Chapter 318 Xia Nan

Even Tang Tang herself was a bit shocked: “Wow! Is that so powerful?!”

Tiger Ba Tian stared at her in a daze for two seconds: “……Sis, don’t you know how awesome you are?”

“……I really don’t know,” Tang Tang shook her head, looking somewhat innocent, “I’ve always used pure hand-made fire magic… It was only recently that I heard someone say I could amplify my magic using a magic wand. But I don’t have many points in the game, so I can only afford the most basic kind of wand, and its amplification isn’t even this strong.”

Xia Xinyan looked at Tiger Ba Tian: “The products made with Brother Tiger’s abilities should be better than those items in the mall, right?”

“That’s for sure,” Tiger Ba Tian said confidently, “After all, I’ve made it onto the leaderboard, and I specialize in attribute enhancement. If I can’t surpass those cheap mall items, then I might as well give up.”

After pausing for a moment, he continued, “This pair of scissors isn’t strong enough to hold too much attribute enhancement, but it should be equivalent to a high-grade wand from the store. Plus, I’ve specifically strengthened it with fire magic, which probably allowed this girl to unleash her true potential.”

It’s just like how a soldier with great shooting skills can’t perform without a gun, and even with a gun, the type matters—having a handgun versus a sniper rifle makes all the difference.

Xia Xinyan was a bit lost in thought.

She hadn’t realized this in her previous life—because she barely saw Tang Tang act, and since Tang Tang often said her strength was lacking, Xia Xinyan naturally formed that impression over time.

Now seeing it first-hand… it’s not quite like that.

No… to be precise, Tiger Ba Tian’s enhancement of Tang Tang gave her a new understanding of abilities.

Everyone has different abilities, and while these abilities generally serve the user, they can be roughly categorized into attack and support abilities. And even in her past life and now, the mainstream “collaboration” merely involved support users offering some degree of help to main ability users.

But now, with Tiger Ba Tian using his attribute enhancement to significantly amplify Tang Tang’s fire magic, doesn’t that imply that main abilities can cooperate as well?

For instance, if the Fat Man had a water ability user join him with his lightning…

Of course, such cooperation between abilities requires a high level of synergy. Achieving a combined power greater than the sum of its parts would definitely require training, but it’s truly a path worth trying, and it could quickly enhance the overall strength of the Chicks organization.

However, to implement this plan… they would need to recruit more ability users. Only by broadening the types of abilities would they have more room for matching these users.

They could certainly discuss this with the Fat Man and Ling Mo when they got back.

As for now… she also started to think about Tiger Ba Tian and the others.

But the main goal at the moment was still the Source of Invasion, so Xia Xinyan slightly suppressed her thoughts and said, “Since Tang Tang has such strong abilities, there’s no question of holding us back. Just leave the Source of Invasion to us; you just need to take care of yourself.”

Tang Tang paused and nodded, “Oh.”

She honestly didn’t even know she was this strong…

Speaking of the Source of Invasion, Tiger Ba Tian asked for relevant information and relayed it to Chicken Head and the others.

Ling Mo took the opportunity to send a message to the Fat Man. At this moment, the Fat Man seemed to have settled down a bit, but the previous chaos still left him quite tense—he mentioned that they had dealt with one of the Fat Man’s replicants, one of Bai Yu’s replicants, and several well-known big shots’ replicants, which indirectly confirmed the large number of people who had come over this time.

“By the way, I think I saw Lin Nan earlier. I don’t know if it’s a replicant; he ran pretty fast, and I couldn’t catch up.” The Fat Man reminded over the intercom, “You remember Lin Nan, right? From the Ability Investigation Bureau? He’s probably here for an investigation. If you encounter him, lend a hand if you can; build some goodwill for future dealings.”

“Got it,” Ling Mo smiled, “You think pretty far ahead; we’ll keep an eye out.”

Tiger Ba Tian also heard this and couldn’t help but complain: “Ability Investigation Bureau? Is that the Ability Bureau? I’ve dealt with them before; a bunch of kids who haven’t even grown hair yet acting like big shots, each one strutting around like they’re on top of the world. Tsk, the country really is out of options.”

Xia Xinyan glanced upward.

Almost at the same moment, a laugh came from that direction: “So those kids are also trying hard to learn how to be qualified officials, huh? Big Brother has to give us a little time.”

As the words fell, a man landed in front of them—none other than Lin Nan, the one they had just been talking about.

Tiger Ba Tian didn’t know him but recognized his Ability Bureau uniform, and his expression immediately changed.

However, Lin Nan didn’t delve into those previous remarks but instead asked, “Are you here to handle the situation too?”

“Yeah,” Xia Xinyan nodded, “Are you the only one who came?”

“We’re investigating separately,” Lin Nan shook his head, “Since we ran into each other so coincidentally, why don’t we act together?”

“Acting together is fine,” Ling Mo replied, “But you know how to handle the issues here, right?”

Otherwise, they would have to explain things again.

“I know,” Lin Nan nodded, “There was a similar incident in Caishi City yesterday afternoon, and it was resolved two hours ago. Based on how that incident was handled… there’s probably something in the center of this area that needs to be destroyed, right?”

“Correct,” Ling Mo was a bit surprised, “You figured that out pretty quickly.”

“Thanks for the compliment.” Lin Nan smiled enigmatically, then his gaze fell on Xia Xinyan, “But even if we figured it out quickly, we probably don’t know as much as you do… To be honest, I’m quite curious, how did you come to know about and confirm events like the Cataclysm and monster invasions?”

Xia Xinyan simply smiled in response, not making any comments.

This was the effect she wanted; after the prophecy of the Cataclysm came true, then in the eyes of others, her foresight of the future would become one of her bargaining chips.

And this could be something she could make good use of.

—Only, the silent clash of gazes between the two drew someone’s annoyance.

Ling Mo discreetly stood in front of Xia Xinyan, blocking their gazes, and smiled at Lin Nan: “If you want to know the answer, you can visit the Chicks after everything’s settled.”

Xia Xinyan: “…”

This guy… is he a bit too naive?