Sensing the sound behind him, Zhou Li stuffed half a bun in his mouth, turned his head a little puzzled, and was stunned for a moment.

In his gaze, Luo Bai looked around and said helplessly, "Can you fight a table?" ”

Zhou Li was silent for a moment, motioned for Lu Xiaoshui to sit beside him, nodded and said, "Okay." ”

He could see that in this young man, who seemed to be about the same age as himself, in addition to some sleepiness and indifference, there was also a faint purple light—pure and quiet, like a cold spring.

Slowly retracting his gaze, Zhou Li swept over the eye-like life pattern on the back of his left hand, and continued to eat breakfast with his head down.

It was the first time he had seen a strange able-being in the city, and he was curious, but he didn't plan to make contact. Inexplicably, he felt a vague crisis, but he didn't know where it came from, until a person appeared in front of him.

Seeing that Zhou Li was also here, Wang Yin moved a stool and sat over, smiled and then stretched out his hands to the chimney of the stove in the hall, and used a burst of heat to bake his cold ten fingers.

With a sneeze, he asked, "Zhou Li, did you come out for breakfast with weak water?" ”

"yes, yes." Zhou Li's tail finger trembled slightly, suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, and smiled: "Brother Wang Yin, you look like you're frozen badly, you went on patrol last night?" ”

When Wang Yin and a capable person appeared in front of him at the same time, and they still knew each other, the vague conjecture in his heart finally surfaced.

Fear...... The appearance of the two people on the other side has something to do with him?

"It's just official business, the wind blew all night, and I ran a few scenes." Wang Yin yawned in the heat of the hall, and the heartstrings that had been tense overnight finally relaxed a little, and just said, "Don't mention it, it's trapped me." ”

Official business, on-site ...... Zhou Li instinctively thought of his whereabouts these days, and the conjecture in his heart finally confirmed most of it.

Maintaining an indifferent expression, the bowl in front of his house pushed forward a little: "Do you want to have a little?" Seaweed egg drop soup, I haven't touched it yet. ”

"No need, I have a call." Wang Yin waved his hand and looked down at his reflection in the vinegar dish, as if in a daze.

Sitting next to him, Luo Bai looked at Wang Yin suspiciously: "You know?" ”

Do you know more than that? Zhou Qizhong laughed...... In a way, the two of them are accomplices.

It's like a joke of fate, a murderer, an accomplice, a tracker who, for some reason, actually sits at a table for breakfast?

Thinking of this, Zhou Weizhong once again affirmed the original decision to hide his identity, fortunately, otherwise the place where he is eating breakfast now may become a police station or a cage somewhere, right?

It's just that Wang Yin is there...... He silently looked at the middle-aged man with a sleepy expression from the corner of his eye, as his accomplice, what position did he stand on?

Have you already given what you know without reservation, or have you hidden what you know and watched the rest of your actions without saying a word?

"It's the son of a former doctor in the police station, and I often see him." Wang Yin didn't seem to want to talk more, but responded lightly, took the cage drawer from the waiter, and began to eat breakfast, without helping Luo Bai to introduce him.

Luo Bai looked at his expression, just smiled vaguely, turned his head to look at Lu Wanshui, who was eating breakfast silently, and nodded at Zhou Li: "Fortunately." ”

"Hmm." Zhou Li smiled: "Dude, are you a new policeman?" I've never seen it before. ”

"Sort of." Luo Bai shrugged his shoulders and replied ambiguously: "I only came here yesterday, and this city has changed too much." ”

Zhou Li bit the bun and nodded, and got another key word 'last night', and replied: "A few years ago, the new city was not established...... Speaking of which, have you been here before? ”

Faced with his seemingly casual question, Luo Bai was silent for a moment and replied in a low voice: "Well, I've been here." ”

"Then take advantage of the holiday to have fun, Shangyang is a good place."

Zhou Li said like a hospitable city resident, and when he noticed that Lu Xiaoshui next to him had finished eating, he stood up and said, "Then goodbye, the two of you are slowly busy." ”

Nodding to the somewhat haggard Wang Yin, Zhou Li paid off the breakfast money, took Lu Qiaoshui's hand and disappeared outside the door.

Seeing Zhou Li leave, Luo Bai thought for a moment, and laughed a little abruptly: "It's really enthusiastic, I suddenly want to go around." ”

In the cold wind, Zhou Li sneaked in silence, and after a long time, he suddenly whispered: "That guy...... At least the second phase. ”

Beside him, Lu Wanshui, who didn't understand, raised his head and looked at him suspiciously: "What?" ”

Zhou Li laughed: "It's nothing, let's go, go home and change clothes, and follow me to work." ”

……

"Do you know how many levels of ability there are?"

"Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang? Or is it to build a foundation to rob Jindan? ”

", have you read too many magic novels?"

Faced with Zhou Li's unreliable nonsense, Moros on the phone said with some annoyance: "The document has been sent to your mailbox, read it yourself." ”

This was just a conversation between Zhou Li and Moros, but immediately after, Zhou Li received an email from an unfamiliar mailbox.

Attached to the email is a simple document, which is not large, but it contains an unexpectedly large amount of content. It not only examines in detail the changes of all capable people from ancient times to the present, and the classification of capable people in various civilizations, but also attaches a detailed information and explanation.

At the end of the document, a copy of the 'Hierarchy of the Able-Being' was revised by Miskatonic University, which was then the 'College of Faith for the Elders', after the end of World War II.

Compared with the grading of each country itself, it is more accurate and more popular.

Unlike the European ability according to the 'Kabbalah Tree of Life', which divides ability into four stages, and unlike the ancient Chinese theory of the five immortals of 'ghosts, people, earth, and heavenly gods', the ability person rank table divides the power of the ability into six stages.

Namely: Stage 1 - Deviant, Stage 2 - Magician, Stage 3 - Heresy, Stage 4 - Kingdom, Stage 5 - Apostles, and finally Stage 6 - 'Unknown', which is impossible to verify whether it exists or not!

The first stage of ability is called 'deviant', and those with weak ability or just awakened are classified among them. The meaning is to show that you are different from ordinary people, but it is not to the point of being unacceptable, but no matter what, the 'life pattern' will remind you that you are different from ordinary people.

Less than half a month after awakening, Zhou Li's strength has been promoted to the peak of this stage with the assistance of that dead tree, and he feels that this trend of rising spiritual power has not stopped.

But no matter what, Zhou Li was never able to touch that subtle boundary again, obviously it seemed that he was only one step away from the second stage, but he didn't know the direction and couldn't move forward.

Originally, after decomposing the life pattern of a third-stage ability, even if the power obtained was attenuated by half, it was enough to rush into the second stage for several weeks. It's just that I don't know why, Zhou Li's spiritual power stagnated after reaching a certain stage, and began a long period of precipitation and transformation.

In the process, his soul did not refuse the power from the dead tree, which made Zhou Li feel that a whirlpool appeared inside his body, continuously drawing the power of the dead tree, forming a rainbow vortex.

This kind of hallucinatory influence, Zhou Li only needs to sense the tree diagram a little to find out, and the location is in Zhou Li's heart.

Although I am a little worried about whether there is something abnormal in my body, the ways in which the ability can be promoted and awakened are all strange, and others can't help. In short, it was a blessing or a curse, and Zhou Li had no choice but to acquiesce to the existence of the rainbow whirlpool.

And just one step away from him was the second stage, the magician's realm!

As the name suggests, those who have reached this stage of ability will already be able to use their abilities to achieve magic-like effects, and as long as they use them well, they may be able to become magicians who are not inferior to 'David Copperfield' with their own powers.

It is at this stage that the true awakening of abilities, the division of areas, and most importantly, the 'soul manifestation' is also accomplished.

The long accumulation before the second stage is precisely the qualitative change formed in the moment when the boundary is crossed, and the development after the second stage is built on the ability of the second stage.

And those who have reached this stage of ability, if it is a slightly stronger ability, they may be able to complete the torture of Zhou Li a hundred times in face-to-face combat; If the ability is a little special, maybe even ordinary bullets are useless.

Zhou Li didn't feel that he was invincible in the third stage because of his victory over Ghost Cut, if he really dared to think so, I am afraid that he would really be helpless.

Ghost cut is just a face, a memory that runs through his chest with a snap of his fingers, he is still clear, if it weren't for the tree diagram of his heart, I'm afraid he would have even drifted his ashes along the Huangpu River to Zhonghai Zhangjiang High-tech Park now.

Ghost Cut is indeed very strong, even among the third-stage ability, it is also among the best, but it does not mean that Zhou Li, who defeated Ghost Cut, is stronger than him; On the contrary, if he was given a chance, even if a hundred Zhou Li stood in front of him, he would be slashed to pieces by that sword of weeping that disappeared.

If it weren't for the desperate counterattack by Lu Feitie and his wife, the explosion of dark energy that broke the iron cone, and Zhou Li's long-range sneak attack to abolish his best right hand, his strength dropped to less than thirty percent through continuous weakening, and then relied on his distance and his own ability to carry out continuous long-range attacks, and finally fought back in a desperate situation......

Zhou Li's success is like a newcomer who has just walked out of the novice village and practiced to level 5, picking up a purple suit and a few golden disposable props, and daring to go to a single brush **oss, if someone hadn't helped him cut the residual blood first, he would have rushed to the street, and he didn't even run away with a corpse.

If there was no such kind of foreshadowing, Zhou Li would have been lying in the urn a long time ago, maybe the urn would not have been lying at all, turning into a mass of slag, lonely and scattered in the wind.

Therefore, no matter what, he must ensure the existence of the advantage that he hides in the dark, otherwise...... Once you become prey, you will lose completely.

Knowing this time, Zhou Li realized that once some things start, they can't be stopped. If you are determined to enter that world for the sake of strength, how can you easily withdraw after getting a little sweetness?

He understood that he had stepped into the maelstrom, that he could only move forward, and that there was no turning back.

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Thanks to the good ship-kun, the heavy mouth starman, AST1, devouring the dawn, and the story of the starry sky for the rewards