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Cell activity, cell strength, and cell lifespan are all expanding and growing in an unreasonable way. The outward manifestation is that the virus, which is in an incomplete state of "forbidden zone," can achieve such exaggerated power, to the point that even Lin Yi, the owner of the complete "forbidden zone," cannot confront it head-on in this form.
"Lord God, is there a way to resolve the issue of the world's will?"
Insufficient information to analyze.
"Tsk."
There was no time to complain; the second wave of attacks from the virus carriers had already hit the ground.
This time, its hands transformed into the shape of giant iron hammers, and its attack range changed from relatively narrow cutting to a wide-ranging shockwave. Lin Yi could still use his skills to deflect the previous sharp blades, but he could only dodge this unreasonable attack.
The shattered and ejected rubble struck the bone armor with a crisp sound, but what was even more unbearable was the vibration from the ground. Once or twice was fine, but repeated vibrations could cause internal injuries even if one avoided a frontal attack. Noticing this, Lin Yi retreated again and took advantage of the interval between attacks to stomp on the ground and jump directly onto a rooftop several stories high. Before he could catch his breath, the shadow once again blocked the view in front of him.
This time, its hands transformed into claws that were forty centimeters long.
"Fuck-"
The metallic claws scraped against the bone armor, making a piercing sound. As sparks flew, the body was slammed to one side, piercing through two walls in succession. A sharp pain shot through the legs, followed by a feeling of weightlessness. When the body finally felt the ground, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and the armor protecting the body was mostly destroyed.
It's not time to recover—
His somewhat unfocused gaze caught sight of the figure leaping high above, which had transformed into a sharp blade aimed directly at him below. As he fell, being pulled by gravity and isolated from the air along his path, Lin Yi could even imagine the scene of his body being pierced through by that long blade.
There was no time to hesitate. He forced himself to endure the stiffness in his body and issued the command: "God, overload!"
[Overload mode activated.]
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The duel was much simpler than expected. Apart from being a little more agile, his "creator" was no match for him in armor mode in terms of strength or defense. So, while using the alternation of various attack modes, Alex successfully hit him with a heavy hammer, a sharp blade, a spiked claw... and this final blow.
More than a hundred meters in the air, Alex gripped the sharp blade on his arm and tumbled heavily toward the ground.
"boom----------"
The immense force compressed the air, creating an impact that shattered and tore apart the surrounding land, but failed to hit the target. Just as Alex was wondering about this, his right hand, clad in tattered armor, once again gripped his head. After briefly losing control of his body, Alex climbed up from the collapsed ruins and gazed at the human figure on the other side of the "passage".
Unlike at the beginning, his body was surrounded by high-temperature gas spewing from the surface of his armor, and the ground around him was scorched black, making it seem somewhat blurry... blurry?
"call out--"
Instinct came faster than reaction. Before the retina could capture it and transmit it to consciousness, the bone blade had already been raised and placed to block on the right side of the body. The next second, the humanoid figure that should have been standing more than fifty meters away had already moved to his right side, dragging a long, distorted air. The moment his foot landed, he felt a sense of weightlessness under his feet, followed by the sound of metal scraping and bones tearing through flesh.
Forbidden Zone of Life: Chapter 99 Forbidden Zone of Life (3)
Name: Lin Yi
No.: 0
Strength: 152 (+150) (The average value for an average adult male is 10)
Physical fitness: 168 (+150) (The average value for an average adult male is 10).
Agility: 144 (+250) (The average value for an average adult male is 10)
Mental state: 100 (the average score for an average adult male is 10).
Special Ability: Advanced Mimicry (Right Hand)
Forced Proliferation (Assault Mode - Greatly increases athletic ability and slightly improves physical fitness)
Forbidden Zone of Life (Not yet open)
Status: Overload (Greatly enhances athletic ability and physical fitness; duration and magnitude of enhancement are related to the host's physical strength and the main god's energy reserves)
—It feels terrible.
With a spinning throw, he slammed the virus carrier through several floors to the ground. His intended knee strike was blocked at the last second. Although the force of the fall managed to inflict a secondary wound, it was virtually impossible to expand the damage further. Given the virus carrier's exaggeratedly amplified regenerative abilities, it would likely be fully recovered in less than half a minute. On the other hand, he himself was nearing the limit of his armor due to the recoil from the attack…
This scene has been repeated dozens of times in the past ten minutes of attack and defense. On the way from five blocks away to Times Square, Lin Yiming had many opportunities to break down the parasite's defenses, but each time he failed at the most critical moment, either due to coincidence, environment, or the instinctive reaction of the virus carrier. As a result, the situation is about to reverse.
A quick glance at the residual energy displayed on my retina, relayed by the main god, showed it had changed from green to deep red. In just over ten minutes, the hard-earned energy reserves had been depleted to this extent…
"Is this what one would call the world's will, existing between a medium-active and a low-active world?"
Back in the Seventh Ghoul world, the parasites had spread to over two thousand individuals, and the local life forms were used to combat them, so it wasn't this extreme. But now, with the world's will completely concentrated in one individual, and facing himself as the "invader," it has evolved into this situation, it's almost like...
"An unkillable protagonist..."
I glanced instinctively at a corner, then immediately dismissed it: it's not time to run out of options yet.
Moving his somewhat sluggish body, he rushed towards the virus carrier who was standing up again.
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Blackwatch, the laboratory.
"This is his lab. You won't find a single piece of paper except for this completely formatted data. Or do you need these useless bottles and jars?"
"Only fools focus on what they can see."
Ignoring the angry gaze, Raymond McMullen walked to a control panel and carefully examined the traces on it—naturally, places treated by the God of War could not possibly retain even the slightest record of the virus, but it was only a record of the virus.
"What kind of person do you think this Mr. Galio is?"
The soldier answered without hesitation: "A demon. No one but a demon would do such a thing."
"Oh, but considering the research spirit of a scientist, he's simply a genius! And this genius has put a lot of effort into this final experiment, not only restricting the movement of people in and out, but also bribing several members of Congress to control the entire Manhattan for him... Do you think such a genius would leave here halfway through the experiment?"
"No, but it's also true that we couldn't find his residence."
"Not being able to find it doesn't mean it doesn't exist."
Raymond McMullan smiled and quickly pressed several buttons on the control panel. With a click from the machinery, the metal wall that had been there suddenly shrank, revealing a hidden space inside.
"this is……"
"As you can see, this is the place where the 'truth' is kept."
As he said this, Raymond McMullan pushed aside the soldiers blocking his way and strode inside, eagerly flipping through the remaining data and documents. Even though he had ordered the main god to destroy all the relevant virus data for security reasons, the data unrelated to the virus was completely preserved. Raymond McMullan trembled as he glimpsed the imagined scenario from these documents.
"My God, this is simply a miracle of life!"
The soldier who came in naturally couldn't understand his thoughts. To him, the written records here were probably similar to Satan's curse. After all, Manhattan outside had become a victim of the curse. Now, what he needed to do was to take these Satanic words out and send them to the place where they were dealt with. So he made contact with the outside.
Junyangwu "yiqi ⑻? Baqiuqi Lu (1) "These are rats. We've found our target. There are too many; I need some helpers."
[Sizzle... Immediately... Sizzle... Approaching... Leaving...]
"Oh damn, these must be counterfeit products."
After grumbling a couple of times into the garbled walkie-talkie, the soldier had to deal with the massive amount of documents on his own until he noticed something unusual.
"earthquake?"
The documents on the shelf scattered as the vibrations gradually intensified, and the soldiers who instinctively ducked into the corner called out to Raymond McMullen, who was still engrossed in the documents.
"I've had enough of these scientists; they're either lunatics or devils."
The soldier who took a few steps forward reached out to grab the "madman's" arm, but he soon realized he didn't need to—someone was faster than him.
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When Lin Yi burst through the door and rushed into the secret room, he saw the two pools of blood and knew that his previous attempt to lure it toward the laboratory had been in vain. As for why there would be other people in this theoretically completely enclosed area, he didn't even need to consider that.
The question now is whether to continue fighting the virus carrier that has regained its full strength after devouring two humans, now that the main god's energy reserves have been mostly depleted, or to turn around and run away.
Lin Yi made his decision in half a second.
"Clang—"
With his back to the smashed iron gate, he sprinted towards the end of the passage, his feet pounding on the metal floor.
Forbidden Zone of Life: Chapter 100 Forbidden Zone of Life (4)
Some things will always go against plan.
"Target detected, attack!"
Just as a world that did not intend to spread the virus deliberately did so, and two extra people appeared in a laboratory where no one should have been, when Lin Yi ran outside the laboratory, he was shocked to find that he was surrounded by a large number of armored tanks and helicopters, not to mention soldiers pointing anti-materiel weapons at him.
Regardless of their positions, the fact that Lin Yi was wearing such a pale white bone armor at this moment meant that there was no need for them to communicate. As a result, the "Creator," exposed to a large number of modern firearms, was inevitably covered by various metal storms mixed with flames and explosions.
The relentless, saturation attack lasted for a full half minute. The soldiers, already intimidated by Alex Marshall, the virus carrier, could not possibly underestimate this "monster" who, according to satellite surveillance, could hold its own against the enemy. Therefore, they were fully prepared, and almost all the firepower available in Manhattan was directed at the small laboratory. It seemed to be working quite well...
"Stop!"
The officer who raised his hand to signal remained vigilant, gripping his weapon tightly and waiting for the smoke from the explosion ahead to clear so he could face the monster that might still be alive. Just then, he noticed something unusual.
As if ignoring his order, a soldier walked from one side into the ranks, heading straight for a tank. Some impulse made him abandon his observation of what was ahead and shout at the soldier, "Stop, soldier, what are you doing?!"
Naturally, everyone's attention was focused on the out-of-place soldier, who seemed to realize his mistake and stopped. The officer breathed a sigh of relief and was about to let him return to the ranks when the soldier suddenly looked up and gave him a ferocious smile.
Then, he used his hands to transform into enormous spiked claws, tearing several people around him to pieces. The splattering blood, reflected in the officer's rapidly shrinking pupils, appeared to move with unusual slowness.
"It's Alex! Kill him!"
All firepower immediately shifted from the center to their own interior. Because of the presence of friendly forces nearby, helicopters in the sky were unable to fire. Tanks that were closer to the center had no time to worry about friendly forces, as the nearest one had already been pierced through by the monster's blade. Driven by fear, the soldiers inside the tanks issued the order to fire. With a heavy roar, cone-shaped shells spewed from the muzzle, conizing the monster that was slaughtering the surrounding soldiers at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye.
"boom------!!!"
The flash and flames of the explosion dimmed the surrounding colors, and just as people were about to breathe a sigh of relief, the sound of metal tearing apart rang out again.
"It's alive!"
"My God—"
"Help!"
Bullets were ignored, shells were blocked, and even the heavy tank cannons could only make this black-armored monster retreat. The officer, feeling genuinely desperate at the sight, was about to order a retreat when he suddenly realized something.
Alex, why is this monster disguising itself to approach an armored vehicle?
The answer was quickly revealed. As it rapidly approached the unusually motionless armored vehicle amidst the chaos, a white humanoid creature that tore through the defensive layer and burst forth caused the officer to let out a painful howl. Then, the two monsters, one black and one white, began to fight once again on this battlefield made of metal and fire.
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Originally, the "forbidden zone" was not as good at disguise as the virus on the carrier in front of him for some reason. In addition, the latter was amplified and strengthened by the world's will, so it was only natural that it would be discovered. Lin Yi only wanted to use the human soldiers around him to restrain it for a while. For this purpose, he even had the main god consume the little energy left to "remind" the officer. However, he did not expect that it would collapse in less than half a minute. It has to be said that this was very unexpected for Lin Yi.
Forced to abandon his physical repairs, Lin Yi rushed out of the armored vehicle. Just as he was about to flee in a certain direction, the helicopters that had been hovering overhead seemed to have finally found an opportunity and unleashed a burst of bullets.
Unlike the bullets from those pistols, these bullets on the helicopter were specially made to deal with Alex. Even with the protection of bone armor, Lin Yi didn't dare to take them head-on, so he could only retreat back into the human formation and watch helplessly as Alex slaughtered the soldiers and approached him.
"Tsk."
Waiting like this was really not in Lin Yi's character, and the natives around him were making too much noise. Giving up the last bit of hesitation in his heart, Lin Yi rushed to a soldier who was holding a rocket launcher and was about to fire at him, kicked him away, snatched the rocket launcher from his hand, aimed it at Alex in the distance, and pulled the trigger.
"boom------"
It's not unusual for a rocket launcher to explode on a chaotic battlefield, but the figure hidden behind the explosion is different.
As Alex, who had instinctively blocked the cannonball with his claws, used his thermal vision to detect the presence, he had already successfully grabbed his own neck, spun around, stomped on the ground, and forcefully slammed it into the sky—the location of a helicopter.
Flames erupted and explosions broke out simultaneously. Then, the fireball burning in the sky fell helplessly to the ground, causing an even louder noise. Before Alex, who was at the center of the explosion, could get up, the second wave of attacks had already followed.
With his hands supporting the heavy tank in front of him, he let out a low roar as the ground beneath his feet rapidly cracked open. Then, to the horror of onlookers, the massive machine, weighing tens of tons, was forcibly pushed sideways and crashed into the spot of the explosion.
"boom--------!!!"
Various parts were thrown high into the air and then fell. The intense heat from the impact caused the soldiers hit to scream in agony. A helicopter that was too close was hit by the explosion and swerved onto a tall building on the side, causing a second explosion. Watching this scene, Lin Yi felt his heart sinking.
“I’m looking forward to it more and more.”
At the epicenter of the explosion, its charred skin was quickly replaced by flesh and blood, and even its clothes were restored to their original state. The virus parasite, which had attracted the attention of the world's will, raised its head and looked in this direction: "How powerful I will be after I eat you."
"..."
The world does not change according to human will. Some things will always go against plan. They will happen even if you don't want to do them, and by the time you decide to do them, it's too late to change them.
In the past, Lin Yi could only accept these "unplanned" things, just like every powerless ordinary person living in the world, choosing to turn a blind eye to things that he disagreed with or did not agree with, and simply hiding in that man-made peaceful and beautiful space. But what about now?
"Eat me?"
A deep voice conveyed a strange emotion. Cracks spread across the already overburdened bone armor, and it fell to the ground with a snapping sound.
When I saw the world again with my own eyes, everything was completely different.
"If it's possible."
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Forbidden Zone of Life: Chapter 101 Forbidden Zone of Life (End)
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