Chapter 3 Ability and Cost

I don’t know how long I had been sleeping, but Chen Mi kept feeling headaches until I woke up.

Another strange environment...

Similar to the interrogation room, I was sitting on a chair, my hands were handcuffed and locked on the table. Under the bright light, there were four "culprits" who brought me here.

The headache is still extremely strong, almost suffocating...

Chen Mi used all his strength to look at the four people in front of him and contacted the black figure before him.

The tall leading woman is wearing a black windbreaker and has a good figure. This good figure is not a conventional otakus aesthetic, but more bodybuilding... Sea blue eyes, waterfall-like blonde hair is wrapped behind her head, and fair skin can almost reflect lights. She is a white woman.

She leaned against the wall opposite Shen Mi, hugging her arms. Her beautiful face and figure formed a combination of angels and devils. However, a hideous scar under her left eye broke the harmony and added a lot of fierce aura.

Seeing Chen Mi wake up, she said in pure Chinese: "This is the Requan City Supervision Office, I am the captain of the Punisher, Vera Alexandra."

What is the punishment? Chen Mi searched the original owner's memory and confirmed that this was a strange word.

Without giving Chen Mi a chance to ask questions, she pointed to the two people closest to Chen Mi and said: "Player, Luo Qing, Rebecca..."

Rebecca is also a white woman with a pale face as malnourished and curly black hair. After hearing the captain's introduction, she didn't say anything, but stared at Chen Mi and licked her lips, and stroked the cat in her arms with her hands.

A very fat long-haired cat, brown and yellow...

Luo Qing looked much more friendly, maybe because he was a familiar yellow man, wearing a clean white shirt, a little shy like a student-style, smiling at him.

It was this guy who knocked Luo Sheng out of the way... Luo Sheng is okay? Should he be at home? Shen Mi quickly resumed his thinking.

When his eyes fell on the last woman, Chen Mi's eyes stopped. This was a girl who couldn't tell the difference between human race, and undoubtedly the transparent person without emotion!

The pure black monitoring uniform does not fit, it is a whole set larger than a girl, but it cannot hide the shocking pure beauty at all, and the eyes are as bright as gems.

If his eyes are not so dull, he can be the most beautiful opposite sex Chen Mi has ever seen. No, even if his eyes are distracted, he is the most beautiful person Chen Mi has ever seen.

"She's called Xiaobai..." Vera saw Chen Mi's dullness and smiled: "No matter what man sees a spiritual puppet for the first time, it's this kind of virtue."

Spirit puppets... are still strange words.

Vera's reminder made Chen Mi recall the purpose of being brought here, and she couldn't help but feel a little upset in her heart.

"As soon as he traveled through time, he was handcuffed..." Chen Mi raised his hand and looked at Liang Jingjing's handcuffs, guessing in his heart: "Has traveled through time been discovered? No, it shouldn't be..."

"First of all, welcome..." Vera chuckled, her smile touching the scars on her face, interrupting the quiet random thoughts: "Welcome to the world of contractors."

Contractor?

Another strange word...

Vera did not explain, but turned her head to signal Luo Qing, who cleared her throat and picked up the paper in her hand...

"Captain, just leave it to me..."

A sudden sound suddenly sounded from Chen Mi's heart.

This almost made him exclaim, so he skipped Luo Qing's next chanting content:

"Mo Cai, twenty-two years old, is boarding at my sister's house. Her address is No. 27, Villa District, Anzhitinglan... a junior student in psychology majoring in the Fourth University of Alliance. Is the information correct?"

Chen Mi completely forgot to answer, and was still in a state of surprise. The sudden sound was obviously made by Luo Qing. The other party had read his message for a long time just now, and the tone could be verified on the spot, and it was definitely the same person.

But... Chen Mi was sure that Luo Qing had never said that sudden words.

Could it be...Chen Mi's eyes suddenly widened.

"Answer quickly...why are you stunned!"

"It's already 1 a.m.... The captain has been working for several days and looks haggard..."

"Oh... I'll just say I'll handle it. Vera can go home early to rest. The damn work system... I'll bring breakfast to Vera tomorrow so that she can sleep more."

Three consecutive sentences sounded in my heart one after another. Chen Mi stared at Luo Qing in front of me, and confirmed again that the other party did not say these three sentences.

The facts once again convinced Chen Mi that he actually...had the technique of reading mind, that is, telepathy.

Combined with what Xiaobai said at that time, and what Vera said, "Welcome to the world of contractors", Chen Mi quickly linked this information together - the contractor is a person awakened by supernatural powers, I woke up... Awakened telepathy!

There are superpowers in this world!?

"Is the situation right..." Luo Qing's urging voice came again.

Chen Mi nodded blankly and turned to look at the Punisher Captain Vera Alexandra, who was still leaning against the wall and looking at him with a smile.

"There are contractors here." Vera clearly knew what Chen Mi discovered and explained: "The team of punishers belongs to Pandora's agency, the law enforcement officer who manages the contractor world, including guiding the newly awakened contractors... You can rest assured."

"Do you need to lock the guidance?" Chen Mi raised the handcuffs on his hand and asked dissatisfiedly.

"That's because there is some danger, both for you and for us, especially for the contractors who have just awakened." Vera still smiled and said, "It's better to cooperate with us, so that you can get your headaches as soon as possible."

Luo Qing seemed to mind the captain's interruption, because Chen Mi heard his voice again:

"Captain, just leave it to me... Why do you snatch me up again?"

Chen Mi was a little confused about the situation in front of him...

However, he heard the word "Pandora Institution". Although the original owner's unpredictable memory was unfamiliar with the words "Contractor, Punisher, and Spirit Doll", he still knew the famous Pandora.

This is a well-known scientific research organization that has brought modern technology to people in mainland Rodinia. No, humans in this world call themselves "iron people". Whether it is the electric lights used now, the telephones in the study, the size of trains and trams in the city, it is the invention of Pandora's institution...

But how did Pandora become the "contractor" management agency that Vera called?

Although I only thought about it for a moment, the original owner’s information about the world was like a blowout, causing another strong headache, forcing Chen Mi to interrupt his association.

Vera's tone was as usual: "Your contractual ability has been determined by the spiritual puppet, it is telepathy."

"What we do to you now is to test how you can start, and... the price."

"The price?" Chen Mi asked back...

Although he was a little surprised that the other party knew the superpowers, fortunately, he did not doubt the time travel, so Chen Mi let go of some alert.

"The price is the way to end your headache!" Vera explained in a calm tone:

"The world of contractors is fair, and using superpowers has to pay a price."

"Whenever you use superpowers, original sin will arise... The so-called original sin is mostly a disease... Your original sin is a headache, and the original sin will disappear only after paying the price."

Probably understood...

Chen Mi thought for a few breaths before she understood what Vera had just said, and asked, "How can I know...how to pay the price?"

Luo Qing was about to speak, but was interrupted by Vera's wave: "There is no need to follow the process. He has activated his superpower just now, without us knowing it."

Luo Qing was obviously surprised by this and heard Vera continue to ask Chen Mi: "Who did you listen to just now?"

"He..." Chen Mi turned his head and signaled Luo Qing, because his hands were handcuffed and locked on the table and could not be lifted.

A red cloud suddenly rose on Luo Qing's fair face, as if he was stunned.

"Are you urged to do something to him?" Vera continued, "This kind of impulse is often the way to pay for the price and the only way to stop your original sin."

Chen Mi turned to look at Luo Qing, saying that she had the urge to do something, but she really didn't realize it...

Until I heard Luo Qing’s voice like a repeater:

"Don't say..."

"Don't say..."

"Don't say..."

...

This is Luo Qing’s voice, don’t say it… Do you want me not to say it? Don’t say anything?

The impulse came so suddenly. I recalled the thought I heard just now. Seeing the other person's face turned red, Chen Mi almost subconsciously came to a conclusion and said to everyone present:

"He seems to have a crush on you, Captain Vera..."

Chen Mi said the sound was very light, but the whole room was filled with...

Rebecca showed an incredible expression and turned to look at Luo Qing beside her, as if she had just met this person;

Luo Qing's face turned redder, she glanced at Vera quickly, lowered her head in a hurry, and then suddenly said, "Don't talk nonsense..."

Captain Vera still kept a smile, glanced at Luo Qing, and did not say anything, and locked her eyes on Shen Mi again;

Only Xiaobai, known as the elf doll, still looked at Chen Mi, his scattered eyes as if he had heard nothing, like a machine doll...

Chen Mi realized that he hit the nail on the head and understood that Luo Qing was indeed in love with Vera, but he had no intention of gossiping about the people on the other side of the world, because now...

The headache disappeared!

He quickly clarified the logic - his contract ability is to read what the other party thinks. Once he activates his ability, the original sin will start and will have a headache. Only by saying what the other party thinks... this is the cost of paying the contract ability, the headache will stop...

At the same time, the contract ability may be over - telepathy, because he could not hear any of Luo Qing's thoughts at this time, and the other party's face was flushed and he kept rubbing his hands, so his mind must be extremely active.

Using supernatural abilities requires you to pay the price for this, which is what Vera calls “fairness”…

I see…

"The headache disappeared." Chen Mi took a deep breath and said calmly to the people around him.
Chapter completed!