They were not death warriors, so at a time like this they naturally had no need to hold anything back.

He said a great deal in one breath. It was clear Yu Yangyu had been pushed to the brink of mutual destruction and was finally getting serious.

“Eldest Prince Yu Chenghuang.” Etching that name into his mind, and feeling the grip now fully cooled, Su Mo laughed. “You think the eldest prince can protect you?”

“Eldest Prince Yu Chenghuang will succeed as Murloc King next year. How could he fail to protect us?” Yu Yangyu said impatiently. “Stop trying to stall. If we can’t escape, you won’t live either.”

“Well said. So you think you pieces of trash have any hope of killing me?”

“Your combat ability is indeed strong, rare in this world. But you are still only a human. You don’t really think our Murloc Clan’s strength all these years has relied entirely on this so-called Academy of Sciences, do you?”

“Don’t forget. We are aliens.” Hearing the killing shouts outside grow louder, and seeing that Su Mo was clearly stalling for time, Yu Yangyu finally lost his patience and spoke coldly.

With a flick he tossed aside his rifle, stripped off his Hope Assault Device, and revealed a robust frame clad only in pale white leather armor.

He took a can from a murloc beside him, filled with a thick green substance like phlegm, drained it in one gulp, and let out a howl.

Puff.

With the sound of flesh bursting open, Yu Yangyu’s body suddenly began to change.

A layer of black keratin began to cover his skin evenly.

Eyes, ears, wherever there was skin, black keratin covered it.

His body swelled like a balloon, three or four times over, becoming a monster a full three and a half meters tall.

“Hahahaha. Using King’s Medicine costs me not only two years of lifespan, but also the ability to reproduce.”

“But in the end, you will become the key for me, Yu Yangyu, to step up to the next level.”

The towering monster’s huge mouth was savage, revealing saw-like teeth a full forty to fifty centimeters long.

Before the words had finished, his figure had already vanished from before Su Mo’s eyes.

“Damn. He can actually turn invisible.”

He had never seen an ability like this.

Gripping the rifle tightly, Su Mo suddenly shut his eyes and listened with his ears alone.

But the flames crackling around him and the murlocs’s wails in his ears made it impossible to pin down the other’s position.

“No. He’s above.”

Whoosh.

He jerked his head up and found the monster crawling across the ceiling without a sound, moving like a spider. Su Mo’s heart leapt, and every hair on his body stood on end.

He had never imagined that a murloc who lived in the water could possess such a bizarre ability.

Especially in a form taller than two men.

An ordinary person who saw that sight would lose all will to resist on the spot.

“Die!”

Discovered the moment Su Mo looked up, Yu Yangyu in monster form stopped hiding.

A long column of air blasted from his mouth and nose and stirred up the dust. His legs kicked hard off the ceiling, and he shot toward Su Mo like a cannonball.

That burst of speed defied the limits of a living body. Even Su Mo had not expected it.

With no other choice, Su Mo pushed off hard with his uninjured leg and rolled away fast.

Boom!

The instant he left his spot, Yu Yangyu smashed into the floor and made the entire second floor tremble.

If that blow had hit him head-on, never mind mortal flesh. Even a sturdy vehicle would have been flattened into a metal pancake.

While Yu Yangyu was briefly stuck in place, Su Mo raised his gun and fired into the creature’s body.

Unfortunately, the Wolf Fang assault rifle, unmatched until now, with its large-caliber rounds, seemed to be striking a smooth surface of water.

The moment the rounds touched the black keratin on Yu Yangyu’s body, they were deflected and flew off elsewhere.

Clearly, this form had been developed specifically to counter humanity’s firearms.

From beginning to end, their imagined enemy had always been humans.

“Damn. What the hell is this thing?”

Finding the gun completely useless, Su Mo cursed under his breath, threw the assault rifle away, and turned to flee.

Against a monster like that, if bullets could not pierce him, fists were out of the question.

The only option was to run, either until the other side could no longer bear the strain of that form, or until support arrived.

Otherwise, there was not a shred of chance.

“Roar! Where do you think you’re going!”

Using the exposed rebar, Su Mo limped to the railing, leapt, caught hold, and swung himself up onto the still-burning third floor.

But Yu Yangyu was not fooled at all.

He gathered a little force in his legs, then smashed his head into the broken floorboards and crashed straight up from the second floor to the third.

In the dull impact, countless shards of stone flew and struck Su Mo, adding more scrapes to his body.

In his non-human state, apart from a drop in agility, Yu Yangyu’s strength and defense were like those of a low-end tank.

Only because Su Mo could still use an interstellar human’s bodily mastery to swing between floors had he not been killed in a single blow.

Third floor, up to the fourth.

Fourth floor, up to the fifth.

Relying on the advantage of a smaller frame, Su Mo kept climbing, trying to stretch the chase.

But Yu Yangyu was no fool either. Realizing that charging straight upward was like killing three hundred of the enemy at the cost of a thousand of his own, he began to climb in earnest as well, using his enormous strength to fling his body upward, and along the way he picked up huge stones and hurled them toward Su Mo.

In a moment of carelessness, a skull-sized chunk of rubble smashed into Su Mo’s back. He lost his grip, and his whole body slammed heavily into the wall of the fifth floor.

Puff.

The next second a great mouthful of bright red blood sprayed out and stained the laboratory’s glass doors red, startling the researchers watching from inside so badly that they collapsed onto the floor.

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