Chapter 9

Towering skyscrapers rose from the ground, their neon-lit facades illuminating the entire city beneath the night sky.

The city had changed.

Even the sky had changed.

Thirteen-year-old Su Chen naturally knew this was a change brought about by geography, and he soon understood why Reality Warping had brought him to the city before him.

"This is the Manhattan District..."

Su Chen gritted his teeth, a trace of bitterness in his voice.

He remembered the dream he had described to his mother at her bedside. He had dreamed of having a top-class apartment in the Manhattan District, driving the best car, becoming a member of high society, giving his mother the best treatment, and spending the rest of their lives happily together.

But now, his first arrival in this city had come so abruptly, and he was all alone.

The bitterness gradually outweighed the novelty. All Su Chen wanted now was to find his younger sister.

She wasn't in this city.

The two of them had parted in a town on the West Coast.

After he was unfortunately arrested, he had let Su Shan, who possessed the ability to travel through space, escape on her own.

Su Shan definitely wouldn't dare return to their hometown.

As for their vicious aunts and other relatives, eleven-year-old Su Shan had already been unhappy with them, so she wouldn't seek refuge with them either.

When he thought of the clever Su Shan's ability to pass through anything, some of the unease in his heart finally eased a little.

But how was he supposed to get to her?

A way to contact her? None!

Could he only rely on the ability "Reality Warping" to bring her here?

Su Chen thought it over carefully and concluded that only the ability he possessed could fulfill his wish.

"It's just that I can't control this ability whenever I want..."

Su Chen gritted his teeth.

No matter how hard he tried to bring his sister here or take himself to wherever she was, he couldn't make the ability work.

The elusive ability of Reality Warping was extremely difficult to control. The things that had happened before had all been caused by his power erupting out of control. Clearly, he wasn't capable of mastering it at will yet.

"I need to focus on this ability."

Su Chen sighed inwardly.

His undying, indestructible physique held the genetic potential for limitless evolution, but the direction of that evolution was inherently random and uncontrollable. The new abilities that suddenly appeared were entirely the result of random genetic mutations.

Without external stimulation, Su Chen was not yet capable of controlling the direction of his genes' evolution in the microscopic world.

As for the system...

It wasn't a golden finger from a novel and possessed no abilities. Su Chen had merely imitated the way a genius detective built a memory palace in his mind, constructing a system in his own mind to record changes in his genes.

"Maybe I can only do it when my emotions get intensely out of control?"

Su Chen was a little dejected. He wasn't one of those emotionally volatile women on TV, so how could he suddenly make himself lose control of his emotions? Besides, it might not even work.

Rumble...

Just then, a more immediate problem made itself known. His stomach was growling with hunger.

Looking at the late-night snack shops on the distant street, Su Chen caught a wonderfully sweet scent with his increasingly keen sense of smell, and his mouth began to water.

So hungry...

But he was penniless. He didn't have even a dime.

Rob someone?

Su Chen felt as though a tempting voice had appeared in his mind, urging him to steal and rob. The world was vast, and nothing could stand in his way.

But when he looked at the little girl working hard in the shop, Su Chen felt a pang of conscience.

"They're all poor people..."

Su Chen shook his head. A girl who might have been even younger than him had to work in a shop all night long. It was truly heartbreaking.

His mother had taught him to have empathy and be a good person.

Su Chen suddenly realized that robbing people as he pleased wasn't such a good thing after all.

"Hey, kid..."

Just then, a voice came from nearby, and a teenager in a denim hoodie walked over.

"Hungry, aren't you? You don't look so good. One look at you and I can tell you ran away from home."

He was holding a bag of doughnuts, which he promptly thrust into Su Chen's arms.

Su Chen looked a little bewildered. The stranger's overly familiar manner did make him somewhat uncomfortable, though his torn clothes did make him look like a runaway.

"This..."

He wasn't quite sure how to respond.

"Go on, eat. Don't be shy. I ran away from home a few years ago too, so I know how you feel. Don't worry, there are plenty more doughnuts. Don't worry about me not having enough to eat."

The overly familiar teenager acted like a big brother.

Just then, another voice came from deep inside the pitch-black alley.

"Hey, Matthew, what's taking you so long? Hurry up and come watch the show."

"Got it."

Matthew called back.

A show?

Su Chen was a little puzzled.

"Kid, don't tell me you don't know. It's a nightclub stripper show, only available in secret little places tucked away in alleys. You can't miss it. Come see it with me before you go home."

Matthew invited him right away.

A stripper show?

Su Chen had seen some clips on adult TV channels, but his sister Su Shan had always changed the channel with a stern look on her face. The hormones coursing through his growing body also made him very interested.

This overly familiar big brother was so kind and had even given him doughnuts. Su Chen felt a warmth in his heart, and he couldn't bring himself to refuse.

There really were good people in this world!

Full of delight, he followed the older boy for a few steps.

But...

His increasingly powerful body had also sharpened his senses. Not only his sense of smell but his hearing had improved too, and he heard some hushed words from deep inside the alley.

The next second, Su Chen's youthful face grew colder, a cruel shadow spreading across his expression.

He stopped in his tracks.

His cold eyes, filled with killing intent, settled on the back of the figure ahead of him.

The world wasn't worth it.

"Can you tell me what human organ trafficking is?"

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Chapter 9

After the young Su Chen had walked out of the experimental base, he had been somewhat disheartened.

Having arrived alone in an alley in the district, he had met a kindhearted big brother. The warm doughnuts and even the adult show the other boy had described had filled Su Chen with delight and anticipation.

There were still good people...

But the next second, the warmth in Su Chen's heart vanished without a trace.

The nuclear explosion had been like a tempering. Under that intense stimulation, not only had his physical strength grown increasingly terrifying, but his powers of perception had grown terrifying as well.

His keen sense of smell had allowed him to catch the sweet scent of late-night snacks from the distant street.

And his equally sensitive hearing had suddenly picked up the whispered conversation of strangers inside the alley.

There was no secret little shop deep in the alley, and no stripper show.

Instead, there was... an illegal private clinic.

"Six thousand dollars, and all the organs in that kid's body are yours."

The stranger who had called out to the older boy earlier was whispering.

A rough, cold voice also came from the establishment hidden in the darkness. The two exchanged words, reaching an agreement in hushed voices.

Su Chen, a lost lamb, was so ignorant, caught deep in Matthew's deception.

If he had been a drifter with no abilities, he would likely have met a tragic end.

Unfortunately for them...

"What are you talking about?"

Matthew turned around, his expression completely natural. Although he had no idea how the boy had seen through the scam, the difference in strength brought about by their age gap meant he wasn't the least bit worried.

On the contrary, he looked at Su Chen with a hint of mockery in his eyes, as though watching an insect caught in a spiderweb. Struggling would only make the other party die faster.

"Ugh..."

But in less than an instant, his expression froze. His hands clutched desperately at his neck, and his face turned a liver-like red.

No!!

Matthew roared in his heart.

At that moment, he felt as though an invisible hand had clamped around his neck.

Before another second had passed,

a sharp pain shot through his heart.

"Ah..."

His cry of pain was swallowed in his throat, and he could barely make a sound. What made him even more desperate was that his heart, too, was being gripped tightly by an invisible, intangible hand.

It hurts!!

It hurt so much.

Matthew's gaze grew increasingly terrified as he looked at Su Chen, as though he were seeing a demon. He wanted to beg for mercy, but he couldn't utter a single word.

His face as red as liver, Matthew fell to his knees. He reached out both arms, trying to grab the other boy and begging for pity, but the gesture angered Su Chen. He didn't want such a shameless, despicable villain touching him; it would disgust him.

So...

"Go to hell."

Su Chen stepped coldly past him and headed deeper into the alley.

Matthew collapsed completely, his neck twisted like a pretzel and the heart inside his body crushed into a pool of blood.

"Huh? Matthew, what...?"

Only then did the figure who had been haggling emerge from the private clinic. Although the alley was dimly lit, a whole person lying on the ground was still easy to spot.

Even stranger, the child they had tricked was walking toward him alone.

"You..."

His expression changed, and suddenly he felt both feet leave the ground.

"Hey, hey, hey! What's going on?"

He cried out in alarm, his arms and legs flailing in the air like a drowning man's, a truly comical sight.

Su Chen stepped out of the shadows and gave him a cold look. He had long since thrown the doughnuts from his arms onto the ground, and now killing intent surrounded him.

Bang!!