Gu Shenghui, Instructor Miao, and other staff members who had been waiting outside the Teleportation Array after receiving the notification, saw six silhouettes gradually appearing before them following a dazzling flash of white light.
When the light dissipated, the staff beside Gu Shenghui immediately rushed forward with a stretcher. The first to be taken away was not Pei Yan, but Ye Jiumu, who had already collapsed from exhaustion. Using his abilities to conjure items from another dimension while also transporting so many people had taken a significant toll on his body.
As the staff carried Ye Jiumu past Gu Shenghui, he reached out to stop them. He lightly tapped the forehead of the pale and sweat-drenched Ye Jiumu and said, "Go and rest well. You did a great job!"
Having said this, he waved at the staff to move on and turned his attention to the central figure of the incident, Pei Yan.
As they struggled to lift him onto the stretcher and moved a few steps away, Pei Yan, who was initially unconscious, suddenly began to violently tremble with his mechanical limbs. Those carrying the stretcher felt the weight suddenly increase and lost their grip, causing Pei Yan to fall to the ground. Before anyone could react, he had already jumped up with a kip-up.
His mechanical arms extended as a blinding blue light illuminated between his palms. In response to his call, over ten cars in the underground parking lot outside the Teleportation Array automatically lit up their headlights and started, engines roaring.
"Should we stop him?" Instructor Miao asked worriedly beside Gu Shenghui.
Gu Shenghui squinted and said in a deep voice, "No need, let's wait and see!"
At this moment, an SUV, without anyone driving it, leisurely drove out of its parking spot towards the outstretched arms of Pei Yan. As soon as the car's front lightly touched Pei Yan's palm, the blue light in his hand surged, and the black SUV turned into streams of metal, frantically absorbed into Pei Yan's body.
Following this, one, two, three cars started in succession in the parking lot, each being absorbed by Pei Yan in the same manner.
"Elder Lin, what do you think?" Gu Shenghui, standing on the spot watching Pei Yan's "performance," asked Elder Lin, who came beside him.
"It seems we've suppressed his abilities for too long. This is a concentrated explosive display, just like the first time he unconsciously absorbed electrical energy; it's a demonstration of his body's innate needs."
Upon hearing this, Gu Shenghui thoughtfully analyzed, "Can we understand this as a gradual process, absorbing electricity to power his abilities, absorbing cars to strengthen himself, and tonight's forced absorption of the computer was to enhance his brain?"
Elder Lin contemplated for a moment, "That's one way to look at it. However, from the current situation, these things are far from meeting his body's needs. When his abilities are fully developed, how will they manifest before us? I'm truly looking forward to it."
"Elder Lin, how do you think he compares to those young individuals in the bureau and the forces?"
"Depends on who you're referring to." Elder Lin glanced at Gu Shenghui, whose face showed a strange smile, and asked meaningfully.
Gu Shenghui turned his head and signaled to Ye Jiumu, who was being carried to the elevator in the distance, "His brother."
"Incomparable."
Listening to Elder Lin's straightforward answer, Gu Shenghui scratched his nose, pulled out a piece of betel nut, and put it in his mouth. As he chewed more, sweat gradually beaded on his forehead, and his emotions became increasingly excited. Seeing Pei Yan standing still after absorption, like a wooden chicken, he sniffed and smiled, "I see potential!"
The turmoil in the parking lot finally subsided as the blue light in Pei Yan's hands dissipated. Now, Pei Yan stood still like a statue. Instructor Miao glanced around the remaining cars in the parking lot and couldn't help but laugh and swear, "This kid really knows how to pick them; all eleven cars here are the best in functionality. Where do you think he's stored these tens of tons of stuff inside him?"
"We'll discuss these matters later. First, take him back. Do not use the elevator, use the stairs, and keep him as far away from electronic devices as possible," Gu Shenghui ordered, lifting his hand.
The staff obeyed, brought a new stretcher, and approached Pei Yan to lay him down for transport. When they were ten meters away, they saw the previously motionless Pei Yan suddenly extend his right leg, raise both arms high, and adopt a standard fighting stance.
"Wait, don't come any closer!" Seeing the situation turn bad, Instructor Miao quickly shouted to stop the staff from advancing.
But it was too late. The leading staff member had already entered Pei Yan's attack range. Confused, he stopped and turned back at Instructor Miao's call. In the split second of distraction, he heard the screeching of metal against the floor and the whoosh of iron fists breaking through the air from behind him.
The next second, the staff member suddenly felt his body become uncontrollably light, and he was wrenched to one side with his feet off the ground.
In the nick of time, a woman standing in the crowd stepped in. The moment Pei Yan adopted a stance, she sensed something was wrong. With a slight lift of her arm and at the instant of his strike, she mentally pulled the staff member sideward, avoiding a blow that could have broken bones and muscles.
Elder Lin glanced with the corner of his eye and saw Xiaogao, who had released Pei Yan from his restraints that day, making the move. Seeing that the staff member was safe, Instructor Miao let out a sigh of relief and gave a thumbs-up to Gao Yaping, who was in the crowd and had undergone training at the same time.
"Director Gu, do you think his consciousness is still his own? Or has his self been devoured by his abilities?" Instructor Miao, wiping cold sweat from his forehead, asked with lingering fear.
"He has certainly lost consciousness, but not to the point of self-devouring by his abilities. Based on my observation, his internal energy flow is stable, not appearing to be in a demonic hit state. This might be a self-protection mechanism formed in a state of consciousness loss after his abilities have accomplished initial absorption and transformation. Didn't you say, Elder Lin, that he displayed similar behavior in the hospital today?"
"Yes."
Instructor Miao continued to ask, "What do we do now? Just leave him here until he wakes up by himself?"
"No, take this opportunity to test how much his abilities have developed!" With that, Gu Shenghui looked back and instructed, "Bring down some recording equipment from upstairs, and fetch a Jiezhi Space!"
He then looked around and shouted, "Is there anyone who wants to spar with him and see if they can subdue him?"
The crowd immediately stirred, many people eager to try as they looked at Pei Yan surrounded in the center, standing still. Just as a Magic Department member decided to step forward to fight, a figure leapt out of the crowd, jumping in front of Pei Yan.
"Let me try!"
Watching the excited Xia Yu in the scene, Wang Wenze couldn't help but let out a groan for his new roommate.