Zhou Yunguang was placed on a stretcher and urgently sent to the Medical Center.
His face was as pale as paper, his eyes tightly shut, and his breathing was weak.
Instruments showed that his ability core was like a cracked glass lamp, with chaotic energy and mental fluctuations on the verge of collapse.
The most troublesome thing was… the dark purple contaminated energy, like a tenacious maggot, deeply rooted in the depths of his mental core, constantly eroding and spreading!
Ordinary purification methods… had little effect.
Qin Weiguo stood at the edge of the fighting platform, his face so gloomy it could drip water.
His sharp gaze, like a surgical knife, swept over the training ground after the chaos had subsided, over the startled, pale-faced students, and over the silent, vigilant special operations team members, again and again.
Finally… like cold iron tongs, it locked onto the figure in the corner, supported by Chen Xue, still 'weak' and trembling—Ling Chen!
Coincidence? An accident?
Qin Weiguo sneered inwardly.
Wang Lei's mutated rampage happened precisely at the moment of Zhou Yunguang's ability backlash, when his defenses were weakest!
Ling Chen's 'accidental' opening of the gate just happened to attract Lei Zhan, who could restrain the mutated body!
All of this… was interlinked!
So precise… like a meticulously choreographed script!
This Ling Chen… definitely has a problem!
He's like a poison wrapped in a harmless sugar coating!
A… ghost… walking in the shadows!
Can't wait any longer!
Must… tear off his disguise!
Qin Weiguo took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the churning anger and doubts.
He slowly raised his hand, facing the communicator, his voice low and cold, with an undeniable command: "Chu Hang… it's your turn to enter the arena.
Target… Ling Chen.
Test… extreme survival."
The order was given!
At the entrance of the training ground, a figure, as if peeled from the shadows, silently… walked in.
Chu Hang.
He wore a black, tight-fitting combat suit with no insignia, his figure tall and well-proportioned, his steps steady and… with a peculiar sense of rhythm.
His face was covered by a pure white mask with no expression, revealing only a hard-lined chin and a pair of eyes… as calm and still as a deep pool.
That gaze… held no anger, no killing intent, not even a hint of human emotion.
Only a kind of… indifference… as if looking down at ants, and… an indescribable… certainty.
His appearance did not cause any commotion.
But within the training ground, everyone, including Lei Zhan and his battle-hardened special operations team members, instinctively felt a… strange chill!
As if the surrounding air had become viscous and heavy!
A tremendous pressure, originating from the instinct of life itself, irresistible… like an invisible mountain, instantly enveloped the entire space!
Chu Hang's gaze, like a precise probe, instantly pierced through the crowd and landed on Ling Chen.
"Ling Chen," his voice rang out, calm and clear, yet with a metallic, cold texture, penetrating all the noise and clearly reaching everyone's ears, "Step forward."
Chen Xue instinctively clutched Ling Chen's arm, her eyes filled with worry and fear.
She could feel the non-human, suffocating oppressive sensation radiating from Chu Hang!
Ling Chen's body seemed to 'tremble' even more violently.
He 'difficult' (with difficulty) raised his head, meeting Chu Hang's bottomless eyes.
His gaze was 'blank' and 'fearful', with the weakness of a severely injured person and… a hint of stunned paralysis from fright.
"I… I…" He opened his mouth, his voice hoarse and weak.
"I told you to… step forward," Chu Hang's voice remained calm, but the will contained within it was like an irresistible Oracle!
Ling Chen's body suddenly trembled!
As if pushed by an invisible force, he stumbled free from Chen Xue's support, his steps unsteady as he walked a few steps forward, standing in the open space in the center of the training ground.
His back was thin and hunched, like a withered blade of grass in a strong wind, ready to snap at any moment.
Chu Hang slowly stepped forward, walking towards Ling Chen.
His pace was not fast, but each step landed as if on an invisible beat, carrying a peculiar sense of rhythm.
He stopped three meters in front of Ling Chen.
His gaze from beneath the mask, like the most precise scanner, scrutinized Ling Chen from head to toe.
"Severe injuries not yet healed… ability overdrawn… spirit fragile…" Chu Hang's voice was like a cold machine, stating the 'facts', "According to the script… a character like you… wouldn't survive three chapters."
His words carried a chilling… certainty!
As if stating a truth that was already fated!
"Now…" Chu Hang slowly raised his right hand, his five fingers long and pale, like a pianist's hand.
At his fingertips, there was no energy fluctuation, yet they exuded a heart-pounding… power of rules!
"Let me see… how long your… 'accident'… can continue."
Before he finished speaking!
Chu Hang's fingertip, pointed at Ling Chen's glabella, lightly tapped!
There was no earth-shattering energy explosion!
No dazzling light!
Not even… any physical contact!
But at the moment his fingertip pointed out!
An indescribable, cold, and absolute will, as if from the very rules of the world, descended instantly like an invisible shackle!
It tightly bound itself to Ling Chen's soul!
Cognitive Command: The villain… dies from talking too much!
Buzz—!!!
Ling Chen's body suddenly stiffened!
An indescribable suffocating sensation, as if his heart was instantly squeezed tight, mixed with a terrifying feeling of his soul about to be stripped away, instantly swept through his entire body!
His throat was clutched by a cold hand!
All sound, all breath, all thought… were forcibly stripped away!
This was… annihilation at the rule level!
It was the 'protagonist's'… absolute judgment… on the 'extra'!
The cold will of the Soul Jade Physique instantly issued a sharp warning!
That invisible rule shackle, like the strongest cage, tried to completely freeze and crush his soul!
In Ling Chen's eyes, an unprecedented 'horror' and 'despair' instantly erupted!
His body trembled violently!
His face instantly turned ashen!
His lips opened uncontrollably, as if wanting to let out a final scream, but could only futilely gasp!
Like a fish thrown onto the shore!
"Ugh… ugh…" He let out a dying, rasping sound from his throat, like a broken bellows!
His body, as if its bones had been removed, slowly slumped down!
Life force… was rapidly draining away… at a visible speed!
However, Ling Chen was smiling inwardly, heh heh, as expected, your ability is still so interesting.
"Ling Chen—!!!" Chen Xue let out a heart-wrenching scream!
She tried to rush forward desperately!
But Lei Zhan grabbed her tightly!
"Don't go!" Lei Zhan's voice carried an unprecedented solemnity and… a hint of imperceptible shock!
He stared intently at Chu Hang!
What kind of monster was this guy?!
No energy fluctuations!
No mental shock!
Just one movement… one look… and Ling Chen was on the verge of death, as if Death had called his name?!
Chu Hang quietly looked at Ling Chen, who had slumped to the ground and was barely breathing.
His eyes beneath the mask remained calm and still.
As if… he had merely crushed an insignificant ant.
"A script… is just a script," he murmured, his voice carrying a cold indifference, "An extra… should have an extra's ending."
However!
Just as everyone thought Ling Chen was surely dead!
A sudden change occurred!
"Roar—!!!"
A roar full of ferocity and pain, like a sudden clap of thunder, burst from the electromagnetic containment cage in the corner of the training ground!
The mutated Wang Hao, who was tightly restrained by special alloy chains and high-voltage currents, had now… undergone an even more terrifying mutation!
Its black keratin layer wildly squirmed and expanded like boiling asphalt on its body surface!
The dark purple blood patterns covering its entire body twisted and spread like living things!
Its crimson beast eyes were completely swallowed by a violent purplish-black light!
A surge of energy fluctuations, far more violent, chaotic, and destructive than before, erupted from its body like an out-of-control nuclear reactor!
This was a special mental stimulation; Ling Chen used the will of the Soul Jade Physique to strongly stimulate his brain, causing him to burn his remaining lifespan to forcibly break through to the Bone Eater Realm, gaining Bone Eater Realm combat power.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
The special alloy chains snapped inch by inch under the terrifying force!
The high-voltage currents were easily torn apart like fragile spider webs!
The electromagnetic containment cage groaned under the strain!
Twisting and deforming!
"Not good! It's undergoing a secondary mutation!
Its energy level has broken through the Bone Eater Realm!" The special operations team member on guard screamed in horror!
Boom—!!!
The containment cage was forcibly ripped apart!
The massive body of the mutated Wang Lei, like a demon god breaking free from shackles, charged out with an unstoppable, violent momentum!
It didn't pounce on the crowd!
It didn't attack the special operations team members!
Its eyes, completely swallowed by the purplish-black light, like abyssal vortices, locked onto… Chu Hang!
Instinct!
The most primal instinct told it!
This human, exuding a cold aura of rules… was its greatest threat!
It was the source of its pain!
It must… tear him apart!
"Roar—!!!"
The mutated Wang Lei let out a deafening roar!
Its giant claw, covered in purplish-black keratin and boiling flesh, whistled through the air with a strong stench of blood, striking towards Chu Hang's back like a collapsing mountain!
Speed!
Power!
Several times greater than before!
This sudden turn of events!
This 'accident' completely outside the script!
Caused Chu Hang's always calm and still gaze… to finally show a trace of… extremely subtle… fluctuation!
His 'villain dies from talking too much' rule… was forcibly interrupted!
Just as Chu Hang's mind was distracted by this sudden attack, and that cold rule shackle showed an extremely subtle… loosening…
On the ground, Ling Chen, who had been barely breathing like a dead fish… moved!
His body twisted sharply at an extremely bizarre angle, like a boneless snake!
Narrowly avoiding the core area enveloped by the residual rule power from Chu Hang's fingertip!
At the same time!
His bandaged left arm, raised in a 'dying struggle', seemed to 'unconsciously' swing forward!
Pfft—!!!
A gush of crimson blood, like a fountain, spurted from his 'fractured' wound!
Precisely… splashing onto Chu Hang's pure white mask!
Warm! Sticky! Liquid with a strong scent of blood!
Instantly blurred Chu Hang's vision!
Stained his cold skin!
More importantly… within that blood, there was an extremely faint, yet carrying the Soul Jade Physique's cold will… mental shock!
Buzz—!!!
Chu Hang's body suddenly stiffened!
His eyes beneath the mask instantly flashed with an extremely brief… confusion and… blankness!
As if… he was forcibly pulled back to 'reality' by this sudden dirty blood, carrying a strong 'extra' aura!
The rules… were contaminated!
The script… was disrupted!
"Uh…" Chu Hang let out an extremely faint grunt from his throat, as if he had choked!
He instinctively took half a step back!
Raised his hand to wipe away the blood on his face!
Chu Hang
Ability: 【Protagonist】
Energy Rating: ?
Special type, Rule-based, Active Rule type.
In this thousandth of a second!
Ling Chen's body sprang up like a ghost!
No longer the weak stumbling from before!
But with a desperate, decisive, and… precise trajectory, like a dying burst!
He 'clumsily' rolled!
Pouncing towards the nearest pile of training equipment!
Boom—!!!
The mutated Wang Lei's giant claw slammed heavily onto the spot where Chu Hang had just stood!
The alloy floor was shattered like tofu!
Debris flew everywhere like bullets!
Chu Hang's figure appeared several meters away as if teleporting, avoiding the fatal blow.
The bloodstains on his face had been evaporated by an invisible force, and his mask was still pristine white.
But… in the depths of his bottomless eyes, a trace of cold… anger and… an indescribable… surprise… slowly rippled out, like a stone thrown into a deep pool!
He… was actually splashed in the face… with blood… by an 'extra'?!
And his rules… were interrupted?!
This… how is this possible?!
He suddenly turned his head!
His gaze, like a solid ice pick, fiercely pierced towards Ling Chen!
Ling Chen was 'clumsily' sprawled behind the overturned pile of training equipment, his body convulsing violently!
Blood constantly spilled from the corner of his mouth!
The bandage on his left arm was completely stained red with blood!
His breathing was as faint as a flickering candle in the wind!
As if that 'burst' just now had exhausted his last trace of life force!
"Cough cough… cough cough cough…" Ling Chen coughed violently, each cough bringing out large mouthfuls of blood, his eyes unfocused, filled with 'despair' and… a hint of 'unwilling'… stillness!
Perfect! Impeccable… dying state!
Chu Hang stared intently at Ling Chen.
His brow beneath the mask, for the first time… slightly furrowed.
The script… seemed to… have deviated?
"Roar—!!!"
The mutated Wang Lei's roar sounded again!
Its crimson (no, now purplish-black) eyes locked onto Chu Hang again!
Its massive body, with an even more violent momentum, pounced again!
"Seeking death!" A cold light flashed in Chu Hang's eyes!
The anger from the interrupted rules instantly shifted!
He no longer looked at Ling Chen, but slowly raised his hand, and slowly clenched his five fingers towards the pouncing mutated Wang Lei!
New Command: The villain… dies from… overestimating himself!
An even more terrifying, more absolute rule will, like an invisible giant net, instantly enveloped the mutated Wang Lei!
"Roar… ugh…" The mutated Wang Lei's massive body suddenly froze in mid-air!
As if the pause button had been pressed!
The boiling flesh on its body surface instantly solidified!
The purplish-black light instantly dimmed!
The next second!
Pfft—!!!
Without any warning!
Without any process!
The massive body of the mutated Wang Lei… instantly… vaporized!
Disappeared! Like a wax figure thrown into strong acid!
Not even a trace of ash remained!
Only a terrifying, bottomless pit with smooth, mirror-like edges was left in its place!
Rule annihilation!
Absolute!
Complete!
Annihilation!
The entire venue was dead silent!
You could hear a pin drop!
Everyone was frozen in place as if petrified!
Incredulously looking at this… terrifying sight… like a miracle… before their eyes!
Looking at that bottomless pit!
Looking at the pure white masked figure standing like a demon god on the edge of the pit!
Fear!
Bone-deep fear!
Like a cold venomous snake, it instantly seized everyone's heart!
Chu Hang slowly withdrew his hand.
His gaze turned back towards Ling Chen's direction.
"Extra…" He murmured, his voice carrying an indescribable… playfulness and… a cold… killing intent, "You… have successfully caught the protagonist's attention."