Chapter 10: The Arrival of the Emerald Giant

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Ye Chao certainly belonged to the group of weaklings, but he reacted quickly. When the second tremor hit, he swallowed his artificial beef strips in two or three bites; by the time the third tremor came, another strip of beef was already in his mouth. Meanwhile, he covered the dried fruit dipped in soy sauce, the unfinished scrambled eggs, and the jumble of other food on his plate with his clothes, wrapping them all up.

Almost as soon as he finished, the shockwave from the elevator's fall arrived.

Had she not been too stunned by the appearance of the intruder, Alpha Ji would have applauded his fluid, seamless movements.

The intruder's arrival indeed plunged the cavern into darkness, but a second later, the lights flared back to life.

Some teachers and students swung fluorescent tubes in their hands, while others reignited the cavern's extinguished light sources by activating their abilities through touch, illuminating the cavern once more—even though there was no electricity, no current could possibly flow.

As has been said, repair is the most common ability in this world.

Rumor even claims that all abilities in this world are, at their core, forms of repair.

Ordinary repair types mend physical objects, flesh, and spirit; combat and support types restore energy and states.

Light-type abilities can restore a lamp to its glowing state, electrical and magnetic types can restore a tube to the state where current courses through it.

Moreover, if you stack two seconds of brightness into one, or compress two seconds of current into a single second, you can double the lamp's luminosity.

Thus, the artificial light sources weren't dimmed; in fact, they shone brighter than before, bathing the cavern in daylight and exposing the intruder in sharp relief.

"Beep beep... Hulk? Is that the Hulk?!" That was Alpha Ji's first reaction.

Before her stood a living Hulk, towering over two meters—a height surpassing Yao Ming's. Yet, so massively built that he seemed stocky as a legendary dwarf.

His dust-covered body gleamed green, spiky steel hair bristling with debris but never bending, saliva dripping from several-inch-long fangs, his heavy breathing carrying an invisible menace. The blood-red, feral gaze chilled the body and tingled the scalp.

Looking closer, Alpha Ji realized this wasn't truly the Hulk. Aside from the face and hairstyle, this creature was covered in thick scales, the green hue merely the color of its armor.

"A berserker beastman?!"

"No, this is bad—a berserker beastman!"

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"So close to the city—how could there be a berserker beastman?"

Suddenly, someone cried out, though they called it by another name. The terror in their voice marked the intruder as a threat.

No sooner had the words left their mouth than one of the bright lights flickered out.

Blinded by the surrounding lights, the Hulk shielded his eyes, but within a second he adapted. Shaking off the dust, he shot forward—"Boom!"—and landed a punch on the most prominent lamp.

It was a... mini-sun. Its front displayed a fan-shaped logo with the GREE kiln name, in a mix of English letters and Chinese characters, quite distinctive. Its main function was heating, not lighting.

But in the holder's hands, it outshone dozens of energy-saving tubes. The heat—more potent than the brightness—poured forth in visible crimson torrents. Two whole streams of red surged toward the Hulk.

Yet, they barely singed the Hulk's scales or curled his hair.

He charged forward, punching the mini-sun, instantly extinguishing it and shattering it into a haze of broken light. The other reflective mini-sun went out with it. The person wielding the suns—the highest-ranking supervisor of the intern group, Division Head Guan Junyuan—was sent flying with a single blow!

He was sturdy, but compared to the Hulk, he was like a child yet to grow.

He smashed through the scoreboard, snapped several flagpoles, until finally the cave wall above the exit stopped him.

"All main subject teachers and the security team—attack together! Students, evacuate immediately!" Midair, Guan Junyuan wiped away blood with his twisted arm and roared before hitting the ground. At the same time, he forcibly reset his broken limb, and one—no, two—new mini-suns rapidly condensed in his hands.

Combat-type weapons are real and can be damaged at first, but with familiarity and repeated repairs, every detail is etched into memory. Eventually, you can summon and dismiss them at will, simulating their presence with ability alone.

After all, fluorescent tubes, mini-suns, and quick-heaters are fragile and easily broken.

The first phase is called imprinting, a two-star ability; the next phase is manifestation, usually achievable at three stars.

As for Guan Junyuan, who could wield mini-suns with power approaching the true sun, that was called fusion—unique to four-star abilities.

His words snapped the dazed crowd back to reality.

As he ordered, the security team and combat-capable teachers brandished fans, vacuum cleaners, drills, and saws, charging at the Hulk. The weaker teachers and student leaders quickly organized the interns for evacuation.

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The cavern was vast, but the exits were narrow—thankfully, there were several.

Though students rarely encountered such situations, they had trained for it. Following the nearest exit, they left in a panic, but with surprising order.

Ye Chao, always ostracized, had eaten by the door. When Guan Junyuan landed, he nearly crushed him.

But this allowed Ye Chao to be among the first to escape.

"This expression... quite intriguing, isn't it?" As she fled, Alpha Ji's surveillance screen focused on Guan Junyuan's glowing head. With keen interest, she mused, "Hey, I have a bold idea—I wonder if..."

Ye Chao had no time to answer her. Outside, he stood on tiptoe across the corridor, continuing his dinner while peering into the room.

[Affection -10]

The battle... was not going well!

The berserker beastman was simply too powerful. This was no ordinary beastman, but a mutated and enhanced breed, rumored to possess innate five-star indestructibility and immense strength. The strongest among them, Guan Junyuan, was only four-star; most other teachers were three-star, far outmatched.

Thus, a round of attacks barely scratched the beastman's defenses.

Under Guan Junyuan's direction, they managed to form a shaky battle formation, attempting combo techniques: pressure-type with wind-type and refrigeration-type for a giant freezing array; water-type with heat and electricity for a massive sauna-thunder array... But often, before they could set up, the beastman crashed through and scattered them.

The silver lining: Fang Ju was also near the exit and evacuated safely within seconds.

Deeper inside, Xu Tiange, a three-star, wielded her gas tank hammer, eager to join the fight, but was forcibly dragged out of the cave by the weaker teachers and her followers.

"Boom!" Almost as the students exited, the cave entrance collapsed with a thunderous roar.