Lantern Sister is still very capable.

Chapter 42 Accident

Fire Butterfly's real name is Feng Xuedie. She is an orphan who lost both her parents and is able to attend school only with government support.

Throughout her twelve years of compulsory education, she excelled academically, like a butterfly fluttering in the snow, struggling to find a bright future for herself.

However, she quickly went astray after adulthood. In just one year of college, she skipped classes, dated, and became pregnant out of wedlock, leaving her classmates and teachers wondering how someone could become so bad so quickly.

The root of the problem was that Feng Xuedie dated a shrew who was good at exploiting her, like a leech in a sewer, clinging to her and constantly sucking her blood.

This was originally just a typical story of a love-struck fool and a scumbag. Perhaps when Feng Xuedie wakes up, she can still ask the scumbag to live a decent life.

But an unexpected turn of events led to a dramatic outcome, and the bystanders also paid the price.

Feng Xuedie's boyfriend, Ying Chengji, awakened his ice-type superpower. As a superpowered individual, Ying Chengji joined a small gang in the community and used his superpower to gain power. He brought his girlfriend to the gang and, together with a group of people, bullied Feng Xuedie.

Unexpectedly, Feng Xuedie awakened a fire-type ability.

If Feng Xuedie can successfully avenge herself, she might even be reborn from the ashes.

But then another unexpected thing happened. The local gangs in Haishi, having just discovered superpowers, quickly developed into a fanatical organization that pursued superpowers, and changed their name to the "Cosmic God Cult". Ying Chengji became the cult leader.

Unlike all other cults, Ying Chengji really has supernatural abilities!

Thus, ordinary people with power and money in the upper echelons of the gang opened their murky eyes and saw a mysterious and dazzling world of superpowers. Their unwillingness made them lose their minds.

In their quest to acquire superpowers, they began secretly searching for other people with superpowers and studying the mysteries of those powers, thus becoming notorious antisocial elements.

Feng Xuedie was their first experimental subject.

Unfortunately, the mystery of superpowers is not so easy to unravel. Under pressure, Ying Chengji, who had made no progress for a long time, gathered everyone and sacrificed Feng Xuedie, allowing the upper echelons and ordinary people of the sect to eat Feng Xuedie's flesh and blood.

The biggest surprise happened at this moment. Feng Xuedie's superpower, which had been cut into pieces, was upgraded to level three. She set fire to the remote villa where the Cosmic God Cult was holding a gathering, burning all the perpetrators present to ashes and incinerating all the filth with her flames.

At this point, Feng Xuedie is merely a victim. Legally, she can be deemed innocent. Even if a superhuman knew about it, they would only praise her for being killed.

Unfortunately, she lost control.

Feng Xuedie not only developed hatred for all unfaithful men, but she also began to put it into practice, harming people who looked like her beastly ex-boyfriend. At the same time, following the list, she killed all the wealthy people who secretly supported the development of the Cosmic God Cult, including their relatives and friends.

Out of a sense of procedural justice, Feng Xuedie's actions crossed the legal line, and the authorities issued a warrant for her arrest. However, Feng Xuedie quickly disappeared, and the warrant remained in effect for eight years.

She didn't completely disappear. He Feiquan looked at the information and found that Feng Xuedie had smuggled herself to America to find Ying Chengji, the only one who hadn't died back then.

Feng Xuedie reappeared in China, which caused the fire on Xiong Yi Avenue.

All those who died in the fire were ordinary people. The official investigation confirmed that the victims were civilians, and there was no room for argument. Learning from the lessons of eight years ago, the authorities decided to take swift action to impose sanctions.

This information was already largely investigated eight years ago. To be honest, after reading this information, He Feiquan felt that even the most hateful person has a pitiable side. The Fire Butterfly case involved the secrets of ordinary people pursuing superpowers. In order to avoid escalating the conflict between superpowered individuals and ordinary people, the authorities had no choice but to shift their attention and add some embellishment to the people accidentally injured by the Fire Butterfly.

But it's hard to say. At least the survivors of the Fire Butterfly case all know some inside information. Of the three major pieces of evidence related to fire, the Fire Butterfly case is the most mysterious.

The villa where the Cosmic God Cult is located is their headquarters. Feng Xuedie is not the only victim. Many of the subjects who were experimented on back then also awakened superpowers, and their levels were not low. Most of them have risen to level two in the past eight years.

Therefore, He Feiquan's arrest of Fire Butterfly served two purposes: first, to give an explanation to those who were mistakenly injured, as Fire Butterfly had inadvertently harmed many people back then. The higher-ups suspected that the Cosmic God Cult had indeed made some progress, which was why it could induce ordinary people to awaken; second, he wanted to extract some intelligence from Fire Butterfly.

Previously, Fire Butterfly was abroad hunting down Ying Chengji, and the authorities couldn't find an opportunity to contact her. This time, she secretly returned to China, so they simply had He Feiquan capture her and bring her back.

On the other side, a fire lit up the dark basement. After Feng Xuedie turned off all the surveillance equipment, she sat quietly to the side and bandaged her wounds.

She was injured by Hua Zhongli in a residential building in Jinshui Community on Xiongyi Avenue.

"I'm so bored. When are we leaving?" Zheng Weiduo shouted, leaning on the only car in the basement, his legs pushing against the back seat.

"Waiting for someone," Feng Xuedie said, her eyes lowered, her tone rather cold towards Zheng Weiduo, whom she had snatched back.

"Who is it?" Zheng Weiduo became interested.

“My benefactor.” Feng Xuedie answered every question.

At 4:30 p.m. on July 28, 2060, Chu Deng, who had just finished her extracurricular class, was on the phone with her mother, Ms. Luo Xia.

"Dengdeng, Mom has to work overtime this time, and Dad has something come up. Can you take the public tram home by yourself?" Luo Xia's apologetic voice came through.

Chu Deng replied expressionlessly, "I can."

"Okay, Mommy knew you were the best! I'll send the directions to your personal computer. Just follow the directions, and if you don't understand anything, be sure to ask Mommy. Mommy's computer is in the backend, the second one is Daddy's, baby..."

"I know, Mom, the tram's here, I'll hang up now." To avoid the new mother's excessive nagging, Chu Deng had no choice but to interrupt her.

So far, Chu Deng has been reborn in this world for ten years, but she still can't adapt to her new home and new parents. Although when she was five years old, her new parents became experienced and gave birth to a younger brother for her.

To be honest, Chu Lin's birth greatly relieved Chu Deng's pressure.

She couldn't let Luo Xia and Chu Junhai experience the joy of raising a child. After all, she wasn't just a fake child, but a blood-stained killer who had returned from the apocalypse. It was fine that her adoptive parents had an unexpected child; as long as they didn't bother her.

What she didn't expect was that after Chu Lin turned three, Luo Xia and Chu Junhai completely abandoned their adopted son and felt guilty towards her.

To make up for Chu Deng's loss from being an only child to becoming the eldest daughter, the two of them paid even more attention to her, taking care of her every need, from clothing and food to housing and transportation.

Luo Xia, who is in the prime of her career, not only picks up and drops off Chu Deng every day, but Chu Junhai has also become a stay-at-home husband in the past two years, always ready to take care of his daughter. This makes Chu Deng, who is surrounded by love, feel particularly suffocated and think that this is her retribution.

Chu Deng gradually resigned herself to her fate and completely lay down, suppressing her desire to go crazy and bleed, and obediently became a good daughter who conformed to the core values.

An unexpected incident occurred. Chu Deng boarded the train according to the route, but got on the wrong one. She didn't hear the station names sent by Luo Xia on her personal computer along the way. At the final stop, she was kicked off the train by the conductor.

"Little sister, are you going to the suburban villa area? Wait here for a minute and take the next 288 tram, which goes directly to the suburban villas." The tram attendant patted Chu Deng's head and said with a smile.

Chu Deng: ...

Her home is in the city. Oh well, since we're already here...

Having not breathed fresh air for a long time, Chu Deng decided to go for a stroll in the suburbs. There was a famous fishing spot called Chuiguang Lake in the suburbs, and she wanted to eat grilled fish.