Thunderstorm Asthma? I’ll Just Drain the National Power Grid!

44: A hidden dragon emerges from the abyss, its target: fragments of heavenly lightning!Lin Yuan struggled to sit up from the medical bed.

He scratched his still slightly numb hair and tentatively spoke.

”Uh...”

”Am I... going to have to pay again?”

This sentence was like a switch.

It broke the silence in the ward.

Su Wanqing quickly lowered her head, her shoulders trembling slightly.

She was afraid she would laugh out loud.

This guy caused the entire Jiangcheng Branch Bureau to lose power, almost leading to a special-grade security incident.

And the first thing he cared about when he woke up was paying money?

Zhou Weiguo also wore a wry smile.

To everyone’s surprise,

Elder Zhang not only didn’t scold him but his eyes lit up!

He pounced to Lin Yuan’s bedside with a ”whoosh”!

”Don’t move! Let me see!”

Elder Zhang had somehow produced a pile of strange scanning instruments and began a series of ”beep beep beep” scans over Lin Yuan’s body.

As he scanned, he watched the data flickering on the instruments, muttering, his voice trembling.

”Perfect! Too perfect!”

”A D-Class Peak body strength, able to withstand energy backwash! His physical indicators are already comparable to a C-rank Intermediate ancient martial arts practitioner!”

”And this energy conversion rate... over 99.8%! My heavens! The Thunder Pool’s energy entered his body with almost no loss!”

Elder Zhang grew more excited as he spoke, grabbing Lin Yuan’s arm as if admiring a work of art.

”This isn’t a human at all! This is practically a walking... humanoid energy furnace!”

Lin Yuan was dizzy from being shaken by him.

What the heck?

Energy furnace?

Sounds pretty impressive.

Just then,

a discordant voice sounded from the side.

”Hmph.”

Lin Yuan looked in the direction of the voice.

The speaker was a stranger standing behind Zhou Weiguo.

The man was tall, with a C-rank Special Agent badge pinned to his chest, and a look of disdain on his face.

He was one of the C-rank Experts who rushed to provide support immediately after the base-wide power outage.

He looked at Lin Yuan, who was surrounded by everyone, and whispered to his companion beside him.

”A realm achieved by relying on a special physique and being force-fed with massive resources.”

”Just a hothouse flower.”

”When it comes to a rapidly changing battlefield, this kind of person looks good but is useless.”

His voice wasn’t loud, but everyone in the ward was sharp-eared and keen-eyed.

The atmosphere grew cold again.

Elder Zhang was about to burst out, but Zhou Weiguo spoke first.

”Ahem.”

He walked to Lin Yuan’s medical bed and patted his shoulder.

The force wasn’t heavy, but Lin Yuan still felt half his body go numb.

”Kid, you sure know how to cause trouble.”

Zhou Weiguo’s tone was half-joking, half-serious.

”Do you know that for the 0.5 seconds when the entire branch bureau lost power, we almost thought some otherworldly monarch had torn open a rift and attacked right at our doorstep?”

”The entire base’s defense system went into maximum alert.”

Lin Yuan shrank his neck, not daring to speak.

Judging by this, the matter was even bigger than he had imagined.

”However...” Zhou Weiguo changed the subject, a smile appearing on his face, ”Your physical data truly gave us a big surprise.”

He withdrew his hand, scanned everyone present, and finally, his gaze returned to Lin Yuan.

”To give your boundless energy a reasonable outlet,”

Zhou Weiguo emphasized his tone and announced publicly:

”I’ve decided to recommend you to participate in the ’hidden dragon ranking’ martial arts competition held by the Capital Headquarters in a week!”

As soon as these words were spoken,

the whole place erupted!

”What?!”

”Director Zhou! You’re not joking, are you?”

The C-rank Expert who had previously been full of disdain was the first to stand up and immediately voiced his opposition.

”The ’hidden dragon ranking’ is the highest stage for all C-rank new talents under thirty in our Dragon Shield Bureau!”

”Sending a D-Class to participate? Isn’t that clearly sending him to his death?!”

”Has our Jiangcheng Branch Bureau fallen so low that we need to send a D-Class to make up the numbers? If this gets out, it will damage the reputation of our entire branch bureau!”

The other C-rank Special Agents around also nodded in agreement.

Only Su Wanqing’s reaction was completely different; she looked at the indignant C-rank Expert, her eyes showing not confusion but a strange pity—for the ”chosen ones” who were about to encounter this monster in the ”hidden dragon ranking.”