I get stronger by sunbathing, just like Superman.

He suddenly remembered something: one day last year, during a big house cleaning, Molly stood on a stool to clean the high windows, but accidentally fell. When he heard Molly's panicked scream from the kitchen, he immediately ran to the living room, only to find that Lei Ming had already caught Molly...

But he had just seen Lei Ming pushing the lawnmower in the yard through the kitchen window…

"Do you have super speed?! My God! You're just like the Superman from 'The Fantastic Family'!"

(The comic book that Dick tore up)

Max shouted excitedly, but the next second, he caught a glimpse of a figure standing by the bed out of the corner of his eye…

Lei Ming stared at him expressionlessly, without saying a word.

Glug...

Max tensed up instantly.

"Uh...sorry, did I disturb you...?"

Just when Max thought he was about to get beaten up again, Lei Ming jumped out of the window, leaving behind only one sentence.

Tell Peggy I won't be home for dinner tonight.

Then I heard the sound of a window closing.

It's just the second floor. Even when Max wasn't injured, he often sneaked out from here to fool around.

"OK...fine...no problem...leave this wounded soldier to me..."

Somewhat dejected, Max could only talk to himself in the quiet room…

"Wait!"

Max's expression suddenly turned serious again.

"If he has super hearing... wouldn't he know everything that happened when I got beaten up at school??"

He instantly became even more dejected.

Chapter Eight Who Are You

Walking down the street, with headphones on and listening to soft music, Lei Ming finally felt a sense of peace and tranquility in the world…

He also understood that Max didn't actually have any malicious intent; he was just too curious and a huge chatterbox, which was unbearable for someone with his already sensitive hearing.

Normally it's fine, but I never expected that just saving him once today... it was like he was trying to say everything he wanted to say in a year all at once, it was torture...

But seeing his pitiful appearance, and the only thing he was still okay was his mouth, he didn't say much, after all, he was just a teenager.

In addition, he didn't come out entirely because of Max's talkativeness. Almost every night, after everyone had fallen asleep, he would sneak out to a secluded place to train his abilities, a practice that had been going on for more than half a year.

Because nowadays, he hardly needs to sleep at night.

Normal people sleep because the physiological activities they engage in during the day consume the body's energy, so they need to sleep and rest at night to recover their strength...

But to make him feel sleepy and want to sleep... the amount of activity he gets at school during the day is far from enough...

An hour later, Lei Ming, running at a normal pace, arrived at the beach, the same beach where his escape pod had landed.

He initially thought someone would come to investigate the 'meteor fall' incident, but after a long time, he didn't see any similar reports online. It seemed that no one noticed that a space capsule had landed there, so he didn't care.

It was already 6 p.m., almost evening, and the gradually cooling weather meant there were hardly any people on the beach.

He walked to a rocky area, took out a pair of swimming trunks, then took off all his clothes and put them into his backpack, before placing the backpack under a huge rock.

The cold waves crashed against the rocks. Lei Ming stood on the rocks, and after making sure no one was around, he jumped into the sea with a splash.

Beneath the unseen surface of the sea, a dark shape shot out at incredible speed like a torpedo…

If Lei Ming were to swim at full speed in the sea, he could reach speeds of around 800 kilometers per hour, approaching the speed of sound. He hadn't tried it on land yet, but he figured exceeding the speed of sound shouldn't be a problem.

His lungs can compress a large amount of air; if he wanted, a single deep breath could store enough air for a normal person to consume for several months or even a year.

Moreover, his skin can absorb oxygen molecules from the sea through his pores underwater for internal respiration, so unless he lives in the sea, it is almost impossible for him to drown or suffocate.

About fifty kilometers from the coastline, on an island, a figure suddenly broke through the sea and shot dozens of meters into the air, tracing a long arc before landing on the island. The commotion caused the surrounding trees to shake violently and startled many flying insects and birds away.

Thunder emerged from the darkness.

He discovered this small island by chance while 'swimming' in the sea. It is less than a thousand square meters in size, and there are no other islands nearby. It is also far from the shore, making it perfect for being alone.

On the horizon, as the sun sets, Lei Ming sits cross-legged on the ground, his eyes closed...

Gradually, the sand and stones on the ground seemed to be pulled by some force and began to roll, and the water droplets on Lei Ming's body, which had not yet dried, slid up his skin as if they had lost their gravity...

This strange phenomenon is occurring within a ten-centimeter radius of the thunder.

He's learning from Superman Clark Kent, using a force field derived from his own bioenergy to make himself fly...

However… after this strange sight lasted for ten minutes, Lei Ming’s buttocks were barely five centimeters off the ground. He frowned deeply, but no matter what he did, he couldn’t rise even a little bit higher…

"It's been half a year... and it's still the same..."

Lei Ming opened his eyes, landed back on the ground, and the sand and stones around him stopped rolling.

"Could it be that my energy field is not the same as Superman's?"

After saying that, Lei Ming felt like an idiot. Superman is a fictional character after all. It's fine to use him as a reference, but to take it too seriously is just brain-dead.

"Or is there something wrong with my method? Or... is my energy field not yet large enough for me to fly?"

Lei Ming was a bit troubled and planned to try other methods another day, such as jumping from a high place to get a feel for flying. That would be relatively simple, since he could easily jump to a height of about 20 or 30 meters with a simple knee bend...

Just as Lei Ming was pondering, his ears seemed to catch a strange sound coming from the sea breeze…

"That was... a gunshot?"

Lei Ming suddenly stood up and walked to the edge of the island, listening carefully to the direction from which the sound came... At the same time, his eyes scanned the sea, but he could not find the source of the sound, which meant that the location of the gunshot had reached or even exceeded the limit of his vision!

But... it didn't exceed his hearing limit.

Then, more gunshots rang out, this time continuously, accompanied by the terrified screams of men, women, and even children.

Thanks to these sounds, Lei Ming was able to quickly pinpoint their source.

"That's...the direction of international waters...pirates?"

Lei Ming stood on the shore looking into the distance, naked except for a pair of swimming trunks, and did not move immediately.

After hesitating for a moment, he decided to go and take a look first. Then, like a launched cannonball, he shot into the sky and landed in the distant sea, splashing up a wave...

After swimming for about fifty kilometers, as the sound gradually became clearer, Lei Ming poked his head out of the water and finally saw a huge cruise ship on the distant horizon...

He quickly swam to a position about ten meters away from the cruise ship, then suddenly dived and burst out of the water! He shot into the cabin in the middle of the cruise ship like a bullet.

Lei Ming landed safely in the cabin. Looking at the large hole behind him, he thought for a moment and then used his hands to bend the deformed sheet metal back to its original shape... well, at least it was almost the same.

He was currently in the middle level, and the gunfire was coming from the upper level, but it had stopped by now, with only one or two shots occasionally ringing out.

He overheard a man above him threatening someone in a menacing tone, saying something like, "Put everything you have on you into your bag."

He also heard a woman screaming shrilly from somewhere in the stern of the cruise ship, accompanied by the laughter of two burly men. He could guess with his toes what had happened to the woman.

Similar incidents have occurred throughout the cruise ship, so it seems he was right; the cruise ship has likely been hijacked by rioters.

"Sigh... since we're already here, let's try to save them..."

After making up his mind, Lei Ming casually tore off a piece of sheet metal from the side and covered his face with it. With a few quick rubs of his hands, a simple mask was completed. Then he looked in a certain direction at the stern of the cabin, bent his knees and jumped suddenly.

In one of the cabins on the cruise ship, two masked men dressed like KB agents from Counter-Strike were committing a brutal act against a beautiful blonde woman.

The next second, a loud crash echoed through the room, and a dark figure smashed through the floor. Before one of the burly men could react, he only saw a blur before his eyes... When he turned around, his companion, who had just been beside him, was now a pile of minced meat on the wall behind him...

Standing before the mangled flesh was a bizarrely dressed man, wearing white beach shorts and a strangely shaped metal mask covering his head, looking down at his bloodied palms…

"Tsk...too much force, disgusting..."

"Waterfa?!"

Seeing this, another burly man, without even having time to pull up his pants, quickly grabbed a weapon—an automatic assault rifle—and pulled the trigger at Lei Ming…

"Da da da da..."

Flames erupted, but before the burly man could even rejoice, his smile froze...

The man wearing the iron mask didn't dodge or flinch, but charged straight at the gun barrel. A barrage of bullets struck him, producing only sparks and clanging sounds...

boom…

The next second, the big man was thrown out as if he had been hit by a train, crashing through the wall behind him and falling into another cabin, eventually embedding himself in the wall.

Hearing that the burly man's heartbeat had completely stopped, Lei Ming glanced at the blonde beauty lying on the bed, clutching the sheets, almost fainting from fright, then jumped up again...

boom…

When the blonde woman opened her eyes again, she only saw another large hole in the wall in front of her, and the person had vanished...

...

The central hall of the cruise ship is the most luxurious and lively place on the entire ship, with dance floors, bars, beautiful women, and various gambling and entertainment facilities.

The guests invited to the birthday party on the 'Venus' ship were all prominent figures.

The ship's owner was Earl Rodriguez, one of the wealthiest men in Europe, and the multi-billion pound Venus was a birthday gift for his youngest daughter, Sofia Rodriguez.

But at this moment, the people who should have been enjoying a pleasant banquet were all huddled on the ground like quails, their necks hunched over...

This place had been occupied by a group of heavily armed thugs. On average, there was a gunman on guard every ten steps, while the rest were collecting people's belongings one by one with bags, not even sparing their earrings and rings...