Cruelty

At Tilbury Port, workers were carrying small loads aboard a ship, while larger cargo was packed into containers. The container cranes along the dock hoisted them onto the vessel.

March and Lisa were hiding inside a red shipping container. In the sealed container, March was drenched in sweat, and the air was so thin that he could barely breathe.

"March... wipe... your sweat." Lisa reached out and gently wiped his sweat-soaked face. Despite being in the same stifling heat, she showed no discomfort.

Tendrils of flesh resembling tentacles were sprouting from the palm Lisa used to caress March. Her eyes had eerie serpent pupils, and several more pairs of eyes lined her neck. Her appearance alone made it clear that she was no longer human.

Thud-

The container shook violently, and March stumbled into Lisa's arms.

March felt thoroughly embarrassed. He sheepishly looked up at Lisa, only to find her serpent pupils contracting violently. Her lips parted, exposing her fangs as she snarled like a beast at something ahead, as though she had sensed a natural predator.

"March... they're... here. The ones... who smell... like me," Lisa said in an incredibly low voice.

March's expression turned grim as well. The Church of the Flesh had arrived.

Crash-

The container's wall buckled inward like a sheet of paper. A hideous monster over two meters tall, with a mouthful of shark teeth, appeared before them. The torn wall of the container was caught on his hand.

"Found you!!!" Dorn stared at Lisa with a savage grin.

Hiss, hiss, hiss-

Lisa extended her forked tongue and roared in fury. Countless tentacles stretched out from beneath her trench coat and lashed toward Dorn, trying to wrap around him.

Dorn charged excitedly into the tentacles, savagely tearing and biting at the appendages Lisa had grown.

"Lisa, don't get caught up fighting him! We need to go!" March shouted anxiously from within her protection.

Lisa obeyed March. Without hesitation, she wrapped her tentacles around Dorn and flung him aside with all her strength.

Bam!

Dorn smashed into a nearby cluster of containers, but Lisa was not finished. Several sections of her tentacles split off on their own. The severed pieces swelled and writhed on the ground, then formed four humanoid figures over two meters tall. They charged toward Dorn.

Lisa's face grew pale after doing all this, but she still reached toward a mast on the cruise ship. Her arm stretched like rubber until her hand clamped firmly around it.

Lisa held March tightly as the arm gripping the mast contracted.

"Ru-ber!"

A massive fireball struck Lisa's arm from below. She cried out in pain, then plummeted.

As she fell, the tentacles on her body formed a sphere, enclosing both her and March.

Crash-

Their impact left a shallow crater in the ground. The sphere of tentacles opened outward like flower petals, revealing Lisa glaring fiercely at a figure ahead. He was a masked man in a black trench coat, holding a ruby between his right thumb and forefinger. He had fired the fireball.

"Everyone aboard the cruise ship has been alerted. Your turn. If they gather, we'll be the ones in trouble," Xia Xiu told Harry, who was following beside him.

The people aboard the cruise ship had already been alerted. Sailors and security personnel armed themselves with guns and converged on the deck where the commotion was loudest-the place where Dorn was fighting the four masses of flesh.

"Mm. Let's finish this quickly," Harry said in a low voice.

The shadow beneath Harry's feet rose to its feet again, while Harry raised his wooden staff and chanted something.

Muscles began to cover the shadow. Soon, a human figure appeared, his body marked with several kinds of Church of the Flesh runes. He held an enormous meat cleaver, and a rust-covered torture device encased his head. Its hooks dug straight into the flesh of his face, leaving his upper body drenched in blood.

This was a Suffering Flesh Walker fashioned by an Unbreakable.

The Suffering Flesh Walker let out a crazed cry. His voice carried meme contamination with the effect [Cause Madness]. Xia Xiu frowned and took a step back; the contamination had affected him as well.

Lisa set March down farther away, then sprouted even more tentacles. Carrying a fierce gang wind, they lashed at the Suffering Flesh Walker as he charged with his cleaver raised.

Whoosh, whoosh-

Lisa's tentacles moved so quickly that an ordinary person could see only afterimages. Wherever they struck, they punched deep craters into the surface, a testament to their power.

Yet the Suffering Flesh Walker chopped through Lisa's tentacles as easily as slicing vegetables, advancing toward her at a steady pace.

Soon, the Suffering Flesh Walker reached Lisa. He raised his blood-red cleaver and brought it down, severing her head.

"Lisa!!!" March screamed in anguish behind her.

Boom-

Lisa's headless body suddenly exploded, spraying blood all over the Suffering Flesh Walker. The blood then transformed into straight, rigid spikes, pinning him in place.

Lisa's head remained conscious. Her body was merely a component, not her core.

March immediately rushed forward and scooped Lisa's head into his arms. Then he turned and ran toward the ship's railing, intending to jump into the river and escape.

Bang-

A gunshot rang out. March lowered his head blankly to look at his chest. First, there was a red spot. Then a broad stain of blood spread outward, accompanied by searing pain and his gradually fading consciousness.

"March..."

The head in March's arms called out with despair in her eyes.

"Your weakness is far too obvious."

Harry slowly lowered the black handgun, smoke still curling from its muzzle. His heavy eyelids drooped as he stared like a venomous snake at the two fallen figures.

"What is that look in your eyes!"

"As a creation of Adaposs, why do you have such cowardly eyes? Why don't you know your place? How dare you look directly at me like that?" Harry said coldly, staring at Lisa's furious eyes.

Bang-

Bang-

Harry fired two more shots into the struggling March. Lisa roared in fury. Her head transformed into a mass of flesh, then lunged madly toward Harry.

Chop, chop, chop-

At some point, the Suffering Flesh Walker had broken free of the blood spikes. He hacked wildly at Lisa from behind, his cleaver leaving countless afterimages, while she inched toward Harry.

Splat-

The Suffering Flesh Walker brought down his cleaver one last time. Minced flesh littered the area around him, and Lisa once again became a head. He pressed his enormous hand against it, and countless flesh runes crawled from his arm onto her.

The Suffering Flesh Walker seized Lisa by the hair and lifted her, forcing her to face Harry's twisted expression.

"You still insist on maintaining this ridiculous appearance, even now. This isn't your true form. What made you keep a human body all this time? This man?" Harry frowned at Lisa, then spoke to her with a sneer.

"Don't tell me it's love."

Harry walked over to March's lifeless corpse, then mocked Lisa:

"If that's the case, I'll refine his corpse into a BIO Species. Hmm, let's do it right now."

Harry reached toward March's head. Just then, a hand caught his.

"My dear brother, it's time we left," Xia Xiu said with a soft laugh behind his mask, his eyes narrowing slightly.

"I thought you'd keep hiding at a distance and watch the show right to the end," Harry said with an affable smile.

"I trusted you to handle all this yourself. If I stepped in, I'd only get in the way." Xia Xiu felt no embarrassment whatsoever about slacking off.

He had done all the work he was supposed to do. He would not do any extra work that was not his responsibility.

"Then let's go. That idiot Dorn has probably started fighting the sailors. We don't need to bother with him. Let's head back," Harry said.

"You go ahead. I'll catch up shortly."

Harry said nothing more. He had the Suffering Flesh Walker carry him and leap to the opposite bank. With Lisa's head in tow, they gradually receded from Xia Xiu's sight.

Xia Xiu turned back to March, who lay on the ground, following Heaven's instructions.

Alive, they wanted the man; dead, they wanted his body. He had to deliver the corpse to Eden.

Not only had he collected Harry's payment while slacking off, but he had also completed a task for his old employer along the way. Getting two meals out of one fish felt absolutely wonderful.

Xia Xiu carried March's corpse off the cruise ship and took it somewhere secluded. He laid the body down and began searching it. His personal loot could not be handed over to Eden.

With practiced efficiency, he stripped the corpse of every valuable possession;

A wallet containing a check for 10,000 Youyang Currency, plus ten 100-denomination Youyang Currency notes.

A small booklet-"Experiment Diary."

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