Chapter 664 - Body protection (1/2)

Xiao Luo stopped and turned around to look. Ian’s body was in terrible shape and almost unrecognizable. He looked like he had been grilled alive over a bonfire, and pustules covered the skin of his entire body. He looked pale and his face was devoid of his handsome features. It was ulcerating and filled with pus.

WHIFF~

Xiao Luo detected an awful waft in the air. His nose picked up the reek of an unbearable, putrid stench, like a dead and rotting fish.

He furrowed his brows and asked, “What is going on here?”

Xiao Luo had no intention of killing Ian. He had only wanted to take away Ian’s ability to fight. As long as the Mei nation’s military provided genetic warriors, like Ian, timely treatment, he should recover quickly. But why did he suddenly deteriorate into such a state? He had been fine earlier on, but now, it looked like his entire body was rotting.

“I underwent the perfect genetic transformation, and this is the price I have to pay for the strength I gained!”

Ian laughed bitterly. He had already lost and was merely trying to prolong his life. Ian had forced himself to continue fighting Xiao Luo, even though he knew he would not live through the fight. The metabolism rate of the cells in his body had sped up by a hundred times. His cells were deteriorating rapidly, causing his entire body to disintegrate.

While he talked, the putrid-smelling blood kept dripping out of his mouth and nose.

Xiao Luo felt no need to apologize as he quietly stared at Ian, who was slowly losing his life. That man was dying a painful death, like one of those failed experiments. Xiao Luo did not feel any joy in defeating him. He only felt anger, and the image of Xie Wenchang and his dead family once again flashed through his mind. It was inhumane that the Mei nation was conducting such genetic experiments on their kind.

WHOP! WHOP! WHOP!

Both men could hear the distinctive choppy sound of a helicopter rotor coming from afar, accompanied by the rumbling of military vehicles speeding toward them.

“Do you have anything you want me to tell Huang Ruoran?” Xiao Luo asked.

Ian’s eyes lit up with happiness and excitement when he heard her name. Tears began rolling down uncontrollably. He had wanted to attend the appointment he had made with her. He had wanted to spend the rest of his life with her. But he had failed even when he had fought with his life and with every skill he possessed.

“We had plans to meet at the front gate of Washington University at 7 pm tonight. I was going to bring her to the movies.”

Ian cried in despair and said, “Tell her this. Tell her I was only fooling around with her, and that I have dumped her.”

“Do you think she will believe that?” Xiao Luo said kindly.

“She won’t believe it, but I have a way to make her believe it. There is an intimate picture of my younger sister and me in my bedroom. Take it and show it to her. She will believe it. Cough, cough, cough…” Ian coughed out a few mouthfuls of blood. His lifeline was slowly dissipating away. After saying that, his lips curled up in a dreary smile, his teeth covered with blood.

Xiao Luo said nothing and looked at him with no expression on his face.

“Stop looking. Send me off. Right now. I… I’m better off dead than alive,” Ian said.

Xiao Luo fulfilled his wish. Using his internal force of energy, he struck Ian’s chest with his leg.

BAM!

An invisible ripple spread across the desert plain, ending Ian’s life at once.

“Thank… thank you…”

Ian expressed his gratitude as Xiao Luo raised his leg to strike. He died the moment Xiao Luo struck him and his head lolled to one side as he laid still.

The force from Xiao Luo’s strike loosened the soil below and triggered liquefaction of the ground beneath them. An area ten meters in diameter around Ian started to collapse and sand flowed into the chasm like liquid. Xiao Luo leaped away using his Lightness Force skill and landed lightly outside the quicksand range. Ian slowly sank into the quicksand, and there he laid buried beneath the sand of the Mojave Desert.

“Reporting to headquarters. We have locked onto the target. Awaiting orders to open fire, I repeat, shall we open fire?”