Chapter 181: The Superman Label

‘He’s spent after just one blast?’

‘This Superpower is kind of useless…’

Gu Qing looked at the utterly weakened Zhao Chuan in his grasp and silently gave his Superpower a One-Star review.

“VWOOM—!”

Suddenly, a sharp, piercing sonic boom erupted from high in the sky.

Gu Qing followed the sound and looked up.

He saw a figure in a red cape flying toward the training grounds at extreme speed.

Unsurprisingly, this person must have been alerted by the earth-shattering explosion and was rushing to the scene to check on the situation.

In just an instant, the figure was hovering directly above Gu Qing.

It began to descend slowly under his gaze.

‘To look this fast even with my Lightning Reflexes active… hmm, this person must be an incredibly powerful, top-tier expert…’

Gu Qing curiously sized up the figure in the air.

The newcomer was a woman with dyed blond hair. Her red cape snapped and billowed in the wind, and a cute baby bottle hung from her waist, filled with a white liquid that looked like milk.

His gaze fell upon her head, and a one-word tag that looked incredibly powerful came into view:

—[Superman]

A moment later, the blond woman descended from a hundred meters up, landing on the ground.

Her red-booted feet touched down as lightly as a cloud, without making the slightest sound.

This level of control over her power was the pinnacle of mastery.

At this moment, Gu Qing dropped Zhao Chuan, letting him stumble and collapse to the ground.

His eyes remained locked on the blond woman who had descended from the sky, carefully appraising her face and figure.

Her long, blond hair was smooth and silky, draped casually over her shoulders and back. It contrasted with her cool, fair, and delicate skin, which had a faint, porcelain-like sheen.

Her eyelashes were long and curled. Her irises were a clear, translucent ice-lake blue, and her eyes seemed to hold a calm power far beyond that of an ordinary person. The corners of her eyes were slightly upturned, giving her a sharp look.

Besides her stunningly exquisite features, her figure was also exceptionally tall.

A dark blue, form-fitting battlesuit clung to her body, accentuating her alluring, perky curves.

Her waist was slender, her legs long and straight. Just standing there relaxed, she looked like a world-class supermodel, constantly exuding a powerful presence.

Overall, with her refined, three-dimensional features and tall, sexy figure, she appeared to be of mixed Eastern and Western descent.

The blond woman ignored Gu Qing’s scrutinizing gaze.

Her deep, azure eyes first swept over the charred debris left by the explosion, then finally settled on the limp form of Zhao Chuan on the ground.

Seeing Zhao Chuan lying there, as weak and pathetic as a dead dog, she wrinkled her delicate brows, her eyes undisguisedly filling with thick disgust.

“What a useless piece of trash.”

The blond woman looked down on Zhao Chuan, her tone sharp and scathing. “As an Extraordinary Awakened who’s been with the Night Court for years, you can’t even beat a new Extraordinary Contactor who just joined. It’s a good thing we voted to kick you off the team at the beginning of the year. If you were still on the squad, you would’ve dragged everyone down sooner or later.”

Faced with the blond woman’s public humiliation, Zhao Chuan felt no resentment or anger, only deep anxiety and fear. He didn’t even dare to breathe too loudly the entire time.

The blond woman was his former captain. She had bullied him quite a bit in the past, leaving him with deep psychological scars.

As a result, he felt an instinctual fear whenever he saw her, terrified of being bullied again.

And the reason for her bullying was also very simple.

It was because he was too weak—so weak that he had no future to speak of.

When he first joined the Night Court, Zhao Chuan was highly valued by the leadership for his extremely destructive explosion Superpower. He was assigned to a special Monster Assault Team and seemed to have a bright future, one that far surpassed that of other Extraordinary Beings.

However, while his Superpower was strong, his own evolution was incredibly slow.

In the two and a half years since joining the Monster Assault Team, his Spiritual Strength had never improved, causing his Biological Level to be stuck at Tier Nine Peak Great Perfection. He was unable to cross the threshold to evolve into one of the Advanced Creatures.

Over time, the blond woman, his captain, completely lost patience with him. She couldn’t stand having such a dead weight holding the team back.

So, at the beginning of this year, she initiated a vote, and he was unanimously kicked off the team.

After finishing her tirade against Zhao Chuan, her face full of disgust, the blond woman slowly walked over to Gu Qing and stopped. The scorn on her face vanished, replaced by a friendly, appreciative smile.

“Gu Qing, let’s add each other on WeChat. If you ever awaken a Superpower, contact me directly. I’ll get you into the Monster Assault Team I lead and make sure you have all the Extraordinary Resources you could want.”

She was genuinely impressed by Gu Qing.

Recently, Gu Qing’s reputation in the Night Court had skyrocketed, catching her attention.

She had looked into Gu Qing’s combat record in detail and felt he was a real talent. She thought he could potentially become the next Lu Kexi, the Mad Woman, or even surpass her.

After all, Lu Kexi’s record before she awakened was nowhere near as impressive as Gu Qing’s at the same stage.

And Gu Qing’s effortless demolition of Zhao Chuan made her even more certain that his potential was greater than Lu Kexi’s.

“Sure. You can scan my code.”

Gu Qing took out his phone, opened his personal WeChat QR code, and held it out to the blond woman.

He didn’t know what kind of person the blond woman was, nor did he care.

All he knew was that he was very interested in the [Superman] tag floating above her head, which was why he was adding her on WeChat.

With a thought, the blond woman retrieved her phone from the Storage Ring on her hand, opened WeChat’s scanner, and added Gu Qing as a friend.

After successfully adding him, she sent him her name so he could save her contact.