Chapter 152: System Reboot (1st Update, Seeking Monthly Tickets!)

“What?”

Hearing this, Ren Huiyan’s expression immediately changed. Jiang Yun also frowned. As they looked, they indeed found that some kind of strange transformation was happening to Dalou’s body.

Lou Shasha was on the verge of an emotional breakdown. Hearing the words from behind her, the tears in her eyes instantly stopped. She sobbed and raised her head, only to see her brother’s blood vessels glowing with a crimson light, looking incredibly strange.

“My brother… he… what’s wrong with him?”

Ren Huiyan pulled her away from behind. “Be careful, your brother’s life force is strengthening.”

“Then he won’t die?”

“This situation is definitely a change in his metahuman ability!” Jiang Yun’s expression was grave. “Everyone, stay back for now.”

“Why? Shouldn’t we do something?” Shasha was now full of anxiety.

“There’s nothing we can do.”

Jiang Yun said, “In this situation, he probably won’t die. But we can’t be sure if he’s evolving or… degenerating!”

“That’s right.” Lu Xingchen’s expression was incredibly serious. He had seen a scene like this before.

Here, Jiang Yun and Lu Xingchen were both evolved-level metahumans, having truly taken the first step in developing their own abilities. They had a clear perception of metahuman energy.

They could clearly feel that some kind of change was happening to Dalou’s body. Countless streams of blood energy were converging on him, and it seemed as if an infinite life force was breeding within him.

*Thump-thump~ Thump-thump~*

Dalou could feel his heart beating rapidly, and a crazed, bloodthirsty thought filled his mind. The large hole in his chest was now healing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and his bones and muscles were also undergoing a strange transformation.

Under his already sturdy skin, his muscles were constantly writhing like living things, looking quite bizarre.

“Ha! Ha!”

He knelt on the ground, his spine trembling. The muscles on his back rolled along his ribs, and all his joints were making cracking sounds.

An immense pain seemed to be about to devour his entire sanity.

Everyone watching this scene had grim expressions and retreated. Dalou’s aura at this moment was truly terrifying, like a monster about to mutate.

Many survivors had experienced the dark encroachment and knew that humans who were injured or killed by anomalies were very likely to mutate into zombies or some kind of monster, and then begin to attack their teammates and kin. Faced with this situation, everyone was on high alert, and many had already begun to raise their guns and aim at Dalou.

Seeing this, Shasha rushed out and stood in front of Dalou, shouting at the crowd in a panic.

“No, he’s my brother! Don’t shoot him!!”

“Little sister, get away! He’s very dangerous right now!” someone in the crowd shouted.

“Yes, you get back first, be careful!”

Shasha cried out, “He won’t! He’s a good person! He’s a good person! He’s my brother! He won’t hurt anyone!”

Dalou, kneeling on the ground, clenched his fists in pain. His blood energy surged wildly. In the depths of his consciousness, he heard Shasha’s voice, and his sanity gradually began to clear.

“Little… little sister…”

He slowly opened his eyes and looked at the small figure in front of him.

“From now on, you two siblings will be on my train. We’ll all survive together!” Lin Xian’s words suddenly echoed in his ears.

“We’ll all survive together…”

“I can’t die!”

“I can’t die!!!”

A strong surge of anger rose from the bottom of his heart, instantly sweeping away the pain and oppression in his consciousness. Dalou took a deep breath and closed his eyes. In that instant, the surrounding environment seemed to become incredibly clear: the gazes of the crowd, Shasha in front of him, his worried teammates, and… the beast about to charge in from the high wall!

“Argh!”

Dalou suddenly let out a muffled grunt and, under everyone’s watchful eyes, shot out from his spot. The ground he stepped on even cracked. He picked up his steel-slaying greatsword and, like a huge red shadow of blood, leaped onto the high wall with the speed of a cannonball.

*Argh!*

At this moment, on the high wall, a giant human skeleton suddenly popped its head up, preparing to hunt its prey with fire. But just as it climbed up from the hail of bullets and the zombie horde, it saw a blood-red shadow already coming towards it.

*Clang!*

The steel-slaying greatsword let out a violent hum. Dalou charged head-on, the blade glowing red. With a single horizontal slash, he directly cut off the hard skull of the crimson human skeleton. Even the metal fence on the high wall was cleanly sheared, leaving a large gap!

*BOOM!*

Only then did the wind pressure from the rapid slash explode, blowing back the several Iron Guard soldiers nearby!

“Brother!” Shasha was the first to cry out.

“So fast!” Jiang Yun’s gaze was sharp. With Dalou’s strength and such speed, his combat power was simply astonishing.

“Good, good, good! That show-off, he’s definitely evolved!”

Lu Xingchen’s face was full of pleasant surprise. The surrounding crowd was also dumbfounded by this scene. Many were seeing a metahuman evolve for the first time. The powerful and strange scene was deeply impressive.

And after Dalou killed the anomaly in the first instance, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Some even began to feel a little scared.

If such a powerful metahuman had degenerated into a monster, then Area A would definitely not have been able to hold.

*Huff~ Huff!*

Dalou breathed heavily, the steel-slaying greatsword in his hand still trembling. He slowly turned his head, gave a nod to his teammates below, and then looked at Shasha. “Little… little sister, get your gun, the monsters are coming again.”

“Mm, okay!”

Shasha wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and nodded repeatedly. Without another word, she immediately rushed to the ground to pick up the grenade rounds and put them in her bag.

“Okay, I’m coming too!” Lu Xingchen’s fighting spirit was high, and he immediately rushed up.

Jiang Yun and Ren Huiyan exchanged glances, both breathing a sigh of relief. They also began to rejoin the battle.

…

[Mechanical scan complete. G3 Land-Based Electromagnetic Railgun Blueprint obtained.]

[Mechanical failure detected in the magnetic flux compression device and unipolar generator. Repair?]

Repair!

On the high platform, Lin Xian’s expression was tense. He had finally completed the scan. Looking at the giant sky creature constantly approaching, his heart tightened, and he pushed his Mechanical Heart to its limit.

*Whirr~*

The fire-control radar of the other electromagnetic railgun seemed to have caught something. The turret base rotated rapidly and soon aimed at a target in the sky.

*BWOOM! BANG!*

A dazzling blue light shot out, illuminating a winged monster rapidly approaching in the dark night. It opened its strange fangs and let out a sharp screech.

*Screech!!*

“Little chick!” Lin Xian shouted.

KIKI had already reacted in the first instance. Her eyes flashed, and with a grim expression, she took a step forward. “Finally here!”

She grabbed at the air with one hand. The rapidly approaching monster in the sky seemed to hit some kind of transparent wall, its body suddenly stopping with a huge roar.

At the same time, the two electromagnetic railguns below caught this stationary target. Two railgun shots blasted out, *pfft!*, directly blowing it to pieces in the air.

“Nice one.”

Seeing this, Lin Xian breathed a sigh of relief, but he saw KIKI hurriedly rush over, searching for the anomalous blood crystal in the airborne debris again.

“What a little money-grubber…”

He muttered under his breath. At this moment, as the Fabrication Center converted the materials, the repair of the railgun was also quickly coming to an end.

He didn’t know what the black insects from the mouth of this winged monster were. They could actually devour metal and cause circuit breaks. Their methods were endless, making Lin Xian feel that these strange monsters were also constantly developing ways to deal with humans.

[Repair complete.]

*Whirr~*

With the system repair complete, this giant electromagnetic railgun once again emitted a dazzling blue light. The base rotated and began to integrate into the system.

“Done!” KIKI had also collected the blood bead and ran over, looking very pleased with her harvest.

Just then, *CLANG!*

The lights of the entire airport suddenly went dark, plunging everyone into darkness.

“What’s going on?” Lin Xian said.

“A power outage?”

*Flicker, flicker, flicker!!*

But after only a few seconds, the airport lights came on again, and the sound of the system operating could be heard inside.

“Wow, that scared me. I thought…”

“Wait.”

Lin Xian frowned. He looked up at the sky and found that the aviation lights of the inner harbor had lit up, and all the anti-aircraft equipment outside the high-altitude corridor had been activated. Even the electromagnetic railgun in front of him had turned to a different direction.

“What’s wrong…”

“I don’t know, but something has definitely changed.”

Lin Xian took a deep breath. He looked towards the front of the airport. The giant Sky Mother was constantly approaching, but the anti-aircraft weapons were not aiming or attacking. This was clearly very unusual.

…

“What happened?”

“Was there a power outage just now?”

“Look, the anti-aircraft guns and electromagnetic railguns have stopped moving…”

On the airport plaza, the strange situation just now made everyone realize something was wrong.

*Rat-a-tat-tat!!*

On the resistance lines in each sector, the pressure suddenly increased. It seemed that a large number of the airport’s anti-aircraft weapons were not working.

“Watch out for the zombie tide!!”

On the resistance line, an Iron Guard soldier shouted. A countless tide of zombies began to surge up. Because of this change, more and more soldiers and survivors died one after another.

“What’s going on??”

In the airport control tower, the emergency team was busy and tense. Bai Shuang was pacing anxiously. The airport’s system had suddenly rebooted, which had paralyzed the entire emergency team’s work.

Wei Kexue, the technical team leader of the emergency group, was frantically operating his computer. Various pieces of information flashed rapidly in the reflection of his glasses. Then, his pupils suddenly froze, and he shot up from his chair.

“Group… Leader Bai, our airport’s main control system authority has been disabled. The system has rebooted, and all anti-aircraft weapons are now executing a new command…”

Bai Shuang frowned. “What command?!”

Wei Kexue stood up, his eyes wide as he looked towards the inner harbor. In a tone of disbelief, he said,

“All anti-aircraft systems are to escort the mobile aircraft in the inner harbor… for evacuation.”