Chapter 813: Truth 1

Boom!!!

The ground sank, as if hit by artillery fire, and large amounts of dust rose with the flying debris.

The surrounding ruined buildings also swayed on the verge of collapse in the violent shaking.

The lower half of the iron tower, clenched into a lump, smashed the parking lot surface.

The already dilapidated underground facilities collapsed instantly all the way.

Underground, they fled in panic.

The aberrant mutant seemed to have no patience for playing cat and mouse.

After the giant foot crushed the ground and stopped.

Standing above the parking lot, the aberrant giant corpse paused for a second, its blood-red lantern-like eyes quickly locking onto the constantly sprinting Lin An.

"Roar!!!"

Sound waves roared, the huge right fist raised high, its muscle tissue swelling in a monstrous way.

"Boom!!!"

"Boom!!"

"Boom!!"

Punch after punch, like a high-speed pile driver, the fists pounded the ground into rubble.

Bare-handed, he created an earthquake.

The high-speed blast of wind pressure scattered the exploded boulders, and invisible shockwaves swept across.

It spread through the body.

"Pfft..!"

A sweetness filled his chest, and fresh blood spurted out.

Lin An, still trying to dodge underground, froze as the spreading shockwave and vibration struck his back like a thousand‑jin hammer.

Clenching his teeth, he endured the pain, and Lin An desperately rushed toward the surface.

Just the lingering force of the spread almost left him severely injured.

The current strength gap... is simply too great..

After dodging the incessant falling debris from above, Lin An couldn't help but give a bitter smile.

Controlled by the Second Will.

His body, off balance in the quake, strained to adjust its posture and kept sprinting.

The aberrant mutant's locking ability was too monstrous; its violent attacks completely covered his position.

Charging out, a few Blinks would get him killed.

In ground combat, even if the mutant had no special means, its sound‑wave roar alone could shatter him.

If he didn't charge out, he would be buried underground in at most three seconds.

No one could survive under thousands of tons of collapsed debris.

Third Fourth Rank intermediate mutant, capable of destroying a city alone.

What should I.. do..

Since his rebirth, Lin An's eyes flickered with a hint of confusion for the first time.

("Charge out first, create distance, then talk!")

A fierce shout pulled Lin An back.

The Second Will seemed never to lose heart, always remaining calm.

("As long as there is a sliver of hope... I will surely find it!!")

After countless death trials, the Second Will was endowed with absolute conviction.

He rallied his spirit, Lin An strained to adjust his thoughts, no longer letting emotions affect him.

Thought as one, just as the Second Will would infect his thinking, his emotions would also spread to the Second Will.

That's right..

Unless the system wants to kill me, as long as there is a way to live, I will surely find it..

After one rebirth, how could I possibly die like this!?

Forcibly stimulating his spirit, Lin An instantly burst out of the underground.

In the instant he turned his head sideways, he saw that enormous body occupying his entire field of view.

Their bloody red eyes met, as if emanating from evil.

Descent!

Without Hesitation.

Upon seeing the giant fist blast out again, the Second Will instantly gave the dodge direction.

Mental power activated, the descent domain from his innate trait rapidly unfolded.

White light flashed.

Precise, a fist faster than sound suddenly smashed toward the original position.

Like an explosion, it blasted a huge pit into the ground.

"Bang!!"

The giant fist struck the phantom.

The airflow spread.

Lin An, who had just vanished and reappeared, barely dodged before being blown away by the subsequent spreading airflow, his back slamming hard into the ground.

The intense pain stimulated the nerves.

Breastbone shattered, left hand broken by rebound force, lower leg fractured.

He forcibly dragged his body up, Lin An could only painfully climb up again.

I won't die here!

However, the aberrant mutant gave no chance to catch a breath.

Upon realizing the worm beneath his feet could teleport, the monster displayed extremely high intelligence, directly lunging toward a nearby residential building.

Black arc.

Using the building as a hammer, the concrete building held in his palm instantly swept horizontally toward Lin An's position.

Horizontally... cannot dodge..

(Dodge upward!!)

Their thoughts synchronized.

White light reappeared.

Within seconds, Lin An transformed again, appearing in midair.

Before he could adjust his vision.

Grabbing the residential building's giant hand, as if he had anticipated it, he suddenly exerted force.

"Bang!!"

Broken stone and rebar shot out.

Under absolute force, the hardened concrete building, like a crushed egg, instantly exploded outward.

No time to react.

Streaks of rebar and concrete, like sharp shells, covered half the sky.

"Hiss"

Heart-piercing stabbing pain.

In an instant, Lin An felt a sharp pain in his chest.

Bright red blood spurted out, dragging a long blood line.

Fresh blood sprayed toward the ground.

A corroded rebar pierced through his chest.

"Ho... ho.."

Vitality drained heavily, he in midair had nowhere to exert force.

Gazing at the rebar piercing his body, Lin An's eyes dimmed as if realizing something.

This position is..

My heart.. has it been pierced through..

Cold, powerless.

With massive blood loss, his vision began to blur.

Time seemed to stop.

In his blurred vision, Lin An seemed to see the blood droplets floating in midair being blown away.

Shadows loomed, a sky-covering aberrant mutant giant hand slammed down, covering all his escape routes.

Is he going to die..

Thought split in two.

In a daze, Lin An seemed to see within the Thought Space, the Second Will suddenly sigh, looking at his own gaze with a hint of pity and reluctance.

He, who had been desperately seeking answers, became unusually calm.

It seemed that his previous roar and anxiety were merely a disguise.

("Sorry... Lin An..")

("This is the only solution..")

No sound from his mouth.

Under control, his body opened the Apocalypse Ring.

A pitch-black fragment, upon drifting out, instantly drilled into the brow and sank into the brain marrow.

Like a red-hot iron clamp inserted into the brain, intense, as if burning the soul, the pain surged.

In this paused moment, Lin An endured the pain and looked at him in shock.

"What are you... doing!?"

He recognized that fragment, it came from the Red-Clothed Mutant's brain.

At the start of the trial, he deliberately took the fragment with him to prevent another third-rank from finding Long'an Base.

The fragment is eerie, a lethal fragment capable of turning the red-clothed girl into a monster.

In the silent time.

The Second Will merely shook his head silently.

In an instant, Lin An felt his personality begin to detach, as if peeled away from the entire world.

"Ahhh! Ahh!!"

The final pain came from the body.

In midair, the body pierced through the heart suddenly twisted in agony, like ripples spreading in water.

Wave after wave of teeth-gritting bone cracking sounds rang out continuously.

In the darkness, the aberrant mutant about to kill Lin An, shocked, with a hint of doubt and fear, watched that tiny body begin to continually swell.

Clearly, it only needed seconds to slap this worm to death.

But, the world seemed to be frozen.

Incomprehensible.

The crimson giant eye could only stare as the bodily form in the air, like a twisted monster, kept growing.

Pfft—

Pfft—

Skin and flesh torn apart.

The frantically growing bone spikes pierced the flesh.

Only Lin An in midair was seen, actually like a deformity, turning into a hundred‑meter‑long slender mutant.

Sharp, pallid bone spikes pierced the joints, like a killing machine assembled from bone blades.

Thud—thud

Four eyes met, the deformed giant corpse saw another pair of crimson eyes, and a heart wrapped in white bone, constantly beating.

Ho... ho...

In the ruins, two black shadows pressed over the city.

A hoarse breath sounded.

In the darkness, another monster was born.