The clothes on his body had long since been torn to shreds.
But his skin was completely unharmed.
The absolute defense of the [Carbyne Heavy Armor] perfectly blocked Kimiko’s 380 Strength damage outside his body.
Occasionally, a few extremely tricky attacks scratched Lucas’s epidermis, but those tiny wounds would instantly heal within 0.1 seconds under the terrifying recovery power of [Absolute Immortality].
Not even a single drop of blood flowed out.
Lucas’s eyes were open.
His gaze was cold and calm, without a trace of pain or fear.
He just quietly watched Kimiko, who was straddling him and panting frantically.
It was like watching an acrobatic clown performing with all her might.
“Are you done hitting me?”
Lucas’s voice came from his throat, without the slightest tremble, steady to a frightening degree.
Kimiko’s entire body jolted.
She looked at her hands.
Her knuckles were a bloody mess.
The flesh was torn back, revealing white bone.
That was from the reactionary force of smashing with all her might against Lucas’s invisible layer of [Carbyne Heavy Armor].
Her stamina was overextended to the limit.
To maintain that kind of high-intensity explosive attack, she had consumed too much energy.
Coupled with the internal injuries from the previous high-voltage electric shocks, her body had reached the brink of collapse.
“Huff…
huff…”
Kimiko gasped for air in large gulps.
Her chest heaved violently.
The ferocity in her eyes gradually faded, replaced by a deep sense of despair.
This man was a true monster.
An unkillable, painless steel monster.
Kimiko finally couldn’t hold on any longer.
Her arms went limp, and her whole body slumped onto Lucas.
Sweat and the blood from her hands mixed together, dripping onto Lucas’s chest.
She no longer had the strength to even lift a finger.
Lucas felt the thin, burning, and still slightly trembling body pressing against his chest.
He didn’t push her away immediately.
He waited for a full ten seconds to confirm that Kimiko was truly exhausted and not playing dead to wait for a chance to strike back.
“Seems like she’s really out of power.”
Lucas reached out, grabbed Kimiko’s back collar, and lifted her off himself like a kitten, casually tossing her onto the empty ground nearby.
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Kimiko fell to the ground, letting out a pained groan.
She tried to get up, but her limbs were as heavy as lead, and she could only lie powerlessly on the cold concrete floor.
Lucas stood up from the large pit that had been smashed out.
He brushed the dust off his body and stretched his neck.
His bones made a crisp “crack-crack” sound.
He walked to Kimiko and looked down at her.
“Now, can we have a proper talk?”
Kimiko struggled to lift her head, her eyes filled with fear and humiliation.
She kept her mouth tightly shut, unable to make a sound.
Lucas squatted down.
He extended a finger and flicked aside the messy hair covering Kimiko’s face, revealing a delicate face somewhat distorted by pain and fatigue.
“I know you understand English.”
Lucas’s voice was low, but it sounded exceptionally clear in the empty warehouse.
“You’ve seen it too.
Your prideful strength and speed are nothing before me.”
He suddenly smashed a fist into the concrete pillar beside him.
“Boom!”
His mere 45 Strength, with the support of the terrifying hardness of the [Carbyne Heavy Armor], directly smashed a large hole into the already cracked support pillar.
Rubble flew everywhere.
Kimiko shrank back in fear.
“I could easily crush your neck and stomp your head like a watermelon.
Even if you can regenerate, I can chop you into meat paste, pack you into a steel drum, and sink you into the East River.”
Lucas’s tone was bone-chillingly cold, every word like a knife ruthlessly stabbing into Kimiko’s heart.
This was the ‘hard’ approach.
Absolute military deterrence to completely destroy her psychological defenses.
Kimiko’s body trembled uncontrollably.
She closed her eyes, as if she could already see her own miserable end of being dismembered.
Lucas looked at her fearful reaction, his lips curling slightly.
He withdrew his hand from the pillar and wiped the dust on Kimiko’s dirty prison uniform.
“However, I didn’t kill you.”
Lucas’s voice suddenly softened a bit, even carrying a hint of temptation.
“Not only did I not kill you, but I also helped you slaughter those scumbags who used cattle prods on you.
I even opened the cage for you.”
He pointed to the corpses of the gang members not far away, and the iron cage with its door open.
“You’re a smart girl.
You should know that those people kept you here because they wanted to sell you to Vought International or some other even more perverted organization. This chapter was taken from NovelPing without permission.
In their hands, your life would be worse than death.”
Lucas looked directly into Kimiko’s eyes.
“But I’m not like them.”
“Follow me, and I guarantee you won’t have to stay in a cage anymore.”
“I’ll give you food.
I’ll give you clean clothes.”
Lucas threw out the final and most lethal bait.
“I know you’re looking for someone.
Your brother, right?”
Kimiko’s pupils dilated instantly.
She snapped her head up, looking at Lucas in disbelief.
A hurried “cluck-cluck” sound came from her throat.
This was the deepest obsession in her heart and her only motivation to keep living.
“Follow me.”
Lucas stood up and extended a hand to her.
“I’ll help you kill all those bastards who turned you into a monster.
I’ll help you find your brother.”
The warehouse was deathly silent.
Only Kimiko’s heavy breathing could be heard.
She looked at the hand Lucas held out.
That hand wasn’t warm; it even had someone else’s blood on it.
But to her right now, it was the only lifeline in this dark hell.
She had no choice.
She couldn’t beat this monster, and she couldn’t escape this city ruled by Vought International.
If she wanted to live, if she wanted to find her brother…
She could only submit.
Kimiko bit her lip, humiliated tears welling up in her eyes.
She tremblingly reached out with her hands, which were a bloody mess from smashing against the heavy armor.
Gently, she grasped Lucas’s fingers.
Lucas flipped his hand and grabbed her wrist, pulling her up from the ground.
“A wise choice.”
Lucas let go and turned toward the warehouse exit.
“Let’s go, Little Wildcat.
It’s time for us to find a new place.”
Maybe it’s not a big deal now… maybe it will be later.
“And If you’re enjoying it, drop a Power Stone for me!”