Max Level Return—I'll Protect That Fragile One

”You’re suitable.” Huo Wen’an turned his head to gaze intently at Xiao Qiao and said seriously, ”You were cast aside as worthless by your family and sold to the Toy Pool by your uncle. Don’t you wish one day to become a big shot that even your uncle has to Gaze Upward at before he’s qualified to speak with you?”

Xiao Qiao had confided his situation to Huo Wen’an before.

Huo Wen’an knew Xiao Qiao came from a major family in the Eastern Alliance, where nearly everyone was a Superpower User, and his parents were super formidable Super Power Users.

But he grew up like a crooked tree in a bamboo grove, without any superpower at all.

After his parents passed away, his uncle took over as the Clan Leader and sold him to the Toy Pool.

Xiao Qiao rolled his eyes, ”I do wish, but can I? It’s good to have aspirations, but when they exceed what you can reach, they become mere dreams.”

”099, don’t bother trying to trick me, I’m not as crazy as you.”

Huo Wen’an did not truly believe that Xiao Qiao could willingly resign to fate. Resting a hand on the car window outside, warm morning light danced gold upon his fingers.

Leaning back against the seat, he calmly said, ”If you can’t reach it, then jump. And if you still can’t reach it, step over the corpses of every vile person to reach it.”

”You just aren’t standing high enough yet.”

Xiao Qiao stopped speaking.

Understanding people, recognizing talent, strategic leadership, power tactics—these were arts of a king that Divine Hidden Crane learned from childhood.

Huo Wen’an knew how to grasp and inspire the heart.

Xiao Qiao was genuinely tempted by his phrase ’step over the corpses of every vile person to reach it,’ and indeed felt a stirring desire to follow Huo Wen’an in a grand venture.

Xiao Qiao said nothing, irritably lighting a cigarette.

Parking below the hospital, Xiao Qiao stubbed out his cigarette and told Huo Wen’an, ”You two, bring 001 along and come with me.”

Bai Ze Island Hospital is a money pit; these criminals won’t visit the hospital unless absolutely necessary, hence it was calm rather than overcrowded.

Seeing Xiao Qiao with a head full of pink hair, the security captain at the lobby turned pale but ultimately didn’t dare block him from taking the patient upstairs.

Walking behind Huo Wen’an, Xu Xingguang was puzzled by the unusual attitudes of the people on the street and the lobby’s security captain towards Xiao Qiao.

She asked Huo Wen’an, ”Are they really afraid of Xiao Qiao?”

Their attitude wasn’t accurately described as fear, but more as avoidance, not daring to offend him.

Huo Wen’an chuckled lightly, saying, ”Generally, children with superpowers exhibit differences at an early age. But Xiao Qiao, when sold to the Toy Pool at age 15, was still ordinary.”

”Until that year the old man took me away, Xiao Qiao was normal. It wasn’t until I traveled with Ming Lan to Bai Ze Island in my past life and reunited with Xiao Qiao, that I learned he obtained his superpower at age 20.”

”They weren’t afraid of Xiao Qiao’s combat power, but of his superpower.” Huo Wen’an watched Xiao Qiao’s hair gently sway as he walked, saying, ”His superpower is Crow’s Mouth.”

Crow’s Mouth?

Xu Xingguang suddenly understood, ”You mean, if he speaks ill of someone, it surely comes true?”

”Exactly.”

No wonder.

”Xiao Hang’s superpower can wipe out someone’s fortune, so few dare provoke him, hence the rumor that Xiao Hang is a top-tier Super Power User in the Divine Martial Realm. Your friend Xiao Qiao’s superpower is quite similar.”

”Yeah.”

Seeing them not catching up, Xiao Qiao turned back to glare, ”If you dawdle any longer, 001 will be dead!”

Only then did Huo Wen’an quicken his pace.

was taken into surgery, where the hospital’s surgical director personally attended to her injuries, sparing Xu Xingguang from worry.

Xu Xingguang leaned against the wall outside the operating room, fiddling with an Intelligent Brain Terminal wristband, deep in thought.

Seeing a terminal on her wrist and another in her hand, Xiao Qiao asked, ”Whose Intelligent Brain Terminal did you take?”

Xu Xingguang casually tossed the item, saying, ”Yan Ruhong’s.”

”Fourth Master?” Xiao Qiao had gone to Hell Palace tonight, personally heard Xu Xingguang boast in the survival games about playing a chase game with the players.

He eyed the Intelligent Brain Terminal in Xu Xingguang’s hand, guessing at her intentions. ”Fourth Master Yan Ruhong heads Hell Palace’s security. Do you think simply possessing his Intelligent Brain Terminal allows you to breach Hell Palace’s firewall and get the membership list?”

Without waiting for Xu Xingguang to reply, Xiao Qiao said, ”It’s impossible, Fourth Master isn’t just a Flying Superpower User, but the most skilled hacker in the Divine Martial Realm. Not even the Hacker Alliance’s hierarch can rival him.”

”Even with this, it’s useless; Fourth Master surely embedded a self-destruct program. As soon as you open it, it self-destructs and Hell Palace’s firewall activates maximal defense.”

”No one born can breach Fourth Master’s firewall.”