He disdainfully tossed Turbo aside and returned to his teammates: "Let’s go."
Josh nodded, and the group turned to leave.
Yuze bumped Josh with his shoulder: "Pretty smart of you just now, what did you use to control our positions?"
Josh slightly curled his lips, remembering the live stream was still on, he diverted his response: "I’ll tell you when we get out."
Barrage: [Qiao’er, are you being a stranger? What don’t you know that your dad doesn’t?]
[What the heck is it! Hurry up and tell us! We’re dying of curiosity!]
[What can’t us VIP paying viewers hear?]
[Son, you’ve changed, you have little secrets now, Daddy doesn’t love you anymore.]
[Back in the day, Daddy took care of your poop and pee, what secrets does Daddy not know? Listen to Daddy, tell him! Say it out loud!]
[Above, your abacus beads are bouncing off my face.]
Suddenly.
Turbo crawled out of the dust, shakily raised his gun, aimed in Josh’s direction, and pulled the trigger.
"Watch out!"
Yuze instinctively sensed danger and pushed Josh’s head down.
The sound of a bullet cutting through the air whizzed right past her ears.
Josh was startled; when she looked up, Yuze’s hair softly fell on her face, with a fresh grassy scent, surprisingly pleasant.
Yuze’s braid ribbon was cut by the bullet.
Turbo clicked his tongue, sneering, "Just a little more, and I would’ve blown that useless Little Tactician’s head off, what a pity."
"You’re asking for death." Yuze’s expression instantly darkened, and a powerful surge of spiritual power erupted from him.
Rob: "...It’s over."
Yushi: "...It’s over."
Unaware Josh: "What’s going on?"
A terrifying pressure erupted from Yuze as his powerful spiritual power climbed step by step.
A trace of astonishment flashed in Josh’s eyes. It was the first time she had seen someone whose spiritual power could grow in a stair-step manner.
Still, it happened in a mere instant.
The onlookers couldn’t help but cover their ears in pain.
The spiritual pressure from a high-level Spiritual Power User made their ears ring, with a suffocating feeling as if their heads might split.
Even Yushi and Rob were affected, retreating in fear.
Before retreating, Rob grabbed the bewildered Josh.
After they moved away, Rob looked at the Little Tactician: "Are you okay?"
Josh, still puzzled, replied: "I’m fine..."
Rob interjected with a "Huh?" "The captain’s gone berserk, and you’re not affected?"
Josh shook her head: "Nope."
Yushi also thought it was odd: "Unaffected? Impossible. You, give it another try?"
Rob’s mouth twitched: "This isn’t a good thing, what’s there to try!"
Yushi: "Oh."
Rob suspiciously leaned closer to Josh: "Really not affected or just pretending? Not many can endure the captain’s rampage. If you truly feel uncomfortable, just say it, we won’t laugh at you."
Josh, amused, spread her hands: "Do I look like someone in trouble?"
Rob touched his chin, blinking his big eyes curiously: "That’s strange."
The berserk Yuze’s spiritual power continued to climb, the terrifying pressure around him nearly bending the nearby trees.
Turbo and his group were under the pressure of a rampant blizzard, finding movement impossible, even breathing was a struggle.
Josh curiously asked the two beside her: "With your captain in such a powerful berserk state, why didn’t he use this move during the fight just now?"
Rob, half amused, half exasperated: "You think this is a skill? The coach should have told you, right? The captain’s spiritual power is too strong. He hasn’t found a suitable Master An, so his spiritual power often collapses, leading to berserk states."
Josh, not well-versed in this, asked: "What harm does going berserk do to him?"
Rob gave her an odd look: "Don’t you even know such basic stuff? Which backwater asteroid did you grow up on?"
Josh’s mouth twitched slightly.
Rob patted her shoulder, like looking at a delinquent girl who didn’t like to study: "There are Strong Attackers and Master Ans among Spiritual Power Users.
Every Strong Attacker must find a one hundred percent matching Master An after coming of age for regular Spiritual Sea guidance. When Strong Attackers go berserk, only their paired Master Ans won’t be suppressed by their spiritual power.
Otherwise, their Spiritual Sea can be overly consumed in battle, leading to uncontrollable situations, indistinguishing between enemy and ally, attacking whomever they see. Too many uncontrolled episodes cause the Strong Attacker to fall into spiritual collapse, becoming a monster that only fights continuously until their spiritual power is exhausted and they head towards death."
Josh suddenly understood and looked towards Yuze: "Has he lost control many times?"
Rob nodded worriedly: "Yeah, even the team doctor said his condition is very unstable, and he could experience a mental collapse at any moment."
Josh asked puzzled: "Then why not find him a Master An?"
As soon as she spoke, she remembered during the previous medical exam seeing her and Yuze’s Spiritual Sea match a hundred percent in the doctor’s data.
Rob spread his hands: "The captain, like you, is a growth-type Spiritual Power User, starting at S-level. Currently, no one knows his exact level, and none of the available Master Ans can successfully match with him."
Josh thought for a moment, looking in Yuze’s direction.
She thought she knew why she wasn’t affected by Yuze’s spiritual power suppression.
Though there were many mysteries still to unravel, she could sense that they had already successfully matched.
Surely, there was some mysterious link between Yuze and the Mermaid King.
She remembered accidentally matching with the Mermaid King in the previous scenario, yet now her Spiritual Sea indicated she also matched with Yuze.
Josh pursed her lips, released her Spiritual Body, and rushed to stop Yuze.
"Hey! Are you suicidal!" Rob, frightened, raised his hand to catch her, but missed.
He turned his head towards Yushi beside him, "Does she know how terrifying the captain’s spiritual power is?! How many Master Ans were crushed facing his Spiritual Sea! Damn, the coach is going to kill me!"
Josh met Yuze’s gaze and couldn’t help but freeze.
Instead of the anticipated fierce killing intent and piercing sharpness, there was only pain.
Endless pain.
He was enveloped in spiritual power, his brow furrowed into a ’川’ shape from the agony.
Without another word, Josh tiptoed to press her forehead against his.
The person was too tall, she couldn’t reach.
Josh: "..."
Berserk Yuze: "."
Josh then got frustrated, rudely yanking him down by his collar.
Their foreheads pressed tightly together.
Josh closed her eyes as the familiar sensation returned.
This time, much more adept than before, she navigated her Spiritual Body mini-spider throughout Yuze’s Spiritual Sea.
Yuze’s Spiritual Sea was even larger than she imagined, certainly larger than the Mermaid King’s, with extraordinarily terrifying energy fluctuations.
The various lines transporting spiritual power were already mottled, showing numerous gaps, with different lines intercrossing, sparking spiritual power that burned the lines increasingly scarred.
Was this the source of his pain?
Josh wielded her spider legs, skillfully repairing the lines.
Wherever she passed, all the scars and mottles on the lines were healed and revitalized.
The deadlocks on the lines were also untied.