Chapter 48 The Thief and Psychic Abilities
Even in the villa, the room contained nothing but an iron-framed bed, a set of tables and chairs, and a wardrobe.
It is indeed very simple, but in this world of natural disasters and apocalypse, where can we find a home?
A warm place that shelters you from the wind and rain is home.
I've been busy all day and haven't been able to let the three of them out. Now that I have some free time, I'll let them come out and get acquainted with their new home.
As soon as the sesame paste came out, it noticed the unfamiliar smell and rushed to stand close to Lu An, cautiously observing its surroundings, its dark little nose twitching incessantly.
Driven by curiosity, the other two explored everywhere, going through every open door, checking every place under the bed they could crawl under, and leaving their scent in every nook and cranny.
Meow~
Reporting to the human: We have no enemies. From this day forward, this land is ours to call the shots.
I don't know if they've eaten in the space. Thinking that I haven't fed them for most of the day, I found three iron basins, one for each animal, so they can eat and then go to sleep.
At this moment, Yu Miaomiao was taking out the furniture from her original house from her space, including the sofa, dining table, and her and Lu An's pillows and blankets, and putting them back in their proper places.
Before I could even take out a few items, that feeling of my heart skipping a beat returned.
This time, she clearly sensed something unusual: a passive force emanating from within her body, resisting a controlling force originating from somewhere outside.
Someone used a time-stopping ability on them. A force within Yu Miaomiao's body was resisting the time stop, while Lu An, standing to the side, was already frozen in place.
Everything around them stopped, and the three little ones remained in the same position as a second ago. Tuanzi was even stopped in mid-air because of the moment she jumped.
Only Yu Miaomiao could barely move her body; she heard the sound of a window being opened on the first floor.
The windows on the second floor of the villa were fake, simulated windows, but the windows on the first floor were solid, ordinary glass. Because there were two checkpoints to enter the villa area, and a gate to the house, she had been negligent and should have replaced that window earlier.
As the time-stopping ability user gradually approached, Yu Miaomiao's body became increasingly stiff, and she was about to be controlled by the time-stopping ability as well.
Although the fighting energy within her body was weakening, it was her last hope. She wanted to use this time to bring Lu An and the three little ones into the space.
Nothing in the house matters, but she cannot allow anyone to hurt her friends and the three little ones.
Yu Miaomiao kept urging her will, and the fluctuations in energy made the surrounding suspended environment loosen up a bit.
The footsteps downstairs grew closer.
Her mental control over the fluctuations grew stronger and stronger. The three little ones were the first to struggle out of the fluctuations as she fought against the people outside the door. Tuanzi also fell from the air to the ground. Feeling that she had broken free from the time-stop control, she could take everything into her space as her eyes followed her thoughts.
The moment Lu An and the three little ones entered the space, they were freed from the time-stop interference and returned to normal.
Inside the room, only Yu Miaomiao remained, moving freely.
She had just realized that she might have already awakened her psychic abilities.
Only those with psychic abilities can break free from the control of other psychic ability users.
There are many types of mental abilities, and time stop is one of them. Most time stop users can only control the time they stop for a very short period of time, with about three minutes being the limit.
Yu Miaomiao hid behind the door, drew her Tang sword, and her eyes revealed a sharp edge.
The newcomer, however, was caught off guard and, relying on his ability to stop time, brazenly pushed open the door and entered.
Once the door closed, he and Yu Miaomiao stared at each other, the banana he had stolen from the downstairs dining table still in his hand, half-eaten and still in his stomach.
Even though I can't see the face, what's with this strange sense of familiarity?
"It's you!"
Isn't this that unlucky thief? He stole from me once, not content with that, he had to steal from me a second time.
So the strange feeling she had when she was robbed was because she was time-stopped. However, since she also possessed spatial abilities, and the thief, relying on his fast hands, didn't use his full strength, the time she was controlled by the time stop was very short, so short that she didn't even realize it herself.
At this moment, the thief was cursing inwardly. What a strange day! Did he really forget to check the almanac before going out? No way, he'd better steal an almanac to carry with him.
That's not right. He just used 80-90% of his ability to activate time stop within a certain range, so how come this woman is completely unaffected?
Both of them were wondering what to do next, and neither of them made any further moves.
However, Yu Miaomiao reacted faster and slashed at the still-dazed thief.
The thief had no other skills besides time stop, and now that time stop was useless, he had only one bite left in his hand. He wolfed it down and threw the banana peel directly at Yu Miaomiao's face.
Littering is a very uncivilized behavior!
Yu Miaomiao's anger flared even more when she saw the banana peel thrown onto the carpet she had just laid out.
In no time at all, they hacked the thief to pieces, sending him fleeing in terror.
"Help! Murder!"
The thief's skin was repeatedly slashed by the sharp blade. If he hadn't been more agile than the average person, he would have been dead by now. Although he wasn't dead, he was covered in cuts and his clothes were soaked in blood.
He was in a panic and jumped down the second-floor stairs after breaking the handrail. Yu Miaomiao didn't chase after him. She controlled the Tang sword in her hand with her mind and followed closely behind the thief, pressing it against his neck.
"If you run one more step, your head will be gone."
The thief was terrified. Good heavens, this woman is too ruthless.
He only stole a banana; he hadn't had time to steal anything else yet.
Yu Miaomiao walked down the stairs unhurriedly, kicked the thief in the chest, and pressed him to the ground.
Just as the patrol team in the villa area arrived at the scene, the thief was already bruised and battered, barely alive.
When He Liang came in, he couldn't help but laugh when he saw the man's face on the ground; his face was all swollen like a pig's head.
"Help...help...me, I'm a thief, please arrest me!"
He Liang and the other patrol members exchanged bewildered glances; it was the first time they had ever seen a thief reveal his identity.
Upon seeing the patrol arrive, Yu Miaomiao's Tang sword vanished, and tears welled in her eyes, making anyone who saw her sigh with pity for her delicate and pitiful state.
"This person broke into my house to steal things and even broke my stairs. It was terrifying. Your base's security is really lax."
The thief's inner monologue: Ah... I mean, you're such a drama queen! How can you have two faces? You beat me up like this and you say I'm scary? Who would believe that?!
The patrol team lifted the thief, who had been beaten beyond recognition, off the ground and took him away. They also promised Yu Miaomiao that the base would send someone to repair her staircase.
Before leaving, He Liang secretly gave Yu Miaomiao a thumbs up.
I don't know whether to praise her acting skills or her fighting prowess.