"How are you, Heli?" Susan asked.
"Heli! I'm coming to support you!" Bai Fei exclaimed.
"Heli, be careful, it's a Level Five Ghost Demon!" Jiang Zhen warned.
"I'm fine," Heli replied. He watched the approaching demon, his body instinctively activating his spiritual energy, but he suppressed it as he came to his senses.
He couldn't easily use his spiritual energy until Xiao Yue figured out who was spying on him.
As Heli suppressed his spiritual energy, the ghost demon raised its long halberd and swung it down at him.
Heli quickly took half a step back, dodging the blow. As he did, he raised his hand and pressed downwards, but the expected gravity did not appear to pin the demon to the ground.
Suddenly, he realized that it wasn't Li Qin this time, but He Xi.
"He Xi!" Heli called out.
The little girl, who had been floating in mid-air, gave him a playful smile.
Then,
A delicate, exquisite deep blue ring appeared on Heli's right index finger. The ring had two rhombus-shaped patterns, and then it gradually transformed until it became a deep blue glove.
The moment the ring appeared, Heli instantly understood He Xi's ability.
"Ah!!!"
After missing its attack, the ghost demon swung its halberd again, slashing towards Heli's waist.
But,
Heli calmly raised his right hand. The next moment, a circular aura erupted from his body.
As the aura burst forth, everything around them fell into a strange state of stasis. The ghost demon's halberd stopped about five centimeters from Heli's waist.
Heli exhaled lightly and said to He Xi, who was floating in the air with her hands behind her back and her head tilted up, "Little Xi, no wonder even Uncle Li is afraid of you. You're so powerful."
He Xi, hearing Heli's praise, snorted even more proudly. "Of course. Besides He Jun, I fear no one. Don't look at Jin Fang and Chen Sui shouting about fighting all the time; do they dare to make a sound in front of this princess?"
Then, He Xi raised her right hand, touching her thumb and index finger together with a small gap in between, and said to Heli, "Actually, the gap between me and He Jun is just this much, really, just a tiny bit."
Heli was filled with curiosity about He Jun's abilities at this moment, but this was not the time for curiosity.
Heli nodded at He Xi, his expression serious. "Actually, I think Princess Little Xi is more powerful than He Jun. At the very least, Princess Little Xi is much cuter than He Jun."
"Right! Haha..." He Xi happily crossed her hands on her hips in mid-air and laughed.
Meanwhile, the ghost demon began to decompose from its halberd, its arms, body, and head, and then all of it dissipated. Finally, the dissipating dust gathered in the air, forming a black brick.
Heli swallowed, then looked down at the glove on his right hand.
Manifestation System, Weapon: Rule Glove, Ability: Deconstruct and Reconstruct.
When they appeared on Heli's hand as weapons, it was a manifestation system ability, but their inherent abilities could be shared with Heli after they appeared.
It was like Li Qin. Li Qin's ability was gravity. When he appeared beside Heli, Heli could use gravity or manifest a halberd.
It was the same for He Xi. Her ability was to deconstruct and reconstruct objects, including living beings, within the range of her mental power.
Heli took a deep breath. No wonder everyone was so afraid of He Xi. Even Li Qin, who possessed gravity, said he wasn't He Xi's match.
Jiang Jie's anxious voice sounded in his ear again: "Heli! Heli! Heli!"
"Ah, I'm here. What's wrong, Sister Jiang?" Heli snapped back to attention.
"What happened just now? Why did your audio suddenly cut out? Are you okay? Where are the demons?" Jiang Jie asked.
Heli looked at the black brick on the ground and replied, "The demon... has been eliminated."
Jiang Jie paused, then asked doubtfully, "Eliminated? How did you eliminate it? We didn't see anything on this side."
Heli pondered for a moment and said, "It was just... a bang, and then... rustle... and then... it was eliminated."
"What?" Jiang Jie was bewildered. "What bang, rustle, Heli, you... never mind, as long as you're okay. All the demons have appeared, hurry and rendezvous with them."
"Okay, got it."
Heli looked at the ring on his finger with renewed novelty, then leaped up and stood on the rooftop. His goggles displayed that the remaining six demons had gathered at Bai Fei's location.
And Captain Susan had also gone there.
Heli ran along the eaves towards Bai Fei and Tao Xue's location.
Just as Heli was about to arrive, the miserable roars of demons came from ahead. Heli suddenly leaped into the air and landed on a large tree.
Then,
He saw the most tragic scene he had ever witnessed with his own eyes.
Captain Susan was holding one demon in each hand, and with a gentle squeeze, the demons died, tossed aside like trash. Captain Susan, already tall, was several centimeters taller than Heli, who was 1.85 meters tall.
She stood there, using her telekinetic control, suspending the six charging demons in the air, and then twisting their necks one by one. In just a few seconds, all six Level Five demons were strangled to death by Captain Susan with her bare hands.
Heli asked Jiang Jie with great confusion, "Sister Jiang, with the Captain here, why do we still need to follow?"
In the channel, Jiang Jie hesitated and replied, "Because... fishing requires bait."
Heli: "???"
Heli rubbed his face. Such an answer was quite wounding to his pride. He had thought the three of them were here to show off their skills, but in reality, they were just bait used by the captain to lure out the demons.
This was too absurd.
"Hey, Heli, why are you squatting there? We're done," Bai Fei waved and shouted at Heli, who was squatting on the tree.
"Okay," Heli replied, then jumped down from the tree and stood beside Bai Fei.
Susan turned around, clapped her hands, the gesture like discarding a bag of trash. She looked at the three of them and chuckled lightly, "You've all worked hard tonight. Seven Level Five demons. You each get credit for two demons, and I'll take one. Xiao Jiang, write the report."
"Okay, Captain," Jiang Zhen replied in the channel.
Susan raised her hand, swept her long hair over her shoulder, and said with a dashing smile, "You probably haven't had dinner yet. Let's go, my treat. We'll meet at the food stalls, Xiao Jiang, Xiao Liang, at Xi La Ren Jia on Caiyun Street."
Susan left with Tao Xue.
Heli moved closer to Bai Fei, watching Susan's retreating figure, and said enviously, "I wish I could be as dashing as the captain."
Bai Fei smiled and patted Heli's shoulder. "Let's focus on unlocking your second-tier gene lock first."
Heli looked at Bai Fei and said, "Brother Fei, aren't you also a second-tier gene lock? And a dual-ability user. By rights, you shouldn't be weaker than the captain."
Bai Fei gave a wry smile and said, "Heli, let me tell you another secret."
"What secret?"
"The secret is... the captain is far more powerful than you imagine."
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