"He's just a two-star superhuman, and he has such great finger strength?"
Meng Chao arrived in front of a Bloody Moon Wolf King with a mangled head.
There was a clear palm print on the Bloody Moon Wolf King's head. The five fingerprints were very clear, and they had crushed the skull.
Meng Chao placed his palm on it and gestured. Based on the edges of his palm, he was certain that the wound was left by a human and not some monster with sharp claws but thick and short fingers.
It has to be known that canine-type monsters had the saying that they had bronze heads, iron shoulders, and tofu waists. Their heads were incredibly sturdy.
When many canine-type monsters rammed into the armor of human tanks, they left marks that looked like they had been hit by cannonballs.
But the person who killed the Bloody Moon Wolf King had casually grabbed its skull and crushed it like a matchbox. It was as if it had been crushed by a matchbox.
Meng Chao looked at Manager Jiang in puzzlement. "Just where did the two-star superhuman here come from?"
When Manager Jiang saw the Bloody Moon Wolf King's wound, he was shocked as well. He shook his head and said, "I'm not too sure, but he seems to be a Gun Fighting Style martial artist. There's no reason for him to have such a brutal close-quarters killing technique."
"Did an elite come to provide reinforcements ahead of us?"
Meng Chao narrowed his eyes. Suddenly, he sensed an incredibly dangerous presence surging out from the depths of the forest.
"Careful!"
His pupils shrank swiftly, and he shouted at a Dragon Fang Commando member who was scouting ahead.
But it was too late!
Right when the Dragon Fang Commando stepped into the depths of the forest, he was suddenly sent flying by a black shadow. Like a kite with its string snapped, he flew more than ten meters away and broke a tree that was as thick as a person's arm before he fell to the ground like a pile of mud.
The Dragon Fang Commando members all wore strengthened exoskeletons made of super alloys. They also had firearms that were like mobile arsenals and crystal power systems. Their equipment weighed hundreds of kilograms, and even Iron-armored Rhinoceroses might not be able to send them flying so far and so ruthlessly if they charged at full speed.
And the black shadow that jumped out of the forest was at most two meters tall. It was an ape-like monster.
Its body was covered in thick and tough black fur. Its arms were incredibly long, and they practically reached its knees. There were ten fingers that looked like metal hooks on its palms, which were like cattail leaf fans. Its face was also covered in black fur, and its face could not be seen clearly. Meng Chao could only see a pair of bloodshot and murky eyes that looked like they were about to burst.
"What the hell?"
The appearance and structure of dozens of ape-type monsters instantly appeared in his mind.
But none of them could match up to the monster in front of them.
The Dragon Fang commandos behind Manager Jiang instinctively raised their guns and fired when they saw their comrade being attacked.
The ape-type monster's body was as elusive as a ghost's. It spun around the dozen or so lines of fire. Even if the bullets hit it, they would only slide off its oily and tough fur.
Only a small number of bullets were embedded in flesh.
The pain made it even crazier, and it bared its sharp teeth at the commandos.
When the Dragon Fang Commandos saw this, they spread out to make way for the heavy machine guns and rocket launchers on the armored vehicles parked outside the forest.
"Wait —"
Meng Chao's eyes were sharp. Suddenly, he saw something on the ape's wrist that shone.
His expression changed, and he pounced forward like a whirlwind, kicking the ape man's abdomen heavily.
No matter how fast the ape was, it was impossible for him to catch up to Meng Chao's rhythm.
Bang!
His kick let out the dull sound of a battering ram smashing through a city gate. The ape man was sent flying like a kite with its string snapped. But before it could land, Meng Chao had already moved to the spot where it was going to land. He swung his leg again and kicked it into the air.
Meng Chao did the same thing and moved to the spot where it was going to land. He kicked it eight times, and for a total of ten seconds, the ape remained in the air.
When it finally landed on the ground, its limbs were as mangled as mud. Meng Chao had dislocated all of its joints.
But this ape man was incredibly strong. Even though its joints were dislocated, it could still tighten its muscles, which were as tough as steel cables. It roared and crawled up.
Meng Chao frowned a little. He could only bring out chains and bind it tightly.
The ape man struggled, but the chains released electricity with crackling sounds. The electricity made smoke rise from the ape man's body, and its fur was charred black. It let out horrifying roars.
Meng Chao had no choice but to have Manager Jiang's people inject the sedatives in the emergency medical kit.
The sedatives that were five times the normal dosage were injected into the ape, but there was no effect.
It was only when it was injected with a high-density anesthetic that was used to capture superbeasts alive that the ape man gradually calmed down and fell asleep.
"Just what kind of monster is this?"
Someone had long since saved the commando who had been sent flying by the ape man. When they saw the clear palm print on his chest armor, they gasped in amazement and surrounded the brutal ape man.
"I'm afraid … it's not a monster."
Meng Chao crouched down and pushed aside the black fur on the ape man's right wrist to reveal a tactical watch.
"That's …!"
Manager Jiang and the Dragon Fang Commandos were all shocked.
Meng Chao examined it. This tactical watch seemed to be the newest model that had been released this year.
He touched the ape man's skull and found that it was no different from a normal human's.
He touched the ape man's palm and fingertips carefully. He could even find marks left behind by long-term high-intensity training with guns.
'By the looks of it, it's not a monster. It's one of the three superhumans in this developing land. It might be the Gun Fighting Style martial artist,' Meng Chao concluded.
"How is that possible?"
Manager Jiang and the Dragon Fang Commandos looked at each other at a loss. "How did a human become like this? And he even lost his rationality?"
Meng Chao wanted to know the answer to this question as well.
The Gun Fighting Style martial artist had clearly gone through a mutation that made him change completely.
However, he should not have been infected by the new zombie virus, because after he fell asleep, his physiological parameters were very stable, and there were no signs of microorganisms multiplying in large amounts or organs rotting.
Did he turn into an undead after being infected by Blood Flower spores? That didn't seem right. He was clearly not dead. He had just lost his rationality and seemed to have gone through spirit energy deviation …
While Meng Chao was thinking, an explosion suddenly came from the developing land ahead of him.
"Get two people to watch over him. There might be other survivors inside. Of course, there might also be other superhumans who have gone through spirit energy deviation. Their fighting strength might have surpassed their original realm, so be careful!"
Meng Chao brought Manager Jiang and the seven Dragon Fang Commandos in the direction of the explosion.
The weeds and trees ahead of them had been ignited. It was as if there was magma flowing in the air, and it gave off a pungent smell of sulfur.
The ground was strewn all over, and there were monster carcasses everywhere. The damage here was even worse than at the periphery, but the monsters here were not torn apart by humans. Instead, they were burned into charcoal. Some of them were even burned into snow-white statues. When the commandos touched them lightly, the "statues" crumbled and were reduced to ashes.
Only when they were burned continuously at a temperature of thousands of degrees Celsius could they produce such an effect.
Meng Chao thought about it for a long time, but he could not think of any spirit energy magnetic field an Earth Realm superhuman could control that could release such terrifying power.
At that moment, they heard an inhuman howl coming from the depths of the flames ahead of them.
Everyone's gazes were trained on a huge fireball.
When they took a closer look, they noticed that it was not a fireball. Instead, it was a burning person kneeling on the ground.
Crimson flames flowed out of his orifices and pores.
The flames were so pure that they were like solidified magma. They refined his flesh and blood into something crystalline.
He was like a melting glass statue. He extended his arms to Meng Chao and the others with great difficulty. His face was full of confusion and pain. He opened his mouth to shout, but no one knew whether he was asking for help or warning them, but his voice and expression were soon devoured by the flames.
Before Meng Chao and the Dragon Fang Commandos could think of a way to save him …
This burning human had completely melted like glass in a high temperature of several thousand degrees.
Aside from the flames on the ground, he did not leave anything behind.
If it were not for the fact that the commandos' cameras had recorded everything clearly, this would have been a nightmare that could not be described with words.
'So, was he burned to death by a monster who's skilled in spitting flames, or …'
'Why do I feel like he's that monster who's skilled in spitting flames, but he can't control the flames in his cells, so he lost control of his spirit energy and died from spontaneous combustion?'
With puzzlement, Meng Chao and the Dragon Fang Commandos continued moving forward.
They circled the developing land once and discovered more mangled carcasses of monsters. In the end, they also found human corpses.
Many of the pathfinders and monsters were hugging each other tightly. They bit each other's throats and died together. The devastation of the battle and the strength of the pathfinders far surpassed their expectations.
But …
Meng Chao knelt down on one knee and carefully separated a survivor's corpse from the Ghost Leopard he had crushed by force.
There were no fatal wounds on the survivor's body.
Even though the Ghost Leopard had torn three deep gashes on his left forearm and the flesh around it had rotted and turned black, that should not be the cause of death.
The cause of death was dehydration.
Meng Chao also found it ridiculous.
Based on the freshness of the monster carcasses, it had been at most an hour since the developing land was attacked.
The pathfinder's corpse was now just skin and bones. It was like a relic that had been buried for thousands of years.
Most of his limbs and body had shrunk, and they were as stiff as dead wood. Even if Meng Chao squeezed the wounds gently, not a single drop of blood or pus seeped out.
It was as if some mysterious power had squeezed out all the cells in the pathfinder.
Wu Wu, Meng Chao's classmate in Agricultural University's monster controller course, had a Ghost Leopard as her pet, and they often sparred against each other.
Hence, Meng Chao knew very well that the Ghost Leopard's inborn talent was to make the wounds of its prey rot faster. It was impossible for it to dehydrate a human to this extent within an hour.
He checked a few more pathfinders' corpses.
They all showed different degrees of dehydration.
Many of them had no wounds on their chests, but their hearts had been torn apart.
It was as if they had died of exhaustion after draining their lives too much.
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