Reincarnated as an Energy with a System

Chapter 1860: Hero Test

Ning didn’t interfere as the woman helped the couple, while disarming and tying up the thief at the same time. She talked to the couple, calming them, while at the same time calling the cops to take care of the thief.

There was no actual call of course—she just acted out the scene.

’She’s serious,’ Ning thought, watching her for a few more seconds. The woman wore a tight-fitting outfit that looked mass-produced, rather than tailored like Ning’s was. Still, such a suit had to come from an agency, so she was his opponent in this place in a way.

Ning turned around to leave, but the woman walked straight toward him. He paused for a moment, thinking she was there to talk, but she simply whispered a few words.

”Gotta be faster than that, old man.”

And then she walked away.

Ning couldn’t help but smile upon hearing that and continued on to find more people to help. Along the way, he helped a blind man cross the road, and then stopped two teenagers from fighting.

The tasks were relatively simple from what he could tell for the moment, but things were going to change as time continued on, becoming much graver.

About half an hour of helping around, the first such test came when Ning saw a car burning in the distance, with people clearly trapped inside.

Ning rushed before any hero could arrive there and checked to see how the people inside were doing. The young woman was clearly terrified, a phenomenal acting job, and appeared to be entirely panicked.

Ning tried to open the door, only to find it jammed, even though it was clearly unlocked. The fire underneath the car grew hotter and Ning knew there wasn’t much time before it would explode.

Without hesitation, Ning ripped the door open and tore the woman’s seatbelt off before pulling her out. He carried her to the other side and checked on her for a bit.

”Are you alright?” he asked, checking her over.

The woman nodded, adrenaline still coursing through her veins. Once Ning was sure she was fine, he ran back toward the car and flipped it. He sucked in as much air as he could and blew it directly at the fire.

His lungs could hold so much air that he blew out the fire underneath the car like it was a birthday candle. Just to be sure, he gathered up some dirt from the side of the road and extinguished what little embers were left behind.

He went back to the woman and checked on her again, making sure she was calm enough to be by herself, before ’calling’ the fire department and leaving.

Sounds of chaos rang from all sides of the city as heroes helped in every which direction. So many heroes ran around as if in a hurry to help whoever they could find.

Ning took his time going through the streets, searching for the ones ignored. He heard a cry from up ahead and ran to see what was going on. A few people had gathered by the road, pointing high up at a tall building.

Ning looked up, seeing a glass window on the 20th floor open, with a young child dangling by the side. Without thought, he jumped high into the air, transforming into a bat, before flying the rest of the way to the open window.

The young child, now that Ning could see more easily, was but a robot with a human voice programmed. Still, Ning treated it like it was a real child and helped it get inside. He found a woman ’asleep’ in the other room and quickly woke her up, telling her what had nearly happened.

He advised the woman on what to do, how to bar the window from letting the child get to it again, and to get a babysitter if she was too tired to take care of the child.

He found it a little funny to advise others on how to take care of their baby when he never had to do it in the first place. If Emma fell from this height as a toddler, then it would’ve been the ground that ended up a victim.

Ning said his goodbye and left through the window. Instead of flying back down to the ground, however, he decided he liked to view things from the sky.

He flew high up, looking down on multiple blocks at the same time. While he couldn’t see everything from his vantage point, he could see most of what was happening, and could get there in no time at all.

Robbery, carjacking, drug deals, random fights—he could see it all and get to it in no time now that he was flying. He started taking care of things so quickly that Ning wondered if he had already passed by now.

However, he couldn’t be so cocky as to think he could stop right now. There was still quite some time to go before the test was done.

He flew around for a while, helping whoever he could, when he noticed a male minotaur on top of one of the roofs, standing by the ledge.

Ning swooped in and grabbed him before he could do anything foolish. Ning was about to talk to the man, ask him why he was doing this, but he stopped himself.

One of the things he was taught in the past few days was how far his authority as a hero extended, if not legally, then ethically.

A man such as this who was driven to the verge of suicide most definitely needed to be talked to. But Ning wasn’t the man to do this. He was no therapist. He had no idea how much worse his words could lead the man to.

The correct thing here as a hero was for him to take the man to the authorities and let them handle his suicide attempt. They would get him a proper therapist so he wouldn’t do this again.

Just as Ning considered that, the minotaur rushed toward him, the horns pointed at him.