After grabbing Liu Ruyan's legs, Mu Bei sneered, and the fingers of his hands immediately clenched like iron pliers.
The originally taut thigh muscle fibers instantly snapped under Mu Bei's terrifying grip. His fingers, like steel nails, deeply pierced her thigh muscles, reaching the femur.
Instantly, Mu Bei's fingers tore 5 bloody holes in each of Liu Ruyan's beautiful legs.
But it wasn't over!
After confirming his grip, Mu Bei, holding Liu Ruyan's legs, pulled violently towards his sides!
"Ah—" A piercing scream came from Liu Ruyan's mouth.
Accompanied by the sound of tearing muscles, and the sound of dislocating and breaking bones, Liu Ruyan's entire body split open on the spot, in the physical sense of the word.
Mu Bei mercilessly tore her into two parts.
However, these two parts were not even. One part was just one thigh; the other part was a person missing a leg and some intestines.
Liu Ruyan was still alive at this moment.
Although the intense pain and mutilated limbs had deprived her of all ability to resist, Liu Ruyan would die from excessive blood loss in at most another minute.
But her upper body, at least for now, was relatively intact, so she was still painfully alive.
During the process of tearing Liu Ruyan's body apart, an interesting little interlude occurred:
Because her abdominal muscles were torn open, her intestines accidentally spilled out.
Among them, Liu Ruyan's large intestine happened to fall onto Mu Bei's right shoulder.
His extremely high Constitution attribute gave Mu Bei a strong sense of smell, allowing him to clearly smell the "fragrance" of the unwashed, freshly produced large intestine amidst the strong smell of blood.
That smell was truly...
Holy crap, how could it be so smelly!
Ugh~
Mu Bei could tolerate the smell of blood, and even enjoy it. This seemed to be his innate talent, but...
As for this smell of feces, Mu Bei only felt disgusted.
What lesson does this teach us?
No matter how beautiful a person is, when cut open, there's still feces in their intestines, unless they've completely emptied their bowels.
Mu Bei felt that he should be more careful when tearing people apart in the future, and not let the dirty things inside fall on him.
The large intestine hanging on his right shoulder was shaken off by Mu Bei onto the ground.
The thigh he was holding in his left hand was violently thrown by Mu Bei towards another ordinary soldier who had just drawn his gun but hadn't had time to aim. This soldier was instantly killed.
He swung Liu Ruyan's remains with his right hand and smashed her fiercely onto the ground.
No kill notification came; only Liu Ruyan's weak screams were heard. Because Liu Ruyan landed face down this time, her chest, which was at least an E cup, provided excellent cushioning.
Mu Bei picked her up again, this time slamming her back onto the ground.
Moments later, blood splattered, and the sound of bones cracking echoed in the night sky.
【Contractor killed Liu Ruyan (Elite Unit). Due to the significant difference in strength, world source cannot be obtained.】
【Contractor obtained Treasure Chest (Blue) ×1.】
Mu Bei released Liu Ruyan's remains and casually put the dropped blue treasure chest into his storage space.
Suddenly, realizing that he seemed to have overlooked something, Mu Bei immediately turned his head and looked in the direction Zhongli Yi had been sent flying.
He had received the kill notification for Liu Ruyan, but why hadn't he received the kill notification for this World Child yet?
Didn't the sneak attack just now pierce the other party's heart?
Could it be that Zhongli Yi's heart was on the right side?
That's right!
Zhongli Yi's heart was indeed on the right side!
Most people's hearts are located in the left chest cavity, but a very small number of people have their hearts on the right side or in other locations.
This condition is called "dextrocardia" or "ectopia cordis."
The cause of dextrocardia may be related to abnormalities during embryonic development.
It is estimated that the probability of dextrocardia is about one in ten thousand to one in a hundred thousand.
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"Ah!!! Cough, cough—I want you dead!"
Zhongli Yi roared in anger, but because Mu Bei's sneak attack just now injured his lungs, he coughed easily when speaking now.
Zhongli Yi, whose left arm was severed and spine was broken, rendering him unable to move, could only watch helplessly as the woman he loved (and had sex with) died tragically before his eyes.
At this moment, his heart was filled with anger, but even more so with fear!
In order to survive in Mu Bei's hands, Zhongli Yi immediately abandoned all suppression of the virus in his body and fully embraced the power of the virus within him.
In fact, when Zhongli Yi was devouring the virus crystals, he always had a feeling that he hadn't completely absorbed the energy in these virus crystals.
A considerable part of the energy was deposited in his body and could not be used by him.
This feeling became more and more obvious as he used his Devouring ability to devour more and more virus crystals, until his body reached its limit.
If he were to use the Devouring ability to devour virus crystals again, Zhongli Yi had a very strong premonition that the virus energy accumulated in his body would completely erupt.
At that time, he would no longer be Human, but would irreversibly evolve into a non-Human creature.
Actually, Zhongli Yi's intuition was quite accurate.
So-called Zombies are just the product of completely failed Human evolution.
So-called ability users are just the product of not completely successful evolution.
When the apocalypse first broke out, most of the first batch of people who turned into Zombies were old, weak, sick, and disabled, with very weak physical fitness. They couldn't even withstand the extremely low concentration of virus in the air.
And those who had decent physical fitness began to evolve after withstanding the virus in the air, but the degree of evolution varied greatly among different individuals.
A small group of people awakened powerful abilities, some people's physical fitness improved significantly but were still within the scope of ordinary Humans, and the remaining vast majority of people had changes too small to be noticeable.
Therefore, calling this virus the Zombie virus is actually a bit of a generalization. Calling it the Evolution Virus seems more reasonable.
Zhongli Yi's situation was actually that the concentration of the Evolution Virus in his body had reached, or even exceeded, the threshold for complete successful evolution.
The structure of the Human gene is very complex. Even the most precise computer is not as complex as a gene.
But in such a complex structure, most of it is useless, like a pile of messy code that can run, but that's all it can do.
Stimulated by the Evolution Virus at an extremely high concentration, Zhongli Yi's body instinctively craved evolution, craving to get rid of the originally bloated gene.
But Zhongli Yi did not want to abandon his Human identity.
So, he stopped using the Devouring ability to devour more Zombie crystals and fully suppressed his body's urge to evolve...
Until now!
"Mmm—!!!"
Zhongli Yi felt an incomparably intense pain erupt from within his body, as if every inch of muscle and every bone was being torn and reshaped. He gritted his teeth but still let out a painful groan.
His height grew rapidly, from his original height of over 1.8 meters to nearly three meters. His body became exceptionally strong, and every muscle seemed to be about to burst through his skin.
His wounds healed in seconds, and broken bones reconnected with a chilling cracking sound. Each crisp sound was like a hammer blow to his nerves, causing him unbearable pain.
His muscles swelled rapidly, expanding like they were being inflated. The pain was like countless sharp blades running rampant in his body, almost making him unable to breathe.
His skin color rapidly changed from normal skin tone to iron gray, finally showing a terrifying metallic luster. Every muscle was filled with destructive power.
From the severed part of his left arm, a strange tingling sensation came, and then a thick tentacle grew out. The tentacle grew with a strange feeling, continuously extending, eventually reaching a length of nearly 1.5 meters.
The surface of the tentacle was also covered with hard scales. Sharp spikes grew from the end of the tentacle. Because Zhongli Yi was using it for the first time and couldn't control it well, the tentacle unconsciously whipped through the air, making a whooshing sound.
As the mutation progressed, a thick layer of exoskeleton burst through his skin, covering Zhongli Yi's chest, limbs, and back.
This feeling of growth was like countless insects crawling under his skin, making him feel a creepy sensation.
The exoskeleton shimmered with a metallic luster and was as hard as steel, like a suit of armor, protecting Zhongli Yi within.
Sharp bone spurs protruded from his spine and shoulders, bringing waves of tearing pain, distorting Zhongli Yi's face.
Zhongli Yi's eyes flashed with blood-red light, revealing endless killing intent.
His face had completely lost its Human features, becoming hideous and distorted. Sharp fangs grew in his mouth, replacing all his original permanent teeth.
A low roar came from his throat, as if from the depths of hell, carrying his unsuppressed anger and pain.
"Die for me! Roar!!!"
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【Contractor has obtained 96.6% of the target's information.】
Name: Tyrant (Overlord Unit/World Child)
Race: Zombie/Evolutionary
Health: 82.1%/100%
Mana: 500/500
Strength: 50 (Reached the world's maximum value)
Constitution: 50 (Reached the world's maximum value)
Agility: 29 (Moderate decrease due to change in body size)
Intelligence: 38
Charm: 1 (Significant decrease due to Zombie transformation)
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Skill 1: Overlord's Pride, LV.1
Skill Effect 1 (Passive): Health +1000, all physical damage reduction 10%.
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Skill 2: Devouring Ability · Tyrant, LV.20
Skill Effect 1 (Passive): Devour, consume Zombie-dropped virus crystals, randomly increase body attributes (excluding Charm attribute), and will definitely increase extra Health, extra body Defense, exoskeleton hardness, and restore Health and Mana based on the virus content in the crystals.
Extra Health provided by this skill currently: 0 (Maximum is skill level × 100, current maximum is 2000);
Extra Defense provided by this skill currently: 0 (Maximum is skill level × 1, current maximum is 20);
Skill Effect 2 (Active): Berserk, consumes 20 Mana per minute, adds 10 points of correction to Strength attribute judgment, extra body Defense +10, extra Health recovery of 5 points per second, loses all pain sensation.
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Skill 2: World Child, LV.???
Skill Effect 1 (Passive): Strong Luck, Luck attribute +5, ???.
Skill Effect 2 (Passive): Personal Charm, ???.
Skill Effect 3 (Passive): ???.
(Skill Effect 2 is invalid due to Zombie transformation)
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Skill 3: Close Combat Proficiency, LV.7
Skill Effect (Passive): Melee damage +7%.
(Due to significant body mutation, this skill has been reduced from Mastery to Proficiency.)
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Skill 4: Firearms Proficiency, LV.20
Skill Effect (Passive): None.
(Due to significant body mutation, this skill has become invalid.)
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Skill 5: Exoskeleton, LV.10
Skill Effect (Passive): Slashing physical damage block +100, piercing physical damage block +70, blunt physical damage block +40.
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Skill 6: Tyrant's Tentacle, LV.10
Skill Effect (Active): After wrapping the target with the tentacle replacing the left arm, consumes 50 Mana. The target needs to make two judgments: Strength and Constitution attribute judgment. If the target fails the Strength attribute judgment, the target will be forcibly restrained for 1~3 seconds; if the target fails the Constitution attribute judgment, the target will be invaded by Virus · Tyrant and become a subordinate of the Tyrant.
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