Chapter 722 - 451: Void Creatures (4)

Coupled with the limitations on their Lifespan.

They would almost never venture into its Deep Water Zone, Shallow Wave Zone, or Tidal Zone.

This might also be why no traces of Void Creatures had been discovered before.

As this thought crossed his mind,

Hu Qi pulled back his focus.

He glanced down at Kapu Star before him.

In the recent period, the situation on Kapu Star had undergone significant changes.

...

Long Yi had once been just an ordinary Young Man.

His life was that of a factory worker, doing menial labor.

He had thought he would spend his entire life this way.

Until the arrival of the "Celestial Destiny System."

It showed him a chance to change his fate.

Because he understood.

Without some kind of miracle, a person like him—with no education and no connections—

could never make anything of himself.

It was one thing when there were no opportunities.

But now, a chance to rise above everyone else was right in front of him.

Naturally, he couldn’t give it up. The worst that could happen was death.

In fact, there were many people like him everywhere; they just lacked an opportunity or were born in the wrong era.

There’s a saying: "The times make the hero."

This was exactly that kind of situation.

He was very lucky.

He encountered an Alien Origin Body that wasn’t immediately lethal.

Just as he was on the verge of death from his grievous injuries, he successfully contained an Alien Origin Body.

He received the system’s reward and became a Power User.

His Ability was powerful and very special.

He named it Dragon Transformation.

This was because the Ability caused him to manifest the Features of a legendary dragon.

Dragon Horns, Dragon Scales, dragon claws, and even the power to breathe fire and summon clouds and rain in a small area.

He was no different from the Divine Dragons of myth and legend.

This powerful Ability allowed him to rise quickly among the Power Users.

During this time, he earned more money than he could have ever imagined in his entire life.

He thought he would either continue to grow stronger or one day die at the hands of an Alien Origin Body.

But then, things took an unexpected turn.

The "Celestial Destiny System" vanished.

Without warning, without a trace.

As sudden as its arrival, everyone in the world lost their connection to the system overnight.

The Alien Origin Bodies also disappeared, as if they had never existed.

He had planned to use the system’s power to keep improving; he had even touched the threshold of a higher level.

But now, everything had come to an abrupt halt.

However, this feeling didn’t last long.

He soon had a realization.

’If the "Celestial Destiny System" is gone, and the Alien Origin Bodies no longer exist, doesn’t that make Power Users like me the world’s only ’Superhumans’?’

With no system to restrain them and no threat from Alien Origin Bodies.

’We could... control the entire world.’

He quickly formulated a plan in his mind.

’Contact the other surviving Power Users, form an alliance.’

’Even... establish a new order that belongs to us.’

However, shortly after this idea took shape, before he could even act on it, a sharp pain shot through the back of his neck.

His Dragon Scales instinctively materialized, but they were no match for his fading consciousness.

He lost consciousness completely.

He didn’t know how much time had passed.

His consciousness surfaced from the Chaos, and he heard several people talking nearby.

"What are the test subject’s vitals?"

"Unbelievably stable.

Cellular activity is over ten times that of a normal person. His wound-healing speed defies all biological common sense.

Furthermore, his resistance to toxins is extremely high.

Standard neurotoxins, hemotoxins, and even highly corrosive substances have a negligible effect on him.

Experiment logs show that only certain specially formulated synthetic chemical toxins can cause him any harm."

"Tsk, and this isn’t even his complete form.

The database indicates he can also undergo a full-body Dragon Transformation... Wait, his brainwave frequency is rising."

"Hiss... a dose that could knock out an elephant for three days only worked on him for this long? We need to increase the anesthetic concentration by at least 50% for the next experiment..."

...

Hearing these words, Long Yi’s eyelids twitched violently. The next second,

his eyes snapped open.

The first thing he saw was a sterile room bathed in cold light.

Silvery-white light slanted down from the ceiling,

reflecting off the surrounding metal walls with a harsh glare.

At that moment,

outside a glass wall not far in front of him,

three figures in white lab coats were looking in his direction.

They observed him, occasionally jotting down data with their pens.

Evidently,

they were the ones who had been talking just now.

The three of them looked at the awakened Long Yi as if they were looking at a monster.

Long Yi was no stranger to such gazes.

Ever since he became a Power User,

ordinary people had almost always looked at him with that same expression.

However, compared to others,

the look in these three people’s eyes was slightly different.

Their gazes lacked fear and awe.

Instead, they looked at him the way one might look at an animal in a zoo.

Since becoming a Power User, Long Yi had become exceptionally sensitive to the gazes of those around him.

He easily noticed this difference.

Combined with their earlier conversation,

it wasn’t difficult to reach a conclusion.

He, Long Yi, had been captured and was being studied like a guinea pig.

At this thought,

he tried to move.

He felt a dense, stinging pain all over his body,

as if someone had taken a razor and made countless cuts on him while he was asleep.

Furthermore, there was a black metal collar fastened around his neck.

Seeing this,

a surge of rage rose from within him.

Long Yi’s eyes abruptly transformed into cold, brass-colored vertical pupils, and a palpable killing intent solidified in the air.

Fine Dragon Scale patterns rapidly appeared on the surface of his skin.

With a furious snarl, two jets of hot flame erupted from his nostrils, leaving distorted heat waves in the air.

"You wretched ants, how dare you do this to me—"

Before he could finish, the metal collar on his neck suddenly erupted with a blinding blue light.

A violent electric current, like a million venomous snakes, shot through his entire body. His muscles spasmed uncontrollably in agony, and his brass-colored pupils contracted sharply.

"UGH-AAH—!"

With the dull thud of bone hitting the floor, Long Yi collapsed heavily.

The terrifying features of his Dragon Transformation receded like a tide, revealing his original pale skin.

At the same time, a hidden metal needle shot out from the inside of the collar, precisely piercing the nerve cluster at the back of his neck.

The moment the high-concentration anesthetic was injected into his bloodstream, his last sliver of consciousness was completely devoured by darkness.

...

"Code 0012 Dragon Person, danger index: Four-Star. Recommend increasing anesthetic dosage. His Ability has extremely high research value..."

Standing before the glass wall, the lead researcher watched this scene with a placid expression.

He wrote this line in the booklet in his hand.

Then, he and the other two turned and walked toward the next glass chamber.

Looking around,

one could see that in this space,

there were nearly a hundred similar chambers.

Each chamber held a captive Power User.

These were Power Users captured from all over the globe.

Previously, the Power Users had been left to their own devices.

This was due to Hu Qi’s secret intervention.

But now, things were different.

When the "Celestial Destiny System" vanished without warning, the official state machinery reacted faster than anyone could have anticipated.

These Power Users, if left at large, were a group of unstable elements.

Therefore, the world’s nations hurriedly convened meetings.

The high command completed its assessment report within just a few hours,

classifying civilian Power Users as a "potential strategic-level threat."

The special response department immediately launched "Operation Pure Land."

They directly formed combat squads, pairing them with internally trained Power Users.

They then began a global campaign to capture all Power Users.

The power of the government was terrifying.

Because it had only been a short time,

even the strongest of the enhanced Power Users had only reached the level of a Qi Dao Grandmaster.

To an ordinary person, an existence of this level was nearly unbeatable.

But in the face of the state machinery of Kapu Star’s nations, they were nothing more than slightly larger rats.

Under the saturation of various thermal weapons, with the assistance of other Power Users, and with effective plans tailored to the specific Traits of these targets,

For example, using special liquid nitrogen freezing rounds for area suppression against fire-based Power Users.

For physically-enhanced Power Users, they used a combination of armor-piercing rounds and Infrasound weapons for targeted strikes.

Coupled with the support from the government’s own Power Users in each combat squad,

the process went smoothly and did not meet much resistance.

After all, this world had experience containing Alien Origin Bodies.

What’s more, these Power Users were far more fragile than the Alien Origin Bodies.

They still had families, still had attachments.

When necessary, their relatives or friends could be used as leverage.

By exploiting their weaknesses, they could be forced to surrender.

As time went on, this led to a continuous decline in the number of civilian Power Users worldwide.