The Infinite Journey of Prototype
Chapter 5

If I Tried It, I Could Do It Too!

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The lightness and strength he felt made Li Wei's movements while walking somewhat distorted. When his feet touched the ground, there was a strange suction force, and when he ran, cracks appeared across the floor.

When his feet were about to leave the ground, another pushing force emerged, sending his entire body flying.

Seeing the half-open door ahead, Li Wei could not stop in time while running and crashed straight into it. The door and its frame shattered together.

Immediately afterward, a burst of dense gunfire rang out. Thousands of bullets shot from the muzzles of seven or eight Blackwatch soldiers beyond the corridor, all aimed at a single target: Li Wei, who had smashed through the door.

Rifle rounds constantly pierced his body, yet Li Wei felt only waves of stinging pain and nothing else.

But out of an instinctive fear of firearms, he still wanted to retreat into the observation room behind him and find something to smash through the wall of people ahead.

"Roar!"

Just as he took a step back, Li Wei heard a roar behind him that drowned out the gunfire. Then a heavy slap struck his back, and his whole body shot forward like a cannonball, crashing viciously into the group of Blackwatch soldiers tightly blocking the corridor entrance...

"Fuck!" Behind the overturned crowd, Li Wei struggled to climb up from the ground. His entire body hurt as if it were falling apart. Seeing the two-meter-tall monster charging at him with a howl, his expression turned as awful as if he had eaten shit.

The moment he got up, he ran deeper into the corridor, intending to hide from the monster first.

Amid the chaotic base, Raymond fled the observation window and sprinted to the safest basement in the entire facility. After connecting to the control center through a computer, he began roaring out orders. "Lock down the research facility immediately! Release the first-generation blood toxin! Have those two super soldiers put on their equipment! We must capture that Asian man! Immediately! If they aren't captured, all of you can get the hell out there and capture infected specimens!"

The Blackwatch soldiers in the control center, who had been joking around, snapped to attention upon hearing this and immediately relayed the orders everywhere. Hundreds of Blackwatch soldiers swiftly poured into the research facility and began closing the iron doors throughout the complex.

Hidden vents within the research facility released waves of pale yellow mist. This was the first-generation blood toxin capable of destroying infected cells, but because the experiment had not yet achieved complete success, it could currently only leave infected organisms severely weakened and easier to capture.

Raymond had even deployed two super soldiers who were still in the testing phase, all in an effort to salvage the situation as much as possible.

He had invited several military bigshots and politicians to this test. The military bigshots had indeed evacuated safely, but those politicians who rarely exercised had died horribly! He would inevitably face some pressure over it afterward.

Though there would not be any substantive punishment, his standing would definitely suffer.

If any more monsters appeared, he might be offered up as a scapegoat!

Bang!

"Damn it!"

The more Raymond thought about it, the angrier he became. He punched the desk before him.

Every piece of data had been calculated perfectly. Why had such an accident still happened?!

His data could not be wrong, and there could not be a problem with the reagent. So the problem could not possibly be him!

Right! It could not be his fault!

The more he thought about it, the more he suspected that something else had gone wrong. He pulled out a chair, sat down, and brought up the surveillance footage from the cultivation room on the computer.

He sped through the footage. Everything looked fine. The personnel who entered twice to retrieve the reagent had found no issues.

He continued dragging the video further back, and then he saw a researcher who absolutely should not have appeared in the footage.

"Who is this?!" Raymond stared at the suspicious figure on the screen, his eyes nearly spewing fire. In his heart, he had already decided that this person was the culprit!

Sure enough!

The surveillance footage showed that after the person in the protective suit entered the cultivation room, he opened the cultivation tank, removed one of the six tubes of Redlight Virus, then stuffed an identical vial of Blacklight Virus stock solution from beside it into its place...

Stuffed...

"Fuck!!! Ah!"

(Extraordinary Desktop Cleanup Master)

Within the chaotic research facility, Li Wei and the Hunter chasing behind him rampaged through everything in their path. Unable to find an exit, Li Wei simply ran wherever there were more people. The Hunter behind him accepted all comers, taking a bite out of whoever it encountered.

In only ten minutes, dozens of casualties had appeared within the research facility!

Hiss, hiss, hiss!

After the corridor lights flickered, pale yellow mist sprayed from the vents. The blood toxin began spreading through the surroundings, swiftly obscuring the view.

Seeing this, Li Wei quickened his pace and ran into the wide corridor to the left. Then he came face-to-face with seven or eight scarlet electronic eyes. After a burst of rapid gunfire, eight Blackwatch soldiers lay dead on the ground.

The pale yellow mist in the air continued to increase, and Li Wei began to feel his body growing tired. He cursed inwardly. This fucking thing was made specifically for me, wasn't it?!

He had to find an exit quickly!

The Hunter behind him had already disappeared. Li Wei began searching for a way out of the building, but after repeatedly hitting dead ends, his body grew increasingly weak.

Finally, after turning another corner, he vaguely saw someone in a protective suit running ahead. The other person apparently was not wearing a gas mask and kept coughing.

He definitely knew where the exit was!

Li Wei did not want to alert him, so he quietly followed behind, hoping to find the way out.

He had bet right! After turning several corners, the figure in the protective suit ran out through a small door.

Li Wei followed behind him and finally escaped that damned place.

He had not expected that the research facility was not underground at all, but stood openly above ground.

Having breathed in the filthy air of freedom again, Li Wei did not even have time to celebrate before countless bullets rained down on him.

The thunderous sound of helicopter rotors overhead was crystal clear. Dozens of Blackwatch soldiers around the perimeter kept firing rifles at them.

He could not stay here. He had to run!

During his frantic escape just now, Li Wei had already learned the extent of his speed and strength. He immediately leaped toward what looked like a wall, jumping seven or eight meters high and more than ten meters far, clearing the electrified fence atop it in a single bound.

The next moment, Li Wei turned his head in shock and saw that the person in the protective suit whom he had been following had also jumped seven or eight meters high and more than ten meters away before landing on the ground!

After landing, both stared at each other in shock.

Li Wei saw the other man's stunned face, and the other man saw Li Wei's absurdly handsome face. They silently stared at each other for two seconds...

A missile from the helicopter fell and struck between them. Only then did they move at the same time, fleeing in two different directions.

Li Wei was even more concerned about the other figure. Even as he fled, he kept looking back, wanting to get a better look at that person's face.

But when he looked back, he saw a scene that left him dumbfounded!

The person who had jumped out with him just now... was actually running up between the windows of a high-rise building as though he were running across level ground!!!

WTF!

Even Spider-Man wasn't that slick!

Why the fuck?!

Wait... I think I could do that too!

Seeing that unknown guy pull off such an absurd move, Li Wei suddenly felt that he could probably do it too. After stepping onto the hood of a car and causing a traffic accident, he jumped straight onto the wall of a nearby building.

A suction force instantly formed beneath his feet, like an octopus's suckers, firmly fixing him to the wall. As though running on level ground, every cell in his body seemed to be squeezed dry, jetting out gas that allowed him to maintain his balance and run through the air.

And just like that, he easily began running up the building!

"Woohoo! Holy shit, this feels fucking amazing!"

Racing between the walls of buildings and dodging the helicopter's cannon fire, Li Wei felt an unprecedented sense of exhilaration.

His new ability was ridiculously overpowered, but it felt incredible!

In the future, he could brag directly to anyone he knew: I can run to the hundredth floor in one breath!

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