Chapter 10 / Chapter 11

The figure suspended in the air suddenly swelled like a balloon, as though someone were frantically pumping air into his stomach. His entire body grew increasingly spherical.

"No!!"

Unable to control his own body, he screamed in panic.

The next second...

Bang!!

The human balloon burst apart, sending a bloody rain pouring down. Su Chen casually blocked it all with telekinesis held above his head.

A heavy thud came from a room off the alley. Clearly, someone inside had heard what happened and slammed the door shut in terror.

Through the door, Su Chen's keen hearing picked up every sound of panicked footsteps, a gun being loaded, and heavy breathing.

Hum!!

He raised his right hand, and an invisible wave of telekinetic force rippled out. The door before him shattered like a thin sheet of cardboard, sending wood chips flying.

"Bastard, take this..."

The owner of the private clinic, who had been waiting for this, raised the shotgun in his hands and squeezed the trigger hard with his right hand. But no muzzle flash appeared.

Crack!!

The entire shotgun fell apart, as though a master gunsmith had dismantled it.

"Shit..."

The clinic owner panicked. He snatched up a scalpel at hand and kept backing away, screaming in terror, begging for mercy and pleading for forgiveness.

Su Chen had no desire to hear exactly what he was saying.

His gaze was fixed on the scalpel clutched in the man's hand. In that instant, he recalled scene after scene from the laboratory, where the doctor in a white coat had boasted that he would use a scalpel to dissect his head.

The sight brought those memories back, and rage suddenly surged through the otherwise impassive Su Chen.

"Die!"

For some inexplicable reason, the power to rewrite reality suddenly activated. The owner of the illegal clinic collapsed entirely, every inch of skin and flesh turning into simple cells and molecules that dissipated into the air.

A single word decided life and death!

The appearance of these people also completely dispelled the last trace of goodwill in Su Chen's heart.

The humans of this world seemed beyond saving.

P.S.: Thanks to Moshang Yanyu for the 100 tip!!

Chapter 10

Under the power of reality rewriting, the figure of the illegal doctor before him vanished as though erased with an eraser, turning into a puff of gray mist that disappeared.

Clink!!

The scalpel he had clutched in panic fell from the air, landing with a crisp sound.

A single word decided life and death.

The poor fellow vanished from the face of the earth, not even his bones remaining.

Su Chen walked into the illegal clinic tucked away in the alley. Though he was young, he had heard rumors about the trafficking of human organs.

Selling one's kidney to buy a phone could only be called an act of utter stupidity.

But tricking someone out of their organs for no reason was simply unforgivable, impossible to pardon in the slightest.

"Scum like that shouldn't be allowed to live in this world."

Su Chen cursed.

He looked around the clinic. The square room was piled full of clutter, with an operating table in the center and chilling surgical instruments arranged on either side.

The walls were covered with X-rays and color photographs.

His keen sense of smell also caught the scent of blood coming from a partitioned room. Su Chen frowned. This clinic had probably already done the same to other people.

What damned scum!

For a moment, thirteen-year-old Su Chen felt a trace of disgust for the city he had dreamed of since childhood.

"Money..."

Su Chen looked at the stacks of bills in the drawer. He felt no shame whatsoever about taking such ill-gotten gains.

After everything he had been through, he had realized that behind the warmth of the world lay the rules of the strong preying on the weak.

Without his genetic potential for infinite evolution, his immortal constitution, a gift from heaven, would probably have left him a specimen in someone else's laboratory.

Even if he had made it through that ordeal, without sufficiently powerful abilities, his young and naive self would have been fooled by the city's sinister schemes.

The world was treacherous!

People's hearts were impossible to fathom!

Su Chen stuffed an entire stack of cash, more than ten thousand dollars, into his pants pocket.

Then...

He put on a coat to cover the somewhat tattered clothes underneath and walked out of the illegal clinic, his tall, slender figure heading down the alley toward the street.

With the money, he first went to a shopping mall on the street outside.

Su Chen clearly needed a new set of clothes.

Before long, following his own tastes, he had dressed himself in a black hoodie and a pair of loose casual pants.

After washing his face, Su Chen looked very handsome despite his somewhat youthful features. His smooth, long black hair hung down, giving him the air of a boy mature beyond his years. But his clear, dark eyes held a coldness that gave him an aloof, unapproachable air.

A saleswoman had wanted to tease the handsome boy who had come alone, but one look at his icy expression made her afraid to say anything more.

After paying, Su Chen walked out of the mall.

Of course, he hadn't forgotten to buy himself a new phone.

With his black hood up and earphones in both ears, he studied the phone in his hand with complete concentration, a serious look on his handsome, sharply defined face. If he had also carried a skateboard under his right arm, Su Chen would have looked just like a cool street kid.

Even so, his appearance drew the attention of quite a few girls on the street, many of whom turned to look back at him.

"He's so handsome."

"Way more handsome than those clueless boys at our school."

"The way he's concentrating, and that cold look on his face—he's so cool."

Some women passing by whispered among themselves.

On the neon-lit streets of Manhattan, plenty of party animals were already heading to nightclubs. Seeing such a cool boy all alone, some women were eager to approach and try their luck.

"Little brother, are you old enough to drink? Want me to take you out for some fun?"

A pretty office worker in a white dress shirt came over to flirt with him.

Su Chen shook his head coldly, turned up the volume on his phone, and walked away as though no one else were there.

"What a heartless little brat..."

Disappointed, the pretty office worker turned and left.

Following a scent he had picked up, Su Chen gradually quickened his pace. Soon, he arrived outside a shop.

"One bag of doughnuts, please."

The cash in his hand was soon exchanged for a bag of delicious doughnuts. As for the food that vicious person had given him earlier, he had long since thrown it on the ground, unwilling to eat another bite.

In the empty restaurant, Su Chen sat on a soft cushioned bench, swallowing the delicious doughnuts.

At that moment, this was the happiest he had been in more than half a month.

Damn it, before this, he hadn't even been able to breathe a breath of fresh air.

His hunger was soon satisfied, and Su Chen's immediate priority was to plan his life and goals from here on.

This was a good habit he had inherited from his mother.

He had to allot time for everything that needed doing each day, keeping it all clearly organized and doing his best to finish his schoolwork and deal with everyday matters within the allotted time.

First, naturally, was his younger sister.

Second was revenge.

He had lost her contact information, and Manhattan, on North America's east coast, was an entire continent away from the west coast. With no way to contact her, no identification, and not even being an adult, he couldn't find a convenient way back.

Besides, his old home was bound to be unsafe, and Su Shan had no reason to be anywhere near it.

At the thought of his little sister Su Shan blinking her eyes, looking every bit like a sly little fox, a smile gradually appeared on Su Chen's impassive face. The little girl who had given him so many headaches in the past wouldn't be captured so easily.

Somehow, Su Chen always felt that his sister was in no danger at all.

It was an intuition, and also an unknown sense on a spiritual level.

It was as though, if something happened to her, he would be sure to sense it.

Su Chen remembered when his mother had died of illness. The warning he had sensed beforehand had left him deeply distressed and anxious, and in the end he had watched his loved one pass away in silent grief and helplessness.

He shook his head and buried those painful memories in his mind.

"Then what about revenge?"

Su Chen's expression turned cold again.

In fact, after he was captured, the first base he was taken to wasn't the large experimental facility on the snowy plains. It was only after less than two days that he was transferred to another experimental base.

As for the man who had carried out the operation to capture him and his sister, and who owned the first experimental base, Su Chen remembered his name very clearly.

"General Stryker..."

Even a search on his phone's web browser could clearly display the general's illustrious record, item by item.

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Chapter 11

William Stryker!

It was a famous name, known throughout the world.

His most notable achievement was having offended the entire Mutant race. Erik, the extremist known as Magneto, hated him to the bone, and even the conservative Mutant Professor Charles had considerable grievances against him.

By searching on his phone, Su Chen learned about the Mutant race through entries related to "General Stryker."

According to what Professor Charles had always said, every human body might possess an X-Gene. The difference was that a Mutant's X-Gene was fully expressed, which was also why an ordinary couple could have Mutant children.

"I'm not a Mutant..."

Su Chen frowned slightly. That was also why he had suddenly been transferred to another experimental base.

Even so, he felt a trace of goodwill toward Mutants, who possessed supernatural powers. Perhaps it was empathy at work; after all, they too suffered unjust oppression.

Thump!!

Just then, a bottle of lemon soda was placed on his table with a crisp sound.

"Hey, who eats a whole bag of doughnuts without getting thirsty?"

A girl with her golden hair in two ponytails teased him.

She had been sitting across from the counter earlier and had taken quite an interest in the handsome little boy who loved doughnuts so much.

Curiosity was written all over Mindy's delicate face as she said, "It's so late. Aren't you going home? Have you finished your homework? Don't you have school tomorrow?"