Super-Speed Healing!

They'd been discovered.

Solomon sighed inwardly and stopped stalling.

He abruptly broke free of Frenchie's hand, stepped forward to unlatch the iron door, and shoved the unsuspecting Frenchie hard away with his other hand.

"NO!"

At the sight, the guard outside the door's pupils contracted, and he screamed in terror.

The instant the iron door swung open, Kimiko, who had been curled up with her head bowed, suddenly looked up.

Her frail, helpless air vanished entirely. A chilling, scarlet ferocity instantly blazed in her eyes, her whole body radiating viciousness as she shot forward like an arrow loosed from a bow.

Butcher reacted swiftly. The instant Solomon moved, he reached out and pulled the stunned Hughie behind him to shield him.

Everyone backed away, and no one blocked her. Kimiko charged through the iron doorway unhindered and lunged straight at the approaching guards.

A sudden barrage of gunfire erupted. Bullets struck Kimiko squarely in her torso and limbs, instantly tearing through flesh and leaving hideous, bloody holes as blood gushed out.

But Kimiko seemed incapable of feeling pain. Without slowing in the slightest, she continued charging fearlessly forward.

Her body's defenses were not particularly strong, falling short even of an ordinary superhuman's, but her extraordinary vitality and ferocity far exceeded what most people could imagine.

In an instant, she reached the first guard. Her sharp nails slashed across his neck, her razor-sharp claws tearing straight through his artery.

Before the guard could scream, she slammed him to the ground.

Her eyes blood-red and her frenzy utterly vicious, Kimiko raked her claws across his face and neck again and again, the sound of flesh tearing unbearably grating.

The second guard frantically pulled the trigger, pouring every bullet into Kimiko, but he could do nothing to stop her movements.

The gushing blood and horrific wounds did not affect her killing instincts in the slightest.

Only when the guard on the ground had had his head clawed into a bloody pulp and stopped breathing altogether did Kimiko slowly rise. Without pausing, she turned and lunged at the second guard firing at her.

It was another one-sided, bloody slaughter.

In just a few seconds, the second guard met the same grisly death beneath her claws, his body mutilated and lifeless.

Having witnessed everything, the final guard's psychological defenses completely crumbled before this bloody, unnatural scene.

As he watched Kimiko approach step by step, drenched in blood yet still ferocious, nothing remained in his eyes but utter despair.

He abandoned resistance entirely, raised his pistol with trembling hands, aimed it beneath his chin, and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

Bang!

A single gunshot brought it to an end. The last guard killed himself on the spot, collapsing dead to the floor.

The storeroom instantly fell deathly silent again, with only the heavy stench of blood hanging in the air.

At the very instant Kimiko finished killing and relaxed slightly in body and mind, Solomon precisely threw the halothane in his hand. After it hit the ground, colorless, odorless gas rapidly spread throughout the space.

Kimiko stiffened. The ferocious light instantly faded from her scarlet eyes, and her mind was suddenly overcome with dizziness.

Before she could even register what had happened, her body went limp, and she collapsed unconscious to the floor, completely unable to move.

Ding! Defeated the superhuman Kimiko. Acquired ability: super-speed healing.

With a thought, Solomon immediately opened his superpower panel.

Name: Solomon

Strength: Level 1.8

Energy: Level 1.11

Defense: Level 2.05

Healing: Level 3

Hearing: Level 1.6

Vision: Level 1.1

Speed: Level 3.005

Abilities: carbon-fiber super skin, super speed, bone spikes, self-duplication, spark, levitation, shapeshifting, Ant-Man transformation, super-speed healing

Super-speed healing: rapidly heals all bodily injuries, including regrowing severed limbs, restoring a body severed at the waist, and repairing severe head trauma. As long as more than thirty percent of the brain's tissue remains intact, healing will continue to function. The more severe the injury, the relatively slower the recovery.

Powerful!

An incredibly powerful ability!

As long as the core of his brain wasn't completely destroyed, he could recover perfectly, even from near-fatal injuries or missing limbs.

Decapitation, being cut in half, even having his body shattered-he could regenerate from them all. It was almost like having a second life.

This was absolutely the most top-tier, most unanswerable superpower he had acquired so far!

His margin for error was instantly maxed out, completely freeing him from the risk of dying from near-fatal injuries.

Aside from that, defeating Kimiko had slightly increased all his base attributes, steadily improving his overall strength once again.

His strength had increased by a full 0.3, meaning Kimiko's strength equaled the combined strength of three ordinary superhumans.

In addition, his hearing rose slightly by 0.1 levels, his vision likewise increased by 0.1 levels, and even his speed increased by 0.005!

Kimiko's movement speed was actually a full five times that of an ordinary speed-type superhuman!

During the fight just now, Kimiko had appeared to take several bullets and sustain wounds all over her body, but in reality, she had evaded the vast majority of the bullets perfectly with her extreme movement speed. Those that struck her had only done so because she deliberately ignored them and could not be bothered to dodge.

Her mind held nothing but slaughter. She did not care about flesh wounds at all and only wanted to tear apart every enemy before her.

To control costs and condense the plot, the original series had not depicted Kimiko's true combat strength.

In reality, her speed, explosive power, and ferocity were all pushed to the limit, making her far more terrifying and difficult to handle than she appeared in the show.

Her only weakness was her frail bodily defense.

Her defense did not even meet the baseline for an ordinary superhuman. Bullets from ordinary firearms could easily tear through her flesh.

Looking at Kimiko lying completely unconscious on the floor, powerless to struggle, everyone present let out a long breath of relief, their taut nerves suddenly relaxing.

The bloody slaughter just now had been far too horrifying.

Kimiko had shown none of a human's reason or warmth. Like a bloodthirsty beast freed from its shackles, she would frantically pounce and kill as soon as she got close, ripping and tearing until she had reduced her opponent to mangled flesh. Her savagery was extreme.

Butcher turned to the pale-faced Frenchie beside him and gave his shoulder a heavy pat.

"Good thing you didn't actually go up and try talking to her, or we'd be piecing your corpse back together! Restrain her, then look for clues about Compound V."

Solomon glanced at everyone searching around. To be honest, he did not really want to stay here anymore.

He had come here to defeat Kimiko and acquire super-speed healing.

Now that he had fully achieved his objective and greatly improved his strength, staying here any longer was purely a waste of time.

But leaving outright now would be far too abrupt and could easily arouse their suspicions.

Solomon sighed inwardly and simply stopped dwelling on it.

Since he had nothing else to do, he might as well go through the motions and join the search.

He casually walked over to a pile of miscellaneous items in a corner and rummaged through it, never expecting to actually find something.

A used Compound V syringe.

What followed was much like the original plot. With his keen powers of observation, Butcher soon deduced the truth.

A-Train had risked secretly transporting Compound V here in order to keep injecting Kimiko with it.