Chapter 3
They felt only an invisible giant hand gripping their hearts tightly. With a bang, the invisible force crushed their hearts completely.
Thud!!
The soldiers all collapsed to the ground. In the moment before their deaths, they stared at the youth before them with faces full of terror, as though they had seen a demon god.
"Incredible! That's even more amazing than Telekinesis. You rewrote reality itself..."
The doctor in white, slumped on the floor, explained excitedly.
"Shut up."
Su Chen's eyes snapped toward him. The doctor's vicious face appeared in his mind, scalpel in hand, ready to cut open his skull. Anger instantly erupted uncontrollably from the bottom of his heart.
"Die, you too!"
As soon as he spoke,
An invisible wave swept through reality once more. The doctor's head exploded like a rotten watermelon, spraying red blood all over the ceiling.
I want to go home!
I want to live!
"No one can stop me."
Su Chen's gaze grew colder as his slender figure stepped down from the operating table. He touched his forehead and found no trace of a wound, immediately realizing that his undying, indestructible constitution was still at work.
But the supernatural powers that had emerged one after another also made him realize that his body was undergoing an entirely new change.
He could not discern the mechanism behind the change.
At that moment, all he could think about was staying alive.
Boom!!
Just then, the laboratory door slammed shut. The steam valve door was several dozen centimeters thick, enough to trap any physically robust Mutant.
To prevent laboratory accidents, the ventilation ducts in the lab had also been fitted with a poison mist system.
Hiss...
Soon, green mist poured from the ventilation ducts, rapidly filling the entire lab. It was a nerve gas potent enough to poison a grown elephant in a single second.
Su Chen frowned. His senses suddenly grew hazy, and he felt overwhelmingly exhausted, as though he were about to collapse.
But in less than a second, the nerve-paralyzing effect began to weaken rapidly.
"I see."
Su Chen's thirteen-year-old mind immediately arrived at a realization: external influences applied to him could stimulate him to rapidly evolve new abilities.
No...
More precisely, his undying, indestructible body also contained a mutant gene for infinite evolution. External stimuli gave his evolution a direction, immediately giving rise to new abilities to counter them.
In the past few minutes alone, he seemed to have displayed abilities such as Telekinesis, reality rewriting, and Man of Steel.
These were abilities he had never displayed before; they had evidently just emerged.
Su Chen now felt himself growing smarter, as though his intellect had undergone a great leap.
To deal with the growing number of special abilities emerging within him, he felt he needed to organize and summarize them.
It was like the child prodigies on television, who could build memory palaces in their minds and store every book they had read inside.
Likewise, the genius detective Sherlock on television could construct a mind palace to manage his memories scientifically and systematically.
Drawing on the novels he had read, Su Chen began constructing a system of his own, one that would unconsciously summarize the changes occurring in his genes.
For example...
[Poison resistance +10] [Poison resistance +10] [Poison resistance +10]
[Master's constitution is now immune to nerve gas and all poisons]
The system Su Chen had constructed had vividly summarized the changes his genes underwent in response to external stimuli.
Nice!!
Su Chen was very satisfied.
Then...
He looked toward the locked laboratory door before him. Surging Telekinesis burst forth, and the steam valve door immediately caved in.
PS: The system didn't choose the protagonist; the protagonist created the system according to his own needs.
Chapter 3
Clang!!
An ear-splitting screech of twisting steel rang out as the steam valve door before him crumpled completely under an invisible force.
Hiss!!!
Streams of vapor immediately erupted from the valve door, which was several dozen centimeters thick. Another surge of Telekinesis swept over it, and with a tremendous crash, the door collapsed, leaving a huge opening large enough for one person to pass through.
"Oh no, he's about to get out."
"Damn it, hurry and call every security guard in the base here!"
"Number 5162 has completely lost control!"
Panicked voices spread throughout the massive research base.
Bzz!!
A piercing alarm rang out. General Marcus hurried away, mobilizing the security personnel throughout the laboratory base to suppress him.
Su Chen then put on a white lab coat and walked out through the broken laboratory door.
After everything that had happened, his youthful face had grown somewhat cold. He wore a stern expression, devoid of warmth, and a chilling killing intent could faintly be seen emerging.
Su Chen wanted to live.
He had promised his deceased mother that he would live!
Anyone who stopped him from leaving the laboratory deserved to die!
"Go to hell, all of you."
Watching the soldiers appear one after another at the end of the corridor, Su Chen's cold, stubborn face was full of killing intent. He no longer cared about morality or good and evil. Now he had only one thought: anyone who stood in his way had to die.
Bang!!!
Bullets came flying from the far end of the corridor. This time, the bullet tips were sharper and capable of piercing armor. Clearly, these people had taken countermeasures against his steel-like skin.
Su Chen's pupils contracted slightly. He raised his right hand, and a surging, invisible wave gathered before him.
[Telekinesis]
He had the system classify this invisible wave of force as Telekinesis.
Under the influence of Telekinesis, the sharp bullets became bogged down as though in a swamp, unable to advance through the air. In the end, they hovered before Su Chen.
"Go back."
With a gentle wave of Su Chen's right hand, the suspended bullets swept out and flew toward the figures at the end of the corridor. Wet piercing sounds rang out as the thick bulletproof vests proved utterly incapable of stopping the armor-piercing rounds. In the blink of an eye, all the figures ahead fell to the ground.
This is all your fault...
Su Chen gazed at the corpses on the ground with his stubborn, youthful face, but felt no disgust.
Anyone who stands in my way!
Has to die!
Bang!!
As soldiers came rushing in, surging Telekinesis sent them flying one after another. Utterly cold, Su Chen even levitated off the ground and sped toward the entrance of the research base, relying on his memories of it.
The piercing alarms kept flashing red, and the noise annoyed Su Chen immensely.
With a single thought, he shattered all the alarms hanging from the ceiling, along with the closed-circuit cameras.
Bzz!!
A door suddenly descended into the corridor ahead, like a mechanism separating the different sections of the research base.
But that could not stop Su Chen.
Crack!!!
Under an increasingly violent surge of Telekinesis, the metal door blocking his path burst apart.
[Telekinesis +1] [Telekinesis +1]
The system's notifications vividly represented the mutation and evolution of his genes.
Su Chen now understood that whenever he used a supernatural ability, it would be honed and would grow, becoming easier to wield. This was evidently his infinite-evolution mutant gene at work.
"This is as far as you go."
As the door collapsed, a towering figure appeared before Su Chen's eyes.
Whoosh!!
In an instant, the figure shot toward him like an arrow. As they passed each other, the sharp blade in his hand sliced straight across Su Chen's waist.
Splurt!!
Blood sprayed out. His Man of Steel, which even bullets could scarcely penetrate, had been sliced open by the other man's blade. The one who had ambushed him was clearly extraordinarily powerful.
Unfortunately...
The splattered blood seemed to be drawn back by a field of force, rapidly flying back to Su Chen's wound. It healed in less than a second.
"Huh?"
The figure who had passed him was dumbfounded. He frowned and once again thrust the bone blade extending from his hand at Su Chen.
Clang!!
This time, the adamantium, capable of piercing any metal plate and said to be indestructible, struck his body and, with a bang, its tip broke off.
"Impossible!"
He stared in disbelief, unable to believe that his adamantium claw, which had never failed him, had broken.
Damn it!
A moment ago, he had been able to cut the boy's skin, so why, in less than a few seconds, had the surface of his skin rapidly developed and become indestructible?
[Man of Steel +5] [Man of Steel +5]
The system in Su Chen's mind had evidently done a fine job of quickly summarizing the changes in his genes.
The opponent who had suddenly attacked possessed a weapon far sharper than bullets. Unfortunately, all these external stimuli were making Su Chen's physique increasingly formidable.
"Get lost!"
Su Chen cursed coldly.
In an instant, the attacker slammed into the wall behind him like a cannonball. The violent impact made the wall collapse, and left him covered in blood.
Su Chen had been about to turn and leave, but he hesitated and glanced at the man, only to find, unexpectedly, that he too had begun to heal.
"You're not the only one in this world who can heal."
The enemy, kneeling on the ground, sneered as he slowly got to his feet.