Lantern Sister is still very capable.

A dispute was resolved by Mr. Zero himself.

"Chu Deng." Zero Degree's gaze swept over the people standing by watching the show. "As the representative of Hai City, why didn't you intervene?"

Chu Deng raised an eyebrow, not rushing to deny her identity, but stating her stance: "Only those who stand have the right to speak. It's better to resolve conflicts in front of me than to stab someone in the back."

Zero Degrees stared blankly at the girl whom Hu Lan had specifically instructed to take care of. Hearing this, he felt a headache coming on; another troublemaker.

"Fine, then I'll punish you by making you patrol the coastline at night for three consecutive days. Do you agree?"

Chu Deng and Zero looked at each other, their eyes devoid of any emotion, as calm as a still lake.

Zero had anticipated Chu Deng's reaction. Based on his experience, a troublemaker like Chu Deng would definitely be very dissatisfied. He would either endure it this time and then explode at any time, or he would talk back to his superiors on the spot. But to his surprise, Chu Deng seemed very calm and did not have the stubbornness of a mule who was suppressed by someone's words on the spot.

"Fine, you're at level four, I'm at level three. You're in the right, I'm not," Chu Deng replied casually, raising her hand and asking, "Can I leave now?"

Zero Degrees stepped aside with a complicated expression. "Okay."

Chu Deng left, and Li Shengtian quickly followed, saying apologetically, "I'm sorry, Chu Deng, you were punished because of me."

"It has nothing to do with you. He originally wanted me to be on duty, and he came to the restaurant just to find me," Chu Deng replied casually, then looked up at the crows in the distant trees and drifted off into thought.

On his first day at the Southeast Sea base, Zero Degree, as the fourth-level ice-type ability user guarding the base, spoke with Chu Deng, who was ostensibly the first third-level fire-type ability user in all of China.

With great power comes great responsibility. I hope you can set a good example for others in the area.

Zero Degrees is just like a teacher in Chu Deng School who encourages good students to take the lead. Even though her face is expressionless and you can't tell her expression, her tone of voice shows her high expectations for her.

I gave her some time a few days ago to familiarize herself with the affairs of the post, but when Zero started her shift tonight, it looked like she was going to be exploited to death.

Fortunately, Chu Deng came here on a mission, and being on duty meant she would be the first to come into contact with the alien beasts, which suited her purpose of finding the Alpha Bug.

"quack."

Chu Deng heard the excited cry of the dark cloud, which was ready to act together that night and begin Chu Deng's great undertaking of building a new account.

"Be careful, be careful, slow down, slow down! His carotid artery has been bitten, but thankfully an ice-type ability user helped stop the bleeding!"

A bloodied man, missing half of his left leg, was carried into the medical ward. The bite mark on his thigh was sealed with ice to stop the bleeding, in an attempt to hold onto the man's fading life.

Upon seeing the ice, Chu Deng couldn't help but think of Pei Hanxing, who was training far away in Antarctica.

It seems like I haven't sent any messages since I left, like a kite with a broken string. I wonder how my training is going, and whether I can beat the mutated penguins in Antarctica.

As the saying goes, "What you think about during the day, you dream about at night." Back in her dorm to sleep and recharge for the night, Chu Deng coincidentally dreamed of Pei Hanxing, whom she had been talking about.

Pei Hanxing was in a small, dark space, but Chu Deng could see him clearly.

It's said that dreams are incredibly diverse. Even though Chu Deng is at level five, he can only use thermal imaging to see things in the dark. It's impossible for him to see even the fine hairs trembling on his face as clearly as he did in his dream.

In the darkness, the heavy breathing sounded unsettling. Pei Hanxing's lips were purplish-blue and cracked, his eyes were bloodshot, and his dark eyes were filled with confusion. His trembling eyelashes brushed against Chu Deng's heart like a brush.

Why do you look so pitiful?

In the cramped, dark space, Pei Hanxing pinched her palm with her fingernails and licked the water droplets from the melting ice, letting the water moisten her chapped lips.

After being swallowed by the crack, he was plunged vertically into the abyss below, but the ground above him closed in an instant, and despair crept into his heart.

But he didn't die. The level three ability user's resistant physique and the ice on both sides of the crack cushioned his fall. He didn't know how long he fell before he found a place to land. The dark crack made it impossible to tell time, and he didn't know how long he had been trapped.

Chu Deng ...

He repeatedly murmured the name in his heart, the name that sustained him as he struggled to breathe, to lick the ice, and to eat moss to survive.

But the human spirit has its limits, and even those with superpowers are no exception.

Even though Pei Hanxing's body sensed his master's predicament and began to operate extremely to keep him alive, the dark environment and the only sound of dripping water were driving him almost insane.

Pei Hanxing opened and closed his mouth several times, as if he had used all his strength to finally utter those two words, so weak that even he himself couldn't hear them, "Chu...deng..."

"pat-"

The sound of water droplets falling on the stone echoed in her ears. Chu Deng suddenly sat up in bed, a heavy emotion pressing on her heart. Her eyes stung, and the moment she woke from her dream, hot tears streamed down her face.

She reached out and grabbed the fabric at her chest, clutching it tightly in her hand. Her pounding heart echoed powerfully, gradually calming Chu Deng down.

But the scenes in her dream were too real, constantly appearing in her mind. Whenever Chu Deng closed her eyes, she could see Pei Hanxing struggling to survive in the darkness.

"Dark Cloud." Chu Deng opened his eyes, his consciousness connecting with Dark Cloud's body. He guided Dark Cloud to fly over the outer perimeter of the Southeast Sea base. When the quantum computer hanging around Dark Cloud's neck lit up, Chu Deng stopped his wings and used Dark Cloud's claws to log into the internal website of the superhuman base and the AA forum to check for any news related to Antarctica.

The crow's claws were practically sparking on the personal computer when Chu Deng finally found two rumors about Antarctica on the AA forum. One was a video of Mikhail, the future fifth-level successor of the Russian Bear Country, a fourth-level ice-type ability user codenamed "Snow Mountain," hunting polar beasts in Antarctica. The other was news of a geomagnetic storm and communication disruption in Antarctica. Meanwhile, the official website for ability users in China had absolutely no information about Antarctic training.

Chu Deng looked at the last message Pei Hanxing sent her on her personal terminal. It was a photo of the two of them at the airport. In the photo, Pei Hanxing had a smile on his lips and wasn't looking at the camera. Instead, he was looking intently at Chu Deng, who was standing next to him.

"Chu Deng..."

When the connection was interrupted and Chu Deng regained consciousness, her heart skipped a beat upon hearing this, only to find that it was just Li Shengtian at the door calling her to prepare for patrol.