roccoschili Chapter 283 was killed instantly?
Chapter 283 was killed instantly?
The next day was Saturday, and without Li Yuetian's weekly tutoring, Lin Yue was able to sleep in a little longer.
She slept until after nine o'clock, and when she got up to wash up, she found that Yunyi was still fast asleep. She guessed that because he didn't have school for the next two days, he stayed up late playing games last night.
Since she had nothing else to do, Lin Yue took out a few sets of test papers and started writing.
She had just finished a physics worksheet when her phone started buzzing. The caller ID showed it was Zhuang Changwu!
"Hello, Zhuang Changwu?" Lin Yue answered the phone, her voice carrying a hint of languor from having just finished her homework.
"Lin Yue! It's me!" On the other end of the phone, Zhuang Changwu's voice sounded a bit... well, like a crumpled piece of paper, full of exhaustion and anxiety. "How have you been lately?"
"Not bad, same as always." Lin Yue leaned back in her chair, keenly sensing something was off in the other person's tone. "Brother Zhuang, your voice sounds... a bit off? What happened? Is the Knights Association in trouble?"
"Sigh!" Zhuang Changwu sighed heavily, his voice carrying such a heavy weight that you could feel his headache even through the phone line. "Don't even mention it! Senior, I've been so stressed lately, I haven't been able to sleep well at all!"
"Oh?" Lin Yue raised an eyebrow, intrigued. If the now greatly strengthened Zi-O was so worried, it probably wasn't a small matter. "Tell me about it?"
Zhuang Changwu seemed to have found an outlet for his emotions, and his speech quickened: "It was in City B! It was probably just a few days ago, when some guy suddenly appeared, and he was ridiculously strong! He started causing destruction right away, and he was so aggressive that he wanted to blow up the whole neighborhood! I got the news and rushed over immediately, and I fought him!"
"And then? You didn't win?" Lin Yue asked casually, thinking that there was a strange person who could make Zhuang Changwu so worried. Could the other party really be that powerful?
"I can beat him!" Zhuang Changwu said with a hint of frustration. "With my current strength, suppressing him is no problem at all! But... that guy is as slippery as an eel! No, he's like an eel that's fallen into a pot of boiling oil! He can also transform into a Kamen Rider! Do you know what he transforms into? He's Kamen Rider Ebert! I know this guy from Zi-O's memories; he's a super dangerous villain!"
"Ebert?" Lin Yue felt the name sounded familiar, as if she had heard it somewhere before.
"Yes! It's him!" Zhuang Changwu's voice was filled with frustration. "That guy's ability is disgusting! Relying on the power of black holes, he runs away when he can't win! I almost caught him several times, but he just 'whoosh' and disappeared into a black hole! I can't even catch up with him! I've mobilized all the resources the association can mobilize these past few days, and I've almost gone blind from staring at the surveillance cameras, but I still can't find a single hair on his head! This bastard just vanished into thin air!"
He became more and more agitated as he spoke: "I'm so worried I'm almost bald! If he just hides away, that's one thing, but I'm afraid he's up to no good and might suddenly reappear at any time, pick a city, and cause a huge disaster! The destructive power of that... just thinking about it makes my scalp tingle!"
"Senior...you...you're so strong and knowledgeable, do you have any ideas or clues to bring this guy to justice? If he continues to get away with this, I'm so anxious and don't know where to turn!"
"Okay, I'll give it a try. Can you describe what he looks like?" Lin Yue agreed immediately upon hearing Zhuang Changwu's tired tone, after all, it was for the sake of maintaining peace in the human world.
Zhuang Changwu was overjoyed and immediately began to describe it: "That guy wore a black trench coat, had an arrogant look that made him want to punch someone, and after transforming, he looked like a moving lump of coal that could absorb light! His ability was to create black holes and go in and out..."
As Lin Yue listened, her previously somewhat scattered gaze gradually focused.
The more she listened, the more something seemed off. A black trench coat? Arrogance? A black hole?
Oh... I remember now! Could it be...?
Isn't this the same guy who, a few nights ago, was in an abandoned factory area a few kilometers from her house, acting like a delusional teenager, shouting at the air that he wanted to sacrifice the city, even changing into a dark shape, and then bragging to her like crazy, saying things like "Even the Supreme Emperor Zi-O couldn't catch me" and "Black Hole Power is invincible"... and then got casually chopped up by her until not even ashes were left?
Lin Yue's expression instantly became a little... subtle. Holding her phone, she didn't know what to say for a moment.
Zhuang Changwu, still sounding worried on the other end of the phone, asked, "...Lin Yue? Are you listening?"
“Uh…” Lin Yue cleared her throat, her tone carrying an indescribable calmness, “Brother Changwu, the person you’re talking about… Ebert, right?”
"Yes, yes, yes! It's him! The features match, right? You have a lead?" Zhuang Changwu's voice was full of anticipation.
"The clues..." Lin Yue paused, then said in a tone as if she were saying, "The weather's nice today," "It's like this. The guy you described, the one in the black trench coat, who loves to brag, can transform into a black hole, and claims to have escaped from your grasp..."
"Mmm! And then?" Zhuang Changwu held his breath.
“He did come to Z City a few days ago,” Lin Yue said slowly.
"What?! Z City?! He went to your place?!" Zhuang Changwu's voice suddenly rose, filled with shock and worry. "Lin Yue! Are you alright?! Has he...?"
“He didn’t have time to cause any damage yet.” Lin Yue interrupted him, her tone still calm enough to make one’s heart race. “It’s just a few kilometers west of my house, near an abandoned factory. I happened to be ‘taking a walk’ and I sensed that… well, not-so-friendly energy fluctuation, so I went over to take a look.”
"And then?!" Zhuang Changwu's heart jumped into his throat.
"And then?" Lin Yue recalled the scene that night. After transforming, that guy was still standing there with his hands on his hips, laughing wildly and boasting about how powerful his black hole was, saying that even Zi-O couldn't do anything to him... She thought it was quite noisy at the time.
"Then he transformed, his appearance became quite dark, like... well, a lump of coal that could vacuum cleaners?" Lin Yue tried to find a vivid analogy, "and he kept muttering things like 'invincible' and 'Zi-O can't catch him'."
Zhuang Changwu was stunned on the other end of the phone: "...Yes! That's right! And then?!" Z City is quite far from B City, how could this guy get to Z City so quietly!
"Then I thought he was quite noisy and troublesome, and I was afraid he would really make a commotion and disturb the neighbors." Lin Yue's tone was matter-of-fact. "So I just... um, 'advised' him a little to be quiet."
"You...you tried to persuade him?" Zhuang Changwu's voice was a little unsteady, and he had a bad feeling.
"Yes," Lin Yue affirmed. "The effect was quite good. He immediately quieted down, completely. Now he should... be back to his atomic state, right? Anyway, when I left, the ground was quite clean, not even a speck of dust was left."
There was an instant, deathly silence on the other end of the phone.
After a good ten seconds, Zhuang Changwu's dry voice, as if his throat was blocked, finally came through: "...You...you mean...you...killed him?"
"I guess so." Lin Yue thought for a moment, "His black hole seemed to be trying to suck up something, but it was too slow. It was taken down by me before it could suck up anything. The whole process was pretty quick, and it was the middle of the night, so it shouldn't have alerted anyone."
Zhuang Changwu: "..."
Holding his phone, he stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the Knights Association headquarters, looking at the bustling city of A outside, feeling as if his worldview was being rubbed into the ground again and again.
He's been working tirelessly these past few days, mobilizing countless resources! He's so worried he's lost a lot of hair!
The supervillain Ebert, whom he had been frantically searching for all over the world and who had given him a hard time, was... just like that, Lin Yue casually... swatted away... on the outskirts of Z City, like swatting a noisy mosquito?!
"Quite clean, not even a speck of dust left"? And "the black hole's velocity is too slow"?!
Zhuang Changwu opened his mouth, but felt as if there was a wad of cotton stuck in his throat, and he couldn't say anything.
"you……"
On the other end of the phone, Lin Yue listened to Zhuang Changwu's tone, which sounded like he'd been hammered by life, and blinked innocently: "...So, Zhuang Changwu, you don't have to worry about him causing trouble anymore. You can finally get a good night's sleep, right?"
Zhuang Changwu: "..." He just wanted to be alone right now.