Chapter 263
Being deep inside the fallen league camp, Jiang Yunu naturally had no way of knowing about the discussion about the "Heart of the Secret Treasure" in the transfer station's meeting room. She could only understand the man's words literally, and then felt that if the "incomparably beautiful heart" referred to the big thing standing at the other end of the meat aisle, then the man in front of her might have a rather heavy taste in his understanding of "beauty".
But she still answered the other party's question.
"I don't know." Jiang Yunu gave a universal answer frankly.
The man looked dissatisfied.
But then, the white-haired girl continued calmly, noncommittally, "Deep within this 'incomparable' heart, there might be a greedy secret treasure. After all, this heart has expanded to this size, suitable for holding something larger and more expansive."
Before the man could respond, she continued, "Of course, there might not be any secret treasure here, but only a psychopath who meticulously planned and laid out this plan to fulfill his lifelong wish."
As soon as the word "lunatic" came out, the air seemed to freeze.
Shen Yijing thought: I begged her.
However, Captain Shen appeared calm and composed. He just gripped the black knife tighter and reconfirmed his position with Jiang Yunu, keeping himself in a posture that could defend him from attacks at any time.
Fortunately, the middle-aged man condensed by the projection looks like a relatively tolerant villain.
Not only was he not angry.
After a moment of astonishment, he said, "I like your guess—how wonderful is it? Wonderful! Absolutely wonderful! All geniuses in this world must have a bit of madness and insanity in them! The rarer the genius, the crazier they are! Hahahaha!"
At the end of the speech, the man burst into laughter, as if he had really received the highest praise from Jiang Yunu, which made him feel comfortable all over.
In the past, Jiang Yunu was occasionally described as a "little pervert" by people around her. Today, she met her match, and she felt that the opponent was much more perverted than her.
"You must never waste time on internal conflicts." Jiang Yunu said sincerely after the middle-aged man's projection finished laughing.
The middle-aged man still had a smile on his face, and the corners of his mouth remained raised. He also looked very sincere and replied to Jiang Yunu: "You are obviously a smart and clever girl. You will definitely understand my will and pursuit."
Jiang Yunu doesn't like this kind of mutual flattery.
She said more sincerely, "No, no, no, you're exaggerating. I don't think I would understand having my inter-school competition become something like this."
The middle-aged man kept smiling. He said, "If you don't try to understand, how do you know you won't understand?"
Then he clapped his hands.
Jiang Yunu clearly saw that Shen Yijing's back tensed up with the two claps, and the muscle lines on his back bulged slightly under his clothes in an instant.
With a "swish", it seemed as if a door in this technologically advanced space opened automatically.
There were no footsteps.
But something was moving incredibly fast, light, and flying towards them.
Captain Shen didn't need to remind him at all. Jiang Yunu switched from chat mode to combat mode in the blink of an eye.
A mutant of a type never seen before appeared in their sight and attacked without hesitation!
"Your way of making people understand you is quite passionate." Jiang Yunu flew to the side, and he and Shen Yijing tacitly avoided the attack of the mutant in different directions, then flanked them from both sides, cutting off the mutant's next attack path. At the same time, he did not forget to complain.
The middle-aged man still smiled and leisurely watched the two men fighting with the mutants.
This new mutant is completely different from the previous ones - not only is the opponent more capable in combat, but he also has better defense against high concentrations of superpowers.
The opponent can even change form.
When Shen Yijing saw the mutant switch from the first form to the second form, his pupils constricted slightly.
Switching to a new form on the spot means that the mutant's bones, flesh and blood will undergo partial on-site reorganization. One can clearly hear the joints crackling, the bones creaking, and the original flesh and skin being pierced by the new mutant limbs.
The Alien howled as it changed form.
Recombination must be painful, after all, your body structure is being changed while you are still alive.
However, the pain seemed to increase the combat value of the mutant, causing him to launch a more fierce attack on Jiang Yunu and Shen Yijing the next moment.
"Bang!"
It was the dull sound of the black long sword's back hitting the mutant's hardened body.
Shen Yijing didn't know when he used the back of the knife again, instead of using the sharp long blade to break the flesh and blood of the mutant.
Jiang Yunu knew at a glance that Captain Shen, who was cold on the outside but soft on the inside, was wavering again.
She didn't think there was anything wrong with Shen Yijing's trait. Anyway, she could be the more sober and cold-blooded person at such moments. She would keep the situation under control - and most of the time, Shen Yijing would unconditionally choose the former between "obeying her" and "taking care of others".
Conventional attack skills seemed to have no effect on this "new mutant". Jiang Yunu did not hesitate for long. She still retained the memory of launching the new skills in the meat passage, mobilized her supernatural powers, and used the new skills again.
——The fluorescent green spots were like poison spots that suddenly grew on the skin, appearing instantly on the mutant's hard iron-gray skin.
Start with a small number of pieces.
Then, as the mutant continued to mobilize its forces to launch an attack, emerald green spots quickly spread across his skin.
Jiang Yunu's skills are always like a strange assassin's killing move. By the time the person involved and the bystanders realize what she has done, it is often too late.
"roar--"
The mutant suddenly stopped attacking.
The other party stopped where it was and let out a howl that was even louder than when it changed its form before.
The middle-aged man's projection also put away that leisurely look.
Surprise, confusion, scrutiny... a variety of emotions intertwined on the middle-aged man's projection, and finally froze into a complex expression on his face.
He looked at Jiang Yunu again, as if it was not him who summoned this monster by simply clapping his hands. The physical projection took a step forward, crossed the space that had become a little messy due to the battle, and floated lightly to the side of Jiang Yunu.
"What did you do?" asked the middle-aged man.
Jiang Yunu did not answer the question immediately, but stopped attacking and carefully observed the mutant who was still suspending his movements not far ahead.
She didn't even turn her head in the direction of the middle-aged man: "Are you sure it's me? Are you looking down on my companions?"
The edge of Shen Yijing's long sword was not aimed at the new type of mutant, but at the projection of the middle-aged man.
His physical sword should not be able to cut the projection, but that is at least a silent statement of his attitude.
The middle-aged man seemed to have some kind of strange liking for Jiang Yunu, as if he felt that he had a very good relationship with her the moment they met, so he didn't mind the white-haired girl's attitude at all.
"It must be you." The projection said confidently, "I don't even need to guess. I rely on my genius and crazy intuition. I know it must be you right away."
Jiang Yunu: "..."
I called him a psychopath before, and it seemed like he really enjoyed it.
Jiang Yunu simply admitted: "Yes, it's me, so what?"
The middle-aged man's eyes flashed with fanaticism for a moment: "What did you do?"
Not only did he ask, he also moved closer to Jiang Yunu, and his projected chest was about to hit Jiang Yunu's shoulder.
"How did you do that?!" He became more and more enthusiastic as he got closer.
Shen Yijing’s knife could no longer be restrained, and it struck between the middle-aged man and Jiang Yunu like black lightning.
"Stay away from her!" Captain Shen scolded coldly.
The black long sword should not be able to cut the man's physical projection, but the man still made a slight dodging movement and floated back lightly like a ghost. Black lightning swept from the side of his projection, making his three-dimensional image appear a little rippled at the edges.
The middle-aged man's projection quickly returned to normal.
"Your companions really like to attract attention." The middle-aged man commented on Shen Yijing, clearly showing some dissatisfaction with Captain Shen.
"Nothing compares to the person who created an 'incomparable beautiful heart'." Jiang Yunu said.
"Nonsense," the middle-aged man said. "I clearly just want to create an epoch-making achievement. I stand at the pinnacle of human evolution and strive to turn all beautiful visions into reality and ensure the smooth implementation of great projects!"
Jiang Yunu: "..."
The white-haired girl did not respond to this sentence, but she glanced at Captain Shen with an indescribable look.
Shen Yijing successfully took a glance and felt that the look was like saying: Look, a classic scene!
The middle-aged man’s speech was indeed “very classic”.
The mutant who was corroded by Jiang Yunu's special ability was still howling, and the howling was infinitely closer to wailing.
He was unable to move, frozen in place, like a strong, abandoned combat tool with its core components locked.
Amidst the wailing in the background, the projection of the middle-aged man was very excited and told the white-haired girl, who he inexplicably had a liking for, about his lifelong wish.
"Do you know what we humans pursue throughout our lives?" The middle-aged man's projection waved his hand and answered his own question. "Evolution! There's no question about this answer. The only answer is evolution!"
"Because of our pursuit of evolution, we are like those chosen by the will of the universe. We are endowed with superpowers and have the privilege of being promoted from traditional primitive humans to superpowers."
"However, supernatural talents are divided into different levels, and each level has its own ceiling. Once a supernatural talent reaches the upper limit, no matter how hard they try, they can no longer improve. For thousands of years, there has never been a supernatural talent level breakthrough evolution."
"--what does that mean?"
The middle-aged man seemed to need someone to answer this time. His eyes were burning, and the emotions flowing in his eyes were so strong that his gaze seemed to have substance and could stare straight at Jiang Yunu and Shen Yijing.
But his only two listeners refused to cooperate.
They just remained silent, staring at him silently as if they were watching a mental patient going crazy.
A flicker of disappointment crossed the middle-aged man's face, but he continued, "—This of course means that someone needs to promote the development of the level breakthrough project. We humans should explore the possibility of breakthroughs in our supernatural talents on our own."
"This is a difficult problem left to us by the will of the universe. It is a great task of the century that this supernatural universe has bequeathed to mankind!"
When the man stopped again and his projected chest was heaving violently with emotion, Jiang Yunu finally responded.
"Your way of answering questions is to constantly turn normal people into alienated ones, to make them no longer like human beings. You also deliberately turned the senior league into a large training base to test your 'creation'?" Jiang Yunu asked.
Shen Yijing listened in. While he was on guard, he felt that Jiang Yunu's way of speaking, which started with the honorific "you" but ended with no pretense, was very interesting.
The middle-aged man didn't seem to feel that he was being ridiculed.
He showed an expression of enjoyment that everything he did was seen by others, and that "being seen" meant "being recognized".
"More than that," he said. "Actually, if I could have, I wouldn't have wanted to go this far."
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