Pretending To Be A Boss

There were a total of twelve cocoons.

The first one to break out of his cocoon was a tall and burly black man.

He had no eyebrows or hair, as if he had undergone long-term chemotherapy.

His eyes were filled with chaos, and his skin was covered with lash marks.

There was a number on his forehead, ss-006.

The second to break out was a man with silver hair like Akasi's, slightly curly, with handsome features that made him look like a pretty boy straight out of a comic book.

There was a faint sadness in his eyes, and he seemed somewhat panicked, presumably because the sticky liquid inside the cocoon made him uncomfortable, but he didn't look angry; instead, he showed a face filled with fear and sorrow.

Perhaps for the sake of aesthetics, his number was not etched on his forehead but on his arm.

It was only when he swung his arm that Tang Xian saw the number, ss-000.

The twelve cocoons gradually opened.

Tang Xian was not in a hurry.

He saw a Middle Eastern man whose bones could be pulled out of his body.

He also saw an old man holding a Tang sword.

A man with a snake-face, and a man with hair like a lion's mane.

But among them, only the old man with the Tang sword had an ss-grade number.

The freaks emerging from the other cocoons looked formidable, one after the other, but they were all part of the s series.

Their eyes trembled incessantly.

It was only after several seconds that they gradually recovered.

Then their gaze focused on Tang Xian.

Tang Xian was certain that these people, like Tang Suoye, had mutated due to an overdose of serum injections.

They all looked like offspring of monsters and humans.

However, the three ss-grade subjects looked the most normal in appearance.
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"When did the Evolution Zone start amassing so many freaks?" Tang Xian said.

Tang Xian was sure these people all had serious mental issues.

Unlike s-004 he had seen earlier, their being sealed in cocoons likely signified their uncontrollable behavior.

There was no answer; the man with the silver curly hair crouched down, hugging his head, seemingly afraid of the upcoming fight. He was trembling, muttering to himself continuously:

"Don't kill me... don't kill me... don't kill me..."

Responding to Tang Xian at this moment was the freak with arms like mantis scythes.

His slicing was clean enough to cut through a building, and he approached Tang Xian at an extremely fast speed.

Tang Xian looked like an unguarded lamb, oblivious even as the wolf bore down on him.

The scythe glowed as though the Soul Crystal had been directly implanted into his scythe-like arm.

The terrifying force combined with the sharp weapon made everyone wait for the masked man to be severed.

But Tang Xian, calmly, caught the blade between two fingers.

The onlooking subjects watched the scene in disbelief.

The man with the scythe arm tried to break free but was horrified to find he could not.

He laughed and said,

"Attempting the impossible—this phrase couldn't be more fitting right now."

With a flip of his hand, Tang Xian snapped the subject's bones.

The agonizing howl made the other subjects halt.

Tang Xian lifted the chin of the scythe man, making him meet his gaze, while also inspecting some of the wounds on his body.

"Injected with Anai multiple times, but still, your ferocity hasn't been erased; in other words, instability."

Tang Xian then tore off the man's scythe arm.

Mechanical cables and blood tangled together.

He frowned and said,

"Forceful serum injections can lead to energy overload and death, yet the idea of redirecting energy into a mechanical vessel is a good one, albeit too anti-human."

The rest of the subjects were confused—is this guy performing a dissection on the spot?

Tang Xian wasn't dissecting on the spot; regarding these subjects, he no longer had any secrets he wanted to uncover.

So he kicked the mantis man away with one foot.

The previously fearsome mantis man now looked like a scrapped piece of machinery.

At that moment, the burly hairless giant made his move.

The terrifying stature made Tang Xian think the giant was a brute force type, but his speed was shockingly fast.

Not much different from Akasi.

In high-speed movement, the black giant looked for Tang Xian's weak points.

The old man with the Tang sword gave a signal, and the snake-faced man, the lion-maned man, and the bone man all began their attack.

The flexible-bodied snake-faced man tried to coil his softened and elongated body around Tang Xian.

The bone man pulled out his own spine, which, though clearly human bone, had the luster of metal.

The lion-maned man simply crouched, seeming to brew a beastly roar in his throat.

At the same time, the Tang sword flashed.

The black figure also closed in on Tang Xian instantly.

In that instant, all kinds of lethal attacks landed on him.

The snake-faced man's body became even more distorted, wrapping Tang Xian up like a line, effectively locking him within a certain range.

Metallic bones pierced towards Tang Xian's chest.

A punch forceful enough to rival a perfect biological strike hit Tang Xian's neck.

A succession of sword flashes, the overflowing sword qi even divided the prison gate behind Tang Xian into several parts.

In a mere moment, Tang Xian faced an assault that was more than ten times stronger than the previous one from the scythe man.

The group of monsters attacked swiftly, but they seemed to recognize Tang Xian's strength as well.

They were usually released in laboratories with the highest security and confinement; this was the first time they had engaged in combat outside the Evolution Zone.

Especially after witnessing the mantis man's crushing defeat, no one dared to take it lightly.