Chapter 27
Buzz!!
But when the incredibly sharp blade came within a few centimeters of Su Chen's back, a faint, hazy ripple blocked it.
The force behind the descending blow slowly faded. The assassin felt his wrist go weak and immediately realized that his opponent was absorbing his power.
Damn it!!
He cursed again, and in less than a second, he slipped entirely into space, vanishing from Su Chen's sight once more.
"He sure runs fast."
Su Chen frowned.
At that moment.
A teleporting figure flickered in and out of existence all around him, constantly firing at various vital points on his body. Whenever Su Chen spotted him, he fled at once, vanishing into thin air.
"Is that one of General Stryker's men?"
Tony, soaring through the air, was also a little surprised, but he quickly realized whose subordinate the sudden intruder was.
Everyone in the area surrounding the nuclear blast had long since been evacuated. All the personnel arriving now were special forces sent as reinforcements.
There were quite a few superheroes among them.
But the first personnel to take over were a special forces unit under General Stryker.
In the past, the brothers Wolverine and Sabretooth had risked their lives in Stryker's service as members of this unit.
Now that he had obtained the vast majority of Mutant X-Genes, General Stryker had even incubated and created a considerable number of elite soldiers.
Most Mutants' X-Genes could manifest only one ability.
Mutants like Jean Grey, who manifested two or more abilities, such as telepathy and Telekinesis, were extremely rare, and even that was thanks to the development of the Phoenix Force.
But under General Stryker, the newest Weapon X soldiers had successfully combined multiple superpowers.
Invisibility and teleportation!
The assassin before him jumped in and out of Su Chen's sight with ease.
"We're taking over the scene."
On the ground not far away, several military armored vehicles came to a halt, and several figures in black tactical vests stepped out.
General Stryker had his concerns and did not dare come to the scene.
Of course, one of his Weapon X Force units had already arrived.
Su Chen naturally did not know that the new arrivals were all General Stryker's subordinates.
But...
He now knew perfectly well that fighting was driving him to evolve at a rapid pace.
In particular, stimulated by his enemies' various abilities, his infinitely evolving undying constitution seemed to have found the right direction for its mutations, beginning a brand-new transformation within his body.
[Awakened: Spatial Detection]
In a short time, Su Chen's clear eyes, with their distinct black pupils and white sclera, underwent another brand-new change.
This time.
He could see the tangible spatial structures around him.
Conceptual structures such as the warps, folds, and gaps in space appeared before his eyes, and he also caught sight of the figure hiding within a fold in space.
"How noisy."
Tap!!
Su Chen pushed off with his right foot, instantly cracking a crater in the ground, and shot forward like a cannonball.
"Die!!"
He thrust the broken blade he had snapped off with his right hand earlier into the empty space before him. As luck would have it, the assassin had just teleported there and, as if delivering himself to his death, put his forehead right against the broken blade.
Pfft!!
The sturdy Adamantium blade pierced straight through his skull.
"This is impossible..."
Right up until his death, he did not understand what had happened, and his consciousness faded completely.
He dropped dead on the spot!
Chapter 27
Uh...
Until the moment he died, the assassin never understood how his opponent had predicted where he would appear the next time he teleported.
It was too hard.
He went straight to hell, still confused and bewildered.
"JARVIS, did you notice what just happened?"
"Sir, I could not discern it immediately."
Tony Stark, soaring through the air, frowned.
He had an uncertain realization: the youth on the ground seemed to be constantly learning in battle, drawing nourishment from it and beginning to evolve.
The thought sounded utterly absurd.
But then he thought of how the wanted youth had gone from being caught off guard when first facing the teleporting assassin to suddenly springing into action and killing him.
That ruthlessness, that decisiveness.
It sent a chill through Tony's heart. Perhaps this enemy was even harder to deal with than he had imagined.
But in any case, now that General Stryker's men had arrived, Tony could only wait helplessly in the air.
"There's something strange about the enemy. Everyone, be careful."
The personnel who had stepped out of the military armored vehicles quickly went on alert.
"It's all right. I guarantee he'll be a meat patty soon."
An obese man with a barrel-like waist gave a strange laugh.
Without exchanging any pleasantries, he charged at Su Chen, who was not far away, alongside a thin man beside him.
At the same time, a wave of psychic energy, without the slightest visible ripple, invaded Su Chen's mind.
Hmm...
Su Chen frowned.
At that moment, he felt a surging wave of psychic energy flood his mind, stabbing into his head like countless sharp needles.
Not only that, a piercing sonic attack also assaulted his ears.
Unfortunately, he had become completely immune to sonic attacks powerful enough to pierce other people's eardrums after facing General Ross last time.
As for the psychic attack...
In less than a second, his infinitely evolving mutant genes had already transformed and developed a corresponding ability to counter it.
[Awakened: Mental Barrier]
The psychic pain stabbing into his head like sharp needles vanished at once.
Even the psychic waves attempting to alter his will were completely shut out by an invisible barrier in his mind.
"You have quite a few abilities."
A hint of interest appeared on Su Chen's impassive face.
He liked nothing more than fighting ability users.
"Damn it!"
Banshee and Mind Catcher looked at each other, unable to believe that their combined attack had been completely nullified.
But the trace of pain their opponent had endured just now had not seemed fake...
Mind Catcher frowned deeply.
Boom!
The ground shook as the obese, barrel-like man charged right up to him.
"Be a good little brat and get down."
The man codenamed Fat reached out with his fat hand.
Although he had noticed that Mind Catcher's attack had suddenly stopped working, the situation before him was not enough to make him halt his attack.
In an instant.
His physique swelled dramatically, as if all the fat on his body had suddenly multiplied. In the blink of an eye, a giant monster several meters tall came into view.
Fat's ability was super endurance, and he was known as a monster best able to withstand attacks.
Supporting him, a thin figure charged in from the side. He was the crucial assassin.
Compared with Fat, Su Chen's combat instincts clearly registered a hint of danger.
Clearly, the other man's unknown ability posed a certain danger.
"Get lost!"
At a thought from Su Chen, a tremendous surge of Telekinesis burst forth and slammed into the obese giant before him.
The other man's fat-filled body caved in and jiggled wildly. Somehow, the force striking his body was all dissipated, and the air cannon blast, powerful enough to shatter a heavy tank completely, only knocked him back a little over two meters.
[Telekinesis beginning to transform...]
Su Chen ignored the fat guy.
His face serious, he looked at the figure charging in from his side and saw a tremendous power of disintegration surge over the man's arm.
Master of Disintegration!!
His ability could break all tangible and intangible matter apart, reducing it to the simplest molecules and atoms.
Su Chen felt no fear, nor did he show the slightest hesitation.
On the contrary...
Facing the charging enemy, Su Chen, full of fighting spirit, suddenly rushed at him. Energy swirled around his body, while his Telekinesis formed an invisible coat around him. He raised his fist and slammed it toward the thin man charging at him.
Bang!!
The man in front of him was sent flying like a broken doll.
Crack!
But a web of fine cracks also burst open across Su Chen's striking fist, and faint traces of blood appeared. His body, tempered by a nuclear blast, was no ordinary thing.
If his Telekinesis and the energy around his body had not added two layers of protection, his opponent's terrifying power of disintegration would probably have done him considerable damage.
[Body cells beginning to transform...] [Physical strength beginning to increase...]
At that moment, his infinitely evolving genes also began developing resistance to it.
His opponent could disintegrate matter into the simplest molecules and atoms, so the molecular density of his body would become correspondingly more compact, and his overall physical strength began advancing to a whole new level.
The fine wounds on his fist had completely healed in less than an instant.
Of course...
In that short time, Su Chen's Telekinesis had also successfully completed a brand-new transformation.
[Awakened: Telekinesis Molding]