Who said this card is outrageous?

However, with her father by her side holding her, her panic didn't completely spiral out of control. She simply nestled quietly against her father, her eyes nervously fixed on her brother on the sofa, waiting for the results.

Zhang Che didn't have to put in much effort to help Ma Lingfeng calm his mental state. After all, Ma Lingfeng was just a child who wasn't even a superhuman. The violent tremors in his mental sea looked frightening, but they weren't difficult to resolve.

Moreover, back in Binhai City, Pan Tingting was frequently treated by Ah Li due to mental exhaustion. Zhang Che had witnessed this many times and had taken the opportunity to learn some relevant skills, which were more than enough to deal with the current situation.

However, Zhang Che did not stop there.

He first helped Ma Lingfeng lie down on the sofa, then raised his hand again and placed it on the boy's forehead, closed his eyes, and began to further examine the state of his mental energy.

The previous calming down only dealt with the acute problem, but the amount of mental energy that erupted when the child activated the card clearly exceeded the normal level—a child who has not undergone any training should not have that level of mental energy reserve, and he needs to figure out what is going on.

[Six-Tails] is a second-tier blue card after all. Even though it has the characteristic of reducing mental energy consumption, you need at least a second-tier mental energy strength to activate it.

"Relax, don't resist."

Although Ma Lingfeng didn't understand what Uncle Zhang was trying to do, he still obediently chose to cooperate.

He closed his eyes again, trying to relax, and leaned his head forward slightly to make Zhang Che's palm rest more firmly on his hand.

Zhang Che nodded in satisfaction, and then his mental energy began to seep into the boy's open mental sea, examining it little by little along the veins of his mental energy.

This is going to be a time-consuming task.

It wasn't until Yin He finished cooking in the kitchen and called for the children to help, but received no response and hurriedly ran out, that the incident continued.

When Yin He arrived in the living room, she saw Zhang Che with his eyes closed and one hand pressed against his son's forehead.

However, he did not make any extreme moves; he simply stood there quietly, not daring to breathe.

Zhang Che slowly opened his eyes, removed his hand from Ma Lingfeng's head, and gave them both a reassuring look, indicating that there was nothing wrong with the child.

Seeing this, Ma Qiyun and the other person finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Yin He quickly stepped forward and pulled the two children into her arms, one on each side. She put one arm around Ma Lingfeng's back and the other on Ma Lingling's head, saying, "It's alright, it's alright."

Ma Qiyun strode up to Zhang Che, looking at him nervously, wanting to ask a question but hesitant to speak.

"Don't worry, Brother Ma, it's a good thing." Zhang Che smiled and gave him a reassuring reply.

Ma Qiyun finally relaxed.

Zhang Che sat back on the sofa, took a glass of water from Yin He and drank a couple of sips. Then, under the expectant gazes of his family, he spoke, telling them that Ma Lingfeng possessed considerable talent in mental power, but it had not been discovered until just now when he unconsciously infused mental power into the card, finally revealing its true nature.

According to the official federal standards, anyone who shows extraordinary potential before the age of eighteen is considered to have exceptional talent.

Moreover, the younger the age, the better the talent.

Ma Lingfeng is fifteen years old this year and belongs to the upper-middle level of genius. Basically, as long as nothing unexpected happens, he should have no problem advancing to the middle level of extraordinary in the future.

When he finished speaking, Yin He's eyes were already red. She looked down at her son in her arms, gently stroking the back of his head, and repeatedly murmured, "Good, good."

Ma Lingfeng himself was completely bewildered. He had been badly impacted by the backlash of mental energy and his head was still spinning. It wasn't until he heard the words "mid-level extraordinary" that he finally came to his senses and looked at his father with anticipation.

After all, this person is a genuine mid-level superhuman.

Ma Lingling leaned against her mother's chest, tilting her head to look at her brother. The timid expression on her face had mostly disappeared.

But given her age, the little girl probably didn't fully grasp the weight of those words.

At this point, Zhang Che unconsciously recalled his past life: when he first awakened his memories of his past life, in order to dispel Wang Guofu's doubts about his talent, he made up a lie, saying that he could make cards at the age of fourteen, and that his master had to make him hide his talent in order to avoid him standing out from the crowd, and to make arrangements for him in a few years.

Looking back now, it seems so ridiculous—two lowly figures from the underworld, one daring to speak and the other daring to believe...

Zhang Che even gave this reason to more than one person afterward, and each time he was never exposed.

It wasn't until he thoroughly understood the rules of the Federation that he realized how absurd his lie was—in the current Federation, the youngest genius to awaken extraordinary power before the age of fourteen is twelve and a half.

Therefore, those who can awaken before the age of fourteen are generally considered to have the potential to become high-level extraordinary beings, and once they appear, they will be fought over by many forces.

If what Zhang Che said back then was true, then his master didn't need to worry about standing out from the crowd at all. As long as he reported the matter to the Binhai City Hall, someone would take them to the provincial capital for intensive training in no time.

Judging from Zhang Che's behavior over the years, the lie he told back then was not exaggerated at all; on the contrary, it has been constantly proven true.

The only pity is that as Zhang Che grew up, some of his treatment became conditional – mainly because he wasn't raised from a young age. Otherwise, given his talent, he would have been a core member of any faction.

Pulling himself back to his thoughts, Zhang Che turned his gaze back to the family in front of him, and said nothing more.

……

Ma Lingfeng's unexpected display of talent added an extra layer of joy to this family gathering.

The atmosphere at the dinner table was noticeably warmer than before.

Ma Qiyun drank several more cups, which worried Yin He. But thinking of her son's situation today, she suppressed her urge to drink and silently served her husband food.

Chapter 337 The sins should not be borne by family members!

Ma Lingfeng and his sister obediently ate their rice. Ma Lingfeng's complexion had fully recovered, although there were still traces of cold sweat on his forehead, but his spirits were obviously much better than when he had just recovered.

In short, it was another scene of everyone enjoying themselves.

After a satisfying meal, Yin He led her two children back to their room to rest.

As the door to the upstairs bedroom closed, the living room fell silent, leaving only two grown men drinking over the remaining dishes on the table.

But it was at this moment that the atmosphere at the dinner table began to become awkward.

The smile that had been on Ma Qiyun's face gradually faded, replaced by a somber expression as anger was forcibly suppressed.

As he drank glass after glass of wine, Ma Qiyun showed no signs of intoxication; on the contrary, his aura became increasingly oppressive.

Zhang Che didn't say anything, but simply held up his glass of wine and sipped it slowly, sitting quietly opposite him and watching him.

He knew that Ma Qiyun hadn't become like this for no reason. The lively scene at the dinner table was for his wife and children to see. Now that the door was closed, this man had finally let down his guard.

Ma Qiyun downed another glass, the liquor spilling from the corner of his mouth and clinging to his stubble. He raised his hand and wiped it away with the back of his hand.

Then his fingers tightened suddenly around the wine glass—

A crisp cracking sound rang out as the cup shattered into several pieces in his palm, which were then crushed into even finer dust by his force. White porcelain dust fell softly from between his fingers, scattering a thin layer on the table.

"This is outrageous!!!"

His voice was so low that the people in the bedroom couldn't hear it, but the anger contained in that suppressed voice was more frightening than shouting.

Zhang Che put down his wine glass without replying, but he understood why Ma Qiyun had suddenly turned hostile.

Yin He is not a full-time superhuman, and she is not actually aware of many of the intricacies of the superhuman world. She only sees that her son has been diagnosed with a talent, and she thinks it is a great joy.

But Ma Qiyun is different. As an adventurer, he has spent half his life struggling and is very familiar with some things.

Extraordinary talent never comes from nothing.

According to the Federation's research over the years, humans on Earth undergo a growth and development period of about 145 months after birth. Once they have fully adapted to this world, they begin to show their talents.

However, this process of manifestation is not instantaneous; otherwise, the child may not be able to handle it—of course, there are a few exceptionally gifted individuals who can handle it earlier, and those are the so-called geniuses whose talents manifest themselves relatively early.

As their talents gradually emerge, children will also exhibit various unique traits: those suited to warrior talents will be stronger and more robust; those with excellent mental talents will be more intelligent and agile, and as their talents gradually emerge, their mental fluctuations will also show significant differences from ordinary people.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, extraordinary individuals with high mental strength can easily notice the differences in such people and thus discover them in advance.

However, the truth is that Zhang Che only noticed the abnormality when Ma Lingfeng accidentally unleashed a mental power equivalent to that of a second-tier superhuman.

After Zhang Che's careful examination, the possibility that Ma Lingfeng had awakened a hidden special talent was basically ruled out.

If it wasn't an innate ability to conceal, then there's only one possibility left—his talent had already been discovered, and someone had sabotaged him.

Right under Ma Qiyun's nose, someone used an extremely sophisticated method to forcibly suppress the naturally emanating spiritual energy fluctuations from his son, covering them up completely, thus burying this promising talent, which should have been discovered much earlier, until now.

Just like the lie that Chang Cheh fabricated back then.

However, in his story, he was forced to hide in the shadows because his master did not want him to stand out from the crowd; but in Ma Lingfeng's current situation, his talent has been suppressed by someone, who deliberately did not want him to stand out.

The problem is that the parents were completely unaware of this incident, and one of them was a fifth-level superhuman, which can only mean that the person who did this had ulterior motives!

"Don't let your family suffer!" Ma Qiyun said through gritted teeth, each word seemingly ground out from between his teeth. "These guys have really gone too far!"

Before acquiring the Black Rhino Armor, he might have been willing to endure humiliation for the sake of his family.

Without his signature equipment, Shenbingwei has no significant leverage. If he were to risk everything and fight head-on, he would only bear the consequences alone, and his family would suffer along with him.

That's why he had thought about enduring it before, even if it meant bowing his head and bending his back, as long as he could keep his family's peaceful life.

However, now that Ma Qiyun and the Black Rhino Armor have become more and more compatible, the combat power he can unleash now far exceeds what it was before.

Many things can now be addressed and explained again!

The world is like this: Ma Qiyun, having rediscovered his own value, has turned many of the so-called connections that left him back then into bargaining chips that can be cashed out at any time.

What's more, it's for such a legitimate reason.

Zhang Che sat opposite him and silently finished the last sip of wine in his glass.

He glanced at Ma Qiyun's expression and could roughly foresee the bloody storm that was about to ensue.

He didn't try to dissuade him, nor did he say anything like "calm down."

Anyone would be unable to remain calm in this situation. When a father learns that his son's talent has been deliberately suppressed, and that the other party is targeting him, it is already a sign of good manners for him to be able to refrain from immediately confronting them with a knife.

Zhang Che placed the empty cup on the table and stood up: "Brother Ma, I'll be leaving now."

"If you need any help later, just call me."

Ma Qiyun didn't get up to see him off, but just nodded vigorously, her eyes never leaving the table, afraid that she might lose her temper and rush out to find the culprit.

No one would do something that wouldn't benefit them, and Ma Qiyun clearly already had a candidate in mind for the identity of the mastermind behind the scenes.

He knew that acting impulsively wouldn't solve...or rather, wouldn't completely solve the problem.

At the very least, he has no ability to do it now.

Therefore, we must take advantage of the fact that the enemy is unaware that he has discovered the problem with Ma Lingfeng and make some preparations in advance.

The next day, Ma Lingfeng's homeroom teacher received his leave note, saying that his father had finally come back, and the family planned to go out for a get-together.

This reason isn't exactly legitimate, but he has a good father, so the homeroom teacher had no choice but to grant him leave.

Chapter 338 Many Difficulties

For the next few days, everything was calm and peaceful.

The events that night at Ma Qiyun's house seemed to have never happened. He didn't mention that day again, and Zhang Che didn't ask about it either.

But he knew perfectly well that this was merely the calm before the storm. Knowing Ma Qiyun's temperament, he would never let those who had harmed his son get away with it.