Too late!
When they saw Cell use Instant Transmission to close in on Lin Chen and unleash a Kamehameha, everyone had the same thought.
Immediately afterward, they prayed that Lin Chen could dodge it.
But Cell's Kamehameha slammed straight into Lin Chen.
A terrifying explosion thundered across the entire Earth.
Nearly a third of humanity witnessed the energy streaking across the sky.
Since the reporter's camera at the scene had long since been destroyed, no one knew what had happened.
Some even wondered whether aliens had used an extermination weapon to deal with Cell.
"Hahaha! Die! Burn to ashes, Lin Chen!"
Seeing his attack catch Lin Chen, Cell roared wildly and drove the energy within his body even harder.
He pushed his power so fiercely that cracks began appearing across his body.
It was proof of the immense strain caused by unleashing too much energy in too short a time.
But that enormous price made Cell's Kamehameha terrifying beyond measure. Even Lin Chen, who was half a step from the god realm, could not stop it.
And so, before everyone's horrified eyes, Cell's Kamehameha completely engulfed Lin Chen.
When the light faded, only a mutilated corpse remained where Lin Chen had stood.
Lin Chen's upper body had vanished entirely, leaving only his lower half.
"Hahaha! I won! I finally won! I really am the strongest in the world! Hahaha!"
At the sight of Lin Chen's mutilated remains, all of Cell's frustration and resentment vanished, and he burst into triumphant laughter.
As Cell laughed maniacally, the people who had retreated far away stood utterly frozen.
Dead?
Lin Chen had died just like that?
"Impossible! Impossible!" Lazuli shook her head in anguish.
Son Goku and Vegeta wore blank expressions.
Trunks and the others were filled with despair.
*Lin Chen, who had seemed