Chapter 199: Unlocking Fire Control Skill

Ye Yuanhang left, but he didn’t seem as rushed when he departed. Instead, a faint smile lingered on his lips. He needed to go back and contact Thomas to steady him first. He also had to prepare USD, because that Qi Refiner might demand money as soon as he got off the plane. Therefore, raising funds was a must.

Meanwhile, breakfast was ready in the old mansion. For the past few days, Ye Ziqiu’s breakfast had been brought upstairs by the servants. After all, she was at odds with her grandfather, so she flat-out refused to eat with him! Today, however, she arrived at the dining room early and even personally served Elder Ye a bowl of porridge.

"Oh, did the sun rise from the west today?" Elder Ye joked.

Ye Ziqiu remained expressionless. She picked up her porridge and started eating on her own.

"You eavesdropped, didn’t you?" Elder Ye suddenly smiled slyly. "Your hearing has been extraordinary since you were a child. Given the distance earlier, you should have been able to hear it!"

"What are you talking about, Grandpa?" Ye Ziqiu feigned confusion.

Elder Ye took a deep breath. From top to bottom, there were no fools in the Ye Family. Ye Ziqiu had clearly heard everything, but she acted as if nothing had happened. Moreover, when she put on a serious face, it was impossible to tell she was lying. That was why everyone in the Ye Family was a sly old fox.

"If nothing unexpected has happened, that boyfriend of yours from back home has arrived in San Francisco, and he’s even brought trouble to your uncle."

Ye Ziqiu’s expression tightened, her grip on her chopsticks firming. She looked up at Elder Ye and said, "If he really is in San Francisco, then I believe Uncle is in deep trouble, because he truly is extraordinary!"

"Oh? How is he extraordinary?" In truth, what Elder Ye wanted to know most was what made this mere security guard so capable that he could get the Black Gloves to work for him. So, while Ye Ziqiu had come downstairs to probe him, wasn’t he also probing her? No one in the Ye Family was easy to deal with.

"He just is!" Ye Ziqiu recalled the night Lin Jian had carried her on his back, running as if flying. His speed and the distance he had leaped were simply inhuman. Therefore, Ye Ziqiu firmly believed that the man she liked was absolutely extraordinary.

"Heh, I don’t see anything extraordinary about him. If he’s in San Francisco, why hasn’t he dared to come here and see you? The way I see it, he’s only capable of pulling some petty tricks in the dark," Elder Ye continued, trying to goad her.

Ye Ziqiu smiled. "Yes, his petty tricks were enough to make Uncle—who is always so calm and collected—hurry over to ask for your advice. It seems those petty tricks are quite a headache."

Elder Ye’s expression shifted; those words had hit a sore spot. However, he quickly masked his displeasure and smiled. "I’ll give you your phone later. Call him and invite him here. I want to see if this Monkey King really has three heads and six arms."

"You want to see him?" Ye Ziqiu asked in surprise.

Elder Ye said evenly, "To persuade him to back down. Or rather, to give him a choice that allows him to leave San Francisco safely.

"Do you really think that, given your uncle’s methods, he can leave San Francisco alive after angering him?

"So, if you want him to live, invite him to the house. It’s better to make him realize the odds and retreat on his own."

"Give me the phone!" Ye Ziqiu demanded, standing up.

A maid walked over and handed her the phone. Ye Ziqiu grabbed it and headed back upstairs. The SIM card in her phone had been swapped, but fortunately, she had memorized Lin Jian’s number and could also open WeChat directly. Without delay, she dialed Lin Jian’s number!

Meanwhile, in a guest room at the Grammy Hotel, Lin Jian was busy putting out a fire.

Just moments ago, when he used a lighter to burn himself, his body acted like a fuse, instantly igniting into blue flames and setting the bed on fire. The reason he had burned himself with a lighter was because he had considered how his Water Escape Superpower had manifested—he had been in the water, holding his breath. So, if he were in fire, could he also unlock the Fire Escape Superpower?

Thus, he had masochistically burned his palm with a lighter. By the time his palm was emitting the smell of cooked meat, his body suddenly unlocked. His palm acted like a fuse, instantly causing his entire body to burst into blue flames. He had actually caught on fire!

Fortunately, the moment the flames appeared, he retracted them with a single Thought! As long as the Superpower was unlocked, he could control it freely! However, although he managed to put out the fire, his phone had been burned to a crisp. The temperature of the blue flames was simply too high!

He thought, "This is Thomas’s fire! I actually gained the Fire Control ability, just like him!

"Does that mean I can strip others of their Superpowers and grant them to someone else, while the stripped Superpowers can also become my own?

"There’s also Laine’s Force Field Control... but how am I supposed to unlock a Force Field?"

Lin Jian was incredibly excited. He suddenly realized that his Dao Tree seemed omnipotent. What a miraculous Dao Tree.

However, what he didn’t know was that Ye Ziqiu failed to connect to his number at that very moment. The automated voice simply prompted that the number was out of service!