Professor Zhou was not an Awakened who excelled at fighting.
In fact, he had spent most of his time alone in the laboratory. The Awakened he encountered were all his test subjects. Like a god looking down from on high, he could do whatever he pleased to them.
Later, the base moved from one world to another, and he encountered many Awakened who stumbled into it by mistake. But under the suppression of the Base Runes, they were lambs awaiting slaughter, powerless to resist him.
So he had never suffered a loss as great as this one.
The fierce pain in his abdomen and throughout his head left him furious. He could no longer maintain his usual composure. Only one thought remained in his mind: kill Zhang Ping.
The tall man, Lin Sheng, acknowledged the order and turned toward Zhang Ping. He rolled his neck, making it crack.
"Bastard! I'll tear you limb from limb today!" Professor Zhou stood behind Lin Sheng, wiping the blood from his face with a tissue he had pulled from his pocket.
Zhang Ping smiled. "You say that as if you'd let me go if I hadn't hit you."
Suddenly, Lin Sheng sprang forward. He appeared in front of Zhang Ping as if he had teleported, his enormous fist hurtling toward him.
Zhang Ping's defenses were strong, but he had no intention of taking a blow he could see coming. With so many Base Runes in this base, he could not use his superpowers, while his opponent's had been enhanced. In a head-on clash, he would be the one to suffer.
He turned aside to avoid Lin Sheng's fist, but just as he was about to strike back, golden threads wrapped around his arm. He glanced at them, and Lin Sheng's fist caught him under