Immortal and Undying, Starting from Prototype
Chapter 5

Lightning, Electric Shock, and Electric Eel Forms

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Mercer had no intention of letting the Hunter go. When Chang Wei turned back, he found that Mercer had already absorbed the Hunter.

A lone Hunter was not difficult for Mercer to deal with.

"Hello, my name is Alex Mercer."

Then, when he saw Chang Wei approach, he asked.

"Chang Wei."

Chang Wei stated his name.

The strange pronunciation made Mercer pause.

"If you want to know the whole truth, go find Elizabeth Greene."

Chang Wei's English had not been very good before, but after devouring so many infected, he had learned English.

So communicating with Mercer was no longer a problem at all.

"What?"

Mercer's eyes widened. Chang Wei seemed to know a great deal about his situation.

"That's all I can tell you. Black Watch, Elizabeth Greene. Find Elizabeth, and you'll understand everything."

After careful consideration, Chang Wei decided to speed up Elizabeth's expansion of the infection zones. Naturally, it was better to have others do the work, and Mercer was the best choice.

As for whether Mercer would later think Chang Wei had deceived him, Chang Wei could explain that he had not known Mercer had lost his memories and was searching for them. He had merely told Mercer the truth and origin of the virus.

"Wait."

Mercer memorized the name Elizabeth Greene. But when he saw Chang Wei turn to leave, he wanted to speak a little more with this "kindred spirit." Chang Wei ignored him and simply leaped high into the air from where he stood.

Mercer had no way to chase after him. After all, he had not yet unlocked Super Muscle.

In the end, he could only return to find his sister and see whether she could locate Elizabeth Greene.

His instincts told him that Chang Wei, that big guy, did not seem to be lying.

Only after leaving Mercer did Chang Wei return to his normal human appearance.

"Next, I need a huge number of Gene Points to strengthen myself and evolve Lightning Form."

Chang Wei discovered that the infection zone had not spread at all. Instead, it had shrunk. This was thanks to Black Watch and Mercer. In the early stages, Mercer had killed too many Hunters, leaving the Blacklight Virus with no real advantage against Black Watch.

Otherwise, a superorganism capable of smashing main battle tanks, moving with incredible agility, and ignoring most small-caliber firearms would have been extremely difficult for Black Watch to handle in an urban environment. Not to mention that Hunters always operated in groups.

Chang Wei did not care if the infection zones disappeared because of his frenzied hunting. The early infection zones were not that important anyway. Once Elizabeth emerged, there would be no shortage of infection zones.

After hunting down a large number of infected, Chang Wei hid himself and underwent his second mutation evolution.

"Evolve an Electric Organ using Electric Eel genes... The Electric Organ created by the Blacklight Virus has to be much stronger than an Electric Eel's, right?"

Chang Wei was extremely excited. Although high voltage meant low current, it was enough as long as it could electrocute people and paralyze Hunters and Ultimate Hunters.

Following Chang Wei's imagination, the Super Virus System began his second mutation evolution.

The Electric Eel genes Chang Wei had absorbed fused with the Blacklight Virus. Then, he felt an itch spread across his entire body. Immediately afterward, arcs of electricity appeared over him, crackling as they tore through the air with a hair-raising sound.

The fact that electric arcs were visible to the naked eye showed just how powerful the current was. It was practically high-voltage electricity.

"Ahhhhhh!"

Chang Wei was the first to experience his entire body trembling from the high-voltage current.

Then, the Blacklight Virus seemed to realize that if it continued outputting electricity, Chang Wei might be charred by the heating effect. So it evolved some Anti-electric Measures for him.

When the evolution was complete, Chang Wei looked like a normal person on the outside, but Electric Organs had spread throughout his entire body.

"How marvelous..."

Electric arcs crackled and Flashed With light around Chang Wei's fingers. Just the arc from a single finger carried tens of thousands of volts. Chang Wei felt that if he went all out, the voltage might reach a million volts or even hundreds of millions of volts. However, he would not crank it up that high. The main reason was that the higher the voltage, the weaker the current became to an outrageous extent.

"And it consumes a lot of stamina. Damn, only an unreasonable virus like the Blacklight Virus could support my electricity generation. An Electric Eel can only generate electricity for such a short time, but I can keep it up for nearly an hour before I need to replenish my stamina."

With the system's help, Chang Wei could clearly understand the changes in his body.

With ordinary voltage output, he could keep generating electricity for nearly an hour. But if he pushed it to the limit and discharged ultra-high voltage through his entire body, it might be gone in A Few Seconds.

This Electric Shock Form could be used together with Four-armed Hegemon Form. In other words, the forms could stack!

"I need to catch a Hunter and see how it performs in actual combat."

Chang Wei pondered it. If a current output of tens of thousands of volts could produce noticeable results against a Hunter, then he would not need to worry about the current being too weak.

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