What?! My anime figures have all come true!

Let's go back to the present.

Chen Xiao, who had taken a nap in the bedroom, was woken up by Shiina Mahiru and sauntered over to the living room for dinner.

"Wow……"

Faced with this table of delicious-looking food, he immediately perked up and subconsciously swallowed.

Just being served by two master chefs, Shiina Mahiru and Asuna, has almost spoiled my palate. If Food Wars! figures are made into physical objects in the future, I'm afraid eating anything else outside will taste like chewing wax.

"Come on, Xiao~ have a taste."

Shiina Mahiru picked up a piece of fried shrimp and brought it to Chen Xiao's mouth, her eyes filled with his image.

"what……"

Faced with the girl's offer of food, Chen Xiao naturally couldn't resist and opened his mouth to eat the fried shrimp.

Oh no, I'm really being spoiled rotten...

After feeding him several times, Shiina Mahiru decided to stop and turned on the TV for Chen Xiao as well.

[Breaking News] Shanghai Central Hospital received another comatose patient of unknown cause at 4:30 pm today. This is the fifteenth strange case this month.

It is understood that the patients who fell into a coma were all young people aged 20-25 living alone. They were found unconscious by their neighbors and taken to the hospital. In addition, there were no signs of a struggle in the patients' homes, and no property was stolen.

"Regarding the recent series of bizarre cases of young people falling into comas in our city, the police and hospitals have ruled out the possibility of contracting diseases or viruses, and initially suspect that it may be related to the frequent occurrence of supernatural crimes in recent years."

The female reporter on television spoke with a serious expression.

"We would like to remind all citizens, especially young people living alone, to be sure to lock doors and windows at night, and to call the police immediately if you notice any unusual physical symptoms..."

"There are more and more news stories like this lately..."

Watching the news report on TV, Shiina Mahiru sighed with worry.

When ordinary people encounter an attack from a superhuman, their success rate in resisting is no less than that of defeating a Siberian tiger with a sliding tackle.

Chen Xiao nodded upon hearing this.

"In the past, when the authorities did their best to cover it up, exposing the existence of superpowers to the public was extremely risky, so some people may never show their special abilities in their entire lives."

Otherwise, I wouldn't have realized until I went to university that this world wasn't an ordinary urban setting, but a damn extraordinary urban setting!

My Dao heart has shattered three times! Three times!

"Now that governments around the world have proactively made the existence of supernatural forces public, it's as if they've removed the sword of Damocles from their heads..."

This is not entirely bad for China.

Firstly, when the existence of superpowers was first officially announced, those who suddenly appeared and filmed videos demonstrating superpowers, aside from the official personnel who were mixed in and trying to guide a positive influence, were mostly honest and law-abiding ordinary people.

Everyone has just kept their secrets to themselves for too long.

This created a temporary vacuum in the crime rate across the entire country. After all, if you wanted to cause trouble during this time, you had to consider whether the person standing up for you was some kind of martial arts expert.

Don't spend years practicing Sanda (Chinese kickboxing), only to have your opponent throw a fireball at you the moment you start fighting.

LOL, there's no stopping it. (Despair)

In stark contrast to China, across the ocean in the Arabachi Federation, a superhero program launched by several giant corporations has caused the Federation's already high crime rate to double several times over.

The main problem is that some big company boss has lost his mind and actually recruited superheroes based on the superhero comic book setting, even dividing them into heroes and anti-heroes.

The former, at least on the surface, is still considered to be great, glorious, and righteous.

But the latter is simply a case of a villain being whitewashed, similar to the trope of "murderers and arsonists being recruited by the government".

And yet, some people think this kind of thing is cool...

On another note, ever since the federal giant corporation created the anti-hero category, various superpower crimes have begun to appear in China, making it hard not to suspect something fishy is going on.

After all, Xida University in Chen Xiao's previous life was just like this!

"Why is this happening...?"

After listening to Chen Xiao's introduction to this world, West Great (Alabacia Federation), Shiina Mahiru felt nauseous.

But she's also cute when she's angry~

Seeing the 'Angel's' indignant expression, Chen Xiao's lips twitched, but in the end, he didn't reveal the deeper darkness.

Although there isn't a particular corpse collector or a returning deep-sea diver in this world to grant everyone spiritual vision, those capable of circumventing the Great Firewall to see the world have had their filters shattered by the explosive increase in superpowered crime videos within the Federation in recent years—the kind of thing that no amount of childhood magazines can make up for.

After all, most ordinary Chinese people make videos to have fun, while those videos from next door are like the bottom rungs of a chaotic, polluted city...

There are no humans left! (Sad)

"Compared to the formulaic reports in the news, online discussions are much more detailed, especially regarding the attackers' motives..."

Chen Xiao placed his phone on the table and opened the comment section of the trending topic about crime incidents in Shanghai.

Most of the highly upvoted comments were wishes for the patient's recovery, as well as expressions of anger and concern about the possibility of superpowered crimes in the future.

Of course, there are also some human-like accounts that post sarcastic or sarcastic comments.

Among the popular comments were some lengthy deductions by cyber detectives, who deduced the attackers' target group based on information from the dozen or so victims.

"This is outrageous! Those who are in a coma... are all students who will be admitted to the New Star Academy this year!"

Shiina Mahiru's eyes widened.

"This isn't a simple crime...this is clearly a premeditated attack!"

"Yes, although we don't know what conspiracy is behind this, the attackers' actions are a huge provocation to the Chinese government. I believe that overconfident guy will soon be beaten to his knees by iron fists."

After all, the authorities need to make an example of someone to deter others.

And sure enough, someone has already jumped out to be the chicken.

"Then... Xiao won't be in danger, right? After all, you live alone and your age is right."

Suddenly remembering something, Shiina Mahiru turned around, gently hugged Chen Xiao's arm, and asked with a worried tone.

"Hahahaha... How could that be! I'm not even going to school anymore, what does the New Star Academy have to do with a nobody like me?"

At this moment, Chen Xiao, laughing heartily, resembled an old general on a theatrical stage.

…………

In the heart of Shanghai, at the Bureau of Abnormal Events, the Superpower Crime Countermeasures Team.

Although the formal organizations with positions related to superpowers have not been established for long, their members are basically elites selected from various departments, and there are also superpowered individuals who are like "temporary workers".

The adjustment period was shorter than expected; the department was officially operational almost immediately after its establishment.

So even in such a small department, the atmosphere of the meetings was much better than the chaotic and disorganized meetings of the Federation superheroes.

"The online public opinion has become quite serious in the past few days. The director has ordered our team to apprehend the criminal within a week and give the people of China an explanation."

Liu Yaowen, the head of the countermeasures team, who was sitting in the main seat, spoke first.

"I have a question, team leader. We don't know anything about the enemy yet, how are we going to catch the criminal?"

Team member Li Rongbin raised his hand and asked a question in return.

"The residences of those dozen or so victims are not connected, so where to begin the investigation is a big problem."

Another team member, Lin Feng, chimed in.

"I understand all of this. With the team's current capabilities, it is indeed difficult to find information about the criminals, even with the personnel and technical support provided by the Shanghai Armed Police Brigade."

After listening, Liu Yaowen did not reprimand the two, but nodded slightly. Then, while speaking, he stood up and walked solemnly to the front door of the department.

"So the director brought us a helper from the capital, who will also be our future partner."

helper?

The team members present looked at each other in bewilderment upon hearing this.

"Please come in, Lieutenant Colonel Huang Qingque."

As soon as Liu Yaowen finished speaking, a smartly dressed, black-haired woman pushed open the door and entered. She stood upright and exuded a cool and capable aura. After entering, she first saluted Liu Yaowen, and then saluted the others as well.

"Oh……"

Influenced by her military bearing, everyone subconsciously stood up and saluted her.

"Hahahaha... No need to be so reserved, Lieutenant Colonel Huang Qingque, this is not the military base."

Liu Yaowen clapped his hands with a smile.

He was also happy to see that the other team made a good first impression on his teammates.

This will make it easier for everyone to get along in the future.

Liu Yaowen then led Huang Qingque to a seat and handed her a report on the recent attacks on several students of New Star Academy (although they had not yet enrolled).

As a result, Huang Qingque only glanced at the report and said with great certainty:

"I know where that person is."

"What?!" xN

Upon hearing this, even Liu Yaowen, who had prepared himself mentally, almost lost his composure, let alone the other group members below.