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Chapter 58
Brutal beating
“Achoo!”
In the first-class cabin of the plane, Yang Xiaodao, who was writing physics homework on the table, sneezed unexpectedly and rubbed his nose in confusion.
Outside the porthole was a blue sky with white clouds. Across the aisle, Chu Yan was holding a satellite phone with a furrowed brow, saying, “But Mr. Bai, we still have several hours of flight to Purori Island. My ability has limitations, and I can only locate a family of vultures ten kilometers away. I can’t accurately locate a yacht thousands of kilometers away…”
Yang Xiaodao, feeling dizzy and overwhelmed by the physics multiple-choice questions in front of him, timidly stole a glance at her and furtively took out a coin from his pocket to flip.
As if she had eyes at the back of her head, Chu Yan swiftly pulled out a folding ruler with lightning speed. With a snap, she extended it, and across the aisle, pah! The sharp sound startled Yang Xiaodao, almost causing him to cover his hand and jump up. He could only put away the coin with tears in his eyes, slump back down, and continue to chew on his pen in dismay.
Chu Yan pointed at Yang Xiaodao with the folding ruler bearing the inscription “Constant changes in integrated science nurture individuals. No one can score full marks in integrated science. Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill.” Her gaze was filled with menace, conveying “I am watching you,” before she turned her head away under Yang Xiaodao’s timid eyes.
“Can’t you do it through the phone?” There was the sound of a speedboat over the phone, and Bai Sheng loudly asked, “There are only a little over ten minutes left until the one-hour deadline. Can’t the satellite signal be used as a transmission medium for your ability?”
On the vast sea near St. Carter’s Fort Strait, dozens of speedboats and helicopters laid down a dragnet to search for the prophesied blue fishing boat.
Even if it was just a glimpse, it could only reveal a specific future scene and could not automatically display accurate latitude and longitude. Therefore, the most detailed information Mrs. Harpa could provide was that it was about fifteen miles near this strait. Bai Sheng stood on a speedboat holding a satellite phone, scanning the surrounding sea through binoculars, and loudly said, “There are no reference points on this sea! Can you sense the general direction? Or should I try to strengthen the satellite signal?”
“Stop worrying about that satellite signal! Can the satellite signal be used as a medium for causality?!” Chu Yan supported her forehead with one hand and, after a moment of thought, asked, “Are there any birds in the sky?”
When Bai Sheng raised his head, several seagulls flew by in the distance. He immediately said, “Yes! How should I cooperate with you?”
Chu Yan was helpless, “…Turn on the speaker!!”
Bai Sheng turned off the speedboat motor, opened the phone’s speaker, and raised the satellite phone high.
In an instant, the gentle breeze, the gentle waves, the calls of seagulls, and the distant whirring of helicopter rotors were all transmitted through the phone to thousands of meters above. Chu Yan closed her eyes, and countless scenes of sound waves intertwined in her mind, and then they were extracted one by one until only one abnormal fluctuation remained.
“…Southeast, at four o’clock, the calls of seagulls are very uneasy.” After a moment, Chu Yan’s voice came with a slight hesitation, “They seem a bit anxious because they can’t find their usual cruising route.”
—An area where birds cannot fly.
The cage of logic!
Bai Sheng’s eyes flashed. He turned the speedboat and sped toward the southeast sea area, the waves trailing like arrows behind them.
Only those extremely observant would notice that at this moment, the waves in front of the speedboat suddenly became chaotic for a moment, as if being pulled by some external force.
Bai Sheng sensitively looked up, and at the same time, he seemed to hear a rumble coming from the bottom of the sea. It was low and faint, rapidly spreading, with the sound waves spreading across the vast sea—
Boom.
The distant sea roared, and giant waves soared into the sky.
Nielsen dodged thousands of white blades, and faced a burning spear coming straight at him!
The sea roared, and the yacht was already half-sunk. Nielsen cursed silently, his left hand forcibly catching the spear, and the black flames on the spear’s body instantly engulfed his entire arm. In intense pain, he rushed backward into the sea, the black fire on his left arm extinguishing instantly. With a push of his right hand, he formed a vortex in the sea, swirling toward Shen Zhuo in mid-air like a rope.
Shen Zhuo’s combat response was completely professional, with the black flames surging on the long spear and fiercely splitting the layers of coiling sea water into scattered water splashes!
Nielsen rushed out of the sea, his foot landing on the precarious deck of the yacht. He squinted his eyes to stare at Shen Zhuo, who was high in the air.
The strongest A-class was infinitely close to a S-class in every aspect, with the only differences being two points: first, they lacked pheromones, making it impossible to naturally suppress others of the same kind; second, they lacked Fatal Strike, the unique kill ability. Aside from these two factors, there was almost no difference between a strong A-class and a weak S-class, with victory or defeat often hanging in the balance.
Although Nielsen didn’t know who the teenager named Yang Xiaodao was, he could confirm that this serum was indeed at the level of a war god among A-classes. What made it even more tricky was that Shen Zhuo, as an adult, was not subject to many of the limitations of a minor’s abilities and could reach the peak of A-class combat power.
He could kill Shen Zhuo by any means necessary, but it would be difficult for him to catch him intact without killing him.
Snap!
Nielsen snapped his fingers again, and the cage of logic that enveloped the surrounding sea expanded with a resounding echo, expanding more than ten times, almost surrounding most of the visible sea area.
“…Shen Zhuo,” Nielsen said in a low voice, “don’t force me to injure you.”
Reflecting in Shen Zhuo’s eyes were blazing flames, but his gaze was as cold as ice: “Why don’t you give it a try then?”
Nielsen didn’t reply; he just raised his hand in the air. The seawater beneath him was attracted by his ability, rising into the air and forming large and small, densely packed water balls suspended dangerously in mid-air.
A-class ability, infinite water prison.
Once trapped in the extremely dense water balls, there was no escape until suffocation or until the castor released the water balls. This ability unconditionally countered any underwater spatial abilities, lasting for a maximum of six hours.
With water balls covering the sky and earth, Shen Zhuo was swallowed up in an instant!
Gulp.
Shen Zhuo spat out a bubble, immediately trying to swim out but soon finding it impossible. All the water balls had condensed into a huge water prison, and even the black flames of the spear found it difficult to instantly evaporate the water of such density.
A series of bubbles surged from Shen Zhuo’s mouth and nose, and the lack of air forced him to involuntarily tilt his head back. Nielsen plunged into the water prison, with the advantage of being the castor, allowing him to move freely in this special seawater. He pinched Shen Zhuo’s chin with one hand.
Just then, Shen Zhuo’s eyes snapped open.
Nielsen was completely unsurprised by his deception, and he blinked out of the range of the spear’s sneak attack. But at this moment, he saw Shen Zhuo’s lightning-fast reaction. Countless bright blue electric currents shot out from his palm—
High-voltage electricity instantly filled the water ball. Nielsen never expected that his attempt to kill the enemy would backfire; he was instantly struck by the electric current, his vision went black, and the water prison in mid-air burst open!
With a loud bang, Nielsen plummeted from the sky, crashing through three layers of the yacht’s deck. The next moment, Shen Zhuo descended from the waterfall-like seawater, the long spear turning into a brilliant meteor, shattering the entire yacht into countless fragments!
The explosion was deafening, and all the evolutionists on the yacht instantly plunged into the sea.
The debris from the boat burned on the sea surface. Nielsen knelt down on one knee with his right hand, propping himself up on the ground. The sea beneath him rapidly solidified and was reinforced by his ability, with his left hand firmly holding the black flame spear above his head.
“—you are so persistent.” He looked up at Shen Zhuo, his gray-blue pupils reflecting his pale and constantly panting face. “Do you really believe that Bai Sheng can come here in time to save you?”
The high-voltage electricity released in the infinite water prison was far beyond a million volts. If Shen Zhuo hadn’t taken the serum, he would have turned into a handful of ashes by now. Even so, his heart had stopped for a few seconds just now. His whole body was wet and slightly messy, but his eyes were dazzlingly bright. He gasped and smirked:
“There is no need for anyone to come to the rescue; I can handle you myself.”
Nielsen looked at him and nodded slowly. “I believe you can, but I won’t give you that time.”
He paused, saying, “13 minutes.”
There were 13 minutes left until the cooldown of the Tyrant.
According to a confidential report from the International Supervision General Administration, Shen Zhuo had carried up to three vials of gene interferons at a time. If he still had one on him now, it could potentially be an A or even an S class, and if he injected it recklessly, it could cause life-threatening side effects.
“You’re the most outstanding human I’ve ever met, always clear-headed, always steadfast, never bowing or compromising to anyone…” Nielsen’s voice was hoarse as he said, “I really like you, Shen Zhuo. I don’t want to see you die because of side effects.”
“I have to catch you within the next 13 minutes, no matter how injured you are.”
Shen Zhuo didn’t respond at all. He suddenly swung his spear down, but Nielsen easily deflected it with one hand. The speed and strength of the Odin’s Wolf suddenly increased, and as Shen Zhuo raised his hand to summon lightning, Nielsen summoned a thunderous storm, completely overturning the sea surface in an instant!
10 minutes and 11 seconds.
The sea turned into a boiling cauldron; flames, thunderstorms, hurricanes, tsunamis, and countless abilities collided and exploded, shaking the world as if it were being recreated. The sea surface flashed with strange auroras amidst intense magnetic pole changes.
3 minutes and 6 seconds.
Shen Zhuo was struck by the thunderstorm and sent flying hundreds of meters before crashing heavily into the invisible wall of the cage of logic. His ribs shattered with a crackling sound, and he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, drenched in crimson.
Not even half a second had passed when Nielsen suddenly appeared before Shen Zhuo, reaching out to grab the vial of serum from Shen Zhuo’s shirt. However, even at this moment, Shen Zhuo’s reaction could still be described as lightning-fast. He deflected Nielsen’s attempt with a heavy spear strike, taunting, “We’re fighting; keep your hands to yourself. Are we that familiar?”
“You’re at your limit! Taking more serum won’t help you anymore!!”
Shen Zhuo sneered and casually loosened his blood-soaked tie. With a sharp sound, the blade of his spear whizzed past Nielsen’s face, with even the terrifying black flames clearly reflected in the pupils of Odin’s Wolf.
It was simply an overwhelming speed. In just a few seconds, the two had exchanged blows hundreds of times, with the sky almost completely covered by the intertwining black flames. With a sharp whistling sound, Nielsen narrowly avoided having his throat slashed by the spear tip. At a critical moment, he had barely dodged the earth-shattering blow. Finally, he gritted his teeth and snapped his fingers—
Shen Zhuo was about to deliver a devastating electric shock to Nielsen’s face, but in the blink of an eye, the opponent disappeared without a trace.
Teleportation?
Immediately after, Shen Zhuo realized that the electric shock had pierced through an illusion—one of Nielsen’s temporary logic cages!
At the same time, the real scene unfolded, with Nielsen seizing the spear from below in a split second when Shen Zhuo made a mistake and, at the same time, delivering a fierce blow to Shen Zhuo’s abdomen with his palm!
If there were X-ray eyes at this moment, one would see that Shen Zhuo’s ribs, heart cavity, stomach, and internal organs were all ruptured under the force of that earth-shattering blow.
Blood, mixed with fragments of internal organs, was sprayed from Shen Zhuo’s mouth.
“I told you I wouldn’t give you the chance for a third injection, you—”
Before Nielsen could finish his sentence, he saw Shen Zhuo smile slightly, blood dripping from his mouth, and in a flash, he discarded the spear and moved back like lightning!
Nielsen thought he was going to escape and was about to shout not to bother, but then he realized that Shen Zhuo wasn’t heading in any cardinal direction but was shooting straight up like a rocket.
Did he think the logic cage missed sealing the upper space?
Without hesitation, Nielsen flew up in pursuit.
High-level evolutionists could gain extremely powerful space movement abilities by adjusting airflow. In the blink of an eye, Nielsen had sprinted dozens of yards upward, but he saw Shen Zhuo taking out the last vial of serum from his flying coat in the high sky above.
Nielsen roared: “—Stop!”
There were only 19 seconds left before the Tyrant could be activated again. What was he thinking?! Even if he injected S-class serum at this point, it would be a waste—
Shen Zhuo injected the serum into his blood vessel.
While moving at high speed, Nielsen couldn’t see the new level appearing on the back of Shen Zhuo’s hand. He could only see Shen Zhuo abruptly stopping in mid-air, and then without hesitation, diving at full speed and crashing into him head-on.
Bang!
This was probably the closest Nielsen had ever been to Shen Zhuo in his life. The two collided head-on and fell sharply from several hundred meters high in the sky like cannonballs. Shen Zhuo’s left hand wrapped around Nielsen’s neck, and in the chilling hurricane, he hoarsely chuckled:
“You really don’t believe I can kill you, do you?”
Nielsen’s pupils dilated abruptly, and from the corner of his eye, he saw Shen Zhuo’s right palm facing downwards, with his fingers spread wide!
Yang Xiaodao’s strongest water-based ability was activated.
The sea quickly froze, and the next moment, ice spikes hundreds of meters high shot up from the ground, piercing the sky!
A mile away, as if resonating with a soul in the abyss, Bai Sheng suddenly turned his head to look into the distance, where the sea was calm.
Cameron, on the helicopter above: “?”
Immediately after, Bai Sheng’s face changed dramatically; without hesitation, he flew forward, summoning a thunderbolt with one hand. Boom!!
Countless branches of lightning struck down from the sky, and in the astonished gaze of all the searchers, they forcefully pierced through the enormous cage of logic!
Finally, the sea revealed its true appearance.
They couldn’t find the blue fishing boat prophesied because the yacht had already sunk and the sea was shrouded in rolling smoke. In the thick smoke, only a spike of ice pierced straight through the sky, magnificent and dazzling, like a sharp needle connecting the sky and the sea.
And at the sharp tip of the ice spike, Shen Zhuo and Nielsen were plummeting rapidly.
The terrifying acceleration of gravity caused the bodies of the two to intersect, with Shen Zhuo and Nielsen both impaled by the ice spike at the same time!
Everyone witnessed the scene, which was so brutal that it surpassed imagination.
Nielsen was pinned down by Shen Zhuo’s hands, with nowhere to escape. A two-inch-thick ice column pierced through his back, penetrated the chests of both, and then pierced out of Shen Zhuo’s back, falling for more than ten meters before stopping in mid-air.
Flesh and bones mixed together, staining the dozens of meters of ice behind Shen Zhuo with blood. Under the sunlight, it gleamed with blood.
The next moment, Shen Zhuo’s ability was lifted, and the ice spike disappeared into thin air.
Both men fell and crashed onto the sea surface at the same time. Nielsen’s chest was pierced by a terrifying round blood hole, blood gushing out like a fountain, as he struggled to turn his head towards Shen Zhuo. Then, he witnessed an incredible scene.
Shen Zhuo coughed up blood violently as he rose, and his left hand back showed his current evolutionary level — X.
The third serum was Rong Qi’s serum.
The gene resurrection ability was activated, and the evolution effect: 10 seconds.
In an instant, Shen Zhuo’s internal organs were completely repaired, his shattered chest cavity was restored, and all the wounds on his body disappeared as if by magic.
With the terrifying ability of infinite resurrection, his condition was restored to its peak in an instant!
It wasn’t until this moment that Nielsen woke up from his daze, finally understanding Shen Zhuo’s exquisite calculation of the timing of the battle, his extreme grasp of every second, and why he chose such a brutal way to go down together.
He really couldn’t match Shen Zhuo.
No wonder, over the years, Shen Zhuo never even glanced at him for a second.
The overwhelming sense of unwillingness, resentment, and anger consumed all his rationality like a landslide or tsunami. Nielsen opened his palms with all his strength, seeing that he was about to launch the Tyrant one last time, even if the consequences were dire —
At this moment, a tremendous, unimaginable force swept across the sea, turning the vast ocean into a hundred-meter-deep black ice.
Bai Sheng stormed over, grabbed Nielsen’s collar with one hand, and delivered a straight punch to send him flying hundreds of meters away!
Nielsen crashed onto the ice surface like a cannonball, causing large pieces of ice to crack open.
Before he could even get up, Bai Sheng’s second punch arrived, with a terrifying force of several tons that almost pierced Nielsen’s abdomen, causing the ice below him to explode into powder, bursting into the sky with a loud noise.
Unlike Shen Zhuo’s precise calculation and execution, Bai Sheng’s attack was purely retaliatory and extremely furious. It wasn’t until this moment that Nielsen finally tasted the pain he had inflicted on Shen Zhuo. He couldn’t even activate the Tyrant, let alone fight back. All he felt was the relentless beating and intense pain until everything went black before his eyes.
Bai Sheng pinched Nielsen’s forehead bone with one hand, lifting him up, his feet dangling in the air.
Immediately afterward, Bai Sheng slammed him down with all his might.
Boom — crash!!
The forty-meter-thick ice layer shattered, and both of them fell into the sea, causing monstrous waves to surge!
The huge waves almost engulfed the helicopter in mid-air, with everyone inside the cabin shouting hysterically.
Cameron, drenched in seawater, grabbed the cabin door with one hand and held a megaphone in the other, roaring furiously across the sea surface, “Don’t kill him —! We need to interrogate him —! Don’t kill him!!”
Underneath the sea, oblivious to Cameron’s screams, Bai Sheng grabbed Nielsen by the throat with one hand, delivering a punch that made blood gush from his mouth and nose like a fountain, followed by another punch that sent blood spraying from both ears. Streams of blood continued to flow from underwater, staining large swathes of the sea surface a shocking red.
Splash.
Shen Zhuo jumped into the sea like a shining silverfish. He wrapped his arms around Bai Sheng, who was losing his mind from behind, embracing his scorching and tense body with both hands.
“…”
Bai Sheng’s muscles trembled violently. After who knew how long, he finally relaxed his grip, letting Nielsen slowly sink down. Then he turned around and hugged Shen Zhuo, kissing him frantically and caressing his hair and cheeks vigorously, his fingertips trembling uncontrollably.
S-class abilities spread in all directions, expanding into a square-shaped space without water in the deep sea. The light refracted from the sparkling sea surface illuminated Shen Zhuo’s pale and calm face. He leaned against Bai Sheng’s forehead, softly comforting, “Calm down, it’s okay… It’s all over now.”
Bai Sheng’s chest heaved rapidly. With one hand tightly holding Shen Zhuo, he frantically stroked the cold skin between his ribs with the other — the place where dozens of meters of ice column had pierced through. Although it had completely healed now, it left only a faint white scar.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry…” Bai Sheng buried his face in the crook of Shen Zhuo’s neck, murmuring in confusion, “It’s all my fault. I shouldn’t have pressured you, I’m sorry…”
—He was regretting it.
He regretted questioning Shen Zhuo about their relationship; he regretted breaking the beautiful and unreal facade of their relationship.
In this fleeting moment, as if some inherent, powerful rationality had fully recovered, flowing from the heart to the limbs and every bone, Shen Zhuo’s pupils contracted slightly.
He opened his mouth to say something, but the words were too difficult, choking in his throat before they could be spoken.
“…No,” after thinking for a long time, Shen Zhuo finally said.
This tightly embraced posture allowed his lips to touch Bai Sheng’s ear, his tone carrying a calmness that suppressed everything, “It’s not your fault; I should be the one to apologize.”
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Wow, Shen Zhuo admitting he was wrong!