Chapter 96: Slaughter

Chen Chong’s entrance was shockingly astonishing. By the time Katherine was slammed to death like a broken rag doll and her head was stomped until it burst, everyone—the Dawn Squad inside and outside the Experiment Hall, the white guards—felt a roar echo in their ears, and their eyeballs couldn’t help but bulge.

Especially Lin Kun, who was closest to Chen Chong. When he saw the human-shaped dent caved into the iron wall, Chen Chong’s ferocious and imposingly power ful figure that stood over 1.9 meters, and the horrifyingly mangled corpse of Katherine beneath his feet, his eyelids twitched violently.

Where did this fierce man come from!

He had killed Katherine, who was suspected to be a Transcendent, with a single collision. Was he even human?

Chen Chong’s physique had changed too much, and Lin Kun didn’t recognize him either. But Katherine, who had easily slaughtered and crippled four of their Awakener combatants, had been killed in such a manner. Regardless of which side they were on, everyone was thoroughly shocked.

However, Chen Chong paid no mind to these people’s inner thoughts. He raised his head and swept his gaze around, spotting the few remaining white guards in the corridor outside the hall. He chuckled darkly, “I’ll collect some interest first.”

Bang!

With a thunderous boom, the iron plate beneath Chen Chong’s feet caved in. Driven by the violent counterforce, his entire body lunged like a tiger descending a mountain. In the blink of an eye, he crossed the hall’s entrance and appeared right in front of the nearest white guard in the corridor!

A fierce wind blasted against his face as Chen Chong’s towering, iron-tower-like figure blocked the view ahead. The burly white guard was so terrified his soul nearly fled his body. He let out a frantic roar while raising his arm, seemingly wanting to shoot.

“You… agh!”

The movements of an ordinary person were incredibly slow in Chen Chong’s eyes. Just as the guard’s arm was halfway raised, Chen Chong, with a ferocious grin, preemptively grabbed the man’s gun-holding right hand with his palm-fan-sized hand. With a single squeeze, both the pistol’s barrel and the white guard’s flesh-and-blood hand twisted like a fried dough twist!

Immediately after, Chen Chong spread the five fingers of his other hand. Like an eagle catching a chick, his palm-fan-sized hand clamped directly onto the burly white man’s face, muffling all his screams back into his mouth, and lifted his entire body up!

The guard was sturdily built and stood nearly 1.9 meters tall. Yet, before the fiendishly menacing Chen Chong, he was lifted like a pitiful little chick, utterly powerless to resist.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

At that moment, seeing Chen Chong rush into the corridor, the remaining few white guards and soldiers finally reacted. From behind cover, they frantically opened fire in terror!

But before the gunshots even rang out, Chen Chong had already hoisted the burly man’s body in his hand as a shield and charged violently towards the direction of the gunfire. Amidst the hail of bullets, the white guard being used as a shield was instantly riddled with holes, yet it did nothing to stop Chen Chong’s advance. In a flash, he appeared before a white soldier holding a submachine gun.

A fierce wind blasted against his face, and a dark shadow loomed over. From behind the meat shield, Chen Chong’s large hand viciously slapped down, hitting the white soldier squarely on the top of his head. Like the weight of Mount Tai pressing down, he brutally slammed the man’s entire head into his chest cavity, a gruesome sight!

Chen Chong didn’t pause. He tossed aside the meat shield, took a single step forward, and stirred up a fierce, evil gust of wind as he lunged ten meters to stand before another soldier. He punched straight at his face! This soldier also had no time to react. His vision went black as the fist landed squarely on his forehead. Under the iron fist, his head instantly burst open, sending red and white matter splattering everywhere!

Before the man’s body could even fall, the air exploded, and Chen Chong’s figure had already vanished like lightning.

Chen Chong strode rapidly, his figure charging violently through the narrow corridor, like a Tyrannosaurus Rex rampaging into a flock of sheep. The remaining few guards and soldiers had absolutely no strength to resist. Under Chen Chong’s immense force, they truly died at the slightest touch, even a graze meant death.

Bang!

A few seconds later, Chen Chong caught up to the last white guard, who was terrified out of his wits and had run out of ammunition. Like catching a chicken, he seized the man’s neck, lifted him up, and slammed him violently to the ground! The soldier had no ability to resist. His entire head met the iron floor, bursting open instantly like a watermelon!

At this point, all the white guards and soldiers had been slaughtered by Chen Chong. Each one either had their bones and organs shattered, or their heads directly crushed. Like broken plastic toys, they all died in an extremely miserable state.

In just a few short seconds, witnessing Chen Chong’s savage and violent methods in the corridor, everyone—from the squad in the main hall to Qiao Jun and the other Awakeners in the corridor who had been crippled—felt their hearts pound with fear. Their eyes were filled with terror and unease.

None of them knew this fiend. Although he also had an Asian face, judging by his brutal and ferocious aura, he was definitely no saint. Now that they were nothing more than a defeated force, if this man had malicious intentions, their fates likely wouldn’t be much better than these guards’.

Who exactly was he? Where did he come from?

This was the only thought in the minds of Qiao Jun and the other Awakeners at this moment.

This fiend was clearly a Transcendent who had unlocked a Gene Lock, and not an ordinary one at that. Within a two-hundred-kilometer radius of this place, there were only three survivor settlements, and only the leaders of these settlements were Transcendent-level beings. Yet the man before them was clearly none of the ones they knew!

From every angle, gazing at Chen Chong’s mountain-like figure, the entire Dawn Squad felt as if they were facing a formidable enemy. They couldn’t help but grip their weapons tightly, their Adam’s apples bobbing, plunging the atmosphere into a deathly silence.

However, in the deathly silent corridor, Chen Chong stood motionless among the corpses, seemingly listening for something.

He paid no attention to the Dawn Squad, who were on high alert. To Chen Chong, Katherine and a few guards were merely an appetizer. Diris was the true main course.

“Over there.”

In the silence, Chen Chong’s ears twitched slightly, and he immediately caught a muffled noise coming from a certain direction. It seemed to be the sound of the battle between Diris, the leader of the Dawn Gathering Place, and Long Ying. After thinking for a moment, he returned to the Experiment Hall, grabbed Katherine’s headless corpse with one hand, and, completely ignoring the terrified members of the Dawn Squad, turned around and strode toward the depths of the base. His figure disappeared in the blink of an eye.

He… he left?

Seeing Chen Chong utterly ignore their battered force and leave just like that, everyone in the Dawn Squad looked at each other, then suddenly breathed a huge sigh of relief. Their eyes were filled with relief and disbelief.

“Don’t just stand there gawking! Save the wounded quickly!”

At that moment, Lin Kun was the first to react. He immediately rushed into the corridor and dragged Qiao Jun and the others back into the main hall one by one. The other squad members also woke up as if from a dream and immediately scattered to find the wounded and provide treatment.

They had suffered heavy losses. All their Awakener combatants had lost their fighting ability, most of the remaining people were wounded, and their ammunition was almost completely spent. They had reached the end of their rope.

“Lin Kun, don’t worry about us for now!”

At this moment, Qiao Jun endured the severe pain, leaned against the wall, and said urgently,

“These people set up an ambush, as if they expected us to come. I’m worried that the leader is in trouble. Check if any of the base soldiers’ weapons and ammo are still usable, and hurry to support the leader!”