Hui Tian

Chapter 15

(warning: needles, descriptions of broken bones, torn body parts, disfigured corpses)

Dark, empty.

The dizziness seemed to last for a long time, but in fact it was only a few seconds.

Shen Zhuo closed his eyes, his eyes gradually focused, and he found himself sitting on a wooden chair with a backrest, his hands were tied behind the back of the chair, and the damp, salty smell of blood and rust filled the abandoned warehouse.

A familiar and proud voice came from ahead: “Hello, Supervisor Shen.”

It was Liu Sanji.

The narrow-eyed, square-faced man of short stature stood in the shadows under the fan, probably feeling that he had successfully completed the task assigned by Mr. Rong, with a happy expression: “I didn’t expect to meet again so soon. Let’s do an interview. Are you surprised?”

“…” Shen Zhuo opened his mouth, his voice a little hoarse: “I was more surprised to see you when I opened my eyes, and not Rong Qi.”

Liu Sanji immediately said: “Shut up, you are a lowly ordinary person, what qualifications do you have for Mr. Rong to come and see you in person!”

Liu Sanji’s expression was stern, but Shen Zhuo just sneered: “Your Mr. Rong, if I guessed correctly, was burned to the charcoal three years ago, but because the direction of evolution is very special, there should be some kind of regeneration ability of the remaining cells. The reason why he is still in a wheelchair may be because the evolution is not complete, and the body has not yet reached its peak condition, right?”

Liu Sanji was about to reprimand him not to be disrespectful to Mr. Rong, but Shen Zhuo didn’t give him a chance to open his mouth.

“He seems to want to kill me very much, but he hides behind the scenes and only dares to send his men out to stop cars and touch porcelain. I guess this is probably because he is a coward or a cripple who can’t do anything… Just chatting, why are you shaking?”

“Shut up! Shut up!” Liu Sanji was startled and terrified, “You lowly ordinary person, how dare you disrespect Mr. Rong?!”

“You are just a D-class with inferior genes, not much different from ordinary people.”

Shen Zhuo said tiredly, “Excuse me, call that Mr. Rong out, you are not qualified to talk to me.”

As expected, Liu Sanji was overwhelmed by the continuous stimulation, and pointed at the back of his left hand with a flick of his sleeve: “What are you talking about, whose genes are inferior?! I am already A-level now!”

“…”

Liu Sanji didn’t wait to ponder Shen Zhuo’s unexpected expression. He stared at the blood-red A-level logo, and exhaled inexplicably for a while: “Sure enough… secondary evolution.”

“So what?!”

Liu Sanji stared at him, but saw that Shen Zhuo didn’t answer immediately, and said after a while: “You may have been treated as a one-time experiment by that Mr. Rong.”

Liu Sanji was short when he was young, so he has a very delicate mind. He hates being looked down upon most in his life, and he is especially sensitive to the silent contempt of others. However, considering this person, and his rare education, background, and appearance, even if he sits there without saying or doing anything, it will give people a subtle but strong sense of irony.

At this moment, Liu Sanji’s feelings are particularly clear: “Don’t talk nonsense, what kind of experimental product? Someone like you who can’t even evolve–”

“You secretly knew about Mr. Rong’s evolutionary source, and you were arrested. In order to save your life after being captured, you can only be ordered by him to assassinate me. The reward is that he let you evolve into A-level again. But what you don’t know is… Evolution is not free, and there is a limit to the intensity of evolution that everyone can bear.”

Liu Sanji pointed at the back of his hand angrily: “Don’t say it’s useless, have you seen this A?!”

Shen Zhuo interrupted him: “Do you know what the biggest lie in the world is?”

Liu Sanji got stuck.

“It’s ‘all men are created equal.’”

Shen Zhuo looked directly at the bewildered Liu Sanji, his voice was clear and calm, even to the point of being ruthless.

“In 1651 AD, Thomas Hobbes proposed that mankind jointly created a huge god – Leviathan, and everyone in the world who makes up Leviathan is equal, so the maintenance of peace is a natural law established by all individuals. After the large-scale evolution occurred five years ago, in order to maintain this value, we tried our best to conceal the connection between evolution and genes from the public, because the truth is too cruel for the vast majority of people in this world.”

“Some people can evolve to S, some people can only evolve to D, and some people can’t evolve at all. Genes are not born equal.”

“Forcibly leapfrogging will overwhelm your genes, just like forcibly elongating a dwarf, it will cause the whole body’s gene chain to tear, and all the chromosomes will be deactivated. Have you seen victims of nuclear radiation? Almost like that, scarier than death.”

The empty warehouse was extremely quiet, save for the staggered mechanical sound of the fan blades spinning.

Liu Sanji’s pupils dilated sharply. If you look carefully, you will find that his fingertips are trembling slightly, but after a while he sneered: “Don’t be funny, you can’t even achieve D-level evolution, you are the one with the worst genes. Why should I believe this kind of nonsense?”

“Sorry, I’m from an academic background, so I speak straightforward.” Shen Zhuo said calmly, “You are not only a test subject, but also a test subject of one-time consumption, accept the reality.”

Impossible!

Absurd!

Liu Sanji swears almost immediately, but deeper doubts, fears, and a strong desire to prove himself overwhelm everything. After a while, he sneered with twisted corners of his mouth: “You said I was a one-time consumable? You are the real one-time consumable. Mr. Rong said that as long as you die, he will give me the highest reward, and even make me live forever…”

As soon as he raised his hand, he shouted: “You might as well let your corpse be used as waste, and become a part of my devouring!”

There was a rustling sound from the shadow behind him, as if many sticky and heavy things were sliding on the dusty ground, making one’s scalp tingle.

Immediately afterwards, an extremely deformed strange figure emerged from the darkness, it was a huge swollen…corpse!

This corpse is extremely huge, four or five meters high, and it is made up of dozens of rotting corpses. The densely packed torso, hands and feet are entangled and fused together, and countless rotting palms and feet support it to move on the ground.

Dozens of different faces of men, women and children are distributed all over its body, each face has distorted expression and death-like bruises, just crowded between its flailing hands and feet from left to right, it is really creepy.

“Every time an evolutionary is devoured, its power will increase by one point, so it has not devoured ordinary people so far.” Liu Sanji raised his head and stared at Shen Zhuo, with a sinister smile: “Let’s make an exception today and let you get this honor, Shen, Supervisor, Inspector.”

Boom!

The floor vibrated loudly, and the group of corpses “walked” in front of Shen Zhuo. All the faces of the corpses in the body opened their mouths at the same time, with distorted and hideous expressions, as if the agony of dying was recreated again.

Immediately afterwards, countless rotten arms stretched out from the corpse, grabbing Shen Zhuo’s throat——

“I told you,” Liu Sanji heard the calm voice of the Shenhai City Supervisor, “You have no right to talk to me.”

The bright knife striked, and the rotten hand flew into the air.

Immediately afterwards, the heavy corpse was kicked by Shen Zhuo, flew up into the air and knocked Liu Sanji over, crashing into the wall with a bang!

The walls were as gray as waterfalls, and the dust and smoke filled the air. Liu Sanji was almost hit by the corpse and spurted blood, covering his chest and coughing violently: “You…how are you, you……”

Then his eyes widened in surprise.

Shen Zhuo stood up from a chair not far away, and at some point in his hand there was a gleaming pocket knife. With almost no expression on his face, He rubbed his wrists that were tied behind his back before.

Shen Zhuo has been uniformed in black all year round, which makes his wrists extremely white against the background, and the red marks from being bound are very obvious. At first glance, this scene might even make people have some kind of obscene imagination, but when the Shenhai Supervisor came step by step, that kind of casual sternness and chilling seemed to be like, every time his leather shoes fell, they stepped on people’s throats.

With a loud bang, Shen Zhuo raised his foot to step on Liu Sanji’s forehead, and the terrifying force pushed the back of his head into the cracked wall.

“You…why…”

“Do you know what this is?”

Liu Sanji managed to take a closer look under the weight of the soles of his shoes, only to see a metal syringe in Shen Zhuo’s hand, and he couldn’t tell what was inside, the metal cover is inscribed with a clear letter A.

“The HRG project, also known as the Human Gene Regeneration Project. Nuclear deterrence in the age of evolution, the Sword of Damocles1 hanging over the heads of all human beings and evolutionists, the last talisman of peace among seven billion races.”

Shen Zhuo pulled out the injection needle, pulled off his tie and threw it away, and casually undid the two buttons of his clothes.

“If all beings are not created equal, I will make them equal; if the old Leviathan falls apart, I will rebuild a new equal country on the ruins…”

He turned his head slightly and stabbed the serum into his carotid artery with the needle!

“Peace is finally achieved again.”

Liu Sanji’s eyes widened extremely.

He saw the meteorite-like blue light flashing along the blood vessels of Shen Zhuo’s body, and then a powerful force erupted from him in an instant; Shen Zhuo then gently took off the black leather glove. On the back of the left hand where the evolution level is usually displayed, two old wounds intertwined to form a hideous ferocious fork.

At this time, a blood-red brand is gradually emerging from the scar——A.

Shen Zhuo grabbed Liu Sanji’s throat with one hand, lifted him up from the ground, and hung him against the wall, his deep pupils reflected Liu Sanji’s horrified face: “Tell me everything about ‘Mr. Rong’.”

“Every time you say a word, I will leave you with one more unbroken bone.”

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Bang bang bang!

Sparks splashed and shell casings flew randomly. Several inspectors fired like crazy, but they couldn’t stop the walls of the coffin that were getting closer. Several people couldn’t even straighten their legs.

There was a crackling sound, and Bai Sheng supported his head with one hand, but he couldn’t stop the top of the coffin from pressing down on his head, and there was even a clear squeezing sound from his elbow joints.

“As I said, it can’t be opened from the inside, so I like to call this ability… a space meat grinder.”

Noda Shunsuke looked at Bai Sheng, smiled and said, “S-level is nothing more than that, go to hell.”

Bai Sheng’s hair that was always arrogant and bristling was suppressed, and his usual frivolous expression disappeared, instead showing the deep and sharp beauties of his facial features, his tone was uncharacteristically without the slightest joking, even a little cold:

“Do you know where you went wrong?”

Obviously the winning ticket is in his hands, but for some reason, Noda Shunsuke felt a condescending look in Bai Sheng’s eyes: “You-”

“There is no such thing as an absolute power in this world, because…”

Bai Sheng pressed one hand on the lid of the coffin that was getting closer and closer, and then pressed the other hand on it, his ten fingers pierced into the black barrier forcefully, and the unimaginable force caused all ten fingertips to burst and ooze blood at the same time.

Under Noda Shunsuke’s astonished gaze, his arms and bones bulged, his muscles tensed to the limit, and he tore open a crack in the coffin that was  “absolutely impossible to open from the inside”! 

“—The only absolute thing is strength.”

Swish!

The black barrier was torn in two, and the space coffin immediately collapsed!

Bai Sheng broke out of the coffin, grabbed a long knife from the void with his blood-stained palm, his face was as heavy as water, and as powerful as a sharp arrow, boom!!

The two swords collided, sparks burst forth heavily.

The combat power output type A-level is already terrifying in melee combat, and if you add a rare S, it is like two humanoid tanks bombarding each other.

As the blades crossed and a hurricane passed through, all the broken bricks on the ground flew up, and thousands of arcs of knives erupted in an instant. Yoko was about to rush forward to help when she heard a loud bang, and Bai Sheng kicked Noda Shunsuke hard in the chest, causing the latter to knock down half of the wall in an instant!

“Elder brother!”

Bai Sheng nailed Noda Shunsuke to the wall through his shoulder with a knife, and snored, “Idiot.” Then lightning drew his knife and turned around, throwing the knife in the air, so all the coffins were broken from the outside at the same time, and several inspectors, who were about to be squeezed into meat paste, fell to the ground with a bang.

Chen Miao didn’t even have time to get up: “Brother Bai, be careful…”

Before he finished speaking, Noda Shunsuke came behind him without a sound, and slashed at the back of Bai Sheng’s neck with a knife!

This knife will inevitably splatter blood in three feet, but all the chances were against him, and it was too late for Bai Sheng to turn around and kick him to death, so he can only raise his hand to block it first.

But at this moment, a dagger swirled like lightning outside the window, clanging!

The sound of metal crashing was deafening, the dagger flew away from the samurai sword, and sank into the brick wall with a heavy bang.

Everyone looked out the window at the same time: “Supervisor?” “Senior!”

Shen Zhuo slammed his foot on the window sill, his body was as thin as a bow, his eyes were black and white, and he smashed a man in a panic into the room with his hands.

Here, it is Liu Sanji.

“Why do you…” Before Bai Sheng could say anything, he caught a glimpse of a bright red A-level logo on the back of his left hand, and was stunned for a moment.

Shen Zhuo didn’t even look at anyone: “Get out of the way!”

Without his ordering a second time, Chen Miao had already retreated a few meters away, only to see Shen Zhuo swipe down with his hand, the movement was sharp and decisive.

Immediately afterwards, in mid-air outside the house——

There was a bang of thunder and lightning piercing through the building like a waterfall, dousing the Noda brother and sister!

“Fuck your ancestor…” Noda Shunsuke rolled on the spot, got up in a panic, a bloody hole was pierced on his left shoulder, and his whole body was scorched from head to toe.

The moment Shen Zhuo appeared, he knew that today’s operation was a complete failure, that bastard Liu Sanji really couldn’t be counted on, and he couldn’t even look down on the beautiful inspector like a little girl. Right now, he wants to take Shen Zhuo away again, but there is nothing he can do in the presence of Bai Sheng, and if he delays for even half a second, it will be too late.

He had no choice but to tear in mid-air with his backhand, quickly forming a dark space tunnel, and dragging Yoko into it.

Bai Sheng’s murderous nature was not calm, and he started to chase, but was stopped by Shen Zhuo’s stern voice: “Come back! You don’t know where the other side leads, it’s too dangerous!”

The space tunnel quickly closed, and Noda Shunsuke stood in the darkness, his eyes gleaming with vivid unwillingness, he wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with one hand, staring at Shen Zhuo maliciously: “You are so fucking exciting…”

Bai Sheng was immediately enraged: “Fuck your father—”

But before he jumped up to tear him apart, Shen Zhuo moved even faster, pulling him back with his left hand, and the electric current flashed in the palm of his right hand!

“I have something more exciting,” Shen Zhuo said lightly.

The long electric whip smashed across the air, and Noda Shunsuke only had time to lean back, and the whip slashed across the side of his face fiercely, bringing up a splash of blood!

“Go back and tell that coward surnamed Rong.” The long whip wrapped around Shen Zhuo’s hand, reflecting half of his face beautifully and coldly: “Don’t just send your subordinates to die, get out.”

Noda Shunsuke gritted his teeth and covered his cheek, blood overflowed from between his fingers, and the space tunnel closed instantly.

The two disappeared without a trace, leaving only a cloud of scorched black smoke in midair.

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The author has something to say:

The direction of evolution is related to one’s own obsession, Su Jiqiao’s main ability is in the spiritual department, the obsession is that – I am already so excellent, so why can you never see me – and then became the only one who has achieved an A-tier evolution in terms of appearance value.

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1 The Sword of Damocles: the phrase “sword of Damocles” is now commonly used as a catchall term to describe a looming danger ( source: https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-sword-of-damocles.)