Weak Retreat

  Although people think that having some Qi and mastering superpowers qualifies as araordinary person.

  Iy, acc to pyer research, the true mark of beiraordinary is when the main attribute surpasses Beta level (β), reag over 40 points.

  This is a qualitative ge in individual power, more like a leap in biological hierarchy.

  Especially with the appearance of the specialty 【Transdent Physique】, worldly force seems ughable to a Beta-level.

  Without suffit numbers and teological advantage, mortals hardly harm a Beta-level strongman.

  Li Aozi's state was somewhat awkward. He hadn't truly stepped into Beta level, nor even reached the threshold of Alpha level.

  He merely specialized in adding points, bined with the growth specialty 【Perpetual Love Hunt】, pushing his main attribute into the transdent realm.

  His strong 【Charisma】 naturally greatly amplified his Are power, ing Are energy even slower than it recovered.

  Boom!

  Under forty times gravity, "ibal" kneeled on the ground without surprise. Her massive body, including the posite armor, already weighed over a ton.

  At forty times gravity, every inch of her body bore a weight of 40 tons.

  Pfft—

  The ibal's lungs were instantly pressed, spat out from her mouth, ao the ground, covered with a yer of frost by the cold wind.

  The sudden ge in gravity also increased the air pressure. Under forty times gravity, the pressure difference alone burst many of her blood vessels, and her entire skeletal structure was almost instantly crushed and broken.

  Her armor instantly lost its stability uhis terrifying gravity. As armor desigo withstand artillery and explosions, it didn't have such terrifying terength, and the weight crushed itself.

  However, pared to the metal deformation, the carbon fiber materials at the joints colpsed first. Heavy posite armor pieces fell off the ibal's body as ly as a molting lobster.

  The ibal's cervical vertebra was snapped, hanging like a defted ball on her chest. The tough skin didn't break, making her appearance even mrotesque.

  【-489！】

  At this moment, all the mimetic health of the 【Biochemist】 was emptied, and even the real health was greatly damaged.

  Li Aozi's body also fell instantly. He adjusted the gravity in time, nding steadily.

  He was trembling all over. The gravity pressure instantly drained all his Are energy. Though it quickly recovered, the momentary void pain from the geic cellur level almost knocked him out.

  "Huff... Hah..."

  Li Aozi gritted his teeth, drenched in cold sweat. He always fot that he was no longer a pyer and couldn't shield this pai, when it came to a, he subsciously preferred this desperate tactic.

  Because the effect was just too good.

  "Huff—Ugh!"

  As Li Aozi panted and moahe ibal's broken body, now like a dle in the wind, seemed that with just a breath, this a-level strongman could be sent away.

  Being crushed by one's own body was not a pleasant experience.

  The advantage of Gravity Are y in this: regardless of level difference, as long as the target was heavy and rge enough, a few times gravity could crush them.

  But this was undoubtedly a double-edged sword, like eg a toy car to high voltage.

  Li Aozi's eyes were red and bck, stantly oozing blood.

  His body couldn't withstand such stroic load, but fortunately, 【Charisma】 mainly led to excessive Are power. If it were any other attribute too high, even moving might be an issue.

  Li Aozi cautiously observed the ibal. The spear pierced her chest, and he held a flying knife. Such a on wasn't enough to kill her.

  Agent Yavanna had run out of bullets, and Nimotin had lost mobility.

  These two were unreliable.

  Even so, the ibal's body was rapidly regeing, with tless tendrils and appendages extending from the severed flesh. Her wounds were quickly healing, and new red, hideous bones were f at the severed limb.

  Iy, the ibal's terrifying regeion ability meant it was almost impossible to eliminate her without high-temperature ons like thermobaribs.

  He didn't dare to go up and finish her off—she was a 【Biochemist】; a single geic-level attack could end Li Aozi.

  Early-stage 【Biochemists】, with a skill like 【Mutant Virology】, could cause irreversible damage to 【Mutants】.

  For pyers, at worst, they could reset by suicide. Li Aozi had no such option.

  He could only watch as she slowly dismantled her armor, revealing fortress-like solid muscles, her otic skin glistening with metallic sheen.

  She raised her cws, and only then did people notice these scythe-like, sharp cws weren't equipment but grew from her wrists, covered with thick chitin exoskeleton. Upon closer iion, one could see electric an patterns.

  A red-bck protrusion, resembling an egg, was visible in her sunke, with a gel-like texture. Veiwined around this core, pulsing with her breaths.

  This seemed like a heart-like an. The Li Aozi threw pierced her chest, just a hair's breadth from the red-bck protrusion.

  As her body healed, she unceremoniously yahe out of her chest, tossing it aside.

  "Heh, Li Aozi... you didn't disappoint me."

  The ibal, or rather, the Professor.

  She no longer bothered to disguise her ral voice, ughiily:

  "Your ability, the Escha Virus gave you Are power. This power even harm a Beta-level body, fantastic, simply fantastic! This isn't some magical power; it's the triumph of great sce!"

  Her newly formed body became noticeably thinner, her abdominal and chest muscles pletely sunkehree-meter height now looked like a tall shadow, making her more terrifying.

  Li Aozi g her health bar: 605/605.

  All mimetic health was shattered, redug her durability. But her regeion was terrifying, and this body seemed not to have a dying cept.

  Even with health bottoming out, she wouldn't die instantly but would stubbornly regee back to full health.

  However, it was only 605 health points.

  Meanwhile, Li Aozi's health was as high as 77 points.

  He didn't pn to move until his Are power was fully restored. He had to keep stalling.

  "Only one more challeo plete the side quest... 12 minutes left. Then I'll gain another main attribute point."

  Li Aozi wao minimize the gap between them... but even so, he couldn't kill her.

  No one could, not with a two-tier difference.

  From the start, the emergency mission required him to "drive off" the oppo.

  So, Li Aozi decided to ge tactics.

  Stall.

  Stall for another 12 minutes, and gain atribute point in 【Charisma】, bringing the total to 55.9. Then, maybe, he might have a ce to drive her off.

  If his attribute were lower, the mission might have been to "escape the ibal's pursuit."

  But now, even the dition to drive her off seemed extremely difficult.

  The Professor seemed to realize the gap between them, raising her hands and speakily:

  "My Level 5 iee, how did ynize me?"

  "I guessed."

  Li Aozi held the flying knife, maintaining posure. His 【Charisma】 made his act ving. To others, he still appeared mysterious and powerful.

  "Guessed? Hmm, hehe..."

  The Professor tapped her , ughing:

  "You don't look like you guessed—you wear the Sger outfit aed Nordri. Entering Abyss Humanitarian remeditated and iigated, right?"

  Li Aozi didn't deny it. With her high 【Intelligence】, lying ointless. No matter what he said, it would be seen through by such a high-intelligendividual.

  "Let me guess, you're from the Four Kingdoms, exiled to the outer territories for some reason, being a Sger. But you're not ignorant of the Escha Virus. On the trary, after being ied, you iigated Abyss Humanitarian, wanting to join to treat your disease."

  The Professor tapped her shoulder, speaking with i:

  "However, you didn't expect to lose trol and go mad during infiltration—as a Level 5 iee, you awakened Are power the day you entered Abyss Humanitarian."

  "I saw it with my own eyes, Li Aozi. Your body's indicators don't lie. Initially, we thought the geic fws in you were caused by the medie we administered—but now it seems it's entirely because you possess such highly dangerous Are power."

  "That's Omega-level Are power, right? Unfortunately, it's not a power humans bear. Omega-level Are power, known as diviribution, directly causes severe geic damage, like direct exposure to highly enriched uranium reas."

  "You want to use Abyss Humanitarian's stific teology to treat yeic leakage problem. That's why you agreed to Anna and my request to stay here."

  The Professor paced slowly, speg wantonly, while Li Aozi's expression remained indifferent, whily firmed her thoughts.

  Yavanna and Nimotin exged gnces, pletely clueless about what was happening and why Li Aozi and the ibal suddenly started chatting amidst the battle.

  "Captain, what is Abyss Humanitarian..." Yavanna asked quietly.

  "It's the future!"

  Even though her voice was low, the Professor still heard it and said loudly:

  "Abyss Humanitarian was fouo tinue humanity. I am the past, the present, and eveure!"

  Nimotin opened her mouth, then said to Yavanna helplessly:

  "A bunch of lunatics."

  "Stists, those who attempt to glimpse the truth through human perspective, are all lunatics."

  The Professor didn't care and looked at Li Aozi:

  "As for reputation—Li Aozi, how much do you know about me?"

  "I don't know."

  Li Aozi uood what the other party nning.

  Like him, she was stalling.

  The Professor didn't know that Zhu Baiya had already been severely injured. She still wao buy time for him to finish loading the babies and move away.

  The Professor didn't want to keep entangling with him. She knew Li Aozi's capabilities; the previous attack wasn't enough to pletely kill her.

  As long as she couldn't be killed, with the Biochemist's self-healing ability, Li Aozi could never defeat her.

  Li Aozi's special Are power was too risky to keep fighting against.

  Not to mention the series of aerial maneuvers just now; as a stist not skilled in bat, she couldn't necessarily reach him. Uhat terrifying gravitational pressure, she could be forced to k any moment.

  It was better to reveal her identity directly, dey time, and divert attention.

  Li Anizing her identity and pointing it out—her pn was mostly exposed.

  She didn't know Li Aozi had an information panel, so she instinctively thought of this result.

  But this table.

  "As you see, I am the Professor."

  The ibal said indifferently:

  "No name, no code, I am the will of Abyss Humanitarian."

  AnnouAfter 45 mihere will be another chapter