Chapter 40: Hurry to Siberia and Invite the Three-No Girl!

The clamor dyed the heavens and the earth.

It was as if the sky had been torn open, a gash connecting to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, and fitted with a real-time "seawater-to-freshwater" converter.

Consequently, rain that seemed seamless to the naked eye poured down from the sky, endless and boundless.

Yet, the young man began to run in such a downpour; he ran very fast, far exceeding the ordinary, one could even say it was absurd to the extreme—

In less than a second, he crossed a distance of several dozen meters, his speed so fast that he "chiseled" a "passage" through the curtain of rain, disappearing at the end!

The video froze here, and the clamorous sound of rain finally paused; the room fell silent, and the sound of continuous small sips became exceptionally distinct.

The Long-legged Girl looked at the Potato Chip Girl beside her: "It's really a bit hard to get used to not hearing you crunching on potato chips."

"Crunching on potato chips was just to suppress my craving for alcohol, but there's no need to suppress it at a time like this; I need alcohol to relieve... the pressure."

The Potato Chip Girl said, sighing, the scent of alcohol diffusing.

She lay half-slumped on the sofa, clutching a bottle of Romanée-Conti Grand Cru, and an extremely rare 1.5-liter Magnum bottle at that.

With an annual production of only 450 cases, a single 750ml bottle of Romanée-Conti Grand Cru could sell for 20,000 to 30,000 USD back then, and that was just the flagship model. A Magnum bottle would generally be three or four times that, and even then, it was a situation of having a price but no market.

Because DRC Magnum bottles are in fact extremely rare, produced only for specific vintages or special requests, mostly circulating through private collections or auctions, and the bottle the Potato Chip Girl was holding was even rarer—it was a 2008!

Given her status, it was naturally impossible for her to have obtained a counterfeit; this could only be a non-circulating version specially customized by the winery for VIP clients. If taken to an auction, fetching two or three hundred thousand dollars would be no problem.

By rights, this bottle of wine should be collected, and when celebrating some important occasion, it should be tasted bit by bit after a series of complex operations like temperature control and decanting in the most "standard high-society" manner.

Yet the Potato Chip Girl was just holding the whole bottle like this, the cork pulled out and tossed aside at will; she was even using a few plastic straws that came with soy milk bought at a street stall, assembled to extend their length, and inserted to start slurping directly!

At this very moment, looking at her as a whole, she was completely the image of a "decadent rich person"... if one ignored the Golden Pupil ignited in her eyes.

"Is the situation that serious? To the point where you need to use Spirit Speech: Heaven's Deduction?"

The Long-legged Girl asked.

"It's just running a bit fast... Spirit Speech: Time Zero or Spirit Speech: Instant could both achieve that, right?"

Spirit Speech: Heaven's Deduction has the effect of strengthening the brain's thinking and computational abilities. With the Potato Chip Girl's bloodline, her computational ability could be strengthened to exceed some supercomputers!

In the past, she only occasionally used it when dominating the global stock market, but now, because of this surveillance video, she had been keeping it active for a long time.

"Sometimes I really envy an illiterate person like you; things always become much simpler." The Potato Chip Girl looked at her gloomily and sighed again.

"Potato Chip Girl, you go too far! Is it that I've been too lenient with you lately and your skin is itching? If I can't out-talk you, can't I beat you?"

The Long-legged Girl bristled upon hearing this, "And I am not illiterate! I have a proper bachelor's degree certificate from the University of Tokyo!"

"Oh?" The Potato Chip Girl raised an eyebrow, "What major?"

The Long-legged Girl fidgeted for a long time, her voice like a mosquito's hum: "Music department."

"Pfft!"

The Potato Chip Girl spat out thousands of dollars in one go; she choked so badly she couldn't stop coughing for several moments, unable to recover.

"Cough, cough... you're an art student, and you're talking about a degree? Besides, the University of Tokyo doesn't have a fucking music department! You didn't find someone to forge the certificate, did you?"

"How is that possible?"

The Long-legged Girl's charming eyes widened; she searched online in disbelief, and then felt as if the sky had collapsed.

"I spent a lot of money to have that person make it! And I've bragged about it to so many people... how come not one of them mentioned this?"

"You were talking to those boyfriends of yours, right?"

The Potato Chip Girl squinted at her.

"Whether it was some high-ranking dignitary or crown prince, or some famous artist or celebrity, I can't even count them all... some of them probably just didn't know about it, and the others who did had the tact not to say it directly.

Besides, what's the point of exposing this? They care about your figure and appearance, not a University of Tokyo bachelor's degree!"

The Long-legged Girl was beautiful to the point of being bewitching; if thrown into history, she could definitely rival that Su Daji who is still famous today. It was as if she were born to overturn the masses and topple cities; with this appearance, what need was there for inner substance?

"Damn it, you make it sound like I'm very fickle!" The Long-legged Girl gritted her teeth.

"That wouldn't go that far; I believe you are sincere and passionate in every relationship, it's just that they come and go quickly..."

The Potato Chip Girl curled her lips and changed the subject before completely infuriating the Long-legged Girl: "Alright, let's talk business! You definitely can't see it, so I'll just say it—first, look at this rain; it's abnormally heavy."

"That's obviously abnormal; where else is there a super-heavy rainstorm with such a small radius? This must be the effect of a Spirit Speech." The Long-legged Girl decided to prove that her intelligence was not a problem.

"Yes, but have you ever thought that the release of some Spirit Speeches also requires a basis in reality?" The Potato Chip Girl asked.

"Huh?"

"Spirit Speeches like this that change the weather are essentially mobilizing the elemental flow between heaven and earth.

Little White Rabbit No. 2's Domain of the Monarch mobilizes the fire element, so this rain is mobilizing the water element, but this rain is too heavy, heavy to the point of being unbelievable!"

The Potato Chip Girl's expression was serious, "As of now, the world record for the highest rainfall per minute was in Unionville, Maryland, USA, on July 4, 1956, where the rainfall in one minute reached 38.1 millimeters.

But my estimation is that the rainfall in this surveillance video reached 22.2 centimeters per minute—centimeters!"

"Do you know what this concept is? If this were a pool, then after seven or eight minutes, the depth of the water would be enough to drown everyone. This is no longer raining; it's as if a swimming pool is falling from the sky!"

"But it's winter now, and the water element in the air is much less than in spring or summer. To achieve this level of rainfall, one can only expand the range of controlling the elemental flow, and this range... covers at least this entire city!"

The Potato Chip Girl paused, fearing the Long-legged Girl hadn't understood, and added, "The existence that released this Spirit Speech is at minimum a fully awakened, prime-state Sub-species; if it were only in a weakened state, it might reach... Dragon King level!"

The Long-legged Girl's expression immediately became quite ugly: "You mean, there is a Dragon King in this city?"

The Long-legged Girl roughly knew what a Dragon King was; it was an extreme mythological creature, whose power was only stronger, not weaker, than a "god."

"That's just a small matter." The Potato Chip Girl waved her hand.

"That's just a small matter?"

The Long-legged Girl shrieked, "I don't even dare to imagine what you're going to say next!"

"Even if there really is a Dragon King, what does it matter? The Boss definitely knows, and since the Boss hasn't said anything, it means it's not important." The Potato Chip Girl dragged the surveillance video back to the frame where Lu Mingfei started running and played it again.

"Little White Rabbit No. 1, he is the focus."

"I couldn't possibly have judged this wrong, right?"

The Long-legged Girl refused to believe it, "It's either Time Zero or Instant!"

This behavior was like someone asking her what option to choose for a question, with the options being "Right/Wrong," and the Long-legged Girl choosing both "Right" and "Wrong" at once, thinking herself invincible.

But she was still wrong, because the answer is "/".

"... Did you forget the boss said he wouldn't have a Bloodline Awakening?" Potato Chip Girl's gaze was calm, as if looking at a hopeless fool, having already given up on the idea of saving him.

"Oh, right..."

"The effect of Spirit Speech: Time Zero is to form a domain with the caster as the radius. Within this domain, all other objects are slowed down, and only the caster themselves remains at normal speed."

Potato Chip Girl said, "And Spirit Speech: Instant is even simpler: it purely accelerates the user's own speed, increasing by a factor of two, with a limit of about 2 to the ninth power.

But, you must remember, whether it is Instant or Time Zero, they cannot change the 'kinetic energy' of other objects!

For example, if you fire a shot, a user of Instant can use their extreme speed to predict and dodge it; a user of Time Zero can even open their domain and stroll around to avoid it, then casually cut you down.

But neither of them can go and 'catch' that bullet, because the bullet's kinetic energy is still there! If they touch it, they will be wounded, and because of the relative speed, the injury will be even worse.

Now let's look at this video; what is placed in front of Little White Rabbit No. 1 right now is a swimming pool that is falling!

Imagine running inside a swimming pool; the resistance of the water will hinder your movement. The faster the speed, the greater the resistance. At this speed, the body of water is no different from a concrete foundation. Whether it's Time Zero or Instant, they would only end up killing themselves by crashing into it.

But Lu Mingfei is different, he... he just ran across like that! The whole way he used a normal Running posture and extreme speed, as if he hadn't encountered any resistance. The rainwater around him and he himself were both normal; he was just running normally in the rain!"

Potato Chip Girl took a big gulp of wine, her eyes flashing with disbelief.

"And he hasn't even had a Bloodline Awakening... Gulp... Have you watched *Jackie Chan Adventures*? I thought of a line from it—he is simply a superman!"

Now Long-legged Girl knew why she was in this state—for Potato Chip Girl, who prides herself on being an intellectual, the world is composed of formulas and theorems, and now, Physics has collapsed before her eyes.

"But I remember that some Spirit Speeches can violate the laws of Physics, right? Maybe it's some kind of unknown Spirit Speech..."

Long-legged Girl just wanted to comfort her, but as she spoke, her voice became barely audible—she remembered what Potato Chip Girl had just emphasized: the boss said Lu Mingfei had no Bloodline Awakening.

No Bloodline Awakening means he is an ordinary person, and therefore has no Spirit Speech.

Now the one-track mind had hit a dead end; the boss cannot be wrong, this is an ironclad rule, and for them, it is as firm as the laws of Physics.

But then how to explain an "ordinary person" doing something that violates the laws of Physics? Could Little White Rabbit No. 1 really be a Kryptonian orphan carrying the "Life Codex," capable of controlling a "Bio-field"?

"Then... what should we do?" Long-legged Girl asked.

"There is only one way."

Potato Chip Girl took a deep breath, "We have basically monitored his daily life, but apart from what looks like 'normal' exercise and activities, we haven't been able to find any abnormalities.

In this situation, we can only use the final move."

"What move?"

"The, honey, trap!"

Potato Chip Girl enunciated each word, her tone resolute, "Young boys yearn for love; they are worst at hiding things from the person they like. We need to find someone to seduce him!"

The room went quiet, and Long-legged Girl was stunned for two seconds: "Damn, Potato Chip Girl, you are so unscrupulous!"

"What other choice is there? Do you know I lost a whole handful of hair tonight? And the drinking habit I finally managed to suppress has been broken now! You illiterate person, you don't have to think about anything, just listen!" Potato Chip Girl was furious.

"Oh, fine, fine, in the end, I still have to step in."

Long-legged Girl shook her head, stood up triumphantly, and while grooming her hair, revealed a devilish figure that could be described as breathtaking, "Although I'm not really into these young little brothers, tasting something fresh occasionally isn't bad..."

"Sit down! Still thinking about robbing the cradle? If you're that desperate, go hire a couple of gigolos yourself!"

Potato Chip Girl went full throttle, throwing a cushion at her.

"Just look at Lu Mingfei's crush and you'll know what style he likes. Others like literary-style youthful beauties! A mature big sister like you looks like you have ulterior motives at a glance, okay?"

"You're making me so mad!"

Long-legged Girl pounced on her to tickle her, "Hmph, it's just that the young don't know how good big breasts are! Mature sisters know how to cherish people, okay? And if I don't step in, who else can you find? Are you going to just grab someone off the street?"

"That certainly won't work. Besides satisfying the 'youthful beauty' point, we also need someone who can satisfy 'information transmission' and 'spending a long time with Little White Rabbit No. 1.' Therefore, all things considered, there is only one option."

Potato Chip Girl was tickled until she shrieked, looking exactly like the Jade Emperor being beaten up while pinned under a monkey.

"Hurry to Siberia and invite the Three-No Girl!"

This chapter is 3,600 words! There will be another chapter at 5:00 PM.

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