Superpowers of Sky City

Chapter 45 Freedom
There is always an end to the banquet.

After the dishes were messed up, Yan Qi was the first to leave the house, leaving behind a table of dining waste.

He drank two glasses tonight, his face was slightly drunk, and he walked a little slower than usual.This little wine would not make him stumble, but when he was walking alone, no one would talk to him, any drunken talk or short talk, if there is no audience, it would be boring.

Maybe it was due to the impact of the dragon disaster today, or maybe it was already dark at this time, except for the security guards at the gate of the community, there was no pedestrian.He walked for a while, and was attracted by the shiny advertisement on the bus platform, so he walked to the bench under the stop sign and sat down.

Yan Qi looked at the appearance of the platform, and then at the content of the advertisement.

Silent electronic advertisements rotate on the platform: the new album of the popular idol, the recruitment of new students in the university laboratory, the safety promotion of using superpowers with caution...

He sneered.

"Change the soup but not the medicine, it's still the same as the outside."

At this moment, the sound of heavy footsteps broke the silence, and a broad and large figure came into the light from the night.

He habitually wanted to wipe his head with a handkerchief, and took it out as soon as he put it in his pocket.The weather was warm and cool in early February, even a fat middle-aged man like him would not sweat his forehead after walking a few steps.

This person was wearing a loose purple official uniform and a small official hat on his head. He was Liu Zhongwu from Cangshou District.He took a closer look and saw the black eyes of the man on the bench. He hurried forward and asked with concern, "Master Yan is injured?"

"Stop doing this." Yan Qi took out a scroll and threw it at him, "Here, the emperor's letter."

Director Liu respectfully stretched out his hands, bowed his waist to take the scroll, and placed it in the jade box, his movements were light and fast, as if if he slowed down a little, the things in his hands would be stained with dust.

After doing all this, Liu Zhongwu breathed a sigh of relief.

He sat down beside Yan Qi, squeezed the tall man to the other end of the bench with his size advantage, and said in a completely different tone from before: "Did the stinky fuck get beaten up?"

Yan Qi scolded with a smile: "It's Mr. Yan who has an edict, but you're an asshole if you don't have an edict? Look at your fat bureaucratic face!"

"The public and private of our officials can be clearly distinguished." The middle-aged bureaucrat did not change his face, took out a pack of cigarettes, and handed one to the hooligan beside him.

Yan Qi waved his hand.Master Liu put the cigarette into his mouth, lit it, and exhaled white smoke.

"Oh... Master Yan made a decisive decision. The building was about to collapse. The situation forced me to bring a group of dangerous people over. I pretended not to see it. But why did you bring Mr. Qin's granddaughter along..."

The tall man waved the smoke away in disgust.

"Young people need to gain insight and broaden their horizons! I can't bear to come here to replace her."

"I'd like to think, the ceremony hall can't even move a pedestrian from top to bottom, so I can find someone to replace her." Master Liu said with a frowning face, "If you move it, it will become an international political incident. People say that the Eternal Light Empire secretly caused a dragon disaster." , I'll find someone to reason with."

"Stupid, who dares to say you cursed someone to death." Yan Qi yawned, "How did you find out?"

"It's not good. Shi Yu's research institute is completely dead, and all the clues have been cut off. What's your opinion, Mr. Yan?"

Tianji sneered: "It's still a bit of a joke to switch to the Qiyao Shinto, just relying on those mentally retarded people to toss out the unification spell?"

"Morton accepted your favor, and it's much more convenient to do things. Even so, I haven't found out how the glass beads fell into the hands of Madman Long. It will be difficult to go down to Zero Island..."

Yan Qi stroked his chin and asserted, "There is a problem with Zero Island."

"There is no evidence. They don't have many local impermanence methods. It is reasonable for No. 0 to escape after killing all the lunatics."

"What kind of bullshit evidence do you want, let the emperor put pressure on people to go there! This time, there is such a big problem, can they still refuse!"

The tall man slapped the stool, and the fat bureaucrat shook his head repeatedly.

"We have done it all by ourselves this time, and we have given a lot of people a voice. Just wait until the time is right."

Liu Zhongwu exhaled the last puff of smoke, extinguished the cigarette butt, and said, "There is still half of the crystals left in the Abinos Mountains..."

"I have discussed it with the emperor, and I will keep your research as negotiating materials."

"well."

Liu Zhongwu had nothing to say for a while, staring at the dark night sky in a daze.

That was the direction from which the Glazed Dragon appeared.

He held back for a while, and said very decadently: "When is the head?"

In stark contrast to the fat man beside him, the tall man's face was beaming with joy.

"From Superbia to now, there hasn't been a single dragon disaster in the spirit prison for three years."

The fat middle-aged man turned his head suddenly, the flesh on his face was shaking: "Really?!"

"Whether it's real or not, I'll guess! It's only been three years before I can see the fart." Yan Qi squeezed his chin and laughed, "But I, Yan Qi, have never guessed wrong."

"Tsk tsk, don't say anything else, I believe this..." Liu Zhongwu got up on his knees, and at this moment he swept away the exhaustion on his face, but he looked energetic, "Where do you stay at night?"

"Crap! I've been busy all day and forgot about this. Book me the most luxurious hotel!"

"Oh, it's still a high-end hotel. I still have a small villa, so you can go there directly. The dragon head has a good view, there are cooks and gardens, and the four treasures of the study are all available. I'm waiting for you..."

The last bus at night came and stopped by the station. The driver rubbed his eyes.

Just now he seemed to see two figures, one tall and one fat, sitting on a bench, but when he got closer, there was nothing on the platform.

Maybe he saw a ghost, or maybe he was hallucinated by the dragon disaster tonight.

If such a major event happened, they would not be allowed to take a break from work. What a broken unit.

The driver master muttered in his heart, and dealt with it according to the old rules, assuming that nothing happened if he didn't see it.

The bus closed its doors and drove away.

No one got on the train, and there was no one waiting on the platform benches.

·
At [-]:[-]pm, Mo Yuankai's residence.

After a hasty meal, everyone left one by one. Mo Yuankai declined the guests' offer of help, leaving only the gray-haired young man to clean up the table with him.

Super powers are very convenient at this time, and you can clean up without using your hands.

The two sat down side by side on the sofa.Mo Yuankai pressed the remote control, and a strange painting was displayed on the big screen in the living room.

Gongsun Ce recognized what it was. Every time he had a nightmare, he would see the incarnation of despair deep in his memory at that moment.

The one-eyed beast entrenched above the seven bell towers, the ghost dragon that descended three years ago.

He heard his eldest brother say, "It's all over, Ah Ce."

The Nether Dragon died three years ago.

The glazed dragon that could not be dealt with at that time was also beheaded today.

The tragedy known as the collapse of the kingdom, the event that affected the lives of the two people... just over an hour ago, the person involved personally ended it.

"I don't really feel it." Gongsun Ce said slowly, "I always feel like I'm dreaming. Half a day... a series of battles... I don't have time to feel tired... just follow the situation and kill it."

Heijian was also sealed again by Yan Qi.

There should be no more nightmares after that.

The gray-haired youth blinked and repeated unconsciously: "It's over."

"You've done a good job. The incident three years ago is over." Mo Yuankai patted his younger brother on the shoulder, "But not everything is over. Ce, from before to now, we have always acted for something of?"

"In order to maintain the peace and tranquility of this city..."

He saw Mo Yuankai give him a thumbs up, just like before.

The gray-haired young man laughed, and said with his friends: "It is also for the sake of letting all superpowers leave this prison one day!"

Mo Yuankai encouraged and said: "One day I will succeed!"

"Yeah, although we often prevent other people from leaving, I am embarrassed to say that in front of others."

"Is there any way. The pursuit of individual freedom should not override the interests of the general public. We are partners of justice, not evil parties."

"You are a partner of justice." Gongsun Ce pointed to the information dealer and then to himself, "I am a student who helps the partner of justice."

"Dou, a 230-jin partner of justice."

"You're like a seal in an aquarium now, proudly puffing out your stomach every day and showing off 'look I'm fat again'."

"Save a few glasses, please." The intelligence dealer spread out on the sofa, "Do you want me to send you?"

"Thank you, I'll just go back by myself."

·
After saying goodbye to his old friend, Gongsun Ce left his house.

He walked on the deserted street, thinking about the past, thinking about the previous conversation, thinking of the freedom they wanted, and thus thinking of the freedom Shi Yuling wanted.

Who doesn't want to be free?
Probably only Yan Qi didn't want to, the man would just sneer and say that everyone is bound in this world, and life is just moving forward with bound hands and feet.

But the young man didn't think that way. Like people of his age, he also longed for an unfettered life... So to a certain extent, he could also understand the woman's thoughts.

At the moment of becoming one with the giant dragon, at the moment of gaining incomparable power, did Shigure Rei really get the freedom she wanted?Or……

He thought of the birds in the air, and of her laughing on the back of the pigeon.

Perhaps human beings yearn for the sky because they envy the freedom of birds.The birds that are envied by the people on the ground may also desire the strength of their hands and feet. Even if they have wings to soar in the air, they are still bound by the invisible gravity...

all the same.Whether it is a person or a bird, they are all unsatisfactory, and they are not free at all.

He had to agree with Yan Qi's words, but this annoyed him.

"Thinking too much!"

Gongsun Ce said to himself.

How could he know about Asuka's troubles?How could he know Shigure Rei's thoughts?

It was a vain imagination, a guess that could not affect reality, just like the many words he usually talked about, lacking practical meaning, but satisfying himself.

Even so, I couldn't control my thoughts.if……

At this time, the message from the vision pulled him back from fantasy to reality.

In reality, there are no pigeons, no hunters, only a girl in a green dress and a yellow dress, looking at her mobile phone under the street lamp.

Qin Qianbai put away his phone and waved to him: "Oh."

"You're already expressionless, so don't waste your words like gold."

"It was an unexpected exclamation. I was pretending to encounter it by chance."

"Don't say that there won't be such an ordinary encounter as you in this city or in this world."

Miss Qin walked backwards beside him.Like eyes growing on his back, he bypassed all obstacles on the road.

A little further on—for her, a little further back—was the flower beds by the side of the road, and what to do with that.He thought that this should be bypassed, but unexpectedly, the other party jumped up lightly and stood on the edge of the flower bed like walking on a balance beam.

That's great.Will be a hit with the little ones in the park, dude.

Gongsun Ce didn't know what to say to the other party for a while.He was really exhausted. If he wanted to talk about the details of today's incident, it would be tantamount to mental torture.Besides, even though it's just friends, it should be considered rude to keep talking about other women's things when chatting with girls.

He remembered that he hadn't asked the other party why he was involved in this matter.No need to ask, she knew it was pulled by Yan Qi, but when did she meet that man?I don't know how Shi Yu Lianyi met Yan Qi.

This is all personal privacy that is not easy to ask. As soon as such a thought flashed across his mind, the elder brother's advice to him sounded in his mind.

——"What is a private matter and not a private matter... Do you understand what a friend is, Ah Ce? It's a life-threatening friendship!"

Should he change his style?But in that case, it would be impossible to maintain a unilateral position...Because knowing more about others also means exposing yourself more.

From this perspective, what should he say?
Gongsun Ce cleared his throat: "Cough. The nightmare I've been having before is actually not what I told you this afternoon."

"Oh."

After the opening statement is over, it is very difficult to say the next sentence.Telling others about yourself always brings an inexplicable sense of shame.

"The real content of that nightmare...do you want to hear it?"

"To be honest, not very interested."

The gray-haired youth covered his face speechlessly.

That's it, that's what I'm most afraid of!Things that I think are very important are actually good things in the eyes of others. After I finish speaking, I find the opposite face "Ah, that's it...", the frustration it brings is stronger than losing a battle. ten times!What died was not only the atmosphere but also the delicate self-esteem of the person concerned, so at this time, it would be better to say a lie that no one believed and pretend to be stupid to liven up the atmosphere! !
I have to say something quickly to ease the atmosphere... When he was thinking this way, he heard the girl say.

"Since it's a nightmare, it should be something that makes you unhappy. If Ce will feel uncomfortable in retrospect, it's better not to say it."

He watched his friend jump off the flower bed, turned around, and walked side by side with him.

Unbelievably, the mood calmed down.

"It's not that..."

He began to tell about his dream.

When recalling the past, a gray hallucination appeared in his eyes.

Gray mist appeared silently, wrapping around his side, as if trying to catch him back to the past.

However, the events of that day are over.

Just today, he finally put an end to the tragedy three years ago with his own hands.At this time, the fear in my heart seemed to fade away with the end of reality.

So he stepped through the fog and continued to move forward in reality.

The gray-white fog was still there at first, but as the narration deepened, it gradually became thinner, and finally completely disappeared from his vision without leaving a trace.

"...When I get here, I wake up."

He finished his dream.

There is no beginning and no end, just a fragment of that incident.The knight rushed to the evil dragon, and everything that happened after that was not in a dream.How would he comment if he were to listen to it?I don't understand, I don't understand, where is the antecedent and follow-up, and what happened after that... Gongsun Ce couldn't help but wry smile, everyone would think so.

In this way, no matter what the other party asks, it should be explained well.

Even if it was about the sword, he had to talk about it, and he had made such preparations in his heart.

The superhuman looked at his friend.

Qin Qianbai looked into his eyes and asked, "Is that Miss Knight, Ah Ce's girlfriend?"

"What are you thinking—?!"

Gongsun Ce was helpless.

Why did you want to ask this in the first place after hearing this? !It's not about the atmosphere. Your thinking is really out of the norm to some extent, isn't it Miss? !
The gray-haired young man covered his face and sighed: "How can I be favored by others? She has a boyfriend! Her boyfriend is a super nice person, and the relationship between the two of them is faster than the light that Jin Jian gave off when they stood together. I'm blind. I'm just waiting for when the two of them announce their marriage and rush to be the master of ceremonies."

"Sounds like a loser's speech from a failed third party in a threesome, ah."

He reached out and tapped his friend on the head.

"Use an example that you can understand. Me, those two people, are the same as me now, Caldesia and Shigure-kun."

Miss Qin covered her head and said, "I completely understand."

He kind of believes that girls are more inclined to love brains.

Qin Qianbai continued to walk with him, just like when he went back this afternoon.

The two didn't make a detour, because they lived in the same apartment - she lived in Room 7 on the 6th floor, which happened to be next door to the person with superpowers.There is no special reason to often act together, it's just that they live close together.

The night is dark now, the last bus has passed, and the Pigeon Station is probably closed at this point...

They might have to keep walking back like this.

But anyway, I'm so tired today...

The superpower controlled telekinesis, causing the bodies of the two to float into the air.

They passed the trees along the road, passed the tall buildings, until they rose into the unhindered night sky.

Qin Qianbai pressed her skirt, tilted her head and looked at him: "Does Ah Ce still have enough strength?"

"Frankly no, I feel like I'm going to fall in a minute at most. I can fly as long as I can."

1 minute may be too much.

45 seconds, no, maybe it will fall in another 30 seconds.

It's also faster than walking.

They know that their body will fall in a moment.

Even so, I still want to fly in the starless night.

Feel the wind blowing by you and see the sky closer than the ground.

Before the inescapable bondage comes...

Enjoy the short-lived freedom that will eventually pass.

(End of first volume)

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