Desperate people, accept the seed of my soul!

Two muffled thuds.

The bullet was embedded in dense minerals, still a full half-knuckle thick away from penetrating.

Shen Hanzhou stared at the earthen wall in front of him, which was still covered in dust, and grinned.

It can't be penetrated by a gun.

Fang Li's pupils constricted the moment he saw the earthen wall rise from the ground.

He had seen dead people, traitors, and executed researchers kneeling on the ground begging for mercy at the Five Sacred Mountains Association, but he had never seen anyone stand still and turn the ground into a wall.

But all those years of operational experience weren't for nothing.

He immediately roared, "Don't stop firing! Keep him under fire! Focus fire on him as soon as he comes out from behind the earthen wall—Zhou Ting! Take your men and flank him from the side!"

Fang Li and his three teammates fired their guns simultaneously.

Bullets pounded against the earthen wall, sending debris flying and preventing Shen Hanzhou from showing his face.

Zhou Ting responded and moved to the left, hugging the wall, keeping his gun aimed at the gap on the side of the earthen wall. He fired as soon as Shen Hanzhou peeked out.

Shen Hanzhou crouched behind the earthen wall.

Iron-gray powder from the surgical dissection still remained on his palm.

He stared at the powder, a thought exploding in his mind—to end you all with these surgical scissors.

He held the powder in his palm, and the power activated again.

Iron atoms recombine into three slender blades, chromium atoms enhance hardness, and nickel atoms increase toughness.

Three dark silver metal blades instantly formed between his fingers, their edges so thin they could cut through light.

Having flying blades alone is not enough.

The probe would be blown to bits.

He turned his gaze to the wall above him.

Ability activated.

The bricks and stones at the edge of the earthen wall were dismantled and reassembled—the calcium carbonate skeleton collapsed, and the silicate filler turned into a mass of dust.

A gap appeared in the wall above his head, just wide enough for him to stick out half his body.

The location and height of the breach were completely outside Fang Li's expectations—Fang Li's gun was still pointed at the side of the earthen wall, and he had no idea that the opening would be at a higher position.

Shen Hanzhou leaned out the moment the gap opened.

Swing your left hand outwards forcefully.

Three metal blades shot out with a whooshing sound, heading straight for Zhou Ting and his two teammates who were circling around on the left.

Zhou Ting suddenly shrank her neck.

The flying blade grazed his scalp and embedded itself in the wall behind him.

His hair and a piece of scalp were shaved off, and blood flowed down the back of his neck.

The other two shots hit their targets precisely.

A bullet pierced the throat of the teammate behind Zhou Ting.

Blood gushed from between his fingers, and he made a gurgling sound in his throat before falling silent after three seconds.

Another bullet was driven into the left eye socket of another team member.

He fell backward without even making a sound, the tip of the flying blade still trembling in his eye socket.

Shen Hanzhou looked at the two fallen men and felt a cold, smug satisfaction.

two.

There are four left.

Zhou Ting reached up and touched her head; her hand was covered in blood.

A patch of hair had been shaved off, revealing a ghastly white scalp.

He slumped against the wall, unable to even hold the gun.

Fang Li turned around and saw two team members fall down; his eyes turned red.

He yelled, "Fuck you—"

Before he finished speaking, Shen Hanzhou stood up from behind the gap in the earthen wall.

He pressed his right hand against the earthen wall, and his ability was activated again.

He didn't give the remaining four people any time to adjust.

With both hands pressed against the earthen wall, the power flowed down the wall and into the floor of the entire corridor.

The cement floor beneath his feet crumbled directly from a solid state into molecular-level powder, the calcium carbonate skeleton was dismantled, and the silicate filler materialized into a pile of loose sand.

The cracks grew wildly, spreading outwards along the direction of the reinforcing steel bars.

Fang Li looked down and saw that the ground beneath his feet was softening.

That's a collapse.

The cement turned into quicksand within seconds, the soles of the shoes sank in, and the ankles were encased in the quicksand cement powder.

He roared in a hoarse voice, "Back—backward—!"

Before he could finish speaking, the floor of most of the corridor collapsed at the same time.

Cement fragments and steel remnants, enveloped in a cloud of dust, crashed down.

The entire corridor looked like a cardboard box with its bottom removed, collapsing directly from the second floor to the first floor.

The ground beneath Zhou Ting and Wang Zhaoping's feet was the first to collapse.

The two didn't even have a chance to struggle before they were thrown from the second floor amidst the shattered concrete blocks. Two muffled thuds were drowned out by the roar of the entire corridor collapsing.

Fang Li and the last remaining team member fell downwards at the same time.

Shen Hanzhou stood on the only intact crossbeam.

The corridor floor collapsed, but the load-bearing beam was made of reinforced concrete, so he didn't remove it.

The foothold was only twenty centimeters wide, but he stood steadily and looked down.

The first-floor waste pile was filled with smoke and dust.

Three people were struggling in the broken cement.

Fang Li's right leg was pinned down by a precast concrete slab.

The bone protruded from his trouser leg, the white bone fragments covered with bits of flesh, and he was in so much pain that his face was contorted.

He gritted his teeth and didn't scream, but cold sweat poured down his forehead like water.

The last remaining team member fell the hardest.

He hit the back of his head directly on the steel bar, his body twitched twice and then stopped moving.

Shen Hanzhou had only one thought in his mind: Hmph, all the small fry are gone, only three left.

He jumped down from the crossbeam and landed in front of Fang Li.

Fang Li's gun fell two meters away. He desperately reached out to grab it, but just as his fingers touched the handle, Shen Hanzhou walked over and kicked the gun away.

The gun slid into the depths of the waste pile, skimming the concrete floor and sending up a trail of sparks.

Fang Li looked up.

The flashlight beam leaked through the crack in the broken floorboards and shone on Shen Hanzhou's metal-framed glasses.

The lenses are reflective, making it impossible to see the eyes.

Fang Li's throat felt like it had been scraped by sandpaper, and he squeezed out the words through his teeth: "What kind of monster are you...?"

Shen Hanzhou looked down at Fang Li.

His tone was calm.

"The monster you've been chasing for so long."

He bent down and picked up Fang Li's gun; the gun still bore the sweat stains from Fang Li's palm.

[Molecular Reconstruction] Ability Activated.

Perception penetrates directly through steel, reaching deep into the lattice arrangement of iron-carbon alloys.

The gun barrel was disassembled in his palm—the metallic bonds between iron atoms broke, the lattice of the chromium-molybdenum alloy collapsed, and the long-chain molecules of the polymer grip were broken into monomer fragments.

Within seconds, the entire gun turned into a pool of brass-colored powder and a clump of black plastic fragments, which dripped through Fang Li's fingers and splashed all over his face.

Fang Li watched helplessly as his gun turned to dust, his expression turning to despair. He knew he had failed completely.

Shen Hanzhou straightened up and glanced at the entire pile of waste.

Zhou Ting lay on his side in the pile of broken bricks, his left arm bent at an abnormal angle, a section of white bone protruding from his sleeve.

His breathing was shallow and rapid, but he didn't make a sound. His eyes were half-open, staring at the flashlight beam leaking through the crack in the broken floorboards above him, his pupils slightly dilated.

Wang Zhaoping was trapped by steel rebar debris, lying in the ruins, trembling all over.

He hasn't looked up since he fell, his shoulders are shaking like a leaf, and he's making intermittent, indistinct gasps.

All three of them were breathing heavily in pain.

Shen Hanzhou raised his right hand, his five fingers spread open.

Ability activated.

The cement fragments beneath Zhou Ting and Wang Zhaoping began to be dismantled and reassembled.

The calcium carbonate skeleton is forcibly broken and then reassembled, the silicate filler is rearranged at the molecular level, and the iron oxide particles are uniformly embedded in the newly formed crystal structure.

Two gray stone platforms, each about a meter in diameter, slowly rose from the ruins, carrying the two people up to Shen Hanzhou's feet and stopping at eye level.