That's right, Zhang Lei couldn't jump that high, but he still had the rope marker. Zhang Lei patted his left waist, and all the locks on the rope marker were completely unlocked. With the height Zhang Lei had, he could easily reach Fujita's line.
If it were a regular dart, Fujita wouldn't have cared even in the weakened and dazed state after his superpower ended. At most, he would risk a minor injury to his arm, but he could always block it. However, what he encountered was Zhang Lei's rope dart, a rope dart that could change direction.
With a wave of his hand, Zhang Lei sent the steel ball straight toward Fujita's throat.
Fujita made the same mistake as Furuhara; he also tried to intercept the small stainless steel ball halfway through.
However, Zhang Lei did not try to entangle his arm this time. It would be foolish to try to outrun a behemoth like Michiko in mid-air. With a flick of his wrist, Zhang Lei sent the steel ball around his outstretched arm and aimed it at Fujita's left eye.
At this point, it was too late for Fujita to dodge or block. He had two choices: one was to close his eyes and hope that his eyelids could block Zhang Lei's iron ball; the other was to risk internal injuries from the backlash and activate his superpower again. With the strength of his superpower and his super reaction, dealing with such an iron ball would not be an easy task, and he could even send the iron ball back like a bullet.
Fujita ultimately didn't activate his ability again; he closed his eyes. Zhang Lei's stainless steel ball seemed slightly harder than his eyeball, piercing straight into it, breaking open his eye socket, and taking a look inside his brain.
Zhang Lei pulled back the rope marker. If he could still live like this, he wouldn't be a superhuman, he'd be a god.
Michiko caught Fujita with high hopes, only to find that what she held in her hands was a dead man, with white brain matter flowing out of Fujita's swollen eye sockets.
"You bunch of Chinese pigs, wait for me, I won't let you get away with this, I'll take your pigskin..." Michiko cursed as she ran, carrying Fujita on her back with one hand, using both her other hand and legs to run quite fast, but she probably looked more like a mangy dog fleeing in panic.
Episode 3: The Bloody Path to Growth; Episode 44: Food-Based Superpowers (Part 1)
"So, Zhang Lei, did you take him down?" Liu Yun came over and patted Zhang Lei on the shoulder. "Well done!"
Zhang Lei nodded. "He's definitely not going to survive. But I don't understand why he's not using his powers. If he were to activate his abilities again, he would at most get injured. I don't know why he's not using them!"
Zuo Ying also came over. "I think I might know. If he activates his superpower, he'll only get injured at most, but given his size, that Japanese woman will also be pulled down. If we're on guard, they won't have another chance, and none of them will be able to escape. At least his lover can leave this way. Sigh, no matter what kind of love it is, their feelings are genuine!" Perhaps because she was saddened by the relationship between the two Japanese people, Zuo Ying's words became much more polite to them.
“Yeah, even perverts have feelings, right?” Tian Xiao came over from the side, her hand naturally wrapping around Zhang Lei’s arm. Her eyes looked at Zuo Ying provocatively, as if the pervert was talking about her.
Zuo Ying's lips twitched slightly, but she said nothing, seemingly looking down on Tian Xiao, before turning and walking away.
Although she didn't say a word, Tianxiao was furious. Zhang Lei definitely had the right to say that, because the hand in his arm was pinching him hard, but Zhang Lei, who had been focusing on strengthening his arms recently, didn't feel much pain.
"Let's not waste any more time, let's get out of here quickly. Comrade Li, how are those two sisters doing?" Linghu clapped his hands, drawing everyone's attention.
"Oh, we knocked them unconscious after the fight started, afraid they'd scream or move around. They're fine now, don't worry!" Li Zaixing walked over to the twin sisters and asked, "Should we wake them up?"
"No need, let's carry them on our way. Can your men handle it?" Linghu's meaning was crystal clear: let them carry them, while his few people with special abilities must be ready to fight at any moment.
"No problem!" Although it was a question, Li Zaixing could only give one answer. Their pride wouldn't allow him to give any other answer, even if he understood that Linghu wanted them to do hard labor while they were injured.
"Where to?" Linghu still had to ask politely, since the next two groups had to...
"If we go to your place, our hideout should have already been exposed!" Since the traitor is a member of the military, the Silver Sword's hideout has probably already been exposed. Although the hideouts of the Guoyi Bureau members are not in good condition, they are still better than exposed hideouts.
“Alright, but we might have to switch to another one soon. Let’s hurry. Zhang Lei, your ability is still active, right? I’m leaving the cultivation level up to you for now. Keep an eye out for any surveillance cameras around us!” Linghu walked to Zhang Lei’s side. “You’ve activated your ability twice today. Can you handle it?”
Zhang Lei shook his head, "It's alright, I can eat and stay here!"
If Linghu knew that Zhang Lei had absorbed enough internal energy in such a short time to almost activate his superpower once, he would probably go crazy. Although Zhang Lei's total internal energy was not as much as theirs, his recovery speed was far superior to theirs. Moreover, Zhang Lei never had any unused internal energy; every bit of extra internal energy was used by Zhang Lei to strengthen himself.
However, at this point, the formation had to be changed. The Silver Swordsmen were surrounded in the center, their energy was basically exhausted, and their combat ability was close to zero. It was a testament to their extraordinary willpower that they could relax and not collapse to the ground.
Fortunately, they had only driven a semi-motorhome when they arrived, so although it was a bit cramped, they could still squeeze so many people in.
Zhang Lei cleared out several suspected spies and got into the car, but he still felt like he was being followed.
There's nothing Zhang Lei can do. He can only clear out the spies in the vicinity. If they're watching from a rooftop far away with binoculars, there's no way he'll have time to deal with them now. All that's left is to rely on Liu Yun's driving skills. He should try to take some dimly lit side streets and hopefully escape their sight.
...
Just as dawn was breaking, Michiko led a few people to the suite that Zhang Lei had booked under a false identity at ANA. By then, there was practically nothing left in the suite.
Zhang Lei and his group alone couldn't have done it so thoroughly, but those with the silver sword were different; they didn't even leave a single note for the trackers.
Some superhumans from outside Tokyo also received the summons, and those who acted quickly have already arrived in Tokyo. The people behind Michiko are the newcomers.
However, Kohara is not among them. Michiko has just fallen out with Kohara. Kohara bears a great deal of responsibility for Fujita's death. Moreover, if it weren't for Kohara's strategic mistake and his own abandonment of his companions to escape, Fujita would definitely not have died.
If it weren't for the need to unite against a common enemy, Michiko would definitely not let Kohara off the hook. In a one-on-one duel, Michiko would have a very high chance of defeating Kohara.
Others fear that Kohara's powers will be eliminated, and they can't defeat Kohara in battle without using their powers, but Michiko is not afraid.
Michiko's ability is a type of food-based ability. She can gain similar abilities to other ability users by consuming their excrement, although the effect is only half that of the user. However, this is time-limited. After ten hours, the effect will be reduced by half again, and if she absorbs other abilities during this time, the effect of the first ability will be reduced to one-sixteenth of its original value.
This one-sixteenth effect is usually the final retention effect. Michiko can currently retain fifteen different abilities. Although she can only activate one ability at a time, and apart from one ability, the effect of each other ability is at most one-sixteenth of the effect, activating them only requires one-eighth of her internal energy.
This ability, which only requires one-eighth of one's internal energy, is precisely Gu Yuan's nemesis. Although Gu Yuan's ability to eliminate his abilities consumes significantly less energy than ordinary abilities, it usually still exceeds half. Therefore, if he were to use ability elimination to deal with Michiko's mutated ability, he would inevitably be the first to run out of internal energy. Moreover, if Michiko were to activate her ability continuously, forcing him to use ability elimination repeatedly, he would suffer a greater backlash.
Not using it is also not an option. Two similar individuals, even with only one-sixteenth of the power's effect, cannot be defeated by fighting together without using their abilities. This one-sixteenth is not the one-sixteenth of the power index. For example, Tianxiao's air-based power index can only be released outside the body after reaching one thousand. If Michiko absorbs her power at this time, then her variant power can also be released outside the body, but the density and range will only be one-sixteenth.
Episode 3: The Bloody Path to Growth; Episode 44: Food-Based Superpowers (Part 2)
If it weren't for this hatred, Michiko wouldn't have thought of challenging Kohara to a duel, because Kohara's supernatural abilities would also have a huge impact on her.
Michiko's ability is not her own. When others are eliminated by Kohara's ability, it is only temporarily dissipated and they suffer a little backlash. However, if her mutated ability is dispelled, then this ability will disappear completely. This is why Michiko is hesitant, especially with Fujita's extreme enhancement. She wants to use it to kill Kohara, but she is afraid that Kohara will erase the memorial left by Fujita.
"Big Sister Michiko, we've searched the entire room, but we haven't found anything of value!" Michiko was dressed very formally now, completely unlike the beautiful, effeminate woman she had been before. She really did look like a big sister now.
"Can't Oda-kun do it either?" Oda is the member of this group who specializes in tracking. His special ability is a dog-like sense of smell. Although it is not a combat ability, it is very useful. Dogs can also track, but dogs cannot talk.
"Yes, I'm sorry! They sprayed a lot of things in the room that irritated my sense of smell!"
These were all done by the Silver Sword people. Although they didn't know there was such a dog-like superpower here, their habit still led them to spray a drug that stimulated the dog's sense of smell in the room. This was actually prepared for real dogs.
Michiko nodded and pushed open the bathroom door.
"Good luck, it seems they used the restroom here!" Just as a shark can identify a blood cell in a billion water molecules, Michiko can also identify the excrement of a superhuman in ten tons of water.
"Actually, if Fujita hadn't been killed by them, today might really have been my lucky day!" Michiko closed her eyes, savoring the moment. "One is an air-based ability, which is pretty useless, and the other is actually self-examination!"