Chapter 44
Inside the underground laboratory, a sharp alarm suddenly sounded, echoing throughout the entire enclosed underground space.
"The room number where the incident occurred is 4419, activate emergency procedures!"
Inside the main control room, a man dressed in white stared solemnly at the black screen of the monitor in room 4419, feeling an unignorable chill rising in his heart.
...There have been many unusual movements in the laboratory, but this time, it seems to be different from usual.
Want to use talent to see it?
After hesitating for a moment, he cut his finger and smeared a drop of blood on his eyes.
And when he opened his eyes again—
“……!!”
He suddenly fell back into his chair, blood instantly flowing from his eyes, and even a warm current flowed out of his ears and nostrils. His brain was buzzing as if someone had hit it with a metal rod.
“Huh…huh…”
His eyes were bloodshot.
He intuitively felt that he had just seen something extremely horrific, but he could not remember anything. As soon as he had the slightest thought of recalling something, his entire head felt like it was about to explode.
The intense fear almost overwhelmed him, leaving him completely unable to think.
——But one thing is certain.
——They will die here.
No one can escape alive.
…
…
【Absolute Sanity State·Triggered】
Feeling the signal coming from his mind, the black-haired boy just tilted his head slightly, without any trace of human emotion on his face.
He knew where he was, what he should do, and everything he needed to know.
He even knew that under the influence of [Absolute Reason], there was something wrong with his current state.
He looked at the outside world through his eyes, but it was as if he was looking through a screen; his senses were clear, but he could not receive any emotional feedback.
It's like... looking down from a very high place.
He was too far away.
Finally, the heavy door of room 4419 was opened.
The pitch-black guns were pointed at him, and several A-level talent holders were wary of him, but he didn't even have the slightest change in his expression. He just raised his eyes, and his gaze swept across the guns and the talent holders without stopping for a moment.
Until his sight came to the space outside the door.
——The door was opened from the outside.
He could get out of here without any effort.
The black-haired boy stood up and took a step forward.
——Compared to using "Still Life Manipulation" to open this door made of special metal, killing everyone present is not difficult.
Following the actions of the black-haired boy, Aiden, who was also in the team of A-level talent holders, felt an increasingly strange feeling in his heart.
He originally followed the second administrator, but on the day when Macken died, the other party suddenly gave up sniping and targeting César.
He could still clearly remember the face that was filled with fear when talking about Cesar.
He didn't understand the actions of the Second Administrator at all. He was an A-level talent holder, considered to be the top fighter in the Federation. Even if Xizel could kill McKen, what would it matter?
You know, McCann's ability can be easily restrained. Maybe this supervisor was just lucky and his talent happened to be able to restrain McCann.
——What's more, there are three different types of talent holders blocking his way at the door.
But……
When his eyes fell on the black-haired boy who was walking towards him step by step, he couldn't help but feel inexplicably flustered.
If the César he met a few days ago was calm, gentle and introverted, then as long as he didn't want to, that strange sense of danger would not be noticed at all.
Even an A-level talent like him had misjudged this supervision. It was not until he heard that the other party seemed to have killed McKen easily that he suddenly realized that the other party might not be as harmless as he imagined.
——However, the current Xizel gave him a particularly strong sense of inhumanity.
Even if the other party is very quiet... no, it's too quiet, so quiet that it's particularly weird.
"Don't resist in vain," Aiden warned quickly, as if to cover up something, "You are a valuable experimental subject. If you surrender now, we won't hurt—"
"Sizzle."
Just a moment.
Under the pale light of the laboratory, Aiden's head, still moving its lips, flew up, completely separated from his neck, and then, as expected, fell to the ground, rolling around.
——Giving people no chance to react, when they came to their senses, all they saw was a corpse.
The blood splattered out, but failed to attract the black-haired boy's attention.
The black-haired boy raised his hand and continued to activate his ability without hesitation. However, his misty blue eyes stared at the door calmly from beginning to end, as if everything around him was a bubble.
Even the person standing in front is just a corpse that poses no threat and naturally does not need much attention.
"Be careful! This is Mikan's still life manipulation!!"
As if realizing something, one of the gifted holders stared at Xizel with a look of fear and fanaticism: "Just cut off his hand--"
Before anyone could react, a translucent giant axe chopped heavily towards the black-haired boy's slender wrist.
The owner of the giant axe showed excitement in his eyes. He could almost imagine the scene of those hands flying up with blood, just like Aiden's head before.
However, the next second, his smile froze on his face.
...What's going on?
Why can't I cut it down?!
The man still had a look of horror on his face, but due to human instinct, he involuntarily raised his head to look at the black-haired boy who did not match his perception.
When he was under real attack, the other party finally gave him a moment of attention as if giving alms.
Just a moment.
But at this moment, the man suddenly felt as if his mind was filled with many things. Those misty blue eyes that seemed to hide endless unknowns that made it impossible for people to peek into them were like a virus that lingered in his mind.
However, the more he thought about these eyes, the more intense the stinging sensation in his brain became, and cold sweat almost instantly soaked his clothes.
And after the tangible impression of the blue eyes finally faded, all he could feel was extreme, inhuman indifference and separation.
Cesar averted his gaze.
He noticed that the man in front of him rushed up to attack him, and when he [looked at] the other person, the man in his eyes was just [a male human with the gift of the blood axe].
As for now, even though the other party was curled up on the ground with his head in his hands, a ferocious and painful expression on his face, with blood faintly flowing from his eyes, it had nothing to do with him.
The rejection reaction of "Still Life Manipulation" has not yet passed. His use has far exceeded the danger threshold. He can even clearly feel that the effect of the ability "You will be a god who does not bleed" is covering the damage to his body in a time-limited manner.
Once the time is up, he will instantly lose all his fighting power and return to his weakest physical state.
Cesare was well aware of the consequences.
"Crest's Fairy Godmother"
"Time remaining: one minute"
——But he still used this ability without any hesitation.
He didn't care about the backlash his body would suffer, calculating time with incredible precision. His purpose was simple and pure, and absolute rationality completely dominated his thinking.
He knew exactly what he was doing.
But he still couldn't generate any emotional fluctuations from it, as if he was looking down at everything on the stage from too far away, unable to understand or empathize.
Just like playing a game, you need to find the optimal solution and then execute it without any impact.
The black-haired boy walked slowly out of the operating room numbered 4419, stepping over the corpses of the three gift holders.
The researchers in white coats were holding weapons and confronting him as if they were facing a formidable enemy, because they had no way to retreat.
——In order to ensure that even if problems arise in the experiment, nothing in the laboratory will be leaked, as long as the emergency system is activated, the entire underground laboratory will be completely sealed from the inside out.
With the strength of these researchers, it is impossible to get out.
The black-haired boy's gaze didn't even linger on them, even when he noticed the frightened and desperate expressions on their faces.
He reached out and touched the snow-white wall beside him.
Things follow the mind.
A sharp knife that could take a person's life was evolved in an instant and stabbed at the researchers without any hesitation.
However, just before these people were about to be killed,
"Crest's Fairy Godmother"
"Time remaining: 0"
Cooling time: 13 days
Absolute sanity state has been lifted
The black-haired boy, still maintaining the gesture of touching the wall, slowly blinked.
——Suddenly, the strange, almost invisible position surrounding him was broken, as if the person outside the glass wall had finally overcome that barrier and truly appeared in this world.
Even though the black-haired boy usually gave people a feeling of emptiness and fragmentation, in contrast to his previous state, even the occasional truth revealed in him seemed particularly approachable.
The effects of the special status quickly faded.
After returning to normal, Xizel: "..."
He calmly withdrew his hand.
Well, after my body couldn't hold on any longer, my abilities were completely overdrawn, and I couldn't use "still life manipulation".
One word can summarize his current state.
It hurts everywhere.
Xizel started straight away, tilted his head slightly, showed a completely harmless smile, raised his left hand that had just come up with a killer move and waved it, saying in a friendly manner: "Hello."
However, even if one is dazzled by this face and this smile, the fear that penetrates deep into the bone marrow will not subside in a short time.
The leading researcher's hands were shaking as he held the gun, and he was clearly still under the fear.
But because he was too frightened before, he did not pay too much attention to César, who was in an absolutely rational state. Now he obviously still has the energy to think of something particularly bold.
——No matter how powerful one's ability is, it has its limits. The greater the ability, the greater the limits.
The black-haired boy could have killed them instantly, but he stopped at the last moment. This was completely inconsistent with his previous performance of slaughtering without hesitation.
...It wasn't like he stopped at the last moment, but rather like he didn't have the ability to attack again.
Looking at the black-haired boy's face again, he was as pale as a dead person, as if he would die on the spot in the next moment.
——This demon is exhausted!
A strange feeling of joy emerged in his heart. He was secretly proud of his sharp observation, as if he could foresee the infinite glory after his meritorious service. With a tone of confidence, he said with a sneer:
"You probably don't have the strength to use your talent anymore, right?"
Hearing his words, the black-haired boy nodded, his tone calm, but with a barely perceptible smile.
"You're right. I really can't use my abilities anymore."
Although he admitted it, his expression was not panicked.
Without noticing César's panicked expression, the leading researcher panicked.
His guess was absolutely correct, but why did the other party behave like this?
Something must have been overlooked...
What other tricks does the other party have that everyone is ignoring?
The man no longer dared to show off his strength, nor did he dare to let the passage of time add more variables. He simply exerted force on his fingers and pulled the trigger of the gun.
"Bang!"
Gunshot.
However, even at this time, the black-haired boy still slightly bent his eyes and seemed to be smiling, but his misty blue eyes were unusually calm, as if he didn't care at all that what was coming towards him was a fatal bullet.
——Then, as expected, the bullet grazed his hair and passed just above the tip of his ear.
"……What?"
The researcher who fired the shot muttered in disbelief.
Is this hit point a joke?
He clearly aimed before he fired!
But he soon understood why he missed the target.
——Because the earth was shaking violently.
Not only the ground, but even the walls of the entire laboratory were shaking, as if someone was high up, carrying out an extremely violent demolition from top to bottom.
The black-haired boy also raised his head and looked at the snow-white yet depressing ceiling.
A genuine smile flickered in his blue eyes.
The next moment——
Along with the sounds of falling gravel and cracking stone slabs, the entire ceiling was slowly torn apart from the middle, bit by bit.
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