No Head, Still Adorable

The Tyrant gripped half of Xia Tianming's head in one hand, its brute force squeezing his skull until it creaked, as if it were about to crush his head completely!

Xia Tianming did not let go either. The claws embedded in the Tyrant's eye sockets kept digging deeper, trying to churn its brain into pulp!

Although the Tyrant had nearly been transformed into a semi-mechanical bio-weapon, it still had to rely on stimulating its brain to maintain movement and carry out orders.

If this continued, they would both perish together!

The people in the Safe House could not help gasping at the brutal scene.

They had assumed it would be a one-sided battle, but that guy had actually deadlocked with the Tyrant, the company's prized ultimate bio-weapon.

"Damn it! Wesker, make those two stop right now! I don't want the Tyrant I just upgraded to be destroyed by that guy!"

Seeing that his "child" could not gain the upper hand and had even lost its eyes, Dr. Pym's heart ached terribly.

Wesker gave him a meaningful look. "Break up a fight between those two? Do you think I can do that? Why don't you go?"

In truth, Wesker did have a contingency measure that might be able to stop the two monsters battling fiercely in the middle of the arena.

A million-volt high-voltage current had been installed beneath the center of the testing ground. He was not confident it could kill those two monsters, but it should not have much trouble restricting their movements.

However, Wesker wanted to keep watching them fight and see whether the company's ultimate bio-weapon or this naturally selected Mutant would emerge victorious. That was why he had not pressed the shock button, unless the situation became uncontrollable.

Crack!

Xia Tianming and the Tyrant remained locked in that stalemate for roughly half a minute.

Then, with a crisp snap, the upper half of Xia Tianming's skull was crushed and flattened by the Tyrant. Massive amounts of black blood immediately sprayed from his eyes, nostrils, and mouth, splattering across the Tyrant's face!

His body then went limp, and the Tyrant tossed him aside. He instantly stopped moving altogether!

Th-That was it?

"Ha ha ha! I knew my child was the best! What new Mutant? Wasn't he still crushed to death by our Tyrant with one hand?"

Seeing the Tyrant he had researched day and night, exhausting both his effort and hair, claim the final victory, Dr. Pym began dancing with excitement.

Yet this made Wesker feel that something was off. A monster that even the Rod of God could not kill had actually died after the Tyrant crushed its head in one go?!

This was too damn dramatic. He had wanted to give the shareholders beside him a surprise, but the result was this pathetic.

Could that brat be holding back, or was he playing dead again?

Dr. Pym turned around and said, "Hey, why haven't you lowered the lift platform yet? I need to properly maintain my little darling. That piece of trash you brought blinded its eyes, though I suppose it was still worth it. Ha ha ha."

His little darling naturally referred to the over-three-meter-tall Tyrant. Seeing its eyes destroyed pained him deeply, and he could not wait to take it back for repairs and modifications. Next time, perhaps the Tyrant's eyes should be enhanced too—turned into a pair of mechanical eyeballs?

"Wait. Something feels wrong. If that guy is faking his death and follows the Tyrant onto the lift platform, wouldn't that be equivalent to letting him escape?" Wesker frowned and refused.

"Can anything survive with its head crushed like that? No creature like that has ever appeared on Earth..."

Just as Dr. Pym was about to argue with him,

the other shareholders in the Safe House suddenly cried out in alarm.

Something abnormal had happened again in the middle of the testing ground!

Wesker and Dr. Pym looked toward the arena and discovered that the Tyrant, which had just been standing perfectly straight, suddenly began convulsing in place!

From its gouged-out eye sockets, nostrils, mouth, and other facial openings, large numbers of black-red tentacles extended and writhed madly, making everyone's scalps tingle!

The Tyrant, which should have had all sensation of pain removed, now seemed to be suffering from an intense headache. It repeatedly pounded its own head with both hands, producing heavy bang bang sounds!

"Those tentacles... are they from that man?"

Wesker's eyes widened at the sight. He immediately recalled that when he had sent troops to hunt that man in the wilderness, the man's body had displayed similarly bizarre tentacles.

Could it be that the black fluid Xia Tianming had sprayed out when his head was crushed had infected the Tyrant?!

Wesker had just watched Xia Tianming's upper skull get crushed, spraying a great deal of black blood that happened to splatter across the Tyrant's face and into its badly damaged eye sockets.

That had to be why tentacles were now growing wildly inside the Tyrant's head!

Like vigorously sprouting seeds, those tentacles actually burst through the Tyrant's hard alloy skull!

"What is wrong with it?! What are those things growing out of my Tyrant's face?! Lower the lift platform and bring the Tyrant back already! I need to repair it!"

Seeing the Tyrant acting so strangely, Dr. Pym grabbed Wesker by the shoulders and shook him furiously, demanding that he end the test at once.

"Shut up!!"

Slap!

Wesker impatiently backhanded him. The blow actually sent Dr. Pym's nearly two-hundred-pound body flying, and after he crashed heavily into the wall, he fell to the floor unconscious.

The other shareholders were startled. Remembering that he was the only one here who had successfully fused with the T-Virus and gained strength beyond that of ordinary people, none of them dared say anything further.

Then, what happened in the center of the testing ground made everyone's eyes widen until they nearly burst!

The Tyrant actually tore off its own infected head and threw it onto the ground like a bowling ball?!

Even without its head, the Tyrant did not collapse. Its tall, headless body continued crashing around like a headless fly, leaving cracks in the surrounding concrete walls!

As for the head it had thrown away, it was dragged across the ground by the writhing tentacles in its eye sockets, crawling everywhere like an octopus. The sight was enough to make hearts stop and sanity plummet...

Plop~

Suddenly!

A foot stepped on the Tyrant's head as it crawled around, bringing it to a halt.

Everyone looked closely and saw that Xia Tianming, whose head had been half crushed, had also staggered back to his feet. He raised his foot and stepped on the Tyrant's head?!

He was not dead either?!!!

A head without a body could still crawl, while a body without a head could still move...

This eerie scene would likely remain unforgettable to everyone present for the rest of their lives.

"I knew he wasn't dead! Even if you chopped him into eight pieces, hacked him into dozens of chunks, he could probably still live! Ha ha ha ha! This is what an ultimate life-form should be—undying, indestructible, ageless! Ha ha ha!!"

Seeing that the Mutant had not died, Wesker's expression suddenly twisted as he burst into manic laughter.

His dream was not merely to grant humans physical enhancement, but also endless life and immortal bodies. Only then could humanity truly become Earth's permanent ruler, no longer facing Extinction due to all kinds of natural factors.

And this Mutant that had suddenly appeared perfectly matched the dream he envisioned. Perhaps it truly was a gift from heaven...