Chapter 1 This Place Can't Be Stayed

This was a Changkong surface-to-surface conventional missile, 3.86 meters in length, 0.38 meters in diameter, and weighing 508 kilograms at launch. Its warhead contained a high-explosive bomb equivalent to 600 kilograms of TNT, enough to level a five-story building.

An ear-splitting alarm blared. According to information relayed from satellites, the missile was accurately targeting Li Tianran's farm!

"Interception system is in place. Ready to begin interception?"

The farm, already upgraded to level 3, possessed a highly intelligent system, but the final decision rested with Li Tianran. If Li Tianran decided not to intercept, the intelligent system would not take any autonomous actions contrary to Li Tianran's wishes.

"Intercept!" Li Tianran said in a deep voice, his eyes fixed on the sky.

Buzz!

The heavy hatch of the missile interception silo was opened, and a missile was pushed out by the elevator, its sharp nose exposed to the open air.

"Ten seconds until missile reaches the shelter's airspace. Prepare to launch the interceptor missile!"

With a roar like raging waves, a silver missile shot into the sky!

At the same time, the patrolling radars distributed throughout Nancheng were constantly issuing warnings. They captured the blurry images of two missiles streaking across the sky, carrying trails of fire!

One missile rose from the west, the other from flat ground!

The two steel monsters broke through the air, eventually colliding in the same aerial trajectory.

At the moment of contact, the two missile bodies instantly squeezed and deformed. Then, terrifying, avalanche-like fire and explosions covered the sky!

Countless scorching fragments fell from the sky, like a rain of fire.

The explosion occurred 3,500 meters from the farm, but the enormous shock wave still swept in like a hurricane. Li Tianran's black hair whipped wildly in the wind. He looked at the distant fire. Although the missile had been intercepted, his mood did not become cheerful. On the contrary, it became heavier.

He turned to look at Han Han, Ding Lu, and the others behind him, who were staring blankly, and said decisively, "We can't stay here. We're leaving now!"

...

An hour earlier, in the shelter's command center.

Miao Yu, who had just finished directing the rescue operation for the collapsed area, was exhausted. Dressed in a uniform covered in mud, he sat on the steps in a daze. He glanced at Yu Cheng, who was standing in front of him, still full of energy. After working at high intensity all night, he seemed not tired at all.

"Superhumans... is that really the only way out for humanity's future?" Miao Yu couldn't help but sigh.

In the face of the aggressive Beast King civilization, what would the Beast Kings be if people all over the world could become superhumans?

Without the pressure of a harsh environment, humans were definitely not something the Beast Kings could defeat.

"What are you thinking about?" Yu Cheng noticed Miao Yu's gaze, and after a moment of silence, he sat cross-legged next to him and asked.

After working side by side all night on rescue efforts, the relationship between the two seemed to have become much closer.

"I'm wondering, how exactly did you become a superhuman?" Miao Yu tilted his head to look at Yu Cheng and said softly, "Although superhumans are not uncommon now, most of them mutated by accidentally eating radiated food or water, or by using the genes of other superhumans, but you... are an exception."

"No one knows how you mutated, not even you yourself."

"If we can figure out why you became a superhuman, perhaps we can solve the predicament humanity is facing now."

Miao Yu sincerely sighed.

Yu Cheng's heart skipped a beat.

If Miao Yu had said these words to him two days ago, Yu Cheng would have smiled wryly and echoed Miao Yu's doubts.

But now, he knew the truth.

Since Li Tianran had left that night, Yu Cheng had been in an extremely fierce internal struggle.

He felt that helping Li Tianran do this was somewhat contrary to his professional adherence, but after witnessing the deaths of so many lives after the world's cataclysm, Yu Cheng's mentality had changed a lot imperceptibly. He was no longer as rigid as he used to be, no longer so unsympathetic.

Humans are not robots, and emotionality is the most prominent characteristic of humans.

Facing someone who had saved his life, it was difficult for Yu Cheng to use "law and reason" to obliterate "human emotion."

But in this way, he felt that he was somewhat letting down the laws he had always defended...

So his thinking was extremely contradictory, and he could only divert his attention through a lot of work. The thorough rescue work last night was very effective, but now that he had stopped, those complicated thoughts surged into his mind again, making his head ache.

Yu Cheng's expression was very complicated.

Miao Yu narrowed his eyes. He looked at Yu Cheng's expression. Out of a soldier's keen intuition, he suddenly felt that Yu Cheng's emotions were a little off.

It was an expression mixed with guilt and... thoughtfulness.

Such emotions should not have been Yu Cheng's normal reaction after hearing his question just now!

Miao Yu immediately became vigilant.

The reason why Yu Cheng became a superhuman did not seem to be what he said... that he was completely unaware!

Yu Cheng must know something!

Miao Yu licked his lips. He felt as if he had grasped something. He said in a low voice, "By the way, what do you think about the Military Supervisory Office and Professor Nan? Do you think Professor Nan is still alive?"

Yu Cheng raised his eyebrows. Miao Yu's sudden change of topic made him a little uncomfortable.

"Professor Nan looked for you before leaving the shelter, right? What did you say?" Miao Yu stared at Yu Cheng without moving his eyes and said, "The Military Supervisory Office sent out two armed helicopters and a dozen fully armed soldiers to arrest people, but they were all taken down by the other party."

"As far as I know, there doesn't seem to be any private armed force around Nancheng that is strong enough to fight the military, and there are no traces of heavy fighting at the scene! So I'll make a bold guess... Wang Changlin and Professor Nan didn't encounter a large number of private armed forces that night, but encountered some powerful superhumans."

"Because only superhumans have that magical power, right?"

Listening to Miao Yu's speculation, Yu Cheng felt his throat tighten.

Miao Yu's logical reasoning ability was very strong. Through some information, he almost recreated the scene that night.

"We don't know yet what the purpose of these superhumans is in attacking the people of the Military Supervisory Office and taking Professor Nan."

"But there are other superhumans in Nancheng besides you, and they are mysterious and powerful."

"And you became a superhuman for some unknown reason..."

Miao Yu smiled: "Combining the above information, can we make another bold guess that they may be related to why you became a superhuman?"