CHAPTER 33: CHAPTER 33: RADIATION GIANT 2

Czech-03!

This special excitatory drug can significantly increase an individual’s combat power, forcibly unleashing a person’s potential. An ordinary person can easily overturn a car after using it, though the side effects are quite obvious.

After injection, Su Ziyu felt his heartbeat gradually accelerating, and adrenaline crazily secreting along with the potion. Meanwhile, everything around him seemed to turn into a slow-motion movie, frame by frame. He could even capture the changes in muscle movement of the radiated giant when it was running.

In that instant!

Su Ziyu drew the black short blade from his waist, then he slightly hunched forward to charge, accelerating bit by bit. His figure seemed like a stream of light flashing past, the speed almost blurred to the naked eye. As he closed in on the radiated giant from behind, he suddenly leaped up, gripped the knife handle with both hands, and thrust it down with all his strength towards that ugly skull!

About to die?

Pasha closed her eyes in despair; the bullets in the gun had run dry, and the monster wasn’t harmed at all. At this point, there was no time to reload. The firearms were limited in their lethality against this monster. Due to sliding down from the elevator shaft using ropes, they had no heavy firepower on them.

She was ready to welcome death.

As someone born after the day of disaster, Pasha had long grown accustomed to death. She did not fear it as much, but she was a bit unwilling.

Very unwilling.

Boom!

The expected severe pain did not arrive. Pasha opened her eyes to see the savage radiated giant collapsing before her due to inertia, less than half a meter from her feet, with a black short blade buried deep into its skull.

Not far away.

Su Ziyu knelt on one knee gasping violently, his chest rising and falling rapidly, his pupils slightly reddened, and his body showing obvious twitching reactions.

Czech-03.

Pasha quickly rushed over to support Su Ziyu, then anxiously said, "Deep breaths! Deep breaths!..."

The injection of Czech-03 can unleash a person’s potential, but there have been too many cases showing that if a person’s potential is excessively stimulated, it could very likely lead to sudden death afterwards. Su Ziyu’s current state was exactly such; the explosive burst during the moment of life-and-death made his heart feel as if it were about to explode. The heartbeat rate within a minute was uncalculable; he was in a state of extreme excitement, with muscles twitching continuously due to accelerated blood flow.

Deep breaths, deep breaths...

Fortunately, his powerful physique allowed Su Ziyu to slowly recover; if an ordinary person had been in his place just now, they might have died suddenly. With the adjustment of his breathing, his heart rate gradually slowed, and the twitching stopped, though his muscles felt extremely fatigued, like having sprinted eight hundred meters with all his might.

This was the first time he felt such fatigue after his body was enhanced.

"Su, are you alright?" Pasha cautiously helped him up.

Not far away, the woman in the protective suit stared dumbfoundedly at all this, then very carefully approached, using all her strength to try to pull out the black short blade from the radiated giant’s skull, but it took her three attempts to pull it out with difficulty. Glancing at Su Ziyu, she murmured, "Are you a superman?"

Su Ziyu paid her no attention.

This woman was not someone he was familiar with; she was very aloof when she arrived, probably around twenty-six or twenty-seven years old. The two hadn’t exchanged a word along the way, and he didn’t know where Pasha had recruited her from.

"Acquired 1 point of Source Power Value."

Under Pasha’s support, Su Ziyu walked over and took the black short blade handed over by the woman, then gently touched the corpse of the radiated giant. He had faced many corpse ghosts, but never gained Source Power Value. This kind of thing seemed to appear only in some very powerful and dangerous creatures, in gaming terms, at least Boss level creatures could possibly yield Source Power Value.

Two points of Source Power Value.

The enhancement option for White Crow Swordsmanship was illuminated, Agility Enhancement was also activated, but Physical Enhancement remained dormant, and Time Acceleration was inactive. However, Firearms Mastery LV0 could be enhanced from the start, but Su Ziyu didn’t want to choose this as it required a gun to be useful, along with bullets, otherwise it was just a mere stick.

Gun Technique can be practiced slowly.

Su Ziyu personally preferred enhancing those passive attributes, especially since Physical Enhancement had once saved his life.

——"Agility Enhancement LV2."

An indescribable feeling.

Su Ziyu felt as if a bioelectric current rushed through his body, a pleasant tingling felt throughout. When he reacted, everything had already ended, and there was no particularly noticeable change in his body, just that the fatigue seemed to have dissipated a bit.

The effect of Agility Enhancement LV2 was evidently less pronounced than Physical Enhancement LV6.

The latter was practically like rebirth!

"Think of a way to get out!" Su Ziyu glanced at Pasha beside him and said, "This place isn’t safe."

"Yes." Pasha nodded, letting Su Ziyu lean on her shoulder.

Beep beep beep.

Just as the group was preparing to find a way out, a cold electronic voice suddenly echoed: "Pollution source has been eliminated!"

"Permission granted!"

Rumble.

A sluice gate in the underground seemed to have been opened, and then the cold mechanical voice said: "Survivors. Please proceed along the emergency indicator lights. According to emergency regulations number seventy-two, you are obliged to take out the information about the [Synthetic Humans] Project."

"This concerns the future of all mankind."

The three present exchanged glances.

This sudden electronic voice left them dazed, and the woman in the protective suit questioned: "Artificial Intelligence? Is there artificial intelligence in this underground lab?"

"It should be artificial intelligence," Su Ziyu responded.

Just now.

The data stream connected to his mental world had undergone a slight change, with some information being transmitted.

"Artificial Intelligence detected."

"Mission: Integrate Artificial Intelligence."

"Reward: Enhance the Space-Time Monitor System’s computational and analytical capabilities, reinforce the plane deducing ability, unlock more data repositories."

The system’s task issuance seemed to follow a pattern. Whenever valuable targets appeared nearby, it seemed to generate task prompts, likewise looking very much like an artificial intelligence. However, this AI was slightly stronger, seemingly able to collect some special energy and directly enhance Su Ziyu’s various abilities.

In sci-fi stories depicting interstellar eras, Su Ziyu had also seen similarly conceived artificial intelligences, although mostly presented in terms of learning and enhancing knowledge and skills.

"Shall we go over?" Pasha turned to Su Ziyu, as if waiting for him to decide.

Su Ziyu pondered for a moment before slowly replying, "Let’s go have a look."

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