My Ability Pool is Superior-Chapter 102: Second Round Ability Pool

On a workday morning, students with backpacks and white-collar workers with briefcases—most of the pedestrians visible on the street were all hurrying along.
Of course, considering this was near the hospital, there were even more patient family members carrying thermoses to deliver meals.
“How would I know what that mayor is thinking?”
Lu Bai picked up a soup dumpling with chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth, savoring the splash of broth inside.
Xu Qiang glanced at the crowds coming and going on the sidewalk and lowered his voice to warn, “You need to be careful lately. I feel like this is aimed at you.”
“What, having grassroots police officers fabricate crimes against me?”
Lu Bai didn’t have a strong sense of crisis. He happily picked up his bowl and downed the remaining congee in one gulp.
He set down the empty bowl and said with a cheerful smile, “Leaving me aside, aren’t you planning to hold a press conference first thing this morning?”
Yesterday they had suddenly decided to hold the press conference early, and in the middle of the night Lu Bai had called him to clean up—how you looked at it, it seemed a bit rushed.
“I’ve already greeted the media side, no need to prepare anything else.”
Xu Qiang checked the time and continued, “Anyway, before exposing the mayor’s identity, you’d better watch your words and actions. You’ve seen the public opinion on the internet.
Not suspending you is already under a lot of pressure. Don’t stir up any more trouble.”
In the end, he still didn’t bite into the fried dough stick in his hand. He stood up and added, “Alright then, keep an eye on things at the hospital. Notify me immediately if anything happens.”
……
Lu Bai took the packed steamed pork dumplings and returned to the hospital alone.
It was worth mentioning that although Bureau Chief Xu Qiang had left, the Special Affairs Bureau’s field personnel had all stayed behind.
They were joining forces with the police, distributed throughout the hospital for investigation.
As for the main crime scene, the fifth floor and sixth floor of the inpatient department, yellow tape had already been set up.
All the patients on these two floors had been transferred to other floors to avoid anyone accidentally destroying the scene.
Arriving downstairs at the inpatient department, the Special Affairs Bureau field personnel standing at the entrance immediately called out, “Team Leader Lu.”
Lu Bai returned a smiling face and casually handed over the bag of steamed pork dumplings he was carrying.
“How’s the situation?”
“Not optimistic.”
The field personnel hurriedly took the bag and then said somewhat helplessly, “We pulled surveillance from various places in the hospital, but found that the surveillance probes at those key positions had all been deliberately destroyed. The remaining intact surveillance didn’t record any useful information.”
Lu Bai casually comforted, “That’s not surprising.”
In fact, death fighters from the Deathmatch School, except for a very few students with particularly poor results, were all professionals when it came to cleaning up crime traces after committing crimes.
Avoiding surveillance was basic operation.
So he hadn’t counted on finding the death fighter this way at all.
He stepped back two steps and looked up at the inpatient department that was a full sixteen stories tall: “During this time, have you seen any suspicious people?”
“What do you mean, Team Leader Lu?”
“……Nothing.”
One reason he had gone with Xu Qiang to eat breakfast outside the hospital was to try using Yao Yi for fishing.
But now it seemed to have no effect at all.
He didn’t know if it was because there were too many nearby police officers and special agents that the death fighters didn’t dare to make a move.
Ding dong~
The elevator door opened, and Lu Bai stepped out of the elevator car.
With his current fame online, everyone present knew who he was.
No need to specially pull out identification to prove his identity because of his overly young face— in a sense, it was showing his face.
Of course, he still had to endure the occasional discussion that fell into his ears.
“Good grief, no steamed pork dumplings for me.”
Yao Yi was lying on the hospital bed playing on his mobile phone. Noticing Lu Bai returning empty-handed, he couldn’t help but pout.
As soon as he returned to the hospital room, the stagnant “node” acquisition countdown started moving again.
“I’ll have Little Tong bring some for you later.”
Casually brushing it off, Lu Bai sat on the stool and closed his eyes to rest.
Seeing Lu Bai even close his eyes, Yao Yi stopped disturbing him and simply continued burying his head in his mobile phone.
The hospital room suddenly quieted down, with only the occasional sound of fingers touching the screen.
Lu Bai wasn’t sleeping; he was just thinking.
He didn’t think the remaining death fighters would give up the “node.” They might be secretly planning some big movement.
However, for now, the situation was still under control.
The only death fighter to watch out for should be that bronze-skinned guy.
He had already seen Xiao Xueyin’s corpse on the fifth floor. Combined with what Chang Tiger had said at the time, it was clear that Chang Tiger had done it, and that battle hadn’t caused Chang Tiger the slightest injury.
To know, Xiao Xueyin’s fighting skills weren’t weak even by Lu Bai’s standards.
Moreover, Lu Bai still hadn’t figured out how Chang Tiger had successfully jumped down from the sixth floor. He couldn’t have retained an ability like him, could he?
Unfortunately, he didn’t know where Chang Tiger was now; otherwise, Lu Bai really wanted to catch that guy and ask.
He thought scatteredly like this.
Suddenly,
A series of familiar mechanical prompts abruptly sounded in Lu Bai’s mind.
[Ding!]
[Current death fighter elimination rate has reached sixty percent.]
[Attention! Second Round Ability Pool has opened, selection available]
Lu Bai kept his eyes closed, the corners of his mouth unconsciously curving into a smile.
Starting from last night, in places he couldn’t see, the death fighters’ fierce fights hadn’t stopped.
He had thought these guys would quiet down after daybreak.
After a little grumble, Lu Bai opened the ability selection panel in front of his retina.
The Second Round Ability Pool selection was still three choices.
[Wind Spirit Moon Shadow (Color): Gain one-hit kill, infinite life, infinite stamina, infinite money, zero encumbrance, immunity to all negative effects, and a series of amplifications. User please act cautiously and not be ostentatious. Once discovered by a death fighter, user will be immediately eliminated.]
[Soul Guard Jizo (Color): No matter what attack is received, a shield covering the whole body will immediately generate. Shield duration is thirty seconds, single-layer shield strength equals user’s current defense. Shields can stack.]
[Ink Black (Color): Using this ability consumes nothing. After activation, everything non-living in the line of sight will be dyed black.]
Color in the second round?
Lu Bai raised an eyebrow.
To be honest, although this round was a Color Level ability pool, the three Color abilities that came up weren’t very ideal in his view.
Especially the first [Wind Spirit Moon Shadow]. From the description, the power was exaggerated, but getting caught cheating would get you banned—it really made him unable to keep a straight face.
This wasn’t a deathmatch arena with a xianxia background.
What was the use of showing off in front of natives?
As for the other two……
[Soul Guard Jizo]’s power was pretty fitting for Color level. After all, this shield could stack. Brushing a few layers on yourself before battle made it very stable to use.
If paired with some ability with high attack frequency to keep stacking shields, the defense effect could probably reach an invincible degree.
But the problem was, each layer of shield only lasted thirty seconds. Lu Bai didn’t like this cumbersome usage, and purely taking hits was too turtle-like.
As for the last [Ink Black].
Honestly, he didn’t quite get it.
Just changing colors seemed to have no meaning……
He hesitated between the last two abilities for a while, his gambler mindset gradually taking over.
Give it a try. It’s Color level after all; it couldn’t really be trash.
Select, [Ink Black].