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The ride-hailing car came to a smooth stop at the entrance of the Yunding Villa area.

Li Haotian paid the bill, opened the car door, and a gust of damp air carrying the fresh scent of grass and trees rushed towards him.

He stretched, and his bones made a slight cracking sound.

"teacher!"

The villa gate opened instantly, and bodyguard Liu Hu, like a taut cheetah, poked half his body out from behind the door, clutching a mop tightly in his hand.

He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw it was Li Haotian and hid the mop behind his back.

"Haotian!"

Su Wan rushed out of the living room. She looked Li Haotian up and down and saw the hoodie he was wearing that made him look "in good spirits". For a moment, she didn't know what to say.

Li Haotian ignored the two of them, walked straight into the living room, and threw himself onto the sofa.

The moment he sank into the soft cushion, a strange sensation surged up from the depths of his body without warning.

That was neither an increase in strength nor an enhancement of the senses.

Rather, it's a kind of...coolness.

It's like drinking a whole bottle of ice-cold soda in one go on a sweltering summer day; the coolness slides down your throat and instantly permeates your entire body.

He closed his eyes.

The world has changed.

He could "hear" the hum of the water pump working in the huge aquarium in the corner of the villa.

He could "feel" the path of every drop of water flowing through the filter cotton.

He can even tell which drop of water is more murky and which drop has a higher oxygen content.

The entire villa's water system, from the faucets to the drainpipes, became a clear, flowing three-dimensional diagram in his perception.

"Um?"

Li Haotian made a slight nasal sound.

He slowly extended his right hand, palm up, and placed it on the coffee table.

He did nothing, just quietly stared at the glass of cold water that Su Wan had just poured for him on the table.

next second.

What happened next made Liu Hu's eyes almost pop out of their sockets.

The water in the glass seemed to have lost its gravity and began to tremble slightly.

Then, they converged into a stream of water, slowly rising from the mouth of the cup, and in mid-air, condensed into a transparent water sphere that kept twisting and changing shape.

The water ball hovered above Li Haotian's palm, less than three centimeters from his skin.

He could even feel the faint airflow caused by the vibration of water molecules.

"Not again...?"

Liu Hu stared at the suspended water sphere, subconsciously swallowing hard, feeling his worldview being repeatedly crushed.

Su Wan simply stood to the side, watching quietly.

The fear and the ghostly expression on her face were gone.

She simply sighed softly, placed a plate of sliced ​​fruit on the coffee table, her eyes filled with complex emotions.

"Did you solve the water crisis?"

She asked in a declarative tone.

Upon hearing the question, Li Haotian snapped his fingers.

"Smack."

The water sphere in mid-air instantly disintegrated and fell precisely back into the original glass without spilling a single drop.

He picked up an apple from the table, took a big bite, and mumbled something indistinctly.

"It's not entirely me."

"I ordered takeout, and it just arrived quickly."

Su Wan looked at him without saying anything, waiting for him to continue.

Li Haotian took another bite of the apple, chewed it a few times, swallowed it, and then slowly continued speaking.

"It's a high-end, custom-made sashimi platter. The delivery guy is a good swimmer and can swim fast."

"By the way, I also helped the municipality clean the sewers."

He said this so casually that Liu Hu, who was standing next to him, was stunned.

takeout?

Sashimi platter?

What is all this about?

Su Wan seemed to understand.

She remembered the deformed, terrifying fish that Li Haotian had personally modified.

"And... what's the price?"

She asked softly.

"cost?"

Li Haotian casually tossed the apple core he had finished eating into the trash can. The apple core traced a perfect parabola in the air, hitting the target precisely.

"There was no cost to it."

"Here, the experience points have been credited."

As he spoke, he patted the old cell phone that kept vibrating in his pocket.

There was no bank notification on the screen indicating that the money had been deposited.

There was only one line of system prompts, composed of countless garbled characters and data streams, which only he could understand.

[Absorbing Grade B extraordinary genes (Water Ghost), the "Alien • Water Purifier" gene chain is optimized by 17%.]

[Feedback to the Host: Water Element Affinity (Beginner)]

[Description: You can now reason with water, although it might not listen.]

"Experience points?"

Su Wan clearly didn't understand the word.

Li Haotian didn't explain. He picked up the remote and turned on the huge LCD TV in the living room.

The local news is being rebroadcast at midday on television.

In the footage, Qin Yue, the leader of the Seventh Action Group of the Dragon Shield Bureau, is holding an impromptu press conference in front of the devastated No. 3 Water Plant.

She looked tired, with dark circles under her eyes, but her gaze remained sharp.

"...After our all-night efforts, the source of this water pollution incident has been brought under control, and the city's water supply will be restored to normal within twelve hours."

"At the same time, we have also obtained key leads on some of the criminal suspects..."

At this point, Qin Yue gestured towards the camera.

The staff behind her immediately held up an evidence display board.

On the board is a high-resolution photo.

The main subject of the photo is an ordinary-looking blue plastic stool.

On the seat of the stool, a line of large, crooked characters was written in black marker.

"My technique isn't good enough; I lost the fish because the line broke. Let's meet again next time."

Qin Yue's voice, transmitted clearly through the television speakers, resonated throughout the entire living room.

"We have conducted the highest level of technical analysis on this crucial piece of evidence. We have now identified the handwriting and ink composition."

"We urge the relevant criminal suspects not to harbor any illusions!"

"The net of Heaven is vast, its meshes are wide, yet nothing escapes it!"

Qin Yue spoke with righteous indignation and conviction.

"puff--"

Li Haotian had just picked up his water glass and taken a sip when he saw a close-up of the stool on TV. He couldn't help but spit out all the water.

"Cough cough cough..."

He started coughing violently.

Su Wan quickly handed him a tissue, looking at him with concern.

"Are you alright?"

"fine."

Li Haotian waved his hand, wiped his mouth, and looked at Qin Yue's face on TV, which was filled with "I want to catch you," and couldn't help but laugh.

"This woman is quite persistent."

Liu Hu, who was standing next to him, looked at the stool on the TV and then at Li Haotian.

He suddenly remembered something.

On the night of the incident at the East City Wharf, before the gentleman left home, it seems that... he did indeed ask Miss Su Wan to prepare an identical stool.

In an instant, Liu Hu felt cold sweat pour down his back.

Therefore, the earth-shattering explosion at the dock, and the city's water crisis...

Are they all related to the gentleman?

Moreover, he left behind this... ironic piece of evidence at the scene?

Liu Hu felt like his brain wasn't working properly.

The news was still playing on television.

The scene then shifts to a clip from an online video.

It was that video of the "sewer monkey" that was so blurry it looked like it was taken with a landline camera.

The host explained in a suspenseful tone:

"...As for the reasons why the water source was able to be purified so quickly, there are many different opinions on the Internet."

"Among them, the most widely circulated is this video that was accidentally filmed by outdoor streamer 'Crazy Mouse'."

"Is the mysterious creature in the video an unknown purifying species, or a modern-day urban legend? We will continue to follow this story..."

Li Haotian glanced at the fleeting black shadow on the TV screen, then looked at the hilarious comments scrolling across the bottom of the screen.

[Thanks for the invitation. I'm currently in the East China Sea. I just got off the toilet and saw it with my own eyes. It really is a water monkey, and it even glows.]

[Hey upstairs, stop bragging. I just came out of the sewer. That's my husky, swimming to lose weight.]

[This year's official stance is terrible; it's such an obvious case of Ultraman fighting monsters, and they're not even admitting it.]

Li Haotian couldn't help but laugh out loud again.

He turned off the TV, slumped back onto the sofa, picked up a grape, and popped it into his mouth.

"This generation of netizens is talented."

Su Wan couldn't help but feel annoyed by his carefree attitude.

"Haotian, D.H.I.E.L.D. has your eye on you."

"That stool...they'll find out about you sooner or later."

Li Haotian spat the grape seeds into the trash can and lazily raised his eyelids.

"So what if we find out?"

"Do they have any evidence?"

He pointed to his face.

"Do I look like someone who would litter?"

"I am an environmentalist."

Su Wan was so speechless that she couldn't say a word.

Li Haotian sat up from the sofa, stretched, and walked towards the kitchen.

"By the way, Liu Hu."

"gentlemen?"

"How's it going with those fish you caught last night?"

Liu Hu was startled and quickly stood up straight.

"Reporting, sir! As you instructed, we have scraped off the scales and gills, cleaned it thoroughly, and chilled it with ice!"

"Hmm, not bad."

Li Haotian nodded, walked into the kitchen, and took out the willow-blade knife that he had personally sharpened, which gleamed with a cold light, from the knife rack.

He picked up a chilled sea fish and placed it on the cutting board.

A flash of light.

"The fish's belly needs to be cleaned thoroughly."

He skillfully gutted the fish while saying this without turning his head.

"Otherwise, the whole pot of soup will be ruined."

Su Wan watched his retreating figure and the incredibly sharp knife.

She knew that Li Haotian wasn't talking about fish.