Chapter 276: What Are Enemies? Just Cut Them Open.

The next second.

As if without any process whatsoever, these people suddenly transformed into countless blocks of flesh.

However, being forced to kill these ordinary people seemed to have angered this "modern-day Strongest."

The space around him suddenly churned wildly, then he transformed into a high-speed afterimage.

BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!

WHOOSH-

The thick alloy doors that had been urgently lowered in various corridors of the research institute, those sturdy defenses sufficient to withstand explosives and conventional second Energy Level attacks, turned into gleaming piles of metal fragments the moment Wu Nuo passed through them, like butter sliced by a hot knife.

As for those properties that might belong to other established factions, he showed no hesitation whatsoever, destroying them all without discrimination.

And throughout this process, whether it was those ordinary people who had been utterly eroded without exception, or the low-grade superhumans mixed in among them trying to fish in troubled waters, they were merely sliced into fragments by the shockwaves of Wu Nuo's advance.

First zone breached.

Second zone breached.

Within this sprawling research institute, Wu Nuo sensed and searched for something as he swept through layer by layer.

The next moment.

Another massive alloy door shattered into fragments before him.

The ceiling was vast and lofty, like some enormous independent space.

Following his perception of curse power... he seemed to have arrived at some place where biological experiments were conducted.

"........."

He looked ahead, and a hint of surprise couldn't help but appear in his eyes.

"The hell? They can raise this kind of thing in a lab?"

What came into view were massive animal silhouettes, one after another.

Mutant giant wolves comparable in size to elephants, covered in hard bone spurs, muscles knotted and bulging, their appearances fierce and vicious.

Huge chameleons with razor-sharp claws, their scales shifting colors under the lights, quickly blending perfectly into the surrounding walls until they were completely invisible to the naked eye.

Massive dragon-beasts resembling velociraptors, though their original forms were impossible to discern, with traces of sulfur and flame faintly brewing in their throats.

All sorts of bizarrely shaped mutated animals had gathered together for some unknown reason, all looking down at the seemingly insignificant pink-haired young man, all making preparatory movements to attack.

Their bodies rolled with all kinds of curse power fluctuations, and every single one exuded a genuine second Energy Level presence.

If someone of Chen Yujie's caliber, a first-grade sorcerer, had charged in here alone, facing a beast horde attack of this scale, they probably wouldn't have come out on top and could only temporarily avoid the brunt of the assault.

At this moment.

Wu Nuo finally pulled his hands out of his pockets.

However, it wasn't to assume a fighting stance, preparing to activate a spell, or to channel anything.

He simply reached up and stroked his chin, unable to help but remark:

"Damn."

"What the hell is going on here, is this some Jurassic Park or what?"

From the bloodshot eyes and disordered auras of these beasts, one thing was easy to determine - these animals had likely been forcibly accelerated to maturity through P Agent burning their life force, awakening spells in the process.

Second Energy Level wasn't something that could be mass-produced so easily, was it?

Even P Agent couldn't violate the laws of this world.

Forced to this extent, they simply couldn't live long. Even if left alone, at most half an hour later they would inevitably wither or explode to death.

With Wu Nuo's speed, these things couldn't catch him anyway, so leaving them alone would have been fine.

- But that was the thinking of a coward.

Wu Nuo showed no intention of leaving whatsoever. He let out a light scoff, the corner of his mouth curling into a disdainful smirk.

The next instant.

The entire space was flooded with all kinds of curse power fluctuations as dreadful radiance blazed to life in this place.

In a single instant, freezing, flames, poison gas, water cannons, and even intimidation, madness...

All manner of physical or mental attacks erupted simultaneously, engulfing him.

Yet these things were like mud cows entering the sea, utterly unable to breach the "impermeable" domain covering Wu Nuo's body.

The next instant, invisible grid slashes expanded outward in every direction.

Countless monstrous beasts surged forward one after another, yet not a single one even touched the hem of his clothes, all turning into sticky crimson mango dices.

He laughed wantonly, raising his finger to count them off one by one: "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!"

Enemies, what are those?

Just cut them open.

.........

A moment later.

BOOM!

The pink-haired young man stomped through the final heavy alloy door, striding out from the chaotic corridor.

He raised a hand to shade his eyes, speaking with mockery: "Oh, so this is where you've been hiding."

Unexpected.

This was a rather ordinary-looking laboratory, not particularly large in scale, without even any research projects immediately visible at a glance.

Compared to a laboratory, it was more like an office.

And there, seated at the white office desk, was a man wearing gold-rimmed glasses and a white lab coat.

The man held an electronic recording tablet in his hand, looking at a computer screen as if still unhurriedly recording experimental data.

The corner of Wu Nuo's mouth curled upward slightly.

He had seen this man's photo in the files.

The director of the research institute, "Wu Lan."

Being able to use his own name as the institute's designation meant that his talent had earned recognition from the factions investing resources, acknowledging him as the leader of this research institute, overseeing all its research projects.

Of course...

That was only in the past.

The moment he laid eyes on him, Wu Nuo had already understood one thing.

The man before him was no longer human. The human appearance was nothing more than a skin, a candy wrapper like thing.

As for the essence beneath...

Wu Nuo caught that repulsive, familiar scent.

Though he didn't know what the vessel was, with both the true name and spell unknown.

But there was no doubt - that was the stench of a demon.

"Mr. Wu Nuo, I've heard so much about you."

Wu Lan continued swiping on his recording tablet, his tone calm, as if exchanging pleasantries with an old friend not seen in years.

"To have the honor of hosting Wind Capital's Strongest here, I am truly deeply honored."

In response to this refined and courteous greeting, Wu Nuo broke into a smile.

"I've been having a fairly good time."

Yet there was not a trace of warmth in that smile, like he was looking at a dead man.

"Have you thought about your last words before you die?"

Wu Lan was not angered in the slightest.

He set down his electronic tablet, looked at Wu Nuo, and still spoke in an even tone:

"There is a question that has been lingering in my mind. I wonder if Mr. Wu Nuo would be willing to enlighten me?"

He adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses: "Why must sorcerers keep the supernatural world and ordinary people's lives so strictly separated?"

Wu Nuo furrowed his brow.

The next moment, the demon wearing Wu Lan's face stood up, a hint of agitation in his voice.

"If this barrier were broken, allowing everyone the possibility of obtaining curse power, society's productive forces would undergo a qualitative leap, and the entire civilization would develop to an unprecedented golden age."

"Why do you consider this a bad thing?"

"New-style superhumans are precisely the attempt you humans made for this very purpose, representing the future direction of human evolution."

"To be honest, when I first descended into this world and witnessed these so-called new-style superhumans, I was immediately struck with awe."

Wu Lan spread his arms wide, a trace of fanaticism in his tone:

"Spells are no longer shackles predetermined at birth, but tools that can be freely swapped and upgraded like clothes."

"This is the progress of science, the progress of the era, the progress of the world."

He looked at Wu Nuo, his eyes beneath the gold-rimmed glasses filled with joy and zealotry: "Respecting humanity's potential, how could this not be the righteous path?"