Reborn as a Mutant

Reborn as a Mutant

Pain! It hurt so much! Amid a wave of excruciating pain, Su Yao woke up.

"Where am I?"

Su Yao felt waves of agony coursing through his body, and he seemed to be in a prison cell.

At that moment, a shout came from the iron bars ahead.

"Number 37, get up. Stop playing dead!"

With a bang, a large foot kicked him, causing Su Yao unbearable pain.

"Pah, disgusting mutant!"

With a clatter, a tray of food that faintly smelled sour, along with a bowl of thin soup, was thrown onto the floor.

Su Yao stared blankly at the saliva floating in the soup, then looked up at the culprit.

A white prison guard in a black uniform stood there. He had an ordinary face, but he looked at Su Yao with utter disgust and malice, as though he were looking at a piece of garbage.

"Shit, what are you staring at? Hurry up and eat."

A mocking smile appeared on Jill's lips. He glanced at the mutant slumped against the wall, then turned and left with a satisfied expression.

"Huff... huff..."

Su Yao was furious, then he could not help feeling confused.

"A mutant?"

The moment that thought surfaced, a flood of unfamiliar memories emerged in his mind.

"Hiss..."

Holding his head, Su Yao sorted through the memories in his mind and quickly made sense of everything.

"I transmigrated? Into the Marvel World, and into a mutant's body?!"

Su Yao found it hard to believe. He had felt sleepy while reading a novel the night before and merely dozed off for a short while, yet he had transmigrated? And not only that, he had become a mutant? Naturally, he was familiar with mutants. Scientifically speaking, they were people whose X-Gene had awakened due to genetic mutation, granting them superpowers.

Under normal circumstances, Su Yao would have been overjoyed to gain superpowers, but right now, he could not smile at all.

That was because he was not merely a mutant, but a mutant whose identity had been exposed and who had been captured! The pain wracking his body was also the result of all kinds of experiments...

Thinking of mutants, Su Yao suddenly understood why that white man had treated him that way.

In ordinary people's eyes, mutants were deformed freaks, monsters. They feared and rejected them, and mutants stood even lower than black people in the chain of discrimination.

To them, mutants were not even human and did not deserve human rights! Understanding it was one thing, but when Su Yao thought of that man's actions, he wanted nothing more than to kill him.

"I'll remember you. Just wait..."

After cursing inwardly, he had no choice but to face his current predicament.

Feeling the pain throughout his body from the experiments, Su Yao frowned.

"Right!"

"My Mutant Ability!"

His eyes lit up, and hope arose in his heart.

Recalling his memories, he quickly learned what Mutant Ability he possessed.

He looked up at the small window high on the wall of the cell and stared at the golden sunlight streaming in. Unable to help himself, he stretched out a hand.

The instant his palm touched the sunlight, Su Yao felt warmth spread from his palm throughout his body. Even the pain in his body seemed to ease slightly.

From an angle he could not see, even his azure pupils had turned golden. "Is this my Mutant Ability?"

"Absorbing sunlight to replenish my strength, and I can even go without food by relying on sunlight. Sunlight is food..."

At that thought, disappointment filled Su Yao's face.

This ability merely made his body healthier and let his injuries recover a little faster. In practice, it was completely useless.

"No wonder I'm only Delta-Class, a Level 2 Mutant..."

Recalling the memories in his mind, unwillingness rose in his heart.

With such a weak Mutant Ability, how was he supposed to escape this prison? Was he going to remain here for the rest of his life, eventually be dissected for research, and die on an operating table? Su Yao sat crouched on the ground, his eyes reddening as his emotions churned violently.

He clenched his fists, his breathing quickening.

Perhaps because his emotions were too intense, a powerful energy fluctuation suddenly erupted around him! In a daze, Su Yao seemed to hear an emotionless notification sound by his ear.

Your emotions have fluctuated intensely...

You seem to have awakened something...

"What was that sound?"

"Could it be a system?!"

Before Su Yao could feel delighted, a string of beeps sounded from his neck. Accompanied by the crackle of electricity, his entire body immediately collapsed to the ground.

Feeling the pain coming from his neck, Su Yao gritted his teeth and stared at the collar around it.

Mutant Controller! A device used to control mutants and restrict their Mutant Abilities! This collar was like a dog collar. It not only bound him, but also bound his Mutant Ability.

Even a Mutant Ability like his, one with no offensive power, had not escaped the collar's restraints...

Su Yao felt as if his dignity had been trampled upon.

"Cough, cough..."

His injuries flared up, and he could not stop himself from coughing a few times. Blood stained the palm covering his mouth.

Enduring the agonizing pain in his body, Su Yao was filled with the urge to destroy everything. He wanted to destroy this Experimental Base! Only after a long while did he calm down enough to check what exactly he had awakened.

"System?"

"Panel?"

Su Yao tried calling out to the system in his mind, but there was no response whatsoever. However, when he called for a panel, an illusory yellow panel appeared before his eyes.

Name: Su Yao

Age: 16 (83 days of lifespan remaining)

Mutant Ability: Mimicry, Energy Absorption

Current Mimicry Target: Orochi (Title: Sun God, Earth's Will)

(Unlock Progress: 1%)

Abilities: (Locked)

Energy Points: 0

Looking at the panel before him, Su Yao froze.

The first thing that caught his attention was the remaining lifespan displayed on it.

Eighty-three days? Was it because of those experiments? Su Yao's expression darkened, and he felt even more disgusted by this Experimental Base.

As if grasping at a lifeline, he hurriedly shifted his gaze to the Mutant Ability section.

"Mimicry?"

"Energy Absorption?"

Energy Absorption was easy enough to understand. Su Yao quickly associated it with absorbing Light Energy, but as for Mimicry...

"When did I gain a Mutant Ability like this?"

"Did I awaken it just now?!"

Su Yao was stunned at first, then his heart began to race.

His gaze immediately moved downward to the Mimicry Target.

"Mimicry, Mimicry... I see..."

Su Yao muttered to himself.

"Orochi?"

Naturally, he was familiar with that name. It seemed to be the final boss from some The King of Fighters fighting game.

He was called Earth's Will. He had once allowed humanity to coexist harmoniously as a part of nature, but after humanity broke away from nature, he came to loathe mankind.

Simply put, humans had begun destroying the environment, and Orochi, as Earth's Will, wanted to cleanse humanity that had separated itself from nature. That was why he became the final boss.

As for why he was called the Sun God, it was because he could use a move called Sunshine Pervades in the game. It looked like he was wielding the sun's power, creating a massive attack that covered the entire screen.