“‘Clever Object’…?” Tiantian raised her head to look at Zheng Yingxiong. “Is that my ability?”

“Yes.” Zheng Yingxiong nodded. “But I can only smell the name. I have no way of knowing the specific ability. As for how to activate it, that depends on what you’ve experienced in reality, Sister.”

“My… experiences?” Tiantian was stunned. “I see… no wonder these components…”

“Sister…” The young man before her walked forward and said to Tiantian, “Time is a bit tight. I may need to take my leave first…”

Tiantian was startled and came to her senses. “Could you not call me ‘sister’?”

“Ah?” The young man was stunned. “I’m eighteen years old, just a freshman… What about you?”

“I…” Tiantian’s expression became slightly awkward. “I’m twenty-one.”

“So, a junior…?” the young man pursued.

“I…” Tiantian’s expression became somewhat evasive. “Forget it. You two should hurry and go… Give me a map. I’m not too reassured, so I’ll walk there myself.”

“Okay… okay…”

The young man picked up a discarded wooden board from the ground and simply sketched out the route on it.

Zheng Yingxiong also picked up his bizarre “treasure sword” from the ground, but his condition still wasn’t very good—he was swaying when he walked.

Seeing this, the young man pulled out a bundle of portable outdoor rope from Old Fang’s corpse, tied it around the swaying Zheng Yingxiong’s waist, then fastened it to himself before getting back on the bicycle.

“Sister, leave this child to me. No problem.” The young man wiped the sweat from his face, then said, “I still don’t know what to call you? My name is Cheng Aoyu.”

“Zhang… Tiantian,” Tiantian said. “Just call me Tiantian.”

Little Yingxiong, sitting in the back seat, also waved his hand. “Goodbye, Sister.”

Tiantian watched the two slowly depart, her expression becoming hesitant.

“…’Clever Object’?” Tiantian murmured to herself. “Electronic products…?”

Tiantian steadied her mind and immediately walked into the building from earlier. She remembered this was an abandoned small restaurant. She searched around and indeed found an old LCD television buried under the rubble.

The television was already broken beyond recognition, and there was a piece missing from the display screen. Looking carefully, it was actually in the shape of a sword.

Tiantian picked up a rusty nail from the ground and skillfully pried open the back cover of the television to look at the internal structure.

The circuit board and wires of this television had all disappeared, as if someone had taken them to make something.

“Gears…” Tiantian suddenly thought of something. “Where did the gears come from?”

She kept searching through the ruins and finally found a large standing clock that had collapsed in a corner.

Tiantian first looked at the structure of the standing clock, then skillfully opened the cabinet door of the grandfather clock, stuck her head up to look, and sure enough, the pendulum had stopped and the gears were gone.

“Could ‘Clever Object’ be…” Tiantian decisively thought of something, but also felt this ability was extremely absurd.

She had heard Yun Yao say that so-called “Echoes” would mostly gain supernatural abilities, but her own ability was too ridiculous…

“Television and clocks…” Tiantian covered her forehead, instantly feeling her brain was somewhat blocked. “Because I’m relatively familiar with these two things… so I can freely use these parts…?”

This so-called “Clever Object” seemed too limited in Tiantian’s view. What if the object to be made wasn’t a standing clock or television?

If she encountered danger and there were no standing clocks or televisions nearby, could her ability still work?

“What should I do…?”

Tiantian really wanted to do something for Yun Yao, but Yun Yao’s ability “Strong Luck” was an existence whose power could be known just by hearing the name. But what about “Clever Object”?

“Clever items…”

No matter how impressive the name sounded, because “Echo” needed to be activated by the subconscious, Tiantian could only create things she understood.

Her education was limited. Before entering her current industry, she had only worked on two assembly lines. How could she possibly understand the structure of other precision items?

Looking at it this way, the so-called “Clever Object”—its greatest ability was merely using discarded parts to piece together a short sword, and using other parts to repair a bicycle…?

“Too ridiculous…”

Tiantian decisively stood up, patted the dust off her hands, and showed a disappointed expression on her face.

Rather than saying she had gained a transcendent ability, it would be better if she had never known her ability was “Clever Object.” At least that way she could still hold some hope for the future.

She calmed her emotions, picked up the map Cheng Aoyu had given her to look at it, then observed the sky. It was probably around two or three in the afternoon. If she set out now, she should be able to find the stronghold he mentioned before dark.

Since staying here wasn’t safe, she could only embark on the journey alone.

Qi Xia sat in Xu Liunian’s car, silently looking out the window without saying a word. At this time, all the black lines were slowly converging toward the sky. It seemed the “Pegasus Moment” had truly ended.

“Qi Xia… where to next?” Xu Liunian asked.

“Turn right ahead.”

Xu Liunian turned the steering wheel with a heavy expression, then asked in a low voice, “Do you want to follow the map drawn by Qinglong to find those ‘Zodiacs’?”

Qi Xia didn’t speak, only looked out the window indifferently.

“But we don’t know what their purpose is… Don’t you want to make full preparations before going?”

Hearing this, Qi Xia turned his head back, carefully looked into Xu Liunian’s eyes, then said, “I can see that you’re thinking of me, but you probably don’t know what I’m pondering, so just drive. I have my own arrangements for what comes next.”

Qi Xia’s words decisively blocked Xu Liunian’s mouth. She could only drive the car and keep moving forward according to Qi Xia’s directions.

In half an hour, Qi Xia directed Xu Liunian to the front of a five or six-story building.

Standing outside that building was a tall, white-furred Earth-Tiger.

When Earth-Tiger saw a taxi driving toward him from afar, he was momentarily confused. When he saw Qi Xia slowly open the passenger door and step out, the expression in his eyes became even more complex.

Not long ago, this person was still being chased by black lines all over the sky. It had only been a short while since they last met, yet he had returned in a car?

Earth-Tiger racked his brains but couldn’t figure out what the situation was. His mouth hung open for a long time, wanting to speak but stopping several times.

After holding it in for a long time, Earth-Tiger finally slowly uttered a sentence, “As… as expected of you…”