Everyone held their breath; no one had expected that he would point directly to the key figure in the incident the moment they met.
Behind Brian, Rudoston, a bespectacled man with an air more scholarly than warrior-like, remained unmoved and calmly said, "Mr. Vitas, I am Rudoston."
Chen Xiao's gaze settled on me, his tone so calm it betrayed no emotion. "Someone told me that the Lupton Laboratory, which you manage, hired Killer to ambush me, solely to steal my cells and gene samples."
Rudoston forced a smile, "Mr. Vitas, this is actually a misunderstanding."
"A misunderstanding?" Chen Xiao still had a smile on his lips. "Then you'll taste what it's like to be misunderstood."
Before he finished speaking, his right hand suddenly shot out and pressed sharply towards Rudoston from a distance.
boom!
In an instant, a violent energy exploded! Under the palm's reach, space seemed to be gripped and distorted, and an invisible force, like the sky collapsing, pressed down on the spines of the twelve knights.
The ground beneath their feet suddenly collapsed, creating a clear palm print more than ten meters in diameter and several inches deep, with rubble flying everywhere, a sight that shook the soul.
"Careful!"
"Scatter quickly..."
No one expected that Chen Xiao would act so suddenly, and with such a devastating blow.
Several weaker individuals bled from their mouths and noses on the spot, while Brian's clothes were torn and ripped open, revealing the Captain Britain's armor underneath; the veins on his arms bulged, and energy surged from his body, seemingly resonating with the entire island beneath his feet, as he forcefully pushed upwards!
boom!
The Berserk palm strike was forcefully pushed away, but the recoil was like a tidal wave crashing against the shore, causing Brian's expression to change drastically. He slammed one knee down heavily, and the hard concrete floor instantly cracked like spider webs.
Fortunately, his momentary resistance to the attack tore through the lingering force of the palm strike, and the other figures retreated rapidly: those who teleported became afterimages, and those who darted away were like arrows released from a bow.
Even Brian himself had his pupils shrink, and his body flashed with blue light as he disappeared from the spot under a strange pull.
But they escaped, while Rudoston, who faced the blow head-on, turned ashen-faced.
The air around him had been compressed to almost a liquid state, transparent yet gleaming with a cold metallic light, so heavy that even breathing was a luxury.
"You want to kill me?" he roared, lightning crackling around him, azure arcs of electricity swirling and dancing like an enraged dragon.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!!
The lightning bolts slammed into the invisible barrier pressing in from all sides, exploding into bursts of Berserk air currents, yet they couldn't even budge the slowly descending palm.
boom!
With a casual press, Chen Xiao caused the entire airport to tremble violently, sending dust billowing into the sky. In the center of the once flat waiting platform, a huge palm print, several meters deep and over ten meters in diameter, was now clearly visible.
Rudoston collapsed on the spot, his flesh and blood flying everywhere, turning into a pile of unrecognizable fragments, mixed with the gravel and soil at the bottom of the pit, forming a dark red mess.
He probably never expected that he would die so easily, like crushing an ant, casually slapped into the ground by Chen Xiao.
The Knights of Divine Punishment in the distance paled in shock. Brian's eyes were bloodshot as he stared intently at Chen Xiao, his voice hoarse. " Vitas, why are you doing this?"
"Why?"
Chen Xiao glanced at him sideways, his eyes filled with undisguised contempt, his tone laced with incredulous mockery. " Brian, are you out of your mind? How could you ask such a question?"
"He hired someone to kill me, and I killed him in return. Do I even need to ask why?"
Brian's face turned ashen. "You just said it yourself, the message was passed to you by someone else! What if that person is lying? What solid evidence do you have to prove that Rudoston really did it?"
Chen Xiao said calmly, "Whether he's the mastermind or not, you all know better than anyone else. I'm not here today to listen to your reasoning; I'm here to get an explanation."
Brian clenched his fists, his knuckles white, a low growl rising in his throat as he forcefully suppressed the urge to strike, "You've already killed him, what more do you want?"
Chen Xiao looked at the Captain Britain figure before him, whose features bore a striking resemblance to Captain America, and gently shook his head. "To be honest, Brian, I'm quite disappointed."
"Before coming here, I really thought that the Captain Britain, who has been making waves lately, not only had considerable combat strength, but also some brains."
"It turned out he was just a fool who mistook self-pity for justice."
He paused slightly, then his gaze turned icy. "Do you think Rudoston would have dared to spend three billion dollars to hire someone to kill someone without Britain's backing?"
"Or do you think that, as the head of Lupton Laboratory, he only represents himself?"
Upon hearing this, Brian and the others' expressions all darkened.
Especially the woman with her eyes veiled; she suddenly ripped off the veil, her pupils clear and bright, yet instantly filled with horror and despair, as if she had glimpsed something indescribable, and screamed in terror:
"Run! Run now!"
boom!
Before she could finish speaking, the woman named Ruth exploded into a cloud of blood mist.
Before the blood mist had even dissipated, Chen Xiao's figure silently appeared within it, his expression indifferent. "Interesting. Just now, I was indeed 'glanced' at. A precognitive ability?"
"It's a pity, they're too inexperienced."
Ruth's brutal death caused a man in the distance, his mechanical arm gleaming coldly, to completely lose control. He raised his right arm and roared, "You dare kill her?! I'll make you..."
Buzz!
Suddenly, a blinding light shone from the arm, and a scorching laser beam tore through the air, roaring out...
boom!
Before the beam could even take shape, the modified and enhanced knight, who possessed both laser firepower and an extraordinary physique, was blasted into a tumbling mass of debris.
What does it feel like to travel at 100 times the speed of sound?
At this moment, in Chen Xiao's eyes, the world was almost still, with dust motes suspended in mid-air and sunlight falling slowly like solidified golden threads.
The Earth Knight Durand, with a physique as imposing as a mountain, whose stomp could cause the earth to crack and mountains to collapse, was disintegrated inch by inch by Chen Xiao's punch, slowly collapsing.
Sonic Knight Lux cords, mutated due to a mutation, can release high-frequency Quake, instantly shattering all living things within dozens of meters. Chen Xiao brushed past her, casually waving his hand, and a dark rift appeared between her waist and abdomen.
Knight of Light Dietm, specializes in energy absorption and release; the space around him has begun to distort and collapse.
Blast Knight Newport, who lives in symbiosis with machines and can condense plasma fireballs to detonate entire blocks, is now being engulfed by a terrifying fist pressure, his body collapsing and scattering outwards like a sandcastle.
Dragon Knight Whistler, a genetically mutated individual, can transform into a giant dragon over ten meters tall...
Faced with a speed far exceeding the limits of conscious reaction, these top combatants didn't even have time to think before being wiped out one by one by Chen Xiao.
When he finally stood before Brian, the anger on Brian's frozen face was slowly freezing, and a trace of uncontrollable fear quietly seeped into Brian's eyes.
Consciousness couldn't keep up, the body couldn't move, but instinct was frantically issuing warnings—a catastrophic fear originating from the very depths of life.
Chen Xiao threw a punch.
Brian's supposedly "indestructible" Captain Britain suit crumbled inch by inch, countless cracks appeared on his body like a spider web, and blood gushed out like a fountain.
Everything happened in the blink of an eye.
Chen Xiao flashed and was standing in front of Yidileisi and Si again.
boom!!!
In an instant, the knight's body, which had a mechanical enhancement rate of 70%, exploded, and the devastating fist pressure swept in all directions, clearing away all obstacles.
The Knight of Light Dietm, was compressed into a fist-sized mass of blood by the force of spatial collapse, and then exploded, Havok across the sky.
The dark crack that cleaved Lux did not dissipate; instead, it extended into a dimensional rift more than ten meters long, cutting across the entire waiting hall behind her.
Boom! Boom! Boom!!!
The fists raged, space collapsed, and dimensions tore apart; multiple destructive aftershocks exploded, causing the entire London airport building to shake violently.
The ground collapsed, dust billowed, and cries and screams rose and fell, as if the end of the world had come.
No one expected that things would take such a sudden turn for the worse.
Just as Brian's body was cracking and about to be completely crushed by that domineering force, the talisman on his chest suddenly glowed with a ghostly light.
Under the glow of the runes, the flow of time in the surrounding area was noticeably slowed down.
At the same time, illusory light and shadow appeared from the cracks all over Brian's body, his figure quickly becoming transparent and blurry, disappearing without a trace in the blink of an eye.
Spatial teleportation?
Chen Xiao's eyes narrowed slightly, and he raised his hand and clenched it in the air. The space where Brian had disappeared suddenly froze, and circles of silver ripples vibrated at a high frequency.
The hazy image of that otherworldly realm reappeared, growing ever clearer, and finally coalesced into a silver vortex with a diameter of over two meters.
At the other end of the whirlpool floats a star-studded island, like a dream, with all sorts of exotic flowers blooming everywhere. In the very center of the island stands a magnificent palace.
Deep within the palace, a towering pagoda pierces the clouds, firmly enveloped by a golden pillar of light that stretches across heaven and earth, exuding an aura of vastness, holiness, and inviolability.
At this moment, on the edge of the island, an old man holding a long cane and wearing a gray-blue robe stood quietly, his gaze calm as he looked in this direction.
Beside him stood a woman with her hair tied in a high ponytail, dressed in gold-patterned armor inlaid with crimson Crystal that shimmered and danced.
Brian, who had just vanished into thin air, now appeared in the void not far in front of the two, Speed drifting towards the island under the pull of an invisible force.
This scene flashed into Chen Xiao's mind, and he instinctively thought of the wizard Merlin, the legendary Avalon of Avalon, or the Starlight Citadel overlooking all worlds.
Chen Xiao stared at the old man, his tone indifferent. "Want to take him away? Did you ask me first?"
Before he finished speaking, his eyes suddenly lit up.
In an instant, two blinding white beams shot out, tearing through the passage and rapidly expanding, instantly transforming into two Oblivion -level beams of light that crashed down on Brian!
boom!
As the destructive torrent crashed down, Brian, who was suspended in the void, was the first to be hit. The runes around his body trembled violently, and the light flickered erratically, as if he would collapse inch by inch at any moment.
At the critical moment, the old man on the island lightly tapped his fingertip, and Brian's figure flashed, already standing firmly at his feet.