"Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit!"
"Dong, quick, look at this!"
In their dorm at the International Scientific Research University, Zhang Meng looked at the video his friend had just sent to his phone and jumped straight out of bed.
"What is it? Why are you so worked up? Still watching those stupid monster videos?"
Lü Dong, who had just lain down and closed his eyes, struggled up, somewhat speechless.
But after leaning over for just one look at Zhang Meng's phone, he, too, was utterly dumbfounded.
"Does this thing look a little familiar to you?"
Zhang Meng asked.
"More than a little..."
The corner of Lü Dong's mouth twitched.
The video had been filmed by someone leaning out of a building's window.
In the slightly shaky footage, a crowd first came running down the street, screaming in terror, with a bulgingly muscular, wolf-headed humanoid monster in hot pursuit.
Then a figure in a black Combat Uniform pushed against the flow, passed through the crowd, and planted himself between the two, saber held crosswise like a lone warrior holding a pass.
One slash cut across the Giant Werewolf's abdomen. Then, like a phantom, he held his saber down and darted behind it, nearly disemboweling the Werewolf Giant alive.
Most importantly, that tight-fitting Combat Uniform with its hood and scarlet V-shaped faceplate was far more than familiar to them. They had personally designed and built every bit of it.
"Could Xu have gone off to shoot a movie in the Graphene Combat Uniform at some point?"
Lü Dong turned his head stiffly and asked a ridiculous question that even he did not believe.
"Do you think that's possible? The Combat Uniform isn't even finished. It's been lying in the activity room all this time."
Zhang Meng was speechless.
"So this video