[Cell Regeneration] had given Li Wei more than just an astonishing ability to heal.
He could clearly feel that his body had become more resilient. His already exceptionally strong physique was now even easier to control, as if it were second nature!
Li Wei kicked the Bishop right in the crotch—though who knew if there was anything left in there. He didn't seem to put much strength into it, yet the kick sent the still-shocked Bishop straight into a mud pit.
Seizing the opportunity, Li Wei swept his short sword upward and split open the eye-covered head right down the middle!
Half of the Bishop's head had been sliced away, connected to the rest by only a thin strip of flesh!
Red blood and white brain matter washed away in the rain. But before their eyes, the thin strip of flesh still connecting the two halves sprouted tendrils like tentacles, slowly pulling the dangling half of his head back into place as it rapidly healed!
As his head grew back, the Bishop's mouthparts on the lower half of his face continued to scream.
"Impossible! No one can master two rules from different disciplines at once! Physics is physics! Biology is biology! You're a monster who defies the laws of nature! You're an abomination that should never have existed!"
In less than three seconds, the head Li Wei had sliced in half with a single stroke had grown back to normal!
Countless eyes glared at Li Wei, yet they also brimmed with boundless greed!
"Something as freakish as you should just let me eat you! I'll bear your terrifying taboo for you! Better to join me now than be captured and dissected by the people at the Extreme Research Control Pavilion later. You'll have a much brighter future with me!"
He shrieked and spread his limbs wide, like a gigantic mantis, charging at Li Wei again as the spikes on his fingertips came into view!
Just then, Feng Zi noticed something moving rhythmically beneath the Bishop's original arms, under his armpits. The rhythm was just like...
Just like a heartbeat!
She shook her head, flinging the rainwater dripping from her bangs away, and steadied her mind. She forced herself to recall the little biology she knew.
Though she had grown up at the Physics Institute, she hadn't studied only physics. Many branches of natural science were connected. She had once been sent to the Biology Institute to observe and study for a time, and had even become close friends with a renowned biology expert.
An experiment fusing human tissue and organs would inevitably leave part of the original body's limbs intact. And because of the immune response, all of the subject's internal organs and brain would be transferred into that remaining part of the original body!
No matter how badly the other replaced and fused body parts were damaged, none of it would be fatal—unless they found his original heart and brain!
As a scientist capable of withstanding the pressure of natural laws, his physical condition far surpassed that of an ordinary person. His heart would beat more forcefully and rapidly, too.
The rhythm and characteristics of those beats were unmistakably the same as what Feng Zi was seeing now!
By the time Feng Zi realized this, the Bishop and Li Wei had already locked into combat again!
As a biologist, he clearly knew how to hurt Li Wei more effectively now that he had Cell Regeneration!
Li Wei hadn't undergone any organ fusion. His brain, heart, and arteries were still fatal weak points!
The Bishop didn't need Li Wei alive. He only wanted that taboo body. His needle-sharp fingertips were just about to pierce Li Wei's chest when—
An enormous force of gravity slammed him into the mud!
Li Wei had abandoned his area-wide control of gravity and focused all his power on the Bishop's body.
The dozen or so limbs thrashed in the mud, desperately trying to rise again. But Li Wei had already planted a foot on his spine, forcing him back into the mire!
The Bishop's disfigured face twisted into a mocking grin as he turned it a full 180 degrees to look at Li Wei, who had raised his short sword but still didn't know where to strike.
"Think you can kill me? Go on! Cut off my head! There are 26,128 human bodies buried in that cemetery! Keep chopping off that many heads, and I'll run out! Gah, gah, gah, gah!"
"Under the armpit of the first arm on the right side of his body! 626! There's a heart there! It's his original one!"
Feng Zi's voice rang out abruptly through the rainy night!
The Bishop, who had been laughing maniacally, and Li Wei, who had been standing with his sword raised, unsure where to strike, both froze!
But then, naked terror and panic appeared in the Bishop's countless eyes!
Seeing his expression, Li Wei smiled!
The twisted body erupted with astonishing force. Under the full weight of the gravity Li Wei could muster, it still struggled to its feet!
But Li Wei gave him no chance to fight back. Summoning all his strength, he drove the tip of his short sword toward the armpit of the Bishop's first right arm!
The Bishop twisted his body with all his might, but Li Wei's foot was still planted firmly on his spine. He could only turn himself a little, trying to use another part of his body to block Li Wei's strike!
"Thrust!"
In a desperate struggle for survival, Li Wei's short sword pierced the Bishop's right shoulder!
But Li Wei, gripping the hilt tightly, didn't stop there or pull the sword back out. Instead, he threw all his weight and strength onto it, forcing the blade wedged between the bones downward until it pierced through the entire arm and even punctured the bulging flesh beneath the armpit!
The Bishop let out a terrified scream!
Like a madman, he flailed his limbs, desperately pushing Li Wei away—the very person he had been trying to pull into his embrace just a minute ago!
But Li Wei had brought himself within the range of the gravity pressing down on the Bishop!
"Go on, laugh! Why can't you laugh now, Bishop?"
The Bishop couldn't laugh, but a mocking smile appeared on Li Wei's face!
At last, the blade that had been driven relentlessly downward broke through every obstacle and plunged into the heart hidden beneath the armpit!
Blood blossomed once again in the rainy night.
This time, as blood poured from him, the amputated Bishop—who had stayed lively no matter what injuries he suffered—could no longer fight back or struggle.
His twisted body gave one last twitch on the muddy ground. The next instant, all signs of life left him.
Only the countless eyes on his head still stared fixedly at the pitch-black sky!
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