Chapter 1089: Xiaoqi’s Secret

Chapter 1089: Chapter 1089: Xiaoqi’s Secret

The two women looked each other in the eye; then one smiled naturally, the other forced a smile, and they went out together.

Because She didn’t know when the poison on Su Xingqiao would flare up, She had already informed Lianwu early in the morning and told Lianwu to follow Su Xingqiao. So just as She and the others stepped out, Lianwu appeared right on their heels.

She and Xiaoqi walked all the way to the lakeside in the back courtyard before they finally stopped.

She didn’t look at Xiaoqi, but kept her eyes on the lake’s surface as She spoke: "I heard there’s a particularly formidable Miss Feng Qi on Phoenix Island. What’s your relationship with her?"

"No relationship." Xiaoqi blurted out at once, but She only smiled.

"What are you laughing at!" Xiaoqi was thoroughly depressed. Hadn’t she already said there was no relationship?

"Did I say Miss Feng Qi had anything to do with you? Then why did you answer so crisply?" She lifted an eyebrow, but no longer faced Xiaoqi; instead She turned Her head away, so Xiaoqi couldn’t see Her eyes.

"I—I have nothing to do with her, of course I answered crisply!" Xiaoqi hurried to defend herself.

"Oh. Then did you know Brother Qiao used to be a Great General?" She suddenly switched topics, saying something completely unrelated.

But Xiaoqi immediately corrected Her: "Isn’t He the Emperor?"

"You can use the Mind Reading Technique." She sounded utterly certain.

"No." Xiaoqi answered almost on instinct, and only after the word left her mouth did she realize... She was trying to bait her.

"You, you, you..." Xiaoqi pointed at Her. "You’re the one who can use the Mind Reading Technique, aren’t you! And also, how do you even know about the Mind Reading Technique? I’ve secretly tested so many people—They don’t even know there’s such a thing as the Mind Reading Technique in this world!"

Yet as soon as she finished speaking... Xiaoqi once again realized that She hadn’t actually said anything, and she herself had just spilled everything that should and shouldn’t be said.

Xiaoqi was miserable.

"Of course I don’t use the Mind Reading Technique. If I did, why would I need to test you? But don’t worry—besides me, basically no one else would know there’s such a skill in this world." The Mind Reading Technique was also a kind of superpower, only there were very, very few people who had it. In this world, which had no complete system for understanding superpowers, the number of people who knew about the Mind Reading Technique was practically zero.

This world calls superpowers ’special abilities’ and treats these special abilities as a kind of offensive talent. But in fact, the scope of superpowers is extremely broad; it’s not only those with offensive capabilities that count as special abilities.

Besides those offensive abilities, there are many superpowers that don’t have any offensive function at all.

For example, An’an’s short-range clairvoyant vision, and now Xiaoqi’s Mind Reading Technique.

These kinds of superpowers all have certain limits. For instance, An’an’s clairvoyance only works within a small range, and the Mind Reading Technique is the same: based on Her tests and observations, it should only let someone see through a person’s thoughts when They are making eye contact.

There are many possible forms of the Mind Reading Technique; reading the other person’s inner world through their eyes is the most common kind.

She certainly hadn’t originally expected Xiaoqi to be using the Mind Reading Technique—She just chatted with her for a while and happened to notice some clues. If She had never come into contact with any Superpower User, naturally She wouldn’t think along these lines. But as luck would have it, having once been a Superpower Killer, She had encountered a very large number of Superpower Users. So as long as She saw abnormal behavior in someone, She could be at least halfway certain of Her own guess.