Lantern Sister is still very capable.

Chapter 118 Snatching

Haikou Port Airport.

The rising temperatures couldn't stop the hurried pedestrians. As May approached summer, airport shops started putting out popsicles early.

Chu Deng, wearing a black and red baseball cap and casual clothes, stood at the airport entrance guarding the luggage and waiting for Pei Hanxing.

Pei Hanxing held an ice pop in one hand and wore a blue and white baseball cap, the same style as Chu Deng's. She walked up to Chu Deng and handed it to him.

Chu Deng naturally took a bite of her popsicle and asked vaguely, "What time do we meet?"

Pei Hanxing's trip abroad this time is a government-sponsored training program. Rather than staying behind to train with a bunch of rookies, it would be better to send him to Antarctica.

Accompanying him were 32 ice-type ability users from various provinces, with Pei Hanxing being one of only two level-three ice-type users.

"Two o'clock in the afternoon." Pei Hanxing held another popsicle, but didn't eat it.

"Hmm." Chu Deng thought about how she was dragged out of bed at five o'clock, and glanced at the time on her mobile phone: 9:43 a.m.

Seeing that Chu Deng had finished eating, Pei Hanxing handed her the popsicle she was holding. Because it was made of ice, the popsicle hadn't melted at all, and it looked just like it had been taken out of the freezer.

Chu Deng glanced at Pei Hanxing, who had inexplicably started guarding her ever since her confession. Pei Hanxing felt a little uncomfortable under her gaze and said, "I'm going to the restroom."

Chu Deng nodded, and soon returned. Her somewhat disheveled hair under her hat was now neatly combed, the natural wrinkles on her clothes had disappeared, and her lips were glistening and slightly moist.

She was holding two popsicles in her hand.

Chu Deng felt that if he hadn't thought that taking too much would affect his image, he would have loved to move the freezer right in front of her.

Fortunately, Chu Deng is a superhuman, so eating too many popsicles didn't bother her.

"When are you coming back?" Chu Deng asked casually.

“Uncertain, at least a month.” Pei Hanxing was a little nervous. He looked at Chu Deng with a flickering gaze, his lips moving as he spoke.

Having just confessed his feelings, he was forced into a long-distance relationship. Pei Hanxing regretted that he had chosen the wrong time. What if Chu Deng fell in love with someone else while he was away? He would have no one to turn to for help.

"Okay, I'll wait for you to come back." Chu Deng found it too time-consuming to eat popsicles one by one, so she finished them with two quick chews, licked her slightly cold lips, and reached out to press the back of Pei Hanxing's head.

Pei Hanxing closed her eyes tremblingly and obediently accepted a cool, sweet kiss.

"Contact via quantum computer if conditions permit." Chu Deng released the device and tapped the quantum computer on his wrist, speaking in a low voice.

"Mmm." Pei Hanxing's voice was a little hoarse.

The two waited at the airport until Pei Hanxing's meeting time before Chu Deng walked out of the airport alone.

During this time, the two of them went to all the shops, and Chu Deng swore she would never spend so much time at an airport again in her life.

When passing by the port park, Chu Deng saw tourists feeding seagulls in the harbor square. Many of them brought food to feed the seagulls, including seafood, shrimp, and classic fries.

Whenever a bird snatches food from a tourist's hand that is being held high, it elicits gasps of amazement and laughter from the tourist.

Chu Deng relaxed and sat in the rest area, speechless as she noticed several black crows mixed in with the seagulls and pigeons. In particular, the familiar crow that had stolen the fries was none other than her old friend, Wuyun.

Isn't Wuyun's territory located north of Haishi? How come he's come to the port, which is located southeast of Haishi, which is separated by most of Haishi?

While Chu Deng was observing, Wu Yun was brazenly and arrogantly snatching up the fries.

As a mutated fire crow with ambition, Wuyun has recently been keen on coming to the dock to buy some fries, but mainly he comes to observe his opponents and grab some shiny stones to decorate his nest.

As it flapped its wings and tilted its head back in the air to devour fries, it casually avoided the crowd blocking its view and stared at a petrel feeding on the sea not far away.

That bird was the only one that wasn't afraid of it. The dark cloud flapped its wings, and the birds nearby all avoided the powerful beast, but the bird that it had its eyes on remained unmoved.

A petrel, composed of black, white, and gray, carrying a sea fish in its beak, flew to a less crowded spot and began feeding. Someone saw it and took out a personal computer to record the event.

"So cute!" a tourist exclaimed while recording a video. He then noticed a black crow in the frame and held his breath to watch the two birds interact.

The crow hopped up and down, slowly approaching the petrel. The petrel turned its back and protected the fish tightly to prevent its food from being stolen.

The crow suddenly flapped its wing, and unlike ordinary crows that attack with their beaks, this crow's attack method seemed human and was particularly unusual.

"That's funny!" The tourists couldn't help but burst into laughter when they saw the petrel seem startled, almost dropping the fish it was holding in its mouth.

The petrel swallowed the fish whole, its movements as sharp as a sword thrusting into the distance, with the crow close behind.

As the two birds gradually moved away from the camera, the tourists felt a little regretful that they hadn't been able to capture any more exciting shots, and had to call it a day.

Chu Deng took in everything, her broad gaze sweeping across the distant, secluded sea.

There, a war between two strange beasts is taking place.

The dark cloud flew high above, nimbly dodging the water jets spewed by the seagull, spinning and weaving through the attacks of water jets rising from the sea, like a talented dancer who has been training on a stage for a long time, happily showing off his skills.

The sea breeze ruffled the feathers of the two birds, providing them with both assistance and resistance.

Amidst splashing water and howling sea winds, a crow, unafraid of the aquatic petrel's home-field advantage in the sea, unleashed crimson flames from its body and slammed into the petrel like a cannonball.

The petrel narrowly escaped, but a large patch of its beautiful white feathers was scorched. The petrel let out a sharp cry and angrily flapped its wings, suddenly creating a wave on the water's surface, as if a pair of giant hands had slammed the fiery crow in the air into the deep sea.

The crow that had fallen into the water burst out of the water, cawing angrily as if cursing the petrel. It shook the water off its feathers, and the flames swept away the moisture clinging to the crow, leaving its feathers dry so that it could fly.

The crow regrouped and launched another attack, but the petrel didn't want to get entangled with it anymore. After creating a curtain of water to obscure its vision, it took advantage of the crow's inattention to dive into the sea. It swam to the vicinity of the harbor before emerging, shaking its feathers, and blending into the large flock of birds.

Unable to find the petrel, the crow flew to the square in the harbor park.

"Dark clouds," Chu Deng called out.

Upon hearing its name, the dark cloud, which had been flying towards its companions, saw its leader, spun its wings, and drifted through the air, skimming past a tree, before flying towards Chu Deng.

"Wow!" Some tourists who noticed it couldn't help but feel a little worried.

"Caw caw." The dark cloud that landed on Chu Deng's shoulder nuzzled Chu Deng's face with its beak and called out affectionately.

Chu Deng tapped its brow, habitually feeding it energy to replenish the energy it had just used up after the battle.

"Why did you come all this way?" Chu Deng asked.

[Boss, boss! Let's take over the territory!]

The dark clouds creaked a few times, and Chu Deng squinted.

It seemed like she heard the dark clouds speaking.