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28: Silencing Witnesses, a Superpower User!

Shen Yi dodged the sneak attack with Teleportation and saw who had tried to ambush him.

The attacker was a man in his 30s.

He gripped a baseball bat with both hands and stared at Shen Yi in terror.

“How is this possible!! Y-you have a superpower too!?”

“Hmm?”

Shen Yi had been about to shoot the man dead, but he paused for a second when he heard that line.

A superpower too?

This guy actually knew about superpowers?

Then might he also know about the multicolored fruit?

Pointing his gun at the man, Shen Yi asked coldly, “Have you met anyone else with a superpower?”

“I… I have, I have! Please don’t kill me!” The man swallowed hard and nodded frantically.

He did not know whether the gun in front of him was real, but once he saw Shen Yi’s superpower he realized he could not win.

“Who is he, and what superpower does he use?” Shen Yi kept interrogating.

Maybe he could learn about the superpower fruit from another user!

“Sh-she’s a police officer!”

The man answered timidly.

“A police officer? You have seen police?”

Shen Yi frowned; it was the first time since Doomsday that he had heard of any police still around.

Logically the authorities should have begun rescue operations long ago, yet he had not met a single officer until now.

He even suspected the apocalypse was unreal; otherwise how could the police and military ignore ordinary citizens’ lives?

“I did, I saw a lot of police a few days ago!” The man nodded quickly and explained, “On the first day the black fog appeared, some neighbors were fighting, so I called the police; officers came, but there were so many calls that they left again after a while.”

“Over the next few days I kept hearing sirens in the street, I even heard helicopters!”

“I was curious and went outside; there were two police helicopters, both mounted with machine guns; they seemed to be fighting something, but they were too far for me to see clearly, honestly, I’m not lying!”

“Later one helicopter suddenly exploded in mid-air, and its wreckage fell near the Wangfujing Department Store; if you don’t believe me go have a look, I’m absolutely not lying!”

While explaining, the man inched backward toward the stairs to the second floor.

Shen Yi frowned.

So the authorities had tried to help immediately and had been wiped out?

Even helicopters were shot down… what kind of monster was that?

Not even machine guns could kill it…

Shen Yi could not help thinking of the giant bird he had seen at the school two days earlier.

If it was that terrifying bird, it really could bring down a helicopter…

As for whether it could withstand machine-gun fire, Shen Yi was not sure.

In theory ordinary flesh could never be that tough, but with his own level-1 Physical Evolution superpower already this insane, if it reached level 10 or even 100, maybe he could tank bullets too…

Apparently the apocalyptic world was even more dangerous than he had imagined, so he needed to be still more cautious!

Shen Yi did not think he could handle that giant bird… or any mutant creature of similar strength… right now, so he must not get cocky just because he had a handgun.

“That female officer with the superpower, where is she now? Is she still alive?” Shen Yi asked again, ignoring the shopkeeper’s subtle retreat.

“I… I don’t know; she only bought some food and water from me the day before yesterday…”

As the man spoke, his shifty eyes kept darting toward the second floor as if sending a signal.

Walking closer, Shen Yi asked, “What is her superpower?”

“S-she can turn her hands into steel, and she’s incredibly strong…”

The man spoke while staring at Shen Yi, who drew nearer step by step.

He seemed to be waiting for Shen Yi to come closer.

However, Shen Yi sensed something was wrong.

After a few steps he suddenly stopped, looked at the man, and said, “Then one last question… have you ever seen a multicolored fruit?”

“M-multicolored fruit? W-what’s that? I’ve never seen one!”

The panic in the man’s eyes was obvious.

He definitely had seen one!

“Understood.”

Shen Yi nodded, then instantly pulled the trigger.

With a crisp bang, a bloody hole opened in the man’s forehead; disbelief still on his face, he collapsed and died.

He died with his eyes open.

He had never imagined the gun in Shen Yi’s hand was real!

Nor had he expected Shen Yi to shoot without hesitation!

After killing the man, Shen Yi’s body vanished on the spot.

Time passed.

Roughly a dozen minutes later, movement stirred on the stairs.

Another man poked his head around the stairwell and cautiously surveyed the first floor.

“He’s gone?”

The man exhaled in relief and looked at the corpse with the blown-off head.

“Damn, who is this guy? He even has a gun! Could he be a cop too?”

“Or maybe someone from the army?”

“But I don’t think there’s any military stationed near Shancheng…”

“And the dude had a superpower as well… Boss, you really died for nothing!”

While muttering to himself, the man turned his head and suddenly stared in horror.

Someone was standing in the shadow right behind him!

“Crap!!”

He swung his fist instinctively.

As he punched, his fist actually turned to iron!

His body began to steelify rapidly as well!

That was clearly a superpower!

Unfortunately, he was too slow.

“Bang!”

Shen Yi pulled the trigger; at such close range there was no suspense, and he blew the man’s head apart.

The bullet pierced his skull before it could fully turn to steel.

To be sure the man was dead, Shen Yi fired six more rounds, all into the head, emptying the magazine and pulping the face.

One had to be cautious when dealing with superpower users!

It was Shen Yi’s first fight against another superpower user, and he was tense!

Back on the first floor, Shen Yi had noticed something wrong with the middle-aged man, who kept trying to lure him toward the stairs.

So Shen Yi suspected an ambush might be waiting upstairs.

Thus, he struck first.

He decided to kill pre-emptively, better to err on the side of overkill than let an enemy escape!

After shooting the middle-aged man, Shen Yi instantly teleported to another spot and waited quietly for the upstairs accomplice to appear.

He waited for more than ten minutes.

When the man upstairs finally popped his head out, Shen Yi teleported behind him, listened to his muttering for a while, and then shot him dead.

If Shen Yi had not wanted to hear whether the guy might reveal useful information, he would not have wasted the time.

As for the fact that the man was a superpower user, Shen Yi was not surprised.

From the very first conversation downstairs he had noticed how familiar the middle-aged man was with superpowers; Shen Yi had even suspected he was one, so he purposely approached to ensure a clean headshot.

After all, Shen Yi was not skilled with firearms; beyond 10 meters he might miss.

Handguns were not that easy to control…

“Hoo…”

After his first kill, Shen Yi only felt his heart racing and adrenaline surging.

Yet he felt no fear… mostly exhilaration!

Maybe he was never the obedient, honest type at heart!

He glanced at the corpse; as death took hold, the steel covering the body disappeared and the superpower was canceled.

After confirming the target was truly dead, Shen Yi replaced his empty pistol with a loaded one and began searching the second-floor rooms.

Since he had decided to kill, he would finish the job and leave no loose ends!

Hearing noises coming from the room at the end of the corridor, Shen Yi gripped his gun and walked over.

He pushed the door open cautiously.

Yet things were not that simple.

The sight in the room made him frown, and he lowered his gun.

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