"This... this..."
The outcome was completely unexpected. Lin Qingqing panicked instantly and scrambled over to check the little thief's condition.
Dead? Her hands trembling, she turned the little thief's body over and reached her fingers towards his nose and mouth. "No breath. He's really dead!"
Lin Qingqing quickly withdrew her fingers. Looking at the little thief with his eyes wide open in death, she subconsciously licked her dry lips.
"I just killed someone!" Realizing this, Lin Qingqing's stomach suddenly twitched involuntarily.
Looking at the gushing blood, Lin Qingqing retched a few times, then forcefully suppressed the rising acid in her throat and quickly dragged the little thief back.
Despite the thrilling situation, she became astonishingly calm. The little thief had said that people would turn into zombies after death, so she had to deal with the body quickly. Thinking of this, she quickly looked around, her mind racing.
Feeling the body in her hands getting colder and colder, Lin Qingqing's heart started beating faster and faster. Just as she was about to take extreme measures when there seemed to be no other way, she suddenly remembered the man who had killed his wife and disposed of the body.
"That's a good idea!"
Lin Qingqing's eyes lit up. After making up her mind, she dragged the little thief towards the window.
She had observed during the day that there was a lawn under the living - room window, and not far from the lawn, there were exactly a few zombies wandering around all the time. It was just early morning now. At the zombies' feeding speed, they would surely destroy the body before dawn.
With this in mind, Lin Qingqing quickly opened the window and, without hesitation, dragged the body onto the windowsill.
She first pulled out the knife from the body's back, then casually stripped off the little thief's bright and flamboyant coat. Then, taking advantage of the right moment, she pushed the body down.
The thick smell of blood immediately attracted the surrounding zombies.Watching the gathering zombies start to feed, Lin Qingqing quickly covered her mouth, stepped back, closed the window, and drew the curtain in one smooth motion. It was not until she slumped to the ground that she realized her hands and feet were shaking violently.
"What an exciting day! I got a superpower and accidentally killed someone."
After sitting for a while, Lin Qingqing gradually calmed down, and her heart no longer had any ripples. Even she herself found this feeling rather miraculous. But there was no time to think about it in detail. Before dawn, she had to clean up the scene first.
By the time everything was back to normal, the sky outside was almost bright.
Fortunately, she was the only resident on this floor. Otherwise, with such a big commotion last night, she would have already thought about how to flee.
Since the little thief and his gang had already set their sights on her home, they might come over in the next couple of days. As for the little thief last night, it should have been his personal act. He might have planned to sneak over alone to take advantage.
Lin Qingqing thought about the superpower she had just discovered but didn't know how to use yet, as well as the supplies on the rooftop. After struggling for a while, she finally bravely decided to stay.
After cleaning up the scene, Lin Qingqing climbed up to the attic, sealed the partition, and decided to stay in the attic from then on.To keep the air circulating, she carefully pried open the rusty small window in the attic. The window was small, but she could just about squeeze through it. After that, she could run across the roof to the ventilation duct on the other side to escape.
Having planned her escape route, Lin Qingqing wrapped herself in a quilt and started thinking about her superpower.
The little thief said that they had awakened their superpowers on the second day of the apocalypse. She didn't have hers until now. She didn't know if it was due to individual differences or because her body had been too weak before. It was almost a month late.
But having a superpower was good. It added another layer of guarantee for her survival in the apocalypse, and Lin Qingqing was quite content.
Thinking about the situations she had shown before and combining them with last night's dream, she was now sure that her superpower was related to ice.
In fact, there had been omens as early as when she killed the zombie next door for the first time. And the various strange phenomena that had happened to her later also indicated the attribute of her superpower.
"This is really interesting. I originally guessed that my superpower was something like combat awareness. Now that it's confirmed to be ice - type, things are much simpler."
Actually, the strangest thing was last night's dream. Lin Qingqing felt that it was precisely that dream that had completely awakened her superpower.
"I wonder what that big black fish represented?" Lin Qingqing pondered.
There were also those two voices she heard when her consciousness was blurred at the end. They felt particularly familiar, but she couldn't remember exactly where she had heard them."It seems really complicated! One mystery after another," Lin Qingqing thought that the awakening of superpowers was definitely not as simple as it seemed on the surface.
After figuring out the origin of her superpower, she carefully recalled the state she was in when she used it, and boldly guessed that superpowers might have a great deal to do with the user's emotions and personality.
Emotions and personality could influence superpowers, and in turn, superpowers could also affect a person's personality and emotions.
She had some basis for this speculation: The little thief had said that in the early stages of their superpower awakening, he and his cousin had feverish bodies, were irritable, and had unstable emotions, which was quite in line with some characteristics of fire. As for herself, she had always been relatively calm and rational, so it didn't seem too surprising that she had awakened an ice - type superpower.
Moreover, after awakening her superpower, Lin Qingqing clearly felt that she had become even more rational and calm, sometimes to the point of being almost cold - blooded.
Take this accidental killing as an example. From her quick response to calming down her emotions in a short time, it demonstrated this point.
In fact, thinking of this, Lin Qingqing was already a bit worried. Superpowers were good, but if they had such a huge impact on people, was it a good thing or a bad thing?
Although she was a bit withdrawn and unsociable, she didn't want to become an emotionless and cold - hearted person. What was the difference between that and a machine? She was a bit troubled, but these were all just her speculations about the future. Thinking too much now was superfluous. At present, the most important thing was to enhance her strength. Only by surviving in the apocalypse could there be a future."In the future, if I meet other superpower users, I can exchange information with them," Lin Qingqing thought, and after figuring this out, she stopped纠结.
She closed her eyes and began to carefully visualize the existence of her superpower. It should be a special state manifested in the human spiritual world, and everyone's spiritual world state was different. The use of superpowers should involve a person using their mind to communicate with the energy of the physical world through the state of their spiritual world, thus influencing this energy, transforming it into an energy form that suits their own characteristics, and controlling it.
Simply put, a superpower is an energy manifestation form that best conforms to one's personality traits awakened in the spiritual world. And using a superpower means using the mind as a tool to transform the energy in the physical world into an energy body that one can control.
As for how to use it specifically, last night's dream had given her a lot of inspiration.
After clarifying her thoughts, Lin Qingqing recalled the state when she had successfully released her superpower before. She stretched out her right hand and, imitating the little thief from before, gathered the energy towards the palm of her hand.
Slowly, white frost covered her palm, then converged and condensed. Eventually, an irregular - shaped ice block formed in the palm of her hand.
Looking at the ice block in her hand, it was only as big as a child's fist and its shape was uneven, but it was indeed a success.Wiping the fine sweat on her forehead, Lin Qingqing once again felt her mental state. She felt a bit tired, as if she had just finished a set of mind - racking Olympiad math problems.
"It seems that using superpowers consumes my mental power."
Judging from this, she estimated that she could condense three more ice blocks like this before reaching her limit.
"I'm really weak. What can four ice lumps do? Hmm... I wonder if they're edible?"