Cure? Damn these guys really are the type that are stupid enough to help someone who cheated them.
Ned struck first. His hands slapped forward, and a shockwave filled the alley. The paint on the walls shed, and cracks appeared on the ground.
In a flash, Han Xiao jumped up, drawing a swift arc midair, and bumped toward the enemy like a rocket.
Yang Dian bit his teeth and stepped forward, swinging out his punch.
Bang!
The mechanical suit covered fist was like a bolt of lightning, appearing and disappearing in an instant. Before Yang Dian’s fist could even swing fully, it had already hit Yang Dian’s chest heavily. Yang Dian’s vision turned hazy; everything in sight seemed to move away rapidly as he flew backwards. He then got punched into the wall with a loud noise, every bone in the body almost shattering.
One-hit victory.
His physical power is even stronger than the lion who caused serious injury to me.Yang Dian barely pulled himself out of the wall and breathed heavily. Suddenly, he heard a gust of wind around his ears, Ned was thrown toward him and fell beside his feet with a huge bump on his head. He had been knocked dizzy by a simple headbutt from Han Xiao.
They could not even last three seconds. With absolutely zero chance to fight back, Yang Dian was filled with sadness and hatred. How are we supposed to stop the opponent like this?
Helplessness penetrated their hearts.
Han Xiao looked at the timer as he saw the duo trying to get back up. He had given himself five minutes to deal with these two superheroes, but the situation had turned out to be much easier. He had taken less than ten seconds to beat them completely.
They were both Superhumans at the level of thirty-something. With Han Xiao’s strength, it was a piece of cake.
Han Xiao took a few steps forward. Just as he was going to say something, Yang Dian managed to struggle to his feet. With a face filled with unyielding and anger, he clenched his teeth and said, “You took away the cure for the Death Virus. Lots and lots of people will die because of that. I will stop you today even if it costs me my life!”
Han Xiao stopped in place. He looked at Yang Dian with a mocking smile. “Dying as a hero—other than dead flowers, empty words, and a few hypocritical tears, what else can you get?”
Yang Dian clenched his teeth even harder. “It doesn’t matter how others look at me as long as I’m happy with what I’m doing!”
Suddenly, Yang Dian blinked. A large, black hand enlarged in his sight and grabbed his head. He was smashed into a wall, shattering the stones.
His head was bleeding, Yang Dian lay flat on the ground, his head spinning. He did not even have the strength to stand up.
Han Xiao took out his handgun and pressed it against Yang Dian’s forehead.
The black colored muzzle brought Yang Dian back to his senses. He wanted to struggle, but Han Xiao stepped on his legs, then slowly applied pressure to the trigger.
Yang Dian’s eyes widened. At this moment, regret uncontrollably flooded his mind.
If I wasn’t so meddlesome, I wouldn’t die today. In front of an enemy that’s this strong, even if I bet my life on it, I wouldn’t be able to stop him for a bit. Coming here was just giving my life away. I shouldn’t have accepted the request. I was too impulsive…
Ka!
The trigger reached its end. Yang Dian’s entire body trembled, only to realize that he did not feel any pain. He was stunned as he watched Han Xiao back off. Then he realized that cold sweat had drenched all his clothes. Although he could not see his own face, he knew that it was definitely a twisted expression filled with fear, regret, and unwillingness.
“What were you thinking just now?” Han Xiao said.
Yang Dian froze in place but kept silence. In the face of death, the belief that he had once thought would never be destroyed was shaken. He was not as generous and tough as he said at all. Instead, at that moment, it was regret he felt, and he even thought that giving up his life for a request from others was extremely stupid. Yet before this event, he had always been working hard toward the goal of being a superhero—he wanted to save more people; he wanted to protect more civilians; he wanted to sacrifice himself for others.
But at this moment, Yang Dian only felt lost.
Han Xiao put his handgun with the empty clip back to the holster, took out a laptop, transferred some data to a thumb drive, and threw it to Yang Dian.
Yang Dian and Ned froze in place.
The enemy left just like that?
“Why did he not kill us?” Yang Dian held the thumb drive in a daze.
“We are no match for him. Don’t go up to him and look for death. We have to leave here first.” Yang Dian held onto Ned, and they left limping.
Another mission failure, the duo’s hearts were filled with shame. They could not face Kate. When they arrived at Louis Research Institution’s door, the military was already there, and the area was locked down. The duo did not want to come into contact with the Maple Military, so they went back to the place where they rested and dressed their wounds.
Yang Dian kept thinking about what Han Xiao had said. He was confused and could not focus at all. He lay on bed dazed, the thoughts from just now flashing in his mind non-stop. He could feel that his belief and perspective of being a superhero were shaken; it was a war against his own mind.
At this time, Ned could not hold back his curiosity of what was inside the thumb drive. He plugged it into the laptop, and only a few seconds of looking at it made him break out in cold sweat.
“Yang, come here and look at this!”
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“What is it?” Yang Dian tried to regain his focus and went up to the laptop screen. Then he, too, was stunned.
The files on the thumb drive were a part of the data that Han Xiao had gotten from hacking into the research institution. Every research project of the Death Virus was clearly written to be regarding enhancing physical abilities and biochemistry weapons. There was no mention of the cure Kate talked about.
It was also written that the exploration team that had gone into the Robert Forbidden Zone had been gathering materials for physical ability enhancements research.
“Th-this is real? Could he be lying?”
“He could have killed us easily. Why would he lie to us?”
Yang Dian and Ned slowly turned from consternation to rage.
It turned out that they were like two idiots from the start to the end, toyed with by the people of Louis Research Institution. They could not believe that they were so naive to have believed the one-sided words of these people; it made them feel like their persistence was nothing but a joke.
No wonder the mysterious warrior in the mechanical suit did not kill them; he probably felt that they were pathetic and pitiful, so he told them the truth.
Yang Dian was so ashamed and embarrassed that he wanted to dig a hole in a ground and hide in it.
They kept calling themselves superhero, but they were saved by a stranger who they deemed wicked twice! If the mysterious man had not exposed the truth, they would still have been totally in the dark.
“Too bad we don’t know his name. If we did, l definitely would apologize to him in person.” Ned was upset.
Yang Dian nodded heavily. With raging anger burning inside, he called Kate. “You have been lying to us!”
Kate sounded stunned. “What did I lie about?”
“You have been using us. You made us risk our lives to do things for you. The exploration team, the cure to the virus, that was all fake!”
“What are you talking about? Why would I do that? You are overthinking this.” Kate’s made an unnatural pause.
“I have evidence. The research of the Death Virus has nothing to do with saving lives!” Yang Dian said.
“That’s fake. You guys must’ve heard rumors,” Kate replied
“Still lying to us‽” Yang Dian was angry, he then s
tated the project serial number.
The other side of the phone remained silent for a while, then Kate replied in a cold tone—he gave up pretending. “So what? What do you want to do, or rather, what can you do?”
“I…” Yang Dian was furious, but he suddenly jammed.
“Humph, Superhero!” Kate’s tone was full of sarcasm as he hung up the call.
Yang Dian held the phone and froze in place. His aura was changing quickly.
Ned suddenly felt a chill. He quickly asked, “Are you alright?”
Yang Dian shook his head and put down the phone. “I’m alright, Why wouldn’t I be? Hehe.”
He laughed inexplicably.
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The research institution was in a mess. The high ranked officials were sweating all over as they negotiated with the military.
Kate was annoyed. He did not expect things to have turned out this way when he lured the wolf into the room. No one had dared to mess with the research institution before. They had many financial organizations behind them, and anyone who stroked the tiger’s beard would face its wrath—they would be chased down by organizations with no escape.
After contacting the financial organizations backing them, the organizations were all understandably furious. He called himself Germinal Organization’s executive officer Heisenberg, and he had a mechanical suit with extremely advanced technology—it was quite convincing. The Germinal Organization was like a mouse crossing the street. Everyone wanted to beat them. It would not matter how many enemies they made, and it was very possible that they were throwing the helve after the hatchet.
The financial organizations decided to not only let Western Continent’s Intelligence organizations look thoroughly for this person, but they were also going to give money to the Six Nation’s expedition through military donations.
The reason behind these financial organizations having such an exaggerated reaction was because there were drugs that the owners of these organizations urgently needed among the stolen stock. Therefore, they desperately needed it back even if it meant they had to spend more money!
Kate was already annoyed enough. He did not even want to bother about the questioning from the two superheroes, and he did not care at all about them finding out the truth.
Because superheroes would never take revenge for such small matter
Thus, Kate was calmed and had nothing to fear.
…
Han Xiao had taken off the mechanical suit, changed his face and mixed into the crowd.
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[Trial of a Hero] completed!
+40 Yang Dian’s Impression of You, +40 Ned’s Impression of You.
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Han Xiao waited for some time, but there were no new notifications. That’s it? What do I need the good impression from these two guys for?
He had never even heard of these two guys before, so they were probably not anyone important.
Han Xiao was speechless. It was a reasonable reward, but he would have even preferred experience points over this.
Never mind, it’s just a small mission. The biggest rewards are these drugs.
Han Xiao chuckled as he looked down at the bulging package in his hands.
When he stole… that’s wrong, when he requisitioned the drugs, Han Xiao took everything in the exhibition room of Louis Research Institution, which was almost every type of drug.
He found a random small hotel and checked in. As usual, he first checked to see if there were surveillance cameras, then he opened his backpack and took out all the various drugs before arranging them in rows.
Let’s see if there’s any good stuff. Han Xiao rubbed his hands. He had heard that one would be lucky if one’s hands were heated.
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Green Lizard Drug (Medium Concentration 23.3%): Made from the Green Lizard Genes. This is a lazy being. After you drink this, you will feel calm.
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Han Xiao stunned for three seconds. Then he stood up in rage and threw it on the floor.
Green my ass, what’s the point of even inventing this kind of drug! I would’ve been luckier if I used my feet 1 !
Looking at this pile of colorful drugs, Han Xiao felt as if a black cloud of bad luck was floating above his head.
Let’s hope the other drugs are better.
He continued searching. There was a total of 34 types of drugs, and luckily, there was not another one that was as useless as the Green Lizard drug.
Some of the useful drugs were pretty great.
There was a high concentration Death Virus Enhancement Drug, which had a much stronger effect than the one Kate gave. The permanent attribute boost was greater, and the chance to awaken the rare talent was at least three times higher.
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Wild Rhinoceros Steroid: Taken from the heart of wild rhinoceros. Injection gives +5 STR, +5 END. Lasts five minutes. Second injection within 30 minutes will have no effect.
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Thunder Claw Beast Extraction: Extracted from the bodily fluids of Thunder Claw Beasts. +12% melee attack for the next five attacks.
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Stone Plaque Pathogen: Infects the user with Stone Plaque.
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There were three types of drugs—temporary enhancement drugs, disease spreading drugs, and the very rare permanent attribute boost drugs like the Death Virus Enhancement Drug.
Some of the permanent attribute boost drugs can only be used once, and some can be used multiple times. The Eagle Predator Drug is the former, and the Death Virus Drug is the latter.
That was why players were so passionate about going to the Forbidden Zone and killing the BOSS. Usually, it would be a competition between large guilds.
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You used Eagle Predator Drug.
+3 DEX.
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There were four bottles of the Death Virus Drug. He took a short break and finished all of them in one shot. His Strength, Dexterity, and Endurance all increased by four, and that bottle with high concentration made him awaken the rare talent.
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[Extraordinary Physique]
+10% Health
+180% Recovery Rate
+8% Abnormalities Resistance
Chapter 184 - It's More Torturous to Think of a Title Than to Write a Chapter
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It was a tank biased talent, not up to the standard of being a Molding ability, but it did make Han Xiao tankier.
He recalled that Hila had a recovery passive too. Extraordinary Physique had similar effects and also gave him another 300 HP from the health boost.
As a Mechanic, is it really a good thing to be this tanky? Han Xiao did not know whether to laugh or to cry. This was forcing him to fight people head-on. He felt like if he continued like this, his style would totally shatter.
I just want to be a technical Mechanic. Close combat is for savages!
I need to find an offensive talent or manufacturing talent, but those kinds ofMolding ability are way too rare. The most common ones are still defensive and enhancement ones.
As a Mechanic, talents that could match with his firearms were what he needed the most. He had been hoping to trigger the [Lethal Shot] talent. Although it was not a Molding ability, it had rather good effects. The requirement was to deal extremely high damage with his firearm to targets that were at least the same level as him fifty times. He had already done that almost forty times, but enemies at his level were getting harder to find, he had to spend some time to do it.
As for the temporary enhancement drugs, he planned to put some of them in the mechanical suit’s rapid injection module and then find an opportunity to sell the rest, preferably to players, which would be another sum of money.
Among the drugs, surprisingly, there was one that was incomplete
and only had one syringe.
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Unknown Drug: a semi-finished product of some drug, unknown effects.
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Its color was clear like water. Usually, unknown things would have surprising effects. Han Xiao had an inkling that this thing was not simple, but he would not use it when its effects were unclear.
Louis Research Institution might complete their research in the future. I will just have to go there again at some point, and I will know its effects when it’s completed.Han Xiao raised his eyebrows.
In order to make drugs or learn about magic potions, one had to gain the class [Pharmacist]. Han Xiao was not interested in making potions and wasting class slots, and he felt making potions and drugs were very different from making machines. As making potions demanded strict material ratios and manufacturing processes, a tiny mistake could cause failure, whereas making machines was just a channeling process.
Han Xiao snuck out of Kaylos in the afternoon. He had another threatening mission in Maple. Bennett wanted him to scare some government officials who lived in the capital of Maple. The two people who had gone there first to check on the situation was already at standby in the city of Maple Leaf.
The capital of Maple was called Karimochi, meaning the City of Maple Leaf.
…
The financial organizations behind Louis Research Institution issued a bounty on the Dark Net very quickly. The target was none other than ‘Heisenberg’, and it had the face that Han Xiao had used in the research institution, as well as a recording of him dashing out of the research institution wearing a mechanical suit.
The Germinal Organization saw this information very soon.
“There is no such person in our organization.”
The leader was startled. The organization only had a few deep-cover intelligence personnel and spies in other lands, and he absolutely did not order anyone to rob a civilian research institution. There was only one possibility. This ‘Heisenberg’ was a fake who used the Germinal Organization as cover.
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