What did she understand?
Waving to Bai Jingru lying in the ambulance, Zhao Xiaokui, feeling puzzled, got out of the vehicle. Glancing at Liu Qiang, whose head was covered with a sack, being escorted to the police car wearing handcuffs, she couldn’t help but ask Su Mingyue standing nearby, “How will he be dealt with?”
Su Mingyue replied, “Memory erasure is certain. As for the verdict, it depends on what the court decides.”
“Oh, so you also have to go through the court?” Zhao Xiaokui was somewhat surprised, thinking they had their own judiciary.
But upon further thought, it made sense. Although the Night Walkers were an organization primarily consisting of extraordinaries, they were still a part of the official structure of Huaxia. Naturally, they had to adhere to Huaxia’s laws and regulations.
Most extraordinary powers in the world faced similar situations. Even in the liberal regions of North and South America, where liberalism prevailed, extraordinaries mostly kept a low profile in the face of their respective national authorities.
Unlike the mermaid world where extraordinaries dominate over ordinary people, each extraordinary power has its own independent judicial and law enforcement agencies, completely free from national jurisdiction. In fact, most of the time, the countries themselves depend on extraordinary powers’ existence. Without an extraordinary power as a backing, a country is almost impossible to survive in the area of extraordinary power activities. Only those extremely impoverished, desolate places where even extraordinaries are reluctant to set foot might establish a nation primarily comprised of ordinary people.
Zhao Xiaokui understood this difference between the two worlds very clearly—it boiled down to the disparity in strength between ordinary people and extraordinaries.
In the mermaid world, individual extraordinaries were powerful, and even the low-tier extraordinaries might seem inconspicuous, but every mid to high-tier extraordinary possessed the strength to annihilate cities and nations. Moreover, their lifespans often extended to thousands or even tens of thousands of years. For these individuals, what was the difference between ordinary people, who lived only a short hundred years, leading mundane lives without achieving anything significant, and ants?
When deciding the fate of ants, does one consider violating the laws of ants? Obviously not.
Unless someone categorizes ants as protected animals and publicly declares, “These ants belong to me, they are animals under my protection. Harming ants means violating my laws,” they might briefly consider whether the other party’s strength is worth avoiding, rather than simply crushing the ants in front of them.
The modern society’s situation was exactly the opposite.
Here, extraordinaries were the disadvantaged group.
Despite each extraordinary having formidable individual strength, easily handling one against two, Zhao Xiaokui had been in S City for so long and had not encountered a first-tier extraordinary other than herself. It was evident that the overall strength of extraordinaries in this world was quite low. On the contrary, modern human civilization evolved through several industrial revolutions and possessed advanced equipment, powerful weapons, and the dazzling brilliance of this civilization. Compared to this civilization, extraordinary forces were like a faint moon in the radiance.
“Of course, we have to go through the court,” Su Mingyue explained with a smile to Zhao Xiaokui. “The Night Watchers only have enforcement power, not judicial power. However, we have a specialized judicial department for cooperation, and they will provide legal support for us.”
Zhao Xiaokui asked, “Do extraordinaries also have corresponding legal provisions?”
Su Mingyue nodded in response to Zhao Xiaokui’s sharp observation. “Yes, when you register later, you’ll receive a copy. You’ll also have to come for an exam in a month. Only if you score ninety-nine or above can you move freely; otherwise, until you pass the exam, you’ll be monitored in S City with someone overseeing you.”
Zhao Xiaokui: “…”
Isn’t this too much!
They even have exams, and she felt like she was back to that summer dominated by the college entrance examination.
She couldn’t help but shiver, holding onto hope as she asked, “Is the content extensive?”
“Not much,” Su Mingyue smiled slightly. “It’s only a few hundred pages.”
Zhao Xiaokui, unable to give up, continued to ask with hope, “Then the number of questions shouldn’t be large, right?”
“A thousand questions, randomly selected from the question bank, each question worth 0.1 points, and up to ten mistakes are allowed.” As the person in charge of taking Liu Qiang away, Lin Bai walked over and happened to hear their conversation. He pushed up the glasses on his nose. “Extraordinaries’ mental abilities have undergone evolution. Passing the exam isn’t difficult.”
“Really?” Zhao Xiaokui’s eyes lit up.
Lin Bai glanced at her and raised his lips slightly.
“Don’t listen to him; he’s talking nonsense.” Gou Rixin walked over. “You don’t know how crazy this exam is. There are tens of thousands of questions in the question bank. The exam with a thousand questions lasts only eight hours. Even if you don’t eat or drink in between, you still need to finish at least two questions per minute. If you don’t go through the entire question bank repeatedly, about twenty or thirty times, you won’t even finish reading all the questions.”
He placed his hand on Lin Bai’s shoulder and said, “This guy is crazy. You’ll understand if you know the direction he evolved—brain domain. Isn’t this intellectual evolution? Ordinary extraordinary like us shouldn’t compare with someone like him in terms of intelligence.”
Zhao Xiaokui sighed deeply in her heart, suddenly feeling exhausted and wanting to return to the mermaid world.
In this era, becoming an officially certified extraordinary was too difficult.
“Besides the exam, is there anything else? Just tell me everything at once; I can handle it.” Zhao Xiaokui’s face expressed weariness.
Su Mingyue glared at the two of them. “Don’t tease her. The certification for ordinary extraordinaries only requires a hundred questions. What they mentioned is the Night Watchers’ exam.”
Zhao Xiaokui hugged Su Mingyue’s arm, pretending to cry, “Sister Mingyue, you’re the best. Men are all big idiots, wuwuwu…”
With a simple and honest look, Gou Rixin rubbed his bald head, chuckling, while Lin Bai remained expressionless, but his lips curled up slightly.
“You’re too easy to fool.” Su Mingyue couldn’t help but laugh, reaching out to tap Zhao Xiaokui’s forehead. “When extraordinary abilities awaken, although it promotes the development of the brain domain, the degree of improvement is also closely related to each person’s intelligence and education. In other words, it just makes your memory a bit better and your brain a bit more functional. It’s not like a sudden enlightenment, allowing you to know many things you didn’t understand before. Some extraordinaries we find can’t even recognize a bunch of big characters. Asking them to take a thousand-question exam is deliberately making things difficult for them, isn’t it?”
Zhao Xiaokui covered her face; she really hadn’t thought about this.
In an era where nine years of compulsory education were widespread, who would have thought some illiterates couldn’t even recognize characters?
After the incident with Bai Jingru, Lin Bai and the others could be said to have exceeded their mission.
Not only did they take the opportunity to get to know Zhao Xiaokui and strengthen their relationship, but they also found the memory eraser and incidentally rescued a victim with a high status.
When Lin Bai reported to Zhang Hongyi, he couldn’t help but sigh at their good fortune.
Why did they always stumble upon such coincidental events?
No one thought about this matter intentionally, and no one suspected Zhao Xiaokui. At this moment, she was following Lin Bai and the others, heading to the Night Watchers’ branch in S City.
For Zhao Xiaokui, the location of the Night Watchers’ department in S City was not a secret. During the time she used her spiritual power to investigate the entire S City, she had identified several places with the most active extraordinary powers and marked them as suspected official extraordinary activities departments.
They arrived precisely at a location she had marked – the city government building.
Curiously, Zhao Xiaokui asked, “Do you guys work with ordinary people?”
Su Mingyue teased, “Take a guess.”
They parked the car in the innermost corner of the parking lot, and in the corner, there was an elevator with faint lights.
Su Mingyue walked over and placed her hand on the elevator’s display screen. Soon, a green light scanned her fingerprint from top to bottom. Simultaneously, a silent seam above the screen, at the level of the face, opened, emitting a green glow reflecting in her pupils.
The top camera rotated once, scanning the faces of Zhao Xiaokui and Lin Bai on the corresponding electronic screen.
Accompanied by the elevator’s arrival ding, this extraordinary elevator, which seemed out of the ordinary, slowly opened.
This scene, usually only seen in movies, exhilarated Zhao Xiaokui. She followed Su Mingyue into the elevator, restraining herself from touching anything but failing to control her curious eyes, looking around.
“Wow, it’s high-tech, just like in the movies,” she exclaimed from the heart, feeling that the seemingly ordinary elevator was filled with secrets. “Sister Mingyue, is this elevator like the ones in the movies, appearing ordinary but actually having weapons aimed at the people inside?”
“…,” Young people nowadays have such imaginative minds that Su Mingyue felt a black line on her forehead. “You’re thinking too much. This is just an ordinary elevator. Without prior identity confirmation, it can only go up, not down.”
Disappointment flashed across Zhao Xiaokui’s face, but she thought, ‘I believed you too much.’
An ordinary elevator?
Which ordinary elevator is surrounded by high-energy reactive substances in all directions?
She might not understand weapons, but that doesn’t hinder her sense of danger. Ever since entering the underground parking lot, her danger sense has been blaring like an air raid siren.
At first, when Zhao Xiaokui sensed the closed elevator, she thought it was a bomb buried underground. Who would have thought that she would have to step into the middle of a bomb?
She maintained a calm appearance, only subtly revealing a bit of unease and tension.
As if she had no idea that behind the hidden cameras in the elevator, countless eyes were watching her.
“Is she the Zhao Xiaokui who killed a vampire as soon as she awakened?”
“Such a powerful mutation, yet there are no visible abnormal features on her appearance. The girl is quite lucky.”
In the monitoring room, today is an unusual day, packed with people. Everyone’s attention is focused on the screens displaying images of Zhao Xiaokui.
Suddenly, a man asked, “By the way, I remember the information saying that she seems to have no relatives, and she is suspected of having amnesia, thinking that she just graduated from high school, right?”
“Wang, don’t think I don’t know what you’re plotting.” Zhang Hongyi, who hurried back from outside, pushed open the door and heard this, immediately sneered, “Our team doesn’t have a combat-type superpower. Even if she decides to join the Night Walkers, she should join our squad.”
“Old Zhang, you can’t say it like that. Your squad doesn’t have combat-type superpowers, but do we have them? Your team has at least four superhumans, and our team has only three, so of course, she should be assigned to us!” Wang Junwu argued reasonably.
Seeing that the two were about to argue, a bystander calmly said, “What’s the point of arguing? The young girl hasn’t even said whether she wants to join yet. Besides, even if she does join, if she turns out to be an A-level combat seed, do you think you can keep her?”
Now, both Zhang Hongyi and Wang Junwu fell silent.
“I don’t know what’s really going on upstairs, sending all the combat-type superhumans up. I always feel uneasy about it.”
In the monitoring room, someone sighed.
Within the Night Walkers, superpowers are not only categorized in detail but are also divided into two types based on their usage.
One type is the auxiliary type, and the other is the combat type.
The auxiliary type constitutes the vast majority of current superhumans. They, like Lin Bai and Gou Rixin, have enhanced physical abilities due to becoming superhumans, far surpassing ordinary people. However, their superpowers themselves lack offensive capabilities and can only play a supporting role.
Relatively speaking, the number of combat-type individuals is somewhat rarer; most of them can directly control certain substances, such as intense fire, lightning, or even metal, capable of inflicting direct harm to the human body.
Normally, even if there’s a combat-oriented superhuman, no matter how extraordinary, it wouldn’t attract the attention of these captains to come and watch the excitement.
However, a month ago, shortly after the Memory Eraser search operation concluded, higher-ups suddenly, under the pretext of a secret operation, almost transferred all combat-type superhumans in the entire S city. Only these captains and superhuman team members lacking direct attack power were left behind, struggling to maintain peace in S city.
Fortunately, the situation in Huaxia was stable, and the superhumans, warned by the Night Walkers, were relatively well-behaved, following the law. Newly emerging superhumans usually didn’t possess exceptionally high-level combat abilities. Even without advanced combat capabilities, they could handle the situation. Thus, there were no major incidents in a short period.
Therefore, when they heard that a superhuman had just awakened and could deal with vampires in S city, everyone couldn’t sit still, wishing to immediately persuade this person to join their respective teams.
“I hope nothing big happens…”
“What big thing can happen?”
Someone murmured softly, sounding like they were asking someone else, but also like talking to themselves, seeking self-assurance.
The world of ordinary people is not yet peaceful, with frequent conflicts. What about the world of superhumans?
