I’m A Wasteland Giant

Chapter 32: Will you Join us?

He Yongjun and the police officers discussed for a while and finally decided to make a net with rope and pull an insect out.

Of course, they knew that the carcasses were moved by Du Gang earlier as Chu Zixuan mentioned so. However, after knowing that they were just high school students, there was an inexplicable emotion messing with their minds.

They would rather do it themselves than to get Du Gang to do it.

They acted cautiously, making Su Qi stand close by, and as soon as there were any signs of insects awaking, she would activate her supernatural power to suppress the insects.

Just like that, without getting Du Gang’s help, He Yongjun and the police officers successfully pulled one of the insects into the courtyard.

When sunlight struck the insect, its budging legs were instantly suppressed and it became immobile.

Upon encountering the sunlight, the insect completely lost the perception of its body.

“Give it a kick and see!”

Chu Zixuan interjected at that moment.

He Yongjun glanced at him and nodded to a police officer, who went straight up and kicked the insect fiercely.

After several consecutive thrusts of his foot, the insect didn’t move, as if it had died.

“Is it dead?”

The crowd was a little surprised. They didn’t expect the sunlight to do so much damage to it.

“Nope!”

At that moment, Chu Zixuan shook his head. He had been using his spiritual power to scan the insect’s internal condition.

Its life aura still existed. It was just that it had been suppressed to the extreme under the sunlight.

As he spoke, he glanced at Du Gang and spoke: “I’ll try and see if it has any reaction upon being killed!”

Since the kicks produced no responses, the next step was to operate a knife on it.

The sharp knife in Chu Zixuan’s hand floated in the air.

Even though this wasn’t the first time the police officers witnessed this phenomenon, they were still amazed.

Chu Zixuan controlled the speed of the knife at a slower speed this time, stabbing in through the insect’s body.

Inch by inch, the blade penetrated the insect and the deafening screeches they had expected weren’t heard. The insect remained motionless in the sun.

Soon, the knife flew out from the other side of its body, bringing out a mist of green blood.

Even after stabbing a hole in the insect’s body, it still didn’t move, as if the body wasn’t its own.

Chu Zixuan controlled the knife again which flew toward its skull this time.

He wanted to see whether this insect would remain motionless even in the face of a life and death crisis.

When the knife successfully punctured its skull and retrieved the crystal, Chu Zixuan lamented: “The sunlight’s suppression of these insects is so great that they can’t move at all. They can’t even perceive death!”

He had carefully observed the movement inside the insect. There really was no reaction at all.

Under normal circumstances, any creature, even if it was controlled, would put up a struggle in the face of pain or death. However, this insect didn’t even flinch.

“The sunlight should have completely suppressed the insect’s perception of the outside world. It didn’t sense that I was killing it at all, and didn’t even realize that it was dying!”

At that moment, He Yongjun and the others, however, focused their attention on the crystal that Chu Zixuan retrieved.

“What’s that?”

Chu Zixuan made the crystal float in midair and spoke indifferently. “I call this crystal an ‘energy crystal’, which is the source of my supernatural power. As the name implies, this nail-sized crystal can awaken and enhance supernatural powers…”

“What?!”

Everyone exclaimed. The calm He Yongjun subconsciously took a few steps closer.

Soon after, Chu Zixuan recounted some of his guesses about the crystals and briefly mentioned that he had only awakened by unintentionally swallowing one.

“You are saying that there is such a crystal in every insect?”

“That’s the way it looks so far!”

“Wait, that’s not right!”

He Yongjun looked at Du Gang and the others and frowned: “If you’ve killed so many insects, then why haven’t your other classmates and teacher awakened their supernatural powers yet?”

The corners of Chu Zixuan’s mouth turned up slightly into a smile. He explained: “They all ate crystals, but only Du Gang awakened his supernatural power, and the others didn’t… So, I guess the crystal will react differently according to the person’s constitution and talent, and the number of crystals needed for awakening also varies!”

He Yongjun nodded. In that case, everything made sense. He took a quick look at Chu Zixuan and others and understood the situation entirely.

This group of students certainly isn’t as simple as they seem. They are very opinionated and must have some kind of intention bringing this up now.

He Yongjun asked: “What are your plans?”

“Our destination is Luo An City, where our family members are, but we have to act fast while it is still early!”

“Got it!”

He Yongjun nodded. At that moment, his expression changed slightly, but he quickly returned to normal and said apprehensively: “Can you do us a favor?”

Chu Zixuan gave a plain smile: “Help you retrieve the crystals from the living insects inside the police station?”

After having his intention figured out, He Yongjun felt a little awkward. After all, he refused Du Gang’s help earlier and now that he had to request for his assistance, he felt embarrassed. Well, the emotions of being an adult were messing with him.

However, the thought of the crystals being able to awaken supernatural powers that could help in killing the insects made him excited, so much so that he couldn’t care less about losing face anymore.

“Okay!”

Chu Zixuan nodded and agreed.

In fact, this answer was one that Chu Zixuan and the rest had agreed to before. It was still too tough for the police officers to retrieve the crystals from inside the insects, which would take a lot of effort.

With Chu Zixuan’s help, it wouldn’t take much work. His psychokinesis consumed spiritual power according to the volume of the object. For him, the knife didn’t cost him too much spiritual power.

Soon, with Su Qi’s help, Chu Zixuan collected a total of more than 30 crystals in the police station.

“I suggest each of you swallow one crystal first and see if any of you awakens a supernatural power. Then, focus on feeding the rest of the crystals to that one person…”

This suggestion of Chu Zixuan was very good, and they agreed after just thinking about it for a moment.

While they washed the crystals with water, Du Gang asked: “What are your plans if you guys awaken?”

“Plans?”

He Yongjun suddenly stood up straight and said seriously: “I want to be worthy of the hat I wear on my head and protect the civilians…

“When we awaken our supernatural powers, we will first return home and find a safe place to establish a survivor base. Then we will hunt the insects and rescue civilians!”

He Yongjun hesitated for a moment, but eventually asked: “Chu Zixuan, are you willing to join us?”

Compared to the mediocre Du Gang, he preferred having Chu Zixuan join them.

“I’m sorry, my family is still waiting for me in Luo An City!”

Chu Zixuan’s reason for refusing was so strong that He Yongjun and the others couldn’t refute it.

They could only shake their heads regretfully and swallow the crystals in their hands one after another.