Chapter 101: Bizarre

Zhou Liming only felt his whole body swelling, every cell seemed to have been blown up several times larger.

The latent power , following the expansion of the cells, also expanded accordingly. Power, endless power, emerged in every cell, and then gathered onto his right arm. Muscles bulged, clustering into knots, veins popped, and the absorbed light naturally converted into an unknown energy, gathering on his arm.

Zhou Liming did not realize how massive the energy gathering on him was.

In a trance, it was like a cup overflowing with water, the water inside surging out. After the gathered power filled Zhou Liming’s body, his entire arm suddenly shook, and then the energy condensed on Zhou Liming’s arm erupted. The light surrounding Zhou Liming completely detached from his body, like a meteor, fiercely crashing towards the ground.

The whole world seemed to be surrounded by light; from the moment Zhou Liming launched this terrifying strike, the dazzling light shrouded the nearby area.

Kahn and Qiao Bingsen, who were fleeing madly, were scared out of their wits, having no other thoughts, only knowing to run, run desperately, the further the better.

As for the other team members, they were all stunned. Huang Dazhuang, Yang Ran, and the others were okay; at least they knew this was a Form Skill. But people from other countries had no idea what was happening. In their eyes, they only saw Zhou Liming grow wings… Oh, God forgive, he grew a pair of demon-like wings, and then countless strips of flesh quickly appeared on the wings, becoming extremely hideous. After that, he flew up and started absorbing the light between heaven and earth?

Alright, everyone present admitted that they might have been dazzled; how could light possibly be absorbed?

But in fact, it was so; Zhou Liming’s arm, which had transformed into a cannon shape, was indeed attracting light. Then this light surrounded his entire person, and the surging power could be sensed even from a great distance.

Fierce Beast Warriors were no secret, but the problem was that countries like Europe only had a half-baked understanding of them. So when they saw Zhou Liming flying up, they were long past being dumbfounded; the impact the Fierce Beast Warrior had on them was huge. They had never imagined that a human could one day fly freely in the air. And the Form Skill Zhou Liming used made their eyes almost pop out of their sockets.

“Incredible, incredible…” That was the only phrase they had left now.

Yang Ran nudged Huang Dazhuang beside him and said somewhat foolishly, “Brother Huang, Little Zhou… he’s this powerful?”

Yang Ran and the others were the last to join the X Squadron; regarding Zhou Liming, they only knew he was of wild origin and had not received orthodox military training. The reason he could enter the X Squadron was that he possessed the Fierce Beast Gene, obtained by natural coincidence. At that time, in Yang Ran’s mind, he could pinch Zhou Liming to death with just one finger.

But now, seeing Zhou Liming’s incredibly powerful side, he realized that his previous thought was ridiculously wrong.

Huang Dazhuang was also a bit foolish; he shook his head blankly, “He was already very powerful before, but now he’s even more powerful.” He was somewhat shocked; what level of Fierce Beast could create such a huge scene? Looking at the dazzling light that turned their vision white, it seemed like space itself was distorting.

“Boom…”

A huge and long roar sounded, like divine thunder falling from the nine heavens.

The terrifying impact force arrived almost with the sound, and the standing crowd was overturned. Huang Dazhuang and the others were okay; their bodies modified by the Fierce Beast Gene made their strength far superior to ordinary people, so they were just overturned. But ordinary people were not so lucky; the impact force was like a heavy hammer striking their bodies, sweeping them dozens of meters away.

A tsunami-like shockwave swept past, sending sand and stones flying.

Below, with Zhou Liming as the center point, spanning nearly a kilometer in range, under the strike of the energy gathered in his right arm, it was like a cannonball landing; in the instant of the explosion, it destroyed everything within a one-kilometer radius. The huge shockwave even sent some gravel two or three kilometers away. When the dust settled, a huge pit was left below.

Within this kilometer, let alone the Gold-Devouring Rats, even giant rocks tens of meters long and wide were blasted to powder.

It was a earth-shattering strike; no one believed it was made by a human.

Following this earth-shattering strike, Zhou Liming’s entire strength seemed to be drained, and then his out-of-control power and consciousness returned to him. He looked blankly at the huge pit below. Because it was near the sea, seawater desperately surged into this big pit, forming a seaside lake in moments.

“This… I did this?”

Zhou Liming became dumbfounded; he suddenly sobered up, then looked at his arm, which was indeed in the state of firing the Death Light. But… but was this below created by the Death Light? Zhou Liming knew the power of the Death Light; it was absolutely impossible for it to create such a terrifying pit.

Before Zhou Liming could figure it out, he felt his whole body had no strength left, and his flapping wings seemed disobedient.

Undoubtedly, this strike had drained all of Zhou Liming’s strength.

But this was not what terrified Zhou Liming; what terrified him was that the muscles on his arm were crisscrossed, scales had almost disappeared, and he looked like a biochemical warrior with developed muscles, every inch of muscle filled with explosive power. But this kind of muscle was deformed; it was like a disgusting Zerg creature, like wriggling walls of flesh.

Struggling to flap his wings, Zhou Liming landed on the ground, stumbling several meters forward before finally dissipating the force.

At this time, Qiao Bingsen, who had just used every ounce of his strength to flee, ran back in a wretched state. His head and face were covered in sand, and he kept making “peh peh” sounds from his mouth, spitting out the mud, saying dissatisfiedly, “Kid, are you crazy? To kill a few Gold-Devouring Rats, did you have to use such a terrifying move?”

Zhou Liming did not even have the strength to speak now; he lay softly on the ground, feeling somewhat helpless.

Qiao Bingsen also understood Fierce Beast Form Skills; excessive use would lead to whole-body weakness, so seeing Zhou Liming’s state, he shook his head, helped him up, and said, “You made such a huge commotion, let’s leave here first.” Actually, how could he not understand Zhou Liming’s current mood? Anyone who found themselves radiated would go mad, right?

Didn’t he himself kill hundreds of people to vent his terror before calming down and facing it all with composure?

The people flipped over by the shockwave were more or less injured, but fortunately, the Radiation Suits were fine; at most, they had some internal injuries. As for Huang Dazhuang and the others, they were completely fine; possessing the Fierce Beast Gene, the peripheral shockwave would not harm them.

After getting up and shaking off the dirt on their bodies, seeing Qiao Bingsen supporting Zhou Liming, they all gathered around.

The current Zhou Liming was very hideous; his exposed muscles were crisscrossed, making people feel fear involuntarily.

Thinking of his own appearance, Zhou Liming found it difficult even to turn a thought, but fortunately, releasing the Fierce Beast Form was not very complex. Upon receiving Zhou Liming’s command, the cells throughout his body, like sponges squeezed dry of water, rapidly shrank and returned to their original state.

The magical Fierce Beast Gene, its biological principles were something no one could figure out, or how it achieved this.

What the symptoms after radiation were was hard to define accurately, because its forms were varied. The most obvious was that it would cause people to mutate into deformed beings. Whether you were an adult or an elder, radiation would destroy and alter your body functions, triggering a second metabolism. For example, it might make you grow a deformed hand, or make you become as hideous as a monster.

The most common was that hair, teeth, nails, and so on would all fall out.

Zhou Liming’s symptoms were obvious; his muscles had undergone a second rapid growth. Although it was not very obvious yet, everyone knew that if it continued at this speed, it would not be long before Zhou Liming’s ears shifted, his nose disappeared, his eyes were covered by flesh, and his entire face became a disgusting mass of flesh.

Just thinking about it made people feel terrified.

Returning to the woods, Wei Junshan and the others brought instruments over. After measuring the radiation content on Zhou Liming, he shook his head and said, “The content is really too high, already millions of times beyond what we ordinary people can bear. But for symptoms to appear so quickly after radiation, this is the first time I’ve seen it.”

In the whole team, besides Zhou Liming, the infected people included Kahn and Qiao Bingsen, but after measuring them, Wei Junshan could hardly believe it, saying, “Strange, the radiation index in your bodies is very stable, not like people who have been radiated.” This made him confused; why, among people who all possessed the Fierce Beast Gene, could Zhou Liming be radiated, while Qiao Bingsen and the others were not?

Kahn and Qiao Bingsen were both stunned; they had worried about radiation for so long, but the index inside their bodies had not exceeded the standard, meaning they had not been radiated at all?

This strange phenomenon made Qiao Bingsen almost ecstatic; he had previously been worried about being radiated and filled with despair, but he never thought to have Wei Junshan measure it. Now hearing this news, how could he not be wild with joy?

Only Zhou Liming rolled his eyes, feeling an urge to spit blood.

They were all people who possessed the Fierce Beast Gene; Kahn and Qiao Bingsen were not radiated, but why was he radiated, and so severely above the standard?

Thinking about how he became unprecedentedly powerful because of the radiation, the Death Light, Zhou Liming vaguely felt that he seemed to have grasped something. There must be some secret here; it was definitely not as simple as just being radiated on the surface. Since the Fierce Beast Gene had anti-radiation ability, and his own gene level was above theirs, it was impossible for him to be radiated.

Then, how should he explain his radiation index being millions of times above the standard?

Zhou Liming vaguely felt that this might be related to his Fierce Beast Gene level; perhaps the radiation had proactively activated the unknown level Fierce Beast Gene latent within him.