194: Chapter 194 Kryptonians are human too!?

"If an ordinary Tier Six Awakened were to wear it, their spine would instantly be snapped by the weight of their own clothes."

"So this project has been shelved all along," Teacher Lin Qinyin continued. "Even if we made it, nobody would be able to move in it."

Su Ming's lips curled up wildly.

Isn't this custom-made just for me?!

"Teacher Lin!" Su Ming's voice was filled with the excitement of having struck gold. "Say no more! I'll take this one! Make it thicker, give me ten layers! I'm not afraid of weight! The heavier, the better!"

Teacher Lin Qinyin paused.

"If you aren't worried about the weight... I can have the R&D Department try to make one for you."

"I can't guarantee it will reach Tier Nine defense, but taking standard Tier Eight attacks shouldn't be much of a problem."

"I'm sure! Absolutely sure!" Su Ming readily agreed. "It's a deal!"

"Alright. I'll have Star Dome Heavy Industry's top armament blacksmith start working on it immediately. I'll retrieve your size measurements from your military records. In three days, I'll arrange for someone to deliver it to Jiang City."

"However..."

Teacher Lin Qinyin's tone shifted.

"Let me make this clear first, so don't go thinking you're getting a free ride. This isn't humanitarian aid; it's a strategic investment."

"We've just discovered a new interstellar ruin. Once you enroll, we can explore it together."

Her tone was still that of the cold Instructor Lin, but she trailed off half a beat lighter than usual, as if she had inadvertently let go of a tightly wound string.

"Sure, sure!" Su Ming nodded repeatedly. "You invest, I work. It's a win-win."

Hanging up the phone, Su Ming stretched contentedly.

He raised his hand and touched the warm, soft layer of "new skin" on his cheek, filled with anticipation for the upcoming super-heavy battle suit.

From today on, he was finally a man with a skin!

Just then, the bedroom door was cracked open.

Ye Xiao, who had changed into a casual tracksuit, poked his head out and stepped out, a lingering look of shock still on his face.

"Brother Ming... I asked. My dad said the Family has Ore acquisition channels in West Frontier, the Northern Border, and around Magic City. I'll give you a list tomorrow, and you can see what you need."

Su Ming nodded with satisfaction.

His lackey's efficiency was quite good.

Just at that moment,

Ye Xiao's gaze accidentally swept across the French window behind Su Ming.

The sun was setting in the west, and the afterglow painted the entire pane of glass red.

But Ye Xiao's attention was not on the scenery.

He stared at the glass for two seconds, his brow furrowing slightly.

"Brother Ming... is there a red dot on that window?"

Red...

Su Ming's pupils suddenly contracted.

His body reacted faster than his brain.

It wasn't just any red dot.

That was...

The reticle of a laser sight.

"Get down!"

At the exact instant Su Ming whipped around, a smooth round hole exploded right in the center of the presidential suite's French window.

Only then did the entire sheet of tempered glass, like water struck by a stone, instantly fill with web-like cracks and silently shatter!

A bullet, pitch-black all over with a spiral tip and trailing a faint trace of Source Energy, tore through the air!

[Tier Six: Source-Piercing Demolition Round]!

Assassination ammunition specifically designed to pierce the Source Energy shields of high-tier Awakened.

The moment the warhead makes contact with the target, it detonates embedded spatial rift particles, creating a tiny spatial tear inside the target's body!

Below Tier Six, none survive.

Crossing a vast distance of two thousand meters at a terrifying speed of over Mach 3, in 0.01 seconds, with absolute precision...

It flew straight for the center of Su Ming's brow!

Fifty centimeters.

Forty centimeters.

Thirty centimeters.

When the warhead reached twenty centimeters from the skin at the back of Su Ming's head...

It stopped.

The rapidly spinning bullet suddenly hovered in mid-air.

The spatial rift runes engraved on the surface of the pitch-black casing were still flashing wildly, and the accumulated kinetic energy distorted the surrounding air.

Yet it did not budge an inch, and not even a shred of residual force could bridge that twenty-centimeter gap.

Su Ming slowly turned around and lifted his eyelids.

He looked at the thumb-sized warhead hovering in front of him.

He stretched out his right hand, fingers slightly splayed.

Invisible gravity instantly tightened, and the hovering warhead drifted forward uncontrollably, landing steadily in his palm.

In the next second, his fingers suddenly snapped shut.

A demolition round powerful enough to shatter the skull of a Tier Five Source Beast was held tightly in Su Ming's hand!

"Woom..."

A low, muffled rumble vibrated, making one's eardrums tingle!

A blinding, intense light erupted from the gaps of Su Ming's right hand, as if a supernova had been born in his palm!

The spatial rift particles inside the warhead were forcibly compressed to their critical threshold. The explosive force, which should have instantly torn half the suite apart and shredded the surrounding furniture, was locked dead within his palm by a dense gravitational cage.

[Kinetic Siphon] activated simultaneously.

The escaping high-temperature particles flowed continuously into the star core along the gravitational field source, and even the vaporized metal debris from the explosion was broken down into the most basic mass points.

Mechanical notification tones rang out in Su Ming's mind one after another:

[Devoured Tier Six Source-Piercing Demolition Round impact kinetic energy... mass points +6,800]

[Devoured spatial rift particles... mass points +1,500]

[Devoured high-density source-piercing alloy casing... mass points +650]

In the face of a thousand-ton electron-degenerate density, the explosive energy was like a mere fart.

In the end, only a ring of faint white air rippled flatly along the edge of his palm, lightly rustling the sofa curtains and causing the water in the cup on the corner of the table to ripple slightly before everything returned to a standstill.

Su Ming opened his hand; his palm was completely empty.

Origin Mimicry maintained the tactile sensation of normal human skin, and a distinct heat and numbness came from his palm, like he had gripped a piece of burning charcoal.

But that was all.

He casually rubbed his fingertips, and the lingering warmth dissipated in an instant.

Su Ming raised his middle finger toward the window in a direction he couldn't quite pinpoint.

"Next time, remember to use Tier Eight. Who are you looking down on?!"

...

Meanwhile, two kilometers away.

On the rooftop of a high-rise building, a figure wrapped in a gray cloak was staring intently through a high-powered telescope at the shattered window on the top floor of Heaven on Earth.

As a top assassin, Chen Bing's heart rate was maintained year-round at an absolutely calm forty beats per minute.

He had calculated the distance, wind speed, gravitational deviation, and warhead trajectory perfectly. The Tier Six Source-Piercing Demolition Round, worth seventy-five million, had never failed him since his debut.

The ten-billion bounty target was already in his pocket the moment he pulled the trigger.

But in the next second, the image in his scope caused his smile to freeze instantly on his face.

The warhead hovered.

Crushed barehanded.

Completely unharmed.

"Damn!"

He cursed under his breath, raised his hand, and slapped himself hard twice, with enough force to make the corners of his mouth go numb!

Yet the image in the scope didn't change in the slightest.

This was not an illusion.

He grabbed his communicator, his voice trembling:

"Operation aborted!"

"Target's defense was completely misjudged!"

"Refund! I must refund this order!!"

"Is this fucking human?"

"Did you ask me to assassinate a fucking Kryptonian?!"

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