Catastrophe Containment Facility
Chapter 133 - 131: Yan Biqing’s Power

Chapter 133: Chapter 131: Yan Biqing’s Power

As soon as Wen Wen thought about it, he went straight to Ding Mingguang’s office, as capturing Yan Biqing required urgency.

When he knocked on the door and saw the scene inside, Wen Wen was stunned for a moment.

Ding Mingguang, unusually, wasn’t watching anime or drinking goji berry tea but was sitting with his eyes closed in the chair, and all the electronic devices in the room were operating frenetically.

Each monitor flickered with densely packed characters swimming across the screens too fast for the human brain to remember.

Although Wen Wen couldn’t understand what they were, he somehow felt that Ding Mingguang was unfathomably profound at that moment.

"Um... I have something I’d like to ask you, do you have a moment now?" Wen Wen asked, unsure.

"Speak what’s on your mind, I’m listening," Ding Mingguang replied without opening his eyes, as the electronic devices continued to whirl.

’While talking to me, he can still manage such complex things, no wonder this guy’s brain, no wonder he’s balding so young...’

As he said this to himself, Wen Wen raised his own questions, all regarding Yan Biqing.

"Do you want me to help you track down Yan Biqing?" Ding Mingguang opened his eyes in surprise after hearing Wen Wen’s recount.

"Exactly, I want to fight him, it’s definitely going to be thrilling," Wen Wen pulled out the reason he had prepared for Lin Zheyuan.

Ding Mingguang opened his eyes, leaned forward, widened his eyes, and said seriously to Wen Wen, "You can’t beat him, it’s better not to court death."

"Huh?" Wen Wen raised an eyebrow, wondering why he was so certain.

"Firstly, you can’t find him unless he causes trouble. Even I can’t track his whereabouts, and I don’t recommend you fight him on your own."

"Why?" Wen Wen asked.

Ding Mingguang briefly reminisced, then said to Wen Wen, "You must have gotten his file; it says his ability is Body Digitalization. Just from these two words, you can’t understand how powerful he is."

"Can you explain in detail?" Wen Wen’s eyes sparkled for a moment, and then, pretending to be deeply interested, he leaned in closer to Ding Mingguang and asked.

"First, he can enter the Imaginary Space for a short period of time, which lets him ignore most attacks. Of course, in that state, he can’t attack others either."

"Wait a second." Wen Wen raised his hand and asked, "What is the Imaginary Space?"

"If we call the space we live in real space, then there is a space built on imaginary numbers. A point in real space, in the imaginary space..."

Mid-sentence, Ding Mingguang slapped his bald head, shook his head, and said to Wen Wen, "Why am I even explaining this, you won’t understand... Basically, he can hide in another space for a short time, and ordinary means can’t interfere with him."

Wen Wen sighed. He had always prided himself on his superior intellect, but in Ding Mingguang’s presence, he felt slighted in terms of intelligence.

Ding Mingguang continued, "Next, I will talk about his main combat ability."

"I know you mainly rely on physical combat, so suppose each of your attributes such as strength, speed, reaction ability, perception ability, and hit resistance is twenty, giving you a total of one hundred."

"But Yan Biqing’s total might only be fifty!"

Wen Wen scratched his chin and said, "Then I should be stronger than him."

"It appears so, but he can convert all his body attributes into numbers and freely reassign points with incredible speed, even faster than your thoughts," Ding Mingguang explained.

"Let me put it this way, when he throws a punch, the lethal force of his fist can be fifty, and when dodging an attack, his reaction ability can also be fifty..."

Sizing up the situation, Wen Wen realized that if things were really as Ding Mingguang said, Yan Biqing would indeed be difficult to deal with.

At the same time, Wen Wen was also quite envious of Yan Biqing’s abilities!

If Wen Wen could acquire such an ability, he could better coordinate the various Superpowers he possessed, which would definitely make him much stronger!

Watching Wen Wen fall silent, Ding Mingguang didn’t stop there and continued to elaborate:

"Moreover, don’t forget that he has completed his promotion, his strength, as I know, has changed, and I fear that apart from Captain Lin Zheyuan, no one else in our Furong River branch is a match for him."

Wen Wen asked in surprise, "Promotion, didn’t he fail his promotion only..."

"Promotion is bound to succeed, every superpower user, as long as they accumulate enough, can advance to the Assimilation Realm without any threshold."

"However, the usual criteria for success or failure determined by the Association isn’t the change in strength after the promotion but who gains mastery over the consciousness afterward."

...

Upon leaving Ding Mingguang’s office, Wen Wen continued to mull things over.

"Although he’s very intelligent, his lips aren’t as tight as others, which makes me increasingly knowledgeable about the Assimilation Realm."

"From Ding Mingguang’s words, it seems Yan Biqing must be a very powerful superpower user, so promotion success or failure isn’t related to strength."

"Failure is having one’s consciousness replaced..."

"This is very close to my conjecture. From Gong Baoding’s reaction, the risks during the Assimilation Realm’s promotion are well known among those in the Mastery Realm, which suggests the problems might stem from each superpower user themselves... but I don’t seem to have such a problem."

"So, where does that replacing consciousness come from? A secondary personality?"

...

Lu Jiang frowned as he read through the comments in the news.

He had a friend who was a firefighter. Previously, there had been a fire in a building. His friend rushed in to fight the fire, and then the room exploded, claiming his friend’s life.

This incident was widely reported by the news across Furong River and Beihai Province, with most comments on the internet being expressions of remembrance and regret. However, one comment stood out sharply.

It was posted by an anonymous user, and the words were extremely harsh, chilling Lu Jiang.

’Pitiful? What’s so pitiful about him? Our local firefighters are paid double, yet they do nothing worthwhile. His death only proves his lack of competence; who knows how much corrupt money he had taken before. It’s only fitting that he died.’

This comment incited public anger and was met with spontaneous boycotts by netizens, but the anonymous user was fiercely combative.

He posted several news links consecutively, about firefighters being negligent and receiving exorbitant salaries, among other things.

He scavenged a ton of negative news about firefighters and used this information as evidence and basis for his insults.

Lu Jiang wondered what mentality one must have to deliberately dig up a load of material to slander firefighters under a news post about a firefighter’s death.

The more he read, the angrier he got, knowing full well that he shouldn’t argue with such a person. Clearly, all the comments underneath were scolding this person, and he didn’t need to get involved.

But Lu Jiang couldn’t help himself.

So, he joined in the verbal battle with that person...