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49: Younger Sister Shen Su’s Superpower

“Heh heh, my superpower lets me run incredibly fast, like several times faster than our school’s 100-meter sprint champion, and I can feel this isn’t even my limit, because if I go all out I’d be like the Flash in the movies!”

“From now on, with me around, you can just relax, big bro!”

Shen Su lifted her chin proudly, like a child waiting for praise.

Clearly, she was very proud of her superpower.

As for being like the Flash, that was obviously an exaggeration, otherwise her superpower would be absurdly overpowered.

“A speed-enhancing superpower, huh? Not bad,” Shen Yi said as he ruffled his sister’s hair in approval.

Sure enough, it was another new superpower.

Could it be that the fruit itself varies slightly depending on the superpower it grants?

For example, maybe it glows and emits an enticing fragrance?

“Yeah! But I don’t know what’s up, every time I run for a while I get super tired and extremely thirsty, so I don’t dare use this superpower casually or sprint at full power because I’m afraid I’d wear myself out…” Shen Su said, pouting and looking troubled.

It felt like having a mountain of gold but not being able to spend a single coin.

She clearly had a superpower, yet she couldn’t use it at will.

Shen Yi understood that it was because his sister’s stamina was too poor to unleash the full power of an otherwise new speed superpower.

In that case, she could get lucky and eat a Physical Evolution fruit to raise her own limits.

Or she could upgrade her superpower’s level, which might reduce the stamina cost when using it.

“Don’t tell anyone else about your superpower,” Shen Yi warned.

“Of course not! I’m not stupid, and most of the time I’m super sharp!” Shen Su said with a chuckle.

“If you weren’t my big bro, I wouldn’t tell you! After all, this is a superpower… like in the movies, if the bad guys found out, they’d definitely capture and dissect me for research!”

“Alright, alright, you’re the smartest.”

Shen Yi rubbed the kid’s head and said, “When we get the chance, I’ll see if I can help you fix the problem of getting too exhausted when you use your superpower.”

“Can that actually be fixed?”

Shen Su, who had been enjoying the head pat, immediately lit up and stared at Shen Yi on hearing that.

Shen Yi nodded and said, “It can, but you’ll need a bit of luck.”

Finding a Physical Evolution fruit to solve it was like searching for a needle in a haystack, so it really would take luck.

Or she could find more of the same type of speed superpower fruit she ate to upgrade its level.

But Shen Yi estimated she’d have to eat at least seven or eight fruits to raise it by one level.

That would be even harder!

Not to mention collecting seven or eight of the same type, even finding that many different fruits of any kind was a rare feat.

“Yay! I believe you can definitely do it, big bro!” Shen Su said happily as she hugged Shen Yi’s arm.

That brat was exasperating.

Shen Yi shook his head.

At that moment, Grandma finished packing and came out.

She hadn’t brought much… just a small bag, and no one knew what was inside.

Shen Yi didn’t ask and led Grandma and his sister toward the car.

However, as soon as they stepped out of the courtyard, he saw several elderly neighbors surrounding his car, looking both sneaky and curious.

When they saw Shen Yi and the others, the elderly neighbors quickly smiled and greeted, “Grandma Shen, is that your relative’s car? It’s so beautiful!”

“Is your relative visiting from the city?”

Grandma replied kindly, after all they were neighbors who saw each other every day.

However, she made sure to emphasize that the car belonged to her grandson, that he bought it himself.

She even pulled Shen Yi forward to introduce him by name.

For the elderly, having successful younger generations was something to praise and show off.

Because Shen Yi had changed so much, some neighbors hadn’t recognized him at first; only after Grandma’s introduction did they realize who he was and immediately greeted him.

In a good mood thanks to Grandma and his sister, Shen Yi also responded with a few polite words.

Then a few neighbors continued, “Um, Shen kid, are you heading back to the city?”

“If you’re going to the city, could you take my grandson with you? I’ve heard the city is safer now.”

“And my grandson too… his parents are in the city, so could you help take him with you?”

The neighbors all spoke at once, simply asking for favors.

Shen Su frowned slightly, looking unhappy.

These neighbors always liked to take advantage of others, and now they were trying again.

At a time like this, they actually wanted big bro to risk his life to escort their children!

Some even went so far as to ask Shen Yi to take their entire families to the city.

What kind of people are these…

We’re not that close even as neighbors!

Even relatives wouldn’t be this outrageous, let alone ordinary neighbors!

Grandma’s expression also turned noticeably sour.

At that moment, Shen Yi said coolly, “There’s no more room in the car, I can’t take anyone else.”

Having said that, he pushed through the crowd, opened the rear door, and helped Grandma and his sister into the car first.

But a sharp-eyed villager noticed there was still plenty of space in the back and squeezed forward with his ten-year-old child, saying, “Shen kid, you’ve got room back there… why not take Uncle and your nephew? We can just squeeze together.”

“We’re all from the same village; now that trouble’s come, we should help each other. Back when your dad was alive, he was really close with me… I even held you when you were a child, so you can’t forget your roots.”

“Get lost and stop blocking the way.”

Shen Yi gave him a cold glance, shoved him away, climbed into the car, and started the engine.

The villager who had been insulted froze and then began cursing Shen Yi out loud.

Realizing they wouldn’t get anything, they didn’t bother pretending any longer.

A few sensible villagers, knowing they couldn’t catch a ride, went home early.

But more villagers were blaming Shen Yi’s family for being heartless… how well they’d treated them before, and now they had a car to flee to the city yet refused to help their neighbors.

Under the apocalypse, the ugliness of human nature was laid bare.

Shen Yi’s eyes went cold as he prepared to draw his gun.

Suddenly, he sensed a powerful hostility.

His telepathy activated and instantly revealed a dense, black aura in the grass some 200 meters away.

It was a mutated serpent over ten meters long!

And it was rapidly approaching.

Shen Yi immediately shifted into reverse, stomped the pedal, and backed the car out at speed.

If anyone dared block the car, he’d just plow through them.

As Shen Yi accelerated away.

Several villagers still stood there berating him.

They hadn’t noticed at all that a giant snake had emerged from the grass.

By the time someone realized, the mutated snake had already launched a deadly attack on the crowd.

The man who had been cursing most fiercely while holding his son was the first target of the snake.

The mutated snake opened a mouth larger than a person’s body, swallowed the two living men in one bite, chewed forcefully, and quickly swallowed them.

“Aaaah! A giant snake! There’s a giant snake!!”

The villagers screamed in terror as they ran for home.

But the mutated snake was even faster, and from its mouth it spewed out clouds of green toxic mist that engulfed all the villagers in an instant, eliciting waves of agonized screams…

Shen Yi could no longer see the carnage unfolding.

But he could probably imagine it.

That mutated serpent, just by its size alone, left him in awe; it was definitely no opponent for ordinary people!

Even he wasn’t confident he could confront it.

Sure enough, the mutated creatures in the mountain village were far more terrifying than those in the city!

But you know, the most dangerous thing right now wasn’t outside… it was the atmosphere inside the car…

Because when his sister got into the car and saw a beautiful woman in the passenger seat, the smile disappeared from her adorable face.

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