Dangerous Boy

Li Jin saw the world in front of him blur. He was faintly able to identify the back of Tang Rong walking on the other road before he fainted.

*

Li Jin woke up in a cold room. His body was sprawled on the ground, covered with dust and dirt. The room was very cold and dark. Fishing out his phone he checked the time. It was noon the next day. It seemed that he was in a coma till now. He dusted off his clothes and realized that he was back, alive and visible.

Looking at the things he experienced, he now confirmed that he again had the opportunity to plan out things from the beginning so that at least he won't be miserable in the apocalypse.

So he obviously had a lot of things to do today.

Remembering something, he tried to mobilise the energy within his body and suddenly, a spark flew through his hands and striked against the wall. The place where it had striked had turned black.

His eyes shone as he looked at the black mark. Not bad. At least he still had his ability.

Gathering his energy again, he again struck at the wall. This time, he was able to form a proper streak of lightning. It looked just like a thin blue wire but it wasn't. His ability still hadn't reached the level. He watched as the unstable streak of very huge voltage of electricity passed through his fingers into the circuit on the wall and the bulb suddenly lit up. It wasn't long before the intensity of the light from the bulb increased more and more.

Blast!

The bulb suddenly blasted off and the hot glass pieces flew all around the room. He jumped to escape but this small action almost took his whole willpower as he staggered to keep his balance. Only then did he realize how tired he was and sweat was dripping all over from his body.

It seemed like he was just at level 1. Still, Li Jin was very satisfied with this outcome.

He again tried feeling his nerves for some time but he couldn't sense anything else than the minute amount of power which was definitely lightning ability or thunder ability, whatever one would call it. Maybe he didn't bring back his second power with him this time.

"It's already afternoon. I have to complete the preparations fast and go back to meet seniors tomorrow."

Li Jin remembered that handsome face of Tang Rong and silently closed his eyes. He inexplicably had an urge to be with him and his friends and support them when the catastrophe would arrive. That warm hug still seemed to soak his body into a warm blanket in this cold room.

'If they all are really good people then I can be with them and help them in the apocalypse.'

Sometimes he just felt that living was also a hard task as he had no purpose to live. There was no aim in his life.

But now, maybe he could get a purpose to live on. His gut feeling told so. So he will try to make friends with those seniors tomorrow and hopefully get closer to them.

Li Jin quietly got out of the building and as expected, there was no-one in the area. He stealthily escaped to the nearest bus stand and then took a bus to the commercial center of the town.

It was a long day to go. He had planned to solve the matters of money and dissolve everything he had into money so that he could collect supplies.

*

Sunlight poured in through the large glass windows and Fang Bai was on his desk doing his work. He occasionally tapped his fingers; an unconscious habit he had when he was deep into thinking something.

As the time passed, his body started giving him signs for taking a break, something he had trained himself so that he would not overwork and also take small breaks for great efficiency.

For example, he had a ticking wall clock. Usually when he was concentrated, or his mind was active enough, it would automatically filter off the tick-tock sound of the clock. But as his brain was showing signs of fatigue, like after 2 continuous hours of working in full concentration, he would start to hear the 'tick-tock' which would also seem a bit annoying. Well, sometimes the timings varied on the basis of his concentration levels.

Slowly, with time, he started to feel the stupid 'tick-tick'. He could still ignore it if he wanted but good habits were very easy to break. Once broken, they might take days to form again.

He did not want to have an unhealthy schedule.

Just as he was putting a bookmark on his documents, an unknown international phone number called him. He picked up the phone.

"Boss, the target is showing abnormal movements. Yesterday he went to an abandoned town which has many warehouses so we couldn't monitor him. Today he suddenly went to the city. He just withdrew a large sum of money and is currently heading to the city centre. He also called one dealer under us. It seems like he wants to meet you."

"Hmm. Continue monitoring. How are you monitoring him?"

"As you said boss, we monitored him through the security and hidden cameras. We didn't send men after him."

"Good. Don't send men after him, I'm telling you again. And if he directly asks about me then inform me. I'll tell you then. Try to find out what he wants to do."

"Okay boss."

"Wait, also find out about his major activities in the last year. Be cautious and don't let him know. I won't help if you lose any of your people."

The person on the other side gulped. He didn't need to be warned. He already knew how dangerous this small boy was.