Rebirth: A Cinderella's Counterattack

”So, this thing is basically a shredder?” Luo Qianqian blinked, her face a picture of realization.

The young man was speechless, ”I don’t know whether to refute or confirm what you’re saying, but you’re not wrong, it indeed is a shredder.”

”So, without this card, can I leave now?”

”Not exactly, you can leave only when your new card is issued.”

”What? Don’t tell me I still have to go through some sort of test, and then get a card of a different level or something?”

Luo Qianqian really wanted to just open the door and leave... but she couldn’t reach the door, which also had a display screen.

”You’ve read too many novels,” the young man said calmly as he looked at Luo Qianqian.

”Come here and record your fingerprint.” The young man said impassively.

”What? Are you a cop?” Luo Qianqian hugged her own fingers.

The young man looked at her, speechless, ”Do the people here look normal to you?”

Luo Qianqian decisively shook her head. Normal? Removing that word and adding a bunch of ’nots’ would be more like it.

What ”very fast busybodies” and ”people like Ghosts”...

”Then do you think our existence is completely unnoticed by the government?”

Luo Qianqian shook her head again. How could that be possible?

Unless everyone maintained high vigilance and never exposed themselves.

”We are a legitimate organization, but we collect complete personal information for every individual in our organization, whether it’s your DNA or your fingerprints and irises.”

Luo Qianqian feigned surprise and opened her mouth wide, ”I have just one little question, how did you guys find me?”

”First, it wasn’t us who found you, but rather you were identified under specific circumstances.”

Luo Qianqian was startled and immediately thought of the Gambling Stone convention she attended with Jimo Cheng.

Seeing the young man nod, ”Exactly, it was because of that specific environment. The Jade has spiritual energy, and in places with a lot of spiritual energy, one can sense the differences in the energy. This is the most basic identification method.”

So... ”Was that last piece of Gambling Stone a setup?”

Watching the young man nod, Luo Qianqian immediately realized, and even the danger she felt on the way there was part of the test.

With a speechless expression, ”Is it really okay for you guys to be so cunning?”

”It’s not cunning, it’s called being cautious.”

”Then how did you confirm it wasn’t the senior brother... wasn’t it Jimo Cheng but me?”

”The Jimo Family?... Impossible, the Jimo Family has almost stepped out of this stage. If there was such a lineage, it would have been reported long ago. Do we still need to discover it?”

Luo Qianqian rolled her eyes, after all this talk, they still didn’t trust her senior brother?

”I am a person of the Jimo Family.” Luo Qianqian said firmly.

Jimo Cheng had often said that the Jimo Family would stand behind her. Now, the Jimo Family needed her, and she would not back down.

”Fiancée? Ultimately, still just a fiancée...” The young man looked disdainful, ”The Jimo Family might seem like a behemoth to you, but to us, it’s not much.”

”Not only the Jimo Family and the Luo Family, in my eyes, that is home.” Luo Qianqian squinted her eyes, ”Don’t say the Jimo Family is stepping off any stage. As long as I’m here, I won’t let that happen!”

The young man turned around and looked at Luo Qianqian with amusement, ”What do you know? You know nothing and you can’t do anything. This is an inevitable trend, all you can do is watch it happen.”

Luo Qianqian huffed, ”What I need to do is change! I’m not just some damn bystander. Otherwise, what’s the point of existing? Just watching things happen and not trying to stop or change them? To be a spectator in history? I’m not just a narrator!” she said, stepping closer to the young man and extending her hand, ”Hurry up and do it, and tell me what’s going on after you’re done.”

Fingerprints were recorded one by one, as were the iris patterns, and even the voiceprints and blood.

Luo Qianqian looked at the wound on her finger, without even a hum.

”Actually, it’s simple, the ability you passively awakened is called a talent here.” The young man sat down and calmly pressed a remote control beside him.

The LCD screens and various instruments slowly turned into the interior of the wall.

”Just like Shi Bahao, his is speed, which we refer to as wind in a certain sense. His talent gives him a natural advantage in speed, so...”

”So, he just runs very fast? Why does he run so fast? Is it Qinggong?”

”What you said is quite similar, but we prefer to call it a Cultivation Technique.”

Luo Qianqian nodded, and the young man continued.

”But you know, nowadays running fast is popular for delivering packages and food deliveries, with phones and computers available, electronic signals are naturally much faster than humans,” the young man said with a smile.

”That said, you can’t just let people go hungry, right?” Thinking of Shi Bahao looking famished morning and night, she couldn’t help but frown.

”He’s on a diet. There’s natural selection here too. If you’re too fat, with a high body weight base, the speed naturally won’t pick up.”

Luo Qianqian glared, ”Who says? If it’s Cultivation Technique and not Qinggong, then it shouldn’t have anything to do with weight, right? It clearly depends on the speed at which a person absorbs the Spiritual Energy between heaven and earth, doesn’t it?”

”Spiritual Energy between heaven and earth? You’ve been reading too many novels,” the young man said exasperatedly.

Luo Qianqian tilted her head, looking puzzled, ”Didn’t you mention something about Cultivation Techniques?”

”Yes, but...basically, it boils down to one’s comprehension of the Cultivation Technique, it’s produced and consumed within the body,” he explained.

Luo Qianqian frowned, that’s not right, it shouldn’t be like this...

If it’s internal, in the novels, it should only be the early stages, right? If it’s this powerful in the early stages, wouldn’t it be overwhelming later on?

Frowning, ”Then how can I be sure that I...”

”Ah, here comes the important part,” the young man nodded, ”I thought you weren’t interested.”

”Heh.” Luo Qianqian rolled her eyes and scoffed. If she isn’t interested in this, what could she possibly be interested in?

”This, you need to feel it yourself... Fortunately, the first step of all Cultivation Techniques is the same, meditation, so it won’t be too hard for you. How long it takes you to find it depends on how long you meditate, a few hours if it’s fast, a day or two if it’s slow.”

”What about the Medicine Group?” Luo Qianqian suddenly asked.

The young man was taken aback, then shook his head helplessly, ”You heard that from the Jimo Family, right? Actually, it’s nothing big. Just making sure ordinary people who know these things don’t leak them carelessly. Better to let them work on those incomprehensible prescriptions and make some contributions.”

”What about the Han Family then?” Luo Qianqian pursed her lips. She suddenly realized that all the strange things happening around her were somehow connected to this place. So, was her presence here fate or coincidence?

”The Han Family? Never heard of them.” The young man shook his head, his frowning face seemed genuine.

Luo Qianqian was quite surprised, but she didn’t pursue the matter further and just nodded.

The young man said, ”Well, let’s go then, before you get too anxious. After all, you’re still a student, I’ll take you there.”