Chapter 4: First signs of superpowers

Emily covered her left shoulder, where crimson blood continued to flow from the wound. Fear was written all over her beautiful face, and her pink lips had lost their color from the blood loss. But she didn't dare to stop for a moment. Behind her were the heavy footsteps of the mutated supervisor and the ticking sound of an unknown liquid.

Just after the eyes on the supervisor's body had healed, they immediately began searching for Emily. The huge body easily crashed through the tempered glass and then began to chase after her in big strides.

Emily ran as fast as she could down the stairs.

Suddenly, the director raised his mutated right hand, which no longer bore any resemblance to a human hand. The skin was in a constant state of flux, as if a thick layer of paint had been applied to the branches of a dead tree. Then the branches suddenly cracked open, and a bone spike shot out of the crack, aiming at the running Emily.

"Po", a very faint sound, was the bone spike flying at high speed.

Emily, who was running in a panic, suddenly and against her inertia, took a evasive action, tilting her upper body sharply to one side. The bone spur pierced her left shoulder directly, sending blood spraying in all directions. Unable to maintain her balance, Emily fell to the corner of the wall.

The mutated supervisor continued to approach step by step with a steady pace. The strong fishy smell hit Emily's nose.

She struggled to sit up. Not only had her left shoulder been pierced, but she had also broken a rib in the fall. It hurt to move, let alone breathe. But cowgirls were never weak and helpless.

She quickly pressed the thumb button on the pistol, which ejected the empty magazine. Then she placed two fingers on the new magazine and pulled the trigger with a sharp wrist motion. The Viper pistol was reloaded!

Emily leaned against the wall and struggled to her feet, while raising the pistol and firing furiously. The bullet went straight for the supervisor's chest and eyes. For some reason, Emily had a hunch that that was the only place that would hurt the supervisor.

But this time, Emily was disappointed. The newly grown eyes seemed to be made of transparent tempered glass. Cracks kept appearing on the eyes, but they slowly healed again. The only fortunate thing was that when the eyes were injured, the director would be disoriented as if he were blind and had to stay in place until the eyes recovered.

Finally, the damned stairs came to an end.

Emily burst out of the office building door, and the blinding sunlight hit her face.

h~

help was swallowed down by Emily.

The whole street was full of burning vehicles, humans that were mutating or had already mutated, and there were constantly mutated birds in the sky taking advantage of the fact that "humans" were unable to resist during the mutation period, swooping down to peck for flesh and blood. The manhole covers were ripped open by some unknown creature, and mutated cockroaches and rats stared at them with scarlet eyes, foraging for food on the street.

"Ma'am, it looks like you need some help?"

A Dodge stopped next to Emily, and inside was a smiling Li Nian. The sun shone on Li Nian's face, which had distinct features and firm lines, and his smile revealed a sense of confidence and calm. Emily had never felt so deeply that Li Nian was so handsome as she did today.

"Sure!"

The Dodge sped away with Li Nian and Emily, and the mutant supervisor, who arrived shortly afterwards, stared thoughtfully at the Dodge.

.....

As the isolation door closed, the disinfection program started, and the air filtration system kicked in, Emily felt for the first time that this neighbor she had known for several years was so unfamiliar.

This Chinese national had followed her parents to the country earlier in life to seek medical treatment. Her parents had just begun to improve when they passed away due to the epidemic. She could vaguely remember Li Nian's mother, that kind woman, who had gently walked over to hug Li Nian when he had become ill and was screaming and attacking everything around him. At that time, Li Nian had a hideous face, shouting and screaming like a wild animal.

The next time she saw Li Nian was at the funeral. Li Nian was dressed in black, with a white linen hat on his head, and a hoop with Chinese characters on his arm. He mechanically greeted the arriving relatives one by one.

Nowadays, Li Nian is full of vigor and optimism and confidence fills his face.

Although, Emily couldn't figure out what kind of person would be full of optimism and confidence at the end of the world.

As the disinfection process ended, the second isolation door opened, and Emily knew why Li Nian was so optimistic and confident.

It's no wonder that he's a second-generation rich guy who's gone crazy.

Emily looked at the wide array of firearms, ammunition, medicines, food, and electricity was so abundant that it could even play background music.

"This way, this is the medical room, capable of performing medical procedures under standard conditions on two people at the same time." Li Nian helped Emily walk towards the medical room, hearing her slightly heavy breathing in his ear, and smelling the faint scent of gardenia. The young man's hormones kept reminding Li Nian to salute her quickly,

but fortunately, he managed to hold back.

Good for you, brother, you really can control yourself.

Although the entire basement was built to withstand EMP attacks, the electromagnetic storm that swept across the globe yesterday was so strong that it disabled all EMP protection systems and damaged all electronic equipment that was turned on. Even Li Nian's underground doomsday fortress was damaged, with all monitoring and power-on systems destroyed.

However, Li Nian had stored a large number of spare parts here. Thanks to the modular design, they were replaced in less than four hours. Although the equipment in the medical room had relatively few spare parts, it was not powered on at the time and was therefore preserved.

After a short while, under the guidance of the medical AI, Li Nian completed the bandaging of Emily's wounds and the fixation of her fractures. Emily's condition stabilized, and her breathing became even.

"The wound is no longer bleeding, but you are still a little bit hypoxic. I'll give you 400 ml of saline, and you'll be fine after a few days of rest."

"Thank you, you're a real gentleman and you have superb skills," Emily said with a wicked smile.

But as a novice, Li Nian simply couldn't understand the meaning of this wicked smile, and didn't even know how to respond.

He could only stand there helplessly, smiling awkwardly.

"Haha, cute boy, you're even blushing," Emily said, even more amused, and laughed loudly.

After the laughter, there was silence.

Seeing the sadness and pain on the girl's face, Li Nian could only exert his full strength to comfort her.

"What's wrong? Does the wound still hurt?"

"No, wounds are nothing for a cowboy. I just remembered that in this world, everything I knew is gone. My father abandoned my mother and I at an early age, and my mother married someone else when I was in high school. In this world, everyone has mutated. They must have turned into monsters too."

Li Nian brought a cup of hot water and handed it to Emily. This was what his mother had taught him: patients should drink plenty of hot water.

"Don't be sad. Not everyone has mutated. Look at the two of us, aren't we doing well?"

Her blonde hair swayed with her body.

"No, I've also mutated. When the supervisor was chasing me, I suddenly saw a vision of him firing a bone spike a few seconds later to kill me. Then I desperately avoided the vital areas and barely survived. So I must have also mutated."

"No, I think all of humanity has mutated."