CHAPTER 59: KILLING!

’But it seems Megatech didn’t give up the idea of replacing the cells on one’s body with Nanocells. There’s probably a lab somewhere, maybe underground.’

Draziel muttered to himself and then blinked. All of a sudden, he stretched out his hand from behind the pillar he was hiding, grabbing onto the assault rifle of a man who was about to pass him.

Drawing the rifle close, the man staggered towards him and was about to say something when a hand clamped down on his neck, restraining him from voicing out.

There was a sudden sound of bones cracking and the man’s head forcefully changed shape, strangely bent at an unnatural angle. The man was slowly laid to the ground and from the blinking of his eyes, one could tell he was strangely still alive to witness his own death, dying rather slowly and painfully.

"Dichen?" A female voice called from the other side with a questioning tone, but there was no answer.

The female mercenary glanced at her other male partner who nodded with a solemn expression. Seeing the man nod, the lady immediately tapped below her neck, speaking.

"Boss, we need more backup, we are been taken out one by one."

Draziel’s brows raised up slightly. He hadn’t expected the last to call it in so quickly. Mercenaries were proud people and they always think they are better than other mercenaries. They would have concluded the death of their partner was due to his lack of skill, and think they could have done better in his situation rather than admit the enemy was very skilled.

But these two people instantly called it in , asking for more backup which was a bit surprising and off character.

They already know where he was, but they were not advancing, they were waiting for more of their people to arrive or their captain.

Personally, Draziel would like to meet with the Boss, he seem like a person who can put up a great fight, but first, he needed to deal with the small fries.

"WHOOSH!!!"

Draziel sped through the ground like a panther, his steps were light but almost at the same time heavy. In just a single step, he had traversed three meters. Another step, another three meters and he was just five meters away from them before the two started to react as they opened fire immediately.

Draziel wasn’t worried the bullet would touch him as he performed Standard Bullet Evasive Technique. He had a feeling basic bullet evasive technique wouldn’t be able to affect these two by much and would get used to the technique, but standard bullet evasive technique was more complicated than the basic, confusing the opponent with body movement.

Bullets streamed past his face, flying past him like the touch of a lover’s lips, except this situation was even more dangerous than that.

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"Bang! Bang!!"

Two resounding bangs echoed and the two mercenaries were sent dying backwards, their chest caved in, crushing their lung and their internal organs. Blood spilling from their mouths as they gasped for breath.

Draziel tilted his head and the female mercenary managed to get to her feet even with the injuries, her hand reaching for the pistol on her waist. She removed the tactical mask on her face and without wiping the blood on her lips, she was about to pull the trigger, when there was a sudden thud from the ground as Draziel seem to vanish from his previous position, sending a roundhouse kick at the lady.

But the lady seem to have seen it coming and her body fell backwards to the ground, the leg missing her head by just a centimetre, drawing a line of blood across her nose.

Feeling no feedback from his attack, Draziel squinted his eyes and he was about to pursue her when he suddenly twisted his waist and spun twice in mid-air.

"BANG! BANG!!"

Two bullets tore through the air, streaming past his waist as he spun, tearing holes in his cloth.

The woman’s back landed on the ground, and like a snake she slithered backwards with the momentum, creating distance between Draziel and herself as she opened fire once more.

Draziel has just landed when he saw her pulling the trigger. From basic to hard, bullet evasive techniques only work when the gun is about to be fired, not when the bullet was already out of the barrel, evasive technique would be useless by then.

And by the time Draziel had landed, it was already late, the lady had aimed and had pulled the trigger already. The bullet created sonic booms, in mid-air as air resistance creates a small barrier around the bullet as it pierced through Draziel’s body.

With the close range, it was impossible to a bullet at close range even if his agility somehow reached 20 points.

"BANG!"

The bullet immediately penetrate Draziel’s chest, and the glass barrier guiding the down descending part of the escalator shattered as a bullet passed through it, lodging into the ceiling above.

The lady was immediately confused but then her eyes widened in shock as she realised the biller has just passed through Draziel as though he was some sort of ghost.

Before she was able to react, Draziel’s uninterested face interrupted her shock and with a crack, her chest caved in even more as a huge force landed on it. Even if she had more vitality than she already did, there was no way she would be able to survive that.

"Hmph!" Draziel snorted slightly, but it would be a lie if he said he wasn’t impressed by her. She had put up a great fight and even with the difference in ability, she was still able to react to his attack and had almost turned the situation around. Although he didn’t go all out and was using less than fifty percent of his attributes, the fact that she was able to react was still impressive to him but that was far from enough to stop him from killing her.

"RUMBLE!!!"

Draziel stood before an opened elevator and he glanced downwards down the wide shaft. The hole seem to go deeper than he had initially thought. But it wasn’t really weird. If they wanted to hide an underground lab within the confinements of the company without it being detected by various probing devices, it has to be very deep underground or very high up in the sky.

Echoes of unknown voices and noises could be heard from within the shaft.

Glancing upwards at the shaft, he couldn’t see the elevator upwards which meant it was below him. Draziel punched a wall and grabbed a tile shard that had fallen to the ground from his punch.

He then dropped it to the ground and waited until he received a response after which, he grabbed into the cable made to move the elevator and then he dropped into the hole.

The sounds of friction against his palm were similar to that of metal sliding in close contact with each other. Of course, he didn’t drop in all at once, the friction was causing intense heat on the surface of his palm, peeling off a few parts of the skin on his palm, with Sparks flying off sometimes.

A few minutes after dropping, Draziel was able to see light within tunnel, and he hung on the cable with a smirk forming on his lips. He could sense that there were a few people waiting for him.

He withdrew two grenades from his waist and pulled the pins. He held the grenades for two seconds before dropping them into the tunnel.

A second and a half later, the sounds of the two grenades hitting the ground resounded and as the people waiting in ambush made any sense of it, half a second had passed.

"Sh*t!"

"F*ck!!"

Two voices rang out but before they could retreat, a massive wave of pressure blasted around as the grenades released explosive energies, flames licking out and then compressed by the atmospheric pressure.

Draziel dropped to the ground with a soft thud, glancing at the tunnel he had dropped in. He saw four dead bodies on the ground, a few of them twitching from reflex.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!" Draziel retracted the pistol, placing it back on his waist. As he passed by the four corpses, bullet holes could be seen on their foreheads.

Draziel wouldn’t give them the chance to transform into zombies and attack him from behind. Moreover, there was also the possibility that they were faking being dead therefore Draziel just made sure they stayed dead.

The tunnel he was in was illuminated which meant there was. A running power source nearby, cut off from the one used in the company.

There was a large metal door before Draziel, it looked very much like a large vault door and seem almost impossible to breakthrough. This was the underground lab

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Walking slowly towards the metal frame, he knocked on the door but with the feedback, he was getting informed that the thickness of the door was even harder than concrete.

It was impossible to go through the door with brute force, explosives wouldn’t work either since the door was built to withstand large blasts of explosion. Unless he had the codes to access the security locks, it was quite impossible to access the underground lab.