66: Who is it? The ghost tide that shook the capital!

"I choose to live by myself." Facing the curious and expectant gazes of the two, Shen Pan chose to go his own way directly.

"..." Ruan Qingshu just silently turned her head, forcibly suppressing the corners of her mouth that wanted to curl up. She still understood the principle of knowing when to stop while ahead. After all, strictly speaking, she had only known Shen Pan for a day. She would let Ruolai off for today, and continue next time!

??? Jiang Ruolai was stunned: "What else?" Of course you have to live by yourself. Did you think about dragging her and Qingshu along? Such a small house, plus those neighbors. Everything would be in the way, it wouldn't be comfortable for three people to live together! At the very least it should be a detached... Wait! Was she asking about who to live with!

However, Shen Pan clearly didn't want to answer, so Jiang Ruolai could only cooperatively change the subject. "That's great, I also want to live by myself, but..." Thinking about living alone in the Imperial Capital, she would definitely be harassed by her family. For example, arranged marriages, being extorted for promotion crystals by her shitty cousin, or being lectured by the old geezers. If it hadn't been for the head of the Jiang Family, her cheap uncle, speaking up back then, her fate would have likely been miserable! Jiang Ruolai could only sigh slightly. Strength, oh strength... If she could blast a Tier 9 to pieces with one punch, how could she be so restrained!

[You successfully used a topic that made Shen Pan sense danger to break the offensive of your detestable best friend. You made the other party temporarily give up on the behavior of farming favorability!]

[Although you seem to have exposed some things in front of Ruan Qingshu, that is not important!]

[In short, you have successfully gained the initiative!]

[Reward: Talent Super Fusion!]

[Fusion in progress...]

"Huh?" Jiang Ruolai looked at the light screen deep in her mind in surprise. She only asked Shen Pan to pause the chat with Qingshu, and that counts as completing the mission? Jiang Ruolai was full of question marks as she looked at the information given by the System. What did she expose? And what was up with that title, "detestable best friend." She had never thought of it that way! She and Qingshu were good sisters who could share a blanket!

[Congratulations to the Host for obtaining the Mythic Rank talent — Sword of Secrecy!]

[Sword of Secrecy: Possessing the authority of secrecy, you can achieve conceptual invisibility and disappearance. Before truly dealing damage to an enemy, you will not be detected!]

[Cannot be detected by living beings, items, or inanimate objects below the Mythic Rank regarding life level. You can apply the same secrecy state to teammates. You can enchant any sword-type equipment with a layer of pitch-black longsword possessing destructive attributes.]

[When launching an attack from behind, all damage is increased by 200%! (No cooldown)]

"So strong!" Jiang Ruolai exclaimed in her heart. Even if it is a "sneak" talent, it is a Mythic-level "sneak"! Of course, the biggest enhancement is that from now on, she can directly activate the Spirit Armor [Ice Emperor] while in secrecy mode! This way, she won't be interrupted because her transformation wind-up is too long!

"Woohoo~ Taking off!!!" Jiang Ruolai jumped a few times on the spot as if no one else was around.

"Was Ruolai like this in high school?"

"Uh... pretty much, anyway sometimes her behavior is indeed baffling." Shen Pan and Ruan Qingshu exchanged a tacit glance. Then they looked in sync at Jiang Ruolai, who seemed like a lively little girl. They showed pitying and kind gazes. This child might be able to save the Imperial Capital Academy drama department!

Just at this moment.

[Hidden Mission: Gain the attention and appreciation of five Councilors (Currently completed: 4)!]

Hmm? Four people already!?

Shen Pan's pupils shrank, and he subconsciously looked at Ruan Qingshu. His gaze collided with hers, which had no change in expression.

"Is there something on my face?" Ruan Qingshu subconsciously touched her cheek. As a petite girl, the only thing she could show off was her face, which was as exquisite as a work of art. Seeing the other party reach out to take out a mirror.

"Nothing, I was just thinking about when those experience packs will arrive." Shen Pan silently looked away.

There were only the three of them here. But if Ruan Qingshu only just triggered the System count now, then when he first landed in the Imperial Capital, besides Jiang Ruolai, which other Councilor had developed attention and appreciation for him? It couldn't possibly be Sister Jiang Lin, right? She is a Martial Artist; it shouldn't be possible for her to have reached a Legendary Rank Breakthrough.

"Who exactly is it..."

...

"Brother, you're so fast today, you actually came to pick me up!" A girl who looked to be sixteen or seventeen years old was holding a candied hawthorn in one hand and holding the hand of the boy beside her with the other.

"Yeah, mainly because the competition wasn't difficult, it was all instant kills." Yang Jian, who had suffered setbacks in the Prodigy Tournament and was burdened with loans, only getting fifty academic credits, said with a slightly awkward smile. He was not a local of the Imperial Capital. So he lived with his younger sister, who had also transferred to the Imperial Capital and was still in high school. Just by relying on the income from being an internet celebrity a few days ago, he rented a house in a villa area not far from the Imperial Capital Academy! That's the good thing about the identity of a Prodigy. With one word from him, his sister could also enjoy the teaching resources of the Imperial Capital! That was why he cared so much about the identity of Great Xia's Number One Prodigy!

"Sigh, that was clearly my ultimate trump card move." "I even spent days racking my brain to come up with the name. How come it couldn't even withstand one strike from Shen Pan?" Yang Jian was very puzzled. If that were all, it would be fine. He could just use the excuse that Shen Pan was indeed awesome. He was just unable to level up, and it could be explained as bullying the smaller with the larger. But what was the background of that Jiang Ruolai? A mere Legendary-rank Profession. She was actually able to hold on for ten minutes in Shen Pan's hands! She must be cheating! Yang Jian couldn't figure out for the life of him, as a dignified Prodigy of the new system, how he couldn't even rank second!

And... Yang Jian looked at the messages sent by those senior sisters in the campus network backend. Since the news that he could "grow bigger" got out, those senior sisters became even more enthusiastic. They even said he didn't need to repay the academic credits he owed! But he had to repay them in other ways, like being kept, or partial enlargement!

"Heh! Trying to make me addicted to women and drag down my speed of getting stronger?" What a vicious scheme, but it was useless against him! Yang Jian disdainfully replied to the four senior sisters: "Don't worry, Senior Sisters, I will definitely save up enough academic credits as soon as possible!" He was a man who was going to become Great Xia's Number One Prodigy. Women and such were very obstructive! Of course. His sister Yang Yuchan was an exception!

"Brother, don't be so gloomy, come, eat a grape! Ah~" Yang Yuchan extended the candied hawthorn she had already eaten more than half of towards her brother's mouth.

"Haha! Don't worry, Brother is fine, it's just..." Suddenly, a wisp of coldness brushed past his neck. Yang Jian's pupils shrank, and he pulled his sister into his arms, ready to grow bigger at any moment!

"What... is that?" The third eye on his forehead had already opened. He looked at the sky not far away. In the direction of the villa area where they were located. Monsters with bodies full of black Qi, exuding coldness and Death Qi, with terrifying appearances, were circling in the sky! Not only that, but now there were endless monsters coming towards this side from all over the Imperial Capital! Could it be an alien race attack?

"Huh? Why did it cool down? Brother, look, the sun is gone!" Yang Yuchan covered her small mouth in surprise, looking at the sky without any fear. At this moment, even many pedestrians felt that something was wrong. They panicked as they looked at their phones, which had lost signal. And there was always a cold touch flashing past their necks, wrists, and legs!

"Why did the sky go dark?"

"Hey, hey, hey! Damn it, pick up the phone quickly!" At this moment, all the Epic Rank powerhouses in the entire Imperial Capital felt that a large number of undead and negative energy-type monsters had suddenly appeared in a certain area of the Imperial Capital!

"What's going on?" The Director of the Martial Administration Bureau, Wu Shuang, was looking at the direction where the problem occurred in a daze. "Even in the Imperial Capital, there are alien races that dare to attack?"

...

In a street alley. The woman who was eating mutton rice noodles paused, a wisp of silver-white long hair hanging down to her ear. With a surprised look on her face, she turned to look at the area filled with Ghostly Creatures. This was almost forming a small Ghostly Creatures tide!

"What kind of event is this? It's not in my memory!" The Main Body was blocking the door in Antarctica. The Great Xia Sword Immortal — Xia Zhaoyue, who was using her alt account to come back to pick up her graduation certificate and eating to her heart's content, was a bit stunned. Another butterfly effect?

"The Ghostly Creatures are not hurting anyone. They are clearly being controlled, or suppressed by an existence with a higher status..." And according to her memory, there was only one possibility at this point in time!

"Could it be that Ruan Qingshu suffered some stimulation and broke out early?" Wasn't she getting along quite well with Jiang Ruolai recently? For some reason, in Xia Zhaoyue's mind, that Mythical Grade Prodigy who shouldn't have existed in the original timeline flashed by — Shen Pan!

Xia Zhaoyue stood up to pay with a strange expression on her face, and said with some admiration: "It seems that because her best friend found a new friend, and a boy at that, she got jealous!" After all, in the future, their relationship did indeed become increasingly strange.