Chapter 78: The Brain is Moving, the Muscles are Thinking

Chapter 78: Chapter 78: The Brain is Moving, the Muscles are Thinking

Pain! Excruciating pain!

It felt like his skull was about to shatter, his brains squeezed out!

When Fang Can’s iron fist smashed into Qu Hua’s forehead, he felt like he’d been hit by a locomotive.

BOOM!

Following the explosive impact, the air rippled like the surface of water.

Severely injured, Qu Hua’s consciousness faded, and he was on the verge of blacking out.

But before he lost consciousness, his eyes witnessed a terrifying scene.

In his line of sight, the figure of Fang Can throwing a punch began to split. The next moment, it seemed to teleport, appearing beside another one of his teammates.

’Two Fang Cans... three Fang Cans...’

The other two Fang Cans threw their punches at the same instant, each one just as powerful and heavy.

Amidst the roar of that terrifying power, the three who had planned to attack together were all sent flying backward. They crashed into the stone wall at the edge of the stadium and didn’t move.

After landing the blow, the other two Fang Cans dissipated like foam, leaving only a single figure on the field.

’How is this possible...’ From a distance, Li Yuqi watched in disbelief, shocked by both her teammates’ swift defeat and Fang Can’s ability to split into three.

’He’s never shown this kind of cloning ability in the movies before. How did he do it?’

’It’s his speed,’ the three who had been knocked away concluded, their minds muddled.

When you don’t know your science, everything looks like Magic.

The so-called clones were an illusion created by Fang Can moving too fast.

Because he had thrown punches from three different locations almost simultaneously, the light had tricked their eyes, creating the illusion of clones.

Surrounded by complete darkness, Fang Can didn’t press the attack. Instead, he stood perfectly still.

’That was too reckless,’ Fang Can sighed internally.

’With the added gravity, I have trouble controlling the force of my punches. On top of that, with my five senses taken away, I don’t even know who I hit. My body just reacted and struck on its own.’

’A fight is a fight, but did they have to blindfold me? Why go this far? Someone could get killed.’

’So... please don’t let me have killed you,’ Fang Can pleaded sincerely in his heart.

Sure enough, in the next moment, Fang Can’s vision returned. He saw the red rubber track, which had been blasted apart to reveal the asphalt beneath, and in the distance, the three superhumans embedded in the stone wall.

With his five senses restored, he could feel their steady heartbeats, which allowed him to relax a little. ’At least they’re not dead, right?’

Afraid that Fang Can would attack again, the others deactivated their powers and rushed to check on their teammates.

When they saw their teammates were just bruised all over and unconscious, they breathed a sigh of relief. At least they weren’t in pieces.

"Sorry about that. With my senses blocked, I had some trouble holding back. I didn’t pull my punches."

Seeing Fang Can approach, they all flinched in a stress reaction before realizing the guy in front of them wasn’t an enemy and relaxing again.

"It’s fine, it’s fine. They’re just unconscious. They’ll be okay after some rest," Li Yuqi said, waving her hands dismissively. Then, she asked curiously, "How much of your strength were you using just now?"

"About seventy percent, I guess," Fang Can said with a smile, adding internally, ’Right, seventy percent of my normal state.’

"By the way, Qu Hua mentioned earlier that we need to provide the citizens with some basic means of self-defense," Liu Cheng said from the side.

"So, we’d like a certain degree of command authority over the city to set up defenses. With proper command, we can significantly reduce citizen casualties on Carnival Day."

"Do as you see fit," Fang Can said with a nod of approval. Even if they hadn’t mentioned it, he was planning to order the mayor to do just that.

...

Lying on the cold ground, Qu Hua slowly regained consciousness. He opened his eyes to see his teammates gathered around him.

"You’re awake," Li Yuqi said flatly from the side.

"Where’s Fang Can?" Qu Hua tried to get up, but the slightest movement sent a sharp pain through his neck.

"He left a long time ago, of course. I just didn’t expect the gap between us to be so huge. I really thought we could win," Li Yuqi said with disappointment. Her grand harvesting plan had been so close to fruition.

"That punch nearly made my life flash before my eyes. How were we supposed to win against that?" Qu Hua said, speechless. He also hadn’t expected Fang Can to be such a monster.

"But this is also good news. The stronger Fang Can is, the more power our side has. We’re on the same team, after all."

"By the way, did you mention the matter of command authority over the city?" Qu Hua asked.

"Fang Can had no objections. We’ll be handling the city’s entire armament plan from now on," Liu Cheng said from the side.

"That’s for the best. We have the raw materials anyway. Let’s set up a complete firearm production line in the next ten-plus days."

...

For the next period of time, Fang Can maintained his established persona, staying inside and never coming out.

But as time went on, Fang Can not only made his muscles think like a brain, but he also completely transformed the nature of his brain into that of a muscle.

In the dim room, Fang Can sat cross-legged on the floor, his expression resolute, as if he were engaged in something incredibly serious.

And indeed he was. With his brain now muscular, Fang Can was trying to think with his muscles and use his brain matter to exert force and perform actions.

Because Fang Can could only use one trait at a time, when his brain became muscular, it could no longer think. He had to let his now brain-like muscles handle his thoughts.

Right now, Fang Can’s brain matter was like an atrophied muscle that hadn’t been exercised in years—difficult to control.

’Move! My brain! I command you to move!’ All the muscles in Fang Can’s body roared silently.

The next moment, under the control of his muscles, Fang Can’s brain began to move bit by bit, tensing up and contracting into a tight ball.

This was his brain exercising the trait of a muscle, exerting force little by little.

But he couldn’t maintain it for long. As if completely drained of strength, Fang Can fell backward, a throbbing pain pulsing in his mind as if it were about to split open.

Seeing Fang Can about to fall, Jiang Ning’an, who was beside him, reached out to support him. "Did you succeed?" she asked with concern.

"It’s difficult. The brain has never ’exercised’ before; that function isn’t in its genetics. Even though it has the properties of a muscle now, I have to take it step by step, like a patient doing physical therapy after recovery."

Fang Can said calmly, enduring the tearing pain.

It seemed getting a brain to sprout legs and run on its own was harder than it looked.

"I need to rest for a bit. I’ll try some other projects, like implanting the hardness of the skull, the self-filtering of the kidneys, and the blood-pumping function of the heart into my entire body."

Fang Can stated his ideas calmly.

Meanwhile, as time passed, criminals from all over the country had begun to mobilize.

In a certain prison, batch after batch of convicts were being loaded onto trucks and transported like cargo.

And in classrooms, government officials calmly read out the list of names selected for Carnival Day.

Only three days remained until Carnival Day!