"Fourth Seat of the Dihua Ability Institute—Evil Exterminator Hao Long. Dangerous individual."
The remaining Artificial Humans immediately identified him. Tentacle-like metal mechanisms sprouted from beneath their cloaks, supporting their bodies as they crawled across the mountainside and rapidly fled.
Within a second.
The cloaks shielding the fleeing Artificial Humans were all torn apart. Every movable part of their bodies, including the mechanical tentacles on their backs, was pulverized.
The Artificial Humans, now reduced to their torsos and heads, were pinned firmly to the ground by Hao Long.
Hao Long stared into their mechanical eyes. A wave of pressure directly damaged their internal visual functions.
"Tell me your objective!"
"Facing a fatal threat. Escape impossible. Self-destruct program initiated."
Suddenly, an ultra-high-energy reaction occurred inside the Artificial Humans. Their heads, hearts, and various internal organs were all set to detonate independently.
"Boring!"
With a forceful wave of his hand, Hao Long destroyed every vital part of the Artificial Human beneath him. The self-destruct was interrupted, but the creature died completely, leaving him unable to obtain any useful information.
"Damn it. They even had a method like this prepared?"
Hao Long looked irritated as he slapped the dust from his body. He then glanced at his slightly reddened fingers. He had to admit that the copper components on these Artificial Humans were truly quite hard.
After taking a deep breath, Hao Long turned toward Yu Jing at the cave entrance and noticed the completely pulverized mechanical parts and chunks of flesh scattered before him.
"Junior, I didn't expect you to be here."
Hao Long and Yu Jing had met once during the ranking tournament of the Second Stage of Transcendence, and the encounter had left a deep impression. Since Zhan Ling had introduced them, even the originally aloof and irritable Hao Long had