Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 32 NO.0020: Superhuman Physique

The upgrade path of "Icarus", at the depth 1 stage, neither opened up new perceptions for the reformers, nor added new functions, nor even equipped with accompanying weapons.

It just greatly strengthens the original performance of the human body structure on the basis of the original in all directions.

Greater strength, faster reflexes, greater endurance, better balance, sharper vision...

Moreover, all of this is encapsulated in the adjuster's body, which looks the same as ordinary people in appearance - there are neither appendages growing on the back, nor guns stored in the arms, all Adjustments and transformations all have strong concealment.

According to the introduction Jiang Zhou had seen before, the Icarus adjuster with a depth of 1 level could not even detect signs of transformation through ordinary security measures. Therefore, they would be very suitable for the kind of assassination missions that require stealth.

They can easily disguise themselves as an unmodified native to sneak into the venue, and then find the right opportunity to kill with one blow to complete the assassination.

But on the other hand, in the face of those prosthetic body transformations beyond the biological level, adjusters with a depth of 1 Icarus path will be at a functional disadvantage, and their combat capabilities will depend more on the convolution of combat experience.

But coincidentally, Jiang Zhou, who has absorbed four pieces of tactical memory, does not lack the convolution of combat experience at this moment.

After finding that there was no one in the study room, Jiang Zhou searched all the way up until he heard a guy on the teaching floor talking to himself like an idiot, then he rushed straight up the stairs.

During the period, in order to reduce the time for rushing past, he even took advantage of the rapidity of running to climb up the wall at the corner of the stairs as if walking on flat ground, and made a turn that hardly slowed down.

Moreover, he also pulled out the titanium alloy crowbar that Winston gave him earlier at the same time.

It is easy to cause accidental injury with a gun in a narrow place.

And at the moment when Xia Hu's scream came, he just rushed into the room.

The crowbar, which had been waiting for a long time, broke through the air that was already dense as liquid under the high-speed movement, and made a low howling sound of "woo woo", and directly slammed it on the opponent's chest.

All of this happened so suddenly that Xia Hu didn't even have time to finish the second half of his scream, and the "bad uncle" who caused him to scream was directly photographed on the locker like a painting .

For a moment, Xia Hu even thought that the other party was embedded in the door of the locker, unable to fall under the action of gravity.

"Get behind me, little gobie."

A big hand was placed on his shoulder, and the person who saved him at the critical moment said in the usual tone.

And at the moment when he heard this familiar voice, Xia Hu felt so relieved that he wanted to sit on the ground directly, and he turned his head slowly...

Human cognition of the size of creatures is often affected by intense emotions such as fear and reverence. Therefore, when Xia Hu looked back and saw Liao Qi, his brain stem told him—and in the future, when he recalled this incident again, he would also feel so firmly—that he was holding the crowbar at this moment, Liao Qi, whose gaze was full of killing intent, seemed to be more than three meters tall.

Jiang Zhou didn't look at Xia Hu, but kept staring at the twitching guy lying under the indentation of the human figure in the locker, the muscles in his arms were accumulating the strength for the next round of attack.

"Brother Liao, this man..."

Xia Hu seemed to want to say something, but Jiang Zhou pulled him behind him with a little force.

"Stay back, but don't get too far away from me."

he said.

Because he didn't know if the other party was the only one around, Jiang Zhou didn't dare to let Xia Hu leave the support range within his ability.

"Also, it might be bloody afterwards, so it's best to close your eyes."

Change the crowbar to hold it with both hands, Jiang Zhou said.

Walking up to the guy who was twitching non-stop, before he was going to break the opponent's spine with a stick, he raised the corner of his mouth and said:

"Of course, it doesn't matter if you don't close it."

There was another "woo hoo" sound of breaking through the air, and the crowbar smashed towards the position of the opponent's medulla oblongata.

It was also at this time that the twitching guy suddenly stopped.

In an instant, the opponent's hands covered with silver scales protected his neck from a very strange angle, blocking Jiang Zhou's roaring attack in the air.

"clang!"

The titanium alloy crowbar collided with the silver scales on the opponent's hand, sending out flying sparks.

Didn't he pass out from the previous blow?

Seeing that he was blocked this time, Jiang Zhou was secretly puzzled.

He could clearly feel the feel of the previous stick. He had at least broken four or more ribs of the opponent and dented the opponent's entire chest.

A normal person would die on the spot if he came here.

Even if it is an adjustment person with a depth of 1, if it is not for the adjustment direction is defense specialization, or the subcutaneous armor is installed, at least it should have passed out directly after being hit by this.

How is this guy...

Without giving Jiang Zhou too much time to be confused, the layer of silver scales covering the opponent's hand suddenly stood up.

And the moment the scales stood up, their edges easily embedded into the crowbar in Jiang Zhou's hand, as if these solid titanium alloys were just soft sponges.

Danger……

Originating from the intuition brought by the "Edge Enhancement System", Jiang Zhou sensed the danger in an instant, and he immediately let go of the crowbar.

The next moment, the scales bitten into the crowbar began to vibrate at a very high frequency, and countless fine cracks clung to the entire stick in an instant.

Afterwards, as the opponent grabbed it with his backhand, the entire titanium alloy crowbar shattered like glass.

What's this? High frequency vibration blade?

Immediately leading Xia Hu to jump back and pull away, Jiang Zhou looked warily at the guy who stood up wobbly.

"Ahem... ah..."

The broken ribs probably pierced into the lungs, and the person in front of him could only open his mouth wide and let out an inexplicable sound of air leakage.

He was out of breath and looked like he would die at any moment.

However, it was such a guy who looked like he would fall down at any moment, after his blood-red prosthetic eye caught Xia Hu who was being protected by Jiang Zhou, he suddenly seemed to go crazy and rushed towards the child coming.

"Ahem, haha!"

There was also an inexplicable laugh in his mouth.

are you crazy? This guy?

They were all injured like this, and if they had the strength not to take advantage of this opportunity to run away, they actually rushed up to deliver them?

Jiang Zhou thought to himself.

It was indeed giving away, even though the opponent had the extremely destructive "snake scale" in his hand, Jiang Zhou could clearly feel that the opponent's strength and speed were far lower than his own.

Not to mention, the opponent still has enough fatal injuries.

The action of the other party rushing towards them, in the eyes of Jiang Zhou at the moment, is like a slow-moving movie.

Although the opponent's prosthetic body is very deadly, it is meaningless if it cannot be hit.

Pushing Xia Hu back a little with his backhand, Jiang Zhou stepped forward to meet him.

Turning sideways to avoid the opponent's scratching, Jiang Zhou felt the trembling air passing over the tip of his nose.

And after standing on the opponent's side, he elbowed from top to bottom, directly breaking the opponent's joints that were not protected by the "silver scales".

At the same time, his raised knee also hit the opponent's patella. Under the force of the reinforced ligaments, the top of my knee directly cracked the opponent's patella and the knee pad on my knee.

In the end, Jiang Zhou adjusted his posture, took a deep breath and exerted force from the waist, transmitting the torque all the way along the spine. The strengthened muscle fibers were amplified, and the last punch hit the opponent's face.

The man flew upside down again, and hit the door of the previous locker again, leaving a brand new human-shaped indentation.

The poor-quality prosthetic eye fell out of the opponent's eye socket, rolled on the ground a few times, flickered a few times, and went out.

"Do you want to come again?"

Jiang Zhou asked mockingly.

At this moment, after swinging that punch, Jiang Zhou felt that his fist bones were directly cracked, and wanted to shake his hands regardless of his image, and then blow hard on his fist a few times. But considering that Xia Hu behind him was still watching, he finally held back with grinning teeth.

With his back to the child, he could only pretend that he was doing knuckle-cracking movements, but in fact he was constantly rubbing his fists.

But no matter what, after this round of tests, Jiang Zhou himself was surprised by his own strength.

Because of the existence of the adrenal pump, he can enter a full fighting state at any time with a single thought. And in this state, his perception of time can slow down to about twice that of ordinary people.

And the strengthened muscle fibers can completely support your movements and keep up with your reactions.

In other words, unless he was stuck in the air and couldn't use his strength, he could move at twice the speed of a normal person.

And the fist strength is about two tons...

After a little estimation of the strength of his previous punch, Jiang Zhou shook his fist.

In fact, he feels that the limit of carbon nano-muscle fibers is far beyond that. But just relying on the conversion of bioelectric energy and the heat dissipation system of the original body cannot support higher output.

And his unstrengthened bones couldn't bear it either.

Grinding his teeth, he touched his cracked and shattered fist bones, Jiang Zhou thought.

I don't know why the upgrade path of "Icarus" didn't carry out some bone strengthening modifications at depth 1.

Remove the above enhancements, plus enough balance enhancements to make him perform backflips on the wire, and a beast-like intuition for danger.

If I travel back like this now, I will probably have the average level of those special forces kings in the urban legends of the past, right?

Jiang Zhou finally concluded this way with a bit of self-deprecation.

"Ahem...haha..."

At this time, the guy who had his spine crooked and his eyeballs popped out by himself staggered up again under Jiang Zhou's confused gaze.

Then, he continued to walk towards Xia Hu's location lingeringly, and limped over.

No bro, why don’t you just lie down obediently after all this...

Jiang Zhou was dumbfounded.

And does this buddy have a problem with his brain? Shouldn't normal people be subdued when encountering this situation, or kneel down and beg for mercy?

Even if the bone is a little harder, it should be looking for oneself to work hard...

Why is this person still thinking about that child when he is only half breathed?

This whole zombie looks like a wraith.

crazy?

Not only that, given the opponent's physical condition, it should have been unable to move for a long time. After all, Jiang Zhou's previous punch even broke the opponent's spine.

But I don't know whether it's an obsession or a residual nerve signal. The other party really dragged the broken body and walked towards this side, and the speed was getting faster and faster, and the movements became more and more smooth.

It was as if there was some invisible existence holding a thread to manipulate the opponent's movements.

The man opened his hands covered with silver scales again, and the scales on them stood up again, and began to tremble slightly.

Jiang Zhou, who really couldn't see it, took the Scorpio out of the holster, adjusted the maximum output, and then directly blasted the opponent's head with a single shot.

Seeing the other party's headless, breathless corpse swayed for a moment, then fell back on the ground, Jiang Zhou was just about to turn around and leave. But he thought about it, and after the barrel of the gun cooled down, he fired another shot at the opponent's heart.

"Let's go, little shrimp goby, I'll take you there..."

Jiang Zhou turned to look at Xia Hu. At this moment, the other party looked at him. Jiang Zhou had only seen those children who saw Ultraman for the first time in the past.

"I see, this is what you said before, remember to make up the knife, right!"

Xia Hu pointed at the man's dead body, not afraid at all, but said very excitedly.

Ah...Jiang Zhou remembered, this is what Liao Qi told the children here in the past when he was talking about the stories of the low-level streets.

Most of the stories were told by Liao Qidao through hearsay, and then retold with embellishments. But after all, it is impossible for him to really teach those children how to really go to the bottom to do illegal business. Naturally, it is to romanticize those so-called street legends.

But from the looks of it, this kid might really believe everything in the future.

Including Liao Qi bragging in the past that he was a one-on-one contract king on the negative tenth floor of the resettlement area...

Looking at the innocent and fanatical eyes in the other party's eyes, Jiang Zhou only felt a headache.

The impact on minors is simply immeasurable...

"Let's go first, there was a lot of movement here just now, maybe..."

Jiang Zhou felt that his speech would always be interrupted today.

With a loud "whoosh", something flew over in the corridor outside the door, bringing up countless wall dust, and finally made a loud "bang" at the end of the corridor.

All this was so fast that Jiang Zhou could only see a blur of black shadows.

"You hide here first, I'll go out and have a look."

Jiang Zhou patted Xia Hu on the head, and then replaced the Scorpio in his hand with an energy magazine.

In addition to smoke and dust, the corridor also smelled of burning steel and...the smell of roasted protein.

Eye-tracking corneas helped Jiang Zhou zoom in on the camera, allowing him to see clearly the two people who caused the mess outside.

One is Booker. At this moment, there are a few scratches on the metal carapace on his body as if he had been scratched by a wild animal.

The other was a man who was stepped on the ground by Booker. Behind him stretched the turbine iron wings that were emitting black smoke, and his entire lower body seemed to be roasted, and was spitting out oil.

For some reason, Jiang Zhou felt that this person looked a little like Black Falcon-136.

"Hey, Liao Qi, are you done with your work?"

Probably hearing footsteps behind him, Booker turned his head. After seeing that it was Liao Qi, he said in a dull reverberating voice.

At this time, the man stepped on the ground by him wanted to take this opportunity to attack Booker with his claws, but the latter raised his hand and grabbed him.

"I'm coming soon."

As he said that, Booker broke it off with his bare hands, then bent down, and pressed the broken claw blade against the opponent's throat like a knife.

"Tell me, who gave you the confidence to come and provoke Icarus?"