aircannonsinc Chapter 62 You call this lump of rotten flesh a god?
Chapter 62 You call this lump of rotten flesh a god?
Lobby on the first floor of the Huanyu Building.
A pungent stench mingled with the smell of dead rats from the sewers, wafting out through the titanium alloy door that Lu Yuan had stomped on.
The crystal chandelier on the hall's dome had long been turned off. Only a few emergency red lights in the corners were flashing, illuminating the entire space like a bloody slaughterhouse.
More than two hundred fully armed scavengers gripped the triggers tightly. Cold sweat dripped down the edges of their gas masks.
They didn't even dare to breathe loudly.
The noise of the door shattering was too loud. Coupled with the four corpses of their companions lying outside, anyone with a brain would know that the boy who entered was definitely not someone their ragtag bunch could handle.
The only hope lies with the experimental subject, codenamed "Zero," who is crouching at the very front.
That was a monster that the S.H.I.E.L.D. had spent three years forcibly creating using fragments of dozens of high-level demonic beast genes. Although it was a semi-finished product, in terms of physical strength, it was already infinitely close to the legendary divine realm in the Chinese martial arts world.
"Kill it."
I don't know who shouted that on the communication channel.
The mountain of flesh crouching on the ground suddenly moved.
Subject Zero's powerful hind limbs slammed into the polished marble floor, creating a large crater. He resembled a cannonball covered in fleshy growths, hurtling straight towards Lu Yuan.
In mid-air, the monster's gaping maw opened, revealing rows of shark-like barbs. It lunged at Lu Yuan's head.
Lu Yuan stood still, without even lifting his eyelids.
He stared at the mass of mangled flesh rushing towards him. His nostrils twitched slightly.
The monster's genes were too mixed. It had the coarseness of a green-haired water ape and the ferocity of a fire lizard. But deep within this chaotic aura, Lu Yuan detected an extremely subtle scent.
It was a golden aura carrying a scorching heat.
"No wonder this pile of rotten genes didn't collapse on the spot. It turns out it was forcibly held together by a drop of the three-legged golden crow's thin bloodline."
Lu Yuan quickly came to a conclusion.
The three-legged golden crow. That's a top-tier true spirit bloodline in the cultivation world. Although the bloodline contained within this monster is so thin as to be negligible, it's still a being of a lower dimension compared to a spiritually barren place like Earth.
The S.H.I.E.L.D. conglomerate... their reach extends much further than he imagined.
Just as the monster's foul-smelling mouth was about to bite into Lu Yuan's scalp.
Lu Yuan slowly raised his right hand, palm up, towards the zero test subject in mid-air. He gave it a light, loose squeeze.
"Snap"
There was no gas explosion. There was no roar.
It was like popping a water balloon filled with red paint.
The Zero test subject, impervious even to armor-piercing bullets, abruptly paused in mid-air for a fraction of a second. Then, its entire body, from the inside out, exploded into a fine cloud of blood mist.
Not even a single bone fragment remained.
The flying blood and bits of flesh hadn't even had a chance to hit the ground before they were repelled by an invisible layer of protective energy surrounding Lu Yuan. Not even a speck of dirt got on the laces of his white sneakers.
Lu Yuan's fingers made a precise pinch in the void.
From the exploded cloud of blood mist, a tiny drop of blood, dark gold in color, was forcibly extracted.
The drop of blood was extremely hot to the touch. A small, golden flame, the size of a fingernail, was even burning its surface, attempting to scorch Lu Yuan's finger.
"She has quite a temper."
Lu Yuan snorted coldly. With a flick of his fingertips, his Mahayana-stage spiritual power extinguished the golden flame. He then casually tossed the blood bead into his Nine Heavens Storage Ring.
This stuff has a lot of impurities, but if I take it home and purify it, it'll make a nice little something extra for my sister to add to her soup.
A deathly silence fell over the hall.
More than two hundred scavengers, peering through the lenses of their gas masks, watched helplessly as the conglomerate's most prized ultimate weapon was crushed on the spot by this high school student as easily as an ant.
Someone started chattering uncontrollably. The electromagnetic rifle in their hand clattered to the ground.
"Monster...this is a monster!"
One of the cleaners, with poor mental fortitude, couldn't hold back any longer. He let out a piercing scream and turned to run towards the emergency exit deep inside the hall.
That scream was like lighting a powder keg.
The remaining scavengers completely collapsed. Formation and firepower coverage were thrown to the back of their minds. Everyone scrambled and stumbled in all directions, wishing they had more legs.
Lu Yuan flicked his wrist.
He did not pursue the scattered henchmen.
His gaze pierced through the thirty-plus stories of reinforced concrete above, locking onto the scarred man in the rooftop conference room, still breathing heavily.
"Don't worry. I'm coming to find you."
Lu Yuan lightly tapped the floor with his toes.
"boom"
He transformed into a blur, rising directly from the ground.
He didn't take the stairs or the elevator.
Just like that, straight and tall, with his peak Golden Core physical body, he forcefully smashed through the ceiling of the first floor.
The reinforcing steel bars snapped. The concrete collapsed.
Second floor... tenth floor... twentieth floor... thirtieth floor.
The entire Huanyu Building, from the first floor to the top floor, was rammed by Lu Yuan, creating a straight vertical passage.
In the fully enclosed conference room on the top floor.
The scarred man was staring intently at the screen on the backup monitor.
When he saw Subject Zero being crushed into a bloody mist by Lu Yuan's slap, the color drained from his face instantly.
Even the scar that ran across half his face looked deathly pale.
"It's over...it's all over..."
The white man next to him was slumped on the carpet. A large patch of urine-smelling liquid had seeped from his crotch.
Scarface whirled around and grabbed the crumpled silver letter opener from the table.
He knew he couldn't escape. A stealth helicopter was on the rooftop helipad. But now he didn't even dare open the conference room door.
"Boom!"
The solid wood round table in the center of the conference room, along with the floor beneath it, suddenly bulged upwards without warning.
Immediately afterwards, the entire floor slab exploded.
Amidst the flying sawdust and cement chunks, Lu Yuan brushed the dust off his shoulders and slowly walked out of the large hole.
He glanced around the windowless, secret room. Finally, his gaze settled on Scarface.
"The renovation is nice. It's a pity the feng shui is bad. It's a layout that will kill off any descendants."
Lu Yuan's tone was casual, like that of an old neighbor coming over for a visit.
Scarface's eyes twitched violently. The veins on the back of his hand, gripping the letter opener, bulged.
"Lu Yuan! Don't push your luck!"
Scarface let out a trapped beast's roar. His A-level superpower was pushed to its limit.
"Ten times the gravity field! Die!"
The air in the conference room instantly became incredibly thick.
The white man, slumped to the ground, didn't even manage a scream. He was crushed into a meat patty pressed against the floor by the terrifying force. The sound of bones cracking was as dense as firecrackers.
Those high-end solid wood furniture and genuine leather sofas were all crushed into powder in an instant.
But Lu Yuan, who was at the center of the gravitational field, didn't even have a single hair disheveled.
He even took a step forward. His shoe slammed into the white man, who had already turned into a bloody pulp, with a dull thud.
"You call this gravity?"
Lu Yuan looked at the scarred man, who was covered in sweat and could barely stand. A mocking smile appeared on his lips.
"Let me teach you what real weight is."
Lu Yuan didn't use any magic. He simply circulated his golden core for half a cycle, releasing a trace of the primordial pressure of a Mahayana Immortal Venerable.
The oppressive force wasn't directed at inanimate objects. It landed precisely on Scarface's shoulder.
"Click"
Scarface's knees smashed through the thick floorboards. His thigh bones shattered instantly, and bone fragments pierced his skin.
He was pinned to the ground, completely immobilized, not even a finger could move. Air was forced out of his lungs, causing his eyes to bulge and become bloodshot.
"Who...who exactly are you...?"
Scarface managed to squeeze out a few words from his throat. Large clumps of internal organs mixed with blood gushed out.
He finally understood. The video the bald, muscular man sent back before he died was not an exaggeration at all.
This boy doesn't belong to Earth's combat system at all.
"You treat the flesh and blood of demonic beasts as treasures. Didn't you even bother to find out where those things came from?"
Lu Yuan walked up to the scarred man and looked down at him.
"Where is the headquarters?"
Scarface grinned, revealing a mouthful of blood-stained teeth. His laughter was utterly maniacal.
"Kill me... The conglomerate won't let you get away with this... Our influence overseas far exceeds your imagination..."
"You talk too much nonsense."
Lu Yuan was too lazy to listen to his threats anymore. He brought his right hand together and formed it into a knife. He plunged it directly into the scarred man's skull.
The Soul Searching Technique was activated again.
This time, Lu Yuan dug even deeper than before.
A vast stream of information flowed into Lu Yuan's mind along with his divine sense.
Overseas. High waters of the Pacific Ocean. A private island shrouded in constant thunderstorms.
Beneath the island. A massive abyssal rift. The edges of the rift are covered with intricate ancient runes.
Countless researchers in protective suits are retrieving the mangled remains of monstrous beasts from that crevice.
At the deepest part of the crack, a faint fluctuation that was extremely familiar to Lu Yuan was emanating.
That was the aura of the Heavenly Dao Laws of the cultivation world.
Although extremely weak, and suppressed by some force, it is absolutely true.
Lu Yuan pulled his hand out, flicking away the brain matter from his fingertips.
The scarred man's corpse lay stiffly on the ground, his eyes rolled back. He had become an empty shell, devoid of any soul.
"High Pacific Ocean. A chasm in the abyss."
Lu Yuan narrowed his eyes, mentally calculating the cost.
It turns out that there are not only stubborn old men like Kunlun clinging to their broken array plates on Earth, but also a group of foreign vagrants scavenging for trash at the edge of spatial rifts.
However, since the aura of the cultivation world is seeping in from there, it means that the rift is very likely the second key to unlocking the revival of Earth's spiritual energy.
"Once I've sorted out all this mess in Jiangnan City, I need to go for a walk on the sea to clear my head."
Lu Yuan turned and walked to the edge of the conference room. He smashed the thick titanium alloy wall with a punch.
The sunlight and fresh air rushed in instantly, dispelling the stench of blood from the room.
He glanced down. The sound of police sirens could be faintly heard from several blocks away.
Lu Yuan didn't linger. He stepped out of the gap, transforming into a streak of light and disappearing into the sky above Jiangnan City.
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At the same time. The capital city. The defense zone eighty meters underground.
Chu Jianguo held a report stamped with a top-secret red seal in his hand. He hurriedly pushed open the door to the command center.
He walked quickly to the central swivel chair and handed the report to the elderly man who was drinking tea.
"Sir, something terrible has happened."
Chu Jianguo's voice was trembling.
"The S.H.I.E.L.D.'s stronghold in Jiangnan City, the Huanyu Building, was completely breached ten minutes ago. A vertical hole was punched through the building from the first floor to the top. All three hundred-plus armed personnel and all the senior executives inside perished."
The old man's hand, holding the teacup, froze in mid-air. Scalding hot tea spilled onto the back of his hand, but he was completely unaware.
"Who did it?"
The old man asked in a deep voice.
Chu Jianguo swallowed hard and lowered his voice.
"No surveillance footage was captured at the scene. But Lin Zhen just sent a coded message."
He said, "Mr. Lu went to the Huanyu Building this morning to collect a debt."
The old man's pupils suddenly contracted.
He slowly placed the teacup on the table and took a deep breath.
"Immediately cut off all network signals near the Huanyu Building. Publicly announce that it was a series of gas pipeline explosions."
The old man stood up and walked to the huge world map on the wall. His gaze was fixed on the location of the high seas of the Pacific Ocean.
"This true dragon, which has slumbered for nine thousand years, is finally about to begin cleansing the insects of this world."
The old man turned his head and looked at Chu Jianguo.
"Notify the coastal defense forces. Activate all radars along the Pacific coast. Those madmen from the S.H.I.E.L.D. have suffered such a huge loss; they'll definitely use their trump cards."
"This day... will change completely."