475: Chapter 11 Open Door Murder 475: Chapter 11 Open Door Murder A night passed, and the sun rose, ushering in a brand new day for the cities in the sky.
The alley fight in the dead of night didn’t affect the city at all; the morning was peaceful in Alandia.
A temporary blackout in one district, the injuries of some nameless individuals, for a city that arose from chaos, these things weren’t even worth mentioning.
After all, for most residents, troubles that didn’t affect them might as well not exist.
Only a few people who knew more looked in a more distant direction.
That morning, a Superpower User went to Cangshou District to have a fairly lengthy conversation with the most significant person in town.
This conversation would largely determine the events of the days, even three years hence, but for now, it had no connection with the two individuals who had met the night before.
So, let’s shift our gaze from the distant Cangshou District and towards the Thorn District, bristling with giant white towers.
In the morning, Qin Qianbai woke up from her sleep.
She stretched lazily on her purely white bed and yawned, realizing the bed made with Superpower was even more comfortable than she had imagined—she, accustomed to rising early for martial practice, hadn’t slept past 7 o’clock in a long time.
Maybe she was just too tired last night, the girl thought.
After a series of disturbances, she had fallen into an emotional slump upon seeing her empty apartment.
Qin Qianbai was certain her performance last night must have been embarrassing; otherwise, the gray-haired boy wouldn’t have offered to make her a set of furniture.
Thanks to their neighbor’s strange abilities, she was able to sleep on the bed.
And upon Awakening, another pressing issue emerged in her mind.
The little cash she had on her was almost entirely destroyed by her powers yesterday.
Now, she was so hungry.
But she didn’t have a single penny on her.
Qin Qianbai sat on the white bed, looking like she might fade into the background and lose all color.
…What should she do next?
She fell into a dream once again.
In the dream, everyone was there.
Her older brother, Alandia, Orianna, Yulian, Rakael…
They were all laughing and chatting under the spotlight.
She quietly stood in the corner, dazzled by their radiance.
They were all too excellent.
Just standing beside them made her feel ashamed.
This was fine.
Standing alone in the corner, watching, and waiting for the moment when a fool was needed to liven things up, then stepping forward exaggeratedly to make everyone laugh.
At that moment, Alandia turned her head, and her gray eyes made him unable to look away.
“Ce, why are you standing alone?”
The Dawn Knight reached out to him, and everyone smiled at him.
Do I really deserve to step forward?
He smiled joyfully and reached out—
Then, a gray-white fog obscured everything.
He remained stretching out his hand, seeing only a blood-red full moon in the night sky, and the throbbing sound that beat against his eardrums.
Thump, thump, thump, thump.
The fog dissolved everything, and it was coming.
The dragon was coming…!
“Ah!”
Gongsun Ce woke up from his dream, his face as pale as paper.
Cold sweat soaked his clothes, and the boy clutched the quilt with trembling hands.
He sat rigidly on his bed, the spark in his eyes gone.
He had seen the city of the past again, and everything was so real before his eyes, the heartbeat still echoing in his ears.
The sound was too close, just on the right side of the room, as though it was only a wall away!
“…?”
Next door in room 706 was that girl’s room…
The gray-haired boy slowly turned his head, his gaze empty as he stared in the direction of the sound.
Thump, thump.
The rhythmic sound, like a knock on the door, rose from the opposite side of the bedroom wall.
Thump, thump.
After a pause, the knocking sounds resurfaced.
“Ah…”
Gongsun Ce covered his forehead and sighed wearily.
The sounds from reality reminded him of his current condition.
The dream fog had almost completely dissipated, and he was fully awake.
Gongsun Ce tapped the wall in response, then put on his glasses and changed his clothes slowly, shuffling out of his apartment like a zombie in a video game, to stand before the neighboring room 706.
Ding-dong.
Gongsun Ce pressed the doorbell.
The girl’s voice came from behind the door.
“Please wait a moment.
This thing, it’s very slippery…”
…Slippery?
He hadn’t indulged in the mischief of making the substance slippery the previous night.
Besides, such a delicate manipulation was hard to accomplish with his current experience.
The girl was an expert in combat; if even she said it was slippery…
“No way.
Your ability can even affect the…
the substance?” Gongsun Ce felt weak, “This exertion is basically on the verge of going haywire, hasn’t anyone taught you how to control your powers?”
The door opened.
The expressionless girl tiptoed as if walking on the edge of a cliff, the pure white floor beneath her feet having the glossy smoothness of ice.
“Is the…
slippery thing my, power?” The girl tilted her head in confusion.
In the instant that Qin Qianbai’s mind was working,
The black-haired girl’s clothes transformed into a material as soft and smooth as water.
The peculiar material was indeed as smooth as she described and carried the unique fluidity of a liquid—thus under the pull of gravity, what was once clothing streamed down the girl’s body.
Translucent brown droplets glided over her fair skin.
The wetness from the liquid made the remaining white fabric on her upper body cling tightly to the surface of her skin.
Following the path of the droplets downward, her flat belly revealed a small, adorable navel, and the soft, attractive lines on both sides exuded a mature charm contradicting her age.
Further down were wet triangular soft cloths, reminiscent of the powerful, taut legs of a carnivorous animal, and the white socks that had narrowly escaped…