My whole family was brutally murdered? I awakened the thug system and went on a killing spree.

Qin Meng stood still.

The dark red mist above paused for two seconds, then began to contract on its own. It didn't dissipate, it gathered together.

The scattered dark red folds inward from the edges, eventually compressing into a vertically falling entity—

human form.

Standing in mid-air.

It broke free from the cloud cover and fell into this dark area that the searchlights couldn't reach.

A height of over two meters. Facial bones expand outwards, with two white bone spurs protruding from the maxilla, curving downwards and extending to the mandible.

The blood vessels on both sides of the neck are deep red, and the heat from the subcutaneous blood flow dissipates in large quantities from here, forming a very thin layer of water mist after contact with cold air.

Wearing a tattered black robe, his hands were folded in front of his abdomen.

The extrasensory hearing, driven by 227 points of physical strength, completed a full sampling of this existence in 0.01 seconds.

Heart rate: no more than twelve beats per minute.

The energy fluctuation generated by a single pulse is significantly higher than that of the Third Apostle's sixth-order complete form.

Seventh rank.

The apostle tilted his head, and the bone spur lightly brushed against his collarbone.

"Aren't you going to run?"

Qin Meng did not speak.

The apostle slowly descended five meters, stopping at a height of twenty-five meters, its gaze fixed on Qin Meng's dark golden-black skin, and on the dark red blood energy that was contained within his body but faintly emanated outwards.

"When the blood bat dies, all its blood and energy dissipates into the air."

He speaks extremely slowly, with abnormal pauses between each word, conveying a sense of obsession that has lost its normal speaking speed.

"I detected its blood scent from ten kilometers away. Then, following the direction of the blood concentration, I found a source that was thirty times stronger than the blood bat's."

Extend both hands in front of your abdomen, with the backs of your hands facing down.

The pulsation of the deep red veins in the neck suddenly accelerated.

Blood and Qi concentration.

The body temperature generated by 227 points of physical strength is nearly 20 degrees higher than that of an ordinary person, and the blood circulation speed is six to eight times faster than that of an ordinary person.

In the apostle's perception, this body was a continuously radiating source of intense heat in the darkness of the entire southern district.

Can't run away.

The faster you run, the higher your blood flow rate, and the more concentrated and noticeable the dissipation of qi and blood.

At the very second that this judgment was made.

In the shadows on the west side of the abandoned warehouse, the concrete floor cracked with a dull thud.

Footsteps.

No rush, no delay.

Each step was spaced at the same time interval, and the low-frequency vibrations generated when they landed on the ground spread outwards along the foundation, clearly appearing in Qin Meng's skeletal sensory transmission.

A figure measuring 2.4 meters tall emerged from the shadows of the west entrance.

There was no trace of any elemental power leaking out.

The muscles throughout the body are stacked in a completely abnormal way, and the subcutaneous muscle fibers have formed an everted structure due to the alienation and modification.

The two ulnae of the forearm pierce the skin outwards, extending six bony armor plates along the arm, each with a cross-section thicker than an adult's fist.

The spine is flat and without any extraneous abnormal structures.

Purely physical enhancement type.

It slowly and steadily flattened the ground from two hundred meters away, and stopped forty meters to Qin Meng's left.

He didn't speak.

They stood there, completely disregarding the obstacle before them as a threat, waiting for something.

Qin Meng's extrasensory hearing simultaneously completed the energy sampling of this entity.

His heartbeats did not exceed ten times per minute. The energy density of a single heartbeat was a perceptible increase compared to the apostle above his head.

Two seventh-order units.

In the brain, formation data is automatically modeled—

The second apostle is above, responsible for air surveillance and suppression from above.

The First Apostle blocked the left retreat route as a ground clearing force.

The area in front and to the right appears open, but the right side is patrolled by Ye family armored vehicles, and the abandoned streets in front are wide open and unobstructed, leaving the escape route completely exposed to the apostle's bloodline tracking range.

This is a designed hunting formation.

The moment he broke free from the Ye family's encirclement, the trap was already wide open.

"The First Apostle".

Qin Meng spoke, addressing the silent, two-and-a-half-meter-tall figure on his left.

"When Blood Bat died, he said he would seek revenge on you."

The First Apostle remained silent.

He simply pushed the bone armor on his right arm outwards slightly.

The ends of the six bone spurs extended two centimeters outward from inside the skin before stopping.

The second apostle above his head withdrew his hands and clasped them together again.

The deep red glow of the neck veins spread to the collarbone and shoulders in that instant, and the subcutaneous veins of the entire upper body began to glow.

"I'll give you two choices."

"First, cooperate with me to complete the blood draw. I promise you won't suffer too much pain before you die."

pause.

"Secondly, I will exhaust your vital energy before I draw your blood."

Qin Meng glanced down at his feet.

The abandoned alleyway was paved with solid, reinforced concrete, and beneath it lay three layers of underground pipes. He stepped down, and the ground sank three centimeters. There wasn't enough underground space directly below for him to maneuver and evade.

This battlefield is the most disadvantageous for him.

But precisely because of this, it is also the most suitable place to fight this battle.

There is a rough estimate in the brain: the total energy generated by a single strike of the seventh order is at least three to five times that of a fully formed sixth order.

A powerful strike from a fully-fledged sixth-tier Third Apostle can inflict penetrating damage even on an iron-boned defensive layer. A punch from a seventh-tier Apostle would break bones and displace internal organs, causing significant damage.

But the intermediate level of Divine Healing prevents death by decapitation. The advanced level of Iron Bones grants immunity to absolute kinetic energy. The advanced copper skin intercepts elemental erosion. The battle-hardened body directly converts thirty percent of each punch into fuel for a counterattack.

He took the first punch.

He took the third punch.

Hold on until the moment your strength is fully stacked.

Qin Meng raised his right leg and took a step forward.

There was no starting motion, no charging stance.

However, only one step was taken.

The deep red veins in the Second Apostle's neck suddenly bulged. All six bone spurs on the First Apostle's right arm extended to their maximum length, the tips of which emitted a very faint whistling sound in the cold air.

The First Apostle moved.

From a standstill to full speed, there is no transition of starting and accumulating power in between—a unique mobility method of the seventh-tier physical enhancement type, where mutated muscle fibers completely bypass the limitations of physiological inertia.

Forty meters.

Less than 0.1 seconds.

Six bone spurs pierced Qin Meng's left rib at an angle.

boom.

Six bone spikes struck the high-grade copper sheet and broke them all.

However, the energy generated by the impact is conducted inward in a highly penetrating manner, passing through the skin's protective layer and directly hitting the ribs.

Click.

Three ribs were broken, radiating outwards from the point of impact, with at least five internal fractures.

The word "pain" appeared in my perception for less than a fraction of a second before being overwhelmed by something else.

[Battle-hardened Body Triggered. 30% of physical damage received is converted into physical strength feedback. Current stack count: 1.]

Dark red blood seeped out from the broken ribs, but was trapped under the skin by the high-grade copper, preventing it from escaping.

Qin Meng did not retreat.

The First Apostle's right arm, carrying the residual kinetic energy from the impact, pushed forward. Qin Meng raised his left hand and slapped the mutated arm, which was three times thicker, away horizontally.

The power gap remains.

But it's a little bit less.

Driven by the intermediate level of divine healing, the broken ribs began to regrow at a visible speed, filling the bone fissures from the inside, and the entire repair process was completed within three seconds.

The First Apostle didn't give him three seconds.

The left arm cut in from the side, and the bone spur struck Qin Meng's right shoulder again, shattering part of the bone structure and causing a transverse fracture at one end of his clavicle.

[Battle-hardened Body Triggered.]