Lantern Sister is still very capable.

Chapter 146 Showing Weakness

"pat-"

Large water droplets hit the ground. Zero looked at the wet patch on the ground, and the doubt that had risen in his heart suddenly dissipated. His explosive nerves gradually calmed down, and he felt a strange sense of guilt.

Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that the floor beneath Chu Deng's feet had cracked, and Chu Deng's entire body was tense to the extreme. Zero Degree quickly withdrew his level four pressure and looked somewhat embarrassed at the girl who was facing away from him with her head down, her expression unreadable.

Just now, Chu Deng didn't react to his pressure at all, and Zero thought something was wrong with Chu Deng. He was ready to take action and get rid of her at any time. After all, he was always sensitive to any abnormalities of his subordinates when he was on the front line of the parasitic insect plague.

It has now been discovered that the person simply collapsed peacefully; under the influence of the mind, the body did not immediately perceive the oppressive force emanating from him.

Now she's crying, and she's even scared people so much they've cracked the floorboards, but she won't say a word.

Zero Degrees was having a headache and didn't know how to take the initiative to start a conversation.

Chu Deng stared expressionlessly at the bead of sweat she had forced onto the ground. Crying was out of the question, so she had no choice but to use her superpower to cheat.

Upon hearing Zero's breathing change, Chu Deng knew that this person had begun to fill in the blanks in her mind, taking advantage of her forced show of weakness.

Neither of them was willing to speak first, as if they were competing with each other.

Zero waited a while, but seeing that the stubborn girl on the other side still wouldn't open her mouth, he could only hold his breath and speak, only to be interrupted by the flashing light of the personal terminal and the knocking sound from outside the door.

Zero breathed a sigh of relief and eagerly opened his personal computer to check the information. "Enter."

"Mr. Zero! An ordinary person has sneaked in and is causing a disturbance!" Huang Jingcan, who was in charge of making the notification, was startled by the deathly silence in the office. He quickly regained his composure and reported as if nothing had happened, but his eyes darted back and forth between Chu Deng and Zero as he spoke.

Zero had already learned the whole story through the information from the personal terminal, and his tone was laced with anger: "When did this person sneak in? Who was on duty?!"

“Uh…” Huang Jingcan was speechless for a moment before dutifully replying, “We were discovered less than half an hour after we came in. The people on duty were Chu Deng and four others. There weren’t enough people, and there was a mistake when we temporarily changed shifts. Two of them had old illnesses flare up, and they were taken advantage of during the shift change.”

There was nothing that could be done about it. The patrols along the coast were already short-handed, and they were only barely managing to keep up with the help of the watchtowers. In the past two days, marine monsters had been popping up from time to time, and the number of wounded was slowly increasing. Chu Deng was called over to temporarily replace the person on duty, and before he could keep an eye on things, someone broke in.

"The base's defense system isn't reacting at all?" Zero said coldly.

"I was just about to tell you that a child of about 10 years old broke in. He has light-based abilities, like a level 2, and he's slippery. He's playing hide-and-seek with us now."

"I'll go find it." Chu Deng uttered two words and left before the two could react.

Zero's expression changed, but he held back and said to Huang Jingcan in a fast-paced voice, "You go with her. This child just heard some bad news and is upset right now. Keep an eye on her and make sure she doesn't get too agitated. Never mind, I'll go myself. You go and arrange the duty shifts."

Huang Jingcan could only nod repeatedly and watch Lingdu leave with Chu Deng.

Humans have developed less than 30% of the abilities of light-type ability users. Currently, healing and speed enhancement are the mainstream, but the real trump card of light-type abilities is disguise.

But no disguise could escape Chu Deng's eyes.