The desire to die and the desire to live are just a matter of a single thought.

Yan Luo forcefully pulled his arm out from the rocks, turned his hand, and slowly lifted his near-shattered body off the ground.

Even this small movement made him gasp for air, and he couldn't help but cough out more blood.

The magic power he brought back from the Abyss was almost depleted. Luckily, Yan Luo had slaughtered mutated creatures along the way, consuming quite a bit of their meat to gain a small amount of magic power.

Pushed by the magic power, fractured bones began to heal, torn tendons reconnected, and his internal organs gradually repaired.

However, the magic power stored within Yan Luo wasn't enough to fully restore his injuries; he still needed to find another source of magic power.

Fortunately, there was a source right in front of him—the corpse of the City-breaking Level mutated creature that had just been blasted by the space-based weapon.

Yan Luo stood up, leaned on a tree, and hobbled forward.

With every step he took, the wounds on his body shook off blood, and the downpour washed away the blood on his body and clothes, merging it into the ground.

After trudging for two hours, Yan Luo finally reached the corpse of the massive horse.

Other mutated creatures were intimidated by the space-based weapon and dared not approach the corpse of this City-breaking Level demon. In a few hours, however, they would muster their courage and come to fight for it.

Even in the torrential rain, a swarm of flies gathered on the corpse, and Yan Luo didn't bother to shoo them away. He reached out, pried open the wounds of the giant horse, and drank its blood.

A large torrent of blood flowed down his throat, swallowed by Yan Luo.

Blood alone wasn't enough. Yan Luo tore at the horse's flesh with his teeth, chewed forcefully, and swallowed.

It was his first time consuming the flesh of a City-breaking Level mutated creature.

Yan Luo felt like he was chewing rubber, unable to tear it apart. In the end, he could only swallow it whole, unsure if he could even digest it.

The rain gradually subsided and eventually ceased entirely.

As the clouds cleared after the rain, a rainbow stretched across the sky.

Yan Luo stood up, wiped the blood covering his entire face with his hand, turned, and faced the mutated creatures arriving one after another, a grin spreading across his face.

He moved his body, and his bones crackled audibly.

After several hours of recovery, the gaps in his bones had almost entirely healed.

Exhaling a deep breath, Yan Luo suddenly lunged forward and charged at the mutated creatures.

The mutated creatures, which had been confronting each other, were suddenly pressed into the muddy water. In the next second, its torso was pinned under Yan Luo's foot, and with a rapid exertion of his arm, Yan Luo tore the head off this mutated wolf.

"Come, come! You lowly creatures, vile species, all of you, die here!"

Yan Luo needed to vent his frustration, and a massacre of mutated creatures might lift his spirits.

The meat of the City-breaking Level mutated horse piled up in Yan Luo's stomach, being digested every second, albeit slowly, but surely.

The magic power absorbed from the horse meat would, in turn, enhance Yan Luo's digestive abilities. Since swallowing food that was difficult to digest didn't align with normal human physiology, based on the theory of enhancement preference, Yan Luo's digestive system would surely be strengthened.

The slower the digestion, the stronger the enhancement effect. As his digestive system strengthened, the enhancement effect gradually diminished until a balance was reached.

With one punch, he shattered the head of a dangerous-level mutated creature, and with one kick, he destroyed the foreleg of a lethal-level mutated creature. Yan Luo then retracted three fingers, merged his right index and middle fingers into a sword finger, and fiercely stabbed into the eye of a mutated creature.

Wriggling his fingers inside its cranial cavity, he hooked onto some tissue, and when Yan Luo pulled back his arm, he extracted the neurological tissue from the eye socket of that mutated creature.

The violent genes awakened, boiling the blood that coursed through his body, stimulating every nerve ending in his limbs. The world before Yan Luo seemed to plunge into a sea of red as hundreds of mutated creatures charged at him. He laughed heartily, teaching them the meaning of 'awe' with his fists.

Ten, thirty, sixty, a hundred…

Yan Luo couldn't be bothered to count. He laid out a carpet of mutated creature corpses stretching three hundred meters.

Finally, those mutated creatures coveting the City-breaking Level mutated horse's corpse were all repelled by Yan Luo. He glanced back at the enormous corpse swarmed by flies and maggots, let out a cold laugh, bent down to pick up the remnants of his goggles, extracted the storage chip, and strode away in the direction he came from.

He strode for several hours, walking from dusk till dawn until he finally found his motorcycle.

The motorcycle must have been knocked over by something, with half its body sunken into semi-hardened mud.

Yan Luo lifted the motorcycle, unlocked it with his iris, twisted the throttle, and headed towards Changming City.

The barrier at the east third checkpoint's exit inspection port of Changming City had already been repaired. The duty soldiers stood lazily, chatting with passing drivers about recent news.

Perhaps the most attention-grabbing topic was 'Yan Luo going crazy on the street.'

To the duty soldiers, Yan Luo didn't just go crazy and race on the streets; he even drove through and broke the barrier at the inspection port.

Little did they know, the protagonist of their discussion had quietly lined up at the back of the queue.

Soon, Yan Luo drove into the checkpoint.

"Hold on?"

The duty soldier grabbed Yan Luo, looking at him with a puzzled expression.

Yan Luo was covered in blood, his clothes tattered, and his motorcycle was caked with mud. The duty soldier scanned him, noticing he didn't even have a personal terminal.

"Are you Yan Luo?"

Yan Luo nodded, "Yes, I am."

The duty soldier's mind filled with even more questions, and he couldn't help but ask, "Weren't you crazy?"

"I'm okay now." Yan Luo did not deny having gone crazy, "Earlier, I heard some news that I couldn't quite accept, went crazy for a while, and ventured out of the city to kill mutated creatures to relax. Don't worry; I'll pay the fines for racing and breaking the barrier."

Not everyone considers killing mutated creatures a way to relax, you know?

The duty soldier didn't know what to say.

"Can you prepare a visor-type personal terminal for me? Without a personal terminal, I can't pay the fines."

With a peculiar expression, the duty soldier turned into the inspection station to bring Yan Luo a spare personal terminal.

Yan Luo inserted the storage chip, activated the terminal, and logged into his personal account.

As soon as he opened the account, he saw two fines awaiting payment. Since no injuries or deaths were caused, only payment of the fines and accepting legal education were sufficient.

After paying the fines, Yan Luo was required to watch a two-hour legal education video, during which he couldn't shift his attention for more than ten seconds at a time or more than five times, or he would have to start over.

With nothing better to do, Yan Luo entered the checkpoint and calmly watched the video.

When it comes to patience, Yan Luo was among the best in this world; few could rival him.

Yan Luo sat quietly on a chair, fully focused on the two-hour legal education video, not moving an inch, which unnerved those discreetly observing him.

Did he not find it boring at all?

After finishing the video, Yan Luo drove into the city, checked into a hotel, took a shower, changed his clothes, and returned to the checkpoint to retrieve his exoskeleton's weapons and equipment, leaving Changming City.

He had accomplished his purpose in Changming City and had no reason to stay.

Though he didn't find any suitable researchers, Yan Luo, now knowledgeable about past secrets, no longer cared about basic academic research.

Next, he would concentrate all his energy on himself, striving to grow.

He wanted to grow strong enough to break the shackles of technological limits. When that time came, he would eliminate the Abyss of Blue Star.

Even if the Abyss was a meme, eliminating one wherever it appeared would be essentially the same as eradicating it completely.

Armed with travel experience, Yan Luo significantly reduced his return time to Lingquan City from Changming City, taking just eighteen hours of driving to reach the outskirts of Lingquan City.

As he neared the city, Yan Luo heard the sound of machine guns firing bullets, so he turned his motorcycle towards the noise and discovered a lethal-level mutated creature chasing a bus.

The machine gunner on top of the bus stubbornly held the trigger, drenched in sweat, firing at the mutated creature.

Lethal-level mutated creatures had thick skin and were quite agile, capable of predicting bullet trajectories and avoiding them in advance.

Just then, a hand ax spun through the air and struck true, piercing the mutated creature's head and bringing it down with a crash.

Soon after, Yan Luo zipped in on his motorcycle, flung a long knife into the mutated creature's head, and dragged it along as he sped away.

The passengers on the bus gawked, astounded, as Yan Luo dragged the mutated creature past them, heading for Lingquan City.

Upon reaching the western second checkpoint of Lingquan City, the mutated creature was still in tow, and Yan Luo dismounted his motorcycle.

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