Chapter 1001 - Rumor Spread Faster Than Paid Advertisement (2/2)

”Lockwood, are you… out of your mind? What did the old man do to you?” Mordred asked again. Lockwood's unnatural behavior had Mordred dying to know what Zhuge Shanzhen had done.

”Hah. Hah… It's you… Mordred… Damn, you've startled me!” Lockwood gasped for air and said.

”How did you manage to escape?” he asked with eyes wide opened.

”Escape? We just went away as you did. We gave up trying to get the egg from him and just went away after saying goodbye,” said Qin Wuyang.

”T-That's good to hear…”

”What happened there? Why did you suddenly run away like that? We did not sense anything then. We thought Zhuge Shanzhen had done something to you!” said Mordred.

”Actually… He did. Sort of…” Lockwood said quietly. The man was still shaking with fear.

”He attacked you? How was it? How strong was he really?” Qin Wuyang asked.

”I… I can't tell! I cannot even sense him!” said Lockwood before proceeding to explain what had happened. The man might have exaggerated a few things since he was still shaken.

Mordred and Qin Wuyang themselves saw how Lockwood suddenly behaved oddly in front of Zhuge Shanzhen. It was then he decided to just run away with his tail tucked between his legs. To save his own face, Lockwood purposely exaggerated a few details in order to gain sympathy points, that and to provide justification for a Level 5 Metahuman to run away like that.

His version of the story goes like this: Lockwood wanted to know who was Zhuge Shanzhen was and decided to project his powers to him. However, he changed his mind since he wanted the egg for himself and decided to attack him instead of just using his power to ”investigate”. Before he knew it, his powers were absorbed by Zhuge Shanzhen. It did not stop there, before he could retract his powers, Zhuge Shanzhen went out of his way to drag him towards him. If Zhuge Shanzhen did not stop himself, Lockwood would have been swallowed whole!

”How is that possible?! He is literally stronger than all of us!” cried Qin Wuyang. Mordred was speechless as he was a little shocked. Both of them exchanged a look and felt extremely lucky for not trying to do anything to Zhuge Shanzhen. Who knew what could have happened if they even emitted any killing intent.

Lockwood was merely exaggerating Zhuge Shanzhen powers. All three of them knew each other very well and knew that all of them possessed the true Level 5 Metahuman powers through awakening the Power of Conqueror. Mordred and Qin Wuyang were convinced that Lockwood was telling the truth.

Hence, besides Lockwood, who was still hazy due to fear, the other two Level 5 Metahumans had reached a conclusion; Zhuge Shanzhen had reached beyond the pinnacle of Metahuman. The man had the powers of Level 6!

The news about three Level 5 Metahuman retreating from a fight against Zhuge Shanzhen spread like wildfire. To be fair, that news was spread out as a means of warning to the others by none other than Lockwood, Mordred, and Qin Wuyang.

If Jiang Fei knew what he was getting into, he would have paid Lockwood royalty fees for spreading that piece of ”news” efficiently! He had even managed to ”upgrade” Zhuge Shanzhen to a god-like being!

As much as he wanted, Jiang Fei could no longer disguise himself as Zhuge Shanzhen for the time being. 0542 was running out of energy and if Jiang Fei, disguised as Zhuge Shanzhen accidentally encounter a bloodlust-driven Level 5 Metahuman, he would literally be torn to shreds.