Chapter 32

"I'd like to see just where the limits of your evolution are."

This was the first time Su Chen had encountered an enemy who grew stronger the longer he fought.

His intense curiosity also sent his fighting spirit soaring.

Unlike his past battles with superpowers, this head-on exchange of blows, every punch striking flesh, made his blood boil all the more. His mind and body were wholly focused, and the feedback of each strike felt incredibly satisfying.

For a moment, Su Chen finally understood why boxing matches were so popular around the world.

Bang!

At that moment, Su Chen was like a tireless fighting machine. Relying on his superior speed, he rained punches down on Hulk.

[Physical strength +10]

[Physical toughness +50]

His infinitely evolving mutant genes caused his strength to surge with every punch he threw.

As he got caught up in the fight, Su Chen even forgot how to dodge.

Trading injury for injury and life for life, he fought Hulk with everything he had.

Soon!

The two clashed more and more frequently.

Hulk was utterly stunned by the beating. After just half a minute, he was retreating more and more, and it was as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over the fighting spirit burning in his heart.

Ever since this personality of his had fully come into being, he could remember no one in the world who wasn't afraid of him.

After all, the angrier he got, the stronger he became, so he had no reason to fear anyone.

But now, the boy before him relied on his undying, indestructible constitution and his infinitely evolving mutant genes, watching his physical strength grow throughout the fight.

Hulk immediately found himself struggling. He felt as though he were fighting an enhanced version of himself.

The wounds on his body multiplied.

The muscles in his arms felt as if they had been filled with lead, making them harder and harder to lift.

He retreated more and more.

The confusion in his heart bred even more fear.

Yes...

At that moment, Hulk truly felt a fear unlike anything he had ever known.

He was afraid.

As a result, his injuries could hardly recover.

He couldn't even summon the will to resist, leaving him completely at Su Chen's mercy as Su Chen pounded him.

"Coward!"

Su Chen laughed.

Bang!

Another punch slammed into Hulk, sending him flying dozens of meters.

He crashed heavily into a pile of rubble. At that moment, he couldn't even get back to his feet, and his body was covered in blood.

No one had expected Hulk to be beaten into submission by Su Chen before he had even met his archenemy, Thanos.

Unlike Hulk, who had completely lost his confidence, Su Chen had successfully transformed his body once again through this battle.

His instincts told him that even without Telekinesis and an energy barrier to shield him, his body alone was enough to withstand the force of a nuclear explosion, and he wouldn't suffer many wounds even at its center.

Before Su Chen could feel the changes in his body,

A tremendous will suddenly descended.

"Enough, child. Look around you. What has become of the city?"

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Chapter 32

"Your fight with Hulk was far too intense. Almost everything around you has been reduced to rubble."

Just then, an immense will descended.

His voice was warm, without a trace of hostility.

"I truly regret not finding you sooner and letting them commit all those crimes. Believe me, I know you're innocent."

Su Chen frowned. He couldn't tell where the voice was coming from at all. There was no hint, no trace of its origin; it had simply appeared in his mind, abrupt and perfectly clear.

For a moment,

Su Chen seemed lost in thought, growing wary as though facing a formidable enemy.

"I'm not an enemy."

As soon as those words fell, Su Chen's surroundings changed completely.

The ruined city around him was gone. He was now inside a palace hall filled with classical splendor.

An elderly figure in a wheelchair appeared before him.

"Professor Charles."

Su Chen recognized him at once.

He had looked up General Stryker's deeds on his phone, and most of the related entries had concerned Professor Charles and Magneto, Erik.

He was a Mutant leader known as the master of minds. People online even said his was the most valuable brain on the entire planet.

With a single thought, and the aid of Cerebro, he could connect to the minds of everyone in the world.

The lives of the vast majority of people could even depend on a single thought of his, subject to his moral judgment of good and evil.

The fact was utterly chilling.

Yet Su Chen felt no fear facing such a being.

He knew that the elderly Professor Charles had pulled him into a mental world.

He felt not the slightest fear of it.

[Mental energy +100]

[Psychic resistance + ]

[Mental Barrier +100]

The system being constructed was clearly displaying the mutated genetic information.

The appearance of the master of minds before him was instead strengthening Su Chen's mental energy and his resistance on the psychic level.

"You shouldn't have approached me this way."

Su Chen's voice was ice-cold.

"No, if I hadn't fallen ill recently, I would have stopped what you were doing right away."

"Everything can still be saved, my child."

Professor Charles still looked every bit the kindly old man as he continued earnestly.

"So you've come to stop me too?"

Su Chen gave a noncommittal laugh.

Less than a second later,

The elegant, stately hall around them began to tremble as though struck by an earthquake.

Professor Charles frowned, knowing that the other party's mental energy was resisting.

This was a mental world to begin with, a mind palace, an illusion he himself had created.

But now, Su Chen had begun to resist.

The carpeted marble floor split open. Dust rained down from the ceiling as slabs of stone came crashing down.

Everything holding the place together began to come loose.

"This..."

Professor Charles stared at the scene before him, his mouth open and his eyes full of disbelief.

He knew that the boy had possessed no psychic abilities of this kind before now.

But now, the thirteen-year-old boy before him was growing steadily taller inside his mental world.

It was a sign of immensely powerful mental energy.

"So what makes you think you can stop me?"

Su Chen sneered.

In a world where mental strength was pitted against mental strength, any fantasy could be made real. What one relied on, naturally, was one's own mental energy.

Stimulated by Professor Charles's psychic power, Su Chen evolved further, not only reinforcing his Mental Barrier but also awakening an understanding of how to use mental energy in his mind.

At that moment, his body became a towering giant.

Like a mighty god, he looked down with radiant eyes at the figure in the wheelchair below.

"Impossible..."

Professor Charles still found it inconceivable. He couldn't understand how a Mutant who had survived a nuclear explosion by absorbing and releasing energy could suddenly develop a psychic ability.

In the fight against Hulk, hadn't this fellow, who showed no sign of combat training, simply relied on the strength his opponent gave him to continually build up his physique and defeat him?

He really hadn't expected the boy's abilities to encompass so many different fields.

"My God..."

Professor Charles could hardly put his shock into words.

He also generally adhered to a principle: he wouldn't casually probe someone's memories without their consent. So, for the moment, he didn't really know what other abilities the boy had.

Of course, he hadn't come here to fight.

Looking at the great godlike figure standing between heaven and earth before him, Professor Charles finally gave a rueful chuckle. "You and your sister really are astonishing."

The moment those words fell,

Su Chen's sky-blotting hand stopped as it reached to seize him.

"What did you say?"

Su Chen found it harder and harder to remain calm.

Under the violent fluctuations of his emotions, the mental world around them collapsed faster and faster, as though the entire illusion would shatter in the next instant.

Professor Charles calmly raised his right hand, and everything collapsing around them quickly stabilized.

"Your sister, Su Shan, has been at my school recently."

"Not only that, when she saw you on television, she immediately tried to stop our X-Men from appearing. She even stopped the others from waking me, so I wouldn't intervene."

That did sound very much like his little witch of a sister.

The little witch with the mischievous, sparkling eyes had been quite a handful in the past.

"You'd better not be lying to me."

After hearing the news, Su Chen could no longer keep his emotions calm.

The next second, he recalled the address of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters that he had seen on his phone before.