Destroy the Base

The two reappeared in the room that Li Yue had left earlier today. It was the house that Li Yue temporarily lived in!

"This is where I currently live. You can stay here for now," Li Yue said after retracting his hand from Annie's shoulder!

"You, you, you..."

"What? Just so we're clear, I had no ulterior motives for you. There's more than one bedroom here, so you can pick whichever you want!"

Li Yue hurriedly explained as Annie pointed at him with a face full of disbelief.

"No, forget about that. What just happened? How did we get here in the blink of an eye? Is this your home?"

Annie was still full of disbelief. They were still in the cemetery just moments ago, but they were transported to this strange place in the blink of an eye. Anyone would lose their cool!

"Oh right, that's just one of my abilities, don't worry about it."

Li Yue casually brushed it away.

"Is that so? It's a very powerful ability!"

...

Annie did not probe further about it. Her mother had just passed away, after all, and she was still grieving. So she chose a room, washed up, and went back to Li Yue's room.

"Thank you, Li Yue. I really don't know what would happen if you were not here!"

Annie spared some time to thank Li Yue before ending the day in her bedroom.

"You don't have to be so polite. Have a good rest. I believe that you can overcome anything!"

"Yeah. Anyway, thank you!"

After that, Annie went to rest.

...

Meanwhile, Li Yue also returned to his room and started cultivating.

It was around midnight when Li Yue suddenly halted his cultivation and woke up.

"Dummy. Have you checked the location?"

Li Yue asked Dummy!

"Sir, the location has been found. Projecting high-definition satellite image!"

Li Yue certainly noticed that Dummy was getting more intelligent. He didn't have to specify the exact picture he wanted it to show anymore.

Li Yue glanced at the projected image and disappeared from the room.

Li Yue reappeared high in the sky. Below him was a base where the super-terrorists were gathered!

Li Yue looked up at the sky. It was very quiet. There weren't even any stars or moonlight in the sky. As the saying said, when the moon was as dark as the night, the weather seemed to carry an omen!

Li Yue used his X-ray vision to confirm that there were people within the base. They were visibly superhumans, as well. At this time, most of them were resting! Only a few were keeping watch!

Li Yue did not intend to rush in and kill them all!

He instead released an intimidating and oppressive aura. He gathered silver lightning around him, and he made the "Kamehameha" gesture that he used in the battle against Homelander.

Countless bolts of lightning flowed through his arm and towards his palm, gathering into a star-like mass of energy that shone with dazzling light!

"Hey, the hell is that in the sky? A meteor?"

There were people who stood guard in the base below, protecting their sleeping comrades. These guards immediately sensed something wrong: for one, there was an incredibly bright light in the sky, even though it shouldn't be time for the sun to rise yet.

Their attention was focused on the source of light that was as bright as the sun, shining in all directions. It was dazzling enough that they couldn't look at it directly!

"Wake everyone up. We need to see what's going on."

The base was filled with the noise of confused people, not knowing what was going to happen to them.

...

Li Yue was almost finished gathering his energy. He decided against adding the blue space energy to the sphere, focusing only lightning energy on the mass of power as bright as the sun!

Space energy was all-consuming and all-erasing. It would erase the very space that the target occupied, but it was relatively low in destructive power. Lightning energy is an embodiment of violence and destruction, capable of great devastation!

Li Yue's current objective was destruction, so he didn't need spatial energy. He only needed an immense amount of lightning!

Li Yue decided that the energy ball in his hands was dense enough. He pushed the mass of power toward the base below him.

A white pillar of energy shot straight to the center of the base.

Boom!!!

It was like a landslide or a nuclear explosion. A massive silver mushroom cloud appeared where the pillar hit the ground, rising hundreds of meters into the air.

A visible shockwave swept in all directions, crushing countless houses in its path.

In the sky, Li Yue looked coldly at the destruction he had just wrought. There was no expression on his face.

"Good luck surviving that!"

Li Yue muttered and then instantly disappeared into the sky. He was not interested in watching the result!

The dust settled after full ten seconds had passed. There was no longer a base to be seen, nor a trace of life, only a bowl-shaped crater nearly ten thousand meters wide.

...

Li Yue returned home immediately from the base. His expression was emotionless, as if he hadn't just caused or even witnessed great devastation.

"I just killed hundreds of lives with my own hand, but I don't feel any guilt. I guess I've changed a lot since coming to this world!"

Li Yue said that, but he didn't stop to contemplate that empty comment. He instead returned to his bed and continued to cultivate in astral projection form.

Annie was sleeping soundly in another room, with a trace of tears in the corner of her eyes. It seemed that she had a sad dream!

...

Like an arrow leaving its bow, the sun rose and brought the morning with it.

The warm sunlight shone through the window onto the figure sleeping soundly on the bed. Her eyelids moved slightly before she opened her eyes.

Annie felt some dried tears at the corner of her eyes. She wiped them with her hand. She dreamed about her deceased mother again last night.

However, sleeping was a good remedy for sadness. Annie's grief was less intense after a good night's sleep, though she was still unable to forget about her mother.

...

"Good morning, Li Yue!"

Annie found that Li Yue had already woken up and was watching TV on the living room sofa. There were some things that she was unfamiliar with scattered on the table, but judging from the smell and the steam rising from them, they seemed to be food!

"Good morning, Annie. Your breakfast is on the table—I brought special food straight from China. It's still hot, though I don't know if you'd like it! Tell me if you don't like it, I'll go out and get you something else!"

Li Yue also greeted Annie, gesturing to the steaming hot soy milk, fried dough sticks, and tofu pudding on the table!