His body is definitely not made of human material!
At this point, Number Seven and Nangong Lan had already clashed.
Nangong Lan felt that this guy was incredibly strong and incredibly fast! His punches even made a whooshing sound!
Judging from the force of his kick, which sent Chen Xu flying, and the terrifying force of his punch, how could Nangong Lan dare to confront him head-on? She unleashed her family's Bagua Youlong Palm technique and began a guerrilla war with this monster!
It has to be said that if Nangong Lan were a master of Wing Chun, Sanda, or Muay Thai, he would only be doomed to die if he encountered this monster. The force of that guy's punch was more than a thousand pounds. No matter what kind of steel or iron body you have, you can't possibly be harder than that kind of alloy steel when you collide with him with your flesh and blood!
However, the Bagua Swimming Dragon Palm is unpredictable and elusive, and although Number Seven's punches are incredibly powerful, he can't even touch the hem of Nangong Lan's clothes!
Legend has it that the highest level of Bagua Youlong Palm is when a group of people throw a basin of water at him, and he performs a set of footwork without getting a drop of water on him!
Nangong Lan's kung fu had reached a high level, and this set of Swimming Dragon Steps was something he had practiced since childhood, with an incredibly solid foundation. In this most dangerous battle of his life, Nangong Lan perfectly demonstrated the "swimming" aspect of Baguazhang. Number Seven's countless attacks all hit the air. Nangong Lan did not seek to injure his enemy, but only to protect himself and find his opponent's weakness. Number Seven became more and more anxious as he fought, but he couldn't even touch a piece of clothing!
Douglas, who had always been rivals with Nangong Lan, couldn't help but admire Nangong Lan's movements when he saw them. If he were to fight him, he would probably be exhausted and defeated by this palm technique.
Chen Xu rested in the grass for a moment, but his gaze never left Nangong Lan, watching with great admiration. No wonder she was a true successor of the Bagua Sect; he couldn't execute the Swimming Dragon Palm technique with such proficiency. Chen Xu's skills were fragmented and disjointed; they were more than enough to deal with ordinary people, but against true masters, he was far too inadequate!
The feelings of Number Seven were even more intertwined!
Since his transformation, he finally had a chance to fight, but he encountered something even more slippery than an eel! He threw hundreds of punches but couldn't even touch a hair on his opponent's head. This was something he had never experienced before. As a result, he couldn't help but feel anxious, but the more anxious he became, the less he could touch his opponent!
Chen Xu and Douglas watched the fight, completely mesmerized. But with their current fighting experience, they immediately recognized Number Seven's mistake…
This guy has a body of steel and iron, and his strength and speed in his hands and feet are amazing. As a result, this idiot is too superstitious about his own strength and speed, and thus fell into Nangong Lan's trap!
Just like the Thai fighter Chaiman that Chen Xu encountered during the last combat test in the virtual reality world.
Chen Xu also used a set of Bagua Youlong Palm to fight back, but Cai Man's method was to rather take a few hits from Chen Xu than fight back!
This number seven is made of steel and bullets and is not afraid of bullets. If he puts all his strength into it and ignores Nangong Lan's movements, and directly uses brute force to overcome skill, then Nangong Lan will only have one way to retreat!
However, he overestimated his own strength and became more and more anxious as he fought. Now the initiative has fallen entirely into Nangong Lan's hands. Although Nangong Lan can't hurt him for the time being, he doesn't believe that this guy's stamina is inexhaustible with his punches!
Thinking of this, Chen Xu and Douglas turned and ran!
It wasn't that they weren't loyal, but in hand-to-hand combat, the two of them simply couldn't defeat this monster. They just couldn't believe this guy was really that tough and impervious to bullets! Even the terrifying robots in the movie "Terminator" could be destroyed with modern weapons!
It all depends on how powerful your weapon is!
The two were now of one mind: to take advantage of Nangong Lan's distraction of this guy and quickly go back to get their weapons!
But Chen Xu had only taken two steps when a sudden inspiration struck him…
There's no need for me to take those conventional weapons!
He possesses a revolutionary new weapon that is no less powerful than any conventional weapon and often produces remarkable results!
Infrasound weapons!
Chen Xu hadn't used this weapon in a long time, but the moment he remembered it today, he immediately turned Xiao Min into a watch and wore it on his left wrist—no matter what Xiao Min turned into, as long as she was connected to his body, she could always form a special magnetic field around Chen Xu and communicate with him!
With his new weapon, Chen Xu was greatly encouraged and rushed into the fray, also using the Bagua Swimming Dragon Palm!
When Nangong Lan saw Chen Xu suddenly join in, she shouted anxiously, "Chen Xu, hurry up and get a gun! Your skills aren't enough to deal with him. Only a gun can kill him!"
Chen Xu dodged a heavy punch from Number Seven and laughed loudly, "Brother Nangong, step back from the fray and watch how I deal with this guy!"
Chen Xu, who had just been beaten so badly he couldn't fight back, suddenly uttered these arrogant words. Number Seven, enraged, laughed and said, "I'll kill you first!"
Chen Xu dodged his large hand like an eel and said to Nangong Lan, "Get out of the way, I'm afraid I'll hurt you!"
Although Nangong Lan didn't know what Chen Xu was planning, based on his understanding of the guy, he rarely fought battles he wasn't confident of winning. There might actually be some truth to what he said.
So Nangong Lan made a feint and jumped out of the circle. Number Seven didn't chase after him; he wanted to take care of Chen Xu, that arrogant guy, first!
"Xiaomin, adjust the frequency of the infrasound attack to make this guy deeply unconscious, but not enough to kill him. However, if the energy is too low, it may not be able to do anything to him."
"Understood, all adjusted, ready to attack at any time!"
"Very good!" Chen Xu shouted, seizing the opening revealed by Number Seven's punch, and with a swift movement, struck Number Seven in the face with a palm strike!
This move was extremely risky. In fact, Nangong Lan had many opportunities to use this move, but the opportunities were always bad. Hitting Number Seven in the face was not difficult, but the difficulty lay in the fact that if the force of the palm was not strong enough, it would be difficult to cause damage to this monster. Instead, it would allow him to take advantage of this opening to grab his hand... In that case, the situation would be hopeless!
Although Chen Xu's palm strike was fast, it lacked power. When it hit Number Seven's face, it felt like a mosquito bite.
At this moment, Number Seven burst into laughter, grabbed Chen Xu's wrist, and without removing his hand, shouted excitedly, "Kid, I caught you! Watch how I tear you in two!"
Nangong Lan was shocked and was about to rush to her rescue, but at this moment Chen Xu shouted: "You bastard, Pegasus Meteor Fist, Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms, break them!"
Chen Xu and Number Seven were both half-squatting. Chen Xu's feet were neither too far apart on the ground, his left hand was clasped at his waist, and his right hand was pressed against the guy's face. Number Seven grabbed Chen Xu's right hand, and the two held this pose for a full three seconds.
After Chen Xu shouted, Number Seven's expression immediately changed, as if he had witnessed the most terrifying and unbelievable thing in the world...
Then, his massive body slowly arched backward and crashed heavily to the ground... kicking up a cloud of dust.
Nangong Lan stared in disbelief, her mouth agape enough to fit three eggs.
Chen Xu held that pose for two seconds, then finally made a gesture as if he had finished his work, and sighed: "Damn it, I don't believe I'm not dead after taking one of my moves, 'The Dragon Regrets'!"
Chapter 360 Underground Fortress
After they locked the guy up in layers of iron and threw him into the back of a truck, the group was still shaken.
Whether it was Chen Xu, Nangong Lan, or Douglas, the battle they just fought was undoubtedly the most dangerous and bizarre battle of their lives—because their opponent was someone they didn't know what.
Weighing over 600 pounds, it took three people a tremendous amount of effort to lift him into the car, including that unfortunate kid, Yu Lang. This manor was no longer safe; they needed to find another location quickly.
"Could this guy be carrying some kind of signal transmitter?"
"Don't worry, even if it did, it wouldn't be of any use." Chen Xu was very confident because he had just modified a small electromagnetic interference device using a car engine in a short period of time... In simple terms, it's something that constantly emits irregular and chaotic electromagnetic waves. It would be strange if any signal could be sent out under the interference of this thing.
Nangong Lan's expression turned somber: "Just now, your 'Regretful Dragon' technique... what exactly happened? This is the first time I've ever seen a palm strike that takes effect two or three seconds after hitting someone's face. Don't tell me that was actually the Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms!"
After Nangong Lan recounted what had just happened, everyone's expression turned strange. Guan Yi looked at Chen Xu and asked, "You really know that Dragon Subduing Technique...?"
How can this problem be explained?
Chen Xu thought for a moment and said, "Actually, it's a weapon that my teacher gave me. It's very concealed but very lethal... I'll go back and ask my teacher if we can make more of it. Now that this kind of monster has suddenly appeared, we can't always carry heavy firepower with us. Having this weapon should give us a greater guarantee of safety."
Nangong Lan wanted to ask more questions, but Guan Yi saw that Chen Xu didn't want to say more, so he pulled him aside.
Actually, Chen Xu's heart was pounding with anxiety!
That was a risky move. The effect of infrasound weapons is to create a frequency resonance effect when the human body's internal organs and other parts are active. In a strong case, this effect can directly lead to internal organ rupture or brain death. Even in a mild case, it can cause some harm to people, such as nausea and vomiting.
But Chen Xu wasn't sure if that guy was even human. What if the sonic weapon didn't work on them...?
Fortunately, Chen Xu was quite lucky, and his trick worked. As for this number seven, Chen Xu already had a guess in his mind, but the specific results still needed to be confirmed through experiments... How to conduct the experiments? Naturally, through dissection!
There's no need to be polite when dealing with enemies, especially unknown ones.
The manufacture of infrasound weapons is not actually very difficult. It seems that Jimmy on Tongchi Island needs to speed up the production of a batch, which will increase everyone's safety.
The car sped silently into a factory on the eastern outskirts of Las Vegas.
This factory is actually a secret base of operations for the butler. In non-emergency situations, it is staffed with three hundred elite soldiers who have retired from special forces. The weapons here are enough to destroy a small city.
This is the butler's biggest secret location in Las Vegas!
Beneath the cover of this factory, tens of thousands of square meters underground housed a massive shelter and armory!
"This is a refuge that our steward spent decades building. Even the President of the United States couldn't find a safer place than here," Guan Yi said.
"It's less of a refuge and more of an underground fortress!"
This place is practically a mini-city!
The shelter has an independent sewage purification system, an oxygen supply system, and is surrounded by 10-centimeter-thick steel plates, as well as a radiation-proof door.
"It can be said that even if a nuclear war were to occur on the ground and all life on the surface were to become extinct, the people here would still be able to survive," Guan Yi explained. "Here, all the data on human history and civilization are recorded, and the storage cabinets next to it contain the seeds of all the plants that are currently usable... If those plants have seeds, of course, there are also genetic fragments of species on Earth today. If humanity were to perish, the new humans would be able to find everything here to reconstruct Earth's civilization."
Chen Xu stared in disbelief: "Did your family build this place just to prepare for the destruction of Earth?!"
Guan Yi shook his head and said, "Is that a bit of an overreaction? I think so too. If all the humans on the surface were to die out, what could humans do living in such a small place? But this was ordered by the third generation of our family patriarch who went overseas, and it has been perfected over a hundred years. Our ancestor left a will saying that this is the last resort for the family, hoping that his descendants would leave him a way out. Then, successive patriarchs have maintained and continued to build on this place, and it seems there are some secrets that even I, the heir, do not know. This is the family's top secret."
"I wonder how much money it took to build this place to its current scale," Chen Xu sighed as he walked, listening to Guan Yi's explanation: "This shelter has a magnetic shielding system. All signals communicating with the outside world must go through special lines to be transmitted, so we don't need to worry about those two guys having any signal transmitters we haven't discovered yet. Besides... even if they find this place, they're just here to die. The hidden forces here are enough to guarantee our safety."
According to Guan Yi's introduction, Chen Xu also learned that this underground fortress has a completely independent energy system... There is even a small nuclear power plant here!
"I have already informed my father. Now, let's go and see what kind of monster that Number Seven really is!"
Inside the sterile room of the underground fortress, Number Seven was sprawled out on a specially designed operating table. Chen Xu and the others changed into sterile gowns and, after being disinfected, arrived here. Many people in white coats were busy around them.
Chen Xu couldn't help but whisper to Guan Yi, "How come your family has a laboratory here? It's so well-equipped?"
Guan Yi replied in a low voice, "Our family's business is not just limited to casinos. Casinos are just a way to cover things up. Our family's business is spread in all aspects, including pharmaceuticals... I later found out that Liu Lingtian, the guy you asked your teacher to save with rabies cure, was actually one of our family's agents in China."
“Miss, these are the results from the examination just now. Look at these photos…” A bespectacled researcher who looked quite old walked up to the group and said excitedly, “Look at his heart, it’s obviously much larger than normal. And his limbs, everyone, look at them. His limbs are completely transplanted, they’re artificial! And his chest and abdomen have also been clearly modified. Besides a few key internal organs being much larger, look at his bones, everyone, this person has no ribs at all! His chest is just a steel plate! My God, who is behind this? Miss, I beg you, can you give us a chance to dissect him… Don’t worry, we won’t let him die.”
Guan Yi looked at Chen Xu, who thought for a moment and nodded, saying, "We absolutely cannot let him die, and we must be careful. Before the surgery, I suggest we give this guy a full-body check-up to see if he has any self-destructive devices like bombs on him... We can't afford to be careless now."
Guan Yi asked, "Then what exactly is this guy? Is he a human? Or a robot?!"
"It's an act!" a woman's voice rang out. Chen Xu looked up and saw a mature European woman wearing glasses and a white lab coat approaching. She said, "I'm now over 80% certain that this guy was originally a person, but he was modified into what he is now through some means... This kind of modification only appears in science fiction novels. I never imagined that humans have reached this level! His limbs have been replaced, and all his internal organs have been replaced with artificial ones... Because his internal organs are generally a size larger than those of ordinary humans, I think his internal organs must be artificial and specially made. In other words, except for his head, his entire body has been replaced. This is simply unbelievable!"
"This is our chief researcher, Ms. Fiona," Guan Yi introduced at the opportune moment. "And this is Dr. Allen."
Chen Xu greeted the two of them and said, "This matter must be kept secret! I know that this kind of modification has great research value for you, but no one can leak this information without my and Guan Yi's consent! Only people within this research institute can know about it, not even your family and friends!"
Several scientists hesitated for a moment, then Guan Yi said, "This is what I mean. You are now serving our family, so I hope you will abide by our family's rules. Moreover, I believe this is also a measure to protect you, because we were almost killed by this guy today. An organization that can carry out such a transformation is definitely no less powerful than our family."
“Okay, since you say so, Miss, we understand. There is an unidentified object below the left chest of this person. Based on our guess, it is a bomb. Please step aside now, Miss. We need to have someone disarm this bomb, otherwise it will be very dangerous.”
Guan Yi and Chen Xu exchanged a glance and nodded. In any case, they couldn't help at all in this situation, so they might as well just stay on the sidelines and wait for the result.
Guan Yi was still a little uneasy and whispered, "Should we wait until this guy wakes up, ask him everything he knows, and then bring him over for an autopsy... What if he dies..."
“No,” Chen Xu thought for a moment and said decisively, “We’ll dissect him now. You heard it yourself, this guy might really have a bomb in his body. So how did he detonate it? What if he detonates it somehow while we’re interrogating him? We can’t take that risk. I’d rather trust these scientists. In short, let’s wait until the bomb is removed first.”
Guan Yi nodded, and Chen Xu continued, "I need to contact my teacher SMMH online now. I need to tell him these things. Please arrange a completely confidential room for me with a computer that can connect to the internet. Tell your people not to monitor me in any way."
"Don't worry," Guan Yi said with a smile, "I'll arrange it for you right away."
Chapter 361 Concept
Chen Xu's claim that he would report to SMMH is clearly nonsense, but the problem is that he can't stop talking nonsense now.
After all, everyone considered his relationship with SMMH to be that of master and apprentice, and everyone knew that Chen Xu was no ordinary apprentice. Even Yi Shuihan had hardly ever met SMMH, but whenever SMMH had something to say, it was always Chen Xu who told him. This indicated that he and the God of the Internet must have been in frequent contact, so now that something like this had happened, Chen Xu naturally had to make a show of reporting to his superiors.