The passing wind pushed Bianka back several steps, and a sudden jolt of alarm made her instinctively dart to the side.
They missed each other again by a hair's breadth. This time, Bianka didn't dare to delay. The moment she dodged, she sprinted into the distance with all her might, trying to create a gap.
But the sense of crisis still lingered around her. Bianka, at full speed, didn't trust her speed anymore. She decisively turned around, tapped lightly on the edge of a tall building, and changed direction.
The two figures landed almost simultaneously. Bianka was breathing heavily, her eyes filled with astonishment at Shu's speed.
He... was faster than her!
At least in a straight line, Bianka had already discovered that her current self couldn't compete with him.
And...
Shu stood up straight. His figure was reflected in the large glass panel under his feet in the dark night.
Bianka hung from the edge of the building with one hand, looking at Shu, who was standing on the surface of the building, parallel to the ground. The surprise in her heart escalated once again.
There was no visible technological equipment on Shu. The only thing that could be called equipment was the badge on his chest.
That meant he was achieving this bizarre state through his own abilities...
This piece of information was much more important than the speed he had just displayed. Bianka was almost certain that this was his second warning to her.
"If you don't show me some real skill, I think this assessment will be over soon," Shu said, not continuing his pursuit, but giving Bianka a solemn reminder.
Bianka nodded at Shu, then flipped over and stood on the high platform. Shu also took a light leap backward and stood directly opposite her.
At this moment, the contest between the two had only just begun.
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Ana, who was leading Azhar by the hand towards Rita, suddenly stopped. The next moment, she turned her head in disbelief.
In the dark night sky, two streaks of light shot up, drawing two reverse shooting stars on the pure black canvas.
And with two faint sonic booms, Ana's light purple eyes trembled slightly.
The two streaks of light, with no support in the air, drew sharp angles, like two marbles with different but similar trajectories on a two-dimensional black plane.
"What is..." her detector told Ana that those were two people, currently chasing each other in the sky in an incredible manner.
But reason was also telling Ana that humans couldn't do such a thing.
Even with an acceleration device that could accelerate a human body to this extent, what about the G-force? Could a human body really withstand this kind of acceleration, and these sharp turns?!
Ana wasn't sure who the other pursuing streak of light was, but it had to be either Susannah or that "Kevin." But she was sure about Bianka! There was no technological equipment on her...
Then... was she really human?
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At the base, it was already night. It was a time when busy people could put down most of their work and start enjoying the nightlife.
People opened Spark, browsed the forums for a while, liked their favorite posts, and had a friendly chat with other users, preparing for a good rest to continue their work the next day. They looked up, wanting to see the starry sky, now visible without light pollution.
And the two chasing meteors entered their sight.
They seemed like an illusion, but people rubbed their eyes hard, squeezing out a tear, only to see the same strange sight.
"What is that?" someone finally couldn't help but ask the people around them, but no one knew.
Was this some kind of phenomenon? Was it another thing brought by the disaster called "Honkai" that would refresh people's understanding? Or was it something on the same level as the Honkai, something beyond human comprehension?
No one knew what it was. Only various different emotions began to spread through the base.
Fear, excitement, longing...
And amidst these emotions, the speed of the two in the sky actually increased.
She was at a disadvantage in a straight line. Bianka knew this well. Although she didn't know why that strange sense of familiarity intensified every time he used his ability, right now, Azhar's "last words" before she was "caught" had suppressed all of Bianka's curiosity.
She had promised Azhar... to win!
Since her straight-line speed couldn't match his, she would have to use sharp turns to force out acceleration time!
The escaper could make a sharp turn at any time, but the pursuer needed time to react, and that reaction time was what Bianka was fighting for!
This was indeed an effective method, but it was by no means a one-trick pony that could solve everything.
After a series of quick and sharp turns, Bianka suddenly found that Shu was no longer being left behind. It was as if he could read her mind, keeping up with her pace as she made changes.
Is it mind-reading? Or pure prediction?
It's theory.
Shu had learned a lot from his battle with Gu Chu, including, but not limited to, this technique that could be called "predicting the future."
He didn't have Gu Chu's terrifying computational power, and he didn't need to expend that much effort at this time, but learning a few small tricks from it and making a few simple calculations was easy.
Bianka had obviously never encountered this kind of trouble before. Shu followed behind her, watching with interest as she began to constantly try to break through the "conventional."
Excellent combat intuition, Shu thought with admiration.
Bianka had guessed from the very beginning that he was relying on his control and calculation of her information to make "predictions." Her ability to start trying to cope in a timely manner also showed that her skills were indeed not bad, and she even had the spare capacity to make on-the-spot changes.
Changing her own action logic, providing more variables for her calculations to avoid conventional calculations, was exactly what Shu had tried to do to Gu Chu at the very beginning.
But the result was that Gu Chu's unreasonable computational ability had taught him a harsh lesson.
Not only did he lose the power of Binding, which could have been a trump card, but it also caused him to be restrained and hesitant to use it later.
Hmm... it seems Bianka's understanding of this aspect is somewhat lacking.
Shu seemed to have forgotten that he was the one being assessed right now, and instead began to try and teach Bianka.
He slightly increased his [Hope] utilization rate, and the amount of predictive calculation imitating Gu Chu's increased by nearly double.
And after two consecutive attempts, a drop of cold sweat had formed on Bianka's temple.
I can't shake him off! And he seems to have an even deeper understanding of me now!