Chapter 115 – Exoskeleton, Evolve!

Even after Ye Long left the house with Ye Nannan in his arms, his figure lonely and dejected, Su Lifeng was still thinking about what exactly had just happened.

Judging by the result, it seemed like a stroke of good fortune delivered right to his door. But Su Lifeng did not believe that free lunches really fell from the sky in this world, especially not when the one dropping it was a Xenospecies. And once he calmed down, he realized there were many suspicious points about the whole matter.

“Maybe she has some purpose. I just don’t know what it is yet. Since I can’t figure it out, I’ll stop thinking about it for now. In the face of any conspiracy, strength is still the greatest guarantee.”

At least for now, the completion of the Wisdom Species inside his body was an undeniable fact. Only by taking advantage of this time to digest that part of the Wisdom Species could he stand firm in the coming wave of panic, or even push upstream against it.

Su Lifeng stretched out his hand and glanced at the Exoskeleton emerging over his knuckles. As that black-red threadlike body gradually merged into his flesh and blood, the heat slowly gathered in his hand as well.

The Exoskeleton began to spread, slowly covering his five fingers, the back of his hand, his wrist, and even his arm.

In the end, it stopped near his elbow.

Heart pounding with excitement, Su Lifeng raised that arm in front of him. His eyes were filled with stunned wonder.

Pale white. Lusterless. Yet it radiated a terrifying aura of death.

Although it still could not compare to the Giant Hand he had seen inside the Spatial Gate, the power contained within it let Su Lifeng glimpse a sliver of hope.

The full opening of the Spatial Gate meant the extinction of humanity. But from the day he gained his Precognitive Ability, he had already formed a belief.

The future was not set in stone. It was only a tendency. It would become inevitable only when you were so weak that you had no power to resist at all.

In that case, he would become stronger!

Crack, crack, crack!

Cracks gradually appeared across the Exoskeleton. As Su Lifeng slowly clenched his fingers into a fist, a heart-shuddering aura immediately began to gather inside the room.

It was like an invisible vortex being compressed little by little into a single point, and that point was Su Lifeng’s fist.

Boom!

A muffled blast rang out.

Su Lifeng punched forward, smashing his fist into a decorative solid-wood screen ahead of him.

As the Exoskeleton on his arm burst apart into ash, the solid-wood screen began to decay from the point of contact with his fist.

Cracks spread. The wood blackened into a carbonized state. The decay rapidly spread across the entire screen.

“Hah…”

As Su Lifeng withdrew his arm, the completely rotted screen silently collapsed, broke apart, and scattered across the floor in a pile of debris.

This scene had taken place inside an abandoned residence like this. If it had also happened on television, it probably would have caused an even bigger sensation than the mayor’s speech.

Even Su Lifeng had not expected the power of this punch to be so terrifying.

“This isn’t ordinary physical damage anymore. It’s like a biochemical weapon. And that was just wood. If it hit human skin, who knows what kind of effect it would have.” Su Lifeng looked at his fist. After the Exoskeleton fell away, his hand had returned to the state of an ordinary person’s. Who would have imagined that this very hand could actually produce the effect of a biochemical weapon?

This kind of evolution had completely surpassed Su Lifeng’s understanding of the human body.

“Too astonishing…” Su Lifeng was still immersed in shock.

Outside the house, Han Meng wiped his mouth. His eyes, pupils dilated until they looked like a cat’s, stared at the room Su Lifeng was in with shock and fear.

But a moment later, he licked his lips and his expression returned to normal. “That scared this cat half to death…”

As he spoke, the long tail behind him flicked, and his pupils suddenly contracted into thin slits again. “I was hoping to see if I could have a serious fight with you, but from the look of things, we’ll have to meet again another day. Right, Qianqian?”

The moment he finished speaking, the silhouette of a woman abruptly appeared behind him. That face was unmistakably Jiang Qianqian’s.

She was wrapped up behind Han Meng by his cat tail, her empty eyes seeming to brim with despair. Who knew how he had hidden her just now…

“After patching you up with your mother’s flesh and blood, the results really are better than with that cop. No wonder you’re mother and daughter… heh heh heh.” Han Meng’s neck twisted around in an eerie way, as if it were about to snap, while the joints in his arms turned as though they could be detached at will. He reached out and stroked her face. “How does it feel? Are you happy, pet Qianqian?”

Jiang Qianqian’s expression did not change. There was no fluctuation in her gaze either. Only that aura of despair around her seemed to grow even stronger…

…

“Nannan, hang in there.” Ye Long held Ye Nannan in his arms, tears streaming down his face as he ran toward the highway.

Ye Nannan nodded and answered weakly from his embrace, “Mm.”

At the same time, she slowly turned her gaze behind Ye Long.

The houses grew farther and farther away in her vision, and before long, they vanished amid the waist-high weeds.

“Lifeng-Ge, now Ren Xiaoying’s trail on me has been completely cut off. But you need to be careful…”

A sweet little smile suddenly appeared on Ye Nannan’s pale face. She lifted the small hand pressed over her chest and glanced at the blood on it. After voluntarily separating from her main body, she should have died, but now, from the blood in her palm, an extremely fine Black Thread slowly emerged.

“All that preparation wasn’t for nothing…” Ye Nannan smiled as she watched the Black Thread burrow back into her body. In her eyes, a strange light flashed, as though vitality had returned to her in that instant. She even seemed stronger than before.

But the scene lasted only for the blink of an eye. Soon, Ye Nannan once again looked as if she were on her last breath, and Ye Long noticed nothing at all…

Only after more than ten full minutes did Su Lifeng completely absorb this part of the Wisdom Species.

He looked at his reflection in the glass and found that, aside from the evolution of his Exoskeleton, absorbing the Wisdom Species had also brought some changes to him while he maintained human form.

His eyes had become more indifferent, but at the same time, the lines of his features had become more pleasing to look at.

“Could it be that this refined appearance of mine was treated as a kind of protective coloration during evolution?” Su Lifeng froze for a moment, unsure whether to laugh or cry.

Still, it was better than growing a layer of camouflage-colored skin. After tugging his clothes into place, Su Lifeng left the room.

Once outside, he saw Li Liyan’s corpse in the foyer. The middle-aged woman’s mouth was wide open, her face still holding traces of terror and shock, and even a hint of pain. Who knew what she had seen before she died.

Su Lifeng did not hate this woman much, but he had no sympathy for her either. Like Jiang Qianqian, the miserable end she had met was one she had chosen and brought upon herself.

But just as Ye Nannan had said, with this, Jiang Fusheng and Jiang Yushi would have no obstacles left within the group.

“But where did Qiu Yuming go?”