Chapter 181 The EU's Elite Team

Lu Chi's encounter with the EU's evolved squad was purely accidental. In reality, the EU didn't just deploy evolved squads in this coastal city. Since the world's mutation, the EU had been dedicated to researching evolved beings. By the time the EU's evolved beings made their first appearance in the world, the EU already possessed nearly two thousand evolved beings, though most were of the atavistic type...

This number seemed terrifying, but in reality, it wasn't excessive.

As the world's leading power, the EU had begun replicating and researching evolved beings months ago, investing funds dozens of times greater than those used to research nuclear weapons. With such enormous resources and a head start, a number like two thousand even seemed a bit small.

Compared to the Beast King horde, which numbered as high as eight million, the EU's evolved squad was just in its initial stages.

These two thousand evolved beings were scattered across various cities around the world that had been ravaged by the beast tide, undergoing brutal survival training. This selection of deployment locations was very similar to Lu Chi's choice of locations to search for survivors.

In other words, even if Lu Chi didn't run into them here today, he would eventually encounter them in other cities.

After receiving the captain's reply, the two evolved beings quickly disengaged from the mutated beast battle and pursued Lu Chi in the direction he had disappeared. Their combat suit's boots seemed to have a special elasticity, so that each time they stepped on the ground, the rebounding force propelled their bodies forward, acting as a kind of booster.

In addition to the boots, their combat gloves had some bristle-like barbs that helped them cling to towering walls, like the EU movie "Spider-Man"...

With the enhancement of this equipment, they moved with extreme agility, scaling walls and buildings as they chased after Lu Chi.

...

The wind howled in his ears as Lu Chi gracefully leaped over a ruined building, avoiding the sneak attacks of two mutated beasts, and glanced back into the distance.

He saw two EU evolved beings chasing relentlessly, moving nimbly through the ruins.

*Boom!*

Suddenly, Lu Chi rolled to his left, and a boulder in his original position exploded with a deafening roar, the high temperature of the explosion melting the stone.

One of the evolved beings behind him lowered the new-style handgun in his hand and reloaded.

This was a new type of laser weapon, a powerful weapon designed specifically for evolved beings. The bullets fired from this handgun had a speed close to that of a sniper rifle, and the high temperature produced by the explosion would dissolve the evolved being's body.

In the war with the Beast Kings, people discovered that the Beast Kings were difficult to kill, and not everyone possessed Li Tianran's ability to see through "life flaws," so to kill evolved beings, they had to burn their entire bodies with fire or high heat.

Lu Chi looked at the boulder on the side that was still melting and cracking, his eyebrows slightly raised.

He didn't want to clash with them, but they were chasing him relentlessly, and with the advantage of their equipment, Lu Chi couldn't shake them off in a short time.

Once he was hit...

Lu Chi's eyebrows shot up.

"Courting death..." Lu Chi glanced around. He had run more than twenty kilometers, confirming that only these two people were chasing him. He changed his strategy, deciding to find an opportunity to send them on their way!

*Pfft!*

Lu Chi pulled out a dagger and stabbed himself in the backhand.

As blood spurted out and his life force gradually decreased, he felt his speed increase even more.

Berserk!

This self-harming Shen Jiang (divine descent) effect quickly manifested in Lu Chi. His speed soared instantly, and he soon disappeared from the sight of the two evolved beings behind him.

"Damn it! What is this guy doing? He stabbed himself with a dagger?"

One of the evolved beings stared dumbfounded at this scene, and then thought of a possibility: "This guy is an evolved being with special abilities!"

"That's right! Even in the EU, such evolved beings are extremely rare. We must not let him escape!" His companion said in a deep voice. They exchanged a glance and pressed a small blue button on their combat suit's belt.

*Tzz!*

A stream of compressed gas spurted out from the back of their waists. This was a miniature propulsion device. They chased forward again, with compressed gas shooting out from their waists each time they jumped, increasing the distance they covered by about one-third.

With the enhancement of this terrifying equipment, their speed was no less than that of Lu Chi in Berserk mode.

But after another three minutes, they still hadn't seen Lu Chi again. They stopped at the foot of a partially collapsed building and used a portable heat sensor to scan.

Soon, they only saw a red dot representing them within a five-kilometer radius. Other than that, there were no other life forms.

They frowned. Although Lu Chi was fast, their speed after activating the propulsion device wouldn't be much slower than his. There shouldn't be a five-kilometer gap, but the heat sensor couldn't be wrong...

Just then, they suddenly heard a gust of wind!

*Bang!*

A figure descended from the sky!

Lu Chi didn't actually increase the distance between himself and the two evolved beings. He had simply hidden on the second floor of this building for ten seconds. The reason the heat sensor didn't detect him was because he was too close, and the light spot representing his heat completely overlapped with theirs!

The two EU evolved beings immediately sensed the danger when they heard the wind. They didn't even have time to look up, relying on their instincts to swing their blades in the direction of the wind!

But the sensation from the blade wasn't the feeling of cutting flesh, but the vibration of cutting stone!

*Clang!*

With a tremor, a boulder was cut open by the two of them. Lu Chi's figure landed behind the boulder, his head down, his hands pressing on the back of the blade he had already swung out. Then, his left and right legs formed a straight line, directly delivering a roundhouse kick, his big foot ruthlessly smashing into the faces of the two evolved beings, kicking them five meters away!

A steel alloy knife flew out of one of their hands and was grabbed by Lu Chi. He shot the steel knife out like a shuriken, directly piercing the chest of the evolved being on the left who hadn't had time to get up!

*Crack!*

The sound of the blade piercing through the tough combat suit rang out. Lu Chi pulled out his gun, aimed at the other person's face with the shattered mask, and fired four shots in a row!

The other person's head was instantly blasted into a rotten watermelon!

The other evolved being had already raised the handgun that had just fired the high-temperature bullets and instantly pulled the trigger. Lu Chi dodged, sending the bullet flying at the last moment.

*Bang!*

The bullet, powerful enough to pierce an elephant's head, actually sparked dazzling sparks when it hit the protective suit on the other person's body! The other person vomited a mouthful of blood, but his body wasn't torn apart!

The defense of this protective suit was so amazing!

Lu Chi directly dropped the handgun and instantly burst forth, pouncing on the other person like a cheetah.

The other person's energy handgun needed to be reloaded after firing once. At this time, the other person also raised the alloy steel knife in his hand and swung it at Lu Chi.

Lu Chi endured the blow and punched the other person in the chest. The "Steel Crushing Fang" Shen Jiang (divine descent) was activated, and the other person's face instantly turned blood red and twisted.

His combat suit was still intact, but his internal organs and body had been shattered by Lu Chi's punch!

Steel Crushing Fang ignored armor!

The other evolved being also slowly fell to the ground.

Dozens of seconds later, a raging fire broke out here. Lu Chi took out an ancient medicinal fruit and swallowed it, quickly leaving the scene.

...

Soon after, Li Tianran, who was in the farm, received a satellite phone call from Lu Chi.

"Boss, I've crossed hands with the EU's evolved squad." Lu Chi's voice was calm, and it didn't sound like he had suffered any losses.

Li Tianran was immediately interested. He really wanted to know how strong the EU's evolved squad was: "Are you injured? Are they strong?"

"..." Lu Chi was silent for a moment, seeming to be thinking about how to describe it, and then said: "I don't know how to say it, their equipment is very sophisticated, their combat power is average, even a little... trash! I always feel that their performance is a bit poor! It's too different from what I imagined, and it doesn't match the achievements they've shown in the past..."

"I've also fought with Beast Kings. If I were to compare the Beast Kings I've fought with to this group of evolved beings, I think that even with this equipment, these evolved beings wouldn't be a match for those Beast Kings if the numbers differed by more than twice, let alone the many mutated beasts."

"So I'm very curious how they managed to defeat hundreds of Beast Kings with just a few dozen people."

"Could it be that the evolved being unit back then was an elite force, and these are interns? Or do they have even more terrifying equipment that they haven't brought out?"

Li Tianran frowned when he heard this.

So, the combat power of the human evolved being unit isn't actually that strong, but why have they repeatedly created amazing achievements? And won consecutive victories in the war with the beast tide?

Li Tianran stroked his chin and began to think about the whole thing.

Minerals disappeared.

The beast tide wreaked havoc.

Human evolved beings defeated a beast tide.

Human evolved beings won victory after victory.

Human powers began to abandon traditional weapons and basic supplies, gambling everything and investing all remaining resources into evolved being research.

Lu Chi said that the EU's trump card evolved squad was trash...

"This group of Beast Kings is pretending to be weak! They're using mutated beasts to consume human traditional weapons and creating the illusion of powerful human evolution to lure humans into abandoning subsequent supplies of traditional weapons!" Li Tianran understood. This group of Beast Kings wasn't afraid of human evolved beings at all, at least not in the short term! What they had been wary of all along was human traditional firepower!

But now, the Beast Kings were using several major defeats to guide humans down the wrong path. They were changing the entire course of human development with the deaths of just a few thousand Beast Kings!

In this situation where all humans were vigorously developing evolved being research, the mineral reserves and traditional weapon supplies that could have supported them for three months could now barely last for one month.

Once traditional weapons were almost exhausted, the Beast Kings would show their true power.

At that time, humans would know just how weak the human evolved beings they had created were in the face of this terrifying Beast King civilization with its eight million members!

"The rulers among the Beast Kings are really... too smart." Li Tianran sighed, "Perhaps many countries feel that abandoning traditional weapon supplies isn't safe, but seeing other competing countries and powers doing so, they would fall behind if they made the wrong decision, so they have to follow the trend..."

"Not only do they use strategies, but they also know how to exploit the competitive psychology between human countries..."

"Their learning speed is too alarming. These are all human diplomatic tactics!"

Li Tianran looked into the distance. Although he vaguely felt that he had seen through everything, who would listen to his warning at this time?

All countries only believed what they saw. They saw the EU evolved beings sweeping away everything, and they saw that if they didn't seize the opportunity now, they would always be left behind by other countries and continue to be oppressed...

Even if Li Tianran issued a warning, he would be regarded as having ulterior motives!