Chapter 290

Blinding Gold Light burst from Huo Ye Yingsi's body.

His body, originally composed of three colors, was illuminated by the Gold Light, and Oz's combat power began to surge.

Eight hundred years ago, the King's absorption of a Core Coin caused a berserk state, but this did not occur on Huo Ye Yingsi's body now.

This scene was also perfectly transmitted by the monitoring system here to the building of the Hongshang Group.

At this moment, all words seemed pale and powerless; everyone who understood this scene felt only shock, ecstasy, and dread.

From Hongshang Guangsheng in the office to Zhenmu Qingren and Kazhali in the lab, everyone was watching Oz now.

Just like a scene replayed, the former King returned once again, like a deity.

Kazhali, who was at the Hongshang Biochemical Research Institute, had a pallid face and cold sweat pouring down.

"The king once returned, and he will devour all the Core Coins." Kazhali hoarsely opened his mouth.

"No, the Core Coins that Ouzi currently possesses are not enough; he cannot be called a king."

Zhenmu Qingren said: "As long as you snatch back the Core Coins in Ouzi's hand and gather them into your body, you too can possess power comparable to his."

"It seems you are truly well-suited for Ouzi." Bird-system Greed spoke in a calm, even somewhat indifferent tone.

Having devoured all the Core Coins, Huo Ye Yingsi did not answer him but instead let out a deafening roar, and the invisible sound waves stirred up a great commotion here.

Ouzi's scarlet wings spread behind him, the golden tiger claws on his arms suddenly expanded, opened, and the colors on his body began to intertwine.

He fiercely charged toward Bird-system Greed.

In an instant, the two distinct figures turned into blurry shadows, violently colliding repeatedly in this arena.

In Ouzi's current historical progression, this could be the fastest and most intense battle yet.

Golden and sharp claw marks scattered here, like a roar tearing open the sky amid dark clouds.

Even under a high-speed camera, their clash could only be seen as blurry shadows; each collision resembled a battle of Desire Coins, with scorching heat and thunder sweeping across the entire arena.

Smoke and rubble continually permeated, and the surrounding buildings began to collapse.

The power of the Core Coins alternately destroyed everything here.

At the same time, it inflicted different damages on the two combatants.

Cellular coins scattered in the air, and the wounds on Huo Ye Yingsi's body grew ever more numerous.

Various afterimages appeared in the field, each representing the intensity and ferocity of the battle.

Their battle afterimages filled the entire vast arena.

In the places where they fought, energy continually surged, making the transmitted image abnormally unstable.

Yet even so, the spectators watching from outside the arena all remained silent.

They had no time to worry about this; their gazes were completely drawn to the battle.

The colliding energy streams suddenly exploded; the indistinct figures smashed together like artillery fire, then rebounded and collided again at even greater speed.

Boom! The flames shooting skyward engulfed the center of the two colliding bodies, the explosion rapidly expanding to envelop the entire arena.

It was a world of fire, accompanied by a ring-shaped shockwave that swept violently across the surroundings.

It completely turned the spectator stands, several meters high, into powder and rubble.

Dust filled the sky, and the shockwave blanketed the battlefield at extreme speed, like a heavy snowfall.

Even the high-speed camera that could barely glimpse the battle was completely destroyed.

After seeing a pitch-black screen, Hongshang Guangsheng, dressed in a black suit, nodded satisfactorily.

Afterwards, while singing the birthday song, he took the cake base out of the oven beneath the desk.

His movements were extraordinarily graceful; his body swayed to the tune in his mouth, and soon he finished the final stroke of the cake. On the birthday cake was written, HappybirthdayAnkh!

"Happy birthday, Anku!" Hongshang Guangsheng shouted loudly.

"Lizhong."

"Yes, President." Lizhong, who was working overtime nearby, replied instinctively.

Lizhong closed the compact mirror in his hand, took the already-packed cake handed over by Hongshang Guangsheng with both hands, and walked out of the office.

This was her unprecedented day of working overtime at the Hongshang Foundation.

She should have left work at six in the afternoon, but now the wall clock's hour hand had already passed twelve.

This amounted to the next day, except that the overtime had only one purpose: to deliver a birthday cake to Hongshang Guangsheng.

The result of those six hours of overtime was that she received a week's salary compensation, a week of vacation, and a promotion.

Although she indeed looked down on the position of Transport Vehicle Squad Captain, she is now Houteng's superior, which sounds not bad.

Meanwhile, Zhenmu Qingren at the Hongshang Biological Research Institute was tidying up his things.

After witnessing Ouzi's power, he decided to formally commence his own "Termination" plan.

"Doctor, you're leaving already?"

After calming down a bit, Kazhali sat on the table and said to Zhenmu Qingren, who was tidying up the doll's clothes.

"Kazhali-kun, you have already seen Ouzi's current power; if he discovers you here, you might end up being sealed again."

Zhenmu Qingren expressionlessly finished arranging the doll's clothes: "For now, we should still accumulate power."

This is not because he is in a hurry, but because he no longer has any reason to stay here.

After witnessing Meizier's rampage last time, he had already conceived the idea of breaking away from the Hongshang Foundation.

He had no interest whatsoever in Hongshang Guangsheng's desire to change the world.

He merely wanted to see the beautiful end of the world; anything is only at its most beautiful at the moment of its conclusion.

For Zhenmu Qingren, reducing the world to nothingness is his own finale; as long as Greed runs rampant and then devours the world, that is the fulfillment he feels inside.

He coldly regarded his own research results and records, mercilessly pressed the delete button, and as lines of data on the computer began to crumble, he felt not a shred of regret or nostalgia.

Vast amounts of data began to be erased; core data was submerged under a deluge of data junk, like seawater flowing backward into a river, swallowing the genuine data, and finally everything was cleared away.

"That way, there will be no problem at all."

Zhenmu Qingren took his own retirement salary, and together with Kazhali left the Hongshang Biochemical Research Institute.

Light flickered, Huo Ye Yingsi exhausted and collapsed, and the Oz System on his body also reached its limit of endurance at this moment, finally disintegrating.

The red Eagle Core Coin bounced a few times on the ground, accompanied by a clear collision sound, as the black shadow in the mist tore through the sky-filling dust, its body like a slender green bamboo completely unaffected by the wind.

He bent over and gently picked up the Eagle Core Coin that had fallen to the ground.

He opened his hand, and three different bird-type Core Coins lay lightly in his palm.

The already exhausted Huo Ye Yingsi, after seeing that face clearly, slowly closed his eyes and reassuredly entrusted his body to the Jiang Xia he knew.

Jiang Xia looked at the arena that had fallen into a coma and was in utter chaos, merely slowly walking toward a direction.

Huo Ye Yingsi and the Core Coins scattered all over the ground thus floated up out of thin air, and the surrounding scenery began to change.

Finally, the huge arena was transformed into a laboratory filled with various equipment.

And all those Core Coins were neatly placed back into the coin storage box.

(End of chapter)