A Startling Change!

Aside from changes to its physique and skin, it had basically retained a human appearance.

Its face belonged to none other than the Dr. Chen Guohua they had spoken of!

Xiang Yang and Lu Ren walked to the heavy alloy door at the end of the passage. Xiang Yang asked softly, "We can do this, right?"

Lu Ren glanced at Xiang Yang, then fixed his eyes on the alloy door and nodded slightly.

"We should be able to."

As long as Dr. Chen Guohua was not too monstrous, they did have a chance.

"At last, I have the chance to see with my own eyes the Dr. Chen Guohua who changed the entire world."

Xiang Yang took a deep breath. Once she saw Lu Ren was ready, she took out a magnetic card and opened the door. Only after verifying the card, fingerprints, iris, and even DNA did a series of beeps indicate successful authentication.

Boom!

The door gave off a heavy crashing sound and slowly slid open sideways.

The instant the alloy door opened a gap barely wide enough for one person, Lu Ren's expression tightened as he stared directly at the Contaminated Creature standing inside the room by the door.

The once world-renowned legendary scientist, Dr. Chen Guohua.

Yet now, his eyes were filled with bloodthirsty savagery, devoid of even the slightest trace of reason as he stared fixedly at Lu Ren like a wild beast.

Lu Ren's heart clenched. It was a miserable fate indeed. Without hesitation, he thrust the sword in his right hand forward. The blade howled as it tore through the air, raising a sharp sword cry.

Clang!

In the flash of lightning, life and death hung in the balance.

Ding!

The sword struck Chen Guohua's chest but could not penetrate even a fraction. After the earlier high-intensity collisions, the weapon he had taken from the Contaminated Creature Blade Bamboo had finally reached its limit.

The sword shattered inch by inch, fragments scattering in all directions.

Ding, your attack failed to effectively penetrate the opponent's skin. Your Basic Swordsmanship proficiency has increased by 1.

As the alloy door opened, Chen Guohua's body, just about to move, was halted by Lu Ren's sword strike. He paused for only an instant before lunging fiercely at Lu Ren again.

The opponent's agility and strength both surpassed Lu Ren's. Only in combat technique did Lu Ren hold the absolute advantage.

Chen Guohua was acting purely on instinct.

Lu Ren was not the least bit flustered. In fact, since the alloy door had not fully opened and Chen Guohua could only lunge sideways in an awkward posture, he had enough leeway to glance at Xiang Yang, who was crouched near the doorframe not far away.

Seeing that she was not panicked at all, she waited for an opportunity to break into the control room and use the obstacles there to keep him at bay.

They absolutely could not fight Chen Guohua in the corridor. With the man's massive body, Lu Ren had extremely little room to dodge and maneuver.

There was almost no room for error. If he made even the slightest mistake and Chen Guohua seized the chance to grab him, the outcome would be utterly disastrous.

Only by rushing into the control room could he gain room to maneuver!

Lu Ren hunched over, curling his back and doing his utmost to minimize his exposed area. Then he sprang forward in a single stride, skimming past Chen Guohua's thick, stone-pillar-like thigh, twisting at the waist as he plunged headfirst into the high-energy particle acceleration control room.

The instant Lu Ren landed, he planted both hands on the ground. As his arms bent and straightened, the muscles bulged and rippled, launching him backward like springs. He landed and staggered back several steps, putting more than ten meters between himself and Chen Guohua, who was bending over and reaching out in an empty grab.

Though his physical attributes exceeded those of ordinary people by a fair margin, he was still far inferior to these Contaminated Creatures. Fortunately, his Basic Combat skills made up for that deficiency.

Lu Ren had nearly landed beside the glass wall of the control room. Below was the location of the spatial passage created at the center of the high-energy particle acceleration collision.

At that moment, the dark purple oval spatial passage below was constantly swaying and trembling. It was even slowly expanding at a visible rate, and the process was accelerating.

What met Lu Ren's eyes, however, was Xiang Yang's terrified expression. At that moment, Chen Guohua had grabbed her around the waist with his palm-leaf-sized hand and hurled her toward Lu Ren.

Lu Ren's expression did not change in the slightest. He shifted his body slightly, and Xiang Yang flew right past him, slamming hard into the high-strength tempered bulletproof glass before crashing heavily to the floor.

He could even hear a series of bones breaking.

At least several ribs had broken, and her arms and legs were bent at unnatural angles.

Lu Ren could even see the disbelief on Xiang Yang's face when she realized he had no intention of catching her.

"W-why?" Xiang Yang was barely clinging to life, blood spilling from her mouth and nose, unable to accept it.

Lu Ren looked at her coldly. "You're about to die, and you're still pretending?"

Xiang Yang froze. Then her expression quickly darkened, turning utterly sinister. Her voice sounded as though she had never been injured at all.

If not for the unnatural bends in the bones of her legs, Lu Ren would have wanted to go over and stab her twice more.

"What did you notice?"

"The story you told me had far too many flaws."

Lu Ren answered casually, then focused his attention on Chen Guohua charging toward him.

If Xiang Yang had not given him the Ultra-High Frequency Cutting Blade dagger, he would have turned and left without the slightest hesitation in a situation like this. Even if, as Qingxu had said, this spatial passage would expand and plunge the whole world into disaster, Lu Ren was merely an uninvolved passerby.

He only needed to hide somewhere for seven days, or simply flee the city.

Chen Guohua's body was heavy. Every step he took as he ran erupted with a dull thud, thud, thud.

He was fast and fierce, and his huge, muscular frame was enough to make an ordinary person suffocate.

Yet Lu Ren's Spirit, which had reached eight points, kept him from panicking in the slightest. Though he was shocked and afraid, such feelings were only natural. Lu Ren could forcibly control his emotions, calm himself down, and face the enemy in his best state.

Against that terrifying body, Lu Ren was like a chick, liable to be trampled to death if he was even slightly careless.

But size was size. In the control center, filled with all kinds of instruments and consoles, Chen Guohua's movements were ultimately hindered.

Lu Ren stepped sideways, twisted his waist, and kicked off hard, leaving his original position. With a flick of his arm, the sword in his right hand shot out like an arrow toward Chen Guohua's eye.

Yet Chen Guohua merely raised an arm. His palm-leaf-sized hand swatted the thrown sword away like a fly, sending it flying as easily as a blade of grass.

Still, it stopped him for a moment, though it lasted less than a second.

But Lu Ren had gained enough time to escape.

Boom!

A dull impact suddenly rang out. Lu Ren turned to look and saw that Chen Guohua had been moving too fast to stop, crashing heavily into the tempered glass of the floor-to-ceiling window.

Several cracks immediately spread across the tempered glass.

What terrifying impact. If Lu Ren had been hit by that, or even merely grazed by it, he could guarantee that he would instantly lose all fighting ability and be left at someone's mercy, just like Xiang Yang.