Chapter 30

Estimating the straight-line distance to be 2.236 kilometers, and 2 kilometers after descending the mountain, a fierce battle was unfolding. Uh... for now, let's put it that way.

A man with fierce combat skills and heavy strikes was unilaterally beating up a young, slender man. If the young man hadn't turned himself into metal, he would have been beaten to death.

Even so, the man began to search for the young man's weaknesses, trying to deplete his superpowers.

And this young man, Chu Ci happened to know.

"Ah, isn't that the high school student? When did he learn to turn himself into a lump of iron?" Chu Ci supported his chin, lost in thought.

The real situation of the brawling man, who was unaware that the fight had been observed by others, was not as good as Chu Ci imagined. As a middle-aged officer with a comfortable family and a light workload, he neither had the powerful combat skills of a military officer nor carried any thermal weapons. Facing a superpowered individual was simply beyond his capabilities.

As a member of the violent enforcement agency, the officer was well aware of how troublesome the superpowered individuals hidden in the shadows of society could be. Those with weak abilities would naturally behave themselves after a warning from the relevant authorities. However, those with strong abilities would often rely on their power to act recklessly, affecting social stability.

Worse still, some secret research institutes conducted inhumane human experiments, creating artificial superpowered individuals to satisfy their own ambitions, causing even more headaches for governments around the world.

At the moment, the officer was facing a lucky individual who had a 0.03% chance of developing superpowers after taking an enhancer. Fortunately, the ability had just been triggered, and the young man didn't know how to use it, which is why he was being beaten. But now, the young man was gradually gaining experience and began to use his metalized limbs to fight back. How could flesh compete with steel? The officer felt his limbs about to break and could only desperately attack to prevent the young man from counterattacking.

Gao Yuan was almost driven mad. After arriving on the isolated island for three days, he almost died on the first day. After escaping with great difficulty, he was pursued by a black man. He finally managed to hide in a tree, evading the black man's search. When his luck turned, Gao Yuan found a hidden treehouse in the middle of several trees. He immediately hid inside, where there was food and water, allowing him to survive for a couple of days. What made Gao Yuan even happier was that there was a crystal-clear test tube in the treehouse, containing a gemstone-red liquid, along with an instruction manual in a metal cooling box. The test tube's name and function were written on the manual. Gao Yuan was overjoyed, imagining himself as the protagonist of a wish-fulfillment novel. Without hesitation, he took out the accompanying syringe and injected it into his arm, then fainted.

When he woke up, Gao Yuan felt extremely hungry and ate the equivalent of five people's food to replenish his body. After that, Gao Yuan transformed from a wish-fulfillment protagonist to a struggling one, spending two days adapting to his rapidly changing body and the newly acquired but poorly controlled ability to metalize his body.

Gao Yuan left the treehouse with full confidence, thinking that with superpowers, he could rule the world. However, as soon as he stepped out, he encountered a trained tough guy who almost beat him to a pulp.

"Xiao Rui, look, do you recognize that person?" Chu Ci had been observing for some time and could vaguely discern a decisive and resolute military style from the superpowered brawler. Thinking of Cheng Rui's father, whom he had never met, he immediately handed her another telescope to see if she could identify the person so quickly.

Cheng Rui was delighted, took the telescope, and, following Chu Ci's guidance, saw the participants in the almost finished battle. Her hopeful expression quickly faded. "Uncle, that person is not my father."

"Is that so!" Chu Ci glanced and immediately lost interest in observing the fight, no longer caring who won. He started setting up the tent. The space in the insect colony was hidden, but unfortunately, it was too small. Each time he had to fold the tent to save space.

At this moment, Gao Yuan, the newly emerged superpowered individual, whom Chu Ci had deemed as "a character who wouldn't last more than half a minute in a movie and is useless," could no longer continue the fight.

Frequent use of his superpower to metalize his body increased Gao Yuan's physical exhaustion. After nearly half an hour of fighting, he sadly realized that even if he switched to a defensive stance, he couldn't even touch the man's clothes.

The officer, on the other hand, felt like a fool. Knowing that the opponent was as hard as a stone in a latrine, he realized that constant attacks and suppression were futile. Relying on his physical fitness to move around and deplete the opponent's energy was the right strategy.

Their eyes met, and both saw the intention to retreat in each other's faces. Gao Yuan spoke first, "Wait, once I adapt to my superpower, I'll definitely kill you." He turned and left, making it seem as if he had the upper hand. The officer smiled bitterly and left in the opposite direction.

"Achoo~~" Chu Ci rubbed his nose, continued turning the chicken wings in his hands, and enjoyed the view from a high vantage point. The barbecue and cola made it a very pleasant picnic.

If you ignored the corpses scattered on the mountain road...

As for whether the rising smoke would attract unwanted visitors, Chu Ci was prepared. After seeing Gao Yuan's invincible body, Chu Ci began to bind the precisely measured explosives provided by Bond in pairs, increasing the explosive power from a 5-meter kill radius and a 10-meter impact radius to an even greater extent. This was to deal with weaklings like Gao Yuan, who couldn't even beat a soldier.

If ordinary participants came, it wouldn't matter; he would kill as many as came. Chu Ci was quite optimistic.

Unfortunately, Chu Ci's mood wasn't so optimistic the next moment.

"Help, please help me!" "Help~~" Various cries for help in different languages came from the foot of the mountain. Chu Ci didn't even need a telescope; the built-in optical camera in his eyes automatically focused, and he immediately saw the situation at the foot of the mountain.

The group of women who had left less than an hour ago was now returning along the same path. It was more like they were fleeing for their lives, as a group of participants with knives and clubs were chasing them. The brown stains on their weapons indicated that they had been used to kill.

They formed a crescent-shaped encirclement, driving the women to flee but not allowing them to scatter. It was clear that such encirclements had happened many times.

The women were fleeing here for two reasons: one, they knew there was a powerful violent individual (Chu Ci with a gun) here; and two, the smoke from Chu Ci's barbecue had attracted their attention. Since they wanted to eliminate everyone, it was better to drive the women up the mountain and finish them off in one go.

Based on this idea, the pursuers did not approach but only shouted threats, continuously adjusting the women's escape route.

"Truly cooperative!" One of the pursuers thought smugly, as the women mostly fled toward the cliff, except for a few moments when they showed signs of dispersing.

"Uncle~~" Cheng Rui called out worriedly.

"It's fine." Chu Ci reassured Cheng Rui. As long as the pursuers didn't have firearms, no matter how many came, what could they do to him? With the cliff at his back, they only had one mountain path to take, and only they could escape, but Chu Ci would not be overwhelmed by them.

"Save us!" The women were exhausted from running. If they hadn't eaten some beef cans earlier, they would have collapsed halfway.

"Stay back, don't come up!" Chu Ci picked up an M4A1 and stood by the road, coldly warning the women to stay away.

There were, of course, other paths up the mountain, but the rest were either rocky or covered with thorny bushes, making them difficult to navigate.

The women tried to continue running up, but Chu Ci fired a burst into the ground.

"This is the second time."

It was a warning, and a threat.

The women dared not approach and trembled as they hid in the nearby bushes, clearing the path for the pursuers.

"Wait, that guy has a gun!" The pursuers were not the previous loser black gang. Seeing Chu Ci with a powerful weapon, they immediately stopped and looked for cover.

This pause allowed the pursuers to finally see the bodies halfway up the mountain, causing them to draw a sharp breath. Counting the bodies, they realized that more people had died than were in their group, making them even more chilled to the bone.

Seeing the pursuers hesitate, Chu Ci, who was even more anxious, quickly put on a brave front and shouted, "Get out of my place, or I'll shoot you!" He emphasized the word "bullet" to make sure they understood.

This shout temporarily halted the pursuers' retreat. One of them, thinking himself clever, risked a peek and saw "strong on the outside, weak on the inside" written all over Chu Ci's face, which made him even more excited.

"Damn, he's out of bullets! Brothers, charge!" Another, even cleverer, shouted, but didn't move himself, letting his allies take the brunt of the bullets.

Sure enough, some responded to the call and charged. Chu Ci didn't hesitate, shooting them to pieces without conserving ammunition.

The M4A1 made a clicking sound, and seeing that the other pursuers hadn't appeared, Chu Ci shouted, "Xiao Rui, give me the magazine."

Damn, if he really gave him the magazine, it would be a joke! The pursuers, who had already claimed the gun as their prize, were immediately alarmed. "Don't waste my bullets!" They all popped up and charged in a frenzy.

"Idiots!" Chu Ci's voice was clear and audible, as he was now at the optimal distance for the deep red calculation, no longer needing to act.

He threw the M4A1 on the ground, and the pursuers were still puzzled. Chu Ci's hands flicked, and another shiny M4A1 appeared. Even a fool could tell it wasn't out of ammunition.

"Rat-tat-tat-tat~~~" Chu Ci's gun had two types: one with a silencer and a scope, and one without any attachments. He now held the one without attachments, and the muzzle flashed, causing the pursuers to cry out in pain.

After a while, Chu Ci paused.

"He's out of bullets, kill this bastard!" Someone saw hope, thinking Chu Ci had run out of bullets again, and began to encourage his teammates to charge.

Unfortunately, this person was wrong. Chu Ci was actually hesitating whether to use bullets to kill everyone or simply throw a grenade. Hearing this, he immediately decided to continue using the gun, switching to a pistol when the magazine was empty, and mowed down over ten people on the road, leaving them to lie with the earlier black gang.

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