Freeze the entire population, activate my Superman system?

At the artificial lake,

Liu Yu nimbly darted into the lake, grabbed a mutated mandarin fish, cut open its belly, and used his knuckles to stir between the intestines and internal organs, searching for the mutated crystals.

Then, frowning, he tossed the mangled fish carcass ashore.

There were already more than a dozen fish carcasses piled up on the shore.

Yang Xiuming stood a few meters away, his hands behind his back, looking at the lake.

The hem of his trench coat was blown up and down by the wind, and his expression was not visible behind his glasses.

When Guo Yueshan and the others arrived, this was the bizarre scene they witnessed.

"Liu Yu!" Guo Yueshan's voice boomed across the empty lakeshore, "You owe me an explanation for what you did today!"

Liu Yu glanced at Guo Yueshan, chuckled, and continued searching for the fish belly.

Yang Xiuming turned around, a kind smile on his face, and pushed up his glasses.

"Director Guo, we are investigating potential threats from mutated organisms in your artificial lake."

"Didn't the management keep saying they were going to take proactive precautions? I haven't seen anything happening. We Freemasons are just cooperating with their work."

"Cooperate?" Zhao Tiejun slammed the crossbow into the ground and glared at the two men.

"You came to Aunt Chen's house and strangled her cat, calling it 'cooperation'? You broke Old Zhou's ribs, calling it 'cooperation'?"

"Aunt Chen's cat is indeed shedding fur, which is suspected of being a mutation. Old Zhou's dog has also shown abnormal size and even dares to bite people."

Yang Xiuming spoke in a calm and unhurried tone, as if he were reporting on work.

Our young man also had the data from the management office, and his processing speed was slightly faster than theirs.

"As for Lao Zhou, he was the one who made the first move."

Liu Yu was acting in self-defense.

Anyone present can testify that knives were used.

"Why are you pretending to be confused..." Zhao Tiejun was speechless.

Guo Yueshan did not argue with Yang Xiuming, and said in a deep voice: "Liu Yu, since Zhou Dijian made the first move, the management office will not pursue the matter of you injuring someone today."

But you have to promise me that something like that won't happen again.

Liu Yu paused for a moment, then slowly stood up.

"Director Guo," Liu Yu's dark red eyes unconsciously revealed a beastly nature, "It seems that the Freemasons don't need the management office's approval to do what they want."

Seeing Liu Yu's ghost-like appearance,

Guo Yueshan subconsciously took a half step back.

It is the body's instinctive reaction when it senses a threat.

Behind him, Zhao Tiejun's finger was already on the trigger of the crossbow.

"Why didn't Ling Shuang come along?" Liu Yu pronounced the name slowly and deliberately, a twitch at the corner of her mouth. "I was just thinking of weighing him."

Shen Yuan took a step forward and stood in front of Guo Yueshan.

"Liu Yu, I don't know where you got your power from, don't ruin yourself."

Do you think you are qualified to judge Ling Shuang?

Upon hearing Ling Shuang's name again, Liu Yu's eyes showed a hint of apprehension, and the bestial instincts he had just displayed were suppressed.

"Ha, Ling Shuang, we're the same kind of people. Do you really think he'll help you?"

Liu Yu's dark red eyes stared straight at Guo Yueshan, making Guo Yueshan break out in a cold sweat, but he stubbornly refused to look away.

Yang Xiuming nodded to Guo Yueshan.

Director Guo, is there anything else?

If not, we'll get back to work.

The threat posed by the artificial lake needs to be addressed, right?

Zhao Tiejun's finger remained on the trigger, but Guo Yueshan ultimately did not give the order to fire.

He led his men away from the artificial lake.

After walking a few dozen meters, Zhao Tiejun kicked a pebble off the roadside.

"Director Guo, are we just going to let them be so arrogant? When will Xiao Ling finish her seclusion?!"

Guo Yueshan took a deep breath

"Don't rush, we'll be patient, we'll wait."

Shen Yuan, who had been silent all along, slowly spoke.

"Although Liu Yu also gained power similar to Manager Ling's."

But I always feel that

His evolution seems to be flawed...

......

Let's go back to one day earlier.

On the hill behind the edge of the row houses area, a new burial mound has been erected.

It belongs to Liu Wei.

Because his body was completely devoured by the Night Demon Mother, only a set of clothes he wore in life and a pair of slippers were buried inside.

Liu Yu knelt in front of the mound of earth, his knees pressing against the frozen turf, and kowtowed in a daze.

"Brother, I will avenge you."

"Brother, I don't want them to look down on me anymore."

Without Liu Wei, he would have spent his entire life shouting "Welcome home, residents!" from the guard post every day.

Over the years, it was this cousin who helped him make a name for himself in this cold city.

Yang Xiuming stood three steps behind him, his glasses reflecting a cold white light under the fluorescent glow of the dome.

"Have you thought it through?"

Liu Yu did not turn around.

He opened his palm, and there lay the perfect white crystal that had been dug out from the skull of the Night Demon infant.

This is what his brother earned with his life.

No, this was given to him by the management office after his brother died.

When building a new arrow tower, previous achievement points were used.

He kept the white crystal as Yang Xiuming had requested.

Liu Yu clenched his fist, the sharp edges of the crystal digging painfully into his palm, the coolness seeping in along the lines of his hand.

"Why can Ling Shuang be different?"

"Why didn't he save my brother first?"

Liu Yu lowered his head, and the crystal reflected his distorted expression.

"True power is only what grows within oneself; it cannot be taken away."

I need to become like Ling Shuang, so that everyone will fear me and respect me.

He opened his hand, looked at the white crystal stained with blood in his palm, and then drew a bone knife from his waist.

He held the bone knife to the center of his chest.

He could feel his heart beating behind his ribs.

Yang Xiuming's tone was heavy, "We can take it slowly, but the location of the heart is too risky."

Liu Yu's voice was icy, directly interrupting him.

"Brother Yang, I know you mean well."

But I can't wait any longer.

He had tried inserting crystals of mutated animals into his limbs, but to no avail.

Only by keeping it in your heart,

Only then can it melt!

The next second, Liu Yu slashed the bone knife straight down towards his chest.

As the skin and flesh were pulled down from the top of the sternum, blood gushed out the moment it was torn open, steaming in the cold air.

He forcefully shoved the Night Demon Source Crystal into the flesh in front of his heart!

Liu Yu began to tremble violently, the icy chill seeping in through the wound and spreading along the bloodstream to her heart.

A painful stubbornness appeared on his face.

"My brother is gone, but I will make you all fear me."

Then, he fainted!

Each surge of hot blood pumped from the heart and rushes to the limbs carries away a small portion of the crystal's cold energy.

The Night Demon Crystal has begun to melt!

Liu Yu's spine began to elongate strangely.

A cracking sound came from between the spines, as if the bones were being tightened one by one by an invisible hand.

The blood vessels under the skin bulge, and their color changes from the normal bluish-green to a sickly grayish-white.

Yang Xiuming finally dropped his pretense, a smile curving his lips as if he were looking at a highly valuable work of art.

"Ouch!"

Upon noticing that Liu Yu had regained consciousness, Yang Xiuming immediately adopted a concerned expression, knelt down on one knee, and began to stitch up Liu Yu's wound with the needle and thread from the first aid kit.

"How are you feeling?"

"It hurts..." Liu Yu's voice trembled, but it was a trembling of excitement.

The surging power within his body had nowhere to go.

Liu Yu clenched his fist tightly.

Beneath the skin of the knuckles, dark red veins bulge and then flatten, as if something is swimming inside.

He turned around abruptly and punched the tree trunk next to him.

The bark cracked, and splinters of wood flew everywhere.

The tree trunk, as thick as a person, was snapped in two by his punch, the broken pieces jagged, and the crown crashed to the ground.

Liu Yu stared at his fist for a long time, then slowly smiled.

His mouth was stretched wide, revealing two rows of canine teeth that were still bleeding.

"Ling Shuang..." he murmured the name, his lips trembling, "When you gained power, was it the same feeling?"

Yang Xiuming closed the first aid kit and slung it across his body.

"The management office's womanly kindness has given you the opportunity to catch up with Ling Shuang."

Tomorrow I'll arrange for someone to help you kill all the residents' mutated pets, and then you'll become even stronger.

Liu Yu turned around, her dark red eyes fixed on him. "I want that Night Demon Mother dead. I want everyone to obey me."

Yang Xiuming was silent for a few seconds, then smiled.

"I believe in you. Let's work together... to build a new human kingdom..."