My Ability Pool is Superior - Chapter 275: Guardian God

With the red-clothed female ghost’s one shrill scream after another, its body gradually shrank smaller and smaller, with flesh and bones degenerating.

In the end, only a tattered deep red long skirt remained, still emitting bursts of feeble whimpers.

The crowd that had previously fled in panic had long since stopped.

Those with slightly bolder temperaments even took out their mobile phones to film the events unfolding before them.

No way around it—forget these ordinary civilians; even the personnel from the Action Department who frequently dealt with anomalies had never seen a scene like this.

Lu Bai observed the state of the red-clothed female ghost before him and felt that its yin energy had been mostly dispersed, so he casually tossed aside the willow branch in his hand and unleashed another palm thunder directly at the red skirt.

Without a doubt, the red-clothed female ghost in this state clearly couldn’t withstand lightning law and instantly turned into a pile of charred debris.

This residual material felt very familiar to Captain Mao. He looked at Lu Bai with complex emotions: “Sure enough, that old tour guide was also taken out by you.”

Lu Bai turned his head back and smiled: “This isn’t what I said from the start that you didn’t believe?”

Captain Mao forcibly suppressed the shock in his heart and asked full of anticipation: “Are you willing to join the Action Department?”

……

Sitting in Captain Mao’s vehicle, driving from the serene halfway up the mountain villa district toward the bustling city.

The tall buildings around the road gradually became denser and more crowded.

Even in this world where anomalies existed, during the daytime it was still a scene of flowing traffic, full of the flavor of a modern metropolis.

This trip wasn’t very long, but it was enough time for Lu Bai to use for thinking.

In fact, this was already one week after he arrived in this deathmatch arena.

Ever since that night when he beat the red-clothed female ghost like a grandson in front of numerous Action Department personnel and citizens, everything had changed.

It must be known that in the two years since anomalies descended, humanity had been utterly helpless against them and could only use lives to probe out the rules and killing methods of anomalies.

As a result, an existence capable of confronting anomalies had suddenly appeared now—no matter how much importance was attached, it wouldn’t be excessive.

Captain Mao knew right then that this wasn’t something he was qualified to handle, so he reported the fact upward immediately.

After all, the number of witnesses was really too great, making verification very easy.

After confirming this news, the national level attached great importance.

How exaggerated was the degree of importance?

To put it this way, on the second day after Lu Bai took out the red-clothed female ghost, on one hand they launched all-around propaganda about Lu Bai to boost national confidence.

That very evening, official media issued an announcement.

All news media reposted it.

This news caused a huge uproar online in an extremely short time.

The footage of Lu Bai wielding thunder barehanded and whipping the red-clothed female ghost with a willow branch was made into short videos and spread across the nation at extreme speed.

The people of this world had been under the shadow of anomalies for too long.

Humanity’s weapons had no effect against anomalies; it was almost always a state of passively awaiting death.

Any ray of hope seemed immensely precious.

And Lu Bai’s situation of easily eliminating anomalies couldn’t even be called a ray of hope.

This was the sun itself!

Some civilians began inquiring who Lu Bai really was—was he a humanoid weapon specially developed by the Action Department to deal with anomalies?

News about Lu Bai skyrocketed in popularity online.

Among this, there was spontaneous diffusion by civilians, and behind the scenes, the power of news media fanning the flames.

The purpose, naturally, was to restore confidence among the civilians, push Lu Bai forward, and shape him into the image of humanity’s guardian god.

On the other hand, the nation took the lead in establishing an organization or department, full name “Lu Bai Service and Research Assurance Bureau”.

Abbreviated as Lu Bao Bureau.

So, although Captain Mao invited him in person that evening, he ultimately didn’t join the Action Department, instead participating in anomaly-related events more in the manner of now—as an advisor or assistant.

That said, the Lu Bao Bureau’s work objective was actually very simple and very clear: to provide services for Lu Bai and conveniently conduct research.

However, while the Lu Bao Bureau’s objective was simple, the scope of work for members inside was still very broad, with subdivided work content being extremely complex.

From daily routines on the large scale to food and drinking water on the small scale.

Even within the Lu Bao Bureau, the dietary division had positions like instant coffee section observer, meticulously recording all actions and physiological reactions Lu Bai had ever shown in the field of instant coffee.

Even though… Lu Bai had only conveniently bought a pack while shopping to try it out.

The vehicle steadily drove in the center of the road, with Action Department vehicles escorting front, back, left, and right.

“Master Lu, we’ll have to trouble you to take action and help again this time.”

Captain Mao kept both hands steady on the steering wheel and turned his head back toward Lu Bai, nodding his head gratefully.

Lu Bai stretched lazily: “I don’t know much, but I heard it’s at a university?”

Captain Mao hummed in affirmation and continued introducing: “Two days ago, Keshan Art University reported a bizarre missing persons case—six female students went missing in total. They weren’t from the same dorm and had no connections to each other.

It can basically be determined that an anomaly is behind it, but our Action Department investigated for two days without finding the slightest clue. With no other choice, we can only ask you to step in and help.”

It was worth mentioning that although Lu Bai had been shaped into the image of humanity’s guardian god, in reality he hadn’t been too busy this week.

Counting the old tour guide and the red-clothed female ghost, he had only taken out four anomalies in total this week.

After all, anomaly descent was a global crisis event.

Anomalies like the old tour guide with fixed activity ranges—there were five around this city, which was already quite a lot.

For a single city, the number of anomaly appearances was actually single digits; otherwise, with anomalies’ killing efficiency, humanity would have gone extinct long ago.

And for this type of anomaly with fixed activity ranges, as long as one didn’t approach, safety could still be ensured—it didn’t fall within the scope requiring urgent handling.

In this way, under the premise that Lu Bai temporarily had no plans to leave this city, his schedule was far more leisurely than imagined.

……

Half an hour later.

The convoy stopped at the school gate of Keshan Art University.

Large numbers of welcoming personnel had already gathered around the school gate in advance.

Among them were school leaders and Action Department personnel, but the most numerous were the ordinary citizens excitedly agitated and wanting to see Lu Bai with their own eyes.

Thanks to the official endorsement, even though Lu Bai hadn’t taken action many times, most citizens already regarded him as a guardian god.

The car door opened, and as soon as Lu Bai stepped out, the surrounding area erupted in enthusiastic cheers. Some even broke through the police barriers, trying to touch Lu Bai a couple times to bask in some immortal qi.

Lu Bai had seen enough of this scene over the past week.

He wasn’t surprised, nor panicked.

He simply showed an extremely kind smile toward the surroundings.

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