“To summarize simply—it’s a terrorist organization that needs to be taken down.”
“Oh! As expected of an educated person. Short and clear.”
“As expected of Master Saitama’s friend.”
Most of Armored Gorilla’s explanation had been useless noise to Saitama.
So Lu Yao summarized it for him.
What is wrong with these people?!
Armored Gorilla was stunned.
They had casually defined the doctor’s great work as terrorism!
They couldn’t understand Dr. Genus’s greatness at all!
“Now that we understand what kind of organization it is, their objective becomes easy to infer.”
Lu Yao looked at Saitama.
“Dr. Genus is obviously interested in your body, Mr. Saitama.”
“But I’m not interested in men.”
“I don’t think that’s what Mr. Lu Yao meant.”
Lu Yao laughed.
“He probably saw you defeat Mosquito Girl with one slap and concluded your body contains information relevant to his research.”
“Then we can’t ignore them.”
Genos spoke immediately.
“Master, you saw what happened with the mosquito monster. He must be carrying out even more dangerous research.”
“We need to stop him immediately.”
“This time, let’s attack first.”
“Okay. Let’s go.”
Saitama looked completely serious.
Because Saitama agreed so quickly, Genos actually froze.
“R-Right now?!”
“Tomorrow’s the supermarket sale.”
Looking at Saitama’s decisive silhouette, Lu Yao wondered whether he should mention that the sale was actually today.
Forget it.
Eliminating a threat to society is more important.
I’m sure Saitama thinks so too.
Besides, I already bought everything.
Lu Yao hung his groceries beneath a small drone and sent it home.
The drone would place everything inside his refrigerator.
With Saitama present, whether Lu Yao personally visited the House of Evolution made little difference.
Still—
He wanted to see it.
He was interested in Dr. Genus’s research.
Yumemi specialized in physics.
Dr. Genus specialized in biology.
Although most of Lu Yao’s current Dark Matter applications involved nanomachines, Dark Matter itself originated from biological functions.
Professional biological knowledge might deepen his understanding of his own ability.
The House of Evolution’s headquarters was actually quite far from Lu Yao’s residence.
Even with Genos’s running speed, reaching it at full speed might take more than four hours.
“We should leave immediately.”
Genos prepared himself.
Lu Yao placed one hand against a streetlamp.
The structure began transforming amid a flashy sequence of mechanical movement and light.
Genos stared.
“Whoa.”
Saitama sounded impressed.
“That’s cool.”
“The base model is an AH-64, though nearly every aspect has been modified.”
Lu Yao gestured.
“Anyway, get in.”
“Amazing.”
Saitama climbed aboard.
“Remember to put on the noise-canceling headset. I don’t think the sound would actually hurt you, Mr. Saitama, but it’d still be annoying.”
“Oh.”
Saitama didn’t understand, but obediently put it on.
An AH-64 was normally a two-seater.
Squeezing three people inside would be uncomfortable.
But was that really a problem for Lu Yao?
Adding another seat was trivial.
“Then, let’s go.”
Of course—
Lu Yao had never learned to fly a helicopter.
That wasn’t much of a problem either.
If he couldn’t fly it himself, he could just make the helicopter fly itself.
The cockpit still possessed manual controls, but he had installed an autopilot system and artificial-intelligence software.
Not genuine strong AI.
Just a specialized program capable of operating an attack helicopter.
Once everyone put on their headsets, they departed.
In a world filled with superhumans—
Armored vehicles, fighter jets, attack helicopters, warships, and other symbols of conventional military power had an unfortunate tendency to exist solely so powerful individuals could destroy them in one attack.
A helicopter could get shot down the moment it took off.
Although Lu Yao had never personally suffered such an experience, he believed prevention was better than regret.
So he had stuffed the vehicle with all kinds of bizarre black technology.
Forced-wave armor.
Corrosion missiles.
Miniature anti-gravity cannons.
Various other systems.
Most had never actually been tested.
The greatest advantage flight had over ground travel was ignoring terrain.
As everyone knew—
The shortest distance between two points was a straight line.
They rose roughly two kilometers into the air and traveled directly toward the House of Evolution.
One hour later—
They reached a remote mountainous region.
The landscape consisted almost entirely of rugged mountains and forests.
Nobody lived here.
Probably because people planning evil activities preferred hiding bases far from civilization.
“There.”
A rectangular building stood conspicuously within the wilderness.
“I genuinely can’t tell whether he wants to hide or advertise where he lives.”
After making that comment, Lu Yao immediately fired a missile.
A corrosion missile screamed forward.
There was no conventional smoke or explosion.
Instead, a science-fiction-like spherical black field appeared.
Everything inside was torn apart by tremendous gravitational force.
More astonishingly, the gravity didn’t leak beyond the field.
Though it looked like a single black sphere, its internal mechanism actually involved multiple stages of destruction.
“Whoa.”
Saitama pressed his face against the window.
“So this is science? Amazing.”
Even though he could casually punch with even greater destructive power, that didn’t stop him from being interested in new things.
Then he looked at Lu Yao.
“But wasn’t that kind of sudden? You blew the place up without even asking anything. That’s brutal.”
“That building was decorative.”
Lu Yao checked the display.
“Life-sign detectors show nobody inside. There were plenty of traps, though.”
He shrugged.
“Destroying it directly was easier.”
Lu Yao looked toward the other two.
“The real base is underground.”
“Mr. Saitama, Genos—prepare for landing.”
“Huh?”
The terrain offered nowhere suitable to land.
So Lu Yao simply disassembled the helicopter in midair.
Some of its material flowed back to him and formed six white wings.
He could afford to act so recklessly because he trusted Saitama and Genos.
This height meant nothing to them.
While Lu Yao slowly descended, Saitama and Genos froze for a moment when the helicopter disappeared.
Then both reacted immediately.
They landed safely from several hundred meters without injury.
Saitama still complained.
“That was dangerous!”
“All right, all right.”
Lu Yao waved a hand.
“I’ll treat you to food later.”
That promise was super effective.
Saitama instantly became cheerful.
“So is that the entrance?”
A standard underground access point.
The door had already been blown away.
Even the surrounding soil had been stripped off.
The hidden structure beneath was completely exposed.
“Let’s go down.”
Lu Yao retracted his white wings.
With his abilities, he could’ve assembled a low-output continental-shelf oscillator and ended everything immediately.
But that would defeat the purpose of coming here.