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Hurrying and hurrying finally got on the plane, Zhaoxi handed the bag to the flight attendant and sat down safely.Even if Xin Xi has a conscience and knows to buy her first class, otherwise the flight of more than ten hours would have killed half of Zhaoxi's life?

She adjusted the back of the chair to a comfortable angle, took out the earplugs and eye masks, and planned to have a good night's sleep.As expected, this journey to fifteen hours ago should end with her two meals and endless sleep. Zhao Xi has planned it all: make up for sleep first, eat second, and no one wants to disturb her .Zhaoxi turned off her cell phone, and fell asleep with her tired body before the plane entered the stratosphere.It was a dreamless sleep, and when she opened her eyes again, a beautiful blond flight attendant served her the first in-flight meal in good time.She went to the bathroom to wash up and quickly ate the not-so-delicious food. She looked up at her watch and found that less than half of the thirteen hours had passed.

The plane was flying smoothly over the North Pacific Ocean. She had just slept, and now it was difficult to fall asleep again.Bored, she opened the shade to look at the clouds outside the window, but suddenly opened the barrier separating light and darkness. The cloud scene outside the window was so dazzling that she lost interest in enjoying the scenery, and closed the shade resentfully, feeling It is better to return to the dark and comfortable world.

Although she caught up with the plane as she wished, her mood did not become positive.Those unexpected events obviously disrupted Zhaoxi's rhythm of life, even though they seem to have been dealt with in time now and did not cause any major waves, Zhaoxi always had a premonition—this was just the beginning.

After taking a nap, her body is still exhausted, and the soreness of her body can't win over her sober brain. Zhaoxi tried to empty her head and enter the world of meditation, but failed without any accident.No one can give her an answer to what she just went through, she is alone and helpless now, and there is no other solution except to pay attention to herself.

Unexpectedly, the negative emotions would come so quickly. She couldn't express her depressed thoughts, and her bloodshot eyes were dry for 2 minutes without moving until she shed tears.She really hoped that the plane could arrive in Los Angeles soon, Zhaoxi needed her good friend very much now.Xin Xi has been dealing with superpowers for so long, and she will definitely be able to answer all her existing doubts, and as Zhao Xi's friend who knows everything, she will definitely give her enough spiritual comfort.

God knows how much she misses that little bastard who always thinks about it.

Zhaoxi sighed helplessly, nestled in the soft seat, moved the blanket up to her neck, and continued to sleep with her eyes closed.Just closing her eyes, the awakening of her abilities and the supervisor's inexplicable smile automatically played back in her mind.She has always been a cautious and even suspicious person, and her personality is notoriously dull and boring. She even has few friends and a pitifully small social circle because of the rare empathy.Xin Xi often said that her characteristic of almost zero mood swings is more suitable for being a doctor than her, but Zhao Xi herself doesn't think so, because she lacks the kind of emotion that can cause ripples compared to a calm and clear spring. Vivid, she is at best a pool of stagnant water.

This sudden awakening is unusual, Zhao Xi compares many examples in his mind that caused social problems when awakened, and then looks at himself, it seems very different.Originally, it was a power awakening, but her power awakening turned out to be indescribably weird. This ability came as if someone was playing a prank on her, and it was as casual as Xin Xi's announcement of her marriage.Although from some perspectives, this quiet, backwater-like awakening style is indeed her style, but the mechanism for triggering the awakening needs to be studied.

According to some research results known so far, people with abilities can be divided into the following two categories for the time being: innate physique and acquired physique.Inborn physique, as the name suggests, is a person who is born with abilities. The reason for the acquired formation is temporarily unknown, but some small rules can still be found from the strange and different mechanisms that trigger awakening.Scholars divide them according to the size of their ability riots: self-defense awakening when the body is injured, awakening when emotions are difficult to control, and natural awakening following the evolutionary rules.

According to this classification method, she should belong to the third category, but there is a little difference - she is too calm, almost silent.

Zhaoxi has encountered the situation of students awakening in class more than once. Even the weak and peaceful children will have some omens before awakening. If you are anxious, your adrenaline will soar and you will become more impulsive and irritable, and some elemental systems will even release some small sparks and static electricity when they awaken... These situations are no longer surprising in the peaceful age of 2038.The development of machinery and technology has provided people with basic preventive measures, and the awakening of ordinary levels will not cause any losses.

But she is completely different from ordinary ability users who should have awakening signs, and Zhao Xi's sense of uneasiness in his heart gradually increases.She has always believed that everything in the world is lawful, such as the accumulation of dark clouds or the strong wind before it rains, such as the fact that objects will only fall under the action of gravity, such as people will die if they are killed.Now that such an unexpected awakening of abilities falls on her body, it doesn't make sense at all.

No matter what event exists, it will have its reasons. If there is no reason, it will appear strange and worthy of suspicion.

Zhaoxi tossed and turned, and the more she thought about it, the more disturbed she became, until her thoughts became entangled into a ball of wool without a clue, she exhaled a foul breath, slowly opened her eyes and gave up thinking alone.She lazily stretched out a hand in front of her eyes. In the ancient super power movies before the millennium, the protagonists could always use their powers just by stretching out their hands, but is one hand really that strong?Although there are many people with awakened abilities around her, because of legal and secular regulations, no one is willing to use superpowers in the public domain, so she has never seen what it is like to use abilities.

As ordinary people, as long as they rely on rapidly growing technology, they can already live well, and they don't need to take the risk of defects to use their abilities, not to mention that the control of local departments has never stopped.These superpowers are more or less perfect, and they all have flaws of varying degrees, and the stronger the ability, the deeper the flaw.She has never seen anyone who used their abilities in front of the public, and she has no one to use as a reference. Naturally, she doesn't know how to inspire this inexplicable ability.

She tried to look back, forth, left, and right with her outstretched left hand, secretly concentrating on it.

A moment—just a moment, all is still.

Zhaoxi had a clear intuition, and at this silent moment, she successfully stopped time again.

It is quite weird that the plane stops in mid-air, Zhao Xi is afraid that it will follow the law of universal gravitation and fall.She opened the sunshade and looked out the window. The fuselage happened to be hidden in the clouds. The white clouds once brushed gently over the wings, but now they are all trapped in stagnant time, becoming a single-sided view that no longer flows.

She stared out of the window for a while, she didn't know what she thought of, she was in a daze unscrupulously, and when she came to her senses, the first minute had passed.In order not to cause unexpected troubles, Zhaoxi pulled up the visor and restored everything including herself to the state before the ability was activated. She looked at her watch again, waiting for her time to tick by every minute. the ground goes by.

At the moment when the second hand pointed to the hour, it turned counterclockwise ten times again. At this moment, all the seemingly quiet and peaceful noises came one after another.Sure enough, Zhaoxi finally realized that she really possessed the ability of [Stop Time], and apparently it can last for about 10 minutes without any intervention.

Perhaps it was due to excessive energy consumption after using the ability, she finally felt sleepy after a long absence in the blanket, and fell asleep again before she had time to think about many things.This time, compared to falling asleep peacefully, it was more like being dragged into sleep abruptly. Zhaoxi's brain was already so tired that he couldn't escape even after struggling for a long time.

She was dreaming this time.

Different from the rather stream-of-consciousness dreams, the plot of this dream is coherent and logical, and the sense of sight is more like an event that is about to happen in person, with a strong sense of substitution.

The deepest memory among them is that she dreamed that she was driving a black box car that looked old, passing through a narrow and dark forest path with a little horror, and the dense branches and leaves scraped against the car window to make a harsh sound Even in broad daylight, the woods cover the sky and the sun can't see through any light, showing a gloomy state.What's even more sad is that this narrow road, which can only pass one car, has been in disrepair for a long time and has countless potholes. The car drove forward on such a bumpy path, shaking her so much that she was about to spit out bile.If this novel experience was not a dream, she would never take the initiative to realize it in her life. Even in this dream, she knew that this was just a virtual scene, and she couldn't help but complain that she was so hard-working and hard-working. In the weird forest, what is the picture?

She couldn't remember how long Zhaoxi drove in the dream, complaining endlessly, but she just thought the journey was unpleasant.

She missed the second meal given out by the plane because she was buried in a dream. The sleep made people unable to tell the length of the real time. When Zhaoxi opened her eyes again, the thirteen-hour flight was coming to an end.

Welcome back to the flat and comfortable real world!

The person who suffered from the dream was finally relieved. She rubbed her backache from sleep and her still disgusted stomach and got up. She dragged the toiletry bag she used during the flight and walked into the bathroom like a wandering soul.

She simply and rudely poured cold water on her face, and cleaned up her appearance neatly. Except for the bloodshot eyes that could not go away, she didn't show much tiredness.That's right, no matter what, she slept for eight hours in a row, and it was impossible for her to show a decadent appearance of excessive indulgence.

After doing all this, she finally felt a little refreshed, and the viscera clamoring for nausea also settled down. She took a long breath, turned and walked to the door, intending to return to her seat and wait for the plane to land, but she stretched out her hand to twist the bathroom doorknob. No matter how hard you try, you can't open this simple door.

The immobile door lock made Zhaoxi's mind ring with alarm, and the familiar feeling of uneasiness returned to her body, and her hairs immediately stood on end.

What's going on here?It's not always clear who is playing a prank on her?

"I did it." Before Zhaoxi had time to call the staff outside the door for help, a familiar voice came from behind.

No, I'm not familiar with it, I just met it just now.Zhaoxi turned her head and saw that it was the female inspector who smiled meaningfully at her at the airport.She just appeared out of nowhere in this almost completely enclosed bathroom of the cabin, and now the only door is left behind by Zhaoxi.

When Zhao Xi saw it was her, she relaxed a little, and the desire to complain outweighed the sense of horror, and she couldn't help but slander: Please, even if you are super capable, don't you want to be so elusive when you appear on the stage.Would a thoughtful hello kill you?

The two of them were crowded in this small bathroom, and Zhao Xi, who was about 1.7 meters tall, huddled by the door and confronted the scrupulous prosecutor.The two of them were not far apart in stature, and it was really aggrieved to be crammed into a space of one or two square meters.

"We have detected very powerful super energy fluctuations on this plane, Ms. Jessie, maybe you can explain it?" The inspector pointed straight to the point and said straight to the point.

"There are so many passengers on the plane, it may not be me." Zhao Xi evaded the important point without blushing.

After hearing this, the inspector brushed up his reddish-brown curly hair, and with a self-evident look in his eyes, he said, "Then maybe I should let you know that the only B-level and above ability users on this plane are You and I are the only ones who can stagnate time in a large area, I think you are the only one."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Zhaoxi to speak again, she directly took out the tablet computer and a pink ID card, inserted the card into the card slot on the top of the tablet, handed it to Zhaoxi and said, "In order to help...cough... I respect your itinerary. I originally wanted to register after you have correctly known your abilities, but obviously your behavior just now has attracted the attention of some departments. By the way, this is not good news. So... If If you don't want to be 'invited' by the authorities to do some testing after getting off the plane, I suggest you complete this information now."

Zhaoxi took the tablet and looked at it, and all her information was displayed on the screen, from basic information such as her height and weight to which clinic she had had her wisdom teeth pulled last year, everything was listed in detail.

She quickly scrolled down on the tablet, only to find that the Awakened Ability column was still blank.She hesitated and didn't know how to deal with this matter. After all, she who had just awakened knew almost nothing about herself, and she might not even know as well as the inspector opposite, who knew other things from her at first glance, but he didn't look like a bad person. many.

Leaning against the wall, the inspector wrote lightly: "I have slowed down the flow of space objects to 1/3600th of a second. In other words, time is almost stationary here. You have enough time to chat about this information, casually Write, it’s okay, I applied for the qualification to activate the temporary file for you, within three days, as long as you go to the [Red Light] monitoring office to go through the formalities again in time. But you must write A level in the ability level column, it’s already The strength of the capabilities detected cannot be concealed."

Grade A? !It's just [Stage Time], will she reach the level of A?Zhaoxi thinks this is unbelievable, and at the same time, some doubts sprout in the bottom of her heart-since she has reached A-level, how can she be so easily concealed?Coupled with her faltering slip of the tongue just now, Zhao Xi can conclude that the person in front of her should be more than just a neutral inspector.

While thinking about how to fill in this information, she asked the supervisor who was watching: "It sounds like you are helping me? Why?"

The inspector brushed up his long reddish-brown hair, and said concisely: "We have a mutual friend."

With just this sentence, Zhaoxi guessed who it was. She didn't say anything more, suppressing the endless questions that kept growing in her heart, typing quickly with her hands, and quickly filled in the 99% fake information. .

"It's pretty fast." The inspector took the tablet and glanced at it and said it's all right. He pressed the upload button and then pulled out the ID card and handed it to her, "I've already synced to their system, so it should be fine for now. I still have to say sorry to you, because our friend was too hasty in notifying me, I came late, and took your card without permission."

Zhaoxi put the new card away, absent-mindedly said softly: "It's okay."

I took everything before, and now I have returned it all, and there is nothing to say.

"Then... welcome to Los Angeles, and, once again, I wish you a pleasant journey."

The voice of the inspector, who has never known her name, became weaker every time she uttered a word, and when the last pronunciation disappeared, she also faded out of Zhao Xi's eyes.How should I describe it—this is like a holographic projection that can be transmitted in reality, the touch of the tablet is real, and her ID card is well placed in her pocket, but the scene that just happened in front of her is not impressive. Reciprocate with real senses.

Welcome to the world of superhumans.

Zhaoxi blinked her eyes twice quickly, just at this moment a drop of water dripped down her temples and onto the back of her folded arm, the cool touch made people wake up.She immediately turned around and opened the bathroom door, walked out as if nothing had happened, and sat comfortably in her seat waiting for the plane to land.