Chapter 17 I’m A Superhuman

Three hours later.

"Can't find him? How is it possible you can't find him?"

The commander slammed the table, extremely agitated. The throbbing veins on his face proved his emotions were on the verge of exploding.

"We conducted a saturation bombardment of the area where he fell into the river, using a large number of underwater weapons. Even the surface of the water was boiled by the heat of the explosions… Under such an attack, no living being could survive, not even… a superhuman," an officer said.

"…" The commander was silent for a moment, then said, "Continue searching. Find him alive or dead!"

…

Dozens of kilometers away from the site of the fierce artillery battle, on a tributary of the river, the ice suddenly cracked. With a muffled sound, two people who looked like drowned rats jumped out of the ice.

Li Tianran removed the oxygen mask from his face and threw it and the oxygen tank on his back into the river.

He gasped heavily, sat on a boulder, and wiped the water from his face.

He had never been in such a sorry state before.

They had stayed underwater for a full six hours!

Fortunately, there was diving equipment available for exchange in the Mall, otherwise, no one could have endured it!

Li Tianran looked around. He was already away from the border, but it was still a mountainous area.

The terrain was rugged and there were many objects to provide cover.

This could be used as a temporary resting place.

Li Tianran also removed the oxygen mask from Song Zhibin's face. When he fell into the water, he had fed him an Ancient-grade fruit. At this time, Song Zhibin's breath was much better than before, and he no longer looked like a starving ghost about to die.

Slap! Slap!

Li Tianran slapped Song Zhibin twice, forcibly waking him up from his coma.

"Am I still alive…" Song Zhibin groaned, muttering in a stuttering voice, opening his bewildered eyes.

"You were lucky enough not to die in the shelling." Li Tianran's voice was calm, and he asked in a low voice, "But I think the pursuit against us won't stop… I need to know now what exactly happened to you. Why are those military police chasing you?"

Song Zhibin's eyes gradually focused. Hearing Li Tianran's words, he groaned again: "My mind is very confused right now…"

Pfft!

Li Tianran directly took out his Tang Sword and stabbed it through his palm, pinning it to the stone beside him!

"Because of you, I lost a lot of combat power, and I was chased like a dog for dozens of kilometers. I'm in a bad mood right now! A terribly bad mood! If you dare to say another word of nonsense that isn't related to my question, I can let you know what it means to wish you were dead!" Li Tianran's expression was extremely gloomy.

This time, he lost nearly forty Combat Mustangs!

Even when attacking Chai Feng and Min Deng, he had never suffered such a loss.

And the most important thing was that this time he was inexplicably taking the blame, and the whole battle was so frustrating!

Song Zhibin screamed, the veins on his neck popping out because of the pain. He gritted his teeth so hard that they clattered, and then squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "I'll tell you… My name is Chen Zhichao, and I'm a section chief in the Ministry of National Defense in the capital. I was framed by my colleagues and had to flee abroad! Because I have some national defense information in my hands…"

"I'll fuck you up!" Li Tianran was driven mad with anger and kicked Song Zhibin in the face: "You still dare to lie to me now!"

Li Tianran's Foshan Shadowless Kick had flattened Song Zhibin's nose, and he was bleeding profusely, lying on the ground like a dead dog.

"Last chance, think carefully before you speak." Li Tianran gritted his teeth and held up a finger.

Song Zhibin lay on the ground gasping for a long time, and finally struggled to get up again, wiped the blood from his face, and looked much calmer: "Okay, it doesn't matter if I tell you the whole thing, I… my name is Song Zhibin, and I'm a superhuman."

"Continue." Li Tianran sat down in front of him, but he still held the Tang Sword in his hand.

"Before the story begins, I want to tell you one sentence: I am lucky, unexpectedly lucky! You must remember this sentence!" Song Zhibin laughed self-deprecatingly and said with a miserable smile: "In fact, before the world changed, I was just a nobody, living at the bottom of society, but after the second change in the world, I drank water that had been radiated… But I didn't die like some people in the TV reports. Instead, I survived and discovered that my body had mutated."

"Later, I took the initiative to report this to the higher-ups in my area. Soon, I was escorted by many military police to what looked like a very high-level research institute."

Li Tianran narrowed his eyes. An intelligence-type evolver like Song Zhibin would definitely be studied by the higher-ups, and they couldn't let him roam freely.

"But I didn't expect that the nightmare would begin after I arrived at the research institute." A ferocious look appeared on Song Zhibin's face: "I wasn't treated like a human, but as a tool. They used scalpels and steel needles to cut open my body, exploring every inch of the secrets in my flesh and brain."

"I had no human rights, no freedom, only those cold instruments to face every day!"

"They found that I was different from those superhumans who had appeared in the world before. So, they began to develop my brain, wanting to test the limits of my brain. They input a huge amount of data into my brain, wanting to see if my brain could exceed the computing power of a technological computer!"

"I didn't disappoint them, my brain is very strong!"

"But they didn't stop, but continued to input more data into my brain, making me test and analyze non-stop. I asked for a break… Guess what those researchers said?"

"They said that now time is life, and we can't stop for a moment!"

"I said that my body couldn't bear it anymore, I was about to die!"

"They said that it didn't matter if my body died, as long as my brain was still alive! They would properly use my brain and eventually save all of humanity!"

The self-deprecating smile on Song Zhibin's face slowly turned into anger: "What the hell kind of words are those?"

Li Tianran raised his eyebrows.

"They didn't take my life seriously at all! Even if they wanted to save all of humanity, why should I die? Why should I give my life for the so-called great cause of all mankind?" Song Zhibin was extremely excited and cursed loudly: "I don't even have friends or relatives. Why should I die for people I don't know?"

This is a problem similar to two railway tracks. One track is tied to a hundred people, and the other track is tied to one person. The train was originally heading towards the track with a hundred people, but the higher-ups changed its course to the track with one person.

Such a choice would satisfy most people, and the hundred people would think that the higher-ups were saviors.

But the person on the other road was not satisfied.

He was very angry.

From his point of view, everyone was a bastard!

He was unwilling to exchange his life for the lives of more people!

Why?

Why?!