My Ability Pool is Superior

The inpatient department was silent in the dead of night.

To avoid affecting sleep quality, the corridor lights were also dimmed to a degree that could be called dim.

Buzz buzz buzz~

The mobile phone that Lu Bai had specially set to silent suddenly vibrated.

He lay on the hospital bed and picked up the mobile phone to glance at it.

The screen showed an incoming call from Xu Qiang, and he swiped the green answer button with his thumb.

“I’ve figured everything out. The public opinion about you on the internet did indeed start from the mayor’s office.”

Xu Qiang’s voice on the other end of the phone was somewhat grave: “I’m really starting to suspect Mayor Shi’s identity now.”

“Only believing it now? Were you just brushing me off during the day?” Lu Bai joked.

Unfortunately, Xu Qiang was not in the mood to joke around with him at this moment, his tone still grave: “I’ll continue to pay attention to this matter. You should lay low for a while and not let the gossip on the internet affect you.”

“I assume this call isn’t just to express concern?”

“Mm, I plan to advance the plan and hold a press conference tomorrow morning.”

Lu Bai was naturally very clear about the plan Xu Qiang mentioned.

In fact, this plan was originally a consensus they had reached after discussion.

After all, directly standing up during the lecture to question the mayor couldn’t guarantee 100% that the other party would prove themselves on the spot.

So they needed to build momentum first.

Let the civilians form such a cognition: parasitic organisms hidden in the crowd are hard to distinguish, and it’s impossible to rule out the possibility that some high-level officials have also been parasitized.

In plain terms, put the hat on first.

Then force the officials to come forward and prove themselves.

For this, Xu Qiang had contacted two officials in advance and arranged for them to voluntarily stand up after the press conference to prove they were human, which would create invisible pressure on other officials.

You see, others dare to stand up and prove themselves, but you don’t. Do you have something to hide?

Although even doing this, many high-level officials would still disdain proving anything to the civilians, as long as the seed of suspicion is planted in the civilians’ hearts first, when Lu Bai questions the mayor face-to-face later, the mayor won’t be able to continue playing dead no matter the emotion or reason.

“What a shame. If you’d told me about this earlier, we wouldn’t have had to go to such trouble.”

Xu Qiang sighed.

It was worth mentioning that after realizing parasitic organisms could take on human appearances, the Special Affairs Bureau had immediately conducted a comprehensive screening of government personnel at all levels.

At the time, no issues were found, and everyone understood the necessity of the screening.

However, this screening did not become routine. In the subsequent period, there were only two small-scale checks targeting some grassroots government personnel.

Admittedly, in modern society everyone is born equal, but some people are just a little more equal than others.

You can’t expect the mayor or vice mayors to line up every day like the bottom-level personnel for checks, right? Do you, a mere Special Affairs Bureau bureau chief, still want to keep your job?

As for individual checks, that’s even more ridiculous.

The person doesn’t even need to show up; sending a secretary to notify you that the check found no issues is already giving face.

If you’re dissatisfied, the high-level officials have something to say too: the livelihoods of millions of civilians in Jiangyu City and its surroundings rest on the mayor’s shoulders.

With such busy official duties, how can there be time to be constantly urged to get checked? The Special Affairs Bureau is advised to do its job properly and not wield a chicken feather as an arrow.

Anyway, the situation is what it is.

Xu Qiang’s proposal that afternoon to conduct another comprehensive screening for high-level officials was rejected, and proposing again wouldn’t be polite. For the current stage, they could only try this method for now.

……

Lu Bai chatted a few more simple sentences with Xu Qiang, aligned their granularity, and then hung up the phone.

At this moment, the time had reached midnight twelve o’clock.

“Come in, the door’s not locked.”

He sat up and looked toward the hospital room door, asking softly: “You’ve been listening for so long, any thoughts?”

Click~

The hospital room door slowly opened.

Two young people wearing striped hospital gowns entered the hospital room one after the other.

What made Lu Bai almost lose it was that both of them wore cheap plastic masks, one cat and one dog.

He knew hiding their appearances was good, but wearing such masks was too abstract.

“Big Boss, your mindset is steady.” The cat mask’s shoulders trembled slightly. With the face hidden, it was hard to tell if it was nervous or laughing.

The dog mask carried a fire axe from who knows where, looked around left and right, and growled lowly: “Just him alone, no more talk, hurry up and act.”

Before the words finished, the dog mask raised the fire axe in his hand and chopped toward Lu Bai.

Although Lu Bai intended to chat with these two hotheads, since the other party insisted on acting so quickly, he wouldn’t just stand there.

His waist suddenly exerted force, and his posture went from half-lying on the hospital bed to a deep squat in an instant.

[Flash Time] activated, and the scene before his eyes froze completely.

He sprang up, Long Fang appearing in his hand.

Slash~

The blade entered flesh, and by the light filtering through the blinds into the hospital room, a few strands of blood could vaguely be seen splashing out.

One strike to kill, the dog mask crashed to his knees, and Lu Bai even had time to grab the fire axe about to smash to the floor.

He didn’t choose to clash hard with that fire axe, not because he didn’t dare, but because there was no need.

He was guarding next to Yao Yi precisely for fishing, and he couldn’t make too much movement to scare the fish away.

The cat mask clearly hadn’t reacted yet. One second his teammate was raising the axe to chop, how was the next second his teammate kneeling? Did I lag?!

Lu Bai said nothing more, and with Long Fang in hand, he followed up with a horizontal cut. The cat mask was instantly decapitated.

[Ding!]

[Points +2, Current Points: 9, Current Rank 1/293]

Quickly resolving the two hotheads, Lu Bai didn’t get complacent.

After all, with mastery of [Flash Time] this ability, achieving a first-encounter kill was effortless for him.

Lu Bai put away Long Fang and closed the hospital room door again.

Then he dragged the two corpses barefoot across the cold floor and stuffed them under Yao Yi’s hospital bed.

“Do you have a conflict with these two?” Wang Ting asked softly.

To ensure Yao Yi’s—or rather, its own—safety, it had entered alert mode as soon as the two masked men entered the room, but out of trust in Lu Bai’s combat power, it hadn’t helped.

“You’re awake?”

Lu Bai met the gaze of the two strange eyeballs and said softly: “Good, then these two corpses are your problem.”

“Transform them like before?” Wang Ting roughly understood that Lu Bai was doing this to shift blame.

“No need to be too thorough, there should be more soon.”

A kind smile unconsciously appeared on Lu Bai’s face, like an old farmer in autumn, full of the joy of an impending harvest.

Wang Ting obediently got to work, and after a while, suddenly asked: “Can I parasitize you?”

“Don’t like Yao Yi anymore?”

“No, I think you’re better. The number of humans you’ve killed is more than us.”

Lu Bai: “……”

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