Chapter 56: Destiny, Section 2

“Bang!”
Hei Fa suddenly felt darkness ahead of his eyes, along with intense pain coming from his left shoulder. The agony, as if tearing his flesh apart in an instant, made him grunt despite his tough nerves. He was completely unable to maintain his flying posture and tumbled helplessly downward.

A striking scene appeared in the universe—someone falling like a meteor, with streams of blood mixed with white light trailing behind him, forming a long path as if drawn by a brush. Behind him, a demonic figure closely followed, roaring shrilly while swinging its sharp claws.

Both sides of the battlefield immediately noticed this scene. In the fierce wind, Monkey and the others widened their eyes in shock.
“That’s him!!”
“Damn it, how is this possible!?”

Chaos ensued in the cabin. Everyone stared at the starry sky outside the window, speechless. The reason? Hei Fa was in a terrible state.

The Blood Wolf warriors, accustomed to Hei Fa’s invincibility and brutal tactics, could never have imagined seeing such a scene. Their leader, the King of Blood Wolves, Hei Fa, had been flung away in a direct confrontation and severely injured. One of his left arms had been torn to pieces, leaving only a few scraps of flesh on his shoulder and a fragment of bone. The bright red blood appeared pale and terrifying under the white light. Everyone knew Hei Fa must also be pale beneath his Ya Zi mask.

And indeed, he was.
Under his Ya Zi mask, Hei Fa was drenched in cold sweat. The intense pain in his left shoulder was like being pricked by needles. Even with his tough nerves, he couldn’t help but frown in pain. His strength was depleting rapidly, and he still had to deal with incoming attacks. To his horror, Grizzly was moving at a speed comparable to his own.

A Gene Warrior… This damn thing is a Gene Warrior!!
An ultimate masterpiece created at enormous cost by the greatest nations on Earth. Grizzly probably even had his own genes! A living person who could instantly transform into a collection of monsters, gaining a hundredfold increase in strength—such a warrior was nothing short of an ultimate killing weapon. No wonder Grizzly said mechs were obsolete; it was true!!

Unfortunately, though, the target of such a terrifying warrior was himself.

Despite wearing China’s most powerful mecha, Hei Fa was still at a severe disadvantage. Unable to unleash the full power of Ya Zi, he was more struggling to defend himself than actually fighting. Gray Bear was incredibly fast, able to cover dozens of kilometers with each blink, and his devilish-looking claws were even more terrifying than the most advanced combat weapons. Even Ya Zi’s armor couldn’t withstand a single strike.

In an instant, the balance of the battle shifted drastically. Hei Fa moved at high speed through space, dragging his broken arm, while Gray Bear, now a monstrous creature, closely pursued him. In the vast expanse of space, both of them reached extreme speeds, beyond what the naked eye could track. One moment they were here, and the next they appeared dozens of kilometers away. Amidst the fierce combat, Hei Fa didn’t dare pause even for a second—his situation was utterly desperate.

What he didn’t know was that Gray Bear was also suffering silently at that moment.

There’s no such thing as a free lunch. Though he appeared extremely powerful now, he was actually in great danger. As the first genetically engineered warrior to be fully customized, only he knew just how terrifying his combat mode really was. It was a method of fighting beyond one’s limits. Through hormones and special devices implanted in his body, Gray Bear could gain immense strength in a short time, with the external manifestation of this strength coming from the gene sets he chose every day.

Today, he had chosen the gene sets of the roc, wolf, leopard, bear, and artificial demon. Thus, within two hours, he could acquire the traits of these creatures. But since they were designed for combat, each gene set had been amplified countless times.

Yet even with such a powerful combination, Gray Bear still wasn’t sure he could defeat Hei Fa in a short time. Seeing Hei Fa remain so agile despite being severely injured made him uneasy. After all, using the combat mode of a gene warrior came at the cost of depleting his gene sets. If he failed to complete his mission within the allotted time, he might instantly revert to his original form after exhausting all his gene sets!

That would be terrifying. The thought of suddenly turning back into an ordinary person in space sent chills down Gray Bear’s spine. He intensified his attacks even more, rushing at Hei Fa like a madman, his claws flashing with electric light that lingered long after each strike. As Hei Fa dodged, clear cracks appeared across space.

Was that… energy distortion?

Seeing the strange phenomena during the grizzly bear’s attack, Black Hair couldn’t help but frown deeply. The electric sparks caused by the bear’s sharp claws could even create cracks in space—clearly a result of energy mutation. Those cracks weren’t truly real but rather strange illusions. Yet if this continued, it wouldn’t be long before space could actually be torn apart.

Because the grizzly bear’s energy mutation carried characteristics of negative energy, and negative energy was the fundamental component of anti-space.

At this moment, cold sweat poured even more heavily from Black Hair’s forehead. Severe pain kept hitting his brain wave after wave, but he couldn’t pay any attention to it. Gritting his teeth tightly, he continued to evade with high skill while rapidly thinking. Black Hair had suffered massive losses—ordinary injuries were one thing, but losing his left arm hit a critical point for him.

After all, most of his genetic enhancements were located in his left arm. Without it, aside from his physically superior strength, he had nothing special left. In this rapidly changing battle, it was a fatal weakness.

But Black Hair was still Black Hair. At this critical moment, instead of showing weakness, he summoned a fierce determination. With his teeth clenched, he suddenly twisted sharply, accelerating like lightning once more, advancing rather than retreating, charging toward the grizzly bear.

Seeing this, the grizzly bear was momentarily stunned, unable to understand the meaning of Black Hair’s actions. But since Black Hair seemed determined to die, it didn’t bother him to help him along. A sinister smile appeared on its ugly face. Suddenly, it pulled back its hands, leaned forward, and opened its mouth!!

“Roar!!”

With a terrifying roar, a black light flashed within its leopard-like mouth, shooting out an energy beam dozens of meters in diameter. Wherever the beam passed, space itself seemed to warp, and particles in the universe were completely scattered. Black lightning crackled around the beam.

Antimatter shockwave!!

Black Hair’s pupils contracted sharply. He was all too familiar with this kind of beam. Li Feng’s weapon system included antimatter weapons, so he certainly knew the consequences of being hit by such a weapon. Yet in that split second, he showed no fear and took an action that shocked everyone.

He forcefully thrust his already broken left arm toward the beam, then let out a thunderous shout.

“Yazi! Full activation of energy control! Full activation of forced energy conversion! Full activation of forced energy absorption!!”

“Boom!”

As Black Hair spoke, the stream of data before his eyes collapsed like a flood. To outsiders, he had become a demon god. That terrifying antimatter beam was somehow held back by his broken left arm. Blood mixed with shattered muscles sprayed everywhere, and in an instant, Black Hair’s left arm was left only with jagged bones! Even more terrifyingly, those broken bones gradually turned from pale to pitch black under the watchful eyes of those present. By the time the beam weakened, the bones were as black as ink, reflecting a metallic sheen under the starlight.

“Oh, my God! What on earth did he do!?” Gasps filled Li Feng’s cabin; almost everyone couldn’t believe their own eyes. They simply couldn’t imagine anyone remaining unharmed in the face of an antimatter beam. The way they looked at Black Hair was as if they were gazing at a deity from ancient legends.

Of course, this was just the view of ordinary soldiers. For those like Monkey and Blood Pupil, who possessed innate power armor, it meant something entirely different. The few of them exchanged glances, seeing the horror on each other’s faces. Blood Pupil opened his mouth and spoke with difficulty, “Boss… he didn’t swallow that antimatter beam, did he?”

“I don’t know either, but… maybe?” Monkey also looked stunned, staring at the small figure outside the window and swallowing hard.

At the same time, one word popped into everyone’s minds… Energy Absorption.

Contrastingly, Grizzly Bear’s expression was absolutely fascinating. Having witnessed Black Hair absorb his antimatter beam, his eyes widened like those of a goldfish! Leopard Head, who had leaned forward, couldn’t pull himself back. He stood there, dumbfounded, like a clay statue, his mind in complete chaos.

Just then, something even more shocking happened. After absorbing the antimatter beam, Black Hair suddenly showed a pained expression. Red light flared from his narrowed eyes, and his entire body began to tremble. Right before everyone’s eyes, he curled up in pain. The bones in his left arm cracked further, forming spiderweb-like fissures, before suddenly shattering with a “bang!”

Countless eerie black threads surged out from the broken area of his left arm, instantly covering hundreds of meters of the starry sky. They writhed like living things and began spreading rapidly.

Suddenly, an ancient voice echoed in Black Hair’s mind. “Energy reserves have reached maximum. Genetic evolution conditions are met. Evolution begins…”