Chapter 1: The Descent of Justice
In the late October of Phoenix City, the weather, which should have been cooling down, was uncharacteristically sweltering.
At noon, the heat waves rising from the highway distorted the view of the roadside in the distance.
Lei Xiang lay pale-faced on the scorching pavement!
Beside him, a tense middle-aged man crouched, clutching a white box tightly with one hand, while the other hand held a pistol pressed against the back of Lei Xiang's head!
In front of them, a black sedan had crashed into the median, its tilted body shielding most of their figures.
Twenty meters ahead on the highway, four armored off-road vehicles blocked the road, with over a dozen heavily armed soldiers taking cover behind them.
"Let me go! You can take the stuff back!" the middle-aged man said nervously, his eyes scanning the dozens of heavily armed soldiers in front of him and the hovering armed helicopter.
"Dr. Chen Kai, stop the pointless struggle. Think of your family and children. Come back with us, and no one will get hurt!" a young officer slowly approached him.
"I won't say it again! Let me go, you take the stuff, or we'll all go down together. Even if I die, I'll make sure everyone within ten li pays with me!" Dr. Chen Kai's expression was becoming fierce.
The officer looked at him coldly and quickly made a gesture with his left hand.
The soldiers behind him swiftly surrounded them in a fan formation!
Countless cold gazes pierced through Dr. Chen Kai's resolve like knives, causing his body to tremble more and more violently.
The g*n and the box fell onto Lei Xiang's body.
Lei Xiang, lying on the ground, his muscles stiffened, his hands tightly holding his head, his mind blank, all sounds around him fading into the distance, leaving only the frantic beating of his heart in his ears.
With this frantic heartbeat, Lei Xiang's consciousness began to blur, as if a primordial beast deep within his body was about to burst forth.
In the midst of this, he faintly heard the crisp sound of gunfire, the clamor of shouts...
Suddenly, someone kicked him hard, pulling him out of that strange state, and all the sounds around him rushed back into his ears, his heartbeat gradually slowing.
Lei Xiang, somewhat dazed, lifted his head and saw a pair of black military boots!
It was the soldiers coming to save him!
"Get up! Take the box and g*n and follow me!" the young officer, g*n in hand, aimed at Dr. Chen Kai beside him, spoke quickly.
"Okay!" Lei Xiang picked up the box and g*n from the ground, scrambled to his feet, and ran to the officer's side, glancing at the man who had held him captive. The sight made him shiver.
Dr. Chen Kai's body, which had been shaking violently, suddenly stopped. He slowly raised his head, revealing eyes filled with white, no pupils, staring intently at the two men before him!
His mouth slowly opened, revealing rows of sharp teeth, his mouth filled with black blood, as if new saw-toothed teeth had grown in his gums in this short time.
His hands, slightly trembling, dripped with black blood, his fingertips pushing out inch-long nails, reflecting cold glints under the sunlight.
The officer felt a chill run down his spine and quickly stepped back, wanting to distance himself from the creature before him. He fired a burst from his rifle, hitting Chen Kai in the leg.
The powerful momentum of the rifle bullet knocked Chen Kai to the ground, and the officer turned to run. Lei Xiang, holding the box and g*n, closely followed behind.
Before they could take more than a few steps, a deafening roar came from the sky. Lei Xiang looked up and saw the helicopter losing control, spinning towards them!
Lei Xiang felt his mind go blank! The helicopter is falling!
A gunshot "bang" snapped him back to reality.
Lei Xiang turned and saw Dr. Chen Kai leaping high, the bullet just grazing his shoulder, leaving a trail of black blood.
As Chen Kai's claws were about to reach the officer in front of him, Lei Xiang, without thinking twice, used all his strength to push the officer aside and raised the box in his hand to slap Chen Kai's black claws.
Chen Kai and Lei Xiang collided violently, tumbling to the ground in a heap. The officer scrambled to his feet and rushed over, grabbing Lei Xiang's ankle and dragging him away desperately.
Because he saw the helicopter above them crashing down like a boulder.
Lei Xiang was dragged on his back, seeing the shadow passing overhead. Before he could react, he heard a loud crash!
His ears were ringing from the impact, and despite the stinging pain from flying pebbles on his face, he struggled to lift his head. In the upside-down view, he saw Chen Kai jumping into the air again!
Lei Xiang cried out in terror, "He's not dead, he's not dead!"
Another dull "bang" of a gunshot, and Chen Kai flew across the sky, crashing hard into the median barrier!
But in just a few seconds, he got up again, mouth gaping, making strange cackling sounds, and with a push of his limbs, he leaped towards the two men again.
Lei Xiang felt his hands and feet turn cold, not even feeling the burning scrape on his back! He just stared intently at Chen Kai, who was pouncing towards them again, his teeth clenched!
In Lei Xiang's despairing gaze, a dark figure suddenly swept across the sky with a whistling sound, slamming into the concrete road with a "boom," gouging out a large piece of asphalt!
Chen Kai, who had leaped high into the air, was caught by this dark figure, his body sliced in two and crashing to the ground, his internal organs and black blood splattering the surface.
Lei Xiang, mouth agape, watched the still-wobbling half propeller tail nearby. A familiar phrase flashed through his mind: "Justice may be delayed, but it will never be absent!"
Closing his eyes, Lei Xiang let the officer drag him away!
No one noticed that the white box he tightly held against his chest had been squeezed, leaving several dark cracks in the metal casing. Silver liquid metal was continuously seeping out, dripping onto Lei Xiang's chest, disappearing into several wounds.
Just as the liquid metal was about to run out, a small piece of silver-white crystal suddenly slipped out from the c***k and dripped onto Lei Xiang's chest with the liquid metal!
But when the white crystal touched the open wound on Lei Xiang's body, it seemed to come alive, diving into the wound, wriggling beneath the skin, the bulge moving upwards with difficulty, finally slowing down and disappearing at the shoulder...
At this moment, Lei Xiang, with his eyes closed and unconscious, did not hear the strange voice in his mind: "Carrier compatibility 0.5%, bio-armor remaining energy 3%, entering hibernation state..."