Chapter 138: New Skill

Xu Chuyao thought she must have misheard.

“Shang, you’re tired.”

“No, don’t joke around. You’re tired after just a short while? But before, you could go for one or two days straight without saying a word about being tired.”

“Don’t give up, Yao Yao. You just got here and it feels so good.”

“Anyway, I’m just tired.” Shen Ning was stuck to the bed like glue, her tone flat and emotionless. “Tired is tired.”

Don’t ask why. Just accept it’s tiredness. Hands can get tired, hearts can get tired—something always gets tired.

Xu Chuyao looked up at her, then glanced down at her own Thunder Girl… and felt a twinge of confusion about this world.

“So what am I supposed to do?”

My mood is almost gone, I can’t just force myself back, right? I heard that would be bad for your health.

Shen Ning didn’t say anything. Her hand, lying on the bed, moved slightly, raising three fingers.

Xu Chuyao’s eyelid twitched.

“Just for this? Last time I didn’t agree and you acted like this?”

“Not just for this, you pretended to have kidney deficiency over this? Really?”

Shen Ning didn’t respond and even closed her eyes.

“You—”

Xu Chuyao almost laughed in frustration.

Alright, alright, if this is how you want to play it—do you think without you, I can’t steal the spotlight?

The Thunder Girl glanced around left and right, suddenly noticing a pouch casually tossed in the corner of the bed. Inside the bag was a flash of pink—sweet, dreamy, clearly useful.

At this moment, the girl was resting with her eyes closed.

The strategy was perfect, the battle preparations flawless. She believed she had completed all the necessary pre-steps.

Mouth.

Warm…

Good…

Why isn’t Yao Yao coming up? Instead, she’s over there humming to herself, her voice growing more urgent.

Shen Ning finally couldn’t hold back. Her eyes opened as if the sky was falling.

“Put that down!”

[Counter Villain Value +2000]

You’re not allowed to use those to replace me!

On an island dozens of kilometers north of the Equator Defense Line, the newly named Valhalla Research Institute.

“Second-tier Skill Master” Balf had joined the team a few days ago. He said from day one he already knew what his tasks were, but since the Research Institute had been in testing mode across various zones, no official operations had started, and no ordinary personnel had been brought in.

He noticed some strange stones sealed in certain areas. Occasionally, researchers would take a small piece to another lab, but what exactly they were doing, he didn’t know and wasn’t allowed to enter.

But on this day—

滴！滴！滴！

The alarm blared through the Research Institute. The experiment area manager hurried over and bumped into the tower of food Balf was holding, knocking it down.

By the time he collected the fallen food, the alarm had ended. Some workers passing by wiped sweat from their faces, clearly relieved it was a false alarm.

Then Balf saw the man who had escorted him here a few days ago, Goli—responsible for coordinating personnel relations in the Institute and handling security incidents. Goli rushed into the lab that triggered the alarm.

“What happened?”

“Just a small problem, but a very strange one,”

The experiment manager, with graying hair like the Mediterranean, took off his glasses and wiped them as he turned to answer, “The mutant we were testing just now suddenly got angry—T-One-Fo.”

“Angry T-One-Fo?”

“Yes, but they shouldn’t be like this. Their emotions are usually very stable. The only thing that can cause their emotions to lose control theoretically is the psychic wave disperser—the one Swina used in Freiden Free City—but we don’t have that here.”

Not only was there no disperser, but the very content to disperse—the psychic wave collected from Shen Ning—was also not present.

Goli looked toward the isolated room behind the glass. The petrified mutant stood dumbfounded, mumbling inaudible self-talk.

“Besides getting angry, any other behaviors?”

“No, just the anger, but it’s very strange,” the Mediterranean experiment manager scratched his head. “It’s just pure anger but without any destructive intent.”

No smashed tables or broken glass, not even a slap on the wall. This was completely different from how it behaved in Freiden Free City.

The experiment manager was clueless, and Goli even more so. After thinking it over, he could only instruct: “Record this incident in the log, continue testing and observation.”

She got angry!

Expressions and eyes can lie, but the System prompt never lies.

“Alright, alright, I’ll sit, I’ll sit. Isn’t sitting enough?”

Xu Chuyao didn’t understand why, but this number was a bit high, close to the critical point. She didn’t dare hesitate and quickly crawled over to her girlfriend’s hand.

Yao Yao got the advantage and wasn’t playing nice—if there’s Counter Villain Value, she was going to exhaust it. Just a bit tired, so sit… aiyo!

The humming turned into low moans and groans. It was clear this was quite stimulating for Yao Yao, occasionally mixed with small cries of pain.

Shen Ning looked at the swaying big white rabbit in front of her, no trace of the earlier anger remained.

“I’m just saying, your jealousy is seriously over the top, but the outcome is really good.” The Sexually Repressed Shadow seemed thoughtful. “You wouldn’t have done this on purpose, would you?”

Not intentionally, but neither did she suppress her emotions; instead, she let them slide downhill a bit.

“Fair enough, it’s a way. After all, being angry really works.”

Though saying that, at the very moment of anger, the girl seemed to feel some connection—or maybe it was just an illusion.

Forget it, no matter. The most important thing now was to appreciate her girlfriend’s swaying waist, occasionally reaching out to steady her.

“Mm mm ah… woo aa!”

Xu Chuyao felt she had never exerted herself this much in her life. The high point of the performance ended in an instant, and she collapsed in exhaustion.

Shen Ning’s eyes flashed with light.

[Shiyong, Ruxi Host completed four-star Milestone task ~ First low energy consumption.

Task reward: a slight increase in spiritual power limit and spiritual power rank, three random third-tier elemental skills.

Focus and click to view skill details.

Additionally, the Milestone System will enter cooldown for one month, during which random daily missions will refresh irregularly.]

Three elemental skills—exciting and promising—but Shen Ning quickly closed the light screen because she had something more important to do now.

Xu Chuyao, still panting from humming, thought she could finally rest, but suddenly her girlfriend pressed down on her.

“Shen Ning, what are you doing? Aren’t you done?”

“You’re done, not me.”

That was work just now; now it was life.

“No, I just already… woo waa!”

Mi Xiaolu was right.

Tonight her roommate wasn’t coming back. She sent herself over, and heaven knows when she’d return. But with two people squeezed together, they’d definitely have room to sleep. No worries about no place to sleep tonight.

So Xiaolu could sleep soundly tonight. If she still hadn’t returned by noon tomorrow, she’d try to pick her up again.

Z222

[Counter Villain Value: 3250]

The next morning, when Xu Chuyao woke from deep sleep and looked at her account balance, she felt a little comfort in her weary heart.

At least she had twenty draws again. She hadn’t wasted her effort or taken a hit for nothing. The only problem was where the three thousand-plus came from; she didn’t understand it at all.

She clearly hadn’t done anything bad since the ketchup incident.

“Maybe it just fell from the sky.”

Yao Yao’s mindset was always good. If she couldn’t figure something out, she wouldn’t think about it. Instead, she considered how to spend the Counter Villain Value. Huh, seems there was nothing to think about—it was just a lottery.

But no rush; she couldn’t draw here.

Last time, spending over ten thousand Counter Villain Value but hitting only two guarantees was too much of a loss. This time she’d choose a good day and place. If she got gold in twenty draws, Yao Yao would be third-tier!

That would save her from getting hit a few more times.

Xu Chuyao took out her phone to check the traditional zodiac lucky dates, only to find two unread messages.

One was from her girlfriend—

[Shen Ning: I’m going to the Zhao training ground. Remember to eat breakfast after you wake up. I bought some and put it on the table.]

Xu Chuyao turned to look. Sure enough, there were several bread packs on the table, along with some boxed chocolate milk—simple but perfect for someone who didn’t know when they’d gotten up.

The other was a work message—

[Special Intelligence Team member Xiao Si Nuo: Officer Yao, I’ve organized the materials. When do you need them?]

That was good news.

[Officer Xu Chuyao (group card): Meet at the activity room later. I’ll eat and come.]

She got out of bed, ate all the bread on the table, and sent a message to her girlfriend before returning to her dorm to change clothes and then set out.

At the training ground, the early-rising girl had been waiting in the chaotic place for a while.

The chaos was caused by her.

“Rested enough? Let’s do it again.”

The wind gathered around the girl, then rapidly spread outward. Soon, most of the training ground was enveloped in swirling wind.

[Elemental Skill: Raging Grounds.

Area Type.

Description: Summons a wind field within a certain radius centered on oneself, able to receive information carried by the wind (effect after fusion with second-tier ultrasonic skill). While inside the wind field, elemental skill cooldown time is reduced by half.]

Shen Ning stretched out her hand and grasped at the air. The blue-green terrifying arrow gradually took shape. Gathering and compressing the starry energy still took some time, but much faster than usual.

Forming the arrow required half a minute, but dispersing it took only a few seconds. The power was too great to use in the school training ground, as it would damage public property.

Luckily, she had two other skills she could use.

[Elemental Skill: Guiding Airflow.

Control Type.

Description: Uses a gust of wind to capture nearby enemies or objects, binding and pulling them toward oneself.]

There were no enemies at school, so she practiced on sandbags. The girl pulled a gust of wind and tied several sandbags together, spinning them on the ground in circles.

As for the last of the three new skills—

[Elemental Skill: Dense Wind Pressure.

Restriction Type.

Description: Uses continuous raging wind to exert sustained pressure on a target, effective against scattered element attacks such as flames or sand.]

Shen Ning had tried this half an hour ago. Unfortunately, one sandbag exploded instantly under the wind pressure, covering the entire training ground in debris.

“Not bad.” The Sexually Repressed Shadow gave an evaluation. “All the planning and tactics we prepared for so long paid off.”

Maybe this really was heaven rewarding diligence.

The Broken Shadow nodded, “Indeed, not bad. These skills all have great potential for development, but remember, potential refers to the shape and function being developed. A skill becomes fixed because it has its own unique traits.”

The perfection of Raging Grounds, the focus of Guiding Airflow, the unbroken streak of Dense Wind Pressure, and the ultimate ferocity of Wind Arrow.

Shen Ning nodded, walked back to put away her things, picked up a towel to wipe the sweat, and looked down to see her phone screen light up.

[Yao Yao doesn’t want to eat fingers: Misc, stop training for now and come quickly to the Special Intelligence Team activity room.]