Chapter 382 — The Next Target
Years of Heartflutter · Page 1 of 2
"Heh... I didn't know until just before you took that turn." Yang Shuoxuan did not deny it. Sooner or later, Liu Yu would learn of his ability; there was no need to conceal it. The two of them would shortly be heading to Yunnan for the same objective, and there was no point in hiding his hand.
Kevin was all the more baffled now. Earlier, he had worried that Yang Ce might muster a whole crowd of helpers; though he could wipe them all out, it would still cost him some effort. And now Yang Jiyan had, for his sake, led him to an open clearing!
It stretched away without end, so that one glance was enough to tell whether anyone lay in ambush—there was no concealing anyone here. In other words, Yang Ce had no intention of lying in wait to attack; he had deliberately drawn him to a deserted place!
What did that mean? Naturally, Kevin never imagined that Yang Ce meant to silence him for good, for he was utterly confident that he was invincible, that he was the strongest, that he was unmatched under heaven!
So his first thought was that Yang Ce had sought out an empty place in order to talk with him!
Seeing Yang Juehuan's car come to a stop, Kevin pulled up behind it and got out. He had no fear of a sneak attack from Yang Ce—let him strike from any direction; he would take them all on.
"Boss, what now?" Liu Yu stopped the car and, seeing Kevin step out, asked.
"Don't you have a sniper rifle? Just play around and fire over there in a bit—plenty of bullets anyway," Yang Yanzhou said. "When I tell you where to shoot, you fire straight away!"
"No problem!" Liu Yu nodded in agreement. "Should I get out of the car?"
"No need. Stay in the car." With that, Yang Yanzhou got out himself.
"Who the hell are you? What do you want?" Kevin demanded.
"Heh heh, you really want to know?" Yang Hengye asked.
"Naturally. Otherwise, why would you lure me here?" Kevin said.
"Oh, bringing you here—I was just a little curious..." Yang Ce went on trading idle pleasantries with Kevin, because his eyes were now secretly scanning the interior of Kevin's body...
Earlier, when facing Jetterson, time had been too tight for Yang Ce to run any sort of bodily CT scan on him; left with no choice, he had lured him into a boiler and burned him into gas...
So Yang Ce did not understand Jetterson's construction—but when he turned his penetrating gaze on Kevin, he was utterly stunned!
Was this even a human? Clearly not!
For inside Kevin's body was nothing but mechanical structure, not the internal organs of a normal human being! Yet what shocked Yang Ce most was not even this: the crucial point was that Kevin's head was in fact a normal physiological structure, with a brain and various organs inside, yet joined to the interior of the body by several wire-like things!
What on earth was this? Yang Ce was shaken. He had never imagined that "the Center's" technology had reached such a level—that they could combine machinery with a human brain!
That also explained why Kevin and Jetterson had bodies so hard and unyielding, impervious to bullets. He was simply made of machinery—how could he possibly fear being shot?
Still, when he thought of his own wondrous glasses—had they not also merged inexplicably with his body? At that thought, Yang Shuoxuan no longer found Kevin so astonishing. The principle was probably much the same, and his glasses were perhaps even a notch above theirs!
Their bodies and heads still required wires to connect them, whereas his glasses needed no wires at all—he simply put them on, and before long they had naturally fused with him. It seemed far more advanced than their design!
To find the weak point in Kevin's body, Yang Ce kept stringing him along with idle talk.
"Curious? Curious how you know about the Center, how you know Dr. Banlin?" Though in Kevin's view killing Yang Ce would be child's play, some things had to be clarified—otherwise he would have no way to answer to Dr. Banlin when he returned.