Chapter 138 Protecting the Nation
In some respects, Shelley's most terrifying aspect wasn't her individual combat strength, but rather her terrifying ability to expand upon that strength.
The UN isn't too concerned about individual Shelley outbursts. After all, the UN already has a well-established procedure for handling Shelley outbursts, which can be easily resolved.
However, if Shelley were to enter a state of "divine transformation," then the terrifying part would begin—due to psychological trauma, Shelley would enter a state of indiscriminate berserk behavior, which could easily lead to a large number of deaths.
And the "Eden" continuously released by the divine child Shelley will generate a large number of "divine children". If it is not controlled, it will be more terrifying than Resident Evil.
The situation is still relatively good. Before the confrontation with the UN, the Joint Major Crimes Unit had already cleared out this large area, so even if Shelley goes berserk, it won't cause a large-scale spread.
Only a few hospital morgues still contain a few bodies. The morgues built in basements were lucky enough to escape the battle of the gods above, but they still couldn't escape Shelley's "Eden".
Despite being made of flesh and blood, it can generate a large amount of electric current. This electricity can not only be used for attack but also form an electric energy barrier around its body for defense. Furthermore, it can achieve high-speed movement through electromagnetic force.
They are indeed diverse and extremely practical.
However, this practicality became a major problem for those who wanted to stop Shelley.
There are now about twenty divine children within sight, which is more than twenty times the number of moving disasters.
With just Romain Rolland and Zhou Shuren, let alone defeating them, they were already doing their utmost to keep the group of divine children Shelley from wandering into densely populated areas.
If Shelley, as the center of thought, hadn't been in a berserk state, causing the other divine children to receive no instructions and wander aimlessly, even when attacked, they would only smash things around themselves, the two of them would probably have expended a lot of energy just to protect themselves.
At this point, there was no time to worry about factional issues. To prevent further casualties, Roland and Brother Zhou were desperately trying to keep Shelley and the others in place while waiting for reinforcements.
Balzac and Dante have already received the news and are on their way here.
Suddenly, Zhou Shuren thought of something and asked Romain Rolland, "By the way, can't your ability to imitate be imitated as her supernatural ability?"
“No, imitating Shelley, who is so different from me in terms of life form, would cause problems.” Romain Rolland maintained the state of “War and Peace” and kept restricting the actions of this divine child Shelley: “Ordinary imitation of my thinking will not change anything. If you try to use my thinking to control those completely changed organs, my brain will go crazy.”
Imitating other superpowered individuals is fine; you can avoid problems by aligning your mindset with theirs. After all, everyone has superpowers, so switching to another one wouldn't cause major issues.
But if you try to imitate Shelley's style, it's like asking an ordinary person's brain to control a completely different rare earth element, and the result will most likely be a system crash.
Brother Zhou then cast another [Cannibal Feast] spell on one of the divine children, restricting his movements: "I thought you could imitate anything."
“I can imitate most of them, but unfortunately Shelley is one of the ‘small minority.’” Roland, who had been retorted by Zhou Shuren, didn’t dwell on the details, but instead seemed thoughtful: “However, you’ve reminded me of someone who would be very suitable to deal with the current situation.”
"Although there might be some problems, it's worth a try."
Even amidst his busy schedule, Zhou Shuren still managed to reply with a comment: "I feel like I know who you're trying to imitate."
“I think you guessed right, give me a boost.” Romain Rolland exited the “War and Peace” mode, stretched his limbs, and said, “I’ll be done on my end soon.”
After mentally preparing himself and doing a few meaningless warm-up exercises, Romain Rolland took a deep breath and launched "Lives of Great Men".
The familiar, sand-like changes began to occur on his body. But this time was different from before; the "Master's Biography" did not only affect a few parts of his body, but directly changed his entire body.
The body's composition gradually shifted from carbon-based to silicon-based, blood flow gradually ceased, and the entire body became like a towering boulder.
The clothes that were originally designed for easy movement were replaced with casual pants and a short-sleeved shirt, along with an orange tiger-striped jacket tied around the waist.
He wore a pure white mask, which was fixed to his head with a golden headband. The mask had a facial makeup drawn on it with just a few strokes.
Even though the facial makeup only has a few strokes, it is drawn with lifelike features.
That was a monkey mask.
At this moment, Romain Rolland, in his imitation state, reached out and made a grasping motion to his ear. A black iron rod with ancient engravings and gold metal plates wrapped at both ends appeared in his hand.
As the level of imitation soared, Romain Rolland's body also gradually changed. The signals transmitted by his body and his brain began to become increasingly discordant, but it was still within a tolerable range.
It wasn't until he had twirled the stick in his hand several times and hoisted it onto his shoulder that Romain Rolland broke free from the habitual imitation and twisted his neck slightly, feeling a little uncomfortable.
While he could tolerate the existence of "imitation," which is biologically far beyond that of ordinary humans, the physical burden it placed on him was still too great.
Zhou Shuren, standing to the side, didn't even glance back at the way Romain Rolland was imitating him. He only realized what the transformation was when the altered Romain Rolland stood next to him.
There's no other reason than that it's just too familiar. Although it's not exactly the same, I can still feel that sense of familiarity.
That was one of the two great protectors of China.
If Wu Cheng'en, the Victorious Fighting Buddha, were to name his power in the manner of supernatural abilities, he would be called "The Great Sage Equal to Heaven".
Looking at the imitated movements, Brother Zhou felt a pang of nostalgia: "It really is Mr. Wu."
"But you can even imitate the 'Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends'?"
Wu Cheng'en's supernatural ability is "The Great Sage Equal to Heaven," while the one that just flew out and became a clone is the supernatural ability (Seventy-two Earthly Fiends) of his teacher Shi Nai'an.
The effect of "Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends" is that after a person takes the main body as the subject, the remaining sphere will project clones. The clones will have weaker defense than the main body, but their special abilities will be fully inherited.
This ability was proposed by the "Shangshu" after Shi Nai'an passed away, and it has been with Wu Cheng'en ever since. Romain Rolland nodded: "Yes, after all, I directly imitate a person. If a person has a few supernatural abilities, I can imitate a few of them."
"However, I can only imitate half of the original strength at most; I can't do it any stronger."
“That’s already much better.” Zhou Shuren’s handwriting flowed, and a “cha” that had grown to the size of an adult tiger appeared beside him. “You suppress it, and then kill it one by one.”
As he spoke, Zhou Shuren had already rushed straight toward one of the divine children.
At that moment, Romain Rolland scratched his head, mimicking the habit, and then picked up his weapon and charged forward.
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