it was already dusk.

"Confirm physical condition and all weapons carried." Su Wanxi's voice was cold and indifferent. As soon as she started working, she seemed to become a different person, no, she became a command machine without any emotion.

Releasing her tightly clasped, fair hands, Gu Cheng picked up the Colt python and carefully observed her surroundings.

Under EMP-like interference, most electronic devices malfunctioned, and without Qin Kexin's mental communication, team communication could only rely on the most primitive shouting.

Fortunately, it was a two-person operation, so it was relatively easy for them to coordinate. Su Wanxi led the way, while Gu Cheng was responsible for keeping an eye on any potential threats at the back of the group.

"The intensity of this crack isn't too great..." Su Wanxi whispered, extending the gravitational field to cover a radius of twenty meters around her.

Dealing with extremely weak or weak rifts is a piece of cake for Su Wanxi in her prime. She can resolve the rift source within twenty minutes without anyone's assistance. Even weak to neutral rifts can be handled by her alone without injury or with minor injuries, although it will take longer—once the descended creature completes its cocooning, she will be forced to eject from the rift, which will also be considered a mission failure.

Su Wanxi took on the current task mainly to train Gu Cheng.

Lanjiang has entered a period of frequent cracks, but Gu Cheng's ability level is still stuck at C-, while Qin Kexin, who joined a year earlier than her, has already reached the C+ level.

Lightning manipulation and blood explosion... these are the two offensive capabilities that Su Wanxi currently favors the most. The former can damage invisible spirits, while the latter is a simpler and more brutal attack method.

"You'll be in charge of killing the creatures this time. I'll only intervene when necessary..." Su Wanxi said calmly, her lips slightly parted.

"I understand." Is this considered training...? Gu Cheng understood the implication in the words and gently stroked the military knife at her waist.

Cold and sharp, the blade took on a dull, baked blue hue in the dim sunset.

......

The blood-red setting sun disappeared into the thick clouds, the black fog grew thicker, and the shadows of the surrounding buildings became blurred and illusory.

Judging from the environment alone, the time of the rift was probably a little after 7 pm... Gu Cheng had seen a detailed analysis of the time inside the rift on the anonymous version of the Hermit Bureau.

When the crack first appeared, it was an independent and autonomous world, with everything isolated from the outside world.

As the cocooning process deepens, it will become increasingly closer to reality, both in terms of time and environment...

More importantly, the flow of time within the crack is only linked to the speed of cocooning. If a large amount of life nutrients are suddenly supplied during this period, the sun will set immediately, and the alternation of day and night will happen in an instant.

Gu Cheng stuffed the white shirt back into her backpack, leaving only a thin, close-fitting undershirt on her upper body.

She stood on an empty street, carefully examining her own shadow.

The poster also carefully explained the method for judging the time of the crack, which is similar in principle to an ancient Chinese astronomical instrument called a "sundial," which judges the time by the length of the shadow.

The Lanjiang River is located in the Northern Hemisphere, and the fissures formed along its borders are similarly long. The shadows were incredibly long... Gu Cheng's judgment was correct...

Su Wanxi leaned against the street lamp, her alluring legs, encased in black stockings, casually crossed, her slender feet still wearing the black high heels she hadn't had time to change out of after the banquet.

She silently opened her spiritual vision and took in the surrounding black mist.

If it were just Su Wanxi alone, there would be no need to be so cautious; she could simply use gravity control to get through.

But Gu Cheng is different. Whether it's the duration or the burst of power, she is far inferior to Su Wanxi. In order to win safely, she must take into account all the factors that may affect the battle.

Sensing something entering the gravitational field, Su Wanxi frowned slightly and increased the gravity at that specific point.

"Hiss!" In the shadows of the building, a beetle the size of a child sank deep into the ground, struggling to flap its legs, its mouthparts constantly oozing a thick green liquid.

It didn't die... The force continued to increase, and the insect's shell, which it used to protect itself, became its most terrifying weapon. Its internal organs were squeezed and cracked by the shell plates, and its two thin, long antennae hung limply to the ground.

"Let's keep going, we should be there soon..." Gu Cheng heard a sound coming from not far away and knew that Su Wanxi had made her move.

"Ah."

Walking through the abandoned streets, her little leather shoes crunched on the broken bricks and tiles as Gu Cheng stood on a high platform, straining to see into the distance.

“There…” She squinted and pointed her finger at the area in the distance where the black mist was most concentrated.

"hold me."

"Huh???" Su Wanxi reached out and grabbed the girl's waist, then leaped from a height of several meters.

Section 99, Chapter 97: I Know It

Gu Cheng squinted, feeling the gust of wind rushing past her ears. The hem of her navy blue uniform skirt fluttered freely due to the updraft, revealing her fair skin and light-colored safety shorts underneath.

Su Wanxi supported the girl's warm and delicate legs with her left hand, and wrapped her right arm around Gu Cheng's arm, pressing Gu Cheng's entire body against her chest.

The two were subjected to gravity to a minimum, and their kinetic energy during the fall was only equivalent to that of a feather.

Once Su Wanxi landed safely on the ground, Gu Cheng quickly jumped out of her arms.

"You should have told me before you got off..." The girl's pretty face flushed slightly, and she subconsciously touched the spot where Su Wanxi had just touched her.

The sheer pantyhose were of good quality; even with vigorous movements, they only wrinkled slightly at the ankles. Because I was wearing an extra pair of safety shorts, at least I didn't expose myself.

"I'm sorry... I just feel like we don't have much time left..." Su Wanxi said in a serious tone as she looked at Gu Cheng's coquettish expression.

The sun was about to set, and a new moon was already rising behind them.

"Okay, I got it. Let's hurry up." Gu Cheng lifted her uniform skirt slightly and groped her way forward along the street, completely unaware of Su Wanxi's irrelevant answer.

Are you afraid of heights?

"A little... but it's manageable."

The cool grip of the gun gave the girl an unparalleled sense of security. As she walked around the collapsed and tangled steel bars, Gu Cheng smelled a faint moisture in the air.

A deep blue light flickered in his pupils, and fine electric currents spread along his arm to the silver-white Colt Python revolver, each Magnum bullet coated with flowing electric light.

"Don't your shoes fit?" Su Wanxi asked, noticing that the girl's movements weren't as agile as usual.

"Hmm..." These little leather shoes aren't very convenient for exercise; it feels like they'll fall to the ground if you exert any force at all.