The villains are redeemed, and the heroines cry and beg for forgiveness.

"What I'm curious about is what Duville is planning to do now that he's taken control of the garrison camp. It feels like he's plotting something."

"And then there's Bao... Gu Ran. He saw everything that insect did, but he didn't do anything. Why is that? Could it be that he came all this way just to watch them both get hurt?"

Cheng Youmeng seemed to be recalling something, her expression somewhat complicated. After a while, she said, "He must have had his reasons for doing this. He always thinks things through carefully and plans far ahead. Many times you can't see the effect of what he does, but at some point in the future, it will have an unexpected effect."

Lin Fan smiled and said, "Master Youmeng, I think the Tyrant probably didn't think too much about it. After all, he's just a child right now. Maybe the Tyrant will have great cunning and strategy in the future, but right now he probably just hates the city defense army. So he just watches them kill each other. After all, in his eyes, the city defense army is also the executioner who slaughtered the slums."

Lin Fan's words garnered much agreement, and his reasoning was more convincing to them.

Cheng Youmeng didn't argue. She just silently looked at the screen. Having spent so many years with him, she could say she understood him deeply. But at times, when she looked back, she felt that she didn't understand him at all.

Seeing that Cheng Youmeng did not respond, Lin Fan felt awkward and continued to look at the screen.

......

In the light screen.

After quickly taking control of the garrison camp, Kelly Duville immediately led his trusted men into the control room of the city's defensive cannons.

The garrison camp at the border of the slums and the inner city has partial control over the city's defensive cannons in order to deal with the beast tides.

"Target: the entire D32 area. Conduct a full-scale bombardment!"

Kelly Duville coldly commanded.

The soldier who received the order was stunned and asked in disbelief, "General, our men haven't been withdrawn yet, and doing this will destroy the entire D32 area."

In front of the other soldiers in the control room, Kelly Duvel drew her pistol and publicly executed the soldier who had disobeyed orders.

Then he pointed his pistol at the next soldier who could operate the city's defensive cannon: "Can you carry out my orders, soldier?"

“Yes…I can! General!” the soldier replied, trembling.

Throughout the journey, Kelly Duville kept thinking about how to make amends.

Finally, the best solution he could think of was to bombard the entire D32 area and completely level it!

Then the entire garrison camp was cleansed, so that all the officers and soldiers loyal to the Yang family would be "sacrificed".

Only the dead can't contradict themselves, and only the dead can shift the blame onto Staff Officer Yang.

Moreover, this would also maximize the elimination of those ferocious beasts and prevent them from attacking the last line of defense.

Although he will certainly face punishment as a military commander, his situation is much better than before.

As for the soldiers and slum dwellers who were killed by the city's cannons, they were not within his consideration.

In the shadows, Gu Ran, having heard Kelly Duville's order, turned off the recording device that had been working, opened a spatial portal, and walked in indifferently.

The survivors he rescued, along with his sister, are still in the sewers. If the city's defensive cannons were to bombard the entire D32, the sewers would not be spared, and everyone would die.

So the time has come for him to step in; he has to deal with the other party.

......

"who are you?!"

Inside the control room of the city's defensive cannon, the officers and soldiers loudly questioned.

26. A spatial cage! Gu Ran, with exceptional talent!

Everyone in the control room watched Gu Ran warily as he walked out of the portal. Even though he was just a seemingly harmless boy, that portal made it clear to everyone that this boy was not simple.

Gu Ran glanced inside and saw about a dozen people. Half of them were officers, who seemed to be quite capable, while the other half were soldiers, who were probably the artillerymen operating the room.

Gu Ran had researched information about the city's defensive cannons and had some understanding of them.

The city defense cannon has two attack methods. One is to use physical cannonballs, which are fired like ordinary cannons. This attack method requires special cannonballs, and the fired cannonballs have an arc. Even if the cannon is deployed in low-lying areas, it can hit targets at a great distance.

Another method is to use starstones to charge and launch energy beams. This type of attack is more powerful than physical cannonballs. The characteristic is that the trajectory of the energy beam is a straight line like light. It cannot be deployed on low ground and can only be set up on very high bases, making it easy to expose the target and be targeted by intelligent enemies.

Such a massive cannon requires a dedicated control room and highly educated artillerymen to operate and use it effectively.

Generally speaking, such artillerymen, especially skilled veterans, are highly sought-after talents by various armies. Kelly Duville's decision to execute the artillerymen who hesitated but did not directly refuse him without saying a word was undoubtedly because he had been driven to desperation.

Gu Ran didn't waste any more words with these people; they weren't his target.

He made his move directly, using a spatial rift to envelop Kelly Duville.

Kelly Duville was shocked; it really was a space-age ability user!

He had initially hoped that the other party simply possessed some kind of treasure that could open a portal; if they were truly a space-age ability user, then things would be troublesome.

Faced with a space-based ability user, his wind-based ability couldn't even run away; he was completely countered in terms of speed.

However, Kelly Duville was not someone to be trifled with; otherwise, he wouldn't have gone to such lengths to raze District D32.

He hardened his heart and decided to fight!

So what if the other party really is a spatial ability user?

At such a young age, his superpowers are probably not fully developed yet; his superpower core might only be the size of a peanut.

Even though I have wind-based abilities, I have the advantage in terms of proficiency in developing my abilities!

In an instant, he pulled out his pistol and fired at Gu Ran. At the same time, two pale blue wind blades formed on his sides and flew towards Gu Ran!

After a series of movements, he immediately retreated to avoid the spatial rift attacking him, shouting at the same time, "Grab him!"

Gu Ran did not dodge at all; instead, a spatial rift resembling a door suddenly appeared in front of him.

He absorbed all of Kelly Duville's attacks without causing the slightest ripple.

The terrifying thing about spatial ability users is that as long as your attacks don't reach the limit of space's capacity and you can't break through space, a portal can send all your ranged attacks to some unknown spatial coordinates.

Kelly Duville was surprised to find herself suddenly moving forward after retreating.

Aren't my feet moving backward?

But how did the body move forward?

"This is my latest research project, which I call the 'Spatial Cage'," Gu Ran said calmly.

The others in the control room and the people outside the screen could see it clearly.

Gu Ran's so-called spatial cage is actually multiple teleportation portals stacked together, and the teleportation coordinates of these portals are all one to the other. Therefore, when Kelly Duville comes out of one portal, he will immediately be teleported to the next portal after that.

Therefore, Kelly Duville felt that his feet were constantly moving backward, but his body was constantly moving forward because of the forward transmission.

......

Outside the light screen.

"So this incompetent general wanted to raze the entire D32 area and blow everyone up. I have to say, as expected of someone from a big family, his methods are really vicious."

"This guy absolutely deserved to die. If I were there, I would have killed him too."

This wasn't just boasting from the powerful figures present. Many of them were martial arts masters and S-class superhumans, already standing at the very top of the Human Alliance's military strength. Although they dared not underestimate the Duville family, killing a mere junior "genius" would at most create enmity, and the Duville family couldn't do anything to them.

"So spatial ability users have this trick up their sleeves. They completely toy with their enemies. As long as they can't break through space, won't they be trapped in this spatial cage forever?"

"Most of those capable of breaking through space are either martial arts Golden Core experts or S-class ability users. If space ability users all have this move, then wouldn't space ability users be invincible below martial arts Golden Core and S-class ability users?"

Those A-level superpowered individuals and martial arts experts focused on Gu Ran's formidable strength. They were both shocked and frightened by Gu Ran's "spatial cage," but when they saw Gu Qingqing bound in the water prison, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Although spatial abilities are powerful, fortunately there is only one spatial ability user in the world, and he has already reached S-rank, which is stronger than theirs, so they have nothing to complain about.

Gu Qingqing glanced at them, understood their thoughts, and said calmly, "Do you think this 'Spatial Cage' technique is so easy to use? Every time a spatial ability user uses a portal, they need to re-anchor the coordinates and determine the location. Just one portal requires a lot of effort. With so many portals stacked together, it requires an extremely high level of multitasking ability."

"Judging from the abilities he has demonstrated, he is currently controlling at least five portals with different coordinates, multitasking, which is an ability that is impossible for most people."

Everyone suddenly realized why they had never heard of other superhumans using such a technique in history. It turned out that in addition to spatial abilities, it also required such a powerful ability to multitask.

Gu Qingqing didn't say one more thing: Gu Ran could do five things at once with ease, which meant he hadn't used his true strength at all.

This made Gu Qingqing even more confused about what happened back then. Gu Ran had such high talent, and his strength was already so great, so what was the reason that he lost his superpower?

Was it because you wanted to forge your own path to becoming a strong person that you didn't acknowledge a teacher and stayed to accompany me?

Then, in the process of pursuing his own path to becoming a strongman, he lost his superpower crystal core for some reason?

Many geniuses have their own temperament and are unwilling to follow in the footsteps of others. They want to forge their own path to becoming a strong person.

"If you hadn't lost your spatial abilities, you would definitely have been able to surpass your teacher, right?" Gu Qingqing thought to herself.

With such exceptional talent, Gu Qingqing believed that even if Gu Ran explored on his own, given time, he would definitely be able to surpass his teacher in the field of spatial abilities.

27. He will definitely exceed your expectations.

Gu Qingqing had given up on trying to recall the memories herself. She was certain that her memories were incomplete, and the missing piece was the time she spent with Gu Ran, especially the memory of when they separated. Forcing herself to recall it only intensified her fear.

Fear was a very rare thing for her, who was already an S-class ability user.

This led her to many unpleasant associations, such as whether her memory loss was due to some conspiracy, or whether it was not a natural process of forgetting as she grew older, but rather caused by some human factor.

Although she felt disrespectful to the deceased teacher, her first thought was indeed of her own teacher, since the teacher had seen Gu Ran when she was a child and had taken her away.

But when she thought about how her teacher had raised and taught her over the years, treating her like both a mother and a teacher, and how her teacher had never done anything bad to her until her death, she couldn't imagine why her teacher would want to harm her.

It can be said that her current achievements and status are entirely due to her teacher, in addition to her own innate talent.

The teacher was strict and serious when teaching her, which made her a little scared, but she also learned a lot of knowledge because of it. In addition to teaching, the teacher was extremely gentle with her in ordinary times, often showing her a warm smile like a mother, and granting all her childish and willful requests.

In her mind, the teacher was an absolutely perfect figure.