As soon as he finished speaking, the atmosphere in the monitoring room gradually grew heavy.
Dr. Tang had never been wrong before.
Rose said calmly, "Dr. Tang, rest assured, as long as I am here, no matter how strange this BOSS's abilities are, I can guarantee your safety."
As an O3 Rank Martial Artist, she had this confidence.
"I believe in your abilities..."
Dr. Tang scanned the woman's face: "But what I want isn't safety, but data on this BOSS. Its strength isn't just direct physical destructive power..."
"Its terrifying aspect is its strange, unknown abilities, which, to us, are like a dimensionality reduction strike."
As he spoke, he looked at the file in his hand.
File Number: X-07.
Contact Date: June 7, 2030.
Rank: BOSS-level.
Codename: Yin God? Corpse Disassembly Immortal? Evil Spirit? (Provisional).
Authority: ??? (Unobservable/Unintelligible).
Attack Method: Strong Mental Energy pollution and assimilation, physical modification (unknown intensity).
Signed: Tang.
Core Assessment: Extremely High Threat! Unintelligible! Unpredictable! Fatal! Unsolvable!
Dr. Tang picked up a pen and slowly added new text below the "Attack Method" entry:
Latest Observation:
Target possesses the ability to possess, or consciousness transfer? Possession of living beings? Mental control? (Requires further verification, extremely high risk.)
Note: All of this is my speculation and may not be entirely accurate. All data needs to be tested and summarized repeatedly.
As he finished writing, the voice of a combat operative came through his earpiece:
"Dr. Tang, where is the target?"
"It destroyed the monitor," Dr. Tang said. "Long Er, I'm sorry, but now you'll have to rely on yourselves."
"Received." Communication cut off.
...
In the corridor, the three-meter giant finished his communication: "The target destroyed a critical monitoring point. It seems Dr. Tang and the others can't help us."
The Electro-Arc Youth's expression was grave.
Without needing to speak, the three stood in a triangular formation, vigilantly searching the chaotic area.
Suddenly, a faint sound of footsteps echoed from behind them.
Without hesitation, Long Er raised his spear.
"Boom!"
The spear sliced through the air, erupting with a terrifying whooshing sound, and struck Xuan Hao.
A terrifying force struck, even the metal wall was smashed into a huge, deep crater, and dust filled the air once more.
The trio gathered forward, standing at the edge of the hole.
"What's the situation?"
The Electro-Arc Youth looked at the Windbreaker Woman beside him.
She closed her eyes, and invisible ripples emanated from her body.
A moment later, she opened her eyes and stated in an unusually calm tone:
"Breathing stopped."
"Heartbeat gone."
"Life signs completely dormant."
"It... is dead."
"Is it really dead?"
The vigilance in the Electro-Arc Youth's eyes did not diminish.
Facing a BOSS-level creature that had already displayed a strange ability to revive, death itself was not a reliable conclusion.
"Hiss... that really hurt..."
Suddenly, an extremely abrupt voice rang out.
The voice came from behind them!
The three turned their heads, the voice came from within the task force responsible for suppressing fire.
The three were startled, as if doused with ice water.
They saw a soldier whose limb movements had become extremely uncoordinated, twisting his neck and producing a grating sound.
"What's wrong with you?" Long Er asked in a deep voice.
"Me?" The soldier raised his head, his eyes containing only a hollow blankness, and a kind of... inhuman stiffness.
"Are you alright?"
The Electro-Arc Youth gradually approached.
The surrounding task force members also noticed their comrade's abnormality, their fingers subconsciously resting on their triggers, their muzzles pointed at their comrade.
Under countless astonished gazes, the soldier's lips split open, widening upwards at a visible rate.
The smile was very stiff.
The skin tissue rapidly deformed under the pull of the smile, losing its human appearance.
"I'm perfectly fine..."
Xuan Hao smiled, the corners of his mouth tearing all the way up.
The deep red gap spread to below his earlobes.
His entire mouth transformed into a gaping, black abyss that spanned his cheeks!
These Martial Artists were indeed powerful.
But his abilities were enough for a dimensionality reduction strike!
This was a high-dimensional crushing of a low-dimension; these people could never threaten him.
As long as he found his true body, he could find an anchor point in this world, thereby displaying the might of a True Immortal.
"It's him!"
The three youths felt a chill down their spines.
This was the BOSS adapting to a new body!
"Kill him!"
Long Er's roar rang out.
This group of soldiers was clearly rigorously trained; even when facing a comrade they had lived with day and night, they showed no hesitation.
Tat-tat-tat!
Dense gunfire swept through the corridor, and scorching streams of metal burst forth, instantly engulfing the twisted, deformed soldier.
"Puff puff...."
Flesh splattered. Bones shattered!
In just an instant, the soldier was riddled with holes and fell straight backward.
The gunfire ceased, and gunpowder smoke filled the air.
The air seemed to solidify, yet...
"Heh... heh heh...."
The next second, that chilling laughter rang out again.
Everyone's hair stood on end, and they quickly turned their heads!
In the center of the crowd, another soldier was smiling strangely.
He was tilting his head, his movements stiff, perfectly replicating the inhuman smile from just now.
"Come, kill me?"
The soldier smiled eerily.
Everyone was horrified and quickly pulled back to a safe distance.
Even Long Er felt his scalp tingle.
"Could it be that this BOSS cannot be killed?" The Windbreaker Woman frowned.
"Not making a move? Then it's my turn."
Suddenly, the soldier raised his arm.
The flesh on the raised arm wriggled, and the tactical uniform instantly burst open.
Beneath the skin, the flesh twisted like a living thing, transforming into a sharp, giant claw that swept across the nearest group of people.
"Puchak!"
"Puchak!"
A cold glint flashed, and a mist of blood erupted!
Like a knife cutting through tofu, heads flew into the sky, and gushing blood stained the ground.
"Scatter, retreat quickly!"
Long Er roared, and everyone fled in a panic.
But... it was too late!
Xuan Hao tilted his head slightly, and a cold light burst forth from his eyes!
A silent yet tangible Mental Energy fluctuation, like a tsunami, erupted with him at its center!
"Thud!"
"Thud!"
The first few soldiers to be struck had bloodshot eyes and their bodies slumped to the ground.
But it didn't end there.
The invisible fluctuations eroded everyone's minds.
The fleeing crowd's movements stiffened, their faces filled with fear and despair, their thoughts instantly scattered.
They didn't even have time to let out painful screams before they all collapsed to the ground.
In just a single breath!
More than half of the task force members who were alive moments ago had turned into corpses.
The remaining dozen or so people were all Martial Artists, their Mental Energy far surpassing that of ordinary people, and they did not die immediately.
But under the pervasive Mental Energy impact, they were also severely wounded, each with a pale face.