Starting from Prototype to Immortality

Chapter 27: Biological Combat vs. Science

"Very well…"

Chang Wei hadn't finished his sentence when he was punched square in the face.

"Boom!!!"

A supersonic impact shattered everything nearby, even the solid nest cracked under the pressure and shockwaves, rippling outward with a deafening roar.

Yet Chang Wei remained utterly motionless, standing as if he were an immovable object.

"I was thinking that if you couldn't even reach supersonic speed, this wouldn't be interesting at all," he remarked.

"Crack!"

The backlash caused the opponent's arm to explode and shatter instantly.

"Should I call you Jason, or someone else?" Chang Wei asked with a grin.

"You can call me anything—Old Man of the Mountain, Lü Bu, Ali, Tyson…"

The intruder replied nonchalantly, and within a blink, his shattered arm had completely regenerated, as if the explosion moments ago had been an illusion.

"Oh, are you the Old Man of the Mountain I know, or the one everyone else knows?"

Chang Wei started stretching, casually questioning.

"Of course, the historical Old Man of the Mountain… and Einstein," the intruder replied.

The face of the commoner intruder was ever-changing, like Rorschach's mask. Unlike Rorschach's shifting inkblots, his face morphed in bone structure, features, and muscles.

"Can the Blacklight Virus achieve such feats?" Chang Wei seemed intrigued.

"It's a bit tricky—you'd have to find the descendants of the Old Man of the Mountain first and then extract it from their genetic information…"

The commoner nodded.

Their friendly conversation masked a battle that had shifted from overt physical collisions to the far more dangerous microscopic realm.

Countless microscopic Blacklight Virus particles, invisible to the naked eye, clashed, assimilated, and absorbed one another in the air around them.

This was a method Chang Wei had devised—a way to silently invade and absorb his target. But what surprised him was that the commoner could use it too.

Had he just learned it, or had he mastered it long before?

Frankly, if Chang Wei had considered this earlier, he would never have worried about Elizabeth escaping. Once the invasion succeeded, it was a lost cause.

"You're multitasking—fighting me, chatting, probing the depths of the abyss to see if I've left any contingencies, and completing a sealed Blacklight Virus zone…"

The commoner suddenly spoke.

"Oh, so you've left eyes outside?" Chang Wei didn't deny it.

"My evolution surpasses yours. You focus on utilizing and developing organic matter, but you've overlooked inorganic matter," the commoner declared, locking eyes with Chang Wei.

His pupils transformed into reptilian slits, then wolf-like irises, radiating a chilling, sinister aura.

"Hypnosis?"

Chang Wei blinked, his own eyes morphing into a more complex structure capable of perceiving light and colors beyond human vision.

"Interesting, you caught on so quickly?"

The commoner's pattern-based hypnotic suggestion had worked countless times. Legends spoke of hypnotists replicating the methods of a "Holy Son"—using mass suggestion through patterns and language to create "divine miracles." Once the masses worshipped, they would reveal the truth, claiming the "Holy Son" was merely a master of hypnosis.

Of course, the hypnotist met a grim fate, hunted down and killed by a monotheistic religion.

The commoner had specifically sought out the hypnotist's corpse to obtain this ability.

The hypnosis just now had been incredibly potent. Had it not been for Chang Wei possessing the memories of a hypnotist, he might have been unknowingly hypnotized and devoured by this impostor.

The next moment, the commoner sensed his Blacklight Virus was losing ground and decisively struck.

"Boom—!"

This punch was even more ferocious than before. The Blacklight Virus ground beneath them melted and evaporated partially. Chang Wei was sent flying, smashing against the hardened Blacklight Virus wall, shattering it before crashing through another nest.

He became a streak of light, tearing through five nests in succession before finally coming to a halt.

The once-invincible armor of his symbiotic bio-armor, Cap, now showed countless cracks, resembling fragile porcelain.

What a joke. A supersonic punch?

Chang Wei's visual and neural reflexes were already beyond human imagination, yet he couldn't even catch the speed of that punch.

"In the arthropod world, there's a shrimp called the mantis shrimp—it's the second-fastest attacker in the animal kingdom. It uses its forelimbs as weapons, launching them in just one-fiftieth of a second, reaching speeds over 80 kilometers per hour. Its acceleration surpasses that of a 5.588mm caliber bullet, generating up to 60 kilograms of force. The instantaneous friction even produces sparks in the surrounding water," the commoner explained.

"I see. I've learned something new,"

Chang Wei replied as he stood up.

"Now, try my Railgun!"

Chang Wei's right hand crackled with electrical arcs as he generated an electromagnetic field for acceleration, converting nuclear energy into electricity. Most of the energy avoided being wasted as heat.

The railgun's principle was to accelerate a conductor through electromagnetic forces to deliver high-velocity kinetic strikes.

Its formula: F = BIL, where the Lorentz force equals magnetic flux density × current intensity × conductor length.