CHAPTER 3
Su Chen's brow furrowed deeply, his youthful face contorted with anger. He seethed with frustration, questioning why these individuals dared to impede him. Couldn't they just vanish?
His emotions teetered on the edge of control.
Previously, the system had labeled the alterations to reality triggered by his unchecked emotions as [rewriting reality], a power both fearsome and unpredictable.
"Why won't you just disappear?"
In his fury, Su Chen inadvertently unleashed his reality-altering abilities. In an instant, the figure before him disintegrated into a cloud of black powder, limbs and head scattered, along with the Edman alloy bone implanted within him.
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Su Chen's use of his abilities further enhanced his capacity for reality manipulation.
Without hesitation, he continued his sprint towards the experimental base's gate in the distance.
The intercepting figures advanced.
However, against Su Chen's formidable psychic onslaught, the base's guards stood no chance. They were knocked down like dominos by an invisible force, clearing a path for Su Chen's passage.
"Darn it! Deploy more X weapons to apprehend that individual!"
In the base's control room, General Marcus seethed with frustration. Though prior incidents of mutant escapes were not uncommon, this one proved particularly vexing.
Amidst his ire, Marcus couldn't help but admire the fleeing figure on the surveillance feed.
Intriguingly, this escapee seemed to possess a supernatural healing ability akin to Wolverine's, yet when pushed to the brink, manifested an array of astonishing powers.
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The control room staff grew increasingly anxious as the surveillance footage depicted the corridor barriers being violently breached, security personnel being swiftly neutralized, and even X weapons being dispatched to no avail.
"Our attempts to neutralize him are futile," one panicked staff member lamented.
The realization dawned that the individual they were dealing with may not be a mutant at all, or perhaps had rapidly evolved resistance to their countermeasures.
In less than a second, the surveillance equipment was destroyed by the intruder.
Yet even without visuals, the control room tracked Su Chen's movements via life signal fluctuations, soon realizing he was headed towards their location.
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With all other options exhausted, General Marcus reluctantly ordered the activation of the base's nuclear self-destruct device.
As the countdown commenced, Marcus couldn't shake the feeling of regret at losing such a valuable specimen. However, he resolved that an uncontrollable entity posed too great a risk to be allowed to survive.
In moments, the base erupted in a cataclysmic explosion, obliterating everything in its wake.
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Unbeknownst to Marcus, Su Chen's abrupt change in trajectory wasn't motivated by revenge, but by compassion. He recalled the imprisoned mutants and felt compelled to set them free, guided by his mother's teachings of kindness and righteousness.
Thus, as the nuclear explosion consumed him, Su Chen felt a surge of pain and liberation simultaneously.
In the midst of the chaos, his cells rejoiced, embracing the torrent of energy unleashed by the blast.
One second, perhaps two, and then...